Quincy, Mass. Historical and Architectural Survey

14 Alleyne Street

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
This one-story medical office building was built as a laundry by an Albert A. Haskell at a cost of $6000 in 1923. It is on a small plot which originally was part of a larger parcel of land which fronted on 1043-1051 Hancock Street. It is interesting to note that a farmer, Timothy Segrue, owned the property in 1876. From approximately 1888 to 1897 the Joseph W. Lombard family were in residence; they were the owners of a furniture, house furnishings, and auctioneering business in the Robertson Block at the corner of Hancock and Granite Streets.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Assessors Records.
Atlas of Norfolk County, Mass, 1876.
Atlas of the City f Quincy, 1897.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1907.
Quincy City Directories, 1868, 1878, 1888, 1898. 1910, 1922.

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This small commercial brick structure built in 1923 in a simple straight forward utilitarian style was remodeled in the 1960s. This alteration involved the addition of an inappropriate mansard roof which is out of scale to the one story building. The fenestration is composed of large windows. The building is part of the Quincy Center Local Historic District.

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