Ellen Loring

Ellen Gardner Loring

Nickname: Nellie or Nelle

BIRTH 24 Feb 1860 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH 28 Nov 1937 Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

PLOT HOLLY PATH, Lot 3904

MEMORIAL ID 160305607

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160305607 I.S. 12/27/2017

On August 12, 1892, 277 Marlborough was purchased from Calista Kinsley by Augustus Peabody Loring and his wife, Ellen (Gardner) Loring. They also maintained a home in Prides Crossing.

277-279 Marlborough (2013)

277-279 Marlborough (2013)

Augustus Loring was an attorney and was president of the Plymouth Cordage Company. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate.

On March 20, 1903, the Lorings entered into a party wall agreement with Mary Robeson, owner of 279 Marlborough (there appears to have been no previous agreement between the owners of these houses because they were both built by the same owner). On July 10, 1907, they amended the agreement to clarify that “there shall be no limitation by reason of said former agreement, express or implied, upon the height to which a party wall may be constructed...”. Soon thereafter, the Lorings remodeled their house to add another story (the house is shown as three stories on the 1908 Bromley map and as four stories on the 1912 map).

The Lorings continued to live at 277 Marlborough until their deaths: Ellen Loring in November of 1937 and Augustus Loring in March of 1938.

https://backbayhouses.org/277-marlborough/ I.S. 12/27/2017