Editing Norfolk County, Massachusetts (section)

===Registry of Deeds===

The Registry was originally housed in one of the first floor rooms of the home of Eliphalet Pond, the first registrar, at 963 Washington Street in Dedham.<ref name=trivia1722/> A sign was nailed to a tree out front informing the public of its location.<ref name=trivia1722/> It then moved to the original [[Norfolk County Courthouse (1795)|Norfolk County Courthouse]] and remained there for about three decades.<ref name=trivia1722/> When the new [[Norfolk County Courthouse]] was built in 1827, the middle office on the west side of the lower level was used by the Registry.<ref name=trivia1722/> When the population of the county grew and the number of real estate transactions increased apace, a new building was constructed for the Registry across the street at 649 High Street.<ref name=trivia1722/> The Boston firm [[Peabody & Stearns]] was hired to design the current Registry of Deeds, built in 1905. The main section of the building measures 52 feet by 186 feet, is two stories high with a copper hipped roof, and is built of Indiana limestone with details made of granite from [[Deer Isle, Maine]].<ref name=trivia1722p5/>