199 Boston Rd
199 Boston Rd
| Address | 199 Boston Rd |
| Built | 1965 |
| Other Lot Structures |
Treble Cove Plaza
(Built 1959)
Starbucks (Built 2004) |
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| 1799 | Will, Inventory and Division | Estate of Isaac Sprague of Billerica, yeoman | Widow Rhoda (later Hodgman); children Polly Dows, Rhoda and Isaac Sprake | 1811: division of Isaac Sprake's estate; the 18-acre tillage lot to son Isaac | Probate #21107 |
Will dated Feb. 7, 1799, proved April 10, 1799: to wife Rhoda "the improvement of all my real estate so long as she shall remain my widow", one third if she remarried; remainder to Polly, Rhoda and Isaac. Inventory: "the homestead ... on the west side of Concord River near the Fordway (so called) containing sixty acres of good land with the buildings thereon" $1250. Division of Dec. 23, 1811: to Rhoda, "late widow, now wife of Abijah Hodgman", "the east room on the lower floor and the chamber over it to the middle of the chimney", the east part of the barn and 15 acres south of the house; to son Isaac "the westerly part of the house to the middle of the chimney together with the garret over the east room", the west part of the barn and the house lot of 6 acres 138 rods; other land to Polly Dows and Rhoda.
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| May 21, 1817 | Deed | Isaac Sprake of Billerica, yeoman | Nathan Mears, yeoman, and Nathaniel Stearns, bricklayer | 1817: Isaac Sprake to Nathan Mears and Nathaniel Stearns, 18 acres by the Mock meadow road | 222/41 (South) |
For $306, 18 acres of woodland and mowing by the Mock-meadow road and the old road, by land formerly of Levi Sprake and Henry Newman (the 18-acre tillage lot of the 1811 division). Dated April 15, 1817. Billerica town book 12, page 20. Farm land only, not the house.
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| April 30, 1823 | Deed | Nathan Mears of Billerica, innholder, and Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica, bricklayer; Lucy Mears and Sarah Stearns releasing dower | Royal Stearns of Billerica, bricklayer, and Joseph Stearns Jr. of Billerica, laborer | 1823: Mears and Stearns to Royal and Joseph Stearns Jr., 18 acres, $300 | 247/524 (South) |
For $300, "a certain tract of land situated in said Billerica west of Concord River containing eighteen acres more or less", beginning "at the northeasterly corner at the end of a Ditch by Mock Meadow Cause way so called", northerly by "Mock meadow Road" 102 rods "to the old road", southwesterly by the old road to land formerly of Levi Sprake, then by Levi's land and land formerly of Henry Newman to the corner first mentioned, "being the same conveyed to us by Isaac Sprake by his deed bearing date the 15th day of April 1817." No buildings are named. Signed January 28, 1823. Billerica town book 13, pages 207-208.
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| 1825 | Administration | Estate of Royal Stearns of Billerica, bricklayer | David Reed Jr. of Bedford, administrator; widow Esther Stearns; one minor child | 1825: Royal Stearns estate; house and barn "both nearly new" | Probate #21322 |
Royal Stearns died intestate in 1825, leaving "a widow & one child only who is a minor"; his widow Esther declined and David Reed Jr. of Bedford, cooper, was appointed administrator September 6, 1825. Debts of $190.67 (among them $36 to Joseph Stearns Jr.) against personal estate of $133.71 and real estate of $400. Under a license of the Supreme Judicial Court the administrator advertised "one undivided half of about eighteen acres of land, Dwelling house and barn thereon standing, both nearly new, situated in Billerica west of Concord River, on the great stage road & within one hundred rods of the Canal Mills", and on November 28, 1825 sold it at auction "to Joseph Stearns Junr. for the sum of Four Hundred Dollars."
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| March 7, 1827 | Administrator's Deed | David Reed Jr. of Bedford, yeoman, administrator of the estate of Royal Stearns of Billerica, bricklayer | Joseph Stearns Jr. of Billerica, yeoman | 1825: Royal Stearns's half sold at auction to Joseph Stearns Jr., $400 | 272/413 (South) |
Under a license of the Supreme Judicial Court at Cambridge (October term, 1825), sold at public vendue on the premises on November 28, 1825 for $400, "he being the highest bidder", "one undivided half of a certain tract of land situated in said Billerica west of Concord River, with one undivided half of the buildings standing thereon, containing eighteen acres", from the end of a ditch by "Mock Meadow cause way", northerly by the road to land of Josiah B. French (around a notch of French's land 8 by 10 rods), "northerly by said road till you come to an old road leading to Benjamin Frost's", southerly by the old road to land formerly of Levi Sprake and by Henry Newman's land to the beginning. Signed November 28, 1825. Billerica town book 13, pages 453-455.
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| March 7, 1827 | Release of Dower | Esther Stearns of Billerica, widow | Joseph Stearns Jr. of Billerica, yeoman | 1825: widow Esther Stearns releases her dower to Joseph Stearns Jr. | 272/415 (South) |
For $100, quitclaim of "all my right title & interest & rights of dower in & to a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica west of Concord River containing eighteen acres", with the same bounds as the administrator's deed of the same day. Signed November 28, 1825, witnessed by David Reed Jr. and Marshall Preston. Billerica town book 13, pages 455-456.
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| November 12, 1833 | Quitclaim | Josiah B. French of Billerica; Mary Ann French his wife releasing dower | Joseph Stearns Jr. of Billerica | 1833: Josiah B. French notch by Mock Meadow causeway to Joseph Stearns Jr. | 327/301 (South) |
Quitclaim of "a certain piece of land situate in said Billerica containing eighty poles", beginning "at Mock meadow causeway by a ditch", westerly 8 rods on the ditch, northerly 10 rods, easterly 8 rods, southerly 10 rods by the causeway; "said land is bounded on all sides by land of said Stearns except the said causeway." Signed May 21, 1833. Billerica town book 16, page 296. This is the French notch named in the 1825 bounds.
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| 1846 | Executor's Deed | Marshall Preston of Billerica, executor of the will of Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica | Joseph Stearns of Billerica, yeoman | 1846: 2 acres 3 rods of Mock meadow to Joseph Stearns | 486/340 (South) |
Under the power of sale in the will, for $30, "the following tract of meadow land situate in said Billerica in Mock meadow so called containing two acres and three rods more or less", bounded easterly and northerly by land of Joseph Stearns, southerly by William Pollard and westerly by the deceased's land, "being the same conveyed to said deceased by Amasa Holden by deed dated October 2nd 1845". Billerica town book 18, pages 167-168. Probably part of the 26 acres of 1883.
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| October 31, 1883 | Executor's Deed | Dudley Foster of Billerica, executor of the will of Joseph Stearns of Billerica | Daniel Calaghan (Callahan) of Billerica | 1883: Joseph Stearns homestead, 26 acres, to Daniel Callahan, $3,600 | 163/345 |
Under a Probate Court license of September 11, 1883, sold at public auction on October 8 to Daniel Calaghan, the highest bidder, for $3,600: "The Homestead of the late said Joseph Stearns situate in said Billerica containing twenty six acres more or less with a dwelling house barn & other buildings thereon", beginning at the southeasterly corner at land of Dudley Foster by "Mock Meadow causeway so called", northerly by Mock Meadow road to the old road (indexed as the old road "to Shore's Place"), southwesterly by the old road to land of Coburn S. Smith, then by Smith, John Daly (reading uncertain) and Foster to the beginning; also a 6-acre lot on "the Great road leading from Billerica to Lowell" by the Hutchins place and Foster. Signed October 30, 1883.
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| June 30, 1926 | Land Court Decree | Land Court decree, case 11471 (petition of Daniel E. Callahan et al.) | Daniel E. Callahan, Sabina G. Twombly and Elizabeth E. Callahan of Billerica | 1926: Land Court decree for the Callahan heirs (Lot 1 of Plan 11471-A) | Ctf 3113 |
Original Certificate of Title 3113 on the decree of June 29, 1926: the three, "all unmarried", own the land in undivided sevenths (Elizabeth one seventh, the others two sevenths each; reading partly uncertain). Lot 1: "Westerly by Treble Cove Road about eleven hundred one (1101) feet", "Northeasterly by the southwesterly line of the State Highway two thousand thirty-four and 91/100 (2034.91) feet", then by the Inhabitants of Billerica, Felix Letendre, Frank D. Foster, Burton O. Sanford and Joseph H. Sylvester Jr. to Bridge Street, back up Treble Cove Road 1,353 feet and around "Mabelle M. Smith et al." Lot 2 lies east of the highway and Lot 3 on Concord River, on the J. C. and W. T. Monahan plan of February 6, 1926 (Land Court Plan 11471-A). Subject to a lease to Edward P. Collins of April 1, 1925.
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| June 30, 1926 | Certificate of Title | Daniel E. Callahan, Sabina G. Twombly and Elizabeth E. Callahan | Warren A. Pike and Bertha S. Pike of Billerica, joint tenants | 1926: to Warren A. and Bertha S. Pike | Ctf 3114 |
Transfer Certificate from Original Certificate 3113, entered the day after the decree: the Pikes own Lots 1, 2 and 3 of Plan 11471-A, the same bounds.
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| October 22, 1934 | Certificate of Title | Warren A. Pike and Bertha S. Pike | Daniel E. Callahan of Billerica, not married | 1934: back to Daniel E. Callahan | Ctf 4670 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 3114: Daniel E. Callahan of "Brown's Corner, Billerica" owns Lots 1, 2 and 3 again, the same bounds, subject to the Middlesex County taking of April 7, 1933 for the "Relocation of Treble Cove Rd." The face does not name the instrument behind the transfer.
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| 1939 | Certificate of Title | Daniel E. Callahan | Francois Levesque and Alphena Levesque of Dracut, tenants by the entirety | 1939: to Francois and Alphena Levesque | Ctf 5365 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 4670, registered in February 1939 (the day is not legible on the next certificate): Lots 1, 2 and 3 of Plan 11471-A, the same bounds. Memoranda: a grant of rights to the Lowell Electric Light Corp. (1936) and a $1,700 mortgage to the Federal Land Bank of Springfield (February 24, 1939).
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| March 20, 1950 | Certificate of Title | Francois Levesque and Alphena Levesque | Gerard J. Levesque of Billerica, married to Margaret Levesque | 1950: to Gerard J. Levesque; subdivided in 1956 | Ctf 8097 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 5365 (deed document 20955): Lots 1, 2 and 3 of Plan 11471-A. Memoranda: a $4,200 Federal Land Bank mortgage (1950); Lot 2 sold in 1954; "Lot 4 on subdivision plan" to Stop & Shop Inc., Boston, September 14, 1956; a second Middlesex County taking for the relocation of Treble Cove Road (June 9, 1959); later lots sold off into the 1980s and 1990s.
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| September 14, 1956 | Certificate of Title | Gerard J. Levesque (deed document 28099) | Stop & Shop, Inc., Boston | 1956: Lot 4 of Plan 11471-B to Stop & Shop, Inc. | Ctf 10025 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 8097: "Westerly by Treble Cove Road, six hundred twenty-three and 35/100 (623.35) feet; Northerly by Lot 6, four hundred thirty-four and 99/100 (434.99) feet; Northeasterly by State Highway, nine hundred ninety-six and 18/100 (996.18) feet; Southeasterly by Lot 5, three hundred seventy-three and 85/100 (373.85) feet", southwesterly by Mabelle M. Smith et al. 647.18 feet, "shown as Lot four (4)" on the subdivision plan by Dana F. Perkins and Sons, Inc. of February 23, 1956 (Land Court Plan 11471-B; the copy is at Registration Book 53, Page 49). The plaza lot.
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| April 6, 1959 | Certificate of Title | Stop & Shop, Inc. | Cosmo A. DeBonis of Lexington, Trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust | 1959: to the Billerica Realty Trust; Stop & Shop and Woolworth leases | Ctf 10872 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 10025: Lot 4 of Plan 11471-B to the trustee under a declaration of trust of July 11, 1958 (Document 31043). Memoranda: a $500,000 mortgage to the Second Bank-State Street Trust Company, Boston (April 3, 1959); a notice of lease and vote of Stop & Shop, Inc. (April 3, 1959), so the seller stayed as the supermarket tenant; a notice of lease to the F. W. Woolworth Co. (lease of July 11, 1958, registered May 15, 1959); Lot 7 deeded to Conide, Inc. (August 24, 1959); a mortgage to the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston (November 13, 1959); DeBonis resigned and Milton Carmen accepted appointment as trustee (December 1, 1959), William Carmen in 1961; the Stop & Shop lease assigned to Save-Mor Supermarkets, Inc. (October 7, 1966); notices of suits by Malls of Billerica, Inc. (1971), dismissed by decree in 1973.
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| August 24, 1959 | Certificate of Title | Cosmo A. DeBonis, Trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust | Conide, Inc., Lexington | 1959: Lot 7 frontage lot to Conide, Inc. | Ctf 11013 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 10872 for Lot 7 on Land Court Plan 11471-C (Joseph W. Moore, Inc., March 25, 1959), a frontage lot "Northeasterly by State Highway, two hundred (200) feet", southeasterly by Lot 5 107.65 feet, and southwesterly 160.15 and northwesterly 100 feet by the trust's land.
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| August 8, 1961 | Certificate of Title | Conide, Inc. | Carmen Management Corporation, Brookline | 1961: Lot 7 to Carmen Management Corporation | Ctf 12047 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 11013: Lot 7 of Plan 11471-C to Carmen Management Corporation, 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline.
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| October 23, 1962 | Certificate of Title | Carmen Management Corporation | William Carmen and Milton Carmen of Billerica, Trustees of the Billerica Realty Trust | 1962: Lot 7 back to the Billerica Realty Trust | Ctf 12720 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 12047: Lot 7 back in the Billerica Realty Trust (declaration of July 11, 1958). Memoranda to 1986: trust amendments and changes of trustee, a vote of Massachusetts Centers, Inc. (1977) and a restated trust (1985).
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| May 18, 1973 | Certificate of Title | Milton Carmen, Trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust | Carmen Development Corporation, Brookline | 1973: to Carmen Development Corporation | Ctf 19545 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 10872: Lot 4 of Plan 11471-B, "There is excepted and excluded from above described, Lot seven (7) on subdivision plan 11471-C". Registered at 9:04 a.m. on May 18, 1973, the day the decrees dismissing the 1971 suits were registered.
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| May 18, 1973 | Certificate of Title | Carmen Development Corporation | Milton Carmen of Lexington, Trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust | 1973: back to the Billerica Realty Trust | Ctf 19546 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificate 19545, registered two minutes later: the same land back to the trust (declaration of July 11, 1958 and amendments). Page 291 read from the certificate face (uncertain).
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| March 20, 1986 | Certificate of Title | Milton Carmen, Trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust | Dudley Trading Associates Limited Partnership, Newton (Gordon F. Bloom, managing general partner) | 1986: Lot 22 to Dudley Trading Associates Limited Partnership | Ctf 27024 |
Transfer Certificate from Certificates 12720 and 19546, joining Lot 7 to the rest: "Southwesterly by Treble Cove Rd., by a curved line by several lines measuring together, six hundred twenty-three and 35/100 (623.35) feet; Northwesterly by Lot 15", "Northeasterly by Boston Road, (Rte 3A), nine hundred ninety-six and 18/100 (996.18) feet", southeasterly by Lot 10 and southwesterly by Mabelle M. Smith et al., "Lot twenty-two (22)" on Land Court Plan 11471-J by Linenthal Eisenberg Anderson, Inc., January 23, 1986. The F. W. Woolworth lease expired in 1986.
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| March 20, 1986 | Certificate of Title | Dudley Trading Associates Limited Partnership (deed document 109012) | Gordon F. Bloom, Trustee of Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust | 1986: to the Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust, owner to date | Ctf 27025 |
Quitclaim of Lot 22 on Plan 11471-J to the nominee trust (declaration of March 5, 1986), the partnership "being the sole beneficiary" and "there is no monetary consideration for this deed." The trust still holds the plaza. Later memoranda: a 1992 court order on the relocation of Treble Cove Road (the lot redrawn as Lot 28 on Plan 11471-N); trustee changes (2001, 2013); mortgages (1990, 1992, 2014, 2020); an easement to Massachusetts Electric Co. (2005); assignment of the supermarket lease to DSM MB I LLC (December 1, 2014); zoning permits and variances from 1988 to January 14, 2026.
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| January 19, 1988 | Notice of Lease | Gordon Bloom, Trustee of Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust | CWT Specialty Stores, Inc. (Cherry, Webb and Touraine) | 1987: lease to CWT Specialty Stores, "Treble Cove Plaza Shopping Center" | Ctf 27025 |
Registered document 121670. Lease as of July 30, 1987 of "A portion of one of the building within the shopping center to be known as Treble Cove Plaza Shopping Center", for twelve years from March 1, 1988 or the store's opening, with one five-year option. A 1988 sign permit names the store Cherry, Webb and Touraine.
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| December 13, 1989 | Special Permit | Billerica Planning Board | Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust, Newton | 1989: Planning Board permit for a 57,000 sq ft addition | Ctf 27025 |
Registered document 129748. Site Plan Special Permit "to construct a 57,000 sq. ft. addition to their Shopping Center at Treble Cove Plaza on Boston Rd.", per the plan "Treble Cove Plaza, Boston Road (3A), Billerica" of July 31, 1989 by Linenthal, Eisenberg, Anderson Inc.; hearing September 25, 1989, approved 6-0. Among the findings: "Neither the site nor the existing building have any historical significance." The 1990 wing.
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| September 28, 1990 | Notice of Lease | Gordon F. Bloom, Trustee of Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust | Market Basket, Inc., Tewksbury | 1990: Market Basket lease, 46,910 sq ft supermarket | Ctf 27025 |
Registered document 133095. Lease of June 1, 1989, amended June 29, 1990: "Store premises containing approximately 46,132 square feet, together with a loading dock containing approximately 778 square feet, totalling approximately 46,910 square feet, located in a Shopping Center now known as Treble Cove Plaza", for 20 years from the store's opening (fixed in 1990 as 1991 to 2010) with long renewal options, a supermarket for at least the first 20 years. The exclusive clause excepts the CVS health and beauty aids store "under its lease dated December 10, 1974". Assigned to DSM MB I LLC in 2014.
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| May 10, 2004 | Special Permit | Billerica Board of Appeal | David Wanger, Trustee of Dudley Trading Associates Nominee Trust, for Starbucks Coffee Company | 2004: special permit for the Starbucks building | Ctf 27025 |
Registered document 224382. Decision of April 7, 2004 (hearing March 3) granting, 4-0, a special permit "to construct a building to operate a Starbucks Coffee style restaurant, with a drive-through" at "199 Boston Road", Plate 22 Parcel 11-1: "The petitioner has an extremely large shopping plaza and desires to construct a building approximately 1,500 square feet to accommodate a Starbucks Restaurant." Plans by TBA Architects, Inc., Waltham, January 28 and April 1, 2004.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.