1840 view



1950 sullivan square



25 prescott st



71 washington st 1890s

DAVID GOODWIN House.Washington + Union Sts.Charlestown



CharlestownBattleMap1775



Charlestown handwriting



Navy yard 1851

August 23, 1851 edition of, "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion".



aerial 2004

Brian Beaucher



baking co 1897

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE BOSTON BAKERY, UNITED STATES BAKING CO, 465 - 487 MEDFORD STREET, CHARLESTOWN ILLUSTRATION FROM PUBLICATION BY GEORGE W. ENGELHARDT



banknote 1858



boston 1835



boston 1835 2



bridge 1899

Boston Elevated Railway Charlestown Bridge 1899 - Official Boston Transit Commmission photo Charlestown Bridge from the Boston side. View shows the finished swing bridge as built in the open position with a section of elevated railway structure and finished cobblestone roadway complete with surface streetcar tracks in 1899. Work on the elevated railway itself was already underway when this picture was made. Within a few weeks time, the steam cranes would march up to meet the Charlestown Bridge as seen. Actual Boston Elevated Railway Company electric train rapid transit service would commence in June 1901.



bridge 1910



bridge 1912



bridge 1929



bridge city hall 1906



bunker hill school



burning

1882 - copy of 18th c?



burning1



charlestown air 1959 1



charlestown air 1959 2



charlestown air 1959 3



charlestown bridge 1908



charlestown from somerville 1855



chelsea bridge 1910



city hall 1901



city square 1870



city square 1870 stereo



city square 1875



city square 1905



city square 1908



city square 1920



city square 1952

Boston Elevated Railway station and railroad yards in the distance. Basic construction work is underway for the support footings of the Northeast Expressway taking place in the foreground.



city square 1987

Looking toward City Square from the Charlestown Bridge (the red line on the sidewalk marks the Freedom Trail) showing the overhead ramps and roadways as they existed before the start of the project.



city square 1987 2

Looking beyond the marina, and in front of the Bunker Hill Monument, you can see the elevated roadway system between City Square and the Tobin Bridge.



city square east ward map 1922



city square ward map 1922



city square ward map 1922 1



city square ward map 1922 2



city square ward map 1922 3



city square ward map 1922 4



citysquare 1900



color aerial



docks 1911



docks 1911b



drawbridge 1928

Looking from North End of Boston toward City Square, Charlestown One image shows the drawbridge closed with old cars, trucks, and horse drawn wagons passing over, while the second one shows the drawbridge open with a tug boat passing through. Advertising signs visible include Socony Special Gasoline, Boston & Maine Railroad, Old Grist Mill Wheat Coffee, and Nathan (?) & Sons, Meal, Grain, Hay, & Straw. Bunker Hill Monument visible top center, old factories, mills, boats, etc



drawbridge 1928b



drawbridge 1928c



el 1930



el 1975 city square



el 1975 monument



el 1975 north of thompson sq



el 1975 north of thompson sq 2



el 1975 north of thompson sq 3



el 1975 north of thompson sq 4



el 1975 south of sullvan sq



el 1975 south of sullvan sq 2



el 1975 south of sullvan sq 3



el 1975 south of sullvan sq 4



el 1975 south of sullvan sq 5



el 1975 south of sullvan sq 6



el 1975 thompson sq



el 1975 thompson sq 2



el demolition 1975 city square



el demolition 1975 main st



el demolition 1975 main st 2



el demolition 1975 main st 3



el demolition 1975 thompson sq



el demolition 1975 thompson sq 2



elevated map



fire 1821 1



fire 1821 2



from monument 1875



from north end 1848

South View of Charlestown, Mass. Showing a south view of Charlestown viewed from the burying ground on Copp's Hill in Boston.  Bunker Hill Monument, in its unfinished state, on Breed's Hill can be seen in the center of the engraving.  Part of the U.S. Navy Yard can is at the extreme right. Source:  Historical Collections, Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, &c., Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts, with Geographical Description.  By John Warner Barber. Worcester: Published by Warren Lazell, 1848.  (The first edition was published in 1839.) Artist::   John Warner Barber. Engraver:   S. E. Brown, Boston.



frothingham school ca 1900



harvard school 1910



library

Charlestown Circulating Library, by Hunter & Straith, J. S. & H. N. Gallaher, Printers.



mclean asylum 1840



medford st ward map 1922



monument 1860s



monument 1861

1861 edition of John W. Barber and Henry Howe's book "Our Whole Country: Or The Past and Present of the United States, Historical and Descriptive. Illustrated by 600 engravings."



monument 1892



monument square ward map 1922



monument square ward map 1922 1



monument square ward map 1922 2



monument square ward map 1922 3



monument square ward map 1922 4



monument stereo 1875



navy yard 1870



navy yard 1900

Constitution & Constllation, housed over



navy yard 1905



navy yard ward map 1922



navy yard ymca



navyyard 1906 air



navyyard 1910



navyyard 1910 big



panorama 1900



panorama 1900n



panorama 1909



prang 1893

by L.K. Harlow, lithograph, L. Prang & Co, Boston



prescott school



spice company 1897

STICKNEY & POOR SPICE FACTORY CORNER OF CAMBRIDGE & SPICE STREETS CHARLESTOWN NECK, CHARLESTOWN MASS. FROM A SCARCE BOSTON PUBLICATION BOSTON MASS. BY GEORGE W. ENGELHARDT 1897



st catherines 1900



st catherines 1900 b



st catherines 1900s



st francis 1891



stable 1897

HACK, BOARDING, & LIVERY STABLES OF J. O. CHASE & CO., 60 LAWRENCE STREET, CHARLESTOWN, MASS. FROM A SCARCE PUBLICATION BY GEORGE W. ENGELHARDT, BOSTON MASS 1897



state prison



state prison 1840



state prison 1900



steamship 1850



stfrancis 1900



stfrancis 1920s



streetcar 1935

Boston Elevated Railway C.E. Motors #6173 & , 6124 at Sullivan Square, Charlestown, Mass., dated Aug 7, 1935.



streetcar 1935 detail



streetcar 1936

Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Laconia semi-convertible streetcar #4322 in Sullivan Square February, 1936



streetcar 1938

Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway streetcar Chelsea St. at Bunker Hill Avenue, Charlestown, Mass., December 21, 1935



sullivan sq 1970s



sullivan sq station inside 1900



sullivan sq station outside 1900



sullivan square 1908



winthrop square ca 1900



winthrop square ca 1900 b



winthrop square monument 1875



winthrop square ward map 1922



winthrop square ward map 1922 1



winthrop square ward map 1922 2



winthrop square ward map 1922 3



winthrop square ward map 1922 4