ars owned by theThoreau family. Jno. Thoreau, grandfather of Henry, the well-known and somewhateccentric writer, came to Boston from the Island of Jersey, in 1773, and soonafterward bought this house of the Orrok family. It was at that time aboutfifty years old, having been built about 1720 by a… … THE CURTIS HOUSE.
Architecture, United States: New England
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