Laban Pratt House
Dorchester Illustration 2645
The Laban Pratt house on Pope’s Hill appeared in American Architect and Building News, on March 11, 1882, vol. XI, no. 326 following p. 138.
Laban Pratt (1829-1923) was a lumber merchant in 1875 he was living on Walnut Street in the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester. His company was located where the Old Colony Railroad tracks crossed from Dorchester over the Neponset River to Quincy. Pratt was also an investor in real estate, as confirmed by the numerous pages of his transactions in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
Pratt moved to the house pictured in today’s illustration in 1883.