The Forbes Hill Standpipe with its shadowy facade presents a good backdrop for a mystery story. You can read more about the Standpipe for a previous QDP post HERE.
Showing posts with label Forbes Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forbes Hill. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Shadow Paint
The Forbes Hill Standpipe with its shadowy facade presents a good backdrop for a mystery story. You can read more about the Standpipe for a previous QDP post HERE.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Thursday is "This Old House Day"
This house located at 103 Summit Avenue is one of Quincy's post-war houses built in 1949. Many of the houses on Summit Ave. are situated with fantastic views of Boston.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday is "This Old House Day"
This Colonial Revival house looks meticulously maintained with its stucco facade and timbering details under the roof peak. It was built in 1925 and is located at 80 Summit Avenue on Forbes Hill. Many houses in this neighborhood were built after WWi in the 1920s. I'll share more of them in weeks to come.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Thursday is "This Old House" Day
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Located on one of the most prominent sites on Forbes Hill, this impressive Tudor Revival style house at 95 Resevoir Road, was built in the 1930s at a cost of $9700 for Edwin S. White, president of White Bros. Milk, one of the largest dairy companies on the South Shore, and located in North Quincy. My father was a milkman for White Bros and this was part of his route so he must have delivered milk to the boss's house! What a fun discovery for the family history.
Did any of you ever get your milk delivered to your house? Crescent Ridge Dairy is the only company I know of that might still deliver in Quincy . . . what a help it was when the children were small.
The designer of this brick beauty was Boston architect Harry Morton Ramsay. He designed an asymmetrical facade whose dominant element is the picturesque granite faced tower with a conical roof. On the right is a projecting gabled wing which balances the long slope of the slate roof on the left which is pierced by a large hip dormer. There are only a few Tudor style houses in Quincy; this being a fine example.
Located on one of the most prominent sites on Forbes Hill, this impressive Tudor Revival style house at 95 Resevoir Road, was built in the 1930s at a cost of $9700 for Edwin S. White, president of White Bros. Milk, one of the largest dairy companies on the South Shore, and located in North Quincy. My father was a milkman for White Bros and this was part of his route so he must have delivered milk to the boss's house! What a fun discovery for the family history.
Did any of you ever get your milk delivered to your house? Crescent Ridge Dairy is the only company I know of that might still deliver in Quincy . . . what a help it was when the children were small.
The designer of this brick beauty was Boston architect Harry Morton Ramsay. He designed an asymmetrical facade whose dominant element is the picturesque granite faced tower with a conical roof. On the right is a projecting gabled wing which balances the long slope of the slate roof on the left which is pierced by a large hip dormer. There are only a few Tudor style houses in Quincy; this being a fine example.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Out for a Walk
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I met the Collins and Gilmartin families taking a walk in the Forbes Hill neighborhood over the weekend. We will see more of this neighborhood in the coming weeks. Forbes Hill lies a bit to the West of Wollaston Hill and is dominated by a magnificent standpipe and the Furnace Brook Golf Course.
I met the Collins and Gilmartin families taking a walk in the Forbes Hill neighborhood over the weekend. We will see more of this neighborhood in the coming weeks. Forbes Hill lies a bit to the West of Wollaston Hill and is dominated by a magnificent standpipe and the Furnace Brook Golf Course.
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