April 2024.
Turning back around
Video. Driving from Annisquam to Halibut Point State Park and back again. It’s spring!
Tag: Washington Street
Driving the new road: Deacon Farm Lane early spring #GloucesterMA
Video series caption: Early spring, Deacon Farm Lane. (50 sec) Mute to silence wind. Adjust video for higher resolution.
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Sunflowers and Ukraine Flags | Main Street Storefronts, Downtown #GloucesterMA
March 2022 – POP GALLERY, Design of Mine, Stage Fort Park, City Hall, Our Lady of Good Voyage, Washington Street
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Construction progress along Thatcher Road and off Washington Street #GloucesterMA
March 2021 construction status. Two projects near Good Harbor Beach at the four corners of Thatcher and Witham, and two projects in Riverdale off Washington Street.
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Thatcher Road and Witham – 6 townhouses “Brier Cliff by the Beach”
Between Thatcher and Cliff Road
Thatcher Road and Witham – 12 condos “Ocean View at Good Harbor Beach”
*formerly Brier Neck shores
Between Washington Street by Piraino Street and Thornhill Way
(before Willow Rest)
Washington Street past Willow Rest – Sea Glass Lane
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Santa visiting Reynard St., MAD MERRY highlights tour, and 35,000+ views to Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2020 map 🚗☕🎄✨⛄ #GloucesterMA!
photo caption: Santa visiting sign at white lights home on Reynard St. Dec 17-23. 5:30-7pm (no pix with Santa)
Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives Map 2020 edition features 250+ decorated residential homes with Christmas light displays in Gloucester. Massachusetts. The map was viewed more than 30,000 times within 7 days of going live this year.
MAP
Gloucester is tough to match for winter lights charm and show stopping homes. From Beach Court to Stage Fort; West Gloucester to East; Magnolia to Annisquam; and Portuguese Hill to Plum Cove- Gloucester is illuminated. Many neighborhoods join in together glittering, and have for years. With each passing new day more join in.
Concentrated streets include:
- Essex Avenue is beautiful and long– and it’s good driving from both directions. I split it up into Essex Ave stretch between Causeway Restaurant and Richdale and
- Essex Avenue stretch (between Richdale and Rt.128 and then to Farnham’s)
- Elizabeth Road neighborhood block
- Reynard Street neighborhood block and Spruce Street expansive, elaborate displays
- Hartz street charming sweet little block
- Finch Lane delightful little block
- Annisquam for an old timey route, mostly white & gold lights with multi colored trees at turns on the road.
Mad Merry Highlights Tour
as in deck the halls, doors, windows, roofs and yards with boughs of holly-holidays! These 20 or so Gloucester homes are LIT! Bedecked, top twinkling in 2020 (alphabetized by road):
- 6 Abbott Road
- Centennial Road – Hope 2x
- 12 Concord St (next to West Parish-near Essex Ave.)
- 4 Elizabeth Road (entire block, multiple homes)
- 326 Essex Ave (all of Essex Ave is great/multiple homes)
- 2 *Goose Cove Lane (end of block) & Holly Street
- Grove (and Maplewood)
- 6 Harbor Road at Bass Ave
- Hesperus Ave (all trees- next to Hammond Castle)
- 29 High Popples
- 9 Lowe Drive
- 22 Magnolia Ave and 124 Magnolia Ave
- Luzitania Ave (off Friend St.)
- 79 *Perkins Street
- Reynard St. whole block (#22 white lights; #42 blue house)
- 8 Spruce Road
- 15R Stanwood Ave
- 160 Washington Street
6 Abbott Rd
Centennial – HOPE
Centennial & Emerson -look up to – HOPE
12 Concord (off Essex Ave.)
Elizabeth St block – Frosty projected on the belly
Elizabeth St block (neighbors merge their light displays)
326 Essex Avenue (from Kent Circle past Pauline’s, both sides)
Essex Ave
Essex Ave
2 Goose Cove Lane (at Willow Rest)
Grove off Maplewood
6 Harbor Rd
Hesperus Ave (all trees- next to Hammond Castle))
29 High Popples
9 Lowe Dr
Luzitania (off Friend St.)
124 Magnolia Ave
22 Magnolia Ave
79 Perkins St is a wrap around
22 Reynard
42 Reynard
Reynard
8 Spruce
15R Stanwood Ave (off Essex Ave)
Washington St.
*animation Santas
Printable PDF – Holiday Lights and Cocoa-drives 2020 Gloucester, Massachusetts by c.ryan (latest version- as of Dec.21)Download
Along with the map, winter lights house photographs were featured by neighborhood on GMG as follows:
- “OG” original 2020 post 11/30/2020 – Elizabeth, Reynard, more
- Update 1- Essex Ave stretch from Causeway to Richdale
- Update 2- Portuguese Hill and Essex Ave 2nd stretch from Richdale to Farnham’s
- Update 3- East Gloucester
- Update 4- Annisquam and detours en route Lanesville updated! (photos added below)
- Update 5 post 12/7/2020 – Magnolia, downtown, additions to E. and W. Glouc.
This year’s trends include peace signs, illuminated words, melting multis, and a particular blue-green light (outlining windows in photo below).
Clear, mild nights make it easier to park, walk and linger. Snow and rain make for lovely routes, too.
photos below: Lanesville added, and homes missing from prior neighborhood batches
and pretty by day
Also **NEW** for 2020 — Gloucester with Manchester, Essex and Rockport (the Four Communities of Cape Ann) have collaborated to share beautiful Winter Lights on Cape Ann – 150+ businesses and organizations are merry and bright into January
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Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2020 map #GloucesterMA 🚗☕🎄✨⛄Update 5 – Magnolia, Centennial, Maplewood, Madison Ave., Wash., and more!
This is the sixth and final in a series featuring Christmas lights on 200+ decorated homes throughout neighborhoods in Gloucester Massachusetts for the 2020 season. Festive displays range from draped garland lights & wrapped trees to elaborate tableaus. Gloucester is beautiful! Streets that are covered in this post:
- Magnolia area of Gloucester including Magnolia Ave., Hesperus Ave., Western Ave., Linden Ave., Lowe Drive
- downtown Gloucester blocks including: Centennial Drive, Maplewood Ave., Prospect St., Riverside Ave. block, Washington St., Gloucester Avenue, Mystic Avenue, Madison Avenue (w/ Madison Sq. and Ct., and Springfield St.)
- neighborhood additions: nearby Elizabeth Road; Abbott Road; East Gloucester- Mt. Pleasant area and East Main; and West Gloucester – Essex Ave.
MAGNOLIA AREA
Downtown
CENTENNIAL DRIVE ADDITIONS
Abbott Road | East Gloucester additions
West Gloucester additions
Follow links to see scenes from other Gloucester neighborhoods (or follow through to the end of the post and look for/select page 1,2)
- “OG” original post – Elizabeth, Reynard, more
- Update 1- Essex Ave stretch from Causeway to Richdale
- Update 2- Portuguese Hill and Essex Ave stretch from Richdale to Farnham’s
- Update 3- East Glou.
- Update 4- Annisquam and detours en route Lanesville later
- Update 5- Magnolia, downtown, additions to E. and W. Glouc. (this post)
Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives Gloucester Massachusetts map 2020. Photos have been added to the Google maps: tour by car or keyboard!
FAQ – how to print
The map is smart phone ready with house pictures. If you want to print the map see below: (1) navigate to the map page URL and (2) click on the three dots menu bar on the upper right. Pull down and select “print” PDF as of 12/7/2020
Updated
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Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2020 map #GloucesterMA 🚗☕🎄✨⛄Update 4 – Annisquam plus en route detours Washington, Cherry, Finch, Reynard, Spruce Streets
Scenes of Annisquam: Annisquam Village Hall; Annisquam Bridge; white lights and wreaths and trees at junctions. Followed with en route detours off Washington Street via Cherry, Spruce, Gee, Finch Lane, Reynard, Holly Street | Goose Cove Lane (near Willow Rest), Dennison
en route
Washington Street plus detours via Cherry, Spruce, Gee, Finch Lane, Reynard, Holly Street | Goose Cove Lane (near Willow Rest), Dennison
Print out
The map is smart phone ready with house pictures. If you want to print the map see two pictures below: (1) navigate to the map page URL and (2) click on the three dots menu bar on the upper right. Pull down and select “print” PDF as of 12/5/2020
Updated
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Lobster Cove: Gloucester DPW rebuilding stone wall along Washington Street / 127 (and brush clearing at Bennett)
CAUTION- slow down!
Gloucester DPW crews are restoring the old stone fence along Washington Street/Rt 127 between the Annisquam footbridge and Annisquam Church. They are filling and resetting capstone and top stone along its length and attending to areas of greater disrepair. The fence on this route has been hit by cars more than once. Estimates for contracting the work went far outside the department’s budget. Thankfully, Gloucester DPW is up to the city maintenance of a traditional public works build. They began the job last week (see below)
BEFORE (and one in process/mortar)
AFTER
So far- Gloucester DPW is just a fraction of the way into this project. They’ll tackle sections at a time.
Goose Cove
Gloucester DPW repaired the stone wall at Goose Cove (also hit)
Nearby another DPW crew completed much needed roadside overgrowth clearing on Bennett Street up towards Dennison Street
Before (Google Street view) / After
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Architectural plans for the Cape Ann Museum curatorial center at White Ellery property by the Babson house
Signs of clearing for the exciting Cape Ann Museum addition for a curatorial center on the White-Ellery property January 2019 Gloucester, Massachusetts
Enjoy comparing plans and photos plus a link to a higher resolution PDF of new groundscape single page from the architectural plans
today new fence and visibility (above) vs google (below) old fence & more overgrowth…there is forsythia along there
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Blooms and buildings- finding sunflowers at every turn downtown Gloucester, Mass.
Enjoying all these sunny sunflowers swaying downtown. Can you spot them all? Hint- Main Street and Pleasant Street (Patti Amaral’s garden stretch); on the West End of Main Street at legendary storefront Bananas; Washington and Granite Streets nearby Mother of Grace; and Centennial nearly bookended at both Washington and Western Avenue.
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Brown’s Mill Landing, Washington Street Gloucester, Mass.
Anthony Marks submits-
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Washington Street’s Savour Fire Photos From Bill O’Connor
Bill writes-
Hi Joey,
Last night when I went out side, I could smell fire. The wind was blowing from the North so I knew something was up downtown. I drove over to the Paint Factory and from my point of view it looked like there was a building burning in the fort. I took some shots and headed over to town, and was surprised to learn that the fire was burning at the Savour Wine and Cheese shop on Washington Street.
There was a lot of activity, with a huge response from neighboring communities. I saw engines and personnel from Rockport, Beverly and Manchester in addition to Gloucester.
The fire was still burning when I got there and the wind was blowing pretty hard, fanning the fire and making it difficult for the crews fighting it. Apparently the fire started at Savour, then jumped to the building next door because of the wind. The Street would be clear of smoke, then a slight change in the direction of the wind would create a thick blanket of smoke – making it hard to see (and take photos).
Thankfully nobody was hurt, but Savour was totaled from what I could see. Anyhow, I thought I would share the photos I took.
Good Morning Gloucester 