No. 11992 301 Ashmont Street, photograph from Andrew Saxe, circa 2011.
Date of construction:1891 per Shand-Tucci; probably completed in 1892 – see deed from Kittredge to Snow
Architect: attributed to Longfellow, Alden and Harlow
The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci
The Lovell Snow House, built by Kittredge in 1891 (perhaps from designs by Longfellow, Alden and Harlow) and so bold and distinctive in character it triumphs even over white artifical siding and black trim!
The following is from the inventory form for Carruth Street – Peabody Square, Boston Landmarks Commission.
287 Ashmont Street, marks the entrance to Rundel Park, a cul-de-sac with an off-center, irregularly shaped park currently bordered by much-altered late -19th -century houses and 1950’s suburban houses. 287 Ashmont Street was built for Lovell Snow by prominent lawyer / developer Charles Kittredge. This house has been attributed by Douglass Shand Tucci to Longfellow, Alden and Harlow. It was part of Kittredge’s 1884 “Ashmont Heights” subdivision in which Rundel Park was called Arundel Park. Built in 1889 from designs provided by Edmund J. Lewis,Jr., 3 Rundel Park was the home of President John F. Kennedy’s grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald from 1937 until the mid-1960’s. She was the wife of Boston mayor John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald who lived here until his death in 1946. This was the second home in the Ashmont section of Dorchester for Mayor Fitzgerald, his first Ashmont abode was a great Italianate/Mansard mansion at 39 Welles Avenue (demolished). President Kennedy visited his grandmother at 3 Rundel Park in 1962. During the late 19th century the south side of Ashmont Street, between Rundel Park and Bruce Street was part of the 203,200 square foot Charles H. Dodge parcel.
owners from atlases:
1884 land belongs to Cheever Newhall
1889 house on its lot belongs to Chas F. Kittredge
1894 Mary L Snow
1898 Mary L Snow
1904 Mary L Snow
1910 Mary L Snow
1918 Mary L Snow
1933 Gerald N Rush
301 Ashmont
deed Aug 2, 1892 from Charles F. Kittredge to Mary L. Snow Book 2076 140 parcel with the new dwelling house thereon Ashmont St & Arundel Park Lot 6 lot next to Ashmont 10,000 sf
Boston Directory
1892 Snow lived at 32 Greenville
1893 Lovel S. Snow (Cushing, Olmsted Snow), 74 Summer, h. 287 Ashmont [now 301]
1900 Lovell S. Snow vice pres, 345 Chauncy, h. 287 Ashmont
Census 1900
Lovell Snow, 50, wholesale clothier
Mary L. Snow, 44
George L. Snow, 24, retail clothier
Charlotte Snow, 22
Katie O’Connor 22, servant
Delia Kutson, 23, servant
John D. W. Snow, 29, salesman in clothing store
Catherine Metcalf, 66, mother-in-law
Census 1920
Lovell S. Snow, 70, salesman for wholesale dry goods
Mary L. Snow, 63