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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 →

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 →

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 →