397 Bowdoin Street 407 Bowdoin Street

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No. 13376 397 Bowdoin Street to 47 Bowdoin Street, photograph September 1, 2012.

Date of construction: by 1849

MACRIS BOS.5706

Shepard and Chadbourne Building

Shepard’s Bake House

Meetinghouse Hill

circa 1845

Greek Revival

1978 BLC survey

Estimated 1840

Possibly on 1831 map; on 1850 map

1874 map Shepard & Chadbourne

5 Bay wide Green Revival commercial building, west wall is angled to allow for Winter Street; window frames and cornice appear early. First floor built into hill which rises to rear.

Owners from maps and atlases

1831  possibly on map

1850  no name

1858  O. Shepard’s Bake House

1874  Shepard & H. Chadbourne   (the property was mortgaged to Humphry Chadbourne)

1884  L. Shepard

1889  A. H. & Mary F. Shepard

1894  A. H. & Mary F. Shepard

1898  A. H. & Mary F. Shepard

1904  A. H. & Mary F. Shepard

1910  A. H. & Kathe Shepard

1918  A. H. & Kathe Shepard

1933  Nora Bowen

Deed

no Aug. 14, 1820 from Ebenezer Eaton to Otis Shepard 60.157

no Aug. 14, 1820 from John F. Pierce Dep Shff. to Otis Shepard 62.268

Feb. 5, 1828 from Samuel Payson to Otis Shepard 85.33

lot 9 1/4 acre

no Nov. 30, 1829 from William Swan to Otis Shepard 89.189

no Oct. 21, 1833 from Ebenezer to Otis Shepard  102.47

no Oct. 28, 1839 from Ebenezer to Otis Shepard 125.135

Dorchester. Taxable valuations 1849

Otis Shepard & Co.

bake house $800; stable and land $300

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August 6, 2020