No. 5158 Painting of the Everett-Appleton House on the face of a brick from the house
The Edward A. Huebener collection of over 100 bricks originally collected by Mr. Huebener exhibits brick paintings of the houses from which the bricks came. The bricks have upon them painted scenes of (mostly) old Dorchester houses and landmarks.
The Everett-Appleton House was located on the west side of Pleasant Street, just north of Savin Hill Avenue, where the Everett School is located now.
No. 2285 Detail from the 1874 atlas
The Edward-Appleton house was built in 1779 by Moses Everett, minister of the First Parish Church. Moses Everett was Edward Everett’s uncle. The house was demolished in 1909 when the new Edward Everett School was built, moving from its location off Sumner Street.
No. 5432 Photograph of miniature of Moses Everett taken on his visit to Philadelphia with the Continental Congress. Original owned by Miss Abbott of Cambridge (this comment was from around 1900 or so).
No. 137 Photograph of the house facing the street from The Dorchester Book, 1899.
No. 2533 Photograph in the collections of the Dorchester Historical Society, showing the back of the house.
No. 7 Photograph published in Official Program, Dorchester Day, 1913, showing the orientation of the house to Pleasant Street.