No. 5317 Oliver Davenport 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.
The Oliver Davenport House was located on Boston Street, now Columbia Road, just south of Upham’s Corner.
No. 3235 This photograph owned by the Dorchester Historical Society may have served as the model for the painting.
No. 5351 The name O. Davenport appears just above the C in Dorchester in the 1858 map.