[MassHistPres] source for clapboards

[Russel Feldman]

Might anyone be able to recommend a source of true dimension clapboards?  We need a true 6 inch high by ½ inch at the butt dimension to match the existing siding on a National Register Greek Revival structure.  Clapboards you’ll find in any lumber yard are “6 x ½ inch” nominal dimension, typically about 5½ x 3/8 inch dimension which won’t match the coursing and depth of the existing fabric that we’re looking to preserve.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
Russ Feldman

Russel Feldman, AIA, NCARB | Principal Emeritus | TBA Architects, Inc.

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Hi Dennis,
The last photo with the brick building is 474 Boston Avenue in Medford.  I used to commute regularly by this building.
The building is now named  Curtis Hall, which is part of the Tufts University campus.  There used to be (and may still have) a coffee house in the building and apparently the lower level was a train depot.

Hope this helps…………….

Betsy Ware

Director of Community Development
Town of Dracut, MA.
Telephone: 978-453-4557

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I’m hoping someone can help me ID the location of an y of these photos, all taken on Nov. 10, 1899.  They show the 25 ton cast iron base of a steam pumping engine being relocated from Roxbury to the east side of Spot Pond in Stoneham.  A note for one of them suggests that they may be in Medford _ but I’m open to other suggestions.

I don’t know if it was moved by road the whole way or may have been moved part way by rail or water.   I will note that this is a well surfaced road, but not one with a trolley line.

These photos have a lot of detail when blown up.

Thanks

Dennis De Witt
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
Boston

Note the church steeples marked with arrows.  One of the two on the right looks like HHR’s Grace Episcopal, but the other does not look like  any other I see on line for Medford
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Note the shingled church steeple.  There is also an electric street lamp and a spout for filling wagons for watering the road  The drug store offers an ice cream soda for a nickel !
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Seemingly a country crossroad but with granite curbs, a water spout, and gas lamps
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Between the buildings you can see a railroad line and siding.  The building on the left reads like it might be a station.
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