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Please inspect each photo carefully before purchasing and feel free to ask for more photographs of any item, we're always happy to disclose more about each piece. We disclose all apparent damage in descriptions and take close, detailed images of every piece. There is always the possibility of small surface scratches and blemishes or small dents and cracks in stones. More on our shop and process at: īecause of the nature of their acquisition, each of our items is in the range from good to excellent condition. We brought them back from melting and preserved them so that they can be treasured once again. Silver strand bunch is about 1/2" in diameter.Īll jewelry at Saved from the Fire has been hand-picked and rescued from pieces that were about to be melted away by gold and silver buyers forever. Made up of just over one ounce of sterling silver, this piece has a large bunching of sterling silver strands that wind about one another beautifully. This particular liquid silver necklace is the largest and heaviest in our collection. The style is very common in southwestern jewelry and the simple grace pairs well with many clothing ensembles. This southwestern necklace is designed in a style commonly known as liquid silver, where multiple strands of silver cascade down around the neck, flowing gracefully. The economic and psychological impacts of architecturally grand and visibly transformative projects like the Kittredge House have positive ripple effects, catalyzing their neighbors, the broader community, and the city as a whole.Liquid silver, Native American, ten stand, necklace in twenty four inch length with cones and hook clasps.įavorite our shop, so you will be the first to see our new listings! “HBI has once again returned an important piece of Boston’s heritage to productive use in our neighborhoods. “Where some see only a sad lost cause in a once-historic gem, organizations like HBI see opportunity,” said Greg Galer, Executive Director of the Boston Preservation Alliance. After extensive efforts by HBI, this neighborhood gem is now beautifully restored, occupied and successfully reactivates the Highland Park area of Roxbury. Three of the four sidewall chimneys remained but were in poor condition, so required rebuilding and the fourth, which had been lost, was reconstructed. The roof and its octagonal cupola are now fully restored. On the exterior, the front façade of largely original flush-board siding and two unadorned pilasters at the corners of the building were restored. Though the interior of the building had been altered, HBI was able to restore many features, including the original marble and slate floor in the central hall and the ornate, marbleized, painted glass ceiling from the late 1800s.
With over $1 million in grants and a total budget of $4.2 million, HBI focused on restoring the historic character of the building and returning it to the community as housing, including two units set aside for low-income tenants. In 2011, Historic Boston, Inc., a long-active and dedicated nonprofit preservation group, acquired the building and immediately took action to stabilize the site before restoration could begin. Many of the architectural features, such as the front columns, deteriorated beyond repair, the interior was severely vandalized, and a neglected Kittredge House devolved into blight, frustrating its neighborhood. In 1975, the Roxbury Action Program purchased the house and used it as their headquarters, but by 1991 the organization was no longer able to maintain the large building and the site sat abandoned for twenty years. Bradlee, a noted Boston architect, purchased the house in 1871 and lived there until his death in 1888. Kittredge, a businessman and developer in the mid-19th century, built the mansion to house his expanding family.
The house is distinctive for its architectural characteristics and for its associations with the lives of two prominent Bostonians, Alvah Kittredge and Nathaniel Bradlee. The Alvah Kittredge House, a magnificent Greek Revival home built in 1836, is now restored and treasured, once again, by residents of Roxbury.
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