Structure · Built 1912
Campbell Hall
The Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home at 66 Concord Road is the last surviving building of the Mitchell Boys' School. It was built in 1912 as Campbell Hall, the school's junior department, and is often given as built about 1900, which is too early.
The land was part of the "Shed place," the farm of the Shed family from the first settlement of the town. John Shed deeded his homestead to his son Benjamin in 1733, Benjamin passed it to his son Joseph in 1768, and in 1791 the farm was sold in halves to Jonathan Bowers and Jesse French. The Bowers family gathered both halves by 1831, and after the deaths of the Bowers sisters the First Baptist Church and the Town, their legatees, sold it in 1871 to Charles E. Gorham. Dudley Foster bought it in 1887 and the same year sold the 49 acres to Moses Campbell Mitchell, who moved his boys' school there from the corner of Boston and Andover Roads and opened the new school in October 1888 with a $9,000 building mortgage.
According to the school's 1926-1927 catalog, "In 1912 a two-story gabled bungalow was erected on the school grounds," and "Extensive additions and improvements were made on this building in 1923." It was named Campbell Hall "in honor of the late Moses Campbell Mitchell, founder of the school," who had died by 1914. It housed the Junior School: twelve young boys in the first grades with two masters and a matron, who took their meals in the main building but lived and had classes in the hall. The catalog describes it as "entirely modern," finished "throughout in natural oak," with a reception hall, living room, kitchen and schoolroom on the first floor and a broad porch along two sides. When the main building and gymnasium burned on January 15, 1935, Campbell Hall became the school's main building, and it stands on the 1935 "Plan of Land of Mitchell Estates" with its own circular drive at the east end of the grounds.
The school closed in the early 1940s. On June 2, 1944 the Mitchell School corporation sold Edward Votour of Bedford "the land with the buildings thereon, situated on and off Concord Road," beginning at "the northeasterly corner of premises known as the location of the Mitchell School building and gymnasium" and running west along the road past Sunnyside to the old main building site. Votour sold the site of the burned main building in 1955 (today 86 Concord Road), the land west of the hall to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Billerica Meetinghouse in 1960 and back land to the Ken-Mar Corporation, which laid out the Mitchell Estates subdivision and Kenmar Drive in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 his wife Ruth bought from Ken-Mar Lot 1A, a 7,824 square foot strip at the corner of Concord Road and Kenmar Drive. That strip had been part of a four-acre house lot east of the school, owned by Ruth A. Connell from 1927, by Harry W. and Anna Marie Turner from 1946 and by Ken-Mar from 1963.
Edward Votour died in the 1960s, and in 1967 his widow, Ruth Votour, deeded the lot marked "Edward Votour" and Lot 1A on the Mitchell Estates plan, "with the buildings thereon," 199.98 feet on Concord Road, to her son and his wife; the deed is the first to give the address as 66 Concord Road. They sold the property in April 1973 for $80,000 to the family of the Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home. The funeral home had advertised since at least 1960 at 80 Concord Road, in Sunnyside, the old Mitchell headmaster's house next door; the family sold Sunnyside that October to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston as the rectory of St. Theresa's, and moved the funeral home into Campbell Hall. The town listed the Sweeney Funeral Home among its business buildings in 1973. The same family has owned it since, through a realty trust from 1990 and a family partnership later, and in 1983 they gave the church next door a 204 square foot strip to straighten the line.
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- Billerica assessor, 66 Concord Rd (parcel 61-75-2): 1.220 acres, funeral home, Plan 141-59, Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home, sales since 1973
- Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home, 66 Concord Road, Billerica
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| November 8, 1736 | Deed | John Shed of Billerica | His son Benjamin Shed of Billerica | 1733 John Shed deeds the homestead (the Shed place) to his son Benjamin | 37/420 (South) |
Billerica town book 4, pages 43-45. Dated May 8, 1733, acknowledged May 19, 1733 before Oliver Whiting JP, recorded at Cambridge Nov. 8, 1736. For 250 pounds, "all the land which I have in said Billerica": first "my Homestead or Houselot containing twenty one acres more or less bounded eastward and southward by the land of the said Benjamin Shed, westward partly by the land of Henry Jefts and partly by the land of Benjamin Shed and partly by the highway, bounded northward by the highway"; also 15 acres on the south side of Nutting's Pond and 2 1/2 acres on Fox Hill, "with all the Buildings fences and Trees". The earliest recorded deed found for the Shed homestead, the core of the later Shed place.
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| March 29, 1769 | Deed | Capt. Benjamin Shed of Billerica, gentleman (Elizabeth Shed releasing dower) | His son Joseph Shed of Billerica, housewright | 1768 Benjamin Shed to his son Joseph | 68/576 (South) |
Billerica town book 6, pages 327-329. Dated Feb. 1, 1768, acknowledged Dec. 12, 1768 before William Stickney JP, recorded March 29, 1769. For 400 pounds, first "my Homestead or House Lot with the Buildings thereon standing containing about forty acres", bounded easterly by Capt. Stickney, Lieut. Francis Crosby, Capt. Josiah Bowers, David Parker, David Abbot and Capt. Samuel Whiting Jr. "to the high way", northerly and westerly on the way, and southerly on William and Benjamin Needham; "also about two acres of upland on the west side the abovesaid way against the homestead", bounded by Abraham Jaquith; also 30 acres on Indian Hill, 16 acres near Deacon Hill's, Mock Meadow and Chamberlain Meadow on Concord River, 11 acres west of the river, 10 acres south of Nutting's Pond, and his pew and stable right at the meeting house.
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| February 21, 1792 | Deed | Joseph Shed of Billerica, husbandman (Rebeckah Shed releasing dower) | Jonathan Bowers, gentleman, and Jesse French, blacksmith, both of Billerica, in equal shares | 1791 the Shed farm sold to Jonathan Bowers and Jesse French in halves | 107/17 (South) |
Billerica town book 8, pages 349-350. Dated and acknowledged Aug. 30, 1791 (before James Underwood JP at Hillsborough, N.H.), recorded Feb. 21, 1792. For 200 pounds, "a certain Farm in said Billerica containing Forty Acres more or less, it being the same I now live on", beginning at the northeast corner by "the highway leading from Billerica Meeting House to Concord", southerly by the highway to Benjamin Needham, easterly and southerly by Needham to Jonathan Stickney, then by Stickney, Josiah Bowers, Jonathan Bowers, William Bradford and Samuel Whiting to the first bound; also two acres on the westerly side of the highway bounded by Joseph Jaquith, "together with the Buildings and Improvements". The start of the Shed place as two halves.
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| April 15, 1795 | Deed | Jesse French of Billerica, yeoman; Abigail French releasing dower | Luther French of Billerica, yeoman | 1794 Jesse French gives his half to his son Luther | 118/312 (South) |
For 600 pounds, "the following parcels or pieces of land," described only by the deeds under which they were held: Jacob French to Ebenezer French (1737/8, 1756), Samuel and Abiel Kidder (1762), Timothy and Elizabeth Thornton (1748), John Needham (1762), Thomas Chandler (1773), John Dutton Jr. (1738), Samuel Sheldon (two of 1742), William French Jr. (1752), Thomas Kidder (1731), Samuel Dutton (1732), John Dutton (1731/2), Jacob French to Jesse (Dec. 26 and Nov. 9, 1785), Joseph Shed to Jonathan Bowers and Jesse French in equal shares (1791, the half "excepting the half of the barn standing on the said premises") and Amos and Sarah Foster (1793), "with all the buildings on the above described lands excepting the above exception." Dated and acknowledged Sept. 22, 1794 before Isaac Stearns, recorded April 15, 1795. Billerica town book 9, pages 199-200.
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| 1823 | Deed | Luther French of Billerica, yeoman (Sally French releasing dower) | William Bowers, gentleman, Mary Bowers and Fanny Bowers, all of Billerica | 1823 Luther French sells his half to the Bowers children | 250/116 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 250-251. Dated April 22, 1823, acknowledged April 23 before Joseph Locke JP. For $685, "one undivided half of a tract of land situate in said Billerica about half a mile southerly of the meeting house with all the buildings thereon, commonly called the Shed place, containing about fifty six acres more or less", bounded from the lane leading to the house lately owned by Isaac French at land lately of Cyrus French, by that lane and "the road leading from Billerica to Concord" to land of Samuel Whiting Esq., then by Whiting, land lately of Simon Forrester, land of Rev. Jacob Norton and land of Josiah Bowers ("lately the Stickney farm"), and by land lately of Isaac French; "excepting from the above grant, the barn standing on the premises, in which the said Luther has no right". Also an undivided half of "the Shed orchard", about three acres by the same road and land of Col. John Parker, excepting a small burying ground "in which there are two tombs enclosed". The grantees were children of Dr. William Bowers of the Old Providence House.
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| October 19, 1824 | Quitclaim | Josiah Crosby of Billerica, Esq. | William Bowers, gentleman, Mary Bowers and Fanny Bowers, gentlewomen, all of Billerica | 1824 release of Luther French's mortgage | 256/348 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 297-298. Dated Oct. 18, 1824, acknowledged the same day before Joseph Locke JP. For one dollar, Crosby quitclaims "a certain farm or tract of land situate in said Billerica with the buildings thereon standing containing about fifty five acres more or less and is the same conveyed to me by mortgage deed from Luther French dated the first day of November A.D. 1819": the release of French's mortgage on the Shed place.
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| April 14, 1829 | Administration | Estate of Jonathan Bowers, Esq., of Billerica | His heirs at law | 1829 estate of Jonathan Bowers Esq. | Probate #2295 |
Joshua Simonds of Lexington, yeoman, petitioned that Jonathan Bowers, Esq., "within six months last past died intestate ... leaving no widow nor children", and that the heirs at law had declined the administration; he was appointed April 14, 1829, with Jeremiah Crosby of Billerica (the guardian of the deceased since 1822) and Thomas Carter as sureties. His first account (April 12, 1831) covers the personal estate, $1,741.52 by the inventory, sales of grass, corn and standing wood on the Chelmsford, Baldwin, Davis, Nutting and Spaulding lots, and pasture and pew rents. The real estate passed to the heirs.
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| June 2, 1842 | Quitclaim | William Bowers of Billerica, yeoman | Mary Bowers of Billerica, singlewoman (his sister) | 1831 William Bowers gives his right to Mary Bowers | 415/471 (South) |
Billerica town book 17, pages 296-297. Dated June 7, 1831, acknowledged July 27, 1831 before Marshall Preston JP; recorded June 2, 1842. For one dollar, "all my right, title, interest, and estate in and to the one undivided half of the Shed place, so called, situate in said Billerica being a part of the Real Estate of Jonathan Bowers Esq. deceased, containing forty nine acres and eighty one rods, more or less, with one undivided half of the dwelling house thereon and the whole of the Barn", bounded from the northeast corner at land of Samuel Whiting Esq. and "the road leading from Billerica to Bedford", by that road to "the road leading by the Grave yard to Isaac French place", by the heirs of Cyrus French and widow Hannah French to "the Causeway lot so called", and back by Josiah Bowers, Jacob Norton, "the Bell meadow so called", John Eames and Whiting, "not including the little pasture on the West side of said road". This was the other half of the farm, from the estate of Jonathan Bowers Esq.
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| March 16, 1869 | Will | Estate of Priscilla Bowers of Billerica, singlewoman (d. Feb. 22, 1869) | The First Baptist Church in Billerica (remainder, after the deaths of her sisters Mary and Fanny Bowers) | will of Priscilla Bowers (First Baptist Church) | Probate #27759 |
Will of December 9, 1862, allowed at Lowell March 16, 1869, Dudley Foster executor: after a $500 legacy, "to the Baptist Church in Billerica all the remainder of my Property, Real, Mixed or Personal, to be by the Chh. kept as a fund, the interest of which to be expended for the support of Preaching in the Baptist Meeting house", the legacy "not to [be] paid till after the decease of my Sisters Mary & Fanny Bowers". Her heirs at law were those two sisters. The May 1869 inventory lists "1/3 of Homestead undivided 1 1/2 acres" at $1000 and "1/3 of Old Homestead 24 acres" at $800 among $3650 of real estate.
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| May 17, 1870 | Will | Estate of Mary Bowers of Billerica, singlewoman (d. 1870) | The Town of Billerica, for the benefit of the poor | will of Mary Bowers (share to the Town) | Probate #27756 |
Will of December 9, 1862, allowed at Lowell May 17, 1870, Dudley Foster executor: "I give and bequeath to the Town of Billerica, all the Property Real, Mixed or Personal of which I may be possessed at the time of my decease, for the benefit of the poor of said Billerica. This legacy not to be paid untill after the decease of my Sisters Priscilla and Fanny Bowers." The town sold the two-thirds of the Bowers Homestead it received from Mary and Fanny Bowers to William H. Osborn in 1871.
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| May 2, 1872 | Quitclaim | The Members of the First Baptist Church and Society in Billerica, by Edward Spaulding and Geo. C. Gilman, committee | Charles E. Gorham of Billerica | 1871 First Baptist Church to Charles E. Gorham | 86/117 |
Dated May 31, 1871, under a vote of a church and society meeting of May 1, 1871; acknowledged before Dudley Foster JP; recorded May 2, 1872. For $119.44, "one undivided eighteenth part of a certain parcel of land known as the 'Shed place' situate in said Billerica, containing forty nine acres & eighty one rods, more or less", from the northeast corner at land formerly of Samuel Whiting and "the road leading to Bedford", by that road to "the road leading by the grave yard to the 'Isaac French place'", by land formerly of the heirs of Cyrus French and of widow Hannah French to "the Causeway lot, so called", and back by land formerly of Josiah Bowers, Jacob Norton, "the Bell meadow, so called", John Eames and Samuel Whiting. "Being part of the real estate devised to said grantors by Priscilla Bowers."
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| May 2, 1872 | Quitclaim | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica, by Dudley Foster, Israel A. Colson and David L. Mason, committee; Dudley Foster, Treasurer | Charles E. Gorham of Billerica | 1871 Town of Billerica to Charles E. Gorham | 86/118 |
Dated May 31, 1871, under a vote of town meeting of May 1871; acknowledged before Charles H. Parker JP; recorded May 2, 1872. For $2,330.56, "seventeen undivided eighteenth parts of a certain parcel of land known as the 'Shed place'", 49 acres 81 rods "with an old house thereon", the same bounds as the church's deed. "Being part of the real estate devised to said grantors by Mary Bowers and Fanny Bowers." The two deeds together brought $2,450 for the whole farm.
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| May 19, 1887 | Warranty Deed | Charles E. Gorham of Billerica, unmarried | Dudley Foster of Billerica | 1887 Gorham to Dudley Foster | 188/149 |
Dated May 17, 1887, acknowledged May 18 before Joseph P. Thompson JP. For $50, "a certain parcel of land known now or formerly as the 'Shed Place'", 49 acres 81 rods, the same bounds. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Dudley Foster, Treasurer of the Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica, by his deed dated May 31st A.D. 1871 ... Book 86, Page 118." Subject to two mortgages that the grantee assumes, one to Dudley Foster as Treasurer (Book 129 Page 515) and one to Susie E. Burns of Billerica (Book 130 Page 112).
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| June 3, 1887 | Warranty Deed | Dudley Foster of Billerica (Mary P. Foster releasing dower and homestead) | Moses C. Mitchell of Billerica | 1887 Moses C. Mitchell buys the Shed Place for his school | 189/55 |
Pages 55-56. Dated May 25, 1887. For $1,500, "a certain parcel of land known as the 'Shed Place', situated in said Billerica, containing forty-nine acres and eighty-one rods, more or less", beginning at the northeast corner at land formerly of Samuel Whiting and "the road leading to Bedford", westerly and southwesterly by that road to "the road leading by the grave yard to the Isaac French Place", southerly 30 rods to land formerly of the heirs of Cyrus French, around their land and land formerly of Hannah French to "the Causeway lot, so called", and northerly by land formerly of Josiah Bowers, Jacob Norton, John Eames and Whiting to the beginning. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Charles E. Gorham deed dated May, 1887" (book and page left blank). Mitchell moved his boys' school here after the 1888 fire.
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| August 20, 1888 | Mortgage | Moses C. Mitchell of Billerica | Albert R. Richardson of Billerica | 1888 $9,000 mortgage that built the new school | 199/304 |
Pages 304-305. Dated Aug. 20, 1888, seven months after the school at the Centre burned. For $9,000, $4,000 in five years and $5,000 in ten years at six per cent, "a certain parcel of land known as the Shed Place situated in said Billerica containing forty nine acres and eighty one rods", with the bounds of the 1887 deed, the buildings to be insured against fire "in a sum not less than Nine Thousand Dollars." "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Dudley Foster by deed dated May 25, 1887 ... Book 189 Page 55." The loan that built the new school, which opened on Oct. 8, 1888. Margin: assigned to Caroline E. Richardson, trustee, Book 328 Page 286; discharged Book 458 Page 161.
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| 1903 | Mortgage | Moses C. Mitchell of Billerica | Caroline E. Richardson of Billerica | 1903 second mortgage of the school grounds | 357/151 |
Pages 151-153. Dated July 14, 1903, recorded July 1903. For $3,000 in three years at five per cent, "A certain parcel of land known as the Shed Place, with the buildings thereon, situated in said Billerica containing forty-nine acres and eighty-one rods", beginning "at the northeasterly corner at land formerly of Samuel Whiting and the road leading to Bedford", along that road to "the road leading by the grave yard to the Isaac French Place" and around the French land to "the causeway lot so called." Subject to "a mortgage for $9000 to Albert R. Richardson dated Aug. 20, 1888 ... Book 199, Page 304"; the buildings to be insured for at least $3,000. Margin: discharged Book 458 Page 160.
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| October 28, 1910 | Discharge of Mortgage | Caroline E. Richardson, trustee under the will of Albert R. Richardson, assignee | Moses C. Mitchell, mortgagor | 1910 the 1888 mortgage paid off; Campbell Hall built on the free grounds in 1912 | 458/161 |
Dated Oct. 27, 1910, recorded Oct. 28, 1910. As trustee under the will of Albert R. Richardson and "assignee of a certain mortgage given by Moses C. Mitchell ... to said Albert R. Richardson dated August 20, A.D. 1888" (Book 199 Page 304), she acknowledges full payment and releases the Shed Place to Mitchell, leaving the school grounds free of both mortgages.
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| June 29, 1927 | Quitclaim | Ruth A. Connell of Billerica, married (Henry J. Connell, her husband, releasing curtesy) | Marion K. Terry of Somerville | 1927 the four-acre place east of the school (later Lot 1A strip): Connell to Terry | 751/252 |
Dated June 27, 1927. "The land with the buildings thereon," the four acres on the south side of the Concord Road and "Churnstaffe Lane," west by land "formerly of one Blanchard, now of one Mitchell," east by Hallenborg, south by Foster. Subject to the $5,000 Wetherbee mortgage. A straw deed: Terry conveyed it back the same day (Book 751 Page 253).
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| June 29, 1927 | Quitclaim | Marion K. Terry of Somerville, unmarried | Ruth A. Connell of Somerville and Alfred R. Smith of Billerica, tenants in common | 1927 the four-acre place back to Ruth A. Connell and Alfred R. Smith | 751/253 |
Dated June 27, 1927, acknowledged before Ralph W. Smith. "The land with the buildings thereon," the same four acres, subject to the $5,000 mortgage held by Ellis Wetherbee. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by deed of Ruth A. Connell to be recorded herewith."
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| December 7, 1935 | Mortgage | Mary H. Mitchell of Billerica, widow | Anna Zisman of Boston | 1935 $20,000 Zisman mortgage of the school grounds | 876/243 |
Pages 243-245. Dated Nov. 22, 1935. To secure $20,000 in one year at five per cent, the same western land "with the buildings thereon" on the Mitchell Estates plan, with the same exceptions. Margin notes: assignments Book 921 Page 51 and Book 938 Page 162 (to Blanche S. Mitchell), partial releases Books 985, 997, 1005, 1008, and releases on sale Book 1014 Page 84 and Book 1031 Page 174.
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| December 7, 1935 | Deed | Mary H. Mitchell of Billerica, widow | Mitchell School, a Massachusetts corporation | 1935 Mary H. Mitchell deeds the school grounds, Campbell Hall included, to the Mitchell School | 876/245 |
Pages 245-247. Dated Nov. 22, 1935, acknowledged in Suffolk County the same day; consideration less than $100. The land "with the buildings thereon" in Billerica Centre on the 1935 Mitchell Estates plan, west of the line to Alexander H. Mitchell: bounded by Concord Road, French Street, land of Paris, McElligott, unknown owners and Mason, excepting the house lots of Blocks A, B and C along Concord Road and Campbell Road. "For my title see records of Probate Court, Estate of Moses C. Mitchell, Docket #98722." Subject to taxes for 1935 and "to a mortgage given by the said grantor to Anna Zisman in the sum of $20,000".
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| November 24, 1939 | Assignment of Mortgage | Anna Zisman | Blanche S. Mitchell | 1939 the Zisman mortgage assigned to Blanche S. Mitchell | 938/162 |
Recorded Nov. 24, 1939, entered in the grantee index (1926-1940, Mitchell, p. 218) as "Asst. 876-243": the assignment of the 1935 Zisman mortgage of the Mitchell School grounds to Blanche S. Mitchell, who sold the field lots in 1947 and 1948.
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| June 6, 1944 | Quitclaim Deed | Mitchell School, a Massachusetts corporation of Billerica, by Blanche S. Mitchell, Treasurer | Edward Votour of Bedford | 1944 the school sells Edward Votour the frontage "with the buildings thereon", beginning at the Campbell Hall lot | 1008/31 |
Pages 31-33. Dated June 2, 1944, under a vote of the trustees the same day; acknowledged in Suffolk County; revenue stamps $12.10. "The land with the buildings thereon, situated on and off Concord Road, Billerica Centre", on the "Plan of Land of Mitchell Estates, Billerica Centre, Mass., April 28, 1935" (Plan Book 59 Plan 16): from a stone bound at the northeast corner of "the location of the Mitchell School building and gymnasium" west along Concord Road (165.70, 98.19 and 134.32 feet and a 96.95-foot curve) to land of Richard T. Rounds, around the Rounds land (plan by E. P. Simpson, Sept. 4, 1941), southwest along the road to Mitchell Road and back by other land of the grantor. "Conveyance shall include landlord's fixtures." The school reserved a right of way from Concord Road to Mitchell Road "by the Mitchell School and Gymnasium and Farm House". No title recital; the school held under the 1935 deed from Mary H. Mitchell. The church lot of 1960 was cut from this land.
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| June 6, 1944 | Mortgage | Edward Votour of Bedford | Blanche S. Mitchell of Billerica | 1944 Votour's $10,000 mortgage back to Blanche S. Mitchell | 1008/33 |
Pages 33-34, recorded with the deed from the Mitchell School. "To secure the payment of Ten thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars in or within twenty years with three (3%) per cent interest", the same "land with the buildings thereon, situated on and off Concord Road": a purchase-money mortgage back to the school's treasurer.
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| April 18, 1946 | Quitclaim | Ruth A. Connell McCurdy of Santa Barbara, California (Herbert E. McCurdy, her husband, releasing curtesy) | Harry W. Turner and Anna Marie Turner of Baltimore, Maryland, husband and wife | 1946 the four-acre place east of the school to the Turners | 1041/165 |
Dated April 18, 1946; $9.90 in stamps. "The land in Billerica ... together with the buildings thereon," from the northwest corner "on the southerly side of the Concord Road, so-called," at Mitchell, east along the road "and along Charnstaffe Lane" 261 feet to Hallenborg, south 748 feet to Foster, west 180 feet, and back by Mitchell 357.60, 90 and 355.05 feet, four acres. "Meaning and intending hereby to convey the same property conveyed to Alfred R. Smith and Ruth A. Connell by Marion K. Terry ... Book 751, Page 253."
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| August 16, 1948 | Quitclaim Deed | Mitchell School, a Massachusetts corporation, by Blanche S. Mitchell, Treasurer | Blanche S. Mitchell of Billerica | 1948 the school quitclaims its remaining land to Blanche S. Mitchell | 1099/361 |
Pages 361-363. Dated Aug. 10, 1948, acknowledged in Los Angeles; trustees' vote of Aug. 4, 1948 at 627 Exchange Building, Boston. "For nominal consideration paid", "all its right, title and interest in and to any land situated in said Billerica and more particularly shown on" the 1935 Mitchell Estates plan, "together with any buildings thereon". Recorded with the next deed, as the 1947 deed to Poole had promised.
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| December 30, 1955 | Quitclaim Deed | Edward Votour of Billerica (Ruth Votour releasing dower) | Harry S. Boynton of Chelmsford | 1955 Votour sells the old main building site (86 Concord Rd) | 1322/41 |
Pages 41-42. Dated and acknowledged Dec. 29, 1955, recorded Dec. 30, 1955. "The land in said Billerica located on the southerly side of the Concord Road", Lot 2 on the "Plan of Land in Billerica Drawn for Edward Votour," Dec. 27, 1955, James B. Monahan (Plan Book 86 Plan 169B): northwest by Concord Road 113 feet, northeast and southeast by other land of Votour 300 and 199.75 feet, southwest by land of Jefferson 100.38 feet and by Lot 1 95.5 and 200 feet, "Containing 43,000 square feet of land." No buildings are named: this was the vacant site of the old main school building. "Being a part of the premises conveyed to me by deed of Mitchell School dated June 2, 1944 ... Book 1008, Page 31." Votour sold Lot 1 the same day to Evan L. Boynton (next page).
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| July 20, 1960 | Quitclaim Deed | Edward Votour of Billerica (his wife releasing dower) | Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Utah corporation sole, of Salt Lake City | 1960 Votour sells the land west of Campbell Hall to the LDS church | 1482/339 |
Pages 339-340. Signed and recorded July 20, 1960 (#944), "for consideration paid". Land "on the Easterly side of the Concord Road" from the junction with land of one Rounds: by Concord Road in four courses of 93.82, 53.66, 83.60 and 63.89 feet (294.97 feet), south 287 feet and southwest by other land of the grantor to a right of way "three hundred seventy-five ... feet from said Concord Road", northwest by the right of way 175 feet, and by the Rounds land 215.50 and 195.73 feet to the beginning, "approximately 81,500 square feet". "Being part of the premises to me conveyed by deed recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Volume 1008, Page 31." With a right of way "for all purposes of travel" over a sixty-foot strip from Concord Road beside the Rounds land. The church built its Billerica meetinghouse here about 1970.
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| March 25, 1963 | Quitclaim Deed | Harry W. Turner and Anna Marie Turner of Gulfport, Florida | Ken-Mar Corporation of Arlington | 1963 Lot B of the Turner land to Ken-Mar Corporation (source of Lot 1A) | 1594/356 |
Pages 356-357. Acknowledged at Gulfport March 7, 1963, recorded March 25, 1963. Lot B on "Plan of Land in Billerica belonging to Harry W. Turner," Sept. 1958, J. B. Monahan (Plan Book 90 Plan 104): northwest by Concord Road 100 feet, northeast by Lot A 376.52 feet, southeast by land of Mitchell and Lot A 100 feet, "SOUTHWESTERLY by land of Votour, three hundred sixty-four and 13/100 (364.13) feet", 37,030 square feet. "Being part of the premises conveyed to us by Ruth A. Connell McCurdy ... Book 1041, Page 165." Ken-Mar (Kenneth E. Gott, treasurer) made it part of its Mitchell Estates subdivision.
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| April 3, 1964 | Partial Release of Mortgage | Edward Votour and Ruth Votour of Billerica, mortgagees | Ken-Mar Corporation of Arlington | 1963 Votour's back land sold to Ken-Mar: partial release of the purchase mortgage | 1642/417 |
Signed Oct. 16, 1963, recorded April 3, 1964. As holders of a mortgage from Ken-Mar Corporation dated May 23, 1963 (Book 1601 Page 553), the Votours release Lot B on "Plan of land in Billerica, drawn for Kenneth E. Gott," Sept. 11, 1963 (Plan Book 99 Plan 42), 4,517 square feet, bounded west by the land of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. It shows that Votour had sold his back land to Ken-Mar in 1963 on a purchase-money mortgage, keeping the Campbell Hall lot on Concord Road.
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| May 4, 1965 | Quitclaim Deed | Ken-Mar Corporation of Arlington, by Kenneth E. Gott, Treasurer | Ruth Votour of Billerica | 1965 Lot 1A, the strip at Kenmar Drive, added to the Campbell Hall lot | 1695/53 |
Pages 53-54. Dated April 30, 1965, recorded May 4, 1965. Lot 1A, 7,824 square feet, at Concord Road and the west side of Kenmar Drive on the "Definitive Plan of Mitchell Estates, Billerica, Mass., owned by Ken-Mar Corp.," Dec. 1964, Emmons and Fleming (Plan Book 101 Plan 159): east by Kenmar Drive 202.78 feet, south by Lot 1 36.78 feet, "WESTERLY by land of Edward Votour", 232.69 feet, and by Concord Road and Kenmar Drive in a curve 47.58 feet. "Being part of the premises conveyed to it by deed of Harry W. Turner et ux ... Book 1594 Page 356"; certificate of vote Book 1600 Page 200.
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| October 23, 1967 | Quitclaim Deed | Ruth Votour of Billerica, widow of Edward Votour | Her son and his wife, private owners, tenants by the entirety | 1967 Edward Votour's widow deeds Campbell Hall and Lot 1A, 66 Concord Road, to her son | 1819/144 |
Pages 144-145. Recorded Oct. 23, 1967 at 11:46 AM. "The land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, located on the southerly side of Concord Road," the lot marked "Edward Votour" and Lot 1A on the 1964 Definitive Plan of Mitchell Estates (Plan Book 101 Plan 159): north by Concord Road 199.98 feet, west by land of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 226.58 feet, south by Lot 1 236.44 feet, east by Kenmar Drive 202.78 feet and northeast by a curve 47.58 feet; marginal address "66 Concord Road". "For my title see Estate of Edward Votour, duly probated in the Middlesex Probate Court, Docket No. 399656." The grantees mortgaged it the same day to the Lexington Savings Bank for $21,000 (1819/145).
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| April 26, 1973 | Quitclaim Deed | The 1967 owners (Ruth Votour's son and his wife), private | Private owners of Billerica, funeral directors (Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home), tenants by the entirety | 1973 sold for $80,000 to the funeral directors; Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home since | 2062/34 |
Acknowledged and recorded April 26, 1973 (2:16 PM). "In full consideration of $80,000.00", "the land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, located on the southerly side of Concord Road," the lot marked "Edward Votour" and Lot 1A on Plan 101/159, with the bounds of the 1967 deed, "subject to all easements of record." "For our title, see deed of Ruth Votour dated October 23, 1967 ... Book 1819, Page 144." The town report of 1973 lists the Sweeney Funeral Home among the town's business buildings. Later transfers within the same family: to their realty trust in 1990 (5320/64), to a family limited partnership in 2002 (13569/125) and to a family partnership LLC in 2009 (22634/127), each for nominal consideration; in 1983 they gave the abutting church a 204 square foot strip (Lot B, Plan 141/59).
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| October 3, 1973 | Deed | Private owners of Billerica (the family of the Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home) | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, a corporation sole | 1973 the funeral home family sells Sunnyside next door and moves the business into Campbell Hall | 2088/9 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 3, 1973 (doc. 19079). "For the full consideration of $70,000", with quitclaim covenants, "That certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica on the southeasterly side of Concord Road": northwest by Concord Road 150.50 feet, northeast by land now or formerly of the Mitchell School 196 feet, southeast by other land of the school 150.50 feet and southwest by a neighboring private lot 200 feet, "a portion of the premises" on Plan Book 64, Plan 49. Title: Book 1427, Page 524, the grantors' purchase of Jan. 19, 1959 (recorded Jan. 20, 1959) from the owner who had held the lot since 1950, when it then had 160.50 feet on the road; the grantors kept the Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home here and gave a $16,000 mortgage to the Central Savings Bank of Lowell. The house, Sunnyside, became the rectory of St. Theresa's Catholic Church parish.
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| October 6, 1983 | Quitclaim Deed | The private owners of 66 Concord Rd (abutters) | Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Utah corporation sole | 1983 the owners of 66 Concord Rd give the church Lot B, 204 sq ft | 2659/107 |
Dated Sept. 27, 1983, recorded Oct. 6, 1983 (#28801); consideration $1. "Lot B on Plan of Land in Billerica, Massachusetts, prepared for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by ... Richard F. Kaminski & Associates, Inc., dated April 19, 1983", "approximately Two Hundred and Four (204) square feet", a strip on the line between the church lot and the house lot at 66 Concord Road (Plan Book 141 Plan 59). For the grantors' title, Book 2062 Page 34. The deed spelled the grantee "Latter Day Saings".
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| December 8, 1983 | Confirmatory Deed | The private owners of 66 Concord Rd (abutters) | Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Utah corporation sole, of Concord Road, Billerica | 1983 confirmatory deed of Lot B | 2678/203 |
Acknowledged Oct. 29, 1983, recorded Dec. 8, 1983 (#35594); $1. The same Lot B of 204 square feet on the Kaminski plan of April 19, 1983 (Plan Book 141 Plan 59). "We are recording a confirmatory deed because in the original deed at Book 2659, Page 107, the word 'Saints' was spelled 'Saings'", and "also to put in the address of the Grantee". The assessor gives this book and page as the lot's current deed reference.
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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.