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 . tlybuilt at a later period. It is one of the oldest buildings in that locality. HopestillCapen was a shopkeeper in this building for many years before his death in 1807,and also a town official in Boston and a sergeant in the Ancient and HonorableArtillery Company. He was the master to whom was apprenticed in 1763Benjamin Thompson, of Woburn, Mass., who later became a distinguished scientist,and was known as Count Rumford. Thomas
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 . tlybuilt at a later period. It is one of the oldest buildings in that locality. HopestillCapen was a shopkeeper in this building for many years before his death in 1807,and also a town official in Boston and a sergeant in the Ancient and HonorableArtillery Company. He was the master to whom was apprenticed in 1763Benjamin Thompson, of Woburn, Mass., who later became a distinguished scientist,and was known as Count Rumford. Thomas Capen, a son of Hopestill Capen, suc-ceeded his father as a shopkeeper in the old house, and owned the property at thetime of his death in 1819. It was then appraised at five thousand dollars, and itis still assessed to the heirs of Thomas Capen. The oyster business has been con-ducted in the Capen Building by tradesmen bearing the name of Atwood from theyear 1826 to the present time. It is also worthy of note that the MassachusettsSpy was published in the building by Isaiah Thomas from 1771 to the beginning ofthe Revolution, when it was removed to BULFINCH HOUSE Bowdoin Square About 1724 John Coleman, a Boston merchant, gave adjoining lots of land inthat portion of Cambridge Street, West Boston, which is now known as BowdoinSquare, to Dr. Thomas Bulfinch and Peter Chardon, who had married, respectively,his daughters Judith and Sarah, and a house was soon built on each estate. , who was a physician, lived with his family in the house that he built untilhis death in 1757. His only son, Thomas Bulfinch, was likewise a physician, andmarried in 1759 Susan, daughter of John Apthorp and grand-daughter of StephenGreenleaf, last Royal High Sheriff of Suffolk County. Dr. Bulfinch, the younger,lived in the house until his death in 1802, and about then the estate was bought byJoseph Coolidge, a Boston merchant, as a home for his son Joseph Coolidge, who hadmarried
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