13 Marlborough Street

13 Marlborough Street

13 Marlborough Street was designed by architect Charles Kirby and built ca. 1863, one of four contiguous houses (9-11-13-15 Marlborough).  The four houses form two pairs of mirror opposite buildings (9-11 Marlborough and 13-15 Marlborough); each pair with a single entrance porch creating a symmetrical entryway.

In his Houses of Boston’s Back Bay, Bainbridge Bunting indicates that 13 Marlborough house was built for E. D. Brigham.

By 1865, it was the home of woolens importer and dry goods merchant Edwin Oramal Tufts and his wife, Ruth Bradstreet (Foster) Tufts.  They continued to live there in 1870 and probably until about 1874; he is shown as the owner on the 1874 Hopkins map.

By 1875, it was the home of Henry Augustus Rice and his wife, Agnes Lee (Cushing) Rice.  Henry Rice was a wool merchant and banker.  He is shown as the owner of 13 Marlborough on the 1883 and 1888 Bromley map.

Henry Rice died in December of 1898.  Agnes Rice continued to live at 13 Marlborough in 1909.  The Heirs of Henry A. Rice are shown as the owners on the 1908 Bromley map.

From February of 1910, 13 Marlborough was the home of Mrs. Caroline Miller (Bigelow) Amory, widow of George Washington Amory.  She previously had lived at 361 Beacon Street.  She is shown as the owner of 13 Marlborough on the 1917 Bromley map.

She continued to live there with her daughter, Caroline, in 1920.

By 1922, it was the home of banker Jonathan Stone Raymond and his wife, Pauline (Pollard) Stone.  He is shown as the owner on the 1928 Bromley map.  The Raymonds also maintained a summer home at Eastern Point in Gloucester.

They continued to live at 13 Marlborough in 1929.

By 1930, it was the home of Merrill Griswold and his wife Lillian (Lowell) Griswold.  He is shown as the owner on the 1938 Bromley map.

A lawyer by training, Merrill Griswold was a financier. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Investors Trust in the mid-1920s, and of the American Research and Development Corporation in 1946.

The Griswolds continued to live there in 1931, but in 1932 apparently were living elsewhere and 13 Marlborough was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Cutler.  The Cutlers also maintained a summer home in Newport.

By 1933, the Cutlers had moved to an apartment at 6 Arlington Street and the Griswolds were once again living at 13 Marlborough.  They continued to live there in 1937.
 
By 1953, 13 Marlborough was owned by Grace B. Dawes.  In November of 1953, she converted the house from a single-family dwelling into a lodging house.

The house subsequently changed hands several times, remaining a lodging house.

In October of 1978, Charles C. Patsos, trustee of the Marlboro Associated Trust, purchased 13 Marlborough.  It appears that he also acquired 15 Marlborough at about the same time.

In August of 1995, he converted each house into twelve apartments.

In June of 2002, the Marlborough Street Acquisition 2002 LLC purchased 13-15 Marlborough from Charles C. Patsos.  In April of 2003, they combined the two houses into one property and remodeled the combined property into six apartments.