Salisbury Row Houses on Main Street

Artist Frederick K. Coulson (American, 1869–1931)

Datelate 19th–early 20th century

Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper

Dimensionsimage: 11.2 × 18.2 cm (4 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
sheet: 19.6 × 24.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
bound: 20.5 × 25.4 × 2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 × 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund

Object number2010.271.9

DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.

These buildings on the first two blocks of Main Street off Lincoln Square stood opposite the American Antiquarian Society and the Worcester County Courthouse. At the lower left, a man peers into a window of A.W. Barber's News Room while a horse-drawn covered sleigh delivers supplies next door to C.I. Buckley's grocery store. The row houses on the right were constrcuted in 1832 from Stephen Salisbury II, who resided in one of them when he was first married. Here is where Stephen III was born in 1835 and lived until his parents moved into the Salisbury House three years later. When this photograph was made in the early 1890s, the buildings on both sides of the alleyway were owned and rented out by Stephen III. His tenant in the house to the right of the alleyway was his friend Susan Reed-Lawton, a music teacher.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.34, plate 13
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA

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