16 Cordis Street rear 1925

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16 Cordis Street rear 1925

Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965

1925

Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler

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Photo by Wolcott Cutler

Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.

16 Cordis Street rear 1925. This ancient appearing ell set well back from Cordis Street on the end of house no. 16, is so low-studded that one can almost reach up from the ground to close the blinds on the second story. For 25 years, until 1938, it was the residence of a very gentle and immaculate bachelor named Thomas Littlejohn, who worked at times as a domestic, at times as a tailor, and who used to make quilts and knitted fancy work for his friends. The rest of the house had been for many years the home of Charles Forster, whose large furniture business attracted wholesale orders from all parts of the country and supplied the "best room" in almost every house in Charlestown. Mr. Forster's warm hearted benevolence was so well known that the calls upon his generosity are said to have been incessant. He served on the school committees of Charlestown and Somerville, where the Forster School was named in his honor. Charles T, Byam, the president of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank, owned #16 for many years also.

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