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Christmas House Tour 2009

sanctaflora wrote 2 weeks ago: The weather cooperated this year, with clear blue skies, lots of sun and just a chill in the air to … more →

Tags: Christmas House Tours, Founding families, Historical Society, Preservation Society, Rock Street, The Hill and Historic Highlands, Fall River House Tours, Lafayette Durfee House, Preservation Society of Fall River

Fall River Rising Exhibit

sanctaflora wrote 5 months ago: Now through August 23rd a special exhibit at Lotus Rising, 73 Columbia Street will be running featur … more →

Tags: Exhibits, hidden treasures, Fall River Photo Exhibit, Fall River Rising

Signs of Spring

sanctaflora wrote 6 months ago: The beautiful Dana Brayton house porch is getting a nip-tuck this week as the Rock Street side porch … more →

Tags: Architectural Elements, renovations, Rock Street, The Hill and Historic Highlands, Dana Brayton House, Fall River, Fall River Construction Projects

Underwood Street

sanctaflora wrote 10 months ago: Although Mapquest does not even show Underwood Street on its map of Fall River- it does exist and is … more →

Tags: Art | Architecture, Founding families, hidden treasures, The Hill and Historic Highlands, Hooper House, Underwood

In the South End

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago:   Not all the great old Painted Ladies are on The Hill and in the Highlands. There are some architec … more →

Tags: Architectural Elements, The South End Beauties, Fall River South End, King Phillip Mill, Mill Architecture, The Globe

The Simeon Borden/ Sarah Brayton House1 comment

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: This elaborate  High Victorian Ruskinian Gothic residence was built in 1875 for Simeon Borden. He wa … more →

Tags: Architectural Elements, Founding families, Highland Avenue, House Tales, The Hill and Historic Highlands, Hartwell and Swazey, Sarah Brayton, Simeon Borden

The Academy Building

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: Academy Building Designer Hartwell & Swazey Location Fall River, Massachusetts, USA Date 1876 Bu … more →

Tags: Not Quite Painted Ladies, The South End Beauties, Architectural Elements, Fall River Granite, Hartwell and Swazey

New Boston Road Gingerbread Gem1 comment

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago:   Also in the north end of town, New Boston Road, which passes by the Charlton Hospital is peppered … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands, Not Quite Painted Ladies, Fall River Eateries, New Boston Road

Painted Ladies of Winter Street

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago:  Winter Street was found quite by accident while driving west on Locust St. The entire street, for t … more →

Tags: Winter Street

Borden-Durfee House c. 1850

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: At the very west end of Prospect Street, just before turning left onto Rock Street, there is an amaz … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands

More on the Sanford House

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago:  A little more information today on what may be the most beautiful of the Painted Ladies at 218 Linc … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands, House Tales

Elizabeth Hitchcock Brayton Memorial

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: As luck would have it, a visit to New Bedford’s antique mall on the cove yielded this post car … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands

The Gazebo Garden & Easton Tea House

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: Perhaps one of the prettiest Painted Ladies in town can be found at the corner of Maple and High Str … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands

The Shove House2 comments

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago:   Miss Ellen M. Shove was one of Lizzie Borden’s lady companions for her Grand Tour of 1890.  … more →

Tags: Borden-Related Houses

A Stroll down Rock Street

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: The Hill and Historic Highlands

House Beautiful

sanctaflora wrote 1 year ago: The Sanford House on Lincoln Avenue The term “Painted Lady” has now become part of the A … more →

Tags: Architectural Terms, House Tales, Not Quite Painted Ladies, The Hill and Historic Highlands, The South End Beauties, What are Painted Ladies?


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