Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1794
Today we have a detail from the 1890 bird’s-eye view of Lower Mills. Although the print shows mostly the Dorchester side of the river, the title is: Milton Lower Mills, Massachusetts. Boston: O.H. Bailey & Co., Lith. & Pub., 1890.
The building squarely in the middle is Young’s Hotel. To the left down the alley is the Stone Mill building of the Baker Chocolate Company-no. 16. The Webb Mill of the Baker Chocolate Company is on the Milton side of the river. In the upper left you can see the Village Congregational Church, no. 6. Across the street you can see the Stoughton School building. The Baker Chocolate Administration Building has not been built; neither have the two Baker Chocolate buildings on the same side closer to the river: the Baker and Forbes mills.
In the illustration the numbers indicate:
6 Village Congregational Church
11 Odd Fellows Hall
14 15 16 W Baker & Co.’s Chocolate Mills
25 E.R. Wendemuth Block, Dry Goods, Millinery, Boots and Shoes, Milton School of Music, R. W. Lanigan
26 J.C. Talbot, Importer General Grocer
28 J. Edwin Swan Stores, Kitchen Furnishings, Plumbing, etc.
39 Henry Crane and Son, Lower Mills Stable (sort of where Spukie’s Pizza is)
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