Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

H.M. Warren School and vicinity, circa 1910

Description

"Wakefield's residential sections include the West Side, near the Warren School and past the 'Park Gates' (at lower left of photo). In a tribute to Wakefield's businesses published in the 1890s the following is an excerpt of what was said about the residential community. 'As regards the advantages offered by Wakefield as a Home Town" it may be truthfully said that this community will make a most favorable showing as a result of the most thorough investigation that could possibly be made. Of Wakefield it has been said: 'She stands ready every day in the year to extend a cordial welcome and invitation to good men and women, of every name and race, to cast their lot within her borders, and help make her more and more a centre of intelligence, virtue and enterprise, a place of beauty, a city of homes.''And that is just what the Wakefield os the future will be, - a city of homes. Every year it is becoming more generally appreciated that a great mercantile and manufacturing city is not a fit place for a real home, and that the advantages of a town like Wakefield as a place of residence are so many and important that no family that is in a position to utilize them can afford to neglect to do so. So the future of Wakefield will be a veritable city of homes, and by both the number and character of her population will be entitled to a leading position among the prosperous and influential communities of the old Bay State.'" -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 1998

Photo courtesy of Susan Miranda Byrnes.

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Date

ca. 1910

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

[Wakefield, Mass.] : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

School buildings

H.M. Warren School (Wakefield, Mass.)

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture : b&w

Extent

14 x 23 cm.