No. 11114 Samuel tolman House painting on brick.
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.
Nothing much is known of Samuel Tolman.
No. 5270 Detail from 1858 Walling map of Norfolk County. There is a J. Tolman on the west side of Washington Street just a little north of J.C. Hewin’s B.S. Shop. That this location might be that of the Samuel Tolman House is only supposition.
No. 2402 Photograph in the collection of the Dorchester Historical Society, once owned by Huebener, probably used as the model for the brick painting.