Let's play Attention to Detail! We give you a close-up clue and you have to figure out where you've seen it around Boston. So where have you seen this swag on a building?
Here are some hints:
- It was built in 1911.
- The original building permits list it as a five-story, nine-family tenement house with one store.
- It is on a corner building in a less traveled part of the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
- The street name on one side fits a theme that runs throughout the neighborhood.
- The other street was named for a person.
Ready? Click through or scroll down past this great book about Boston for the answer.
The swag trim is on 57 Phillips Street. As the answer this week, you see a 1911 photo from the City of Boston Archives.
While the address of the yoga studio is 57 Phillips, the official address of the property is 59 Phillips Street.
Where the space occupied by a yoga studio today was a Lunch Room and Delicatessen.
In that era, lunch rooms, delicatessens, tea rooms, and "spas or soda fountains" were plentiful since many people lived in rooming houses without cooking facilities.
Even those who lived in boarding houses, where one or two meals a day were included in the rent, would visit a business like this for other meals.
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Contemporaty Photography: © 2017 Penny & Ed Cherubino
Adapted for BostonZest from one of our Attention to Detail Newspaper columns.
