Built 1806; moved to Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury) grounds in 1999

Located just south of Boylston St., no longer standing.
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This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.
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This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

This house, which still stands, was built in the early 1840s by Stephen Higginson Perkins, one of several Perkins family members who had had houses in the area of Warren St. Charles Head purchased the house in 1846 and added the large tower to the structure purportedly to be able to view the annual July 4th fireworks display on the Boston Common. He lived there until his death in 1889 and his widow remained until her death in 1901. Cora Codman Ely purchased the house and moved in in 1925. It was located right next door to the long-time home of her parents and siblings at 164 Warren St. She remarried in 1929 and she and her husband continued to live in the house.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

This is the original house of the family of James M. Codman and Henrietta Sargent Codman, it is no longer standing. The Codmans married in 1858 and built this house on the sprawling estate of Ignatius Sargent, Henrietta’s father. It had a confusing sequence of addresses. It was for many years addressed as 362 Walnut St. and accessed from a long dirt path that later became Codman Rd. An access path from Warren St. was added circa 1894 which coincided with two sons reaching adulthood and being listed in the town directory. Their address for what is believed to be the same house was 164 Warren St. and both parties were listed separately in the town directory for a number of years.

The final living occupant of the house was the Codman’s son, James M. Codman Jr., a lawyer who never married and lived alone in the house. When he died in 1925, his sister, Cora Codman Ely who was living right next door at 130 Warren St., inherited the house. She had it torn down and a new one constructed in 1928 which was subsequently readdressed as 235 Sargent Rd. and still stands.
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This is the original house of the family of James M. Codman and Henrietta Sargent Codman, it is no longer standing. The Codmans married in 1858 and built this house on the sprawling estate of Ignatius Sargent, Henrietta’s father. It had a confusing sequence of addresses. It was for many years addressed as 362 Walnut St. and accessed from a long dirt path that later became Codman Rd. An access path from Warren St. was added circa 1894 which coincided with two sons reaching adulthood and being listed in the town directory. Their address for what is believed to be the same house was 164 Warren St. and both parties were listed separately in the town directory for a number of years.

The final living occupant of the house was the Codman’s son, James M. Codman Jr., a lawyer who never married and lived alone in the house. When he died in 1925, his sister, Cora Codman Ely who was living right next door at 130 Warren St., inherited the house. She had it torn down and a new one constructed in 1928 which was subsequently readdressed as 235 Sargent Rd. and still stands.

From Random Recollections, Volume One by Cora Codman Wolcott

Looking from Cottage St., still standing
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Still standing.
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Arthur Williams House, still standing.
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The best guess is that this was previously the house of A. C. Wheelwright located near today’s Hillside Rd. off Warren St. Charles Eliot was a rising star and partner in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, then known as Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. He died at the age of 37.
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No longer standing.
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The house is still standing, part of a large estate. Shown from left to right (speculative):

• Eliza Perkins Cabot (1791 – 1885), widow of Samuel Cabot and owner of the house
• George Edward Cabot (1861-1946), son of Samuel Cabot Jr. and grandson of Eliza Perkins Cabot
• ”Nanny”, the family nurse.
• William Robinson Cabot (1853-1907), son of Samuel Cabot Jr. and grandson of Eliza Perkins Cabot. He was living at the house at the time.

[Source: Historic New England]

Still standing.
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Still standing, built 1732 by Nehemiah Davis
[Source: Brookline Preservation Department]

Inscription on back of photo: "R + A.D.W taken to see her here. Taken before her death. Given to E.W.W. by E.G.M.”

Julia Goddard House, still standing,
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married, 1840, John Heath Goddard (jr.); parents: Rev. Bennet Tyler and Esther Stow Stone; son, John: 1841 - 1878;

Inscription on back: “Aunt Katie Tyler and Uncle Doctor. John Tyler Goddard and his mother Katherine Tyler Goddard, widow of John Goddard who lived 1813 – 1841.” Her husband died shortly after their marriage. Her father, Rev. Bennet Tyler, was president of Dartmouth University.

The house is still standing today. The initial version of the house was built in 1806 by Nathaniel Ingersoll, one of several wealthy international-trade merchants who had houses in the immediate area. John Lowell Gardner purchased the house in 1842 and a number of additions were made over the years.

In April 1860, Gardner’s son, John Lowell Gardner II, married the now well-known Isabella Stewart Gardner and they immediately moved into the house. This is one of three photos of family members that appear to have been taken at about the same time. For this photo the hosting nga.gov web site speculates that, from left to right, appear (ages and their relationship to John Lowell Gardner, Sr. are noted):

• John Lowell Gardner, Jr., son (26)
• Catherine Peabody Gardner, wife (56)
• Joseph Peabody Gardner, (36)
• Harriet Amory Gardner, wife of son, Joseph
• Isabella Stewart Gardner, wife of son, John (24)
• John Lowell Gardner, Sr. (60)

[Source: National Gallery of Art]