No. 5192 Howe 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.
According to the list of bricks in the collection, the Howe House was located on Adams Street, approximately between Christopher Street and Gibson Street.
No. 5281 Detail from 1858 Walling map of Norfolk County. Of the several Howe properties, it should be the one labeled J. Howe near the top of the map on Adams Street near the Willard property.
No. 2326 A note on the photograph below says it was located at 315 Adams Street (later the address of one of Huebener’s shops — Huebener was the collector of the bricks.