Fireplace and mantle in Edward Everett house
Item Information
- Title:
- Fireplace and mantle in Edward Everett house
- Description:
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Fireplace and mantle in Edward Everett house in an upstairs bedroom. Congressman Everett, a few years before the time of his election as Governor in 1836, moved to this house from Winter Hill, and during the seven years of his life here took an active interest in the Charlestown Lyceum and was a regular attendant at the Harvard Unitarian Church. In 1841, he was sent as minister to England. From 1846-49, he served as president of Harvard College. His public addresses in Charlestown, 1826-61, include one on September 26,1828, on the completion of the Harvard Monument in the Phipps St. Burial Ground as the result of a suggestion he himself had made at a dinner party a year before. The house was later purchased by Mr. Wm. Carleton, the founder of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., who lived there until 1863. It then became the house of Ezra Trull, and was purchased from him by Francis Childs who occupied it until 1887. During the first World War it was taken by the YMCA to provide extra sleeping quarters.
- Collector:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Date:
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[ca. 1925–1959]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Lantern slides
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library - Collection (local):
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Charlestown Lantern Slides
- Subjects:
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Mansions
Fireplaces
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)BostonCharlestown
Rutherford Avenue District
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : transparency
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8k71p5632
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