Item 184: Houses on Bancroft Parkway

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A184. 1901-1916. Image depicts a view of a row of houses on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts All are substantial, two-and-a-half-story wood-shingled houses done in different architectural styles. The houses on the left-hand side of the street have trees and bushes planted and there is a paved sidewalk on that side of the street; those houses may have been constructed before the right-hand side of the street. The sidewalk on the right-hand side of the street is still dirt and there are no trees or bushes. A fire hydrant is on the street, which is wide and unpaved. These houses were built for Draper Company employees. See Box 2, Folder 2, Item 177 for a view of the same section of the street taken from the opposite end, showing more of the houses on what is the left-hand side of the street here. 25 x 20.25 cm.