30 Marlborough Street
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30 Marlborough Street was built ca. 1863 for the Thorndike Estate, one of five contiguous houses (22-24-26-28-30 Marlborough) built for them at the same time. By 1865, 30 Marlborough was the home of Edward Darley Boit and his wife, Jane Parkinson (Hubbard). Edward Boit was an owner of the Oriental textile mills in Rhode Island. By 1870, it was the home of Henry Fowle Durant and his wife, Pauline Adeline (Fowle) Durant. Henry Durant was a former lawyer who give up his practice in 1863 to become an evangelist preacher. In 1870, he and his wife founded Wellesley College at the site of their country home. Thereafter, he served as treasurer of the college. Henry Durant died in October of 1881. Pauline Durant continued to live at 30 Marlborough. In about 1903, she was joined at 30 Marlborough by Dr. Robert Soutter, a physician and orthopedic surgeon. He was her first cousin, once removed: her mother, Pauline (Cazenove) Fowle was the sister of Robert Soutter's grandmother, Harriet (Cazenove) Lamar. He continued to live there until his marriage in August of 1904 to Helen Whiteside, after which they lived at 51 Hereford Street. By 1908, Dr. Soutter had acquired 30 Marlborough. Pauline Durant continued to live there 1913. The house was not listed in the 1915 and 1917 Blue Books. Helen Soutter is shown as the owner on the 1917 Bromley map. By 1922, it was the home of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Parker. They continued to live there in 1923. By 1924, 30 Marlborough was the home of Dr. George Richards Minot and his wife, Marian Linzee (Weld) Minot. In 1923, they had lived at 247 Beacon Street. He maintained his medical offices with his father, James Jackson Minot, at 188 Marlborough. George Richards Minot was a physician, professor of medicine, and director of Harvard's Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital. He was a pioneer in research on blood diseases and in 1934 received a Nobel Prize for his work with William P. Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple on the treatment of pernicious anemia. They continued to live there in 1929, but by 1930 had moved to live temporarily with his father at 188 Marlborough. By 1930, 30 Marlborough was the home of attorney Alexander Wheeler and his wife, Agnes. They had lived at 130 Marlborough in 1929. They also maintained a summer residence in Manchester until about 1934. The Wheelers continued to live at 30 Marlborough in 1937, and probably later. Agnes G. Wheeler is shown as the owner on the 1938 Bromley map. By mid-1938, 30 Marlborough was owned by C. H. Cooper, who applied for a lodging house license in July of that year, and was informed that the license could not be issued until adequate egress was provided. By 1939, the house was owned by William Karmazine. In October of 1939, he applied for (and subsequently received) permission to erect a fire escape on the rear, indicating that the current occupancy of the building was as a "dwelling," and the proposed occupancy was as a lodging house. The house changed hands, remaining a lodging house until the mid-1990s. In February of 1995, Jean Abouhamad, trustee of the Thirty Marlborough Nominee Trust, purchased 30 Marlborough. He remodeled the property into three apartments, and in May of 1996, he converted the apartments into three condominiums.
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