The view looks out over a calm cove and low rocky ledges toward a granite point crowned by two large shingled summer houses, with a small bathhouse or pavilion at the right. The caption names the spot as the shore seen from the Lodge Estate in Swampscott, Massachusetts, a North Shore town on Massachusetts Bay that was a fashionable summer resort in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The rocky shoreline and clapboard-and-shingle villas are typical of the town's summer-estate architecture of that period.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Package came O.K. Thank you again. Expect-
to hear from you soon. Will write you from Westerly.
Yours, Gertrude
White border along the bottom carrying the printed caption; faint circular receiving mark in the water area at lower left; small brownish stain near the top edge; undivided-back era printing.
Postmark: BOSTON, MASS. JUL 17 10-AM 1906, with a second, receiving cancel JUL 17 3 PM 1906, "OS REC'D" (town name partly illegible). Undivided back ("This side for the Address."), red "POST CARD" heading, 1¢ green Franklin stamp, Rotograph Co. imprint. Light edge wear and a few foxing spots.
Cite this card
The Shore from Lodge Estate, Swampscott, MA, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/the-shore-from-lodge-estate-swampscott-ma-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
