178, 190 & 204 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass.

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Title
178, 190 & 204 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass.
Description
A pictorial record of a multi-generational family - Squires, Morcombe and Scrannage living at 178, 190 and 204 Washington Street during the 1880s. Collection of photographs range from the mid to late 19th century.
Pearl Squires was the great-great granddaughter of Mr. Atkinson, and the last surviving member of the original family of owners of that Washington Street property. John Atkinson had owned the cascades and land adjacent to Black Rock since 1936. 204 Washington Street is the last of that estate remaining in the descendants' hands into the 20th century.
All notations written on the back of the photographs are made by Pearl E. Squires.
Contributor
Institution: Melrose Public Library
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Melrose
Creator
Squires, Pearl E., 1908-1984
Date
1880s
Format
image/jpeg
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
Melrose (Mass.)--History
Streets
Type
still image
Photographs

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  • 190 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass.
    "Home of Mr. & Mrs William Scrannage (my grand uncle & aunt). Originally built with smaller piazza. Later changed with larger piazza with cupola. Left to right: Mary Ann (Newhall) Scrannage, Cordelia (Scrannage) Jones, Emma (Scrannage) Cook, Grace (Cook) Baldwin."
  • 190 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass. about 1880
    "House built 1859 by my grandfather Henry P. Morcombe. Mr. & Mrs. William Scrannage home (my grand uncle & aunt)."
  • 190 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass.
    "My grandfather, Henry Prescott Morcombe built in 1857. Home of my grand uncle & aunt William Scrannage and Mary Ann Andrews (Newhall) Scrannage. Later home of their only daughter Cordelia A. Scrannage (Mrs. Marsellus B. Jones)."
  • 178 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass. 1879
    "Little house (Cascade house) torn down shortly about 1879 after picture taken. Jonathan and Mary Lynde house where my grandmother and her two sisters were born. Emma Atkinson & Cordelia Jones in foreground."
  • 204 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass. about 1885
    "House built by Henry P. Morcombe in 1859. (Mrs. Pearl Squires grandfather). Her father Edward T. Morcombe on far right wearing high-wheel bicycle cap. Let to right: Albert H. Cass (my first cousin), Mrs. Cloudman, Esther M. (Newhall) Morcombe (my grandmother), Edward T. Morcombe (my father)."
  • 178 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass. about 1880
    "Home of Cordelia (Scrannage) Jones and Marsellus B. Jones, built about 1875. Small house torn down shortly after called Cascade House. This small house was only house on land bought in 1836 from Jonathan & Mary Lynde by my great grandparents. My grandmother & her 2 sisters born here. My grandfather Edward G. Newhall died there age 30 yrs. of TB. Cordelia Jones & Emma Atkinson on piazza."
  • 190 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass. about 1880
    "Taken around 1880. 190 Washington St., Melrose, Mass. Home (my grand uncle & aunt) Mr. and Mrs. William Scrannage. House built 1859 by Henry Prescott Morcombe (my grandfather)."
  • View from Black Rock about 1880
    "House in front far right my grandparent's house 204 Washington St., Melrose, Mass. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Prescott Morcombe."
  • 178 Washington Street: Melrose, Mass.
    "178 Washington Street, Melrose, Mass. about 1880. Written on back: My cousin's house Mrs. M. B. Jones. Small Cascade house to left and this house was only house on land when bought from Jonathan and Mary Lynde in1836 by my great grand parents Edward G. Newhall & Hannah (Atkinson) Newhall."
  • View from Black Rock about 1880
    "190 & 178 Washington St, Melrose, Mass. 190 home of Mr. & Mrs. William Scrannage. 178 home of Mr. & Mrs. Marcellus Jones. The Jones horse & buggy by road. Pearl (Morcombe) Squires."
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