In December 2025, the property at 55 South Street, Jamaica Plain -- the home of Fiore’s Bakery -- was placed on the market. Anticipating that the multi-use building will take its next steps in the future, let's look into its past, particularly the history of the businesses that have operated in its storefront and the people who lived and worked there after it was first constructed. What follows is the history of 55 South Street in its early years.
Read MoreThe first evidence of a commercial ice operation on Jamaica Pond is found on an inset of an 1855 map of Suffolk County showing the E.M. Stoddard and Company Ice Company owning a row of icehouses near the modern day rotary at Jamaicaway and Prince Street.
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