Columbia Road Stables

No. 11558 Columbia Road Stables, ca. 1890. Photograph from Historic New England.

The stables was located at 525-527 Columbia Road at Hancock Street, now numbered 519-531.  The building still exists in 2019.

16000 519-531 Columbia Road 9-5-2016.

No. 16000 519-531 Columbia Road, photograph September 5, 2016.
No. 11154 Wheelock Stable in the background, published in The Second Settlement, 1875-1925. By Douglass Shand Tucci. Boston, 1974).

The stable was in place at least by 1874, but probably some part of the stable was earlier since Wheelock acquired the parcels that made up the property from 1859 to 1874.

No. 16004 Livery Stable at 71 Hancock Street from Leading Business Men of Back Bay, South End, Boston Highlands, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester. (Boston, 1888).

 

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May 13, 2020