No. 20325 55 Bakersfield Street, image from Google Street View, May, 2020.
The house at 55 Bakersfield is hidden away at the end of Sumner Terrace, although its official address is on Bakesfield. It seems to have access from Sumner Place.
MACRIS BOS.6279 has address 3 Stoughton Terrace
C. Bird double house
Greek Revival
circa 1845
The house at 55 Bakersfield Street has been said to be possibly the estate house from the Baker estate. This does not seem to be the case. In 1889 the map shows the estate house is still on its original site within the bounds of the Baker estate. The house now at 55 Bakersfield is in place in the 1874, 1884, 1889 atlas but at the end of the dead end street and oriented with the projecting side toward the street end and the front side toward the north. It may appear in the 1850 map as well. In 1894 Baker Farm Associates owned the house at 55 Bakersfield, but both it and the estate house on the Baker parcel are shown on the map at the same time, so they are different houses. 55 Bakersfield was not previously owned by Ezra Baker. By 1898 the house at 55 Bakersfield was turned so the projecting side now faces west and the front of the house faces east. The Baker estate house is shown in the 1910 atlas but is gone by the time of the 1918 atlas. The house at 55 Bakersfield still exists today.
Owners from maps and atlases
1850 possible T. Howe or a building with no name
1874 west side C. C. Child; east side M. C. Brigham
1884 west side C. C. Child; east side M.C. Brigham
1889 west side of house Jas. W. Calnan; east side Mary C. Brigham
1894 Baker Farm Assoc. – projecting portion of house (gable end? and front?) faces south – directly in front of the end of Austin Ave.
1898 Baker Farm Assoc. – house turned so the projecting portion of the house faces west instead of south
1904 E. H. Baker et al Trs. Baker Farm Assoc
1910 E. H. Baker et al Trs. Baker Farm Assoc
1918 Jereh Delaney
1933 Helen H. Little (Stoughton Terrace was then Austin Ave)
Deed
West half
Sept 20, 1894 from Charles T. Jesser to Baker Farm Associates 2225.205
August 1, 1894 from James W. Calnan to Charles T. Jesser 2221.257
May 31, 1887 from Charles S. Lincoln, executor of will of Cyril C. Child, to James W. Calnan 1774.246
Jan. 25, 1879 from Cyril C. Child to Jacob Foster 1446.110
Jan. 23, 1874 from Edmund J. Baker to Cyril C. Child 1143.33 lot 5.7.9
55 Bakersfield west half is lot 9 7047 sf
June 3, 1871 from David H. McKay to Edmund J. Baker 1052.297 and 298 3 deeds
East half
June 5, 1894 from Mary C. Brigham to Baker Farm Associates 2203.12
7234 sf lot 10 being the same lot conveyed to Edmund J. Baker by D. H. McKay June 3, 1871
June 3, 1871 from David H. McKay to Edmund J. Baker 1052.297
both sides
May 1, 1871 from Helen M. Sampson to David H. McKay of Boston, builder 1048.234
$16,700 46,297 sf
May 1, 1871 from John A. Pray to Helen M. Sampson, widow, 1048.233
October 23, 1869 from Zabdiel S. Sampson and Helen M. Samspon to John A. Pray 385.315
August 26, 1877 from Jason W. Bird and Elizabeth S. Pray, wife of William H. Pray, to Helen M. Sampson 357.319 land with the buildings thereon
Nov. 15, 1867 from Jason W. Bird to Helen M. Sampson 361.50
two undivided third parts
June 30, 1851 from Frederick W. Urann, merchant, to Cornelius Bird 202.308 (inherited by Jason W. Bird and Elizabeth S. Pray. 46,200 sf with the buildings thereon
Feb. 9, 1847 from Ann Sarah Blackman to Frederick W. Urann 171.97 and confirmatory deed with dwelling house, barn, school, house etc. which was conveyed to my late father, Tomothy H. Blackman by John Hovey June 19, 1826 83.285
The Baker? house between Trescott St & Stoughton St – last appearance on map is 1910
1898 and later Baker Farm Assoc
1894 Baker Farm Assoc
1889 Ezra H. Baker Heirs
1884 Ezra H. Baker