Where Is This Lion? Fun with Historic Photos!

This lion lives on a fairly busy street in Boston. Do you know where you'll find him? 

Photo credit and links are below.

Photo credit and links are below.

Clues:

1. Over the years this building was used for a lodging house, church, undertaker, stores, day nursery, and apartments.
2. In 1943, repairs were made to the buidling after a fire.
3. Today, the building houses seven condominium units.
4. Leslie Jones took these photos.
5. It's in the South End.

Update: 10/25/14: We received a review copy of Dirty Old Boston: Four Decades of a City in Transition by Jim Botticelli, a great new book from Union Park Press and found the second photo on page 37. If you love these historic photos posts, you will love this book. 

Here's a photo of the lion, today:

Are you ready for an answer?

This lion lives at 511 Columbus Avenue at the corner of Greenwich Park. 

Here are the historic photos with their titles.

Both are: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection, and are used under this creative commons license.

"South End kids pose on stone lion"

"African-American boy with Stowe lion"

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2014 Penny & Ed Cherubino