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Boston Manor House is an English Jacobean manor house built in 1622 with internal alterations, intensively restored in later centuries. It was the manor house of one of the early medieval-founded manors in Middlesex .
The Wayside – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845–1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett ...
The Boston University Castle (or BU Castle or simply "The Castle") is a Tudor Revival-style mansion owned by Boston University on Bay State Road. [1] The school typically uses it for receptions or concerts, but also rents out The Castle to cater events and special occasions.
The James Blake House is the oldest surviving house in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The house was built in 1661 and the date was confirmed by dendrochronology in 2007. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located at 735 Columbia Road, in Edward Everett Square , just a block from Massachusetts Avenue .
Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, [1] [2] was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages. [3]
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Nearly every large medieval manor house had its own deer-park adjoining, imparked (i.e. enclosed) by royal licence, which served primarily as a store of food in the form of venison. Within these licensed parks deer could not be hunted by royalty (with its huge travelling entourage which needed to be fed and entertained), nor by neighbouring ...
A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages. It continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing. At that time the word "great" simply meant big and had not acquired its ...