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"Architecturally, the Wadsworth Block at 214-224 Winthrop Street is a unique Winthrop example of a Late Victorian Era commercial block. In terms of historic architectural style, this building represents a restrained foray into the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. Blocks like the Wadsworth Building that combined space for professional offices, social and civic organizations as well as street level commercial concerns were built in considerable numbers in Massachusetts cities like Lynn and Boston and to a lesser extent in small towns like Winthrop." |
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"The following description will give some idea to our readers of the exterior and interior arrangements of the handsome and commodious building which is now in course of construction for P. Briggs Wadsworth, on Winthrop St., adjoining the town hall lot...." |
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"He married Henrietta Grace Hall on 9 September 1886, in Winthrop, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died in 1921, at the age of 60, and was buried in Winthrop, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States..." |
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"When a young man he came to Boston and made his residence in Winthrop, where he married Henrietta Grace Hall. He took up real estate work and became very successful..." |
| The Wadsworth family in Massachusetts dates back to 1632, twelve years after the arrival of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower. (see Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America). Famous descendants include Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829) (Wikipedia), an officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. His grandson was the poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) (Wikipedia). |
| John Wadsworth was born in 1820 in Duxbury, MA. In the 1880 census he is shown living in Winthrop married to Catherine (Josselyn) with his occupation listed as fisherman. His home was on Winthrop St. just opposite the Public Library. His daughter, Jennie E. Wadsworth, is shown on a 1914 map owning the land that would become location of Wadsworth Ave. |
John's brother Peleg (1828-1882) had two sons who moved to Winthrop. George L. (b. 1855) is shown in the 1880 census living in Winthrop with an occupation as retail grocer. He later conducted a real-estate business as a promoter of Winthrop Highlands owning and building over 40 houses.
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| George's brother P. Briggs (b. 1862), also born in Duxbury, MA, with his wife Henietta Grace (Hall) are in the 1893 List of Polls and Estates owning property and living in Winthrop. In 1900 they are living in Brookline, MA. Briggs went on to become a successful builder in Boston. |
Location: Winthrop St., near Metcalf Square.
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