4 Union Park archive, 1917-2005.

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Bowden, Joyce M. 4 Union Park archive, 1917-2005.

4 Union Park archive, 1917-2005.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166327770

Research files, plus one original document, which provide a richly-detailed history of a South End row house. The archive contains information on the laying-out of the neighborhood, and on the developers and subsequent owners of the property, with exhaustive documentation of the property as contained in city, county, state, and federal records, along with personal accounts. Box I: Control file; Wadsworth (1845) and Chesborough (1851) plans; Boston Board of Aldermen records, 1845-1857; William Hovey and Calvin Ryder (developer-builders) file; Joseph H. Gray (1st owner, 1856-1877) file; John Q.A. Brackett (2nd owner, 1878-1887) file. Box II: Susan E. Josephs file; Henry C. and Kate M. Morse file; U.S. Census (1900, 1910, 1920); Suffolk Co. deeds, 1912-1952; Moghabghab-Hajjar family file (owners, 1920-1997, including Frederick Hajjar, Jerome Hajjar, and Denise Hajjar oral histories); lodging house guest register, 1917-1980; Lutynski-Bowden (2000-2006) file, with Butz + Klug (architects) renovation plans (1 CDs) and photographs (2 CDs), 2002 South End House Tour information sheet, 2005 Boston Globe Magazine article. Box III (oversize, flat): City plans, 1851-1863; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1850-1858; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1860-1863; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1876-1878; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1887-1889; Suffolk Co. deeds, 1890-1896; Morse-Hajjar mortgage documents. Background information on the owners of 4 Union Park is extensive, and with the remainder of the archive helps to depict the development, decline, and renaissance of the South End as well as the changing demographics of a dynamic urban neighborhood.

3 boxes ; 27 cm.

Boston Athenaeum