The Dexter House on Hancock Street, opposite Trull Street, Jones Hill, Dorchester, c. 1888, click to enlarge. (Image copyright the City Record and Boston News-Letter, all rights reserved)
My post encouraging people to sign up for the Dorchester historic preservation group provided the spark to showcase some of what Dorchester lost during the first great wave of development in Dorchester between 1880 and 1920.
The Dexter House was one of the great estates on Jones Hill (the map below shows the extent of the property, which can be seen on the lower left of the hill) and was probably built in the late 18th or early 19th century. It looks to me as if an earlier Federal period house had columns and porches added to it at a later date to make it more architecturally fashionable. The house was probably torn down by 1910, given the three-deckers which currently stand on the site. More information and another view of Hancock Street can be found here.
Jones Hill, Dorchester, in 1882, click to enlarge (Image copyright the City Record and Boston News-Letter, all rights reserved)
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