Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1573
As we have seen before, 65 Pleasant Street was the home of Anna Harris Smith, a Clapp descendant, who used her means to found the Animal Rescue League.
The house is undergoing a renovation through a partnership of Historic Boston Incorporated and the North Bennet Street School. These groups concentrated on a lot of unseen improvements over the last year or more, but now the exterior is also beginning to change. The door, door frame and the windows have been remade to what they would have looked like in 1804 when the house was built.
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This is great to see as this old places has been in some disrepair for years. The lot this old house sits on being the site of the residence of Thomas Jones which was the original house in the Jones Hill area in 1636.