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Click here for an index to the deeds for 34 Commonwealth, and click here for
further information about the land between the south side of Commonwealth and
Alley 437, from Arlington to Berkeley.
34 Commonwealth was built as the home of insurance broker, importer, and dry
goods merchant Henry Edwards and his wife, Martha Ann (Dorr) Edwards. The land
for the house was purchased from Samuel Hooper on July 2, 1860, by Martha
Edwards's brothers, Francis Fiske Dorr and Charles Hazen Dorr, as trustees of a
trust established for her benefit. Charles Hazen Dorr and his wife, Mary Gray (Ward)
Dorr, lived in Jamaica Plan, and in about 1864 moved to a new house built at 18
Commonwealth).
The July 7, 1860, contract for building 34 Commonwealth was filed with the Suffolk
County Deeds Registry and includes details about the materials and construction of
the house. Click here for an abstract and partial transcription of the contract.
Martha Edwards died in May of 1882. On
June 15, 1882, Charles Hazen Dorr, as the
surviving trustee, transferred 34
Commonwealth to Rev. Edmund Farwell
Slafter, who was executor under her will.
Henry Edwards continued to live at 34
Commonwealth, joined by his sister-in-law,
Susan Elizabeth Dorr
He died in September of 1885. Susan Dorr
continued to live there until her death in
December of 1889.
34 Commonwealth (ca. 1942),
By the 1890-1891 winter season, 34
photograph by Bainbridge Bunting,
Commonwealth was the home of
courtesy of The Gleason Partnership
unmarried sisters Anne Perkins Cary
https://backbayhouses.org/34-commonwealth/
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Oliver, Andrew. Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844.
Charlottesville: U. of Virginia Press, 1977.
Of 3,800 portraits, the list includes profile portraits for:
Samuel Ward
Albert H. Dorr (2 ports.) Boston, Jan. 18, 1842
Miss Susan E. Dorr (Boston, Jan. 19,1842)
Of the several hundred reproduced in this volume, with accompanying text:
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STATEMENT OF THE TREASURER.
The Treasurer submits the annual statement of the
financial affairs of the Institute for the year ending Sept.
30, 1890.
During the year the executors of the estate of the late
George Bucknam Dorr have handed over to the Institute
the following securities at the valuation set against each :-
International & Great Northern R. R. Bond
$1,110 00
Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. 71ss, $3,000
3,510 00
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. 7s, $7,000
8,715 00
Cincinnati & Indiana R. R. 7s, $2,000
2,080 00
Union Pacific R. R. Ist Mortgage 6s
1,140 00
Chicago, Burlington & Northern R. R. 5s, $2,000
2,060 00
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé R. R. 4s, $2,000
1,687 50
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, Incomes, $500
301 88
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Stock, 14 shares
1,477 00
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. R. Stock, 20
shares
3,000 00
Morris & Essex R. R. Stock, 82 shares
6,150 00
New York & Harlem R. R. Stock, 40 shares
5,000 00
Pennsylvania Coal Co. Stock, 75 shares
11,250 00
Consolidated Gas Co. of N. Y. Stock, 15 shares
1,447 50
Cash
644 59
$49,573 47
By the decease, Dec. 5, 1889, of Miss Susan C. Dorr.
Note: Unclear
the title of the Institute to two-thirds of the estate at
Lenox, Mass., known as "Highlawn," became absolute,
whether G.B.Dorr
subject, however, to the provision named in the deed of
inherited the
gift of Mrs. Martha Ann Edwards, dated Nov. 21, 1876.
remaining third.
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