Pinehurst Manor & Park View

Pinehurst Manor & Park View is a neighborhood of small house lots east of Boston Road in Pinehurst, made of Frank W. Coughlin's Pinehurst Manor of 1910 and Bernard F. McHugh's Park View of 1917, both drawn by H. A. Millhouse, civil engineer, of Boston. Park View laid out McHugh Avenue along the north edge of Pinehurst Manor and carried the Manor's avenues a block farther, to Clarence Street, so the two share one grid of 40-foot streets. Their histories follow.

Pinehurst Manor is a neighborhood of small house lots on the east side of Boston Road in Pinehurst, in the south part of town, between McHugh Avenue on the north and the line of the Pinedale Park Land Company on the south. The land was a farm of about 100 acres with buildings, running 2,602 feet along the great road from Billerica to Boston from a brook north to land of one Beard, and back to land of Gleason and Parker. Henry Shelden and James T. Eames had it surveyed by James A. Bancroft on Oct. 23, 1893 and sold it to Clara N. Wonson on Nov. 2, 1893; on Sept. 13, 1910 Clara N. Wonson, widow, of Billerica sold the whole tract to Frank W. Coughlin of Brookline.

Coughlin had it laid out at once. "Pinehurst Manor, Billerica, Mass., Owned by Frank W. Coughlin," drawn by H. A. Millhouse, civil engineer, of Boston in September 1910, was recorded on Sept. 23, 1910 (Plan Book 27, Plan 95). It divided the farm into well over a thousand lots, most of them 25 feet wide and 2,500 square feet, on a grid of 40 foot streets: Pinehurst Avenue, Cardington Avenue, Beaumont, Covington, Dorsett, Egmont and Chesterfield Avenues running east from Boston Road, crossed by Allandale, Ellingwood, Glenside, Ridgeway, Glenvale, Montrose and Endleigh Avenues, with Clarence, Delle, Bancroft and Dillworth Streets at the east end. The names have an English sound; several are British titles, and none is known to refer to a Billerica family. Three years later Coughlin laid out Mechanics' Park on the Tewksbury line. The name echoes Pinehurst Park, the trolley park on Boston Road at Cook Street.

The lots were bought slowly, often several at a time, and the streets stayed private ways for decades. A 1925 plan of electric light poles "on not accepted streets in Pinehurst Manor" (Plan Book 47, Plan 64) shows the same grid, "all streets 40 feet in width." The town accepted the first 1,000 feet of Pinehurst Avenue in 1924 and 800 feet of Cardington Avenue in 1927, laid water mains through the 1920s, and accepted the rest piece by piece; Ridgeway Avenue was not accepted until 1975. The plan's Allandale and Dorsett Avenues are now spelled Allendale and Dorset, and its Montrose Avenue is today's Shannon Road and Ernest Road.

Park View is a small neighborhood in Pinehurst along McHugh Avenue, between the north edge of Pinehurst Manor and the land once of P. Beard, running east from Cook Street near its corner with Boston Road to Clarence Street. In April 1917 H. A. Millhouse, civil engineer, of 15 Exchange Street, Boston, drew the "Plan of Park View, Billerica Mass., owned by Bernard F. McHugh," recorded on September 8, 1917 (Plan Book 34, Plan 79). McHugh Avenue began at Cook Street beside Pinehurst Park and the electric car line; the pavilion at Pinehurst Park belonged to J. Joseph McHugh.

The plan laid out McHugh Avenue from Cook Street east across the ends of the Pinehurst Manor avenues, Allandale, Ellingwood, Glenside, Ridgeway, Glenvale, Montrose and Endleigh, which it carried a block farther, to Clarence Street, with Bicknell Road and Beard Road at its eastern end. Land of James E. Burke bounded it on one side and of P. Beard on the other; the lots were mostly 25 feet wide.

The 1936 town warrant named the "Parkview Realty Trust, J. Joseph McHugh et als., Elizabeth K. McHugh, and estate of Bernard F. McHugh" as owners. The town accepted McHugh Avenue from Cook Street about 525 feet in 1953. Clarence Street was built up mostly from the 1960s, and Beard Road in 1963.