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