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Southie charmer needs just a little TLC
By adamg on Sun, 08/28/2016 - 11:14am
The folks at Boston City Archives share this view of Marine Road and I Street in South Boston in 1915. See it larger.
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One block over to the east
It's Marine Road and K Street.
Looking up K Street from Marine Road, you can see the 1880 farm house with a widow walk on top at the corner of East Eighth and K that still exists, its across from the best Meat market on the planet!!
Not the same house.
I don't believe the current house on the corner of K and E. Eighth St. is the same as the house shown in the historic photo. While they both have widow walks, the massing of the two houses is very different. In the historic photo, the house has a front gable roof and is quite wide...the house on the corner of K and E. Eighth has a more complicated roofline and floor plan. Also, the widows walk itself is fairly different. The K Street widows walk has arches above the columns while the historic photo shows a flat cornice above posts; the widows walk is also enclosed rather than open air as in the K Street house. Widows walks might have formerly been more common in a neighborhood so close to the harbor.
Finally! I got one!
This is Marine Rd and I St in South Boston, circa 1915.
I knew sooner or later I get the answer to one of these correct.
Joking aside, the question is if the owners of this lot had kept it (unimproved) and only sold it today would the millions they would net be enough to offset ~100 years of property taxes and other city fees?
Wrong
This is K and Marine. Read the first post.
Wrong again
Click on the link. The City of Boston Archives, final arbiter of this game, says it is I and Marine.
Of course, I thought it was in Roxbury, so what do I know?
The City Archives is wrong
Don't believe everything you read on the interweb. The house in the background with the widow walk is still standing at K and 8th Streets. So this picture, taken from a block away, is K and Marine Road. Like the post above states, read the first post.