Cool properties I saw on a walk in Fairhaven, MA

Today I will share a few photos from a walk I recently took in a historic area in Fairhaven, MA, which I didn't know at the time, until someone asked me if I had been to Poverty Point, and when I looked it up, I found it was an area I had walked just a few days before. I was intrigued by the name so I looked that up up

Poverty Point is the historic oldest neighborhood in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, originally known as Oxford Village.

The area was founded around 1760 on land owned by William Wood and later owned by Thomas Taber (the son-in-law of Mayflower passenger John Cooke). After the first Fairhaven-New Bedford bridge was constructed in the 1790s, commercial shipping shifted south of the bridge, causing an economic downturn that led locals to dub the area "Poverty Point" around 1810. Despite the name, the economic slump was short-lived. By the 1820s through the 1840s, the neighborhood transformed into a prominent residential hub for sea captains, artists, and community figures.

and on the corner of Oxford and Cherry is Oxford Towers, built between 1831–1837

And this one is on the opposite side of the same corner, surrounded by lovely fall colors, I thought the whale above the door was a cool touch. I do have a closer in-photo of the door I will edit and share at some stage.

Now one thing I am bad for doing is going to an area and parking in a spot and then walking around up and down side streets and often off on a tangent and forgetting to take photos of street names and i havent had any uck working

Now I think, but I could be wrong, that this building had a sign saying Our Ladies Haven.

It was originally called Tabitha Inn and built in 1905 Commissioned by legendary Fairhaven industrialist and millionaire Henry Huttleston Rogers. He named it after his grandmother, Tabitha Huttleston. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), a close friend of Henry Huttleston Rogers, frequently stayed here. Designed to look like an authentic English manor or Elizabethan/Shakespearean-era inn. Purchased by the Catholic Diocese and dedicated as Our Lady's Haven in 1945. It operates as a skilled nursing and rehabilitative facility.

And that’s all folks

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