Item 2270: Charles Austin House, Dutcher Street, 1919

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2270. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house plus attic, located at 106 Dutcher Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts Shutters are at each window and a wrap-around porch and set of steps join the front entry with a walkway to the sidewalk and street. Only the center entrance of the porch is roofed however; the rest of the porch is open to show bay windows on either side of the front door. Shrubs surround the porch and house. The house was built by the Draper Company (or Draper Corporation), for its employee. Charles Austin was Draper's housing superintendent and supplemented his income by selling tires from his home. Original photograph by the Draper Corporation. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.