Henry Bradlee Jr. House

The Henry Bradlee Junior House is located in Medford, Massachusetts. 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. The other two houses were built in the mid to late 1850s for Dudley C. Hall and Henry G. Bradlee and his wife, Hepsa Hall Bradlee. Of those, according to a survey by the Massachusetts Historical Commission [Massachusetts Historical Commission, Form B, Form #21F, Area #21A] , 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 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 a upper class family from the Medford and Boston area. His grandfather, Josiah Bradlee of Boston is known to have participated in the event known as the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Henry Bradlee, Jr. had two siblings, Ellen Marion Bradlee and Dudley Hall Bradlee. [The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855. p.117]

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