Harrison Gray Otis house and the Old West Church, 1916
Frank Causins Art Company
1916
- Street-level view northeast of the Harrison Gray Otis house, located at 2 Lynde Street, and the West Branch of the Boston Public Library, located behind Lowell Square and to the east of Lynde Street. The facades of both the Otis house and the library face south towards Cambridge Street. A row of small stores, located at (right to left) 79-83 Cambridge Street, is located to the south of the Otis ... read morehouse. Signage adorns the facades of the stores. Shoe-shining chairs can be seen through the doorway of 83 Cambridge Street. A man reading a newspaper stands in the entrance of 81 Cambridge Street, and two small children can be seen at the northwest corner of Cambridge and Lynde Streets. Street railroad tracks run down the center of Cambridge Street. A tall wrought iron fence lines the west side of Lowell Square, to the south of the library. Large clocks adorn both the south and west elevations of the library tower. Copyprint; Otis house designed by Charles Bulfinch, 1795-96; library (formally the Old West Church) designed by Asher Benjamin, 1806 8 x 10 Photographsread less
- People
- Street railroad tracks
- Fences
- Clocks and watches
- Libraries
- Painters
- Laundries
- Dwellings
- Buildings
- Houses
- Businesses
- Children
- Boots and shoes-repairing
- Commercial buildings
- Stores, retail
- Men
- Benjamin, Asher
- Bulfinch, Charles
- Otis, Harrison Gray
- Wells, J.B.
- Boston (Mass.)
- Massachusetts
- Beacon Hill (Mass.)
- Lynde Street
- Cambridge Street
- C. Lee Laundry
- Boston Public Library
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- 9w032c52w
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- tufts:TBS.VW0001.000267
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