Slow Mover

60 Lockwood Road, Riverside, $3.895 million, took eleven days before it could reach signed contracts. The market must be slowing down.

The builder paid $2.150 for the old Murphy house that was here, on 0.87 acres, and subdivided it. Readers with a long memory may remember it as the Lamb property, which the late Mr. Murphy, one of the first to cram cheap houses into Riverside (and thus the sobriquet “Murphy house” denoting shoddy houses built on slabs) and carved up the then-5-acre land into numerous lots.

I’m curious about what happened to ‘“Lamb Pond”, which used to lie behind the house and was a popular spot to catch snapping turtles and frogs. Murphy got ahold of the property in the mid-60s, and I suppose that in those days he could, and did, drain the pond and build on top of it.