This report dealt very thoroughly with a very important matter and resulted in the purchase of the Playstead. The Boston Transcript referred to it as the best playground report extant at that date.
Mr. David Floyd delivered June 4, 1911 on the occasion of Observance of the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the Edifice of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Winthrop.
A voters advertisement pamphlet asking to vote for Channing Howard & Alfred Phinney. On the back is a handwritten note talking about land plots being divided up.
Mr. Floyd,
Dear Sir, I have examined the record of the County Commissioners for 1875 and find that they relocated Revere St. in common with Winthrop St., Pleasant St., Shirley St., and Main St. and the description is on file and agrees with the information that we have used for line of Revere St. at the point in question where Wadsworth is building. Description refers to plan of Geo. Wadsworth but does not say where that plan is supposed to be.
Yours etc,
Channing Howard
A post card picture of a Mulberry Tree near the site of Winthrop Mansion. This picture is from one of the original Groton photographs in the Frost Public Library, Winthrop, Mass.
A color post card picture of a scene in Winthrop 9Opposite Apple Island) Boston Harbor.The picture shows summer cottages at Sunney Side, The end of Sunneyside Ave which is now Pico Beach. Orlando Belcher owned this shore front as part of the Cottage Park Hotel. He built the four cottages about 1890.
A color post card picture of Deane Winthrop House, built in 1649, in Winthrop, MA. Most likely Winter time due to there not being any leaves on the trees.
A post card picture of Winthrop High School, the second High School built in 1907. A large addition was added in 1916. The school was torn down about 1965. The 3rd High School opened in 1963.
A post card picture of the Winthrop School burning with billowing clouds of smoke on a snowy day while people watched. Pauline Street School picture taken from Hermon Street.
A color post card picture of the First Baptist Church with a power pole in front on Hermon Street in Winthrop, MA. The church was built in 1873 & dedicated on May 5th with the total cost of $12,224.48.
A post card picture of a swimming pool and bath houses at Cottage Park Yacht Club's first club house which is the small building on the pier in the left background.
A post card picture of Winthrop in 1869 looking toward Washington Avenue District and then a picture of the same view in 1907 with buildings and power cables.
A post card picture of Winthrop Centre in 1869 showing just land & a few buildings and then in 1907 showing cleared land and a lot of buildings and power cables.
This picture was taken in 1869 from Summit Avenue Highlands. The small building on shore is a life-boat house. The first group of buildings stood at what is now Shirley Street, near Moore. The third group stood on the site of the Colonial Inn. The small point showing at the hill is the cupola at Deer Island. Some of the buildings are now standing. If a magnifying glass is used, much of the detail can be brought out.
Winthrop, MA Public Library opened January, 1886. The Frost Building, a memorial to the late Morrill Frost, formerly a resident of Winthrop, was dedicated in June, 1899. Number of volumes, 1909, 11,321; circulation, 37,433. The Pulling Point Room contains and interesting local historical collection. The Library is open week days from 1:30 to 9:00 o'clock P.M.
Photos of the 3 rooms that housed artifacts. West Room in Public Library- Picture taken May 30, 1907- Exhibit of War relics ect. in connection with Dedication of Soldier's Monument.
Sheet Music of "Winthrop By The Sea", written by Brendan J. Keenan and music by Joe O'Hern. Labeled a "Centennial Song" marking Winthrop's establishment in 1852.
From left: Ron Vecchia (Town Council President), Senator Joe Boncore, Richard Honan, Al Bell, Francisco Urene, Richard Duvall, Jimmy Williams, Bob Dion, and Rose Trionfi-Mazzuchelli (Veterans' Agent for Winthrop).
Lest We Forget
1959 - 1975
The Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, originally installed at the old Winthrop High School on May 22, 1988, was rededicated in the lobby of the new Winthrop Middle/High School on March 29, 2017.
Alvin joined the US Navy in 1956 and did his training in Maryland. He traveled the world with the military and left in 1960. He became a Licensed Practical Nurse at the Soldiers Home in Chelsea and worked there for almost 40 years.
Michael plans to join the US Marine Corp after high school graduation. Currently, he's a Petty Officer 3rd Class with the US Naval Sea Cadet Corp ROTC program.
An event to celebrate the completed renovations of the children's room after the flood of September 30, 2017. Also celebrating summer reading. The theme this summer is "Libraries Rock".
Cummings, Arthur E. (retired) and David Polansky, musician, and former student of Mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings was also a school principal in Winthrop. The Cummings School is named after him.
CREW Poets. Chelsea, Revere, Everett & Winthrop Waterfront Poets.
From left- Katrina Donovan, Renee Pike, Allen Swartz, Patricia Tacelli, Louis Picciuolo, Esther Fich, Anthony Majahad and Tim McCarthy
Speaker of the House, Robert A. DeLeo (left) brought Michael Caro, VP of AirMall, to the library with a check for the library, which was presented to Library Director Diane Wallace. The Speaker also made a generous contribution. (January 11, 2016)
CREW Poets read their own poetry in the Hazlett Room at the library as part of the Winthrop Arts and Letters Crawl, May 14, 2015.
CREW: Chelsea, Revere, Everett & Winthrop
Two trustees were honored for their work on the Board at their last meeting. Dr. James Matarazzo (10 years) and Mrs. Maria Ferri (4 years). On hand for the festivities were Virginia Wallace (Trustee), Mary Lou Osborne (Library staff), Ron Bergman (Trustee Chair) , Gillian Teixeira (Trustee Secretary), Dr. Matarazzo (Trustee), Maria Ferri (Trustee), Peter Gill (Town Council President), Diane Wallace (Library Director) and Phillip Boncore (Town Council).
Ruth Garcia (of Norwood), Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge and Ronald Bergman, Chair of the Library Board of Trustees, shown with the new book drop that the Lodge purchased. On the front steps of the library.
Ms. Mary O'Brien presents a check for $100,000 to the Library Board from the estate of her late cousin, life-long Winthrop resident Thomas L. O'Brien Jr.
View from the main room of the Frost Public Library (now the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) ca. 1900 into the north reading room. The wall on which Lincoln's portrait hangs, left, no longer exists and the window on the far wall was removed, as was the segment of wall next to it when the Hyde Wing was built in the early 1970s.
View of the main room with original circulation desk, stacks and balcony of the Frost Public Library (now the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) ca. 1900. Most of the architectural details remain save lights and the balcony (rear) which is now walled-in.
Exterior construction of the Frost Building (now known as the Winthrop Public Library & Museum) completed and interior construction underway, February, 1899