Item 344: Hopedale House, 1905

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A344. September 8, 1905. Image depicts a four-story wooden boarding house surrounded by other single- and multiple-story residences. The building has one large and two smaller chimneys and a lightning rod. Shutters are installed at all windows. A front porch runs the length of the building and a climbing vine provides shade. A sign "Hopedale House" is barely visible above the porch roof. A fire escape is visible on the left-hand end of the building. Trees are planted between buildings and in the background view. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating the integrated, planned community of Hopedale with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces, in addition to employment. See Box 2, Folder 3, Item 186 for a much closer view of Hopedale House and Item 343, in this folder, for the same image seen here but from less of a distance. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 25 x 20.5 cm.