The Lowell Sun, “Large Real Estate Deal Completed. Three Belvidere Apartment Buildings Valued at $50,450”

Date: January 11, 1951
Type: newspaper
Repository: Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell (page copy sent October 27, 2026); also on NewspaperArchive (subscription)
Locator: Thursday, front page, 7 o’clock edition (NewspaperArchive image page 40; image page 32 is another printing of the front page)
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The sale “effected yesterday” of “The Castle” at 236 Fairmount Street and two apartment buildings on Nesmith Street, from Thomas J. and Grace L. Murphy to Alexander T. Herron. The article gives Herron’s address as 4 Mansfield road (the directories have 8 Mansfield road, C-175) and says Murphy bought the castle “about 10 years ago” (the deed is of 1944).

The document

Newspaper column headed Large Real Estate Deal Completed — “Large Real Estate Deal Completed,” The Lowell Sun, January 11, 1951, front page. Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell.

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Front page of The Lowell Sun, 7 o’clock edition, January 11, 1951, headlined Income Limits in New Local Housing Will Bar Many Vets — The Lowell Sun, January 11, 1951, front page, 7 o’clock edition. Copy courtesy of Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell.

Statements this record supports

C-019 — Thomas J. and Grace L. Murphy lived at 236 Fairmount Street: the 1946 directory lists 'Murphy Thos J (Grace L) slsmn h 236 Fairmount'. They mortgaged the property in Feb 1949 ($36,500, City Institution for Savings) and sold it on January 10, 1951 to Alexander T. and Agnes E. Herron of Rye, New Hampshire (Book 1160 p.232).
C-1032 — The Lowell Sun reported each change of ownership of the house between 1925 and 1951. May 29, 1925: 'C. Brooks Stevens Buys Lilley Castle', the purchase by C. Brooks Stevens, treasurer of the United States Bunting Company, from Mrs. Bonney L. Dunbar, formerly of Lowell and then of West Newton. July 7, 1944: 'Apartment House Sold: Lilley Castle Bought by Harvard Street Man' on the front page, continued as 'Lilley Castle Changes Hands', recalling the house as the Atherton place, then the Bonney and the Lilley castle, at 236 Fairmount Street. January 11, 1951: 'Large Real Estate Deal Completed', a sale of three apartment buildings with 20 apartments, 'The Castle' and two buildings on Nesmith Street, the castle described as at various times the property of the Bonney estate and the late Judge Lilley and as converted to apartments by the late C. Brooks Stevens.

Events on the timeline that cite it

Stevens sells to Grace L. Murphy; the land is divided (June 28, 1944)
The Murphys sell to Alexander and Agnes Herron (January 10, 1951)