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 . now in the possession of his family. HARRIS HOUSECorner of Pearl and High Streets About the year 1800 Jonathan Harris, a Boston merchant, built a large houseon the estate which he purchased at the corner of what is now Pearl and High streets were formerly Hutchinson Street and Cow Lane. Its great cost, how-ever, ruined Harris, and he lived in it but a few years and died insolvent. The housewas therefore called Harri
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 . now in the possession of his family. HARRIS HOUSECorner of Pearl and High Streets About the year 1800 Jonathan Harris, a Boston merchant, built a large houseon the estate which he purchased at the corner of what is now Pearl and High streets were formerly Hutchinson Street and Cow Lane. Its great cost, how-ever, ruined Harris, and he lived in it but a few years and died insolvent. The housewas therefore called Harris Folly. Henderson Inches, a well-known merchant, wasa later occupant of the house or a portion of it, until his removal to Beacon Streetabout 1851, and we are told that it was then used for an asylum. When businessinvaded the locality the house was taken down, and its former site was covered bymercantile structures. These were consumed in the Great Fire of 1872, and otherswhich still stand took their place. The illustration shows Harris Folly loomingin the background above the residence of Jeffrey Richardson, who was in his daya well-known merchant of AMORY-TICKNOR HOUSECorner of Park and Beacon Streets The house which, although much altered, still stands at the corner of Beacon andPark Streets, was built about 1804 by Thomas Amory, a Boston merchant, but 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 municipalit
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