Exhibit Tags: 4 selected - The Magnet and the Iron: John Brown and George L. Stearns

Exhibit Description:: View towards Medford Square from the top of College Hill (Tufts College), ca. 1910. The tree-lined Avenue stretching left to right is College Avenue, also known as The Willows. The Boston & Maine Railroad parallels the bottom of the image, with College Hill Station appearing at the bottom left. Behind the station is Pansy Park, a pansy nursery. To the left of Pansy Park is property belonging to the Stearns Estate. Across College Avenue are the clay pits.
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate Medford photographs College Avenue Tufts DCA

Creator:: Bolles, Edwin C.
Exhibit Description:: Photograph of several women and a man in the pansy field off of College Avenue, just northeast of the railroad tracks, in 1901.
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts DCA Stearns Estate Medford photographs

Creator:: Rollins, Edwin B.
Exhibit Description:: View of College Hill and Tufts College from the Stearns Estate across the railroad tracks to the east. The buildings are, left to right: East Hall, Ballou Hall, Packard Hall, and West Hall.
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Stearns Estate Tufts DCA photographs Medford Ballou Hall East Hall Packard Hall West Hall buildings

Exhibit Description:: Photograph of the view towards Medford from East Hall, Tufts College. The Stearns Estate mansion is located in the trees to the middle right. The caption reads, "View toward Medford from East Hall, 1875. The railroad cut is in front of the stonewall in the foreground. The farm house of the Stearns estate is seen in the lower left corner, and the mansion house in the right center. The end chimneys of the Royall House are seen in the center of the picture and, to the left of the house, the pointed object is the summer house that at one time stood on a mound in the Royall garden."
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate Medford photographs Tufts DCA George L. Stearns Mary E. Stearns

Exhibit Description:: View of the Stearns Estate and beyond that Medford from College Hill. The Stearns Estate mansion is located in among the trees in the lower left quadrant. The caption reads, "The Medford view in '74. This is somewhat to the east of the one above which brings the Stearns house near the left of the picture. The Royall House is the building with four end chimneys near the center of the picture. In the lower right hand corner the tower of the old Stearns windmill is barely visible."
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns John Brown Tufts University Stearns Estate photographs Medford Mary E. Stearns Tufts DCA

Exhibit Description:: View towards Medford from Ballou Hall, 1876, showing nearly the entirely Stearns Estate. The caption reads, "View from Ballou in 1876. Middle Hall [Packard Hall] in the center with an end of East Hall at the right. The entire Stearns estate is shown from the farm buildings to the windmill tower, also much of the plot of ground now occupied by Cousens Gym. The stone bank wall at the front of Middle Hall, shown in the 1856 and 1867 views of the building, has been swung to the east parallel with the front of the building. The Royall House and the summer house show clearly. The R.R. [railroad] cut and Boston Ave. are beyond the road, which lies beyond the clothes line." The mansion house of the Stearns Estate is visible just about the roof of Packard Hall.
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Packard Hall Stearns Estate Medford photographs Tufts DCA Tufts University buildings

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