83 Alexander Rd

83 Alexander Rd
Address 83 Alexander Rd
Built 1989
Tenants
Pandolfo Co. (2003 - ????)
Pappas Lawn Sprinkler Specialists (2003 - ????)
Richard Garofano Co. (2003 - 2006)
Noelle Industries (2003 - 2006)
PJ Pappas Manufacturing (2004 - 2004)
Jodi General Contractors (2005 - 2011)
Dinsmore Landscaping (2007 - ????)
Hour Construction (2008 - 2011)
Quality Additions and Remodeling (2008 - 2012)
Teletype Graphics (2011 - 2011)
Caluwe (2011 - 2018)
Bagni Electric (2017 - ????)
Island Spas (2018 - 2020)
Woodland Homeworks (2019 - ????)
Rashidi Property Services (2020 - ????)


The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium is a pair of one-story concrete block buildings on the south side of Alexander Road in East Billerica, near the Wilmington line: Phase I at 83 Alexander Road, with fourteen units, and Phase II at 77 Alexander Road, with twenty, both built in 1989 and divided into small industrial units, each with its own heating system, septic tank and water meter.

The land was part of a farm of about one hundred acres "on the southeast side of Shawsheen River", running from the river to Lubbers Brook and the town line, with the road to Wilmington passing through it. It was the homestead of Joseph Gleason of Burlington, whose will of 1847 left the residue of his estate to his four children. In 1850 his widow and heirs sold "the homestead of the late Joseph Gleason containing one hundred acres" to Asa G. Sheldon of Wilmington, who conveyed it the same day to the son George Gleason; the 1853 map shows the house on the road under the names of G. Gleason and A. G. Sheldon. George Gleason died in 1858 leaving one child, George Henry Gleason, and his inventory valued the "Farm situated in Billerica & Wilmington" at $2,000.

In 1871 George H. Gleason, then of Concord, sold the farm "with the buildings thereon" for $2,500 to his neighbor Jonas Alexander, who in 1872 put it in the name of his wife Hannah. As a widow she deeded it in 1882 to their sons Jonas Watson Alexander and Frank Hume Alexander, and in 1907 Watson released his half to Frank, a farmer and town assessor. The Alexander brothers gave their name to the road, listed by the town in 1897 as Alexander Street. In 1927 Mary C. Alexander sold the farm with the Alexander land around it to the L. C. Morang Company, which had it laid out that April as Shawsheen Pines, a grid of 25-foot house lots on both sides of the town line.

Few lots sold. The mortgage back to Mary C. Alexander was foreclosed in 1941 by its assignee John D. Cooke, who in 1945 sold the unsold land to Alanson E. Stewart and Russell B. Totman; they conveyed it the same year to Billerica Wilmington Airways, Inc. The company's bank foreclosed in 1954, and through a buyer at the auction the tract went to Joseph M. Linsey, who kept it, partly through his Highway Sand & Gravel company, until 1981. In 1975 town meeting voted down a proposal to take 30 acres of the Linsey land on Alexander Road for a school.

Linsey sold the tract in 1981 for $625,000 to Alexander Realty Trust, a Caporale family trust; after a foreclosure by the lender Frederick J. Conroy in 1984, it passed to Alexander Realty Trust III, which sold it off in lots for houses and industry. A & A Realty Trust (George T. Allen, Jr., trustee) bought Lot 100 in 1988 and Lot 101, a lot of 110,383 square feet on Alexander Road, in May 1989 for $450,000. The master deed of the Alexander Road Industrial Condominium, recorded March 21, 1989, created Phase I on Lot 100 with fourteen units and reserved a second phase; amendments recorded in December 1989 and February 1990 combined the two lots as Lot 103, of 233,834 square feet, and added Phase II on Lot 101: an L-shaped building west of the first, with twenty units of about 1,400 to 3,700 square feet, drawn by Summit Survey Service of Billerica. The trust sold the Phase II units one by one from December 1989 to the end of 1991, and the condominium is governed by the Alexander Road Industrial Condominium Trust. Units 1 and 2 at the front of Phase II changed hands among companies and realty trusts in 1990, 1991, 2000 and 2002, were split into two units in 2013, and Unit 1 was sold again in 2016, 2019 and 2026.

The units have housed contractors, auto shops and small manufacturers. Long-term tenants include Dix Auto Body (advertised at Unit 11 in 1996 and listed from 2003 to 2022), Sheet Metal Systems and Design (2003 to 2024), [[Mancini Heating & Cooling]] (2003 to 2024), John Scott Seamless Gutter (2003 to 2023), New England Fountain (2008 to 2024), [[Advanced Heat/Air Systems]] (2005 to 2020), [[Gallant & Sons Service]] (2008 to 2024), C. Hawkes Landscaping (2008 to 2024), Ric's Auto Sales (2003 to 2024), Roadway Amusements (2003 to 2010) and KVA Electronics, which used Units 1 and 2 from about 2005 to 2016. Others have included landscapers, ironworks and welding shops (Azores Iron Work, Forte Iron Work Specialist, DCB Welding and Fabrication, Metalcad Iron Works, Imperial Iron Work), builders and remodelers, a bakery equipment company and a collision center.



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Shawsheen Pines, 1927 (Plan 50/61)
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Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass., owned by Alexander Realty Trust III (Raymond Engineering Service, 574 Boston Rd., Billerica, July 27, 1988), 1988 (Plan 166/18)
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"The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium", Site Plan, Lot 103 (Lots 100 and 101), Phases I and II, Summit Survey Service, 1989, 1989 (Plan 171/80)
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"The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium", Billerica, MA, Site Plan (Lot 100, Phase I), Summit Survey Service, Feb. 21, 1989, 1989 (Plan 168/87)
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"The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium", Floor Plan (Phase I, Units 1-14), Summit Survey Service, Feb. 21, 1989, 1989 (Plan 168/88)
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"The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium", Amended Plan, Site Plan, Lot 103, Summit Survey Service, Jan. 22, 1990, 1990 (Plan 172/46)


References

  1. Billerica assessor, 77 Alexander Rd Unit 1 (parcel 65-83-10-14-1): industrial condominium, concrete block, built about 1989; sales 1989-2019
  2. Middlesex probate 32727: will of Joseph Gleason of Burlington, 1847
  3. Middlesex probate 32721: administration of George Gleason of Burlington, 1858, with inventory of the farm


Title References

Date Type Grantor Grantee Summary Recorded
1849 Will Estate of Joseph Gleason of Burlington His widow Sarah Gleason and children Amira Buck, Susan W. Cutler, Joseph Gleason and George Gleason Probate #32727
July 12, 1852 Quitclaim Sarah Gleason of Burlington, widow, and the heirs of Joseph Gleason: Joseph Gleason of Medford, Sewall and Amira Buck, Silas and Susan W. Cutler, and George Gleason of Burlington Asa G. Sheldon of Wilmington, Esquire 634/538 (South)
July 12, 1852 Quitclaim Asa G. Sheldon of Wilmington (Clarissa Sheldon releasing dower) George Gleason of Burlington, trader 634/540 (South)
1858 Administration Estate of George Gleason of Burlington His only child George Henry Gleason, a minor; Silas Cutler, administrator Probate #32721
December 7, 1871 Warranty Deed George H. Gleason of Concord, unmarried Jonas Alexander of Billerica 83/461
February 24, 1872 Quitclaim Jonas Alexander of Billerica William Nichols of Lowell 84/539
February 24, 1872 Quitclaim William Nichols of Lowell (Charlotte A. Nichols releasing dower) Hannah Alexander, wife of Jonas Alexander, of Billerica 84/541
January 13, 1883 Warranty Deed Hannah Alexander of Billerica, widow Her sons Jonas Watson Alexander and Frank Hume Alexander of Billerica 157/239
February 1, 1907 Quitclaim Jonas Watson Alexander of Billerica (Alice B. Alexander releasing dower and homestead) His brother Frank Hume Alexander of Billerica 399/567
March 1, 1927 Quitclaim Mary C. Alexander of Billerica, unmarried L. C. Morang Co., a Massachusetts corporation 747/9
December 11, 1941 Foreclosure Deed John D. Cooke of Wilmington, assignee of the mortgage of L. C. Morang Co. to Mary C. Alexander John D. Cooke 971/10
April 2, 1945 Quitclaim John D. Cooke of Wilmington (Margaret R. Cooke releasing dower) Alanson E. Stewart of Chelmsford and Russell B. Totman of Reading, joint tenants 1020/462
September 14, 1945 Quitclaim Alanson E. Stewart of Chelmsford and Russell B. Totman of Reading (wives releasing dower) Billerica Wilmington Airways, Inc., of Billerica 1029/268
March 8, 1954 Foreclosure Deed Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company, mortgagee of Billerica-Wilmington Airways, Inc. John Harrison of Boston 1249/34
March 8, 1954 Quitclaim John Harrison of Brookline, unmarried Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline 1249/39
April 29, 1954 Quitclaim Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline, unmarried Highway Sand & Gravel Inc., of Boston 1254/17
February 2, 1956 Quitclaim Highway Sand & Gravel Inc., by Joseph M. Linsey, Treasurer Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline 1325/183
October 7, 1981 Quitclaim Joseph M. Linsey of Palm Beach, Florida Elizabeth Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust, of Meadowbrook Road, Billerica 2504/83
August 17, 1984 Foreclosure Deed Frederick J. Conroy, mortgagee of Elizabeth Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust Frederick J. Conroy of Lexington 2826/206
October 1, 1984 Deed Frederick J. Conroy of Lexington Frederick J. Conroy, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III, of Lexington 2859/15
March 21, 1989 Master Deed George T. Allen, Jr., Trustee of A & A Realty Trust The Alexander Road Industrial Condominium 4834/27

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.