1-47 Haverhill St.
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1-47 Haverhill Street was home to many lodgers and businesses. Craft and trade services dominated the parcel from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. The parcel eventually shifted to serve as a hub of banking and law, led by a group of local prominent business activists. The parcel existed until the 1950s when it was demolished to make room for the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway. Take a look through these pages to learn more about the history and people who were associated with this parcel.
Click on the title above to learn more about the various crafts and businesses that operated on the parcel. This page examines the various industries undertaken by those operating on the parcel and the evolution that occurs from craft and trade services to financial and law-based operations. Come look at the commerce and art that took place on this parcel, from horse carriage vendors and spice importers to recreational marine outlets.
Click the title above to learn more about the Haverhill Street Businessmen's Association and the work they did to benefit Haverhill Street. Come as we examine the effect of the association and their constant desire and support to clean up the parcel. These men were local business men and tenants who wanted the local government to
Click the title above to learn more about the historic individuals who made up this parcel, and whose academic and charitable acts helped to further and benefit the city of Boston. Highlighted are two individuals who operated businesses on the parcels and whose efforts led to the establishment of what is now known as the Wentworth Institute of Technology.
References
BARTLETT Laurence Lowry, ,K.S. "Boston's $110,000,000 Highway in the Skies." Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960), Aug 08 1954, p. 2. ProQuest. Web.
"HAVERHILL ST MEN CELEBRATE.: IMPROVEMENTS IN THOROUGHFARE THE THEME OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATION---M. C. BRUSH A SPEAKER." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Apr 11 1912, p. 10. ProQuest. Web.
"WOULD CLEAN UP HAVERHILL ST: BUSINESS MEN MARCH TO CITY HALL. COMPLAIN OF 10 YEARS OF MUD ON $17,000,000 HIGHWAY. IMPROVEMENT PROMISED BY SUPT ROURKE." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Jan 03 1911, p. 11. ProQuest. Web.
"URGE MANY IMPROVEMENTS.: HAVERHILL-ST BUSINESS MEN WANT TRACKS REMOVED." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Apr 13 1911, p. 3. ProQuest. Web.
"PETITIONS CIRCULATED.: MERCHANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ON HAVERHILL ST WANT THAT THOROUGHFARE IMPROVED." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Dec 26 1910, p. 13. ProQuest. Web.
"ARIOCH WENTWORTH'S $7,000,000 ESTATE: FAMILY NEARLY CUT OFF. FEW ANNUITIES ARE PROVIDED. ALL THE REST TO FOUND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. DOMESTIC TROUBLES PLAY A PART. DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND CAUSE OF THEM. HAD BEEN BRITISH VICE CONSUL AT BOSTON. MR STUART QUEER IN FINANCE. MEMORY HONORED. SERVICES FOR THE LATE ARIOCH WENTWORTH AT THE HOME FOR AGED PEOPLE AT DOVER, N H." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Mar 23 1903, p. 1. ProQuest. Web.
"ALL KNEW HIM.: WITNESSES FOR DEFENCE GIVE EVIDENCE. SAW NO MENTAL WEAKNESS IN ARIOCH WENTWORTH. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ONE OF THOSE HEARD." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Dec 19 1903, p. 12. ProQuest. Web.
"FOR THE WILL.: WENTWORTH WITNESSES ON THE STAND. THEY SAY TESTATOR SEEMED ALWAYS RATIONAL. STRONG IN DISLIKES, SHREWD IN BUSINESS." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Dec 17 1903, p. 3. ProQuest. Web.
Special to w Yo TI's. "PAUL B. WATSON." New York Times (1923-), Mar 20 1948, p. 13. ProQuest. Web.
"The Importation of Finished Monuments." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Oct 01 1877, p. 8. ProQuest. Web.
"MONUMENTAL ART.: PROGRESS IN TASTE IN THESE MODERN DAYS--THE BUSINESS RECORD OF OLIVER M. WENTWORTH, ESQ.--AN ENTERPRISING AND SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT. BY ONE OF THE MOST ENIERPRISING OF BOSTONIANS. THE FINE SPPCIMENS OF [...] AND [...] MONUMENTS THE [...] [...] OF FAITH AND [...]." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Apr 10 1876, p. 5. ProQuest. Web.
“Atlascope Boston.” Atlascope Boston · Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library , https://atlascope.leventhalmap.org/.
“Atlas of the City of Boston”Atlasscope, Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.Philadelphia : G.W. Bromley & Co. 1902
“Atlas of the City of Boston”Atlasscope, Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.Philadelphia : G.W. Bromley & Co. 1912
“Atlas of the City of Boston”Atlasscope, Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.Philadelphia : G.W. Bromley & Co. 1922
“Atlas of the City of Boston”Atlasscope, Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.Philadelphia : G.W. Bromley & Co. 1938
“Insurance Maps of Boston” Atlasscope, Historic Urban Atlases from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.New York : Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. 1882.
Trade card for Davis, Sacker & Perkins, coffees, spices, mustard, cream tartar, 5, 7, 9 & 11 Haverhill Street, Boston, Mass., undated. n.d. Web. <http://gusn.us/249334>.
Boston (Mass.). Haverhill Street. [ca. 1895]. Web.. <https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_9c16cc4e-d99c-4bb4-9a10-6a6ac97b0c04/
"Display Ad 83 -- no Title." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Feb 02 1913, p. 53. ProQuest. Web.
"Classified Ad 4 -- no Title." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Jul 09 1911, p. 19. ProQuest. Web.
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