GUSN-195159
An exterior view of the mansion built by industrialist and Boston alderman Aaron Davis Williams, Jr. in 1872 at 300 Walnut Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Davis named his home Oak Bend, which a subsequent owner changed to Abbotsford after Sir Walter Scott's ancestral keep. The house is made of Roxbury pudding stone and Nova Scotia sandstone. A gabled tower soars above the edifice. The mansion sits on estate adorned with oak trees and apple orchards. After the building slipped into decline in the 1970s, the National Center of Afro-American Artists purchased the property, renovated it, and uses it for a museum.
sandstone
pudding stone
Gothic Revival
industrialists
mansions
exterior views
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000303
AccessID 480
Other identifier HNEDID-000303
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0070.004
1880s-1900s
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Halliday Historic Photograph Co. (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Williams, Aaron Davis, Jr.
National Center of Afro-American Artists. Museum
towers
Walnut Avenue (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Item
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