For a quick history on this property, read just the facts.
According to Timothy Sawyer’s “Old Charlestown,” Cordis Street was set out as early as 1799 “over the pasture of Captain Joseph Cordis.” He was a ship-master and merchant who became a large real estate holder in the 1780s, during post-Revolutionary War reconstruction.
A few homes on Cordis Street were built in the early 1800s. The mansion at 33 Cordis St. was part of the building boom of the 1840s and 1850s, fo… (View original article)