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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford market-place made modern. (search)
ome of Dr. Tufts and that across Forest street, where was once the Cotting bakery, were standing, and the town pump in working order. Spot pond water came later with the stone water trough now gone. The railway station and some store fronts have been changed a little, the Bigelow building and Tufts hall have replaced those named. Otherwise the surroundings of the old Medford market-place are the same today. The near future will witness a marked change; indeed it has already begun. The Withington bakery, for several years disused, has been demolished and a theater and business block is there building. Tufts hall, built by Dr. Weymouth in ‘72, the brick building adjoining and the Seccomb house of 1756 (recently known as the City Hall Annex) have all been sold and are all to be removed and a modern business building erected. It is to be hoped that the good taste manifested so long ago by the builders between Salem and old Ship street, and more recently at the opposite corner of
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Historical Society's sale and removal. (search)
alem street, the rear reached by a path, later called Blanchard's lane, now Ashland street. Further back a brick building contained his ovens. After he retired, Timothy Brigden, whose bread was excellent, was baker for a time, but in 1829 Henry Withington used the ovens until his own were built. Capt. Andrew Blanchard, Jr., had, ere this, purchased the Francis house and the older ones westward. The latter he sold to Withington, reserving certain rights and prohibiting certain acts on partWithington, reserving certain rights and prohibiting certain acts on part of the land. Exercising those rights he made alterations improving the house, residing there until his death in 1853. For a brief time Alfred A. Pierce was its owner, and next, in 1866, Charles P. Lauriat, the well-known gold-beater, who used the brick oven-building as a workshop. By inheritance it passed to his children, and from some of them to the Historical Society in June, 1902. Here's hoping that its solid brick walls may long stand, housing honorable and legitimate business on old Sa
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Withington bakery. (search)
The Withington bakery. DURING the first week in May the old buildings so long the home of tlaced on their sign, Established 1825. Henry Withington had never learned the trade or business oed in business in that year. The ovens that Withington and Lane used were those of some earlier bak. After two years Mr. Lane went out and Mr. Withington continued in business by himself. But on ears ago moved next the common. In 1830 Mr. Withington moved into the old house now demolished, lMedford Historical Society's building. Henry Withington subsequently erected in the rear of his prated or cracked—hence the name, crackers. Mr. Withington did not originate the Medford cracker. Thhe establishing of the business in 1825 by Mr. Withington seems to have been a survival of the fittethe old marketplace. In 1862 the third Henry Withington, whose birth has been mentioned, succeede the cent's worth to the waiting crowd. Mr. Withington sold out to Ewen McPherson in 1885, and he[1 more...]
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Old landmarks gone. (search)
Old landmarks gone. WITH the demolition of the old Withington bakery, the dismantling of the Historical Society's former home, and the alteration of half the tenement-block known as Doctors' Row for business purposes, the view of Salem street from Medford square is materially changed. The glass and stucco front of the latter, the marble, and tapestry brick of the theatre building, and the stucco walls that hide the little that was left at Ashland street, are in marked contrast to the view in May last. We were told that the old-time architecture would be there retained, at least in the upper stories, and so stated in the June register. But we look in vain therefor. The legend is, Bvilt, 1802; Rebvilt, 1915 but what the craft shown in the front panel may be— ark, viking ship or hydroplane-we are waiting to learn. If Major Jonathan Wade could drop into his old domicile today he might enjoy an uninterrupted view of the market-place, as the City Hall annex, alias Simpson tav
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., An old-time Medford gardener. (search)
ny teachers of that time gave home-made merits, but this is a printed one, as a line at the bottom attests, Sold by N. S. Simpkins & Co. Court street Boston. It is in black and white, at the top a picture of a big dog and a small boy, below two verses (rather serious for a child) on the Improvement of Time. It is not a work of art, nor has it much to charm a child. Martin, the fifth child, born July 27, 1793, married Eliza Withington, September 8, 1816. She was an aunt of Assessor Henry Withington, who died January 21, 1918. There were five children by this marriage. Notice their names, for they indicate hero worship or esteem for the employer's family and the good doctor of the town: Andrew Bigelow, John Brooks, Katharine Lawrence. Did this little girl, who bore the name of a distinguished family, ever dream she would become possessed of great wealth? Let us thank her for the gift she, in womanhood, gave her native town for four-footed friends—the stone drinking fountain on
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Remembrance of the old bakery. (search)
A Remembrance of the old bakery. Martin Burridge's brother-in-law, Henry Withington (the second of the name in this town, and father of the late assessor), enjoyed telling, so the latter informed the writer, that he was once a scullion in Timothy Bigelow's kitchen. Whatever his service or position there, without doubt he had an experience that enabled him, when he entered into the bakery business, to supply his townsmen with superior products. Who does not love to recall that little old shop, than which nothing in story or reality was quainter nor more alluring. Small, low studded, with beamed ceiling, it looked antique in every particular, with the tiny desk on the wall where one stood or perched on a high stool to cast up his accounts. You might enter sometime and find no one to attend to your wants, but a bell on the door as you opened it had given notice of your entering, and very soon someone opened a glass door of a living-room at the west, stepped down two steps,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford Association, 1819 (search)
t year D Swan Anthony Hatch Benjamin Floyd Jun Loveman Buel Abijah Kendall Gilbert Blanchard 2d Thomas Cox Jun Asa Sprague A Bartlett Those with this mark are officers for the present year John Howe Those with this mark are officers for the present year Jeduthun Richardson Those with this mark are officers for the present year Jonathan Porter Those with this mark are officers for the present year Joseph Lamson Cornelius Tufts Henry Withington Nathan Adams Those with this mark are officers for the present year Joseph Manning J Swan Those with this mark are officers for the present year Daniel Symmes Benjamin Hill Stilman Clark Moses Merrill Henry Reed Noah Johnson Those with this mark are officers for the present year Seth Mayo Nathaniel Jaquith Timothy Bigelow D Hall Those with this mark are officers for the present year Andrew Bigelow Jonathan Harrington Edward
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