. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. view of the new departure,as it is termed, that I sketched the antiquities and old mansions ofOld Cambridge. The brick building alluded to, and which now joins the ex-treme rear additions, formerly stood on the left-hand side of themansion as the spectator faces it, and communicated with part was built under the supervision of President Webber,and was, in 1871, removed to its present situation. It is nowthe office of the College Steward. Probably no private mansion in America has seen so manyillustrious personages under its roof-tree asthe P
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. view of the new departure,as it is termed, that I sketched the antiquities and old mansions ofOld Cambridge. The brick building alluded to, and which now joins the ex-treme rear additions, formerly stood on the left-hand side of themansion as the spectator faces it, and communicated with part was built under the supervision of President Webber,and was, in 1871, removed to its present situation. It is nowthe office of the College Steward. Probably no private mansion in America has seen so manyillustrious personages under its roof-tree asthe Presidents House, Besides its occu-pancy by AVadsworth, Holyoke, Locke,Langdon, Willard, Webber, Kirkland,Quincy, and Everett, the royal governorshave assembled there on successive anniver-saries, and no distinguished traveller passedits door without paying his respects to theadministration for the time being. Nodoubt the eccentric Dr. Witherspoon broke willard. bread at the table of Holyoke when he visited Boston in thememorable year
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