56-58 Oakland Street

This multi-family house was built in 1928 and rises two stories to an asphalt roof.

The 1925 Bromley Atlas shows Lewis and Anna Lenkner as the owners of the empty lot this house was built on.

In 1930 part of this house was rented for $50 a month by Cornelius Sullivan, a 53-year old plasterer from Ireland. Cornelius lived in 56 Oakland with his 47-year old Irish wife Nora; 19-year old daughter Elizabeth, a telephone operator; 13-year old daughter Martha; 10-year old daughter Gertrude; 8-year old son Richard; 21-year old daughter Mary Rourke; 26-year old son-in-law Thomas Rourke, a machinery operator in a shoe factory; 4-year old granddaughter Marie Rourke; and infant granddaughter Patricia Rourke. 58 Oakland was rented for $55 a month by Charles Nicholson, a 65-year old lobster salesman from Canada. Charles lived with his 61-year old Canadian wife Miranda; 31-year old son Earl, a fisherman; 28-year old son Austin, a clerk in a hardware store; 24-year old son Charles, a fisherman; 21-year old son Joseph; 9-year old grandson Austin Junior; and 12-year old grandson Wilbert.