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130 Warren St., 1892
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