Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . rl Street,formerly Hutchinson Street, after the destruction by fire of the rope-walks on thatthoroughfare, and built thereon two homes. Colonel Thomas H. Perkins, a dis-tinguished Bostonian of his time, occupied his house until about the year 1834, whenhe removed to the new house which he had built in Temple Place, and which is now,in an altered condition, the banking-room of the Provident Institution for Savings.James Perkins, a
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Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . rl Street, formerly Hutchinson Street, after the destruction by fire of the rope-walks on thatthoroughfare, and built thereon two homes. Colonel Thomas H. Perkins, a dis-tinguished Bostonian of his time, occupied his house until about the year 1834, whenhe removed to the new house which he had built in Temple Place, and which is now, in an altered condition, the banking-room of the Provident Institution for Savings.James Perkins, a short time before his death in 1822, gave his mansion to the BostonAthenaeum, the institution acquiring additional land by purchase, and it was the homeof the Athenaeum from 1822 to 1849, when it removed to its present home on BeaconStreet. Soon after this last date the neighborhood of Pearl and High Streets be-came a business locality, and the former hospitable mansion was swept away beforethe march of improvement. James Perkins died at his summer estate Pine Bankon Jamaica Pond, which is familiar to frequenters of the beautiful pleasure-ground, Jamaica Park.. JOHN PHILLIPS HOUSEBeacon Street The house which John Phillips, afterwards first mayor of Boston, built in 1804at the corner of Beacon and Walnut Streets, was the first one built on Beacon Streetunder the Copley title, Mr. Phillips having acquired his land from Jeremiah Mason.Mason was one of the Mt. Vernon Proprietors, and had improved a large portion ofBeacon Hill at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Mr. Phillips occupied thehouse until his death in 1823, and it was here that his distinguished son, WendellPhillips, was born in 1811. After Mr. Phillipss death the estate was sold in 1825by his heirs to Thomas Lindall Winthrop, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusettsfrom 1826 to 1832. Mr. Winthrop, having a large family, increased the size of thehouse materially, and changed the location of the front door from Beacon