Community Corner
Twenty-fifth Week, Saturday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"In 1986 William Norse, Medfield selectman at the time and former moderator and state representative, announced plans to sell his landmark house at 50 North Street, on the corner of North and Frairy Streets, to Jackson Fabrics of Needham, who planned to tear down the historic 1859 Italian Villa style mansion. In it place they would build a new building to house its fabric building. Town pressure mounted on saving the landmark, including a town-wide petition drive. All attempts to save the house failed, however, and in June of 1987 the 128-year-old former Curtis mansion succumbed to the repeated attacks of the backhoe. In its place the current daycare/office building was constructed and the Gilded Age look of North and Frairy Streets was gone forever."
