How did Paul Gore Street get its name? Here's the explanation
Read MoreWhen China trade merchant brothers Thomas and James Perkins headed south of Boston for summer country homes in the early 1800's, the younger Thomas built a house (now gone) near Jamaica Plain in Brookline, at Heath and Warren Streets, while James chose the shores of Jamaica Pond, building Pinebank I in 1802.
Read MoreQuincy Adams Shaw was born in the Parkman home in Bowdoin Square in February, 1825. A member of the Harvard Class of 1845, he left the East the next spring “on a tour of curiosity and amusement to the Rocky mountains.” His father, a wealthy Boston merchant, allowed him another trip?the Grand Tour of the last century to Europe and the Near East, written up by his companion, George Curtis.
Read MoreThese are the reminiscences of Margherita Brigham, who was born on 23 April 1887 at 13 Warren Square, off Green Street in Jamaica Plain. The memoir concerns the house of Margherita’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dickson.
Read MoreBob Casavant’s working life in Jamaica Plain saw him grow from a skilled machinist at Buff & Buff Manufacturing Company to a prize-winning antique automobile restoration expert.
Read MoreAn article based on a lecture Richard Heath gave on reformer, Robert Treat Paine.
Read Moren the taking of land for the Jamaica Park Project in the 1890s not too many houses of the ones that are easily studied today were dismantled since they sat far back from the shore on their Pondside estates.
Read MoreI was born in Roxbury in 1958. By the time I was able to attend school, my family moved to 13 Orchard Street. We lived in a beautiful three-story duplex, just down the street from the new Boy’s Club, which was on the corner of Orchard Street. It was exciting, as a young boy, to see all the building going on down the street from my house.
Read MoreSam Klass, “Scientific Shoe Rebuilder,” learned the cobbler’s trade at his father’s knee, and he kept at it for nearly 40 years at 66 South Street, Jamaica Plain.
Read MoreFew residents of the Jamaica Plain district, if any, can recall the author of children’s histories and of schoolbooks upon an infinite variety of subjects, the publisher of magazines and almanacs, the all-round literary gentleman, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, known as "Peter Parley" at the height of his fame, who built the now vacant stone mansion on Montebello Rd. for his own occupancy in 1833.
Read MoreThese memories are taken from Simple Pleasures, written by Marilyn Moody about her girlhood growing up in Jamaica Plain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Read MoreHatoff and his business have a long Jamaica Plain history. Morris Hatoff, Stan’s father, moved to Boston from New York. He opened Hatoff’s original service station in 1924 on Washington Street, near the present site of the Forest Hills Station.
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