This house was built for Francis B. Beaumont in 1871. He was a retired Civil War Colonel. It is another French Second Empire house but with some interesting differences from the Keazer house down the street. It also has that typical mansard roof, but this one is convex rather than concave. It also has that tripartite plan but instead of a projecting central pavilion this house’s pavilions project forward progressively from left to right. It has incised Neo-Grec decoration around the windows (these decorations were machine created and part of what the Queen Anne architects were against). This double columned porch is a modified “Jamaica Plain porch” – a term used by the Boston Landmarks Commission when they surveyed the Sumner Hill area. Across the street, #20 Alveston (under renovation) and #28 Alveston have good examples of this porch style that seems to be unique to JP.