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Lewin Notes from Victor Daniels
One of Lewin’s students created the concept of Cognitive Dissonance.
Kurt Lewin and his wife Gertrud bought the house from the Patey Family in 1945.
Dr. Lewin was the founder of the field of Social Psychology. There are numerous biographies and summaries of his contributions available.
We discovered Lewin lived in the house when we found this oil burner permit in the basement.
Lewin’s son Daniel graduated from Newton (North?) High School in 1951
Gerturid Lewin sold the home to the Rhodes family in 1951.
We discovered that Kurt Lewin lived in the house when Lisa found this permit on a basement column 2 years after we moved in. It has been obstructed by furniture before then.
This was also found. It might have been the previous or new furnace at the time.
The Pateys sold the home to the Lewins on January 5th, 1945. Phillip Patey died in June of that year.
Ownership of a property can be traced backward at masslandrecords.com Middlesex South.
| Date | From | To | Deed |
| 5/11/1887 | Parker | Keene | link |
| Keene | |||
| 1895,91 | Emily Potter | ||
| 1901 | Dyer | link | |
| Pierce | |||
| 1901 | Pierce | Ross | link |
| 1902 | Ross | Hall | link |
| 1907 | Hall | Patey | link |
| 1945 | Patey | Lewin | link |
| 1951 | Lewin | Rhodes | link |
| 1953 | Rhodes | Paridis | link |
| 1961 | Paridis | Cox | link |
| 1963 | Cox | Rule | link |
| 1967 | Rule | Rule | link |
| 1973 | Rule | Hartman | link |
| 1974 | Hartman | Rule | link |
| 1975 | Rule | Bailey | link |
| 1981 | Bailey | Bailey&Eisenhauer | link |
| 1984 | Eisenhauer&Bailey | Taylor | link |
| 1997 | Taylor | Whitney | link |
| 2003 | Whitney | Prior | link |
1951 Newton High School yearbook: “DANIEL LEWIN 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville Pet quotation: “Never let your homework interfere with your education” I, Day, Swarthmore College, Junior Red Cross Council 2, 3, President 9, Music Club 1, Q, 3, Debating Club 1, International Club Q, Dance Committee Q, Football Dance Committee Chairman 3, School and School Exchange Q, Glee Club 1,A Cappella ChoirQ, 3,Homeroom Assistant Manager 3, Homeroom Manager Q, Newtonian Staff Editor 3, National Honor Society Q, 3, Honor Roll 1,”
Coined by Leon Fesinger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Festinger
who was a student of Kurt Lewin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Lewin
Leon entered social physcology in 1945 while working with Lewin at MIT. Perhaps they met at the house.