An historic guide to Cambridge . tised it to be let, and in1758 his widow, Mrs. Faith Waldo, sold it to Judge Joseph Lee. The house is sixty feet front and the central chimney is twelve feet rooms opening on either side of the hdu are twenty feet square, and, exceptthe parlor, have small rooms about six feet in breadth partitioned off on the sidefurthest from the chimney. This kept the main rooms warmer in days when theonly heat was from a wood fire in the chimney. The walls were hung with land-scape paper. The parlor doors open into a passage leading to the stables and toan enclose
An historic guide to Cambridge . tised it to be let, and in1758 his widow, Mrs. Faith Waldo, sold it to Judge Joseph Lee. The house is sixty feet front and the central chimney is twelve feet rooms opening on either side of the hdu are twenty feet square, and, exceptthe parlor, have small rooms about six feet in breadth partitioned off on the sidefurthest from the chimney. This kept the main rooms warmer in days when theonly heat was from a wood fire in the chimney. The walls were hung with land-scape paper. The parlor doors open into a passage leading to the stables and toan enclosed staircase. Doors from this passage lead to the kitchen and to a largebed chamber. Judge Lee probably built the third story and made other improve-ments, wainscoting the rooms, which are very low-studded. Judge Joseph Lee was the son of Thomas Lee, a ship builder, of Boston, whodied in 1763 at the age of ninety-three, and of Deborah, his wife, daughter ofEnsign Edward Flint, of Salem, whom he married in 1700. Judge Lee was born. HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 109 in 1710, graduated at Harvard in 1729, and married Rebecca, youngest child ofLieutenant-Governor Spencer Pbips (published 1755). He was Judge of thecourt of common pleas of Middlesex, and was one of the founders of ChristChurch. In 1774, he was appointed one of the mandamus councillors, but wasforced to resign by his fellow citizens, which he did from the court house was of a mild and retiring disposition and took no active part in the Revolu-tion, so that after a short absence from Cambridge he was permitted to returnand his property was not confiscated. Perhaps the best description of this gentleman of the old school is that givenin his obituarj in the Columbian Centinel, December 3, 1802: At Cambridge,Sunday last, Hon. Joseph Lee, aged 93. During a long life Judge Lee was re-spected by all who knew him. He w^as distinguished in society by the mannersof a gentleman and by the habits and principles of an honest
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