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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 first immigrant houses built in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colony are known as first generation structures. These were built upon settlement (1620) until about 1660 "when the first immigrant generation of preponderantly younger settlers had come to full maturity". [ 1 ]
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 .
Prudential Tower The Prudential Tower behind 111 Huntington Avenue, as seen from the South End Alternative names The Pru Prudential Tower 800 Boylston St General information Status Open Location 800 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Construction started 1960 Completed 1964 Opened 1965 Owner Boston Properties Management Boston Properties Height Antenna spire 907 ft (276 m ...
With addition dating to late First Period [110] [failed verification] Old Powder House: Somerville: 1704 Oldest stone building in Massachusetts Coronet John Farnum Jr. House: Uxbridge: c. 1710: The Cornet John Farnum Jr. House was the site of the first Uxbridge Town Meeting in 1727. The house today is a museum and headquarters of the Uxbridge ...
The first Otis house, built in 1796, is located at 141 Cambridge Street, next to the Old West Church in Boston's West End. It is now a National Historic Landmark , and a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic New England , which also uses part of it as its administrative headquarters.
Ten years ago, in 2012, empty nesters of the Silent Generation, who were between the ages of 67 and 84 at the time, took up 16% of homes that were three-bedrooms or larger.
Around the start of the 20th century, caught up in the automobile revolution, Boston was home to the Porter Motor Company, [72] headquartered in the Tremont Building, 73 Tremont Street. [73] On January 15, 1919, the Great Molasses Flood occurred in the North End. Twenty-one people were killed and 150 injured as an immense wave of molasses ...