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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Front Beach, Rockport, Mass., 1906
Compare this 1906 view of Front Beach with this one from 1905 and this one from 1935. It is interesting that the 1905 card shows the beach almost deserted, with the tide out, whereas this one shows a crowded beach … Continue reading
Mr. and Mrs. Elis Stenman Inside Their Paper House, circa 1932
In 1922, Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer living in Cambridge, and his wife Esther bought land in the Pigeon Cove section of Rockport to build a summer house. They had been fascinated by a trend to use newspaper for … Continue reading
Birch Bark Framed View of Twin Lights, 1906
At the Gloucester block party tonight, I stopped in Bodin Historic Photo, where Fred Bodin asked me whether I’d seen any postcards where the image appears to be framed in birch bark. He just acquired several such cards with images … Continue reading
The Pavilion, Long Beach, Gloucester, circa 1910
Long Beach starts in Gloucester and ends in Rockport, and the Long Beach Pavilion was once a popular stop for tourists traveling from one town to the other — provided they were traveling by foot, because Thatcher Road had not … Continue reading
Train Depot, Rockport, Mass., circa 1910
If not for the enterprise of the people of Rockport, there might never have been a train coming here. In 1847, the Eastern Railroad Corporation open a railroad line for travel to Gloucester. The people of Rockport implored the company … Continue reading
Common and Square, Rockport, Mass., circa 1912
The view here is from Broadway looking south. Mt. Pleasant St. is to the left and High St. comes into it from the right. The diagonal cross street to the right of the common is no longer there. To the … Continue reading
