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R. H. White was founded in 1853 as a peddler by Ralph Huntington White on the railroad between Chester and Pittsfield. Originally on Winter Street in 1862, it moved in 1876 to a large ornate six-floor building (designed by Peabody and Stearns and built by McNeil Brothers) at 518–536 Washington Street, in the downtown shopping area. [1] [2]
Focusing on water and sewer piping, the company started its first major project in 1933 installing dewatering pumps in Boston’s Sumner Tunnel.
J. F. White Contracting Co. is a Massachusetts-based contracting company specializing in heavy civil construction, deep foundations, pile driving, and mechanical/electrical construction. Founded in 1924, the company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. The company has performed work primarily in the New England area of America. In ...
Custom House Tower, Boston. Peabody & Stearns was a premier architectural firm in the Eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody (1845–1917) and John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917).
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In 1892, Wheelwright designed and built a 156 foot tall tower in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts, which was originally designed as part of this building and was used as a fire lookout. Since Wheelwright wanted the building to stand out, it was modeled after the 14th century Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy, and made of brick like the ...
RH loaned Rain Room to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the U.S. premier of EXPO 1: New York from mid-May through July 2013. [21] [22] In 2014, RH opened a 70,000 square foot store which Atlanta Magazine called RH's "next-generation full-line design gallery", which includes amenities like a 50-foot infinite pool. [23]
When racial tensions in the area began to rise in the early 1970s, the Boston Public Schools system began busing black kids from Orchard Park and the nearby Lenox Street complex to other white filled housing projects in South Boston. [2] This led to more riots and crime problems in all Boston's housing developments.