The Wardners are said to have decorated 25 Carruth Street in a splendid manner with furnishings by A.H. Additionally, Wardner was president of the Ashmont Improvement Association and was the highest lay officer of All Saints’. He was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Phillip Wardner who was a Harvard College graduate, State Street lawyer and teacher at the Boston University Law School. During the early 20th century, this house was owned by G.
Designed by Allen and Kenway, this firm’s work was called by Bainbridge Bunting in the Houses of Boston’s Back Bay, “the most consistent exponent of the Romanesque tradition in the Back Bay.” Allen and Kenway’s penchant for Syrian arches, a hallmark of The Richardsonian Romanesque style is apparent at 25 Carruth Street. Quincy, of Willard and Quincy, a Boston “fancy goods” store. Number 25 Carruth Street was built in 1888 for George G. The following is from the Area Form for Carruth Street/Peabody Square prepared as part of 1994 Survey of Dorchester, Boston Landmarks Commission. Happily, this house is now being restored to its original stateliness. Davenport, noted for their work at the White House. Wardner was also president of the ever-active Ashmont Improvement Association and entertained grandly in this house’s splendid interiors, which were probably done by A. Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, he earned entry into Who’s Who in New England. Phillip Wardner, who was the highest lay officer of All Saints’, was a Harvard College graduate and State Street lawyer who taught at Boston University Law School. Something of a companion to 27 Carruth, 25 is less dramatic but much grander, its pomps upheld by a princely ground story of stone, which extends up into an imposing stair tower on the house’s north front. George Quincy, A Boston store owner, in 1888 commissioned Allen and Kenway to design 25 Carruth, the Quincy-Wardner House. Dorchester: Dorchester Historical Society, 1991. Ashmont: An Historical Guide to Peabody Square, Carruth’s Hill, and Ashmont Hill and the Architecture f EdwinJ. The following is from: Paul Douglass Shand-Tucci. MACRIS (Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System) accessed Mentioned in published material, but no cited reference other than MACRIS, which may be citing Ashmont mentioned belowĪrchitect: Allen and Kenway – per Shand-Tucci Quincy appears in the 1887 Boston Directory on Carruth Street. 20279 25 Carruth Street, photograph March 31, 2020.ĭate of construction: possibly 1887 – George C.
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