Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 144
rikingly handsome old house that every passing stranger first asks THE COLLINS HOUSE 131 whose it is, and then what it is. Let us try to give to both ques-tions their adequate response. As to the first question, the mansion has been for many yearsthe property of Mr. Francis Peabody, who now lives… … THE COLLINS HOUSE, DANVERS. forty years back the renovating hand is everywhere apparent. Buthouses with a history are much better appreciated now than then.It is scarcely thirty years since the Hancock House was demolished,yet we feel great satisfaction in saying that such a piece of van-dalism…
Historic buildings · Architecture, Domestic
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