Interior of Charlestown circular room as set up in "Beauport" residence of Henry D. Sleeper at Gloucester, Mass.

Title:: Interior of Charlestown circular room as set up in "Beauport" residence of Henry D. Sleeper at Gloucester, Mass.
Description:: Interior of Charlestown circular room as set up in "Beauport" residence of Henry D. Sleeper at Gloucester, Mass. The room is two stories high with bookshelves also in the gallery running around the upper portion. Printed in color in February 1929 issue. For permission to visit Beauport on Eastern Point, write to Mrs. Mary Wonson. Presumably from the J.B. Thomas Mansion at 43 Monument Square, originally erected for John Wade Damon who lived there till his death in 1863 - and which was described by Hunnewell as "the most expensive, as well as the most elaborately furnished brick house ever built on the peninsula."
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: February 1929
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Interiors
Sleeper, Henry Davis, 1878-1934
Places:: Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Gloucester
Monument Square
Monument Square District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Country Life in America
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-44-B1A