20500 25 Arcadia Street, image from Google Street View, August, 2020.
Date of construction: 1869
Based on deed from Robinson to Blaney in August, 1869.
Two story house, where the second floor has a Mansard roof
Owners from maps and atlases
1874 Chas Blaney
1884 C. Blaney
1889 Chas. Blaney
1894 Chas Blaney
1898 Charles Blaney
1904 Chas Blaney
1910 Chas. Blaney
1918 Hanah Donahue
1933 Hanah Donhue 7,150 sf
Deed
June 29, 1917 from Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co, tr to Hannah Donahue 4041.457
settlement of the estate of Charles Blaney Middlesex Probate 36360
August 9, 1869 from John H. Robinson to Charles Blaney Norfolk 383.4
consideration $7,000 land with the buildings thereon
subject to a mortgage to Mercantile Savings Institution $4,000 May 17, 1869
“with the restriction that no building other than a dwelling house and private stable and the appurtenances thereto shall be erected upon the granted premises for the period of twenty years from this date”
The Dorchester taxable valuation for 1869 reported that Robinson had two houses in progress, one definitely on Auburn Street (Arcadia)