Dr. Elizabeth Abbott Carleton, a New Hampshire native and a graduate of the New England Female Medical College, founded the New England Society for the Aged and Friendless in 1884 to offer long-term care for elderly couples of limited means. In exchange for the surrender of a couple's resources the Society provided its residents food, clothing, a small weekly spending allowance, and medical care.
Read MoreThe Haffenreffer Brewery is an intact example of 19th and 20th century industrial architecture. The complex's buildings were constructed between 1877 and the 1960s, a period during which they functioned as a brewery under the name of Boylston and then Haffenreffer. As the brewery operations expanded and changed, buildings were added both horizontally and vertically to create a complex of sixteen buildings.
Read MoreForest Hills Cemetery was established in 1848 as a municipal cemetery for the City of Roxbury. When Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868, Forest Hills became a private non-denominational cemetery, which it remains today. Since its creation, Forest Hills has grown from its original 72 acres to a total of approximately 250 acres.
Read MoreEliot Hall was built as a public meeting hall ca. 1832. Since 1878, it, has been the home of the Footlight Club of Jamaica Plain, which has been recognized by the New England Theater Conference as the oldest continuing amateur theatrical organization in the United States. The building is an architecturally notable Greek Revival/Italianate frame meeting hall located near what has been the historic, social, and political center of Jamaica Plain
Read MoreThe Arnold Arboretum covers some 265 acres of rolling land south of Centre Street and west of the Arborway in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston. Within the grounds are examples of over 6,000 varieties of trees and shrubs from all over the North Temperate Zone.
Read More3474-3476 Washington Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts is a three-story, two-family house that was built sometime between 1874 and 1886 by Isaac Harris Cary, a prominent merchant and real estate developer from Jamaica Plain. The double-frame house, located at the corner of Washington and Gartland Streets, is built in the Gothic Revival style with simple decorative trusses above the third-floor dormers and a hip-on-gable, or jerkinhead, roof.
Read More69 Williams Street in Jamaica Plain is a silk dye house that was built in 1880 by Isaac Harris Cary, a prominent merchant and real estate developer from Jamaica Plain. Isaac Cary and his brother William operated dry goods stores in Boston and New York City, the NYC store eventually becoming the largest importer of fancy goods in the country.
Read MoreThe inestimable Boston historian Anthony Mitchell Sammarco speaks about his new book Jamaica Plain Through Time. Video of a talk that was held via Zoom on April 7, 2021.
Read MoreA list of gaslights remaining in Jamaica Plain in 2021. Images of these existing lamps would be happily accepted.Image courtesy of Historical Society of Rivertown (http://rivertonhistory.com/)
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