The location of this week’s Mystery Photo may surprise you. Check out this architectural gem and send your answers to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown. We’ll give you special marks for details about this building.
Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, wrote of the recent Mystery Photo: “The first hints were the Cape Cod/New England style houses along the opposite shore and what looks to be part of an American flag on the left. This is Woods Hole, Falmouth, Mass. This was a tough one and I’ve even been to it several times! But it’s the bell tower on the bank that did it for me. It’s the Angelus Bell Tower of The Garden of Our Lady at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Millfield Street along the Eel Pond shore in Woods Hole.
“Chicago native, Frances Crane Lillie, gifted the tower and the adjacent flower garden to Saint Joseph’s to remind the scientists who study at the Marine Biological Laboratory across the pond that there is another and valid aspect of life. Boston architect Charles Coolidge designed the tower and it was built in 1929 on land given to Saint Joseph’s. A granite block sea wall had to be built to support it and make the lot level with the road because, at the time, the land sloped down to the water. The bells first rang from the tower at 5:45 a.m. Christmas morning of 1929.”
The photo came from Rob Ponder of Duluth. Others recognizing it include Allen Peel of San Antonio, Texas; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; and Lou Camerio, Lilburn.
FESTIVE SETTING: John Buckner was among those attending the annual international meeting at the Lawrenceville Senior Center at Rhodes Jordan Park on Monday Angel Finwick, program manager, led the group in a trivia quiz about the many countries, which proved both informative and educational. (Photo by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp.)
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