A small bungalow at 281 Lamartine Street, built in 1940, is a rare, documented mail-order or “Readi-cut” house by the Aladdin Company of Bay City Michigan. The Aladdin Company was one of the longest-lived and most successful of the “Readi-cut,” “built-in-a-day” companies which flourished between about 1905 and World War II.

Locales, 20th CenturyJamaica Plain Historical SocietyMarch 11, 2005Housing

Margaret Fuller School

The memories of Dorothy Neagle Cook of her time at the Margaret Fuller School in the 1950s.

Locales, 20th CenturyJamaica Plain Historical SocietyMarch 10, 2005Education, Schools

Plan to Build Big Apartment House in Jamaica Plain

he Jamaica Plain Cooperative Association, a real estate organization, composed of several of the leading business and professional men of that section of the city, has just approved the plans for a handsome, new, 80-apartment house, which is to be erected on Center St., opposite Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain.

Locales, 20th CenturyJamaica Plain Historical SocietyMarch 9, 2005Housing

Woodbourne and the Boston 1915 Movement

The long-standing impulse of housing reformers to build workingmen’s homes in the suburbs was joined at the beginning of the 20th century by the nascent city planning movement which advocated for public policies that would relieve the overcrowding of central cities.

20th Century, LocalesJamaica Plain Historical SocietyMarch 1, 2005Reform