Pictures taken on the scene could hardly do justice to the immense force of the fire in one area, which under other weather conditions could have been a disaster.
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When the Thomas G. Plant Company, the shoe manufacturing concern in Jamaica Plain, announced a few months ago that it was prepared to employ women who had small children and would give the little ones just as good —-even better—-care than they would receive at home while the mother was at work, some folks were skeptical. The idea of a shoe manufacturing company starting a nursery and kindergarten for the children of its employees was a new one.
“If ever there was an essence of a bar owner,” said Carl Goldman, a retired schoolteacher and devoted Triple D’s patron, “an essence of a solid neighborhood bartender, a publican, it’s that man right there.” He pointed to Joe Devlin, who poured a draft behind the bar.
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Ward’s Pond sits on the border of Jamaica Plain and Brookline, just north of Jamaica Pond and within Olmsted Park, one of the long links in Boston’s Emerald Necklace of parks.
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The Woodbourne section of Jamaica Plain is bounded by Walk Hill Street, Wachusett Street, Forest Hills Cemetery Crematory and Catherine Street. It takes its name from the estate of the Minot family who moved to the area in the mid-19th century.
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The planning and construction of the first phase of Woodbourne took place during a period of time when Boston changed from a bustling, chaotic, industrial 19th century city and entered the 20th century. It was a period when the strong mayor form of government and professional city planners came into being which would do so much to shape Boston after the Second World War.
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The material that follows is an excerpt of the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form prepared in April 1999. The Woodbourne area was subsequently added to the Register on June 4, 1999.
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