By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
January 28, 2021 The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam
Mayor Walsh’s appointment as US Secretary of Labor means that a Dorchester personality will be heading down to D.C. in the coming weeks, but the work of another Dot native has already re-staked its claim to a position in the White House.
On Inauguration Day last Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s administration revealed that in the course of redecorating the Oval Office, they had chosen to display “The Avenue in the Rain,” a painting by American Impressionist artist and Dorchester native Childe Hassam.
Born in 1859, Hassam grew up on Olney Street on Meetinghouse Hill, where he first took art lessons as a student at the Mather School. After two years at Dorchester High School, he left to study wood engraving and began painting watercolors before eventually moving on to oil paintings.
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
January 27, 2021
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
Gov. Charlie Baker held a press conference Monday at the State House to update the state’s vaccination plan after a weekend in which his administration faced criticism from public health and political leaders worried that the state’s vaccine program was lacking.
The city’s Covid-19 numbers are heading “in the right direction,” Mayor Walsh said on Tuesday as he announced that more Boston businesses – including fitness centers and movie theaters that have been closed since a post-holiday surge –can re-open with limited capacities next month.
“The numbers are still too high for where we want them to be right now, but we’ve seen positive test rates go down in every neighborhood,” Walsh said. “That’s a good sign, and we are encouraged.”
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
January 27, 2021
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
First Parish Dorchester on Meetinghouse Hill will become an invitation-only vaccination site beginning on Mon., Feb. 1. The clinic, managed by Beth Israel Lahey Health, will operate inside the historic Dorchester church seven days a week, 12 hours a day, according to Jenn Cartee, committee chair for Marketing and Outreach at First Parish Dorchester.
Jennifer Kritz, vice-president of communications for Beth Israel Lahey Health, said the appointments will be by invitation from Beth Israel Lahey Health only and will not be scheduled through the state website. The public should not show up at the church to seek a vaccine without an appointment.
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
January 7, 2021
Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
A home at 19 Ashland St. in Clam Point will be considered by the Boston Landmarks Commission for designation as an Architectural Conservation District.
Two petitions filed last week with the Boston Landmarks Commission are requesting that the agency designate two Dorchester properties one at 19 Ashland St. in Clam Point and the other at 29 High St. on Meetinghouse Hill as Architectural Conservation Districts.
The Clam Point property, described as “The Blue-Cross Blue-Shield Building” in the petition, is a two-family duplex built in the 1800s. According to the Dorchester Atheneum, a 1977 Boston Landmarks survey described the property as an “earlier brick Federal 5 bay house with later Italianate modifications such as a bay window on the east side and a frame wing to the rear” and noted it was “one of two Federal brick houses in Dorchester.”