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The Bellingham–Cary House stands in a residential area of northeastern Chelsea, on the east side of Parker Street between Tudor Street and Clark Avenue. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior.
The C. Henry Kimball House is an historic house at 295 Washington Avenue in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1896, and is one of the city's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. It was built by Charles Henry Kimball, an innovative businessman who developed heated vehicles, revolutionizing the transport ...
The Humboldt Avenue area had originally been developed around 1900 with a series of wood-frame residences. Beginning about 1910, a major migration of Jews from Boston's North End and the adjacent city of Chelsea began, spurred by the extension of electrified streetcar service, and a major 1908 fire in Chelsea which left more than 15,000 Jews ...
Both fires originated in Chelsea's "rag shop district," cluttered streets filled with junk shops hawking scraps, metal, and combustible items. Wood-frame buildings and three- to six-family houses were built tightly together, and quickly caught fire. [10] By 1990, Chelsea had collapsed economically and socially.
Chelsea Central Fire Station. Bellingham Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing the civic and commercial heart of Chelsea, Massachusetts.Roughly bounded by Broadway, Shawmut, Chestnut, and Shurtleff Streets, [2] the district was almost entirely built in the aftermath of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, and is a monument to the civic planning that took place at the time.
The facade system consists of unitized modules, the largest of which measures 12 by 37 feet (3.7 by 11.3 m). The stainless steel frames contain 32 different window sizes, with each window angled between 2 degrees and 5 degrees up, down, left, or right. [7]
Henry Heydenryk Jr. is credited with introducing and popularizing the wormy chestnut frame in 1938, using wood from trees destroyed by blight and applying new finishes, painted, scraped and stained, as an alternative to traditional gilt and smooth surfaces. [5]
Matthew Marks Gallery opened its first space in Chelsea — a converted single-story garage with skylights at 522 West 22nd Street [5] — in 1994, with a show of Ellsworth Kelly. [6] In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries – Gladstone Gallery and Metro Pictures – to acquire and divide up a 29,000 sq ft (2,700 m 2 ...