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Title: Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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lamp-post, was the house whichwas the home of Hon. Rufus Choate, one of Bostons eminent citizens, from 1851until his death in 1859. Mr. Choate bought the estate of William Ward, a Bostonbusiness man, and Ward acquired it in 1846 from Isaac McLellan, merchant, who hadbuilt it some years previously. It is interesting to note that during Mr. McLellansoccupancy of the house a reception was given there to General Lafayette, whenhe visited Boston in 1825, by General William Hull, whose daughter married Mr.McLellan. Rufus Choates death, however, did not occur in this house. Owing tofailing health, he sailed for England in company with his son, but soon became so illthat the steamship docked at Halifax, N.S., to put him ashore. He died there, July13, 1859. Mr. Choates attainments as a lawyer, scholar, and orator gave him greatprominence in the professional, social, and political life of Boston. He served in thenational House of Representatives and as United States senator from Massachusetts.
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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS HOUSEMt. Vernon Street The house at No. 57 Mt. Vernon Street has to-day the same outward appearanceas when it was built early in the nineteenth century. It was in 1842 the home ofCharles Francis Adams. He occupied it until his death. Mr. Adams, who marriedin 1829 a daughter of Hon. Peter C. Brooks of Boston, was a prominent citizen formany years, and had the distinction of being respectively grandson and son of thesecond and sixth Presidents of the United States. He was elected in 1858 a mem-ber of the national House of Representatives in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and atthe close of the session in 1861 was appointed United States minister to Englandby President Lincoln. In this office, during the Civil War and for three years after-wards, Mr. Adams served to the satisfaction of the nation. He returned to Europein 1871 to represent the United States in the Alabama Claims Tribunal at Geneva,Switzerland. The decision of the Tribunal, by which England paid to the Un

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