At today's 114 Clyde St. Built in 1723 by John Woodward, occupied for many years by George Goldsmith

At today's 114 Clyde St. Built in 1723 by John Woodward, occupied for many years by George Goldsmith
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Looking at rear of the house toward Newton St., Lagrange St. is to the left. This house stood roughly where today’s 648 Newton St. is located, a little east of LaGrange St. An approximate timeline is:

• House built in the late 1600s by Vincent Druce, later assumed by his son. Then passed to the family of Ebenezer Craft and known as “Craft’s place”
• 1859: Francis Parkman Denny, Sr. moves into the house
• 1860: Denny marries Emily Parker Groom
• 1871: Denny moves into a new house up the hill. Charles R. Dow, Denny’s farmer, takes over the Newton St. house
• 1872: Denny dies. Wife and family remain in the house on the hill
• Circa 1890: Charles R. Dow changes primary house to Newton St. at Grove St.
• Circa 1898: the land owned by Denny is purchased by investors and changed to a subdivision of house lots. Wolcott Rd. created and farm house torn down

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Located at today’s 830 Newton St., this house stood next to the Saw Mill Brook where Drew ran a saw mill. The house and mill were built in 1693 and Drew later added a tavern to serve his homemade fermented-huckleberry wine to the mill customers. The mill ceased operation around 1830 and the house burned down in 1873. The recent construction of a new house on the lot revealed old foundations and artifacts and an archeological survey was performed by a team from Boston University, headed by Mary Beaudry. Photograph by A. H. Folsom
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Newton St. at the park entrance. Maintained by the Historical Society.

This is the original house built by William Fletcher Weld, grandfather of Isabel Anderson. It was later bequethed to Isabel's cousin, William Weld, and eventually sold in 1899 to the newly-wedded Anderson's by the latter's widow.

Now the Larz Anderson Transportation Museum

From postcard

From postcard