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Postcard c1908 Residence Byron Weston Dalton MA Victorian Mansion Conlin
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Pre-linen · 1908

Postcard c1908 Residence Byron Weston Dalton MA Victorian Mansion Conlin

Dalton, Massachusetts, USA1908Pre-linenFair-Good

Turrets, wraparound porches, multiple chimneys, and the confident extravagance of Queen Anne Victorian architecture define the residence of Byron Weston, one of the most prominent men in Dalton, Massachusetts — a man who turned paper-making into a political and cultural legacy and served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in the 1880s. His mansion, photographed here in the early undivided-back era likely around 1905–1910, sits behind a low stone wall amid bare-limbed spring trees, its many gables and a corner tower rising with the unhurried authority of Gilded Age prosperity. Dalton was — and remains — the home of Crane & Co., the paper company that has manufactured U.S. currency paper for generations; Byron Weston was a rival paper magnate whose mill made the town's identity inseparable from fine paper. This card was published by Thomas R. Conlin of Pittsfield and is unused.

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PC-03368 · Thomas R. Conlin, Pittsfield, Mass.
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