The Black Rock House Then and Earlier

We remembered this view as the Reeds homes and the Beach as Black Rock Beach, Cohasset, MA. Here’s how it looked in 1898.

And that large building on the left before Reed’s Beach is… “The Black Rock House!” Edition 2 shown here following in more detail:

This Black Rock House 2 predated the one we are familiar with, Black Rock House 3, following:

By the way this photograph of the Black Rock house must have been taken from the landward side from above Jerusalem road and inland.

These pictures are all from “Images of America, Cohasset”

Here, my sketch of the Black Rock House, from the beach side, after a photo my uncle Bud Dempsey took of it just before its razing in 1968.

An unsourced aerial view of Black Rock House used in a real estate posting. Posted by Dean and Hamilton Realtors in 2005 with house listing at site. http://www.deanandhamilton.com/property/blackrockhouse.html