Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . HOLMES HOUSE Beacon Street The house No. 296 Beacon Street, with the bay window, is of interest to Boston-ians as having been the home of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, professor and poet, fromthe year 1871 until his death in 1894. The house is on the water side of Beacon Holmes was professor of anatomy and physiology at the Harvard Medical Schoolfor many years, and as such was the instructor of students who became disting
Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . HOLMES HOUSE Beacon Street The house No. 296 Beacon Street, with the bay window, is of interest to Boston-ians as having been the home of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, professor and poet, fromthe year 1871 until his death in 1894. The house is on the water side of Beacon Holmes was professor of anatomy and physiology at the Harvard Medical Schoolfor many years, and as such was the instructor of students who became distinguishedphysicians and surgeons. He was even more widely known as one of the group ofmen of letters who made Boston famous as a literary centre in the middle of the nine-teenth century. He was a frequent contributor to literary as well as medical pub-lications and periodicals. Besides his poems and his best-known novel, ElsieVenner, he wrote several books of essays, the best known being The Autocrat ofthe Breakfast Table. After the appearance of the last-named volume, Dr. Holmeswas always known as The Genial MELVILLE HOUSEGreen Street The home of Thomas Melville, the last of the cocked hats in Boston, stood formany years on Green Street, formerly Green Lane, near Bowdoin Square. He boughtthe estate, a part in 1788 and a part in 1800, and lived in the comfortable houseerected there for about forty years. He is recorded as a resident of Green Streetas early as 1796, and he died there in 1832. Major Melville—for such was his title—was a well-known citizen of Boston for many years. He participated in the BostonTea Party in 1773, served in the Revolutionary War, and was Naval Officer andSurveyor of the Port of Boston from 1789 to 1829. He was popularly known as thelast man in Boston to wear a cocked hat and knee-breeches, and as such was immor-talized by the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote of him in his poem TheLast Leaf:— I know it is a sinFor me to sit and gri
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