No. 5155 Painting of the Captain Baker House on the face of a brick from the house.
Edward A. Huebener, a former Board member of the Dorchester Historical Society, was a collector of materials relating to Dorchester history including a very large collection of graphic materials, including prints and photographs, now owned by the Society. His very own contribution to this group of materials was the idea of taking a brick from a house that had been demolished and asking a local illustrator to paint a picture of the house upon the brick. The painted bricks may be viewed at the Dorchester Historical Society.
The Captain Baker House was located on Savin Hill
A biographical sketch of Edmund James Baker says of his ancestor: [Captain] Richard Baker, the pioneer of the Baker family in this country, landed in Boston from the Norsey (North Sea) bark ?Bachelor,? of which he was second in command, November 18, 1635. He settled at Savin Hill in Dorchester. On November 4, 1639, he became a member of the church in Dorchester, and about the same time married Faith Withington, a daughter of Henry Withington, the ruling Elder of the Church.
From the numerous ancient deeds now extant in which he was a party, we conclude that Richard Baker was an extensive land-holder as well as a prominent and enterprising citizen. From early manhood to old age his name appears almost every year among the officers of the town of Dorchester. In 1658, he joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
No. 1196 Â Illustration from The Dorchester Book, 1899, possibly used as the model for the brick painting. Caption says Revolutionary Barrack, Savin Hill without identifying the house as Captain Baker’s.