Item 168: Houses on Bancroft Parkway

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A168. 1901-1916. Image depicts houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts Substantial two-and-a-half story, wood-shingled houses line the unpaved road. Electric poles (seen in other photos) line 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 174, in this folder, for an almost identical image of the house in the left center. See Item 164, in this folder, for an almost identical view of these houses but the trees are in leaf and bushes have been planted next to one of the houses. See Item 167, in this folder, for a better view of the house seen here only partially on the extreme left. These houses were built for Draper Company employees. 25 x 20.25 cm.