[MassHistPres] Suggestions Requested For Interesting Historic Properties ...

[SCeccacci at aol.com]

Arched stone bridges built for the Western Railroad still  survive.  The 
Western Railroad, completed between Worcester and  Albany in 1842, later 
became part of the Boston & Albany.  Arched  stone bridges in a section of 
western Massachusetts built in 1840 were  designed by railroad engineer George 
Washington Whistler, the father of the  noted painter, James Abbott McNeil 
Whistler.  Here is a wikipedia link: 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlefield-Becket_Stone_Arch_Railroad_Bridge_
District
 
They may not meet your requirement of being structures that one passes by  
every day, since they are in out of the way locations.
 
Susan McDaniel Ceccacci
Jefferson, MA
 
 
In a message dated 1/29/2016 11:14:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hmeltsner at verizon.net writes:

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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