Way Back Wednesday: Mrs. Sibley’s Tea Room

November 13, 2024 by Geri Duff

This is the Joshua Tower House at 78 High Street, built in 1830. About 1916, when the Sibley family lived here, Mrs. Sibley (Louise) ran a tea room out of her home while her husband, Frank, earned a living as a Boston Globe Reporter. In 1918 Frank went to France to serve as the first “embedded reporter” with the Yankee Division in WWI, sending back dispatches to the Globe. When he returned, he wrote a book: With the Yankee Division in France. Later in his career, he covered the Saco and Vanzetti trial for the Globe. This photograph is from a Julian Loring Notebook that is in the archives of the Hingham Historical Society.

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