Quincy, Mass. Historical and Architectural Survey

41-43 Bradford Street

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Bradford Street was laid out in the 1890's and this double residence at Number 41-43 was built on land belonging to the William L. Saunders family from at least 1897 to 1923. Saunders, a stonecutter, was a partner in Long & Saunders, located at 2 Penn Street, a firm that designed and manufactured statuary, monument, tablets, headstones, curbing and posts and was large enough to sustain branch works at Stoughton and Beverly, Mass.

Included in the early residents of this house were a coremaker, J. Augustus Woodard, in 1922, a machinist, Henry F. Paterson, from 1927 to 1935, a shipworker.,Harold J. Bishop, in 1927, and a gardener, John Morrison, from 1930 to 1935.

Number 41-43 Bradford Street is located just off Adams Square which fronts on the historic John Adams Birthplace, 133 Franklin Street, and John Quincy Adams Birthplace, 141 Franklin Street, which are located on a large (23,756 square feet) property owned by the National Park Service. Adjoining historic Franklin Street, this property is one of three Bradford Street residences included in the Adams Birthplace Local Historic District.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Assessors Records.
Robinson's Atlas of Norfolk County Mass., 1888.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1897.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1907.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1923.
Quincy City Directories, 1888, 1898, 1910, 1915, 1922, 1927, 1930, 1935.

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This simple double residence, built in the first decade of the 20th century, is set on a granite foundation, as are most of Quincy's buildings of the past periods, and has a hip slate roof. Unfortunately, it has lost its wood walling to aluminum siding which has eliminated all the window enframements. Its Colonial Revival Four Square massing is still visible in the almost square configuration, hip roofed dormer in the front, and simple double columnar porch, finished with a plain balustrade. The fenestration is irregular, with single and double windows and one stained glass window on each floor, the only vestige of the past picturesque Queen Anne style. It is one of three double residences in the Adams Birthplace Local Historic District.

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