This picture is titled Four Early Shops.  It's quite unlikely that any of these could be The Little Red Shop.  These are on the lower pond [a pond several hundred yards downstream from Freedom Street, which existed from the days of the Hopedale Community to about the 1890s.] and the evidence indicates the the Red Shop, on both it's first and second locations, was near the dam at Freedom Street, which is about 100 yards from the scene above.  The 1858 map shows only  the Dutcher Temple Company shop near the lower end of the lower pond. The 1875 map shows that the area had built up quite a bit by that time.  Frank Dutcher, in a description of this picture, says that it shows the shops as they looked around 1860.  That would be shortly after his father, Waren Dutcher, moved to Hopedale. To see what Frank Dutcher had to say about the picture,  go to a captioned copy of it.                       Red Shop Menu       Red Shop Interior                Map Menu                        HOME