16 Carruth Street

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No. 6351 16 Carruth Street, photograph April29, 2005.

Date of construction: 1896

Architect: Frederick N. Reed

Style: Shingle

In the appendix to The Second Settlement, Douglass Shand-Tucci cites a Building permit and inspection report from 1896 – F. N. Reed architect, J.D. Chute, builder, C. Kendall owner, estimated cost to build $10,000. Charles Kendall is shown at this address in the Boston Directory for 1897.

Tucci also cites a building permit and inspection report from 1905 with an estimated cost of $800, so this may have been a garage.  Architect and builder was A. L. Oakman, and owner was James Russell.

The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci.

Standing in front of 15 Carruth, one has a fine view of the grandest of these houses, the Kendall-Russell House, 16 Carruth, on the corner of Elmer … Beautifully maintained, this very assured and boldly massed design, with its crisp detailing, is the work of Frederick Reed, a little-known Boston architect and sometime Ashmont resident (at 75 Ocean Stret) who on the basis of this house alone deserves further attention  The client was Charles S. Kendall, Jr., vice president of Rice, Kendall and Company on Federal Street in the Boston financial district, who grew up in his father’s back Bay house at 261 Newbury and, when he succeeded to the business, built this large house at Ashmont.

The following is from the inventory form for Carruth Street – Peabody Square, Boston Landmarks Commission.

16 Carruth Street was built in 1896 by William Eafie from designs provided by Frederick N. Reed, a little known Boston architect and some-time Ashmont resident who lived at 75 Ocean Street. The original owner of this house was Charles S. Kendall, Jr., vice president of Rice, Kendall and Company on Federal Street in the Boston. Kendall grew up in his father’s house at 261 Newbury Street in the Back Bay.

owners from atlases

1894 no house

1898 Chas. S. Kendall

1904 James L. Russell

1910 James L. Russell

1918 Ola M. Russell

1933 Mabel H. Todd    17,603 s.f.

deed July 3, 1895 from Thomas T. Goodale et ux to Charles S. Kendall Book 2289 p 334 lots 6 & 7 pl. 1867.589

Boston Directory

1893 Charles S. Kendall, Jr., 91 Federal, bds. 680 Tremont

1894 Charles S. Kendall, Jr, salesman, 91 Federal, bds. 19 Carruth 

1895 Charles S. Kendall, salesman, 91 Federal, bds. 19 Carruth

1896 Charles S. Kendall, vice-pres, 91 Federal, b. 19 Carruth

1897 Charles S. Kendall, vice-pres 91 Federal, b. 16 Carruth

His father was also Charles S. Kendall, also vice-president of Rice, Kendall Co.  Charles, the father, died in 1894.

The Boston Business Directory for 1859 has an advertisement on p. 182 for Rice, Kendall & Company, paper dealers.  They were also manufacturers. See the entry for Alexander Hamilton Rice in the “Necrology of Historic Genealogical Society,” in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1896), 89.

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