East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944

East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944

Item Information

Title:
East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944
Description:
East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944. Two chief houses are the Hay Mansion, 16 Common Street, and Number Fourteen Common St., with Putnam Street running between them. Sawyer, ps. 379, refers to the Hay Mansion as the residence of Captain Matthews Rice. Hay Mansion was built as Putnam's Tavern, later the Salem Turnpike, and for many years the house of respected civil servant Matthews Rice (See Timothy Sawyer's "Old Charlestown" pp 139-142) Dowhouse (14), "The first Mrs. Frank Dow was an Arnold whose family had lived on or had a relation to that house for over one hundred years. The second Mrs... [description ends].
Photographer:
Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Collector:
Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Name on Item:
Photo by Wolcott Cutler
Date:
April 1944
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Lantern slides
Location:
Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):
Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:
Houses
Plazas
Benches
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Winthrop Square
Chelsea Street District
Extent:
1 photograph : transparency
Permalink:
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Notes:
Title from materials accompanying item.
Notes (ownership):
Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler
Notes (historical):
Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:
CHA-313-A1