The Henry Bradlee Junior House is located in Medford, Massachusetts

Medford, Massachusetts

Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

. It was designed in the Queen Anne style by Peabody & Stearns circa 1881-1882. This was one of three houses built by the Halls and the Bradlees on their estate. This home was built for Henry Bradlee Junior, his wife Maude Abbott Bradlee and their son, Edward. The other two houses were built in the mid to late 1850s for Dudley C. Hall and for Henry Bradlee, Sr and his wife Hepsa Hall Bradlee. Of those homes, according to a survey by the Massachusetts Historical Commission

Massachusetts Historical Commission

The Massachusetts Historical Commission is a review board for state and federal preservation programs for the United States state of Massachusetts...

, the Henry Bradlee Junior House is the best preserved.

The MHC report states in part:

Its many porches, turned posts, balconies, porte-cochere and chimney with divided flues (to allow space for a window to be placed in the center of its base) are the best details of their type in Medford. Mentioned in a deed of 1882, the house was probably constructed between March 1881 when the one and three-quarter acre [7,100  m³] parcel on which it stood was first surveyed, and April 1882, when Dudley Bradlee granted a mortgage on the property to Henry Bradlee and his wife, Maude.

The only major alteration to the house has been the replacement of its original decorative shingle work with stucco. This change was probably made around 1910 when the area was being built up with fashionable Stucco Style houses.

Henry Bradlee Junior came from an upper class family from the Medford and Boston

Boston

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 area. He was born January 30, 1851, and died April 13, 1894. His grandfather, Josiah Bradlee of Boston is known to have participated in the event known as the Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party

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 in 1773. He was a descendant of Governor Simon Bradstreet

Simon Bradstreet

Simon Bradstreet was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679...

 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as well as of Charles Tufts

Charles Tufts

Charles Tufts was an American businessman. Born in Medford, Massachusetts to Daniel and Abigail Tufts, he was a descendant of Peter Tufts, an early colonist who came to America from England in 1638. He made his fortune through his brickmaking factory...

. Henry Bradlee, Jr. had two siblings, Ellen Marion Bradlee and Dudley Hall Bradlee.

Historic ship

The 1846 ship Josiah Bradlee, 648 tons, was built by John Taylor in Medford

Medford, Massachusetts

Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

, MA. It was owned by George K. Minot and Samuel Hooper in 1849, then registered to William and William L. Thwing, April 19, 1859. It was sold to Sprague and Soule in Sept. 1860, to unknown parties in 1862, and to a British account in 1864.