Forty Step Bathing Beach and Senator Lodge's Mansion, Nahant, MA, 1907
- Card type
- Printed photo
About this postcard
Bathers wade in the calm, rock-girt cove of Forty Step Bathing Beach at Nahant, Massachusetts. Low rocky ledges and a sandy shore fill the foreground, and a large shingled summer house stands on the wooded headland beyond. The house is identified as Senator Lodge's mansion, the summer place of Henry Cabot Lodge, the Massachusetts historian and U.S. senator. Nahant, a small rocky peninsula town northeast of Boston, was a fashionable summer resort known for its rocky coves and bathing beaches in the early twentieth century.
Postcard Details
44 Spoffhawk St. Amesbury, MA
Postcard record
| Postmarked | , Cambridge, MA |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Metropolitan News Co. |
| Condition | Good |
| Place addressed | Miss Charlotte S. Hassett, 44 Spoffhawk St., Amesbury, MA |
| Place depicted | Nahant, MA |
| Publisher | The Metropolitan News Co., Boston, MA |
| received | Amesbury, MA |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides |
| Notes | Thin white margin at bottom carrying the printed caption; light staining and foxing, a small tear/crease at the top edge, and a handwritten "L" in the lower right corner (single letter, likely a dealer stock mark). Postmark: CAMBRIDGE STATION MASS. APR 7 4:30 PM 1907 (second, receiving mark: AMESBURY MASS. APR 17). Undivided back with red "Post Card" heading and "THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS."; publisher imprint along left edge (1180. The Metropolitan News Co., Boston, Mass., printed in Saxony); 1c Franklin stamp; light edge wear and a few foxing spots. |
Cite this card
Forty Step Bathing Beach and Senator Lodge's Mansion, Nahant, MA, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/forty-step-bathing-beach-and-senator-lodges-mansion-nahant-m. Accessed November 2, 2026.