22 Willard Street — 2019 Chelsea transaction archive. This historical listing is preserved as a distinct 2019 transaction in Jeffrey Bowen’s Chelsea record. The original MLSPIN page paste has been replaced with this native version; the listing data below is the 2019 record, retained as transaction provenance.
22 Willard Street in Chelsea was listed on June 13, 2019 at $550,000 (MLS #72518479). The Charles Kibby House, a grand Victorian atop Powderhorn Hill built circa 1895, it offered 4 bedrooms, 1 full and 1 half baths, and 8 total rooms across 2,398 square feet — stained glass, fluted columns, a Low Art Tile fireplace surround, a bow-front living room, and city views from a steep-slope lot.
Listing facts — as listed in 2019
- Address: 22 Willard St, Chelsea, MA 02150 (Powderhorn Hill; Suffolk County)
- Listed: June 13, 2019 at $550,000 — MLS #72518479 (historical; no longer available)
- Type: Single-family — attached, Victorian style
- Bedrooms / baths: 4 bedrooms · 1 full bath, 1 half bath · 8 total rooms · 1 fireplace
- Living area: 2,398 sq. ft. (public record)
- Parking: on-street permit parking · no garage
- Heat: hot water baseboard, gas · Cooling: wall AC / none recorded · Basement: full
- Lot: 0.08 acres (3,363 sq. ft.), steep slope with city views
- Building: frame construction, vinyl exterior, fieldstone foundation — built 1895 (public record, approximate)
- Terms: Contract for Deed (as recorded in the 2019 listing)
- Tax (2016): assessed $313,500 · tax $4,467 · PIN M:066 P:050 · zoning R2
From the original 2019 listing
22 Willard Street is the Charles Kibby House built in circa 1900 by J. H. KIbby and Son. CHarles is the son of the building firm. CHarles, his wife Elizabeth, and a grand daughter lived here until 1921 when Charles died. THe Victorian was built to include a second mirror image dwelling on the other side of the cellar to attic roof brick wall for Charles’ son Frank who owned a jewelry emporium on Broadway, Chelsea. The more elegant features of stained glass, fluted columns between the side parlor and entry, the original newel post figure, serving hatch in the dining room to a former butler pantry, and bow front living room, of course, were put on the senior Kibby side. Both townhouses boast a beautiful Low Art Tile fireplace surround. THe two built in glass doored cupboards and the unusually spacious and numerous closets reflect a forward thinking Charles Kibby in Victorian times. > > J. H. KIbby and Son were prominent builders in Massachusetts. Their construction skills are shown.
The Charles Kibby House — from the post
A preserved grand Victorian home atop Powderhorn Hill in Chelsea. Please note that the video and older pictures are from the previous sale. The seller’s have made updates since owning the home and I am including the new pictures below.
22 Willard Street is the Charles Kibby House built in circa 1895 by J. H. Kibby and Son. Charles is the son of the building firm. Charles, his wife Elizabeth, and a grand daughter lived here until 1921 when Charles died. The Victorian was built to include a second mirror image dwelling on the other side of the cellar to attic roof brick wall for Charles’ son Frank who owned a jewelry emporium on Broadway, Chelsea. The more elegant features of stained glass, fluted columns between the side parlor and entry, the original newel post figure, serving hatch in the dining room to a former butler pantry, and bow front living room, of course, were put on the senior Kibby side. Both townhouses boast a beautiful Low Art Tile fireplace surround. The two built in glass-doored cupboards and the unusually spacious and numerous closets reflect a forward thinking Charles Kibby in Victorian times.
J. H. Kibby and Son were prominent builders in Massachusetts. Their construction skills are reflected in this house. They were responsible for building such notable structures as Saugus Town Hall complex and marketed themselves mainly as church builders, although the Mount Washington School in Everett was also contracted out to them.
Notes on this record: the remarks above date the house “circa 1900” while the post’s own history and the structured record say circa 1895 / 1895 — both are carried as recorded. The gallery’s 34 photographs are the previous sale’s watermarked shoot (the “WillardWatermarked” set, attached to the property’s earlier post), carried here because this post’s own gallery shortcode presents them and its head note says so; the sellers’ updated pictures referenced in that note were part of the paste’s hotlinked set and belong to the hotlink-import queue. The record’s “Foundation Size: 9,999,999” is placeholder data of the class excluded throughout this program and is not carried as a fact.
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