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Brown family archives, 1890-1930. Many members of the Brown Family were architects and builders. The following info was provided by the donor:
“Horace Brown and his son Elmer Brown owned a building company in Lawrence, MA from the late 1800s to mid-1900s. They built many homes on Howard Street and Woodland Street on Prospect Hill in Lawrence.
The Woodland Street homes were primarily from East Haverhill Street to Platt Street. Professional photographs, ledgers, and documents included with this collection.
They also built the Walter G. Hall building on Essex Street in 1925. It was a hardware store. Walter G. Hall was my mother's father. My mother's name was Charlotte Hall Dallon. She was raised in one of the Woodland Street homes with her mother, Charlotte Miller Hall, her grandparents, Sarah and Joshua Miller, and her 3 brothers, Wallace, Russell, and Walter Hall.
I was raised in another one of the Brown-built homes, 418 Howard Street, with my parents, Charlotte Hall Dallon and Martin Clifford Dallon and my siblings.
The Browns also built 432 Howard Street, and their whole family lived there - Horace, his wife, their son Elmer and his first wife, Helena, and children and others unknown to me.
Elmer later divorced and married Florence Hall Brown. Elmer died in 1960 and Florence in 1964.
My husband Richard P Thibodeau and I purchased 432 Howard Street from my parents in 1976 and sold in 1986. The documents in this archive donation were found in the attic of 432 Howard Street.”