ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
The old photo shows one of the Boston's remarkable lost buildings, the Maverick House hotel, in East Boston's Maverick Square. The Maverick was the Airport Hilton of its era. Sailing ships and, later on, Cunarders and other steam liners arrived from Europe and docked in East Boston,just as airplanes land there at Logan today. Exhausted passengers would put up for night or two at the Maverick before continuing on into Boston or beyond. The waterside locati...