French engraving, "Monument de Bunker's Hill" - Charleston, Boston Mas...
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Frontispiece to 31 page book of 1843 by Solomon Willard, its architect...
Frontispiece to 31 page book of 1843 by Solomon Willard, its architect, about "Plans & sections of the obelisk on Bunker's Hill with details of experiments made in quarrying." Shows no windows & no details of t... More
Reprint of badges of 1843 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Reprint of badges of 1843. Framed print from original plate from which badges were struck off at the celebration of the dedication of the completed Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Colored engraving of Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Colored engraving of Bunker Hill Monument. The North End of Boston and Beacon Hill appear in background. The costumes suggest an earlier period than 1843 when the Monument was actually completed. Courtesy of Bo... More
Sketch from Solomon Willard's book of 1843, showing underground founda...
Sketch from Solomon Willard's book of 1843, showing underground foundation 12 ft. deep and 50 ft. square for Bunker Hill Monument which as declared July 5, 1825 five weeks after the laying of the cornerstone, w... More
Cover of Nicholson's "Quick step" - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Cover of Nicholson's "Quick step." Shows square rigger firing cannon. Navy Yard and Bunker Hill Monument in the background. The typical ship's house of this period shows five tiers of windows. Courtesy of Bosto... More
Cover of "A Song for New England" - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Order of exercises April 3, 1845 for 17th anniversary of Harvard Churc...
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Cover of Masonic Ode by Thomas Power - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Cover of Masonic Ode by Thomas Power. Written in 1845, showing first Monument "erected A.D. 1794, by King Solomon's Lodge of Freemasons, constituted at Charlestown, 1783, in memory of Major General Warren and h... More
City seal of 1847 showing Bunker Hill Monument on an imagined square
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John Harvard monument in Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Bos...
John Harvard monument in Phipps Street Burial Ground. Bunker Hill Monument shows in the right background and at the extreme left one gets a clear view of the true Bunker Hill, with five houses and a windmill ne... More
Bunker Hill Monument and three brick residences - Charleston, Boston M...
Bunker Hill Monument and three brick residences. 1848. From a booklet of that year, containing the "Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument," drawn by R.P. Mallory. The three brick residences seem to have been... More
Staircase from Barrell mansion - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Staircase from Barrell mansion. After the Barrell mansion was demolished and the land became railroad property, the hill was reduced to a small fraction of itself and made into a freight yard called the "hump,"... More
Some of the James Frothingham Hunnewell collection of books - Charlest...
Some of the James Frothingham Hunnewell collection of books. Presented to Harvard in 1945 by James W. Hunnewell, son of the collector. The collection of some hundred-odd volumes bearing the arms, bookplates, or... More
Oxen in Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Stereoscopic view in "Boston and Neighborhood Descriptive" series. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The Thomas Jenner Goodwin House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Thomas Jenner Goodwin House. House built by Deacon David Goodwin, grandfather of the Rev, George Goodwin, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Charlestown for several years. Deacon Goodwin's son, Thomas Jenner Go... More
Charlestown Navy Yard with two square rigged ships and one steamship
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First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. Described as 20 feet square, probably thatched. Palisaded. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Interior of unidentified church in Charlestown, Mass. - Charleston, Bo...
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Front of Kettell house on Chestnut Street with tramp resting under tre...
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Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Phipps Street Burial Ground. Here lies intomb'd the body of Thomas Jenner, Esquire, who died June the 23, 1765. Aged 72 years. From whence he silently speaks: My friend stop here and drop a tear as you are pass... More
Cordis Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Cordis Street. A view of Cordis Street from Number 22, showing the former mansion at Number 29. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Interior of Harvard Church looking toward gallery - Charleston, Boston...
Interior of Harvard Church looking toward gallery. This fine chandelier now hangs in University Hall at Harvard University. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Bunker Hill Monument looking east - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Bunker Hill Monument looking east. Old North Church in right background and #7 Monument Square (with cupola) erected 1848 by the Hon. G. Washington Warren, first Mayor of Charlestown, 1847-1850, later state sen... More
Map of the District Affected by the Tarawera Eruption
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Stone house built by General Nathaniel Austin - Charleston, Boston Mas...
Stone house built by General Nathaniel Austin. Built of stone brought from the outer Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, which he purchased for $400 in 1799. The island is 17 acres in extent, and is said by Edwar... More
Circular building in Boston Naval Shipyard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Portrait photograph of an unidentified couple
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Street in the Rutherford Avenue District of Charlestown, Mass. - Charl...
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View in Navy Yard, showing Bunker Hill Monument and the training ship,...
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Portrait photograph of a mother and her children
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Altar in St. Mary's Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Altar in St. Mary's Church. A nearer view of the original altar in old St. Mary's [Church]. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Boston Edison Light Co. float going down Bunker Hill Street.
Boston Edison Light Co. float going down Bunker Hill Street. With heroic size white paper bulbs. Girls on left is Mildred S. Rowland. Girl on right is Marion Knox, daughter of police inspector Knox, living at c... More
Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill. Built by Joseph Barrell in 1792 on land that had been heavily fortified during the Revolution. Designed by Bulfinch, and surrounded by extensive private grounds known as Poplar G... More
The Stone House, corner of Concord St. and Monument Sq.
The Stone House, corner of Concord St. and Monument Sq. The persons on the lower front piazza are: Phineas J. Stone, former President of the Charlestown 5 Cent Savings Bank; and Mrs. Caroline Lindsey. On the up... More
Interior of parlor of Hurd Mansion - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Munitions at Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Carved eagle from the U.S.S. Niagara - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Carved eagle from the U.S.S. Niagara. The figure weighs 2200 pounds and is made of white pine. She was purchased by a private citizen in 1885 when the ship was sold at public auction. She was returned to the Na... More
High Street and Trinity Methodist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
High Street and Trinity Methodist Church. When the church had a spire. Space now occupied by the Bunker Hill Girl's Club. The building was erected about 1867, after the earlier structure on the same site had be... More
Doorways of Savings Bank Building with carriages and citizen - Charles...
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Savings Bank Building - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Savings Bank Building. After the Charlestown Gas Company had removed from the building (erected in 1875). Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Photograph of Dry Dock #2 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Photograph of Dry Dock #2. Shows Bunker Hill Monument [back left]. Begun in 1899; first ship placed in the dock was U.S.S. Maryland in 1905. Dock is 800 feet long and 112 feet wide and can be filled in one hour... More
Charles River Avenue - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Old oil painting of First Church, Charlestown - Charleston, Boston Mas...
Old oil painting of First Church, Charlestown. This painting itself seems to have disappeared; but on a small round box in the possession of the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, there is ... More
Monument Square Methodist Church from mon. grounds - Charleston, Bosto...
Monument Square Methodist Church from mon[ument] grounds. Built in 1848, and enlarged in 1866. On the Sunday after Easter in 1882, the largest Protestant church attendance of the day was that of the Monument Sq... More
Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Buildings in the Rutherford Avenue District of Charlestown, Mass. - Ch...
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Flint House doorway - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Flint House doorway. On Arrow Street, near junction of Bow. Mr. Simeon Flint was a tailor on Main Street. He was a deacon of the Winthrop Church; he died in 1857. He had five children. William, the Episcopal mi... More
Ancient cannon in Ordnance Park in the Boston Naval Shipyard
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Winthrop Church and G.A.R. Hall - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Winthrop Church and G.A.R. Hall. On Green Street, before the church lost its spire and, still later, changed its name to the First Parish. The present church building was erected in 1849. Its pastors have inclu... More
Corner of Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Corner of Phipps Street Burial Ground. The following five headstones, left to right: Faithful Rowse, 75 yrs., died in 1664; Mary Greene, age 14 yrs., died 1666; William Bartholomew, aged 78, died 1680; Joanna C... More
Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Phipps Street Burial Ground. In memory of Samuel Cary, Esquire, who deceased February 28, 1701 -- aged 58 years. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Ordnance Park, Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Launching of U.S. steamer Merrimac - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Launch of the United States steamer Merrimac. From the Navy Yard, Charlestown. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Parlor of George F. Chapin, looking toward front windows, 32 Chestnut ...
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First Meeting House, Hartford Conn. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Meeting House, Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1635 when English settlers from Mass. drove out the Dutch settlers who had been there since 1633. Is no contemporary description of the building but town rec... More
Balfour residence, 30 Union Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Balfour residence, 30 Union Street. Mrs. Walter Balfour was Mary Devens, aunt of General Charles Devens, who was born in this house before it became the home of the David Balfour. This Gen. Devens was at one ti... More
First Baptist Church and spire - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Phipps Street Burial Ground. Jonathan Lemmon, son of Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmon, died July 16, 1724. AE tatis 15 months. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Trinity Methodist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Waverly House built in 1867 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Waverly House built in 1867. A large elegant building, with nearly 500 ft. front, including Abbottsford Hall, constructed in the most thorough manner built by Moses A. Dow at an expense of nearly $500,000. It e... More
Baldwin House, Main Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Baldwin House, Main Street. This house originally fronted on Main Street, between School and Salem Streets, having been built by James Harrison on about an acre of land extending back to High Street. In the gar... More
Unidentified church in Charlestown, Mass. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Monument Sq. Methodist Church interior - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Monument Sq. Methodist Church interior. This church was closed in 1899. Its records are believed to be in the Methodist Historical Library at Boston University. The custodian at present writing is Bishop Lewis ... More
Kettell house parlor - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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First Church of Town Hill in winter - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Church of Town Hill in winter. Probably in early 1900s. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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Interior of Universalist Church at an early date - Charleston, Boston ...
Interior of Universalist Church at an early date. Before the organ was installed in the front and a window made behind the pulpit. In 1863, "the walls were carried up," a basement accommodation provided for the... More
St. John's Church exterior - Charleston, Boston Mass.
St. John's Church exterior. Showing a narrow Richmond Street to left of the church; and to the right of the church a hint of the old bake house where St. John's Parish House was erected as a chapel in 1873 or s... More
Gravestones in Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Gravestones in Phipps Street Burial Ground. Phineas Pratt, age above 90 years, died April ye 19, 1680, and was the son of ye first English inhabitant of ye Massachusetts Colony. Fugit Hora. [Bottom stone] Sarah... More
"School Room B" in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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U.S.S. Chesapeake at Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Tide mill of Nathan Tufts - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Tide mill of Nathan Tufts. Mr. Tufts lived in the house later occupied by Dr. Thomas R. Lambert on Chelsea Street (Sawyer, pp. 167-68). He was originally a packer of beef, and also a tenner whose sole leather g... More
Harvard Chapel on Edgeworth Street, 1856 to 79 - Charleston, Boston Ma...
Harvard Chapel on Edgeworth Street, 1856 to 79. Founded during the long ministry of Dr. George Edward Ellis for the missionary work of a "minister-at-large." The Rev. Oliver C. Everett served here for many year... More
The Simeon Flint house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Simeon Flint house. Located on what was then Bow Street, corner of what was then Arrow Street, now Rutherford Avenue, corner of present Washington Street. It was in this home -- the edifice on the left -- t... More
Interior of top of Monument without people in sight - Charleston, Bost...
Interior of top of Monument without people in sight. Circular chamber is 18" high and 11" diameter. Reached by two hundred ninety-four steps. Two Revolutionary cannon. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Birthplace of Samuel F. B. Morse. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Birthplace of Samuel F. B. Morse. Main Street, corner of Hathor Square. His father, Rev. Jedediah Morse, was pastor of the First Parish here from 1789 to 1819, and a leader in the founding of Andover Theologica... More
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman
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Landing at Savage Island - Publicd domain, Museum of New Zealand
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Staircase from Barrell mansion (upper view) - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Staircase from Barrell mansion (upper view). Photographed when set up in the Francis Shaw mansion in Wayland. The Shaw mansion has now (1941) been demolished and the stairway is again for sale. Courtesy of Bost... More
Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street
Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street. In January 1850, the Bethesda Baptist Church was organized, called since 1851 the Bunker Hill Baptist Church, which built (1851) a plain wo... More
Vessel in Dry-Dock No. 1 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Vessel in Dry-Dock No. 1. The dry-dock is especially worthy of notice. It was begun in 1827 and completed in 1833. The frigate Constitution was the first vessel that entered the dock for repairs. It is built of... More
Monument and First High School - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Monument and First High School. House on the east corner of Monument Street was built by Mrs. Henry Forster. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
First Masonic grave in America, 1680 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Doorway of Dr. Lambert's house, formerly Rydal Mount Ladies Boarding S...
Doorway of Dr. Lambert's house, formerly Rydel Mount Ladies Boarding School. Reverend Thomas R. Lambert, D.D., was chaplain in the Navy Yard for almost 22 years before he served as rector of St. John's Church, ... More
Bunker Hill Monument showing Monument Square Methodist Church - Charle...
Bunker Hill Monument showing Monument Square Methodist Church. Three At the left is the house occupied by John Wade Damon (Sawyer pp. 405-8) and purchased in 1863 or so by Capt. Washington Thomas, said to have ... More
Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite...
Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite octagonal structure of 1850. Possibly painted by an inmate; certainly an example of folk art. For the first sixty years in the life of the ... More
Bunker Hill Baptist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Oliver Holden organ and portrait - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Oliver Holden organ and portrait. Given to the Bostonian Society by the will of his granddaughter, Mrs. Fannie A. Tyler, in 1889. Oliver Holden was born in Shirley, Mass., in 1765, and came to Charlestown in 17... More
Interior of John Boyle O'Reilly home - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Interior of John Boyle O'Reilly home, at 34 Winthrop Street. He owned other houses in Charlestown, notably the Sargent-Hills house on the northwest corner of High and School Sts., and the Buddington house next ... More
The battery, cannon, etc., Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston ...
The battery, cannon, etc., Charlestown Navy Yard. Some of the naval stores -- piles of shot neatly arranged and painted for preservation, and long rows of artillery of every description. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The Hathaway and Worthin House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Hathaway and Worthin House at 69 Rutherford Avenue. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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Phipps Street Cemetery showing Harvard Avenue shaded by many healthy e...
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Gravestone of Captain John Fowle - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Gravestone of Captain John Fowle. Died in 1711, aged 74 years. The coat of arms having a lion between three roses is that of the Fowle family in England where Captain Fowle himself was born, probably in 1637. C... More
First Quaker Meeting House of Salem, Mass. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Quaker meeting house of Salem, Mass. Erected in 1688, and retaining the original framework. Maintained by the Essex Institution on their premises. Until recently, this building was reputed to be the "Old ... More
Interior of guard room, Mass. State Prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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U.S.S. Vanderbuilt - Charleston, Boston Mass.
U.S.S. Vanderbuilt. A side-wheeler presented to the U.S. in 1861 by Commodore Cornelius (?) Vanderbuilt, a ship of 3360 tons, stout and swift, perhaps the most successful of the converted merchant ships. Equipp... More
Barrell mansion (south side) - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Barrell mansion (south side). In 1842, this part of Charlestown was set apart as Somerville, but it was 1895 before the new hospital buildings in Waverly were ready to accommodate the patients and the transfer ... More
Trinity Methodist Church from roof of Main Street building - Charlesto...
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