. A history of old Braintree and Quincy : with a sketch of Randolph and Holbrook / by William S. Pattee. occupied by various persons as tenants untilAugust 27th, 1858, when it fell a prey to tlie incendiarys torch. The first hotel constructed opposite the Stone Temple Avaskept by Col. Thayer, followed by Capt. Young, Deacon Savil,and afterwards by Mr. Daniel French. The old house was re-moved, and a new one built in its place in 1837, at the cost of$5,000 and called the Hancock House, and has since been en-larged. It continued to be kept a number of years by French, until he was succ
. A history of old Braintree and Quincy : with a sketch of Randolph and Holbrook / by William S. Pattee. occupied by various persons as tenants untilAugust 27th, 1858, when it fell a prey to tlie incendiarys torch. The first hotel constructed opposite the Stone Temple Avaskept by Col. Thayer, followed by Capt. Young, Deacon Savil,and afterwards by Mr. Daniel French. The old house was re-moved, and a new one built in its place in 1837, at the cost of$5,000 and called the Hancock House, and has since been en-larged. It continued to be kept a number of years by French, until he was succeeded by his son, George Under the management of the Frenches this house wasnoted as a first-class hotel, as well as being for years the j^iinci-pal tavern in town. After Mr. French, it was kept by severalother popular landlords ^ imtil it was bouglit by Mr. Henry H. 1. Landlords of the Hancock House, both old and,new: Col. James Thayer,from 1806 to 1815; Capt. Young, Dea. Samuel Savil, Daniel French, from 1824to 1837; Daniel French & Son, from September, 1837, to July, 1841; George BRIfK ON HANCOCK STREET, QUINCY, ERECTED IN 1876, BY JOSEPH AV. ROBERTSON, ESQ. PUBLIC HOUSES. 175 Faxon, and is now occupied as a boarding-house for the studentsofthe Adams Academy. For several years the town was without a tavern in the centreof the village. In 1874 a dwelling-house, near the corner ofGranite and Hancock streets, was converted into a public-house,and called the Central House. This building was destroyed byfire August 26th, 1875. On the same site, in 1876, was^ con-structed a large and commodious brick block. The upperstories were converted into a spacious first-class modern hotel,while the first flat was arranged for stores. This house wasopened by Mr. William P. F. Meserve, one of the former land-lords of the old Hancock House, and is called the RobertsonHouse, in honor of its public-spirited proprietor. This was thefirst brick block of stores ever erected in
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