The Edwin and Carrie Darling house shown in the photos below is at 54 Freedom Street.
Above – Looking across Freedom Street from the Darling house.
View from behind the Darling house looking toward Town Park.
The house in the photo above was torn down long ago. It was roughly across Hopedale Street from Ballou Park. It was probably the house where Carrie Williams Darling grew up.
In 1920, Edwin and Carrie Darling took in Hester Springer, age 15, as a foster child. Hester later married Clarence Chilson and lived in the house at 54 Freedom Street until her death, a couple of months after she turned 100 in 2005. For many years Clarence operated a radio and tv repair business out of the house. In the 1990s, Hester donated an album of photos, including the ones above, to the Bancroft Library. She also donated about 100 of Edwin’s glass negatives that are now on this site. See links below.