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1606 - Samuel de Champlain anchors in "Beauport." [1]1623 - Dorchester Company settlers arrive and setup at Stage Fort Park. [1]1630 or 1631 - Abraham Robinson, son of John Robinson (pastor), and band of Pilgrims, establishes settlement and fishing stage at Annisquam.
Essex County, of which Gloucester is a part, is the location of more than 450 properties and districts listed on the National Register. Gloucester itself is the location of 34 of these properties and districts. [2] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 6, 2024. [3]
Beauport was built starting in 1908 as the summer home of interior decorator and antique collector Henry Davis Sleeper.Situated on the rocks overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Sleeper repeatedly enlarged and modified the structure, and filled it with a large collection of fine art, folk art, architectural artifacts, and other collectible materials.
Gloucester. Beauport, Sleeper–McCann House – built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper; Captain Elias Davis House – built in 1804, part of Cape Ann Museum's decorative arts collection. Hammond Castle – home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr.; built 1926–1929
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Henry Davis Sleeper (March 27, 1878 – September 22, 1934) was an American antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator best known for Beauport, his Gloucester, Massachusetts, country home that is "one of the most widely published houses of the twentieth century."
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