Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Modern: Public and Commercial Buildings: Unmounted
GUSN-195173
An exterior view of the Home for the Aged Poor of the Little Sisters of the Poor at 424 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts from the intersection of Dudley Street and Woodward Avenue. The building is four stories high, is designed in the Second Empire style, and is constructed of brick with granite trimmings. A high brick wall surrounds the building. The wing facing Dudley Street and opposite the entrance gate is the chapel, topped with a gable that includes a niche with a sculpture and is surmounted with a cross. The numerous windows are arched and crowned with keystones and have shutters. The bell tower is turreted and surmounted with a cross. Boston architect Charles J. Bateman designed the building.
walls
niches
shutters (opening components)
chapels (rooms or structures)
bell towers
welfare buildings
Latin crosses (crosses)
brick (clay product)
granite (rock)
Second Empire
outdoor sculpture
oculi (openings)
Roman Catholicism
exterior views
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000317
AccessID 494
Other identifier HNEDID-000317
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.005
1880s-1900s
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston Post Card Co. (Photographic studio)
Clark, William T. (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Bateman, Charles J., 1851-1940
Little Sisters of the Poor
Dudley Square (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Dudley Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
elderly poor
Magazine Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Mount Pleasant (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
older people -- housing
Woodward Avenue (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Item
Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Modern: Public and Commercial Buildings: Unmounted
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