19 Peru Street is a one and one-half-story, gable-front, wood frame building on the south side of Peru Street between North Champlain and Murray Streets. The rear addition was in place by 1890.1
This house was constructed between 1857 and 1869.2 Its early tenants are unknown, but it was owned by a landlord, J.B. Roberge, in 1890.3 The building was home to Thomas Monahan, a carpenter, from 1899-1903, and was purchased by Fred J. Childs from Robarge in 1910.4 Childs, who owned Child's Vulcanizing, held the property until 2000, when it was sold to Brown Family Properties.5