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.

[Courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth (CC BY-NC-ND). From the Brookline Photograph Collection published by the Public Library of Brookline]