Hi City directories are your best bet for yearly detailed info on adult occupants and occupations - try the Boston Public Library research request service, but I have heard they are backlogged http://www.bpl.org/research/socsci/genealogy.htm or the 1900 census for who was living with him or who his neighbors were if he was still there. But for a sense of what his neighborhood was like, you can't beat old maps. I have 1891 and 1904 Boston city maps. Harrison Avenue remains today but many other side streets are gone or have name changes. 1891 shows that Harrison Ave is a horse road and that No 306 (between Herald Street and Wm Mullins Way cross Streets today) has a "steam road" intersection for the B& A RR and Old Colony RR stations just north of it - in the same place as the RR line today, it appears, just west of the Fort Point channel. In those days, the Fort Point channel led into a large South Bay (now filled in) with wharves just one block east on Albany Street, between the Broadway Street and Dover Street Bridges - Perry's wharf, Haven's wharf, South Cove Corp, Cobb's and Pope's. The Broadway Street bridge is there today but from what was about the Dover Street Bridge in those days, it is now filled in and 4th Street is extended over from South Boston. In 1904, that also looks like the vicinity of where the elevated tracks came north on Washington Street (parallel to Harrison Ave), then jogged over to Harrison and went all the way to the beginning of Harrison at Beach Street and east into the huge South Union Station Railroad complex of that time. But the RR switchback tracks appear to be nearer to Harrison Ave RR and elevated track intersections and right in the same spot the Mass Pike/ southeast Expressway ramps do their modern figure eights. The South Bay is still open in 1904 and there are wharves all along both sides. Columbia Theatre is about a block or two away with many other theatres within 6-10 blocks. The Grand Old Opera house is about 8 blocks south, a Catholic Church is about 12 blocks south, the Immaculate Conception Church, the Homeopathic and City Hospital are 20 blocks south - maybe a little over a mile as these blocks are varying sizes. See the general history of the South End at http://bostonfamilyhistory.com/neigh_send.html The Library of Congress (LOC) has a 1903 panoramic photo of Boston City Hospital - pretty impressive. Go to the american memory site, select geography and search on Harrision and boston - selecting "match all of these" http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html I also have an Boston 1873 map by Currier and Ives and you can zero in on the area I described above online with the LOC Mr Sid software - those large 3-4 story long brownstone buildings are likely the same ones that were there in the 1890s - many are still standing today in the South End. Click on the zoom in features and go to bottom left part of the map - the channel leading to South Bay on the left of the picture. Your spot on Harrison would be to the right of the channel near the two bridges - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3764b.pm002750 and indeed if you go to an 1899 map and zoom in on the lower left just above the channel, you will see Albany Street marked (Harrison is the next one up running parallel) with Way Street connecting just below the railroad tracks and just about where I think 306 Harrison was and "voila!", you can pretty much imagine what his neighborhood looked like to him http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3764b.pm002790 There are many other maps for other dates in Boston or towns and cities available on the LOC site - search on both panaoramic and the location names. Happy Hunting! Sharon Ancestors and Ephemera http://www.GenealogyFair.com From: "Paul F.Foley" <> Hi! I need some information for 1897 . I just found out where my grandfather was living and I was wondering how I can find out what type of place he was living in. The address is 306 Harrison Ave. Boston. Also if there are any records available for that time like State or city Census? Can anyone help?? Thank you Michelle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/