[MassHistPres] S.993: An Act Accelerating Housing Production

[Kristi Chase]

It is definitely true in Somerville, it was amusing to see a real estate
agent stating a 1900 date on a listing sheet with Somerville Beyond the
Neck opened to a page showing the 1874 Hopkins Atlas with the house on it.
I did try to get such things corrected when possible but neither I nor the
Assessors had time to rectify them all.

Kristi Chase
Preservation Planner, retired
Somerville, MA

On Thu, Jul 3, 2025, 2:44 PM Dennis De Witt via MassHistPres <
masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> wrote:

> In Plymouth it appears that 1900 may be the assessor’s default listing
> date for buildings whose construction date has not been otherwise recorded
> by the town — even, in at least one case, for an obviously historic 1809
> building that is listed on Macris.  Perhaps a similar default may exist in
> other municipalities.
>
> Dennis DeWitt.
>
>
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