Index to Deeds: 387 Commonwealth

The following is an index to property transfer deeds and passageway agreements recorded at the Suffolk County Deed Registry from the original land purchase through December 31, 2020.  Mortgages, trust agreements, and other similar recorded documents are not included.  This index is intended as a guide only; actual deeds should be reviewed for details.

Transfers of Land and Buildings
Date of Deed Grantor Grantee Book Page
02May1946 George L. Sleeper, Benjamin H. Leighton, and Roy Garrett Watson, trustees, Shawmut Realty Trust (transfer of all trust property) George L. Sleeper, Benjamin H. Leighton, and Roy Garrett Watson, trustees, Church Realty Trust 6223 545
21Dec1944 First Church of Christ, Scientist George L. Sleeper, Benjamin H. Leighton, and William E. McKee, trustees, Shawmut Realty Trust, to be held, managed, and disposed of for the benefit of the grantor 6132 590
25Mar1913 Adam H. Dickey, Archibald McLellan, and Josiah E. Fernald, trustees First Church of Christ, Scientist 3718 166
06Mar1907 Mary Baker G. Eddy Henry M. Baker, Archibald McLellan, and Josiah E. Fernald, trustees on behalf of Mary Baker G. Eddy 3201 82
28Apr1905 Elizabeth S. Carter Mary Baker G. Eddy 3045 111
28Apr1905 Annie Grant Allen, widow of George Allen Elizabeth S. Carter 3038 382
29Sep1892 Ceilan M. Spitzer and Lillian C. Spitzer, his wife, in her own right Annie Grant Allen, wife of George Allen 2085 620
30Oct1888 George Wheatland, Jr. (lot with 23.99 foot frontage and dwelling house) Lillian C. Spitzer, wife of Ceilan M. Spitzer 1847 81
Transfers of Unimproved Land
Date of Deed Grantor Grantee Book Page
20Jun1885 Henry M. Whitney (land with 160.81 foot frontage on Commonwealth and 144.73 foot frontage on Marlborough) George Wheatland, Jr. 1682 369
06Apr1885 Francis W. Palfrey, Francis A. Osborn, and Grenville T. W. Braman, trustees of Commonwealth Avenue Lands (confirmatory deed) Henry M. Whitney 1672 628
20Mar1885 Francis A. Osborn and Grenville T. W. Braman, a majority of the trustees of Commonwealth Avenue Lands (Francis W. Palfrey, the remaining trustee, being absent from Massachusetts) Henry M. Whitney 1671 41
29Nov1884 George F. Richardson, Grenville T. W. Braman, and Benjamin F. Brooks, trustees under a bond indenture with the Boston Water Power Company dated 1Jun1874 (confirmatory deed) Henry M. Whitney 1666 625
24Nov1882 Dwight Foster, Gilman Collamore, and George F. Richardson, trustees under a bond indenture with the Boston Water Power Company dated 1Jun1874 (foreclosure of mortgage) Henry M. Whitney 1580 257
01Jun1880 Dwight Foster, Gilman Collamore, and George F. Richardson, trustees under a bond indenture with the Boston Water Power Company dated 1Jun1874 (release) Francis W. Palfrey, Francis A. Osborn, and Grenville T. W. Braman, trustees of Commonwealth Avenue Lands 1495 6
01Jun1880 Boston Water Power Company Francis W. Palfrey, Francis A. Osborn, and Grenville T. W. Braman, trustees of Commonwealth Avenue Lands 1495 9
Agreement with by owners of land between the south side of Marlborough and north side of Commonwealth, west of West Chester Park: (1) establishing (a) a 16 foot  wide passageway running west from Massachusetts Avenue between the lots at 424-428 Marlborough and 47-51 Massachusetts Avenue to the north and the lots at 371-377 Commonwealth to the south; (b) a 14 foot wide passageway running south from Marlborough and connecting with the 16 foot passageway; and (c) a five foot wide passageway running west from the intersection of the 16 foot wide passageway and the 14 foot wide passageway, ending at the eastern boundary of 391 Commonwealth; and (2) specifying that owners of properties on either side of 14 foot passageway (i.e., 428 Marlborough and 430 Marlborough) may “project bay windows and other similar projections at height not less than thirteen feet above the ground and not extending beyond to center of the way.”
15Mar1886 George Wheatland, Jr. (owner of land west of lots at 428 Marlborough and 377 Commonwealth) Henry Lee, H. Hollis Hunnewell, and Augustus Lowell (owners of lots at 424-428 Marlborough, 47-51 Massachusetts Avenue, and 371-377 Commonwealth 1717 17