DESCRIPTION: Unrecorded heliotype plan or plat of land for sale in 1874 by the Boston Land Company in Orient Heights, Revere, Massachusetts- today's Beachmont neighborhood. Orient Heights is Boston's northernmost and northeastern most neighborhood.
This early antique lot plan of Beachmont, is an unrecorded plan found nowhere else online. Bordered at the east by the Atlantic Ocean, the platted land lies with an area bounded by Endicott Avenue and Winthrop Avenue. Includes Bradstreet Avenue, Dudley Street, Sales Street, Cross Street, Crest Avenue, Bellingham Avenue and Leverett Avenue.
Other notable features include a proposed Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad track and depot; the Orient Café surrounded by a small park; Sales Creek and a sand ridge. For each lot square footage and lot number are shown.
In upper right an inset small-scale map of other holdings of the Boston Land Company in Revere, Mass. with major roads, waterways and rail lines.
Surveyed by Whitman and Breck, 16 Water Street, Boston. Heliotype printed. A heliotype is a print produced by a “photomechanically produced plate for pictures or type made by exposing a gelatin film under a negative, hardening it with chrome alum, and printing directly from it.” (Source: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/heliotype)
PUBLICATION DATE: 1874
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Fair.
Numerous repairs from verso to strengthen faults. Loss of tiny portion of border at bottom right corner. Heliotype on thin paper. Traces of tape.
COLORING: N/A
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 32
" x
16 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 53
PRICE: $2400
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