Title
40 Blake Road
Description
Year Built:
Permit Date: |
1933 11/7/1933 |
Architect:
|
Frederick H. Richenburg |
Builder:
|
J.J. Reeves |
Cost to Build:
|
$8-10,000 |
Owner
(On Permit Date): |
J.J. Reeves, Brookline |
First Residents:
|
Gertrude and Harry Levy |
Harry Levy (1891-1981) was born in Volkovysk, Russia (now Belarus) in 1891 and came to the United States as a boy. He owned and operated a hardware store, Levy Hardware, in Boston. It is seen, at 25 Stuart Street, at the far right of the photo (and in the close-up view) from the 1950s.
Gertrude Levy (1896-1990) was born in Russia and came to the U.S. in 1898.
Their son George, a 1937 graduate of MIT, was a captain in the chemical warfare section of the Army during World War II. Sometime after the war, he took over the hardware business which moved from Boston to Newton.
George Levy died in 1982.
Photo from the Kepes-Lynch Photograph Collection, MIT Libraries
Date
1933
Original Format
photo