61 Oakland Street

This multi-family house was built around 1925 and rises two stories to an asphalt roof.

The 1925 City Directory lists Mrs. Emma Hobbs, an assistant treasurer; Almon Lovejoy, a motorman; and Charles Florentine, a Boston police officer, as residents of this house.

The 1925 Bromley Atlas shows A.H. Lovejoy as the owner of this house.

In 1930 this house was owned by Almon Lovejoy, a 70-year old from Maine who worked as a motorman for a street railway. Almon lived with his 62-year old widowed sister Emma Hobbs, a clerk in a cleansing shop. Part of this house was rented for $45 a month by Francis Lawton, a 42-year old railroad clerk. Francis lived with his 39-year old wife Florence and their 15-year old daughter Mary. The building was valued at $9,500.