Date of construction: 1899 – based on 1899 Richards map and Boston Directory
Architect: Joseph Greene
The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci
[17 and 11 Beaumont Street] are related in the most intimate way with each other, and a glance across the street at 16 Beaumont, the Alden-Moseley House, and 10 Beaumont, the Wood House, next door , shows a similar pairing. Later the residence of the artist Katherine Alde, 16 Beaumont was the home of the Moseleys, a family prominent in Dorchester back to the seventeenth century, evidence that old money as well as new settled here. Built in 1899, the house reveals the happy balances of the more formal and stately mode coming to the fore in this period. On the other hand, 10 Beaumont, built in 1895 and named after Frederick Wood, a Park Street jeweler, is equally serene in a more informal, shingled mode. Both play well off each other. Sure enough, 16 and 10 are also the work of the same designer, Joseph Greene, a Milton architect.
Note: Charles B. Moseley was a retail coal merchant
The following is from the inventory form for Carruth Street – Peabody Square, Boston Landmarks Commission
10 and 16 Beaumont Street were designed by Milton architect Joseph Green. The former was built in 1895 for Frederick Wood, a Park Street jeweler, while the latter was built in 1899 for the Moseley family who traced their Dorcheser ancestry back to the 17th century. The Moselys’ [sic] (see the Crescent Avenue area) purchase of 16Beaumont signaled that “old money” was settling in Herbert Carruth’s new development 11 and 17 Beaumont Street represent two houses by Whitney Lewis built ca.1884. The former has the distinction of being one of the first half-timbered buildings in the country while the latter was builtfor Samuel Nightingale, a partner in Nightingale and Childs, railroad suppliers, of Pearl Street, Boston.
owners from atlases
1898 vacant lot owned by Lucy W. Moseley
1899 house on lot, owner Lucy W. Moseley
1904 Lucy W. Moseley
1910 Lucy W. Moseley
1918 Morton Alden
1933 Morton Alden
Boston Directory
1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 Charles B. Moseley, 3 Beaumont [i.e. 11 Beaumont]
1900 Charles B. Moseley, h. 6 Beaumont
deed
Mary 23, 1895 from William T. Glidden 2d and Agnes P. H. Gliden to Lucy M. M. Moseley, wife of Charles B. Moseley, 2279.274
1900 Census
Charles B. Moseley, 39, coal dealer
Lucy M. Moseley, 39
Elizur Moseley, 12
Margaret F. Moseley, 10
Charles B. Moseley, 2
Susan C. Fowle, 70, mother-in-law
Kate O’Keefe, 23, servant
Mary O’Keefe, 27, servant
1910 Census
Charles B. Moseley, 48, retail coal merchant
Lucy M. Moseley, 49
Elizabeth Moseley, 21
Maynard F. Moseley, 20, machine shop
Charles B. Moseley, 12
Susan Fowle, 80, mother-in-law