House of Louis Prang, Centre St. near Gardner St., Roxbury, Mass.

Unknown artist

An exterior view of the Louis Prang House at 45 Centre Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1856 in the Italianate style, two polygonal bay windows flank the front door, which is adorned with trellises. The columns of the entrance way support a balustraded balcony. A widow's peak crowns the three stories of the house. A large smokestack of Prang's art publishing factory rises into the air from below the hill on which the house is located. There appears to be a small greenhouse to the left of the house. The leading art publisher of his day, Prang introduced chromolithography at his factory in Roxbury and printed the first Christmas cards in the United States.