Mortgage 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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