Interior view of Hancock House, entry staircase, Beacon St., Boston, Mass., 1859

Item Information

Title:
Interior view of Hancock House, entry staircase, Beacon St., Boston, Mass., 1859
Description:
The lithograph was done by A. Waud and published in "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," March 26, 1859. It was republished in "Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine" in October, 1860. Greely Stevenson Curtis had a summer estate at Manchester, Massachusetts. Curtis installed the Hancock House staircase in this house in 1869, as described in "Historic New England magazine, " Summer 2005, p. 3.
Date:
1859
Genre:
lithographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC001: General photographic collection
Subjects:
interior views
houses
dwellings
historic houses
statesmen
governors (public officers)
Beacon Street (Boston, Mass.)
stairs (series of steps)
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Manchester
John Hancock House (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:
1 lithograph
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/196704
Terms of Use:
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Identifier:
196704
Call #:
PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0860.004