66 Alban Street

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No. 6101 66 Alban Street, photograph April 18, 2005.

Date of construction: 1886-1887

Based on deed to Orr April 1886; Boston Directory for 1887 has an entry for Orr on Alban Street

The following is from: Ashmont by Douglass Shand-Tucci, p. 94

… the Orr House, 66 Alban (note the absolute gem of a gable high up on the south side, with its elongated small-paned window set in ornamental shingling), is by an unknown architect ca. 1885 for Charles Orr, Deputy collector of taxes of the city of Boston.

Owners from atlases:

1889 Chas. H. Orr—house first appears in 1889 atlas

1894 Mary A. Crosby et al

1898 Mary A. Crosby et al

1904 Mary A. Crosby et al

1910 Maud F. Crosby et al

1918 Mary E. Foye

1933 Mary E. Foye

Deed

April 13, 1886 from George Derby Welles to Charles H. Orr  1718.545  lot 707 and pt 206

Parcel of land

April 26, 1890 from Charles H. Orr to Mary A. Crosby, Maud F. Crosby and Lena J. Crosby 1931.637

Boston Directory

1886 Charles H. Orr, dep. collector, collector’s office, City Hall, h. 11 Woodward

1887 Charles H. Orr, dep. collector, collector’s office, City Hall,h. Alban

1891 Lena J. Crosby, teacher, Mather primary, bds 66 Alban

1891 Mary A. Crosby, teacher, Tuckerman school, bds. 66 Alban

1891 Maud F. Crosby, teacher Mather primary, bds. 6 Alban

1907 Jeremiah E. Burke, asst. supt public schools office Mason st, h 66 Alban, Dor

Dorchester Blue Books

1894 Joseph E. Crosby; The Misses Crosby

1896 Joseph E. Crosby; The Misses Crosby

1900 Joseph E. Crosby; The Misses Crosby

1902 Joseph E. Crosby; The Misses Crosby

1904 Joseph E. Crosby

1906 Mr. & Mrs. Jeremiah E. Burke

1908 Mr. & Mrs. Jeremiah Burke

1910 Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Baker

1913 no entry

1915 no entry

Census 1900

Joseph E. Crosby, 65, druggist

Mary A. Crosby, 40, school teacher

Maud F. Crosby, 35, school teacher

Lena J. Crosby, 35, school teacher

Bridget Harley, 49, servant, cook

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