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Back Bay Lot Payment Agreement, 1870

Backbay002Mortgage Agreement for Back Bay lots, 1870.  Click to enlarge. (Image copyright The City Record and Boston News-Letter, all rights reserved)

The image above is a payment agreement for lots 9 and 10 on the northerly side of Commonwealth Avenue by Dartmouth Street.  The price fortwo lots?  $4,357.30 paid over three years at five per cent.  These lots were from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's allotment of Back Bay land and I will be posting my review of Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project on Friday, which tells all about the how the Back Bay, and not coincidentally the agreement above, came to be.


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