No. 13277 597 Adams Street, photograph August 21, 2012.
Date of construction: by 1836
Note that the back ell has been greatly expanded as part of a condominium conversion.
MACRIS BOS.5627
Description from Boston Landmarks Commission
Temple form, 3 bay, ionic entrance porch, 2nd floor 6/6 smaller than 1st floor 6/6, italianate cornice, windows in gables and on bay over porch, italianate porch s. side, smaller scale ell to rear
P. Barnes House; Edwin James Lewis Jr. House
circa 1850
Greek Revival/Italianate
Source: Dorchester Volume II. Images of America series. By Anthony Mitchell Sammarco. Arcadia Publishing, 2000, p. 24.
The Lewis House is a substantial Italianate house at 597 Adams Street, between Wrentham and Templeton Streets. Edwin J. Lewis Jr. (1859-1937) was a noted shingle-style architect who designed more than 40 Unitarian churches in the United States and Canada, among them Christ Church, Dorchester. Also a prolific residential architect, Lewis designed numerous houses in town between 1887 and his death. [Lewis lived here but did not design this house]
Owners from maps and atlases
1850 no name
1858 no name
1874 Edwin J. Lewis
1884 Sarah Lewis
1889 Sarah R. Lewis
1894 Sarah R. Lewis
1898 Sarah R. Lewis
1904 Sarah R. Lewis
1910 Sarah R. Lewis
1918 Sarah R. Lewis
1933 Ellen E. Bushman 35,120 sf
Deed
Sept. 27, 1870 from Gardner P. Kingsley to Sarah R. Lewis, wife of Edwin J Lewis 1016.259
consideration $10,300 plus taking over $7,000 of mortgage debt
November 1, 1869 from Benjamin B. Newhall and Emily J. Newhall to Aaron Kinsbury and Gardner P. Kingsley 387.155
consideraton $11,000 same premises coneyed to Enoch P. Tuller by Joseph T. Swan Sept. 4, 1868 lot 1
August 27, 1869 from Enoch Fuller to Emily J. Newhall 384.48
consideration $5,000
September 4, 1868 from Joseph T. Swan to Enoch Fuller 371.57
consideration $9,000
April 20, 1865 from Parker Barnes to Joseph T. Swan 331.291
consideration $7,400
February 12, 1844 from Andrew L. Chamberlain to Parker Barnes 144.230-233
consideration $4,500 together with dwelling house, barn and other out buildings
March 19, 1836 from Edward Pierce to Andrew L. Chamberlain 110.187
consideration $3,300 with dwelling house , barn and other out buldings
March 3, 1818 from John F. Pierce to Edward Pierce 58.64 possibly the same property
Jan. 11, 1797 from John Mears to Edward Pierce 6.129 or possibly the same property