Historic Magazine

Looking north on Spring Street from near the corner of Mary Street in Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and 2017.

Lakeside Avenue in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, around 1900-1906 and 2015.

It has been heavily altered many times over the years, but this building in South Hadley is the oldest surviving colonial meetinghouse in Western Massachusetts.

King’s Chapel at the corner of Tremont and School Streets in Boston, around the 1870s and 2024.

I don’t have a corresponding “now” photo for this scene, but this photo shows the view of the Big E fairgrounds in West Springfield, Massachusetts after the March 1936 flooding on the Connecticut River.

Hurricanes are relatively rare in New England, but one of the worst in recorded history occurred on September 21, 1938.

High Street in Brattleboro, Vermont, around 1894 and 2017.

Herbert Street in Salem, Massachusetts, around 1890-1910 and 2023. The three-story house in the center of the photo was built around 1790,

Gore Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, around 1905, and the scene in 2019. Completed in 1841,

Flat Street in Brattleboro, Vermont, around 1894 and 2017. During the late 1800s

Fitch House was built around 1737 and it originally stood on Main Street in Willimantic, Connecticut.

Dwight Street from the corner of Main Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts, around 1910-15 and 2017.