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Title: Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
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Publisher: Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, except the hugecentral chimney-stack, looking as if the very earth had borneit up v^itli difficulty, for its outline appears curved where itsbulk has settled unequally. The west end is of rough-cast,and the whole outward structure as univsthetic and austere aspossible. Judge Lee was a loyalist of a moderate stamp, who remainedin Boston during the siege. He was permitted to return toCambridge, and ended his days in his antique old mansionin 1802. The large square house at the corner of Fayerweather Streetis comparatively modern, belonging to the period of about 1740-50, when we And a large proportion of the mansions of the Colo-nial gentry sprang up, under the influence of rich harvests fromthe Erench War, which gave our merchant princes an opportu-nity of thrusting their hands pretty deeply into the exchequerof Old England. Captain George Euggles owned the estate inShirleys time, but before the Kevolution it became the resi-dence of Thomas Fayerweather, for whom the street is named.
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OLD TORY HOW AND BEYOND. 317 The house passed into the possession of William Wells, inwhose family it still remains. Having brought the reader a considerable distance from ourpoint of departure, we at length come to a halt and consult ourguide-book of only fifty odd years ago. It tells us we havearrived at the cross road south of the late Governor Gerrys,now Rev. Charles Lowells, seat. This is Ehnwood, the resi-dence of James Russell Lowell. It is a pleasure to happen upon an old Colonial estate retain-ing so much of its former condition as this. It embodies moreof the idea of the country-house of a provincial magnate than iseasily supplied to the limited horizons and scanty areas of someof our old acquaintances. The splendid grove of pines is areminiscence of the primitive forest; the noble elms have givena name to the compact old mansion-house and its remainingacres; and there are still the old barn and outbuildings, withthe remnant of the ancient orchard. It is easy to see that the

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