Structure · Built 1915
890 Boston Rd
890 Boston Rd
| Address | 890 Boston Rd |
| Built | 1915 |
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Lloyd's Store (1915 - 1952)
Inferrera's Market (1952 - 1972) |
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This building at the corner of Boston Road and Dale Street in Pinehurst, opposite Riverbank Terrace, was the store and trolley waiting room of Harnden's Corner. It stands on lots 1071 to 1074 of Pinedale Park, a house-lot development laid out in 1908 by Aaron Adelman of Boston (Plan Book 26, Plan 22), on which Boston Road was the "Main Street". Adelman sold the four lots with six others to Fannie P. Youngman of Boston in 1909, and on April 3, 1913 she and her husband sold them, still without buildings, to Matilda Jane Lloyd, wife of Archibald Vincent Lloyd of Medford, taking back a $350 mortgage.
The Lloyds built the store within the next few years. A real-photo postcard titled "Boston Rd. at Harnden's Corner, Pinedale" shows it about 1915: a low store with a stucco or block side wall, a sign reading "Harnden's Corner / Groceries / Waiting Room / Moxie", a gasoline pump at the curb and a car drawn up beside it, with the tracks of the street railway from Burlington running along the other side of the road. Passengers on the electric cars waited inside. The 1925 directory lists Archie V. Lloyd on Boston Road "opp River rd", and the 1932 directory lists Lloyd's Store on Boston Road.
Matilda Jane Lloyd, by then of Billerica, deeded the lots "with the buildings thereon" to Archibald George Lloyd in June 1950. His surveyor, E. P. Simpson, drew the corner that August as "Boston Road at Harnden's Corner", with a "Store and Dwelling" of about 30 by 42 feet set back on the lot (Plan Book 82, Plan 61A). In September 1952 Lloyd sold the store lot and lot 1071 to Joseph and Mary L. Inferrera of Watertown, who ran it as Inferrera's Market, a grocery "open all day Sundays". They sold the property in 1972 to a realty trust; it passed to another trust in 1980 and to private owners in 1984, and later housed a veterinary clinic. The town approved its renovation for residential and commercial use in 2019, and the assessor now records it as a two-family building.
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Deed References
| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Recorded |
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| August 18, 1909 | Deed | Aaron Adelman of Boston (Rose Adelman releasing dower) | Fannie P. Youngman, wife of William H. Youngman, of Boston | 1909: Adelman to Fannie P. Youngman, Pinedale Park lots including 1071-1074 | 438/150 |
Dated August 12, 1909, acknowledged August 17, recorded August 18, 1909 (pages 150-151). For one dollar and other valuable consideration, with warranty covenants, "lots numbered 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 1071, 1072, 1073 and 1074 as shown on plan of Pinedale Park, made by J. S. Crossman, Civil Engineer" (Plan Book 26, Plan 22), subject to "the restriction that no building shall be placed on said land within fifteen feet of the street lines". No buildings named; no title recital.
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| April 3, 1913 | Warranty Deed | William H. Youngman and Fannie P. Youngman, his wife in her own right, of Boston | Matilda Jane Lloyd, wife of Archibald Vincent Lloyd, of Medford | 1913: Youngman to Matilda Jane Lloyd, the corner lots, still without buildings | 503/217 |
Dated and recorded April 3, 1913. For one dollar and other valuable considerations, "a certain parcel of land situated in Billerica", lots 1071, 1072, 1073 and 1074 on the plan of Pinedale Park (Plan Book 26, Plan 22), "a part of the same premises conveyed to said Fannie P. Youngman" (Book 438, Page 150), subject to the fifteen-foot building restriction and the 1913 taxes. No buildings named.
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| April 4, 1913 | Mortgage | Archibald Vincent Lloyd and Matilda Jane Lloyd, his wife in her own right, of Medford | Fannie P. Youngman of Boston | 1913: Lloyd purchase-money mortgage to Youngman | 503/218 |
Recorded April 4, 1913. Purchase-money mortgage of lots 1071 to 1074 of Pinedale Park for $350, payable $30 every six months with interest at five per cent, the same premises conveyed by Youngman herewith. Margin: "See Discharge B.600 P.122".
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| June 15, 1950 | Quitclaim Deed | Matilda Jane Lloyd of Billerica, formerly of Medford (Archibald Vincent Lloyd, her husband, releasing) | Archibald George Lloyd of Billerica | 1950: Matilda Jane Lloyd to Archibald George Lloyd, "with the buildings thereon" | 1142/570 |
Dated June 9, 1950, recorded June 15, 1950 (pages 570-571). For consideration paid, with quitclaim covenants, "the land with the buildings thereon, in said Billerica, being Lots numbered 1071, 1072, 1073 and 1074" on Pinedale Park (Plan Book 26, Plan 22), southeasterly by Dale Street 100 feet, southwesterly by Main Street, northwesterly by lot 1070 91.8 feet and northeasterly by lots 1065 and 1049, 10,065 square feet. "Being the same premises described in a deed from William H. Youngman and Fannie P. Youngman to Matilda Jane Lloyd, dated April 3, 1913" (Book 503, Page 217).
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| September 29, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Archibald George Lloyd of Billerica (Catherine Lloyd, his wife, releasing) | Joseph Inferrera and Mary L. Inferrera, husband and wife, of Watertown, tenants by the entirety | 1952: Lloyd to the Inferreras, the store lot and lot 1071 | 1206/262 |
Recorded September 29, 1952. For consideration paid, with quitclaim covenants, "the land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, located on the easterly side of the Boston Road": southwesterly by Boston Road 76.15 feet, northwesterly 87 feet by lot 1071, northeasterly 75 feet by the grantor's other land and the remainder of lots 1072 to 1074, southeasterly by Dale Street 91.94 feet, about 7,460 square feet, as shown on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass., belonging to Archibald G. Lloyd", E. P. Simpson (Plan Book 82, Plan 61A); "Also lot 1071" of Pinedale Park. "Being a part of the premises conveyed to me by Matilda Jane Lloyd by her deed dated June 9, 1950", given as Book 1112, Page 570 (in fact Book 1142, Page 570).
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| May 26, 1972 | Deed | Joseph Inferrera and Mary L. Inferrera | the trustee of Advance Realty Trust | 1972: Inferreras to Advance Realty Trust | 2011/202 |
Recorded May 26, 1972, consideration $20,000. "A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon", the 7,460-square-foot store lot on Plan Book 82, Plan 61A (Boston Road 76.15 feet, Dale Street 91.94 feet) and lot 1071 of Pinedale Park "with the buildings thereon", excepting what had been taken for the widening of Boston Road. Title: Archibald George Lloyd to the Inferreras, September 29, 1952 (Book 1206, Page 262).
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| January 18, 1980 | Quitclaim Deed | the trustee of Advance Realty Trust | the same trustee, of New England Realty Trust | 1980: to New England Realty Trust | 2404/723 |
Recorded January 18, 1980, consideration $1,000. The same two parcels (Plan Book 82, Plan 61A, and lot 1071 of Pinedale Park), title Book 2011, Page 202.
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| July 6, 1984 | Quitclaim Deed | the trustee of New England Realty Trust | a private owner | 1984: to a private owner, 888-890 Boston Road | 2792/250 |
Recorded July 6, 1984 (document 20367). "The land in Billerica ... 888-890 Boston Road", the same two parcels, title Book 2404, Page 723. Assessor sale price $90,000.
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| 2013 | Deed | a private owner | a family trust | 2013 transfer | 27481/194 |
July 12, 2013, nominal consideration (assessor sales history).
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| 2019 | Deed | a family trust and a private owner | a private owner | 2019 sale | 32915/101 |
April 23, 2019, $240,000 (assessor sales history). The Board of Appeals decision of 2019 (Book 33665, Page 249) allowed renovation of the former veterinary clinic for residential and commercial use.
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| 2022 | Deed | a private owner | 890 Boston Road LLC | 2022 transfer to the present owner | 36762/139 |
January 27, 2022, nominal consideration (assessor; present owner).
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.