Harvard and its surroundings . attle Street we next reach the —52. Lee House, said to be the oldest now standing in Cambridge. It islarge, plain, and square, and is supposed to have been built about two hun-dred years ago, on a frame brought over from England. One of the evidencesof its age is the clay mortar laying of the great chimney that rises through thecentre of the house. The lower rooms have massive beams in the ceilings ; allare low, yet commodious. Some of the walls are covered with landscape paper,one of them evidently very ancient. The owner at the outbreak of the Rev-olution was J
Harvard and its surroundings . attle Street we next reach the —52. Lee House, said to be the oldest now standing in Cambridge. It islarge, plain, and square, and is supposed to have been built about two hun-dred years ago, on a frame brought over from England. One of the evidencesof its age is the clay mortar laying of the great chimney that rises through thecentre of the house. The lower rooms have massive beams in the ceilings ; allare low, yet commodious. Some of the walls are covered with landscape paper,one of them evidently very ancient. The owner at the outbreak of the Rev-olution was Judge Joseph Lee, by whose name the house is now known. Hetook refuge in Boston during the siege. This was one of the few houses onTory Row that was not confiscated. After the war it was reoccupied by JudgeLee. For the past twenty-five years it has been owned and occupied by GeorgeNichols, a graduate of the class of 1828. Faither down, on the same side of Brattle Street, at the northwest cornerof Sparks Street, stands the —. Faye AXD ITS SURROLWDINGS. «•
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