35 Beaumont Street

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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

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