This house dates from 1893 and was built on the edge of the Greenough estate for a member of the Greenough family. Most of the houses in Sumner Hill date from the 1870s and 1880s so this is one of the later additions to the neighborhood.
This house was built by the architectural firm Blackhall and Newton. Clarence Blackhall was a specialist in theaters – he designed both the Wilbur and Colonial Theaters, the Boch Center (formerly known as the Wang) as well as the Tremont Temple. This house is a mix of Georgian Revival and Queen Anne elements.
In the early twentieth century, this was the home of Susan Walker Fitzgerald. She was very active in the campaign for woman suffrage both in Massachusetts and nationally. She was, in fact, the first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts General Court (our state legislature). She served one term as the Representative for Jamaica Plain in 1923-24. After her political career, she became active in the international work of the General Alliance of Unitarian and Other Women and was an important member of the First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist nearby.