Needham History: So Sleep the Saints
No ghosts. No pirates. The cemetery is where people lie quiet in the loving care that put them to rest. Gravestones carved by Henry Christian...
Needham History: The Kingsbury Block Fire
One of the last surviving structures from the early development of the downtown. The four-alarm fire at the Kingsbury Building, during the night of July...
Needham History: Village Falls Park
Beneath the dark water along the riverbank, the old turbine and buckets lie quietly. [caption id="attachment_133048" align="alignnone" width="800"] The mill and falls in 1886, in...
Needham History: The New Deal in Needham
"Poems are made by fools like me, But God, I think, made Franklin D." The Dwight School building on Central Avenue was built with WPA...
Needham History: So Much History! (Part 2)
River! That in silence windest Through the meadows, bright and free... Students at the Harris School on Great Plain Avenue, in 1893. NC Wyeth, 10...