Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe House
| Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 The house in 2009 |
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| location | Boston , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 21 '27.7 " N , 71 ° 4' 0.5" W | ||
| Built | 1804 | ||
| architect | Charles Bulfinch | ||
| Architectural style | Georgian architecture | ||
| NRHP number | 74002044 | ||
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| The NRHP added | September 13, 1974 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | September 13, 1974 | ||
| Declared as CP | October 15, 1966 | ||
The Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe House is a historic residential building in the Beacon Hill district of Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It was named after its owners Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe , who lived there for three years. In 1974 the structure was registered as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); It has been a Contributing Property of the Beacon Hill Historic District since 1966 .
architecture
The four-story house with a flat roof was designed in the style of Georgian architecture in 1804 and is one of three houses built next to each other on the Boston Chestnut in 1804 and 1805 by Hebsibah Swan for construction costs of 8,000 US dollars each (around 179,000 dollars today) Street were built. They will also "Swan Houses" (after their building owner German Schwanhäuser called) and were each a wedding present to her three daughters. In the meantime, John Singer Sargent also lived in house number 13, to which the NRHP entry relates . After a long discussion among experts, it is now certain that Charles Bulfinch designed the building.
Historical meaning
By the time Samuel Gridley Howe married Julia Ward in 1843, he had already made a name for himself as a philanthropist . He actively promoted reform and was one of the first to teach the blind and the deaf and dumb. Despite the fact that his wife was only 23 and thus 19 years younger than him, she soon played an important role in his activities, including in the circles of Boston abolitionists . They lived at 13 Chestnut Street from 1863 to 1866 after Julia published her work, The Battle Hymn of the Republic . Her husband was president of the Perkins School for the Blind for 44 years and was referred to as a "later Benjamin Rush " due to his diverse commitment . After his death in 1876, his widow continued his ministry for more than 35 years and became a pioneer for women's rights in the United States.
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston
- List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in northern Boston
literature
- Robert C. Post: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , August 16, 1973, accessed December 8, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2019.
- ↑ cf. Post, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Post, p. 3.