Tower collection of glass plate images of Concord, Mass. houses and buildings [graphic], [ca. 1885?-ca. 1905].

Middlesex Hotel (Concord, Mass.)

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Concord, Mass., hotel that once stood on the corner of the Mill Dam and Monument Square, opposite the Wright Tavern. Hotel on the site existed prior to 1789, when John Richardson traded his house for the hotel then held by Middlesex County to house jailers and county court officials. The hotel was a center of town and county life in the period when the county courts were held at Concord and prior to the arrival of the railroad in the early 1840's. In 1825, Richardson sold the hotel ...

Wright Tavern (Concord, Mass.)

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United States. Post Office (Concord, Mass.)

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Old Manse (Concord, Mass.)

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Tower Fred A. (Fred Alonzo), 1871-1959

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Postmaster, author, musician, poet, and amateur weather observer of Concord, Mass. Son of Alonzo and Tryphena (Clark) Tower. Born in Concord on Feb. 10, 1871; married Katherine Gookin; died in Concord in Feb. 1959. Concord Postmaster. Author of A History of Trinity Church Concord, Massachusetts. Choirmaster of Trinity Church. Established the United States Weather Bureau Concord Station on July 1, 1890 and remained its volunteer observer for more than 60 years. From the description of...