Item 167: Houses on Bancroft Parkway

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A167. 1901-1916. Image depicts houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts Substantial two-and-a-half story, wood-shingled houses line the unpaved road. One electric pole with a streetlight on it can be seen on the right-hand side of the road. Most of the houses have two chimneys and are duplexes, as Hopedale housing built for Draper Company employees was generally not larger than a duplex. See Item 164, in this folder, for an almost identical view but the trees are in leaf and bushes have been planted next to one of the houses. See also Item 152, in this folder, for a view of the same house seen here on the left but looking down the street in the opposite direction. See Item 168, in this folder, for a close-up view of the second house on the left. These houses were built for Draper Company employees. 25 x 20.25 cm.