Title
91 Somerset Road
Description
| Year Built: Permit Date: |
1941 6/3/1941 |
| Architect: | Joseph Selwyn |
| Builder: | Jacob Hurwitz |
| Cost to Build: | N/A |
| Owner (On Permit Date): |
Jacob Hurwitz, Dorchester |
| First Residents: | Samuel & Miriam A. Weinstein |
This house was one of six designed by Joseph Selwyn and build by Jacob Hurwitz on Somerset Road in 1941. They were among the last houses built in the development of Blake Park (not counting three homes added in the 1950s).
The first residents were Miriam and Samuel Weinstein who moved here from Mattapan. Melvin Weinstein was listed as a manufacturer. (He had been shown as a manufacturer of auto fabrics in the 1930 U.S. Census.) Their son Melvin was listed as being in the U.S. Army in the 1946 Street List.
The Weinstein family was listed at this address from 1943 until the late 1970s.
Date
1941