Item 159: Houses on Bancroft Parkway

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A159. 1901-1916. Image depicts two houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts Both are substantial wood-shingled houses and both are most likely two-family residences. The house on the left is in the Dutch Colonial or gambrel style, while the house on the right has two front gables. Both houses have shutters at all the windows, some of which are closed. The unpaved road in the foreground curves to both the left and the right of the houses, with an area of large bushes planted between what may be driveways for each house. Electric poles line the road. These houses were built for Draper Company employees. See Item 179, in this folder, for a virtually identical view, and Item 180, in this folder, for a closer view of the house on the left. 25 x 20.25 cm.