. Boston, a guide book . s by Copley andSmibert. A measure forits purchase by the statefor the governors house was reported to the Legislature in 1859 by aninfluential committee; but the project failed. At length, in February,1863, the land which it occupied was sold. For a while thereafter itserved as a museum of historical relics, and then, a scheme for itsremoval and reerection elsewhere failing, it was pulled down. Souvenirsof it were eagerly sought as it fell. The knocker on the front door wasgiven to Dr. Holmes, who placed it on the door of the old gambrel-roofed house in Cambridge, wher
. Boston, a guide book . s by Copley andSmibert. A measure forits purchase by the statefor the governors house was reported to the Legislature in 1859 by aninfluential committee; but the project failed. At length, in February,1863, the land which it occupied was sold. For a while thereafter itserved as a museum of historical relics, and then, a scheme for itsremoval and reerection elsewhere failing, it was pulled down. Souvenirsof it were eagerly sought as it fell. The knocker on the front door wasgiven to Dr. Holmes, who placed it on the door of the old gambrel-roofed house in Cambridge, where it remained till that also wasdemolished. The flight of stone steps which led up to the entrance arenow in service on Pinebank, Jamaica Park. The purchasers of theland, J. M. Beebe and Gardner^Prewer, two leading Boston merchants,erected the present stately double house here for their Ginn & Company became established in No. 29 in 1901, andtheir business offices fully occupy the spacious Shaw Munument JOHN HANCOCK HOUSE 39 The old mansion was of Quincy granite obtained from the surface, as in thecase of Kings Chapel, squared and well hammered. The principal features ofthe fagade were the broad front door at the head of a flight of stone steps, gar-nished with pillars and an ornamental door head; and the ornamented centralwindow over it. The high gambrel roof with dormer windows showed a carvedbalcony railing inclosing its upper portion. The interior comprised a noblypaneled hall, having a broad staircase with carved and twisted balusters, whichdivided the house in the middle and extended through on both stories fromfront to rear. On the landing, part way up the staircase, was a circular-headedwindow looking out upon the garden, with a broad and capacious window the entrance floor, at the right of the hall, was the great dining-room, seven-teen by twenty-five feet, also elaborately paneled from floor to ceiling. Until thewidening of Beacon
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