Structure · Built 1880
14-16 Rogers St
14-16 Rogers St
| Address | 14-16 Rogers St |
| Built | 1880 |
| Other Lot Structures | Faulkner Manufacturing Company Worker Housing at 14-16 Rogers St (Built 1880) |
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| August 12, 1859 | Deed | Calvin Rogers and Ann Rogers | James R. Faulkner, manufacturer, and Charles Faulkner of Boston, merchant | 1859: Calvin Rogers to the Faulkners, the tract east of Rogers St | 20/390 |
For $3,500, "all that tract of land with the buildings now standing thereon" in the northerly part of Billerica, beginning at the northwesterly corner "at the junction of two roads leading from North Billerica so called, one to Billerica Centre and sometimes called Mill Street, and the other to Tewksbury and sometimes called North Street," southerly by Mill Street past "a barn or building on said premises" and by a curve to the Boston and Lowell Railroad, northwesterly by the railroad to North Street and by North Street back to the start, 6 acres 95 square rods; also a tract opposite on the westerly side of Mill Street, running to the Concord River, down the river to a willow tree "on what was formerly the Middlesex Canal," and by the canal back to Mill Street, 1 acre 130 square rods; with his right of way over the railroad. Both tracts are on a plan of the land of Calvin Rogers and Gov. Talbot by Samuel Sage Jr., 1858. Signed July 1, 1859; Ann, a daughter of Francis Faulkner, released dower. The MHC form puts the Faulkner takeover "between 1853 and 1875." The steps from the Faulkners to the Faulkner Manufacturing Co. have not been traced.
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| December 2, 1880 | Executor's Deed | Charles Faulkner of Boston, executor of and trustee under the will of James R. Faulkner | The Faulkner Manufacturing Company | 1880: to the Faulkner Manufacturing Company | 143/23 |
For $50,000, "two undivided third parts of all that lot of land with the buildings thereon": lot 1 of 29.55 acres from "the stone pier of the bridge across Concord River" across "the little basin, so-called", along the river about 1,540 ft to Jones and Foster, by the Boston and Lowell Rail Road and the schoolhouse lot back to the road to Billerica Centre, with the water rights, flowage, the 1857 Talbot rights (Book 9 Page 378) and "all the machinery, tools and fixtures in the buildings"; lot 2 "with the building thereon ... on the east end of the dam south of the County road", bounded 10 ft from the canal wall; and two thirds of five more lots, including land "on what was formerly the Middlesex Canal" (Sage plan 1838, Book 18 Page 374; Calvin Rogers to James R. and Charles Faulkner, 1859, Book 20 Page 390) and an acre by the old William Rogers house on "the road ... to the Canal Mills".
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| February 8, 1917 | Quitclaim | The Faulkner Manufacturing Company, by George M. Preston, Treasurer | Eugene Phair and Mary Phair, his wife, of Billerica, as joint tenants | 1917: company to Eugene and Mary Phair, Lot D | 567/67 |
Deed dated January 24, 1917 (recorded February 8, 1917), on pages 67-69 after the company's votes: the stockholders on February 3, 1914 let the directors sell real estate "not needed for the business", and the directors, meeting on January 24, 1917 "at the residence of Mr. George M. Preston, North Billerica", authorized a quitclaim to the Phairs "for the consideration of Twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars ($2250), a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon situate on the easterly side of Rogers Street". The deed conveys "the land in that part of said Billerica known as North Billerica, with the buildings thereon, containing about 22,072 square feet", "Lot D" on the "Plan of Land in North Billerica, Mass. belonging to the Faulkner Manufacturing Co." surveyed August 1911 by Smith and Brooks (Plan Book 34 Plan 22, as added to January 19, 1917): from a stone bound in the easterly line of Rogers Street, easterly on other company land about 139.80 feet, southeasterly about 152.54 feet "to a stone bound at land now or late of Timothy John McCarthy, Junior, and Mary Etta McCarthy" (Lot C, the William Rogers House), westerly about 164.83 feet to Rogers Street, and northerly by Rogers Street 33.72 and 103.64 feet. The first sale of the house by the company that had rented it to its workers.
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| July 24, 1922 | Warranty Deed | Eugene Phair and Mary Phair, husband and wife, of Billerica | Francis Kawa and Bronislawa Kawa, husband and wife, of Billerica, as joint tenants | 1922: Phairs to the Kawas | 664/380 |
Dated and acknowledged at Lowell July 22, 1922 ($4.00 in revenue stamps), recorded about July 24, 1922. With warranty covenants, "the land in that part of said Billerica known as North Billerica with the buildings thereon, containing about twenty-two thousand seventy-two (22,072) square feet of land", Lot D on Plan Book 34 Plan 22, bounded easterly 139.80 feet "on other land of grantees" (the four and a half acres behind it, which the Kawas had bought of James F. Delmege by deed of June 24, 1922, Book 664 Page 201), southeasterly 152.54 feet by the McCarthys, westerly 164.83 feet, and northerly by Rogers Street. "Being the same premises to us conveyed by the Faulkner Manufacturing Company, by deed dated January 24, 1917, and recorded with said Registry, Book 567, Page 67." Subject to the 1922 taxes.
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| July 3, 1933 | Quitclaim | Francis Kawa and Bronislawa Kawa, husband and wife, of Boston | Kastantas Lapinskas and Mary Lapinskas, husband and wife, of Boston, tenants by the entirety | 1933: Kawas to the Lapinskases | 826/57 |
Dated and acknowledged in Suffolk County July 1, 1933, recorded July 3, 1933 at 10:25 a.m. ($2.00 in stamps). Two parcels: about four and one-half acres behind the house, part of the land on Plan Book 34 Plan 22, from a culvert under the Boston and Maine Railroad by land of Conrad M. Hubert to a culvert under Rogers Street, along Rogers Street about 280.95 feet to Lot D, around Lots D and C, then by "land supposed to be of Talbot Mills" and a stone wall to the railroad and by the railroad about 931 feet ("Being the same premises conveyed to us by deed of James F. Delmege, dated June 24, 1922", Book 664 Page 201, with rights under a deed of November 2, 1922, Book 671 Page 199, less a strip the Kawas sold to the Boston and Maine Railroad November 1, 1922, Book 671 Page 36; "For title see Book 20 Page 390"); and Lot D "with the buildings thereon", 22,072 square feet, "Being the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Eugene Phair and Mary Phair dated July 22, 1922 ... Book 664, Page 380." Subject to the 1933 taxes.
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| September 8, 1941 | Quitclaim | Kastantas Lapinskas and Mary Lapinskas (her mark), husband and wife, of North Billerica | Kastantas Kelkus of Boston | 1941: Lapinskas to Kelkus | 967/309 |
Dated and acknowledged in Suffolk County September 6, 1941, recorded September 8, 1941 ($3.30 in stamps). The same two parcels: the four and one-half acres on Plan Book 34 Plan 22 behind the house (with the 1922 rights, Book 671 Page 199, less the railroad strip, Book 671 Page 36, "For title see Book 20, Page 390") and Lot D "with the buildings thereon", 22,072 square feet, bounded on Rogers Street 33.72 and 103.64 feet. "Being the said two (2) parcels of land conveyed to us by deed of Francis Kawa and Bronislawa Kawa ... Book 826, Page 57."
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| 1944 | Quitclaim | Kastantas Kelkus of Boston, unmarried | Ona Cibulski of Bedford | 1944: Kelkus to Ona Cibulski | 1012/572 |
Dated and acknowledged in Suffolk County September 19, 1944 ($6.60 in stamps), recorded in September 1944. The four and one-half acres behind the house on Plan Book 34 Plan 22 (bounds as in 1933, with the 1922 rights and less the railroad strip) and "another parcel of land ... with the buildings thereon, containing about twenty-two thousand seventy-two (22,072) square feet", Lot D, "Being all and the same premises conveyed to me by Kastantas Lapinskas et ux. by deed dated September 6, 1941 ... Book 967, Page 309."
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| December 2, 1944 | Quitclaim | Ona Cibulski of Billerica, formerly of Bedford (her husband Ignas Cibulski releasing curtesy) | Edward Cibulski of Billerica | 1944: Ona Cibulski to Edward Cibulski; later family owners summarized | 1017/126 |
Dated and acknowledged at Boston November 29, 1944, recorded December 2, 1944 at 8:30 a.m. ($4.40 in stamps). The four and one-half acres on Plan Book 34 Plan 22 and Lot D "with the buildings thereon", 22,072 square feet, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Kastantas Kelkus, by deed dated September 19, 1944 ... Book 1012, Page 572", subject to a $2,000 mortgage to Stanley A. Cibulski and Walter J. Cibulski which the grantee assumed. Edward Cibulski kept the family property for twelve years. In 1956 he divided it: in April he sold Lot D, "A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon", bounded westerly by Rogers Street 33.72 and 103.64 feet and northerly and easterly by his own land, to a married couple, and in July he and his wife sold them the two acres behind it, "the southerly portion" of the company land, reaching east 165 feet to the Boston and Maine Railroad. The couple still owned the house when it was inventoried in 1981; after the husband's death the widow held it, and the assessor still listed her as owner in 2026. Part of the back land was later cut off as house lots on Sycamore Lane.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.