Box 136

Scope and Contents Negative no.B188. June 1, 1903. Image depicts a view of the east side of Dutcher Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts The house on the right is a substantial two-and-a-half story building, most likely a two-family (note the two sets of steps in the front). The house beyond it is smaller and may be a single family. Beyond that house is a series of connected townhouses, probably multi-family. All are wood clapboard buildings. All have large expansive lawns in front bordering on the street. A dog...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B189. June 1, 1903. Image depicts a view of the side of a house on the east side of Dutcher Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts The house is a two-and-a-half story wood clapboard building with shutters on all the windows. The porch in the front (on the left) is covered with ivy or a climbing vine. An expansive lawn surrounds the house; a freestanding clothesline is in the side yard, in front of a much smaller house or storage building. A dog lays on the lawn in the center. Dutcher...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B190. Image depicts a line of houses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts The first in the line is a series of connected townhouses, with eight total entrances. The next house appears to be detached (there are two small children in front of it), and then a second set of connected townhouses, with a detached house beyond that, etc. These are two-story brick buildings designed to accommodate multiple families. These buildings feature Tudor-style timbering in the gables on...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B193. May 11, 1903. Image depicts a row of connected townhouses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, with a total of six entrances. These are two-story brick buildings designed to accommodate multiple families. These buildings feature roofed entrances and shutters at all the windows (some closed). There are small lawns in front between the houses and the street. Open space is in the foreground. While it would appear that this view is of the front of these houses, the two...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B194. August 28, 1903. Image depicts a street of substantial two-story, wood-shingled houses. The house in the center right has a porch on the side and is probably a two-family, with an entrance on the other side of the house as well. The second house from the left is also a two-family with two entrances. Most of these houses are most likely two-family residences. All of the houses have shutters on the windows and lawns with some trees and bushes planted in front of them. The...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B195. August 28, 1903. Image depicts houses lined up on Bancroft Parkway in Hopedale, Massachusetts, part of the Draper Company's "planned community." Young trees have been planted and electric poles are visible. These houses were constructed for employees of the Draper Company. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces and events, in...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B197. August 28, 1903. Image depicts two houses on the north end of Bancroft Parkway. The house in the center is a substantial two-and-a-half story wood-shingled house, with two separate porches, most likely a duplex. The house to the left, which is somewhat hidden by trees, is a wood-shingled duplex with two entrances. (This house can also be seen in Box 14, Negative 169.) The unpaved road is wide and curves around between the two houses. Electric poles have been erected along...