Today's weather vane was photographed in Massachusetts by a reader.
Do you know the location of weathervane post #332? Scroll down to find the answer.
This weathervane sits on a cupola above the Metropolitan
Police Stable building located at 1 Land Boulevard in East Cambridge,
Massachusetts. You might recognize it as
the small brick building now located next to the Museum of Science garage. This 1910 building was originally a stable for
police horses, and then used as a garage for police vehicles. The Metropolitan
Police used this building until the 1990s, and it is now vacant. According to the website below it was slated
for exterior repairs in 2013. It doesn’t appear that this was completed (or
they forgot to fix the weathervane!).
The Metropolitan District Commission Police were formed in
1893 for law enforcement on all MDC properties, including reservoirs, waterways
and watersheds, and full jurisdiction throughout Greater Boston. The MDC police were merged into the
Massachusetts State Police in 1992, and no longer exist.
This photograph is dated Aug. 16, 1912 The Museum of Science is now located in the foreground, where the men are playing a game of baseball. From https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/ The Massachusetts Archives Photography website. |
Today’s weathervane photograph was sent to me by Rebecca
Colbath Carlino. She took the photo from
the Museum of Science garage.
Thanks, Rebecca!
From the State of Massachusetts website (the old stable
building):
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ An old Stable", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 11, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/weathervane-wednesday-old-stable.html: accessed [access date]).
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