Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . belonging to some for-mer day and generation; extensive gardens, farms, andorchards, evidently of no modern date; and trees whosegiant forms were the growth of years gone by. Whobuilt these stately mansions, so unlike the usual New Eng-land dwellings of ancient days, with their spacious lawns,shaded by noble elms, and adorned with shrubbery ? Whowere the proprietors of these elegant seats, which arrestthe attention and charm the eye of the passing traveller ?Who were the original occupants of these abodes of aris-tocratic pride and wea
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . belonging to some for-mer day and generation; extensive gardens, farms, andorchards, evidently of no modern date; and trees whosegiant forms were the growth of years gone by. Whobuilt these stately mansions, so unlike the usual New Eng-land dwellings of ancient days, with their spacious lawns,shaded by noble elms, and adorned with shrubbery ? Whowere the proprietors of these elegant seats, which arrestthe attention and charm the eye of the passing traveller ?Who were the original occupants of these abodes of aris-tocratic pride and wealth, — for such they must have been, 140 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. — and whose voices waked the echoes in these lofty halls ?A race of men which has passed away forever! They aregone. Their tombs are in a distant land; even theirnames have passed from remembrance; and nought re-mains to tell of their sojourn here save these stately piles,whose walls once echoed to the sound of pipe and harp,and whose courts reverberated with the notes of theirnational -=? saeaa&W&r- Prominent among these residences of the royalists ofolden time is that of Colonel John Yassall, which becamein July, 1775, the head quarters of General Washington; CAMBRIDGE. 141 an edifice even more elegant and spacious than its fellows,standing in the midst of shrubbery and stately elms, alittle distance from the street, once the highway from Har-vard University to Waltham. At this mansion, and atWinter Hill, Washington passed most of his time aftertaking command of the continental army, until the evacu-ation of Boston in the following spring. Its present/ owner is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, widely known/ in the world of literature as one of the most gifted men\ of the age. It is a spot worthy of the residence of anAmerican bard so endowed, for the associations whichhallow it are linked with the noblest themes that everawakened the inspiration of a child of song. Tins mansion stands upon the upper of two terr
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