. Our colonial homes. e Quincy mansionbefore us. Close down by the sea, where you can scent its pungent saltnessand inhale its invigorating gales, stands the mansion — less antique,perhaps, than some others scattered about the country, but stilla fairly good specimen of colonial architecture rather more than ahundred years ago. It is placed on a gentle swell of ground at theextremity of the noblest private estate in New England. Its fivehundred broad acres of meadow and woodland give the idea thatyou have suddenly been dropped into an English park come down THE QUINCY MANSION 67 from generatio
. Our colonial homes. e Quincy mansionbefore us. Close down by the sea, where you can scent its pungent saltnessand inhale its invigorating gales, stands the mansion — less antique,perhaps, than some others scattered about the country, but stilla fairly good specimen of colonial architecture rather more than ahundred years ago. It is placed on a gentle swell of ground at theextremity of the noblest private estate in New England. Its fivehundred broad acres of meadow and woodland give the idea thatyou have suddenly been dropped into an English park come down THE QUINCY MANSION 67 from generation to generation by the law of entail. There is abroad and leafy avenue, a quarter of a mile long, leading from thehighroad up to the mansion ; and everywhere about you are mostdelightful glimpses, across long levels of salt meadow, of the sea,of Boston Harbor and its islands, of its lighthouses, and of thecountless white sails continually winging their way hither andhither, like birds of passage from clime to THE QUINCY MANSION, QUINCY, MASS. A site so near the sea-shore, and commanding such an extensiveocean prospect, would now be considered most available for asummer residence; but summer and winter were the same to thedwellers in this hospitable mansion, who built their houses tolive in all the year round, who were often snowbound in winter,and who, most assuredly, had to get along without those luxurieswhich we call the necessaries of life — such as the daily paper, theearly train to the city, steam-heated apartments, electric lights, and 68 OUR COLONIAL HOMES other inventions of this pampered age. If any one thinks thoseold fellows did not live long and well, let him carefully compare theoldest gravestones in the cemetery with the newest. Out of re-gard, it may be presumed, for our growing tenderness, Providence,they say, has even made our winters milder, if not shorter, thanthey were in the long ago. Colonel Josiah Quincy built this house in 1770 on ground tha
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