From the old country to the new world, and from the mill towns of the northeast to the farmlands of the American south.
This article made its first appearance in the Boston Tab newspaper on February 9th 2001, and subsequently appeared in my collection of Boston history essays, Boston Miscellany: An Essential History of the Hub (History Press, 2008). I offer it again here, accompanied by many additional illustrations. WPM The Chestnut Hill Reservoir originally contained two basins---the …
Continue reading Nathaniel J. Bradlee: A Prolific 19th Century Boston Architect
This article first appeared in the Allston-Brighton Tab on February 23, 1999 and several years later in my book Allston-Brighton in Transition: From Cattle Town to Streetcar Suburb (2007). I offer it again here, with slight modifications, and additional illustrations, as the first in a series of articles on aspects of American architectural history. WPM Prolific …
Continue reading Thomas W. Silloway: Allston-Brighton’s Master Builder
Local Historian North & South 