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Owen-Nawn Factory

2021-02-13
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On: February 13, 2021
In: Architectural, Dr. Shirley Zavin, Historic Boston, Nubian Square
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This post is an except from a 1978 proposal by Dr. Shirley Zavin, Executive Director of Boston 350.Historic Boston, Inc. has worked tirelessly over the years with developers on this parcel of land that includes the Nawn Factory, Eliot Burial Ground and Eustis Street Firehouse. On the north perimeter of the Burying Ground is a large brick factory building constructed ca. 1868 by Owen Nawn.  The site, however, has a much longer history of commercial and industrial use.  A soap boiler was active here by 1815; subsequently a large wood factory building was constructed and occupied by a “morroco dresser.”  As previously mentioned, tanning was one ofRead More →

Jesse Doggett Tavern – Josiah Cunningham House

2021-02-13
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On: February 13, 2021
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This post is an except from a 1978 proposal by Dr. Shirley Zavin, Executive Director of Boston 350.Historic Boston, Inc. has worked tirelessly over the years with developers on this parcel of land that includes the Nawn Factory, Eliot Burial Ground and Eustis Street Firehouse. The two woodframe, hip-roof Federal style houses at 2066 and 2070 Washington Street are the only remaining pre-19th century buildings on that street in Roxbury. The smaller house (2070 Washington street) was built ca. 1784 by the housewright Josiah Cunningham as his home and workshop.  The larger house next door, which Cunningham built for his neighbor, Captain Jesse Doggett, ca. 1788, wasRead More →

John Eliot Burying Ground: 1630

2021-02-13
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On: February 13, 2021
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This post is an except from a 1978 proposal by Dr. Shirley Zavin, Executive Director of Boston 350.Historic Boston, Inc. has worked tirelessly over the years with developers on this parcel of land that includes the Nawn Factory, Eliot Burial Ground and Eustis Street Firehouse. The John Eliot Burying ground is one of the three oldest in Boston.  The first recorded burial occurred in 1633: the oldest surviving stone is that of Rev. Samuel Danforth’s infant son, dated 1653. Buried there are many famous early Roxbury citizens, including John Eliot, minister of the First Church of Roxbury; Eliot’s translations of biblical texts into native AmericanRead More →

The Eustis Street Firehouse, 1859

2021-02-13
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On: February 13, 2021
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This post is an except from a 1978 proposal by Dr. Shirley Zavin, Executive Director of Boston 350. Historic Boston, Inc. has worked tirelessly over the years with developers on this parcel of land that includes the Nawn Factory, Eliot Burial Ground and Eustis Street Firehouse. The Eustis street Firehouse, the oldest standing firehouse in Boston, was built in 1859 on the site of an earlier Greek Revival firehouse dating from 1829.  The earlier fire house, home of Roxbury’s sixth fire company, had in turn replaced a hearse house serving the Burying Ground.  The present brick building, like its predecessor, is two stories high withRead More →

John Eliot Burying Ground Historic District

2021-02-13
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On: February 13, 2021
In: Acknowledgements, Dr. Shirley Zavin, Historic Boston, Nubian Square
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This post is an except from a 1978 proposal by Dr. Shirley Zavin, Executive Director of Boston 350. Historic Boston, Inc. has worked tirelessly over the years with developers on this parcel of land that includes the Nawn Factory, Eliot Burial Ground and Eustis Street Firehouse. Located at the interaction of Washington and Eustis Streets in Roxbury, the John Eliot Burying Ground Historic District preserves many important chapters of Boston’s history. Until 1786 and the building of the Charles River Bridge, Washington Street – then called Orange Street – was the only overland route from Boston to the mainland. In linking Roxbury and Boston, WashingtonRead More →

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