More Cambridge sidewalk markers
On my street I was able to find one other company that poured its concrete, F.O. White Construction Company. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find much of anything on F.O. White’s history.
Here are the two medallions. I am curious as to why each shape was chosen.
The only concrete information I could find on F.O. White came from the digitized Google eBooks — Concrete, Volume 8 edited by Harvey Whipple and published by Concrete-Cement Age Publishing Co. in January 1916. It said,
“MONOLITHIC OARAGES [sic]
A very tasteful garage is illustrated at Fig. 20 which possesses the distinction of being truly all-concrete.
This garage, 36′ x 42′, was built at Brookline, Mass., by the F. O. White Construction Co., Cambridge, Mass.”
The image above is from the original book’s table on contents and also shows the publisher and price for the issue. The “Fig. 20″ is too small to post here. The words were unreadable.