11/10/2022
Celebrate the history of Emancipation by Meta Warrick Fuller - Sunday, November 13th, 2-4 p.m.
From our friends at the The Friends of Harriet Tubman Park!
***Please note this is not a SEHS sponsored event***
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The South End Historical Society was founded in 1966 to fight for the preservation of historic architecture in Boston's South End neighborhood.
Today, the SEHS continues preservation work, collects materials related to South End social history, architecture, and urban renewal, and assists researchers studying South End history. The SEHS also issues newsletters, holds programs and lectures, and leads walking tours. Open by appointment only.
08/05/2022
SEHS To Document South End From the 1960s-1980s – The Boston Sun
In case you missed it....
https://thebostonsun.com/2022/08/04/sehs-to-document-south-end-from-the-1960s-1980s/
News SEHS To Document South End From the 1960s-1980s by Lauren Bennett • August 4, 2022 • 0 Comments The South End Historical Society (SEHS) is gearing up to begin interviews for its South End Oral History project, which will document stories of change in the neighborhood between the 1960s a...
04/18/2022
South End Then & Now: 72 Warren Avenue
04/11/2022
South End Then & Now: 525 Shawmut Avenue
04/04/2022
South End Then & Now: Block 657-685 Massachusetts Avenue
03/28/2022
South End Then & Now: 387 Shawmut Ave
02/12/2022
Tickets for the South End Historical Society’s Virtual House Tour are on sale now!
Individuals who purchase a ticket ($20) will be emailed a link to view the House Tour video on February 28th and have access to the video through March 7th. This event is our single fundraising event for the year and purchasing a ticket supports our mission to preserve and protect the South End’s history and architectural heritage for current and future generations.
Visit www.southendhistoricalsociety.org/housetour for more information or to purchase a ticket.
08/10/2021
South End Then & Now: 249 Shawmut Avenue
07/02/2021
South End Then & Now: 1511-1525 Washington Street
07/02/2021
South End Then & Now: 1511-1525 Washington Street
06/04/2021
South End Then & Now: 231 Shawmut Ave
05/14/2021
South End Then & Now: 69 Appleton Street
03/11/2021
In case you missed it:
Two stories recently aired on NBC Boston that featured images from our collections.
https://www.nbcboston.com/on-air/as-seen-on/from-the-south-to-the-south-end-exploring-bostons-black-history/2311811/
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/this-south-end-brownstone-is-steeped-in-black-history/2310433/
01/24/2021
Tickets for the South End Historical Society’s Virtual House Tour are on sale now!
Visit www.southendhistoricalsociety.org/housetour for more information or to purchase a ticket.
05/08/2020
South End Then & Now: 575 Columbus Avenue
04/17/2020
South End Then & Now: 554 Tremont Street
04/09/2020
South End Then & Now: 532 Tremont Street
02/27/2020
South End Then & Now: 131 Appleton Street
10/16/2019
Join us for the South End Historical Society's 51st annual South End House Tour this Saturday, from 10AM - 5PM. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the tour. Advance tickets will be available through our website until 4:00 PM on Friday, October 18th. Tickets will be sold at Sprogis & Neale Real Estate (679 Tremont Street) on the day of the tour.
To purchase advanced tickets: http://ow.ly/LwU230mgOF9
05/28/2019
Interested in walking in the Boston Pride Parade? Join SEHS on Saturday, June 8th for our third year participating in the parade. For more information or to RSVP, send us an e-mail at [email protected]
04/19/2019
South End Then & Now: 540-550 Tremont Street
03/15/2019
South End Then & Now: 599 Columbus Ave
03/08/2019
South End Then & Now: 811 Harrison Avenue
02/28/2019
South End Then & Now: 1648-1672 Washington Street
02/21/2019
South End Then & Now: 429 Columbus Ave
02/05/2019
South End Then & Now: 67 Appleton Street
01/23/2019
This week’s featured image is of Mellen’s Tavern, located at 1783 Washington Street in 1972. Owner James Mellen also owned Big Jim’s Shanty Lounge, Worthy Lunch and Green St. Station (in Jamaica Plain).
01/18/2019
South End Then & Now: 42 Worcester Square
01/16/2019
This week’s featured image is of the Spinney Meat Shop, located at 1405 Washington Street in 1972. For over thirty years, this location was home to Harry O’s Pizza which recently closed and is now the location of Union Park Pizza.
01/09/2019
This week’s featured image is of the St. George Syrian Orthodox Church, located on James Street (today known as St. George Street) in 1972. Newly arrived immigrants from the Middle East founded the parish in 1900 in the South End. The founding families of the church came from numerous Christian villages in the old Ottoman Empire. As the community grew and prospered, a new church was needed and in 1953, the congregation built a church complex on James Street (today’s St. George Street). The new complex included a sanctuary, church school, social hall and living quarters for the pastor. In the mid-1970s, the community had shifted towards the suburbs and a new parish was built in West Roxbury. The church on James Street was demolished and replaced with housing.
01/08/2019
South End Then & Now: 1704 Washington Street
01/02/2019
This week’s featured image is of the Joshua Bates School in 1972, located at 731 Harrison Avenue. Arthur H. Vinal designed and built the school in 1884 in the Romanesque Revival style. The City of Boston named the school after Joshua Bates, an international financier and benefactor of the Boston Public Library. After closing in 1975, the building opened as the Bates Art Center in 1977 and included artists' studios and exhibit space.
12/27/2018
South End Then and Now: Corner of Columbus and Massachusetts Ave.
12/26/2018
This week's featured image is of the Union Rescue Mission during a midnight service in 1908. William H. West founded the Union Rescue Mission in 1890, and it was originally located on Kneeland Street before moving to Dover Street (today's East Berkeley). The organization's mission was to help alcoholics and poor residents. It would hold daily meetings for the public and meetings would usually consist of singing hymns, lectures, readings from the Bible, and personal testimonies from attendees. Afterwards, the mission gave those in need a meal ticket and lodging for one night. From Christmas until New Year’s Day, the Union Rescue Mission would also provide free midnight meals for men.
12/21/2018
This week's featured image is of 265 Shawmut Avenue in 1972. Built in 1854, the building was home to Dr. Edward de la Granja from 1868 until his death in 1903. Born in Avila, Spain, he received his medical degree from the Central University of Madrid in 1855. Before immigrating to the U.S. in 1866, de la Granja served as a brigade surgeon in the Crimean War.
In March 1887, de la Granja held a reception at his home on Shawmut Avenue for opera singer Giulia Valda-Cameron. The newspaper noted that the event was attended by guests "distinguished from the highest society." Those in attendance that night included Governor Oliver Ames, Liet. Governor John Quincy Adams Brackett, as well as poet and activist Julia Ward Howe.
Upon his death in 1903, Edward de la Granja left his property to the Massachusetts Maternity & Foundling Hospital.
12/19/2018
South End Then & Now: 140 Worcester Street - In 1917, the Packard Auto Renting Company was using this building to sell and store gasoline.
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Comments
Looking for information/pictures of Davis St. I believe it's gone now but my father grew up there from 1920 on.
Does anyone remember the Jewish market on Columbus near Dartmouth?
Beautifully renovated 3 Bed unit available now! Will not last!
Me in Franklin Square 1945. We lived on West Brookline Street and I attended The Joshua Bates School on Harrison Avenue. Later we moved to the corner of West Concord and Washington Streets. After Joshua Bates I attended The Dwight School on West Springfield Street. This is almost the same scene that was used years later at the beginning of St. Elsewhere.
Looking for any photos of "Sorgi's Market" on Dover Street. 1940's thru 60's
Gateway Main Street
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Chester Square covered in snow - December 2012...
Any pictures of Broadway st and Tremont Street all the Greek stores werethrer in the 50s and 60s
Anyone remember the park on Albion St?
Thank you guys again for having Cowboy and I today. We are very excited to return so cowboy can fulfill his duty as mascot come next year.
Growing up in the South End
We felt it started at Castle Square/Shawmut
Went over to Columbus but not too far down and maybe West Dedham thereabouts.
I grew up on Albion and Chandler
Did not go too far past the National Theatre or past Dover or to Mass Ave.
When I see the posts now most are what we called " Roxbury"
Interesting
We felt it started at Castle Square/Shawmut
Went over to Columbus but not too far down and maybe West Dedham thereabouts.
I grew up on Albion and Chandler
Did not go too far past the National Theatre or past Dover or to Mass Ave.
When I see the posts now most are what we called " Roxbury"
Interesting