No. 5210 Dunmore 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 Dunmore House was located on Bakers Court (Lower Mills), and the caption on the back of the photograph says that he drove stage coach from Lower Mills to Boston. 37 1/2 cents each way.
The history of the First Methodist Church, p. 42, mentions that the house stood on the site where the Forbes Mill was later built. “On the site of the Forbes Mill stood the Dunmore Estate,–the Dunmore house and stable of Charles and Archibald Dunmore, who ran the stage to Boston.”
2292 Photograph in the collections of the Dorchester Historical Society.