This two family condominium home was built in 2006 on the foot print of the former Brook - Marland house. The former home had a major structural failure on the east side of the structure and was condemmed and razed in 2004. The current home was built to mirror the style of the former historic structure.

Original owner: Peter C. Brook ??
Historical significance: Brook Street developed in 1830's. "Road leading from Nathaniel Swift's house to the factories", named for Peter Chardon Brook, who had been involved in paper manufacture at mill on Shawsheen River, started after Revolutionary War.. by Judge Phillips and Houghton and continued by Col. John Phillips and others. It was during Brook's time that the paper making business failed.

The former house was significant as the first known residence of Abraham Marland when he moved to Andover from Beverly in 1807.
Winthrop Newman stated that in 1810, "Marland moved from 8 Brook Street to a mill house in Abbot Village". Then in 1813, Marland bought "Old Cogswell Place", having bought land from Abbot Walker in 1811, and from here moved to his mansion house at 29 Shawsheen Road..

8 Brook Street may have belonged to Peter C. Brook, with whom Marland became closely associated. Barnett Rogers, flax dresser, listed here - '1888 Directory' (Rogers profession marks this as a mill tenement for workers at Smith & Dove Flax Mills by 1888).

About 1810, Marland, who had been trained in textiles in England, began woolen cloth manufacture at Abbot Village in a small wooden building and during War of 1812, he made army blankets.
In 1821, Brook furnished the capital and agreed to erect the buildings if Marland would carry on the manufacture of woolen cloth.
Moses Clement, builder, occupied at one time. (1811 - 1867) Woodwell used it as a stable.

Subsequent alterations and additions make this house appear more recent than it actually is. Originally built as a one family dwelling.