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 . t busi-ness reverses prevented him from occupying it, and he removed to Roxbury. Itwas later, with an extension, converted into several dwellings, and was for someyears occupied as a fashionable boarding-house. Several distinguished men wereoccupants during the early part of the nineteeenth century, notably ChristopherGore while Governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Dexter, an eminent lawyer andcabinet officer under President Adams,
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 . t busi-ness reverses prevented him from occupying it, and he removed to Roxbury. Itwas later, with an extension, converted into several dwellings, and was for someyears occupied as a fashionable boarding-house. Several distinguished men wereoccupants during the early part of the nineteeenth century, notably ChristopherGore while Governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Dexter, an eminent lawyer andcabinet officer under President Adams, and Fisher Ames, member of Congress. In1825 the city of Boston rented a portion of the house on Park Street as a temporaryresidence for General Lafayette, when he was a guest of the municipality. In 1830George Ticknor, the historian, became an occupant of the easterly portion of thePark Street side, and resided there until his death in 1871. Here was his large libraryof eighteen thousand volumes, and here his widow resided until her death. In 1885the entire structure was given over to trade, and to-day it is the abode of many firmsin various lines of OTIS-AUSTIN HOUSE Beacon Street It still stands at 45 Beacon Street, retains practically its original outward ap-pearance, and was built by Harrison Gray Otis, one of the Mt. Vernon Proprietors,and mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1832. It is interesting to note that a city govern-ment was once organized in this house by the mayor, owing to his indisposition atthe time. Mr. Otis first occupied the house in 1807, he having sold the large housestill standing on Mt. Vernon Street, which he had built previously. When the BeaconStreet mansion was built, the lot of land on which it stood measured one hundredand twenty feet on Beacon Street, and it had a depth of one hundred and sixty-fivefeet. Moreover, there was a garden on the easterly half of the lot. Mr. Otis, how-ever, sold to David Sears a portion of his garden, on which he
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