On June 13, 1893, the Boston Evening Transcript reported on the Board’s hearing on the petition, noting that the First Church and several other abutters had objected, arguing that Berkeley had been built as a sixty foot wide street but that the City reserved the right to widened it to eighty feet, taking a ten foot strip on either side, and that, if and when that occurred, “such bay windows would then be a serious obstruction, as they would be to the adjoining owners at the present time.” The Board concurred with the “remonstrants” and the petition was denied. In June of 1893, he petitioned the Board of Aldermen for permission to project three bays from the proposed building, extending over Berkeley Street.
1895), from Modern Architecture: A Book for Architects and the Public, by H. William Newman purchased the original townhouse at 29 Commonwealth on May 19, 1893, with the intention of replacing it with an apartment hotel.Ģ82 Berkeley, architect’s rendering (ca. (Cole) Newman, lived.Ĭlick here for an index to the deeds for 282 Berkeley (29 Commonwealth), and click here for further information about the land between the north side of Commonwealth and Alley 423, from Berkeley to Clarendon. Pickering Putnam, where he and his wife, Sarah E. He owned the Hotel Cluny at 543 Boylston, also designed by J.
Newman was a real estate dealer and developer.
Pickering Putnam and built in 1894-1895 for real estate developer William Henry Harrison Newman as Haddon Hall, a 26 unit apartment hotel. 282 Berkeley (29 Commonwealth) is located on the NW corner of Commonwealth and Berkeley, with First Church Boston to the north, across Alley 423, 50 Commonwealth (260 Berkeley) to the south, across Commonwealth, 25-27 Commonwealth to the east, across Berkeley, and 31-33 Commonwealth to the west.Ģ82 Berkeley (29 Commonwealth) was designed by architect J.
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