Structure · Built 1930
Florence R. Ritchie House
Florence R. Ritchie House
| Address | 6 Call St |
| Built | 1930 |
| Other Lot Structures | Robert Call House (1852 - 1929) |
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| March 8, 1852 | Deed | Samuel Rogers of Billerica, gentleman; Sarah Rogers, his wife, releasing dower | Robert Call of Billerica, yeoman | 1852 Samuel Rogers to Robert Call (the lot of the later house) | 626/205 (South) |
Billerica town book 19, pages 215-217. "In consideration of Twenty seven hundred and fifty dollars", "a certain piece or parcel of land with the buildings on the same" in Billerica "containing sixty acres more or less", bounded by other Rogers land, the wall of William Pollard, the "Ford way Road", other Pollard land and the Concord River. "The premises hereby conveyed being a part of the farm owned by said Samuel Rogers." Reserves to Call a right of way forever open from his house easterly to the road from Billerica Mills to the centre of the town. Call assumes mortgages to Jonas Parker (Nov 25, 1844, $1,099.53) and Albert Marshall (Nov 29, 1851, $500). Dated March 6, 1852. The six-acre lot that became the school site was part of this farm.
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| November 8, 1883 | Quitclaim | Robert Call of Billerica, unmarried | Joseph H. Call of Billerica | 1883 Robert Call to Joseph H. Call (the lot of the later house) | 163/547 |
"In consideration of Nine hundred dollars", three tracts: (1) "a certain piece of land with the buildings thereon" at the Fordway road and the new road (now Call Street), running to the Concord River, about twenty acres; (2) "one other tract of land containing six acres more or less" beginning at the northeast corner at the new road and land of the Rogers heirs, southerly to land of Patrick Riley, westerly by Riley land to land of Owen Murningham, northerly by Murningham land to the new road and easterly by the road (the school lot); (3) about one acre at the Fordway road and new road by land of Hannah Salter. Dated Nov 3, 1883; acknowledged before Dudley Foster JP.
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| June 25, 1925 | Warranty Deed | Ella A. Ruth of Billerica, married; James A. Ruth, her husband, releasing curtesy | Florence R. Ritchie of Billerica | 1925 northern part of Lot 1 to Florence R. Ritchie | 724/434 |
"For consideration paid", "the land in said Billerica ... situated on the southerly side of Hillside Avenue and the easterly side of Pollard Street": 155 feet on Pollard Street from the corner, then northeasterly 133.95 feet "to a drill hole in a stone" and northerly 87.30 feet along other land of Ruth, and 155.45 feet on Hillside Avenue. "Being part of Lot #1" on the 1918 Smith and Brooks plan of Ella A. Ruth (Plan Book 35, Plan 43), "being a portion of premises conveyed to Joseph H. Call by Robert Call by deed dated Nov. 3, 1883". "For my title to the granted premises see will of Joseph H. Call duly allowed by the Probate Court." Dated May 29, 1925. This is the northern part of Lot 1, without buildings; the corner with the house followed in 1930.
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| 1930 | Quitclaim | Ella A. Ruth of Billerica; James A. Ruth, her husband, releasing curtesy | Florence R. Ritchie of Billerica | 1930 Ella A. Ruth to Florence R. Ritchie, the house lot; the present house was built about 1930 | 786/266 |
"For consideration paid", "the land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the northerly side of Call Street, on the easterly side of Pollard Street (formerly known as Fordway Road) and the southerly side of Hillside Avenue": 75 feet on Pollard Street from the corner, along the land sold to Ritchie in 1925, 30.48 feet on Hillside Avenue, 200 feet along lots 13 and 2, and 192 feet on Call Street; "a portion of lot No. 1" on Plan Book 35, Plan 43, subject to a mortgage to The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank for $800. Also lots 2 to 13 and 17 to 40 on the plan, and land on the northwest side of Call Street and Myrtle Street to the Talbot Mills line. "A portion of the premises conveyed to Joseph H. Call by Robert Call by deed dated November 3, 1883 ... my title to the granted premises being derived under the will of said Joseph H. Call." Subject to the 1929 taxes. Dated January 17, 1930. Ritchie mortgaged the corner to The Merrimack River Savings Bank on January 28, 1930, when the present house was built in place of the old Call house.
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| September 23, 1948 | Warranty Deed | Florence R. Ritchie of Concord, New Hampshire; John J. Ritchie, her husband, releasing curtesy and homestead | Edwin T. Meaney of Billerica | 1948 the rest of Lot 1 and lots 2 and 13 to Edwin T. Meaney, completing the present lot | 1100/280 |
"For consideration paid", three parcels: First, the corner of Pollard Street and Hillside Avenue, 100 feet on each, "a part of Lot 1", from the 1925 Ruth deed; Second, "lots two and thirteen", 50 by 200 feet from Call Street to Hillside Avenue, "ten thousand (10,000) square feet", from the 1930 Ruth deed; Third, lots 18, 19 and 20 on the north side of Hillside Avenue. Plan Book 35, Plan 43. Subject to the 1948 taxes. With the deed of the day before, Meaney held all of Lot 1 with lots 2 and 13, the present house lot.
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| September 22, 1948 | Warranty Deed | Florence R. Ritchie of Concord, New Hampshire; John J. Ritchie, her husband, releasing curtesy and homestead | Edwin T. Meaney of Billerica | 1948 Florence R. Ritchie to Edwin T. Meaney, the house at the corner of Call and Pollard Streets | 1100/375 |
"For consideration paid" ($8.80 in revenue stamps), "the land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the Northerly side of Call Road and the Easterly side of Pollard Street formerly called Fordway Road, and the Southerly side of Hillside Avenue": 110 feet on Pollard Street from the corner, 130 feet northeasterly and 60 feet northerly along other Ritchie land, 85.93 feet on Hillside Avenue, 200 feet along lots 13 and 2, and 192 feet on Call Street; "a portion of Lot 1" on Plan Book 35, Plan 43, "a part of the same premises conveyed to me by two deeds both given by Ella A. Ruth" (1925 and 1930). Subject to the 1948 taxes. Dated September 21, 1948. Recorded with the discharge of Ritchie's 1930 mortgage to The Merrimack River Savings Bank. Meaney mortgaged the house to The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank for $7,600 the same day (Book 1100, Page 376).
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| March 1, 1955 | Mortgagee's Deed | Esplanade Realty Co., Inc., holder of a mortgage from Edwin T. Meaney | A private buyer | 1955 foreclosure sale of lots 2 and 13 and the rest of Lot 1 | 1285/513 |
Foreclosure of the second Esplanade Realty Co. mortgage of April 16, 1954 (Book 1253, Page 91), for $500: First Parcel, the corner of Pollard Street and Hillside Avenue, part of Lot 1; Second Parcel, lots 2 and 13, 10,000 square feet on Call Street; Third Parcel, lots 18, 19 and 20 on Hillside Avenue, all on Plan Book 35, Plan 43. With the other foreclosure deed of the same day, it reunited the present house lot in one owner.
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| March 1, 1955 | Mortgagee's Deed | Esplanade Realty Co., Inc., holder of a mortgage from Edwin T. Meaney | A private buyer | 1955 mortgagee's foreclosure sale of the house | 1285/517 |
Foreclosure. Esplanade Realty Co., Inc., "holder of a mortgage from Edwin T. Meaney to it dated April 16, 1954" (Book 1253, Page 92), "by the power conferred by said mortgage", for $2,000 sells "the land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the northerly side of Call Road and the easterly side of Pollard Street", the same bounds as the 1948 deed, held through a 1954 family deed (Book 1250, Page 233), "subject to a prior mortgage held by the Lowell Five Cents Savings Bank, in the approximate sum of $10,000". Recorded with the Land Court decree authorizing entry and sale. Later owners of 6 Call Street are private: the house was sold in 1984, 1987 (with the record of "Lots 1, 2 and 13", 49,104 square feet, less 1,500 square feet given to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in 1984), 1996, 2003, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.