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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 14 14 Browse Search
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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) 1 1 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Avon home. (search)
asked for subscriptions with which to build a larger and more convenient house on Avon Hill Street. Nearly the desired amount had been subscribed when some of the friends of the Home, thinking that a better situation should be provided, urged that an appeal for that purpose should be issued. The result of this was so satisfactory that land was purchased on Mount Auburn Street, nearly opposite the Cambridge Hospital, and a handsome, commodious building was erected large enough to accommodate forty children comfortably. This was completed and occupied in December, 1891, and by the sale of the estate on Avon Place in the following summer the trustees avoided the possibility of any indebtedness. The land, nearly 70,000 square feet, cost $13,952.75, and the house $21,740.78; a fire-escape was afterwards added, making the total cost $36,239.51. In 1892 the founder of the Home showed his continued interest in its prosperity by the gift of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Conco