Lovell’s house, between Depot & Collins’ Market

Photograph

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Wayland Museum

Name/Title

Lovell’s house, between Depot & Collins’ Market

Entry/Object ID

ph-50-405-n

Description

Lovell’s house, between Depot & Collins’ Market, 11 Cochituate Road. Built in about 1820 by Jonathan Fiske Heard who was a wheelwright and engaged in building activities. Next resident here was Dr. Edward Frost who had married in 1829 and was a village doctor. Leonard Wood lived here in the mid-19th century. The next known owner was Otis Loker who had married Betsey Allen in Wayland in 1826. Lorenzo K. Lovell who purchased the house in 1874 and the adjacent old town hall in 1879 which he converted to a dry goods store. When the Lovells moved to this house it is reported to have been a two-family, which they converted back to a single family residence. For more information : https://mhc-macris.net/queryresults

Collection

W. H. Folsom Shoebox Collection

Cataloged By

Gardner-Westcott, Kay

Category

Folsom Negatives

Acquisition

Notes

(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)

Made/Created

Artist

Folsom, Wallace Herbert

Lexicon

Search Terms

Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884-1954) -- Photographer Heard, Jonathan Fiske (1791-1870) Frost, Edward Dr. (ca.1798-1838) Wood, Leonard Wood (ca. 1802-1856) Loker, Otis (ca. 1803-1877) Allen, Betsey (1901-1878) Lovell, Lorenzo K. (1837-1909) Lovell, Emily S. Mills (1844-1946) Wayland, (Mass.)

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

D-97

Dimensions

Height

2-1/4 in

Width

3-1/4 in

General Notes

Note

[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]