Adams National Historical Park

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Adams National Historical Park
Peacefield - Home for five generations of the Adams family
Peacefield - Home for five generations of the Adams family
Adams National Historical Park (USA)
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Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 71 ° 0 ′ 12.1 ″  W.
Location: Massachusetts , United States
Next city: Quincy
Surface: 0.1 km²
Founding: December 9, 1946
Visitors: 199,301 (2016)
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The Adams National Historical Park is a memorial in memory of the family of Adam, from the two US presidents have emerged, and several other politicians, diplomats, military, business leaders and scientists. The National Historical Park, which was first dedicated in 1946, is located in Quincy in the US state of Massachusetts , a suburb of Boston , and is administered by the National Park Service .

Structures in the memorial

Adams National Historical Park has eleven historic buildings associated with the lives of the Adams family. Including:

  • The birthplace of John Adams (1735-1826), the 1797-1801 2nd President of the United States was.
  • The birth house of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), son of John Adams and from 1825 to 1829 the 6th US President.
  • The Peacefield house and farm building , where John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams lived from 1788.
  • The Stone Library , a library building which Charles Francis Adams, Sr. had built in 1870 in fulfillment of a testamentary suggestion of his father John Quincy Adams. Today it contains records and around 12,000 books from six generations of the Adamses.

Also on the site is the First Parish Church , a Unitarian Universalists church , where both US presidents and their wives are buried in a family crypt. The current building from 1828 was built by the architect Alexander Parris . However, the church is not part of the memorial; it is owned by the parish and is still used today.

  • Birthplace of John Adams

  • Birthplace of John Quincy Adams

  • The Stone Library

  • The reception room in Peacefield

Additional members of the Adams family who lived on the premises include Charles Francis Adams, Sr. , son of John Quincy, diplomat and U.S. Senator , Charles Francis Adams, Jr. , son of Charles Francis Sr., general and president the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the brothers of Charles Francis Jr., the historian Brooks Adams and the historian and cultural philosopher Henry Adams with his wife Marian Hooper Adams .

History of the memorial

Part of today's memorial was first established in 1946 as the Adams Mansion National Historic Site . It was renamed Adams National Historic Site in 1952, and in 1960 the two birth houses were designated as National Historic Landmarks . On November 2, 1998, the entire complex was rededicated as a national historical park .

Web links

Commons : Adams National Historical Park  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stats Report Viewer. National Park Service , accessed on December 27, 2017 (select the appropriate entry under "Park").