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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1789/00/00 Charles Bulfinch Architect After heavy winds knocked down the original beacon in 1789, Charles Bulfinch designs a Doric brick column with a gilded eagle. Lost when the hill was leveled in 1811, a 1898 reproduction is located at the Massachusetts State House's Ashburton entrance.
1795/00/00 John Singleton Copley Seller Agents for John Copley begin selling lots on Mount Vernon, Pemberton (or Cotton) Hill and Sentry Hill (mostly owned by Copley and now known collectively as Beacon Hill) to home builders.
1797/00/00 5 Pinckney St is built. Original owners include George Middleton, a liveryman and Louis Glapion, a barber. George Middleton led an all-black militia company called the Bucks of America during the Revolutionary War.
1855/00/00 Thomas Handasyde Perkins Jr Home Thomas H Perkins Jr's Beacon Hill home at 1 Joy Street is the venue for salons of Boston's intellectuals and society figures.
1858/00/00 Elizabeth Chadwick Perkins Home Sometime after 1857, Thomas and Elizabeth Perkins move to 17 Mount Vernon in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
1858/00/00 Thomas Handasyde Perkins III Home Sometime after 1857, Thomas and Elizabeth Perkins move to 17 Mount Vernon in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
1906/12/24 Ralph Adams Cram Life Looking to entertain her party guests, Mrs Cram suggest that everyone go outside and sing Christmas songs. With much timidity and deep misgivings, they sing Adeste Fideles beneath neighbors' windows on Chestnut Street, then run home very frightened.
1907/12/24 After going door to door inviting neighbors to join them, Mrs Cram and friends sing a full selection of popular carols. Pleased with their success, the group establishes the Chestnut Street Christmas Association.
1927/12/24 Richard Clarke Cabot Singer Dr Richard Cabot's carolers from Massachusetts General Hospital sing Christmas songs on Beacon Hill.
1934/00/00 Katharine Page Loring Home Charles and Katharine Loring live at 8 Otis Place on Beacon Hill.
1934/00/00 Charles G Loring Home Charles and Katharine Loring live at 8 Otis Place on Beacon Hill.
1940/00/00 Ralph Adams Cram Home After selling 52 Chestnut St, Cram lives at 171 Mt Vernon Street, then at the Lincolnshire Hotel on Charles Street, but still retains Whitewall in Sudbury.

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Particulars for Beacon Hill Historic District:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Season Christmas
Holiday Christmas Eve
Architectural Style Federal Style
Utility Gaslight
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Sight Category Historic District
Area of Significance Literature
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Performing Arts
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 66000130
Resource Type:
Owner: Private, Local
Architect: Bulfinch,Charles
Architectural Style: Colonial revival, Greek revival, Federal
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, Additional documentation
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Literature, Architecture, Performing arts
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1795
Associated People: Parkman,Francis,et al.
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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