Date of construction: built 1893-1894
Architect: A. Warren Gould
Cephas Fleming was a stockbroker.
In the Second Settlement appendix, Tucci cites a building permit from 1893 – A. Warren Gould architect, G. Fleming builder, G. Fleming owner, estimated cost to build $5,000. Fleming is shown at this address for the first time in the Boston Directory for 1894.
The following is from Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci
39 Carruth Street, the Fleming House, now ugly beyond words with artificial siding, is notable as having been designed in 1893 by A. Warren Gould, a Boston designer especially active in Dorchester, who in the 1890s went west and became a major architect in the Pacific Northwest and is said to have been thefirst architect to have extensively used reinforced concrete.
The following is from the inventory form for Carruth Street – Peabody Square, Boston Landmarks Commission.
The much-altered Fleming House at 39 Carruth Street was designed by A. Warren Gould in 1893. A Boston architect, Gould was responsible for the design of the Dorchester Woman’s Club at 40 Centre Street (1892) in the Codman Square area. Later on in the 1890’s, he settled in the Pacific Northwest and is said to have been the first architect in the United States to extensively use reinforced concrete.
Owners from atlases:
1889 vacant lot owned by H.S. Carruth
1894 Anna G. E. Fleming
1898 Anna G. E. Fleming
1904 Anna G. E. Fleming
1910 Agnes M. D’Arcy
1918 Agnes M. D’Arcy
1933 Annie J. Sheridan
deed Feb. 25, 1893 from Herbert S. Carruth to Anna G. E. Fleming, wife of Cephus W. Fleming Book 2114 p 10 lot 14 pl 1832.179 parcel of land
for plan see folder Dorchester buildings and properties, document has title plan of lots Carruth Van Winkle, Beale
Boston Directory
1893 Cephas W. Fleming (Fleming & Co.), 175 Washington, bds. Beale, cor. Bushnell
1894 Cephas W. Fleming (Fleming & Co.), 175 Washington, h. 39 Carruth
marriage Cephas W. Fleming to Georgenia A. E. Methol March 6, 1890 he was living in Cambridge at the time and his occupation was broker
Census 1900
39 Carruth Street
Cephas Fleming, 34, stock broker
Anna G. E. Fleming, 34
Louis D. Fleming, 7
Adeline Melhot, 79, Anna’s mother
Elize Melhot, 43, invalid
Patty Morsun, 31, servant
Census 1910
George W. Darcy, 42, manufacturer of overalls
Agnes M. Darcy, 39
Mildred M. Darcy, 15
George A. Darcy, 11
Bridget M. Lally, 70, mother-in-law
Flora Mceachern, 25, servant