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 . The houseis the rectory of Trinity Church, and as such was built conformably to the taste ofDr. Brooks, then rector of the church. He was therefore its first occupant, andhe continued to reside in it after his election to the bishopric of Massachusetts in1891. After Bishop Brookss death, another story was added to the house, and itwas then occupied, until his death, by Rev. E. Winchester Donald, , who suc-ceeded Phillips Broo
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 . The houseis the rectory of Trinity Church, and as such was built conformably to the taste ofDr. Brooks, then rector of the church. He was therefore its first occupant, andhe continued to reside in it after his election to the bishopric of Massachusetts in1891. After Bishop Brookss death, another story was added to the house, and itwas then occupied, until his death, by Rev. E. Winchester Donald, , who suc-ceeded Phillips Brooks as rector of Trinity Church, and it is now the home of Mann, , the present rector. Phillips Brooks was a favorite son ofBoston. Born within its walls in 1835, he was educated at Harvard College, andafterwards for the ministry in Virginia. Returning to his native city in 1869, aftera rectorate in Philadelphia, he devoted the remainder of his life to the moral andreligious uplift of his fellow-citizens. It is no exaggeration to say that PhillipsBrooks was the best-known and best-beloved preacher who ever occupied the pulpitin this 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
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