No. 5213 Lewis House
Edward A. Huebener, a former Board member of the Dorchester Historical Society, was a collector of materials relating to Dorchester history including a very large collection of graphic materials, including prints and photographs, now owned by the Society. His very own contribution to this group of materials was the idea of taking a brick from a house that had been demolished and asking a local illustrator to paint a picture of the house upon the brick. The painted bricks may be viewed at the Dorchester Historical Society.
The Lewis House was located on Bowdoin Street, probably on the section of Bowdoin Street near Meeting House Hill. A search of maps found only one Lewis House on Bowdoin Street: 1850 Eaton map of which a detail is shown at the right.
No. 9922 Detail from 1850 Map of Dorchester
No. 3221 Nothing more is known of the Lewis House except that there is a watercolor painting in the collection of the Dorchester Historical Society that must have served as the model for the brick painting.