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Secondary sourcePhotograph9 July 1940

Rose Garden at the Hutchinson House, Milton

9 July 1940

A 1940 survey photograph of the rose garden at Thomas Hutchinson's Milton estate.

Shows the grounds of Hutchinson's own Milton estate, documented long after his lifetime.

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Black-and-white photograph of a garden viewed from a lawn. Low clipped hedges form beds in the foreground, with dense flowering plants and tall grasses. Large trees and shrubs fill the background, with a white clapboard house partly visible among them. A wooden fence runs along the right edge under a pale sky. Label reads MASS-168-A (6).
Rose garden, Governor Thomas Hutchinson House, Milton. HABS survey photograph, 9 July 1940.

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What it is

This is a black-and-white photograph taken in 1940 as part of a historic building survey. It shows a garden with low clipped hedges, flowering plants, and tall grasses, with a white clapboard house partly visible among the trees in the background.

Why it matters

The photograph documents the grounds of the Milton estate that once belonged to Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian governor of colonial Massachusetts. Surveys like this one helped preserve the memory of colonial-era properties long after the buildings and gardens themselves had changed.

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  • What details in the photo suggest this was once a carefully tended garden?
  • Why might historians in 1940 have wanted to photograph an old estate like this?
  • What does the photo not tell us about who lived here or when the garden was planted?

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