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Edmund Baker House, 15 Avondale Street, Dorchester

Edmund Baker House, 15 Avondale Street, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA. Surveyed as HABS MA-356, with a 107-word written history.

From the record

“Edmund Baker joined his father, James, in his chocolate manufacturing business in James Baker retired in and Edmund continued to run the company, Baker's Chocolate, until his retirement a decade later.”

Written record, HABS MA-356 survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS MA-356 · the record runs 107 words · one of 264 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

51 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MA-356. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Edmund Baker joined his father, James, in his chocolate manufacturing business in James Baker retired in and Edmund continued to run the company, Baker's Chocolate, until his retirement a decade later. His son Walter assumed management of the family firm. Materials: There are field measurements and field drawings for this property.

In context

Dorchester, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Suffolk County, Massachusetts 165 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Dorchester

9 records

The federal surveyors worked through Dorchester building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
William Monroe Trotter House, photograph filed with the federal surveyWilliam Monroe Trotter HouseHABS MASS,13-DORCH,12-1,650 words
Robert Pierce House, photograph filed with the federal surveyRobert Pierce HouseHABS MASS,13-DORCH,7-1,170 words
Bird-Sawyer House, photograph filed with the federal surveyBird-Sawyer HouseHABS MASS,13-DORCH,3-44 words
Second Church, photograph filed with the federal surveySecond ChurchHABS MASS,13-DORCH,8-40 words
First Parish Church (Unitarian), photograph filed with the federal surveyFirst Parish Church (Unitarian)HABS MASS,13-DORCH,9-38 words
Lyceum Hall, photograph filed with the federal surveyLyceum HallHABS MASS,13-DORCH,10-37 words
William Clapp House, photograph filed with the federal surveyWilliam Clapp HouseHABS MASS,13-DORCH,4-36 words
Roger Clap HouseHABS MASS,13-DORCH,2-29 words
Milestones A, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestones AHABS MASS,13-DORCH,11-12 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS MA-356. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.