of center, you can see the lot where the gym was later built. |
Dutcher at the corner of Hope Street. |
by his house at 35 Dutcher Street. |
The Hopedale House, a Draper boarding house. |
The Draper gas station, next to the fire station. |
Hitching ring on the wall across from the Dutcher Street School. |
The Park House, a Draper boarding house at the corner of Dutcher and Freedom streets. |
Town Park at the corner of Dutcher and Freedom. |
Harlan Hart operated a shoe repair business at his house on the corner of Dutcher and Dennett streets, and as seen above, earlier at the corner of Dutcher and Social streets. |
Charles Austin was the Draper housing superintendent. He supplemented his income by selling tires from his house. |
Henry family at 200 Dutcher Street. In later years, it became a poultry farm. The photo below shows a rescue operation taking place when a horse became stuck in the mud near the farm. It was finally pulled out after eleven hours. |
The year 1910 marked radical changes in the block between Chapel and Social Streets, when houses fronting on Hopedale Street were moved away and construction of the new Main Office was started. At the upper end of the lot, at the corner of Chapel and Dutcher, was a white cottage in which a lady, a Mrs. Adams, I believe, had a 100th birthday. On the other corner, where the fire house now stands, was a rather shaky-looking old barn, and across the street from that was a small shop where one could obtain a sketchy meal prepared by Miss Annabel Jenkins. I had ham and eggs there daily while lodging with Mr. and Mrs. Bates at 88 Dutcher Street before occupying the Bancroft Park house. Charles Merrill, Hopedale As I Found it. |
The Little Red Schoolhouse at 129 Dutcher Street. |
store was in the little building between the restaurant and the house. |
1918 ad |
1918 ad |
