No. 12304 Bird’s-Eye View of Lower Mill, 1890
The Simpson Refrigerator Company was located on the north side of Sanford Street, Dorchester (Boston),Massachusetts, in the Lower Mills section. The factory would have been located approximately at 53-57 Sanford Street.
The 1879 Boston Directory identifies a Henry B. Simpson as carpenter living on Granger Street in the Harrison Square section of Dorchester. In 1880 the Directory has an entry for Henry B. Simpson, refrigerator manufacturer at Codman Street, near Dorchester Avenue, Lower Mills, living in a house nearby.
The 1883 Boston Directory locates Simpson, refrigerator manufactory on Sandford [sic] Street, Lower Mills. Peter and Mary Munier sold a parcel of 21,900 square feet to Henry B. Simpson on March 24, 1883, Suffolk Registry of Deeds, Book 1591, Page 369, providing the description: ” a certain lot or parcel of land in Ward 24 in said Boston, with the steam mill and machinery or fixtures therein, known as the Norcross Mill.”
From 1886 through 1892 Simpson is in business with Sumner B. Cole. Cole relinquished his interest in 1892. Simpson gave a mortgage to Almon L. Smith in 1893.
On November 2, 1896 Henry sold the property to the Waterman Refrigerator Company, a company formed in the state of Maine.
No. 169022 H. B. Simpson & Co. stationery