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