No. 5194 Leadbetter House, painting on brick.
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.
Also known at the Tolman House, the Leadbetter House stood on Washington Street. One of the Tolman daughters married a Leadbetter.
The house was built in the seventeenth century and taken down in the 1870s.
No. 5269 Detail of map in Seventeenth Century Survey of Dorchester by Zurawski, et. al. Location no. 39 is the location of the Leadbetter/Tolman House.
The 1859 History of Dorchester says that Thomas Tolman came in the second migration in 1635. Thomas Tolman who loved from 1633 to 1718 passed the house to his youngest son Aquila who passed it to Increase. Zurawski says that it was located approximately where the YMCA I snow. That location was the site of the car barn for the trolleys between the time the house stood there and the time the Y was built.
No. 2530 Illustration shown was possibly used as a model for the brick painting.
No. 3236 This lithograph shows the same scene as the illustration above.