From left to right:

• 293-297 Washington St. (future). The trees in the vacant lot have been stripped and there are large mounds of dirt. This is likely in preparation for the 1915 construction of the building which still stands there today.
• 289 Washington St., Morris Salis, Tailor. In 1888, Salis emigrated from Russia at the age of 15. He opened his tailor shop here in 1903 and remained there for over thirty years then moving to the nearby “Bowker Block” on Harvard St.
• 289 Washington St. To the right of the Salis shop, oddly using the same address, is Louis Ianneville, shoe repair, which was there between 1909 and 1915.
• 287 Washington St., second floor, Thomas F. Thompson, painter
• 285 Washington St., partial view.

[Courtesy of Historic New England]