Billerica Police Station

Billerica town book 17, page 575. For $325, "a certain tract or parcel of land situate in said Billerica on the westerly side of the Common, containing about seven thousand square feet", 70 feet on the Common by 100 feet deep, south by land of Ann Parker, "it being understood between the parties that said premises are now to be occupied for a school house". The new centre schoolhouse lot that replaced the school room in the old Town House, sold the same year.

• March 18, 1845 Warranty Deed: Ann Parker of Billerica, singlewoman to John Baldwin of Billerica, Esq. (458/79) (the corner of John Baldwin's Academy Lot)

Notice of taking under the vote of the town meeting of July 16, 1894, which "voted to take and by vote did take under the authority of the Public Statutes, for the enlargement of the Town Hall lot, and as a place for the erection of a new Town Hall," two lots "adjoining the old Town Hall lot": a lot of the heirs of Mary B. Parker south of the town lot, 100 feet along the highway and 150 feet back from the present stone wall, to land of F. A. Morey; and a lot of Frederic A. Morey "in the rear or westerly of the old Town Hall lot," 69.73 feet by about 52 feet; "said Town Hall lot so enlarged does not exceed one acre in extent." Signed August 27, 1894 by the selectmen John E. Rowell, Edward B. Haskell and Franklin Jaquith. The town report for 1894 records damages of $75 to Morey and $1,100 to the Parker heirs, "unsatisfactory to all parties." The new Town Hall, now the Billerica Public Library, was built on the enlarged lot and dedicated on November 14, 1895.

• October 11, 1842 Warranty Deed: Marshall Preston of Billerica, Esq., and Maria Preston his wife in her right as joint tenant to Ann Parker of Billerica, singlewoman (421/4) (the Parker heirs' land south of the lot, from the homestead)
• 1845 Deed: John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire to The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica (458/303) (enlargement of the 1845 town hall lot)

Signed July 20, 1942 and recorded August 31, 1942, pages 46-47, under Article 8 of the 1942 annual town meeting, which raised $1,000 "to purchase, if possible," "a lot of land, situated in the rear of the Town Hall, belonging to Mrs. Bessie C. Buck and containing 8044 square feet." For consideration paid, with quitclaim covenants: "Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Blanchard Avenue, distant 160.85 feet westerly from Concord Road at land now owned by the Town of Billerica," northerly 81.46 feet to land of Parker, westerly 103.50 feet to land of Mary R. Eames, southerly 84.56 feet to Blanchard Avenue and easterly 91 feet on the avenue, 8,044 square feet, "Being Lot 2C" on E. P. Sellew's plan of December 6, 1915 (Plan Book 33, Plan 22; see also the plan of August 4, 1911, Plan Book 29, Plan 22). "Being the same premises to me conveyed by Seth A. Loring and Ruth C. Loring" on February 20, 1937, Book 896, Page 108. The land became the rear of the Town Hall lot, where the police station was built in 1959 and the library addition in 1998-2000; the 1998 preservation restriction and zoning decisions cite this deed as the town's title to 15 Concord Road.

• March 5, 1937 Quitclaim Deed: Seth A. Loring and Ruth C. Loring, his wife, of Billerica to Bessie C. Buck of Billerica (896/108) ("Being the same premises to me conveyed by Seth A. Loring and Ruth C. Loring")

Signed November 7, 1946, under the vote of the annual town meeting of February 9, 1946 (Article 3) to exchange land with the Masons; the town clerk's certificate is recorded with it. A triangular parcel of 898 square feet on Concord Road between the Masonic building and the town hall, 166.20 feet along "other land of the grantor on which the Town Hall is erected" and 10.80 feet on the road, shown on the plan by E. P. Simpson, C.E., September 1946, "for exchange of property voted at annual town meeting" (Plan Book 70, Page 97).

• September 29, 2020 Quitclaim Deed: Billerica Masonic Association, Inc. to Town of Billerica, by its Board of Selectmen (34694/94) (title to Parcel Two)

• January 20, 1947 Quitclaim Deed: Billerica Masonic Association, Inc., by Charles H. Hames, president to The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica (1060/477) (the two halves of the 1946 exchange)

Signed November 1946 under a special meeting vote of the Association of November 7, 1946. In exchange for the 898 square foot triangle on the road, the Masons gave the town 5,725 square feet "in the rear of the Town Hall property," 70 feet along the town's land and 76 feet along the stone wall by J. N. Parker, shown on the same E. P. Simpson plan of September 1946 (Plan Book 70, Page 97). The 2020 deed to the town excludes this parcel.

• May 26, 1941 Quitclaim Deed: Edmund L. French, Edwin P. Simpson and Everett R. Brigham, trustees for Thomas Talbot Lodge A.F. & A.M. to Billerica Masonic Association, Inc. (961/87) (part of the land conveyed to the Association in 1941)