6 Abbott Street

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No. 20491 6 Abbott Street, image from Google Street View, August, 2020.

Date of construction: 1872

Based on deed from Cheever Newhall to Jewett in January, 1873.

Three story house, where the third floor has a Mansard roof

MACRIS BOS.6625

Sumner Smith Bowen House

circa 1874

Second Empire

The following is from the area form for Franklin Field North, Boston Landmarks Commission

includes #6 Abbott Road with its early 1900s 2-story Colonial Revival front porch. The main entrance is set within a paneled polygonal bay. Its 3-bay x 4-bay main block retains its clapboards (in badly weathered condition) and is surmounted by a straightsided hip roof.

Owners from maps and atlases

1874  N. M. Jewett

1884  F. Smith

1889  F. Smith

1894  Mary B. Sumner

1898  Mary B. Sumner

1904  Mary B. Sumner

1910  Herbert G. Sumner  

1918  Herbert G. Sumner  

1933  Herbert G. Sumner   10,000 sf

Deed

lot 39 on plan of January, 1872 Book 1098.219

Jan. 27, 1873 from Cheever Newhall to Nathaniel M. Jewett 1143.147  lot 39 

consideration $11,000   parcel of land with the buildings thereon

plan by Shedd and Sawyer, Jan. 1872   subject to mortgages of $8,000

Nov. 20, 1872 from Stephen F. Marks and Melburne A. Marks to Cheever Newhall 1136.73    subject to the restrictions in deed from Charles Newhall Feb. 1872

consideration $16,500     2 parcels on Abbot Street   lots 39 & 37

subject to mortgages of $16,245.75  no mention of buildings

1098.217

Feb. 1, 1872 from Charles Newhall to Stephen F. Marks and Melburne A. Marks 1094.13

consideration $25,000    ten parcels 18, 39, 37, 35, 33, 31, 49, 5, 54, 70

“subject to the condition that no dwelling house or other building shall, within ten years next following the date of this deed, be erected or placed on any part of the above granted premises within 25 feet of the line separating the same from said streets and avenue”

it appears that Newhall was the person who put in the restriction

mortgage from Charles Newhall to William E. Abbot  1084.109

consideration $45,618.14

Dec. 19, 1871 from William E. Abbot and Ann S. Abbot to Charles Newhall of Lynn 1084.109

consideration $60,000   land with buildings thereon      about 19 acres

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August 11, 2020