Boston Daily Globe; May 28, 1908

1915 application to build a 2 car brick garage at his home. Signed as homeowner and builder.

August 2012 - I found this marker in the driveway of 92 Melville Avenue, Dorchester. It was probably installed in 1922 as Joseph Rugo signed a building permit for the construction of a garage at the property that Spring. The adjacent home at 98 Melville Avenue was owned by the Piotti family and they also built a garage in 1922. I believe that there may have been a similar marker in that driveway. Twenty years earlier my great grandparents had been tenants of the Piotti family, living on Piotti Place, off Franklin Court, across from 321 Norfolk Avenue. Most of that area is gone, now part of the Boston Edison / NSTAR facility fronting on Mass. Ave. I suspect that the connection to the Piotti family at 98 Melville was how Joseph Rugo got the job for the garage and driveway at 92 Melville Avenue.

Boston Daily Globe, Sep 24, 1921;

Boston Daily Globe, Dec 7, 1922;

Originally Hubbard Road. Three three-deckers built and owned by Giuseppe Rugo (later owned by his daughters?). All of the buildings on the west side of the Hubbardston Road were demolished for construction of the Southeast Expressway, I-93, in the 1950s.
Giuseppe was awarded the contract to build the Motley School in December 1922 and applied for permits to build his three-deckers in the Spring of 1923.

Application for a permit to Build a three family house on Homes Avenue, Dorchester. To the rear was the construction storage yard for the family business.

Boston Daily Globe, Aug. 1925;

Boston Daily Globe; August 28, 1925

Photo courtesy of Maryanne Tirinnanzi - September 2005
She says that it was his passport photo taken in 1926.

Constructed on the beach in South Boston by the Rugo Construction Co. for Mayor Curley.

By 1931 Giuseppe had been hospitalized for a while, so his sons were presumably responsible for this project, at least for it's completion.

Published in the Milton Record, November 28, 1942