No. 13344 51 Bowoin Avenue on the right and 53 Bowdoin Avenue on the left, photograph August 25, 2012.
Date of construction: circa 1850
Double House
MACRIS BOS.6583
circa 1850
Architect(s): Lapham, Robert Magoun
Use(s): Multiple Family Dwelling House
Te following is from the area form for Mt. Bowdoin, Boston Landmarks Commission
A few doors to the south is another pre 1850 double house at 51/53 Bowdoin Ave., which is of a cottage-scale and like 41/42 stand with its ong, six bay main facade facing the street, its 2-bay end wall gable facing north-south. Paired center entrances open on to a late 19th century porch with simple posts and turned balusters. Although covered with vinyl siding, this house retains its original T-shaped form and above all, the wavy Carpenter Gothic boarding on its pair of gable roofed dormers.
Owners from maps and atlases
1850 L. Glass or R. Glass
1858 no name
1874 Wm S. Phelps
1884 Wm S. Phelps
1889 William S. Phelps
1894 Albert A. Chittenden
1898 Albert A Chittenden
1904 Albert A. Chittenden
1910 Albert A. Chittenden
1918 Albert A. Chittenden Hrs
1933 Nora Morris 7718 sf
Deed
June 11, 1867 from William Bryant to William S. Phelps 355.47
consideration $3,425 with the buildings thereon
December 2, 1863 from Lucius J. and Ellen E. Peck to William Bryant 319.188
consideration $950 with the buildings thereon
May 1, 1856 from Reuben Glass to Lucius J. Peck 245.41
consideration $900 with the buildings thereon
Aug. 2, 1845 from James Weld to Reuben Glass 157.193
consideration $500 no mention of a building