Monument Square houses from no. 21 to no. 26, at head of Monument Street

Title:: Monument Square houses from no. 21 to no. 26, at head of Monument Street
Description:: Monument Square houses from no. 21 to no. 26, at head of Monument Street. The large brick house with white stone trim was built in 1874 by F.L. Gilman, but in 1879 became the home for many years of Dr. Edward J. Forster, surgeon-general of Mass. Just beyond it lived Dr. Luther V. Bell, head of the McLean Asylum and surgeon in the Civil War.
Photographer:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Name on Item:: Photo by Rev. Wolcott Cutler
Date:: [ca. 1925–1959]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Houses
Residential streets
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Monument Square
Monument Square District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: See pp. 425 to 427 in Sawyer's "Old Charlestown." Photographed by Reverend Wolcott Cutler: Bantam #737:8.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler
Notes (date):: Date from accompanying materials: Since 1925
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-246-C1