Blake Park: Brookline, Massachusetts
History of a Neighborhood, 1916-2005

The Houses and People of Blake Park

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75 Somerset Road
Year Built:
Permit Date:
 1941
6/19/1941
Architect:
 Meyer Louis
Builder:
 Morris Winer
Cost to Build:
 $8,500
Owner
(On Permit Date):
 B. Glaser, Boston
First Residents:
 Benjamin & Anna M. Glaser

75 Somerset Road, designed by Meyer Louis and built by Morris Winer for Benjamin and Anna Glaser. The same pair designed and built 59 Somerset Road for Benjamin Glaser's parents Ida and Morris.

Benjamin Glaser (1907-1993) was listed as a manager in the Street List. He may have worked in his father's dry goods business. He and his wife Anna (born c1910) moved here from Roxbury. The family was listed at this address from 1942 until the early 1990s.