A history of old Braintree and Quincy : with a sketch of Randolph and Holbrook . )t by severalother popular landlords ^ until it was l>oaght by Mr. Henry H. 1. Ijandlords of the Hiiiioock House, both oM : Col. James Thayer,from LSOi; to 1815; C:ii)t. Young, Dea. Sauuiel Savil, Daniel French, from 1824to 1837; Daniel French & Son, from September, 1837, to July, 1841; George BRICK BLOCK ON HANCOCK STKKET, QIINCY, ERKCTED IN 1876, 15Y .lOSEril \V. UOHERTSON, ESQ. PUBLIC HOUSES. 175 Faxon, and is now occupied as a boarding-house for the studentsof the Adams Academy. For several yea
A history of old Braintree and Quincy : with a sketch of Randolph and Holbrook . )t by severalother popular landlords ^ until it was l>oaght by Mr. Henry H. 1. Ijandlords of the Hiiiioock House, both oM : Col. James Thayer,from LSOi; to 1815; C:ii)t. Young, Dea. Sauuiel Savil, Daniel French, from 1824to 1837; Daniel French & Son, from September, 1837, to July, 1841; George BRICK BLOCK ON HANCOCK STKKET, QIINCY, ERKCTED IN 1876, 15Y .lOSEril \V. UOHERTSON, ESQ. PUBLIC HOUSES. 175 Faxon, and is now occupied as a boarding-house for the studentsof the Adams Academy. For several years the town was without a tavern in the centreof the villaire. In 1874 a dwelliuo;-house, near the corner ofGranite and Hancock streets, was converted into a i)ublic-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 this town. The firstblock of brick houses Avas constructed on Sea, now Chestnutstreet, in 1874.
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