Francis Parkman House
| Francis Parkman House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 The house in 2014 |
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| location | Boston , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 21 '25.6 " N , 71 ° 4' 14.7" W | ||
| Built | 1824 | ||
| NRHP number | 66000782 | ||
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| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | December 29, 1962 | ||
| Declared as CP | October 15, 1966 | ||
The Francis Parkman House is the former home of the historian Francis Parkman . It is located in Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States and was established in 1962 as a National Historic Landmark recognized. Since 1966 it is in the National Register of Historic Places entered yet Contributing property of Beacon Hill Historic District .
architecture
The terraced house , built on a granite foundation in 1824 , consists of masonry bricks , is three stories high and has a fully developed basement. The roof has two chimneys and a dormer window , which, however, is more recent. The main entrance, which is offset inwards, is spanned by a round arch. The windows have wooden shutters and incised granite lintels .
Historical meaning
The house was the residence of Francis Parkman from 1865 to 1893, who is best known today for his works The Oregon Trail (1849) and France and England in North America (several volumes, 1851–92). Parkman saw writing about history as a romantic art, so he used the techniques and stylistic devices of novelists to describe economic, social, and political facts.
His first work on the recent history of his time was the book History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac , published in 1851 , which dealt with the British conflicts in Canada and the Pontiac uprising . To do this, he used the knowledge and experience he had gained from his ethnological research in the Great Plains . Building on this first volume, others followed in a long series about the competition between France and Great Britain for supremacy in North America, which is now regarded as his magnum opus .
Parkman got severe health problems while working at the Conspiracy , as a result of which he became partially blind and suffered from relapsing severe headaches. Since he could not continue his writing at first, he began to study horticulture , in which he was so successful that he was elected President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and in 1871 received a professorship at Harvard University in horticulture.
After his health recovered, Parkman published the book Pioneers of France in the New World in 1865 , which made him widely known as one of the leading American historians. In the following 27 years he published a number of other books - repeatedly interrupted by phases of illness - including the autobiographical novel Vassal Morton .
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston
- List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in northern Boston
literature
- Polly M. Rettig, J. Walter Coleman: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , December 6, 1972, accessed September 1, 2017 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2019.
- ↑ cf. Rettig / Coleman, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Rettig / Coleman, p. 3.
- ↑ a b c cf. Rettig / Coleman, p. 5.