Dorchester Atheneum

Look below at the very bottom for descriptions of Dorchester neighborhoods. These descriptions were prepared during the 1994 survey of Dorchester by the Boston Landmarks Commission.

The Boston Landmarks Commission has designated 6 locations in Dorchester as city landmarks (the Peabody Square clock is also a Boston Landmark, included among a grouping of city clocks). All of them are listed on the National Register of Historic Properties, and you may find the National Register descriptions in the Section under Architecture entitled National Register Properties. The Boston landmarks include

1. Dorchester North Burying Ground, Columbia Road

topography, walkways, headstone, walls

Dorchester Pottery Works

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2. Dorchester Pottery Works, 101-105 Victory Road

exterior and kiln

James Blake House

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3. James Blake House, 210 East Cottage Street (735 Columbia Road)

exterior and interior

William Monroe Trotter House

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4. William Monroe Trotter House, 97 Sawyer Avenue

exterior and grounds

Fowler Clark Farm

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5. Fowler-Clark Farm

Historic documentation indicates that the main house on the Fowler Clark farm was built as a single family dwelling between 1786 and 1806. Outbuildings have been on the property since the late eighteenth century, though documentation indicates that the current stable dates to ca. 1860. Samuel Fowler, a Dorchester yeoman seems to have been the house?s first owner. Fowler farmed a large estate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on which stood a ?mantion house and barn.? This estate included what became the Clark family parcel. The house has passed through five families over the course of its roughly 200 year history. It served as a farmhouse in an agricultural setting until the 11 acre property was subdivided for residential development in 1895.

The house and stable at 487 Norfolk Street are collectively known as the Fowler-Clark farm. Once situated on just over eleven acres, the buildings now occupy six parcels at the southwest corner of Norfolk and Hosmer Streets in Mattapan, totaling just over half an acre.

The house is a wood-frame, two-and-a-half story, five bay by one bay dwelling, with a large central chimney and centered, projecting main entry. The building reads as two distinct blocks: the original single pile house, and a rear, one story, wood frame and stone ell. The main (southern) fa?ade presents five bays to the street with double-hung twelve over twelve wood sash windows.

For more information see the study report on the Boston Landmarks? webpage at http://www.cityofboston.gov/environment/reports.asp

Pending Designation

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The property at 44 Virginia Street, known as the George Milliken House, was designated as a city landmark in 2007.

The George Milliken House was built in 1881 as a single family home. From 1881 to 2004 it passed through three owners, and remained a residence until the winter of 2003-2004 when it was vacated.

The George Milliken House stands as an outstanding example of a late nineteenth-century suburban dwelling that exhibits characteristics of Queen Ann and Stick Style aesthetics. Taking its cue from elements of nature and deliberately defying the constraints of the urban lot and row house form, the large, asymmetrical, wood frame dwelling sprawls on its 7,979 square foot parcel and exhibits playful details and ornament.

For more information see the study report on the Boston Landmarks? webpage at http://www.cityofboston.gov/environment/reports.asp

Topics

Landmarks Description Ashmont Hill	Landmarks Description Bellevue/Glendale Streets	Landmarks Description Boston Sanatorium	Landmarks Description Carruth Street / Peabody Square	Landmarks Description Cedar Grove Cemetery/Richview
Landmarks Description Codman Hill	Landmarks Description Codman Square	Landmarks Description Crescent Avenue	Landmarks Description Dudley Triangle	Landmarks Description Fields Corner
Landmarks Description Franklin Field North	Landmarks Description Grove Hall	Landmarks Description Humphreys/East Cottage Street	Landmarks Description Jones Hill	Landmarks Description King Square
Landmarks Description Lower Mills East	Landmarks Description Lower Mills West	Landmarks Description Mattapan Square	Landmarks Description Meeting House Hill	Landmarks Description Melville Avenue/Wellesley Park
Landmarks Description Mill Street/Clam Point	Landmarks Description Mt. Bowdoin	Landmarks Description Neponset Village	Landmarks Description Pierce Avenue/Oakton Avenue	Landmarks Description Pleasant Street North
Landmarks Description Port Norfolk	Landmarks Description Ronan Park/Fields Corner West	Landmarks Description Savin Hill	Landmarks Description Savin Hill Flats	Landmarks Description St. Ambrose/Fields Corner East
Landmarks Description St.Angelas/Babson Street	Landmarks Description St. Margarets/Boston Street	Landmarks Description St. Marks/Mather Street	Landmarks Description St. Matthews/Stanton Street	Landmarks Description Uphams Corner
Landmarks Description Virginia/Monadnock	Landmarks Description Wellington Hill	Guide to the James Blake House

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Created: May 23, 2005 Modified: May 11, 2009