No. 6358 22 Carruth Street, photograph April 29, 2005.
Date of construction: by 1896
Architect: Edwin J. Lewis, Jr.
In The Second Settlement appendix, Tucci cites a building permit from 1894 – Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. architect, S. L. Sullis builder, S. Goodale owner, estimated cost to build $8,000
[Seems odd to have a permit dated 1894 with Goodale as owner when she seemingly did not yet own the property. She acquired the property on January 15, 1895.]
This house was built for Susan Goodale as an investment property. Frederick Mills and family lived here from at least 1896. Clara Mills acquired the property in 1905.
The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
22 Carruth, the Mills House (after Frederic Mills, president of Mills and Company, the Congress Street investment bankers, deepens the discussion. Designed in 1859 by Edwin J. Lewis, 22 is also covered by artificial siding (obscuring such important detail as rusticated quoins) and has also lost its entire front porch. But it may fairly be said that even with all this (including a new front entrance and porch quite different from the original) this house has so handsome a color scheme and so exquisite a garden that it is a special joy to see because so much has been made of its considerable remaining charms. Changes (artfully over the years are, of course, part of what gives an old house its character, as the succeeding generations adapt and use it. But one must be very careful . If economics force artificial siding on a homeowner, some ways of doing it are better than others.
[Note: at the time Shand-Tucci wrote the description, I think the color was salmon.]
The following is from the inventory form for Carruth Street – Peabody Square, Boston Landmarks Commission.
22 Carruth Street was designed in 1895 for Frederick Mills, president of Mills and Company, investment bankers based on Congress Street. Its architect was Edwin J. Lewis , Jr. By the early 1930’s, this house was owned by Thomas L. Ormsby of the T.L. Ormsby& Son Co., roofers, based in South Boston.
Owners from maps
1894 no house on lot – lot owned by Herbert S. Carruth
1898 Susan H. A. Goodale
1904 Susan H. A. Goodale
1910 Clara H. Mills
1918 Clara H. Mills
1933 Mary E. Ormsby
Goodale lived at number 10, so the house at 22 Carruth appears to have been built as a rental property
deed Jan. 15, 1895 from Herbert S. Carruth Tr to Susan H. A. Goodale Book 2249 p 613 Elm Road lot 7 p. 1867.588 – this is 16 Carruth Street. Goodale sold this property in summer 1895.
deed Jan. 15, 1895 from Herbert S. Carruth Tr to Susan H. A. Goodale Book 2250 p 324 lots 5 & 6
apparently lot 6 became the side yard to 16 Carruth, where the house at 20 Carruth now stands, and lot 5 became 22 Carruth Street
see plan of land on Carruth Street in folder Dorchester building and properties
deed
May 6, 1905 from Thomas T. Goodale to Clara H. Mills 3041.273 Carruth Street Lot 5
Boston Blue Books
1896 22 Carruth Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Mills
Boston Directories
1895 Frederick H. Mills (Mills and Blanchard), investment securities, 35 Equitable bldg., h. 19 Rowena
1896 Frederick H. Mills (Mills & Blanchard), investment securities, 47 Devonsire bldg., h. 22 Carruth