First Church in Boston, 1632 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Church in Boston, 1632. The First Parish of Boston had been organized in Charlestown in 1630 and crossed to Boston in the autumn with the Rev. John Wilson, who preached out in the open air under the trees... More
Part of page 201 in parish register of First Church in Charlestown
Part of page 201 in parish register of First Church in Charlestown. Showing entries of baptisms in 1632 and 1633. There are printed copies of this old register (years 1632-1789) in at least 30 public libraries,... More
Bill for labor on Meeting House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Bill for labor on Meeting House. Dated Sept. 25, 1750. Addressed to the town, which is recorded as having ordered the work on January 21, 1750. The charges were at the rate of 4 shillings a day, and totaled 18 ... More
Request of Sept. 16, 1788 for special town meeting to consider slaught...
Request of Sept. 16, 1788 for special town meeting to consider slaughter house at the North Bridge, leading to Wapping Street. Signed by Samuel Henley and 18 other objectors, including Amos Tufts, John and Davi... More
First Church on Town Hill, built in 1783 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Church on Town Hill, built in 1783. Steeple designed by Charles Bulfinch and executed by Captain D. Goodwin, Jr. The mansion at the right was the parsonage built for the Rev. Jedediah Morse. Courtesy of B... More
Monument to the Rev. John Harvard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Dexter house, Green Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Dexter house, Green Street. Built by Samuel Dexter in 1794. The beautiful stairway was the admiration of all visitors. Dexter sold the house in 1800 to Giles Alexander. Nathan Bridge, son of Matthew, lived ther... More
Navy Yard, Chas'n - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Navy Yard, Charlestown. Showing two large ship houses, a three masted schooner, and two side wheelers with sails. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
St. Mary's Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
St. Mary's Church. Built in 1829 on Richmond Street, now Rutherford Avenue, near Union Street. Its size was 45 by 133; and there were galleries on three sides. The interior showed patterns and scrolls in fresco... More
The home of Dr. John S. Whiting - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The home of Dr. John S. Whiting. Built originally as a blacksmith shop back of the wooden residence of the blacksmith, Deacon Amos Tufts (prominent in the First Church) about 1800. The widening of Bow Street to... More
The Edes House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Edes House. First dwelling erected after the destruction of the town in 1775. It was owned by Thomas Edes, the ancestor of Henry H. Edes, who wrote the chapter entitled "Charlestown in the Last Hundred Years" i... More
Kettell house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Kettell house. Built in 1790, by Thomas Russell on property bought in 1790 from Samuel Dowse. The building was intended to be an academy, and for many years was used by the Russell Academy of Charlestown. About... More
Ships model, 1815 or so - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Ships model, 1815 or so. Named U.S.S. Portsmouth and labeled as by Josiah Barker, naval constructer U.S.N., from the lines of the privateer "Union" built by him at Charlestown, 1815. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Hunnewell house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Hunnewell house. Built just after 1817 by Joseph Thompson. Soon after occupied by Amos Binney, one of the wealthiest men of Boston, and then by Commodore Perry, U.S.N. (afterward the widely known commander of t... More
Indenture of 1818 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Indenture of 1818. Leasing a stall in Market House for three years at fifty-one cents per week for the sale of meats. This Indenture, made the twenty seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousan... More
McLean Asylum - Charleston, Boston Mass.
McLean Asylum. Opened Oct. 6, 1818, on Miller's or Cobble Hill, which had been a highly important fortified position in winter of 1775. The hill has now been almost removed for the B. & M. R.R. freight switchya... More
American S.S. Savannah - Charleston, Boston Mass.
American S.S. Savannah. The first steam (and sail) ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Built in New York as a sailing vessel, and later fitted with steam engine and removable paddle wheels. Crossed from savannah ... More
House of Hon. James Russell, built in 1780 (1790?) - Charleston, Bosto...
House of Hon. James Russell, built in 1780 (1790?) Built as soon as could by after the fire of 1775, the location was unfortunate, directly on the market-place of a growing town, and it got the popular name of ... More
Certificate of membership of the Bunker Hill Monument Assoc. - Charles...
Certificate of membership of the Bunker Hill Monument Assoc. This certificate is made out to Dr. Rufus Wyman, signed by the officers and a dozen members of the Association, and gives the date of founding as 182... More
Navy Yard in 1823 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Bunker and Breed's Hills from the Navy Yard, about 1823
Bunker and Breed's Hills from the Navy Yard, about 1823. In the foreground, the commandant's house of brick with two bold swells toward the garden and the harbor, was built in 1809 and to this day has been cont... More
French lithograph of Lafayette at laying of corner stone. - Charleston...
French lithograph of Lafayette at laying of corner stone. Drawn by Mlle. d' Hervilley a Paris. Lithographer, deLangline. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground, Pendleton's lithogra...
Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground. The first State prison buildings were completed in 1805 and occupied in December of that year when 32 convicts were received from Fort Independence on Castle Is... More
Letter to Monument Association from Thomas Jefferson - Charleston, Bos...
Letter to Monument Association from Thomas Jefferson. Written from Monticello, July 21, 1825. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Flier of Art Union of Needlework at 9 Bow Street
Flier of Art Union of Needlework at 9 Bow Street. Advertising membership at $5.00 a year and referring to a piece of embroidery representing the resignation of the crown by Mary, Queen of Scotland, as worth $30... More
Services on Bunker Hill for 17 June, 1825 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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On the XVII day of June, MDCCXXV, at the request of the Bunker Hill Mo...
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Schooners at Neponset River - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Schooners at Neponset River, end of Quincy granite railroad. A wall painting by Marjorie Goodspread White in the Ships Haven Restaurant in Quincy. This railroad conveyed the granite for Bunker Hill Monument. Th... More
Ursuline Convent on Mt. Benedict - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Ursuline Convent on Mt. Benedict. In 1820 on Mount Benedict, in what was then Charlestown without the Neck and is now East Somerville, a community of the Order of St. Ursula (established in 1536) purchased an e... More
The frigate "Constitution" at Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Bost...
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The Monument in 1830 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Monument in 1830. In November, 1827, Willard reported: "It is two years since we commenced quarrying at our ledge.. What has been done thus far, has been done with our hands tied.." in Jan., 1829, all work ... More
Request that Shippie Street be renamed Townsend Street, March 14,1831
Request that Shippie Street be renamed Townsend Street, March 14,1831. Signed by Caleb Pierce, Sam Devens, Nathan Pratt, James K. Frothingham and others. Townsend Street has now become the lower end of Chestnut... More
Remonstrance of April 2, 1832 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Remonstrance of April 2, 1832 against setting the gun house on the training field. "To the Gentlemen, composing the committee chosen at the town meeting on Monday, 5th Inst to report to the town on the subject ... More
Certificate of Bunker Hill Monument Association in 1833. - Charleston,...
Certificate of Bunker Hill Monument Association in 1833. This certificate hung for many years in a general store in a small town of southern New Hampshire, being finally sold in public auction to John Lothrop. ... More
State Prison 1833 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
State prison, 1833. Lynde's Point, on which the State Prison in Charlestown was later erected, was sold by Captain McNeil in November 1800 to the state commissioners appointed by the legislature. It contained o... More
Mount Benedict - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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U.S.F. Constitution in 1834 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
U.S.F. Constitution in 1834. Moored between the U.S. 74's Columbus and Independence at the Charlestown Navy Yard in June. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Plan and valuation of pews in the new meeting house of the First Paris...
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Document no. 3 regarding surrender of lands for new street along N.E. ...
Document no. 3 regarding surrender of lands for new street along N.E. side of Bunker Hill, November 10, 1835. Refers to Medford Street apparently and asks that it be 50 feet wide and removed from the Mystic Riv... More
National House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
National House. Oliver C. Cutter and James Walker, Prop. Corner of Chelsea and Joiner Streets. This hotel is still listed in the Boston street directory of 1923 as standing on the east side of Chelsea Street. C... More
McLean Asylum in 1835 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
McLean Asylum in 1835. "It is situated on one of the most beautiful spots in the vicinity of Boston, which was formerly the estate of a gentleman of great wealth and was selected by him on account of the salubr... More
The Monument in 1837 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Monument in 1837. Work remained suspended until the Ladies Fair in 1840, and five thousand dollar gifts from two prominent citizens started the work again. The two and a half ton capstone was set in place i... More
Sketch of two historic dolls - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Sketch of two historic dolls. Boy doll was made to sell for Bunker Hill Monument Fund in 1840. Polly Summer, the other doll, was English- made, dated 1773. Sketch by M.M. Kendall. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Universalist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Universalist Church. Before enlargement and rebuilding in 1863. Built between April and Sept. 1811, tower and bell being added in 1840. At left is the second vestry (on north side of lot), built in 1843. The fi... More
Hymn sheet for lecture at 210th anniversary of First Congregational Ch...
Hymn sheet for lecture at 210th anniversary of First Congregational church, November 13, 1842. Including text of hymn by William B. Tappan, beginning: God of our fathers, while our ears shall hear the chronicle... More
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Pulling Jack, sketched for Solomon Willard's book of 1843 on Monument.
Pulling Jack, sketched for Solomon Willard's book of 1843 on the monument. This machine was contrived and first used at the Bunker Hill quarry in Quincy. The power is about ten tons or with the addition of a sh... More
Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Bunker Hill Monument looking S.E. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Bunker Hill Monument looking S.E. Engraved by A.V.S. Anthony from drawing by Edwin A. Abbey. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Rydal Mt. Ladies Boarding School - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Rydal Mt. Ladies Boarding School. The home of the Nathan Tufts, who died in 1835, was occupied by his widow until 1843 when it became the Rydal Mount Ladies Boarding School for a number of years. The house stoo... More
Card commemorating the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument in 1843.
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Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Bunker Hill Monument. Frontispiece of Richard Frothingham's "The Battle of Bunker Hill." The end of the first high school building shows at the left. The house with the cupola is that of Phineas J. Stone on Con... More
Cover of "76" Quick Step - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Cover of "76" Quick Step. Lithograph by Thayer and Son. Performed by the Boston Brass Band at the dedication to the Monument, June 17, 1843, and dedicated to Bunker Hill Monument Association. The drawing was pr... More
Warren Bridge, June 17 1843 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Warren Bridge June 17, 1843. Showing the parade from Boston approaching the dedication exercises of June 17 at Bunker Hill Monument. The bridge was built in 1828 and was a quarter of mile long when first made. ... More
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
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
View in Navy Yard, showing Bunker Hill Monument and the training ship,...
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Circular building in Boston Naval Shipyard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Street in the Rutherford Avenue District of Charlestown, Mass. - Charl...
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Post office in gas company building, 23 Main Street - Charleston, Bost...
Post office in gas company building, 23 Main Street. Fifteen citizens standing in front including Abram E. Cutter. The right-hand window has a placard advertising kid gloves. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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
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
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
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
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
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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Bunker Hill Monument - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Buildings in the Rutherford Avenue District of Charlestown, Mass. - Ch...
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