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125 Broad Street The Bird-Tiedeman House
Architect John Henry Devereux desgined this house for William M. Bird, a partner with H.F. Welch in William M. Bird & Co., wholesale dealers in paints, oils, glass, naval stores and ship chandlery, located at East Bay and Cumberland streets. Bird never lived here, residing at 17 Meeting St. He sold the property in 1889 to Otto Tiedeman, a wholesale grocer on East Bay Street, who is the house's first documented occupant.
Some architectural details of this two-story frame house are similar to features on the house Devereux remodeled for George S. Cook at 24 South Battery 15 years earlier…
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