[MassHistPres] Suggestions Requested For Interesting Historic Properties and Sites

[Heli Meltsner]

Michael Roughan has a good idea about overlooked stone bridges that might be expanded to the more than thirty stone bridges listed in MACRIS and dating between 1700 and 1956. For example, one hardly sees the Rockport’s magnificent Granite Keystone Bridge (1872) driving on Rt. 127 across it, but besides being a wonderful engineering feat, it played a critical role in the town’s thriving granite industry. 

A second source of hidden value in Massachusetts are the forty-six former Poor Houses surviving in relatively intact condition and the five Tramp House that locked up vast numbers of tramps for the night. Most citizens of the town in which they are located have little or no knowledge of their former use as central features of their municipality's now discarded welfare system.

Heli Meltsner

On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Susan Brauner <susanparkerbrauner at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been asked by an author researching a book to request
> suggestions from the Listserve.
> 
> The premise of the book is about overlooked Massachusetts historic
> structures and sites we tend to walk by, but actually have an
> interesting story associated with them.  A professional photographer
> will be used in the project.
> 
> I will send on all replies to the author.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> Susan Parker Brauner
> Art Preservation Officer
> Boston Public Library/East Boston
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