NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 37 
One of Manchester’s Attractive Street Corners 
The Henry Havelock Pierce Studio 
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AX IMPROVEMENT that has attracted most fav- 
orable comment from the North Shore visitors is 
the remodelled Pierce Studio, situated at the corner of 
Bridge and Pine streets, Manchester-by-the-Sea. This 
place has been better known the last few years as the 
Pierce Corner owing to fact that Henry Havelock Pierce, 
the well-known photographer of New York and Boston 
has his summer studio at this point. Mr. Pierce acquired 
this little strip of property with.a small building thereon 
several years ago and during the last winter he has had 
the whole place transformed into a most attractive spot. 
Where formally there was a rough crude looking street 
corner, there is now a most artistic pergola, with a pretty 
little fountain, flowers, bay trees and a very smart look- 
ing building which is now used as his studio. 
The original building is one of the oldest in town. 
Years ago it was used as a cobbler’s shop, a generation 
ago as a harness shop and more recently as a paint shop. 
At the time Mr. Pierce bought the place he made num- 
erous improvements, transforming it into an artitic and 
attractive studio. In the latest building of the structure, 
the veranda has been added to the main building which 
has also been extensively remodelled and changed. It 
is withal a credit to the town and an improvement which 
attracts the attention of everybody. In turning the 
piazza into the building the architecture was so cleverly 
planned that the lower interior appears as one large 
room. ‘This room is fitted, finished and decorated as only 
an artist could do it. There is a colonial fireplace of 
tapestry brick, with some antique hand-wrought andirons 
and the mantel taken from an old home in Arlington, 
is also a colonial design. Besides the old colonial furni- 
ture, this room also contains some quaint old fashioned 
lustre-ware selected from the collection belonging to the 
family. The studio room in the upper portion of the 
building reached by stairway, the staircase of which was 
taken from an old colonial house in Portsmouth is fully 
equipped with all the modern appliances for the making 
of the celebrated Pierce prints and portraits. The ar- 
chitect for Mr. Pierce was Edmand Steward, of Boston 
and Roberts & Hoare of Manchester were the builders. 
The studio is as usual in charge of Mr. Pierce’s sister, 
Mrs. Chute, who is well known among the fashionable 
North Shore colony. 
MANCHESTER’S FOURTH 
The “Great and Glorious Fourth” was fittingly cele- 
brated in Manchester, and may it be said at the 
start that the celebration was along the safe and sane 
lines, and that everybody enjoyed the day to the fullest 
despite the absence of much of the old-time make-all-the- 
noise-you-can form of celebration. The police had no 
occasion to make arrests and as far as they were con- 
erned it was one of the most orderly Fourths within 
our memory. 
The town’s committee started the official celebration 
a minute after midnight when cannon was fired from Pow- 
der House hill. The next part of the official program 
started about nine o’clock at the Brook street playgrounds, 
when the races and various sports were run off, 
In the afternoon at the Town hall an entertainment 
was given for the children. The older ones attended the 
ball game, which was not a part of the official program. 
A splendid band concert was given in the evening on 
the Common by the Co. G band of Gloucester, L. M. 
Blythe, conductor. The fire-works display was pronounfed 
the best for many years. Withal the day passed off very 
pleasantly and everyone had a good time. ‘The citizens 
might well feel pleased with the manner in which the 
Town's $500 was spent. 
MISS GODSOE 
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