No. 9015 35 Beaumont Street, photograph January 12, 2007.
Date of construction: 1887 – source is Shand-Tucci; Boston Directory showed King living on Beaumont Street in 1888
Architect: John A. Fox – source is Shand-Tucci
The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci:
On the opposite corner, 35 Beaumont, the King-Hibbard House, built to Fox’s design four years later, in 1887, is entirely different. Its catty-corner two-story front porch (and chimney!), which project diagonally so as to give breadth and focus to the house’s corner site, and the dramatic roof that crowns this large residence are evidence of a powerful design. But that design has been so altered–for example, the front porch originally extended around to both sides of the house (where the never-meant-to-be-seen rubble foundation is now visible)–that it is hard to judge his work here. Built for Samuel J. King, a partner in E. and F. King and Company of India Wharf, importers of chemicals, this house is more notable for its subsequent owner in the 1900s, George Hibbard, whom, because everyone today at Ashmont is a Democrat and recalls “Honey Fitz” and few Hibbard, I like to call Ashmont’s “other mayor”–the Republican one! He was, in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s words, “a conservative Yankee [who] pledged that if elected he would ‘clean up the mess'” for which Mary or Fitzgerald was widely blamed. . The Republicans … rallied around Hibbard in 1908, who surprised everyone by winning. The election of 1910 would see Fitzgerald the victor, and in 1914 with James Michael Curley’s election the Repblican cause must have seemed lost forever.
owners from atlases
1884 no house
1889 Samuel G. King
1894 Samuel G. King
1898 Samuel G. King
1904 Mary W. Hamlin
1910 Angus C. Davies
1918 Angus C. Davies
1933 R. H. & C. I. MacDonald
Suffolk County Registry of Deeds
Apr. 29, 1886 Herbert S. Carruth to Samuel G. King 1721 120
no mention of a building
Oct 6, 1887 George T. Andrew et ux 1792 370 Fairfax street plan – a piece 2648 sq ft on the south side of 35 Beaumont Street
refers to Trust for Fairfax Stables recorded May 15, 1888 – 1821 430 and 433 – but that is a deed from Frederick L. Pierce to the trust for the stables plan
12604 sf facing Minot Street
May 18, 1888 from Pierce to stables 1822 40
Sept. 6, 1888 from Pierce to stables 1838 177
Jan. 8, 1892 Herbert S. Carruth 2037 302 to trustees of the Fairfax Stables, George T. Andrew, Samuel G. King and John B. Stowell (or John R. Stowell). Fairfax Street & pc. adj. plan – more parcels
creating a passway from the stables to Fairfax st
March 9, 1899 from Samuel G. King to Mary W. Hamlin, wife of Calvin C. Hamlin 2591 278 pl 1792.370
parcel of land with the buildings thereon
May 25, 1905 from Mary W. Hamlin to Angus C. Davies 3044 623
Mayor George A. Hibbard appears to have rented this house from 1906 to 1910 – see Dorchester Blue Books
Boston Directory
1886, 1887 Samuel G. King (E. & F. King & Co.) 26 India, h. Train
1888 Samuel G. King (E. & F. King & Co.), 26 India, h. Beaumont
1899 Calvin C. Hamlin, flour and grain, 20 Central, h. 9 Beaumont [sic]
1900 Calvin C Hamlin, flour and grain, 20 Central, h. 9 Beaumont [sic]
1900 Census
Angus C. Davies was living at 13 Fairfax Street – note 35 Beaumont is on the corner of Beaumont and Fairfax
Angus C. Davies, 49, clothing manufacturer
Anna Davies, 46
Bessie M. Davies, 20
Anna L. Davies, 18
Alice H. Davies, 10
Ruth C. Davies, 3
Agnes Reddington, 25, servant
Ellen White, 19, servant
Mary Mccully, 21, servant
1910 Census
Angus C. Davies, 13 Fairfax Street [sic], clothing merchant
1920 Census
Angus C. Davies still at 13 Fairfax, manager of dry goods store, widowed