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A Goodwill in Brooklyn. In 1902, the Reverend Edgar J. Helms of Morgan Methodist Chapel in Boston started Goodwill as part of his ministry. [12] Helms and his congregation collected used or discarded household goods and clothing from wealthier areas of the city, then trained and hired the unemployed or impoverished to mend and repair them.
Quincy Water Company Pumping Station: Quincy Water Company Pumping Station: September 20, 1989 : 106 Penn St. Demolished, now a largely vacant lot. 90: Josiah Quincy House: Josiah Quincy House: May 28, 1976 : 20 Muirhead St.
Quincy (/ ˈ k w ɪ n z i / KWIN-zee) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. [2]
Marina Bay is situated on the former site of the Victory Destroyer Plant and Naval Air Station Squantum, a naval airfield that was closed in 1954. [4] The surplus base was sold at auction in 1956 by the U.S. Government's General Services Administration to the Boston Edison company, the major electric utility in eastern Massachusetts at the time.
A shopping center currently anchored by the Spanaway Goodwill store, 14918 Pacific Ave. S., has sold for $10 million. (Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer online property portal)
The Munroe Building is a historic commercial building at 1227-1259 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.Built in 1929 to a design by Shepard & Stearns, it is the best-preserved of two adjacent Colonial Revival two-story commercial blocks built on Hancock Street in the 1920s.
Merrymount is a primarily residential neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, located between the neighborhoods of Quincy Center and Adams Shore. [1] Although it was the site of Quincy's initial settlement, Merrymount was not substantially developed for residential use until the first half of the 20th century, and most of the neighborhood's ...
In 1861, a ferry service was established between Germantown and Quincy Point. The tallest building in the neighborhood is the seven-story O'Brien Towers. Most children in Germantown go to Snug Harbor for elementary school, Broad Meadows for middle school, and Quincy High for high school. Snug Harbor is the only school actually within the ...