David Sears House
- Also Known As: Somerset Club
- Address: 42 Beacon St
- Neighborhood of Beacon Hill in Boston
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1815/00/00 | Alexander Parris | Architect | Plans for 42 Beacon St in Boston to be built of granite are prepared by Alexander Parris. | |||
1816/00/00 | David Sears | Home | A townhouse 42 Beacon St, one of the first in Boston to be built of granite, is erected as a home for David Sears. | |||
1816/00/00 | Solomon Willard | Builder | Solmon Willard carves the exterior granite panels on the David Sears House. | |||
1817/00/00 | Miriam Mason Sears | Home | Miriam and David Sears make a home on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. | |||
1824/00/00 | Miriam Mason Sears | Home | David Sears nearly doubles the size of his residence by adding a second great curved bay. | |||
1832/04/09 | Knyvet Winthrop Sears | Born | Knyvet Winthrop Sears is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of David and Miriam Clark Sears. | |||
1869/00/00 | Ulysses S Grant | Visitor | While in Boston, President-elect Grant is entertained by David Sears with a banquet at his home on Beacon Street. | |||
1875/00/00 | The existing third story is added to the structure when the house is acquired by the Somerset Club. The building has been used since that year as a private men's club. |
Particulars for David Sears House: | |
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Architectural Style | Adamesque-Federal |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | Federal Style |
Level of Significance | National |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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A Venetian Night's Entertainment (Short Story) | Short Story | Edith Wharton | This is the story that, in the dining-room of the old Beacon Street house (now the Aldebaran Club), Judge Anthony Bracknell, when the ladies had withdrawn to the oval parlour, used to relate to his grandsons. - Sears House is now the Somerset Club. |
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