Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 384
o-nial period, built by Thomas Hancock in 1737, and given tohis nephew, the governor, by his aunt, Lydia Hancock. Thehouse long remained a unique feature of the surroundings ofthe Common, until it became too antiquated for modern ideas,and too valuable. The front of the estate embraced from… … HANCOCK MAlfSION. cock Avenue, Mt. Yernon Place, and a part of Hancock Street,in wliich was situatedthe nursery, belongedto the Hancocks. Thesite of the State Housewas Hancocks pasture;and gardens and or-chards surrounded thistruly princely mansion.The building was ofstone, built in the…
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