Bromley Vale is purchased by John Lowell.

Named for a suburb of London, the estate is located on the former John Weld farm near today’s 267 Centre Street. Lowell, who builds a new home there in 1795* and is president of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, cultivates extensive vegetable and fruit gardens on the estate until his death there in 1802. His son, John Lowell Jr., subsequently builds a new home there and adds a number of buildings and greenhouses, passes the property down to his son, John Amory Lowell, who deeds the house to his two unmarried sisters, Rebecca Amory and Anna Cabot Lowell, and develops the remainder of the property in 1870.*