The Arnold Arboretum covers some 265 acres of rolling land south of Centre Street and west of the Arborway in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston. Within the grounds are examples of over 6,000 varieties of trees and shrubs from all over the North Temperate Zone.
Read More3474-3476 Washington Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts is a three-story, two-family house that was built sometime between 1874 and 1886 by Isaac Harris Cary, a prominent merchant and real estate developer from Jamaica Plain. The double-frame house, located at the corner of Washington and Gartland Streets, is built in the Gothic Revival style with simple decorative trusses above the third-floor dormers and a hip-on-gable, or jerkinhead, roof.
Read More69 Williams Street in Jamaica Plain is a silk dye house that was built in 1880 by Isaac Harris Cary, a prominent merchant and real estate developer from Jamaica Plain. Isaac Cary and his brother William operated dry goods stores in Boston and New York City, the NYC store eventually becoming the largest importer of fancy goods in the country.
Read MoreThe inestimable Boston historian Anthony Mitchell Sammarco speaks about his new book Jamaica Plain Through Time. Video of a talk that was held via Zoom on April 7, 2021.
Read MoreA list of gaslights remaining in Jamaica Plain in 2021. Images of these existing lamps would be happily accepted.Image courtesy of Historical Society of Rivertown (http://rivertonhistory.com/)
Read MoreThe Milmore Memorial is a masterwork by the great American sculptor, Daniel Chester French. It honors two Irish-American brothers who were both sculptors - Martin and Joseph Milmore. The sculpture Death Arresting the Hand of the Sculptor was first installed in August 1893. It has since moved locations within Forest Hills Cemetery and gone through several pedestals/surrounds.
Read MoreAt the corner of Carolina Avenue and Lee Street in Jamaica Plain sits a charming cottage on an unusually large parcel of land for the surrounding neighborhood. This house, at 101 Carolina Avenue, was the first to be built on the street. Though significant for its age, also important is the role it played in the history of Jamaica Plain. In 1913, the house transformed from a single-family home into the home of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood House Association. This article explores the history of the people who lived within its walls and, later, its life as a settlement house.
Read MoreAs part of its effort to petition the City of Boston to establish Doyle’s as an Historic Landmark, the Save Doyle’s Team spent months researching and documenting the story of this beloved institution. They have graciously offered to share it here.
Read MoreThe Boston Public Library, Digital Commonwealth, and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society are pleased to announce the launch of a new online collection comprised of items that once hung on the walls of the beloved Doyle’s Café in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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