Welcome to 106 Clarendon, the Lyford house.
A brief history of the house.
- This Elegant Victorian was built in 1887 for Edwin F. Lyford of Maine. At the time McKnight was still being constructed, but it was highly desirable due to its close proximity to the heart of the city. At the time the McKnight neighborhood, originally known as "the Highlands," was the suburbs of the city.
- Edwin Lyford was a lawyer in the city and appointed special justice in 1896. In 1899 he married. His wife Bessie, was only 24 years old and he was 41 when they married, and they had one live-in maid, by the name of Augusta Anderson from Sweden. According to a census taken in 1900 his mother Olive A. Lyford also lived with them.
- Edwin Lyford passed away in 1929 at the age of 72, his wife stayed in their house until 1949. At that point she moved into a house only 3 streets away. The house remained in their name until sometime in the 1970s when the ownership was transferred to a Reverend. The house was then used to house church parishioners until the late 1990s.
- In 2003 after nearly 3 years of the house being empty it was sold to McGuire L.L.C. It has since undergone a complete renovation by Gray Enterprises of Springfield, Ma.
