Worker housing p. 3
More Spooner Street duplexes; gambrel at left is the style commonly used after 1900
Middle management had a say in the design of the single-family houses built for them on Holmes Terrace
This tiny version of an 1893 map shows the layout of Plymouth Cordage Co. property: starting at the lower edge are the mills and Old Colony Railroad tracks; move up to the kidney-bean shaped Store Pond located between Court Street and Standish Avenue; Hedge, Bourne and Russell Ponds at left center; to the right of the ponds the proposed new streets are colored brown. At the left edge, the quadraplexes on Cordage Terrace were added in pencil.
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