Quarante des maisons historiques de Boston; une brève description illustrée des résidences de personnages historiques de Boston qui ont vécu dans ou près de la section d'affaires . les jardins et occupant la crête et la pente orientale de Pem-berton Hill, ou, comme on l'appelait pour la première fois Cotton Hill. Il a été construit vers 1758 par William Vassall, et en 1790 le domaine est devenu la propriété de Patrick Jeffry, wowas connu comme le deuxième mari de la tordue mais excentrique Madame Haley.Jonathan Mason est devenu propriétaire de la propriété en 1802, et dans l'année suivante vendu à Gardiner Greene, qui l'a occupé jusqu'à son d

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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 . ous gardens and occupying the crest and eastern slope of Pem-berton Hill, or, as it was first known, Cotton Hill. It was built about 1758 byWilliam Vassall, and in 1790 the estate became the property of Patrick Jeffry, whowas known as the second husband of the wronged but eccentric Madame Haley.Jonathan Mason became the owner of the property in 1802, and in the followingyear sold it to Gardiner Greene, who occupied it until his death in 1832. DuringGreenes occupancy it was the scene of lavish hospitality. At the time of his deaththe estate measured three hundred feet on Tremont Row, and was appraised at onehundred and forty-two thousand dollars. Gardiner Greenes widow was a daughterof John Singleton Copley, the eminent painter, and sister of Lord Lyndhurst, onceLord Chancellor of England. She survived her husband more than thirty years.When the great improvement of Tremont Street, Tremont Row, and PembertonSquare was made in 1835, the Gardiner Greene estate was covered with buildings.. PERKINS HOUSEPearl Street James Perkins and his brother and business partner, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, wealthy Boston merchants, purchased of Daniel McNeill in 1792 land on Pearl Street, formerly Hutchinson Street, after the destruction by fire of the rope-walks on thatthoroughfare, and built thereon two homes. Colonel Thomas H. Perkins, a dis-tinguished Bostonian of his time, occupied his house until about the year 1834, whenhe removed to the new house which he had built in Temple Place, and which is now, in an altered condition, the banking-room of the Provident Institution for Savings.James Perkins, a short time before his death in 1822, gave his mansion to the BostonAthenaeum, the institution acquiring additional land by purchase, and it was the homeof the Athenaeum from 1822 to 1849, when it removed to its present home

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