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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1730/00/00 A granite 10 Mile Stone is sited near the corner of Adams and Dimmock Sts on the Boston-Plymouth Highway which passes in front of Rev Hancock's house. In 1911, the marker was restored by the Quincy Historical Society and placed in its present location.
1737/01/23 John Hancock Born John Hancock is born in Braintree, Massachusetts, the son of Col John Hancock of Braintree and Mary Hawke Thaxter. Lost, the site is was once marked by a circle of fieldstones, taken from the well, on the Dimmock Street side of the Academy grounds. John Hancock's Birthday
1822/07/25 John Adams Benefactor John Adams conveys 8 acres of land in the Town of Quincy near the Meeting House in Quincy Center for a stone schoolhouse to be erected over the cellar which was under the House anciently built in 1733 by the Reverend John Hancock.
1868/10/09 John Quincy Adams II Developer Supervisors of the Adams Temple and School Fund authorize Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and John Quincy Adams II to "develop plans for an academy and library building."
1869/00/00 Ware and Van Brunt Architect Ware and Van Brunt use brick and stone to express the rational design theories of Viollet-le-Duc while incorporating a polychromatic medievalism that links their design directly to the models of contemporary school buildings built in England.
1870/01/17 Charles Francis Adams Sr Trust Supervisor At the Ware and Van Brunt office, the Adams' Board approves the building contract at a cost of $28,867.99, including heating and gas. The building is to be built on the site of the Rev John Hancock house, the traces of which are clearly perceptible.
1871/00/00 Charles Francis Adams Sr Trust Supervisor Adams Academy is built under the supervision of John Q Adams's son, Charles Francis Adams. Charles F Adams Sr had been introduced to Henry Van Brunt by his son, Charles F Adams Jr, who is a friend of Van Brunt from Harvard.
1871/00/00 Upon the completion of the Adams Academy, John Adams' library is moved into an upper room. Although he intended his library for the use of the general public, his rare and valuable volumes are more appropriate for scholars. Journey of John Adams' Colonial Library
1871/12/04 Quincy's First Public Library opens with 4,607 volumes in the north room of the Adams Academy building. The library is immediately thronged with young people. Charles F Adams will later estimate that nearly 45,000 books are borrowed in the first year.
1872/00/00 The Adams Academy boys school opens. The first class has 23 pupils, 6 of whom are from Quincy. Dr William Reynolds Dimmock (1835-1878) is the Academy's first master, serving from 1872 until his death in 1878.
1875/00/00 Thomas Mott Osborne Education Thomas Mott Osborne attends Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts.
1878/00/00 Dr William Everett (1839-1910), son of the statesman Edward Everett (1794-1865), works as the master of Adams Academy from 1878 to 1893 when he will resign to take a seat in Congress.
1893/00/00 William Royall Tyler, A B (1852-1897), a master already teaching at the Academy, is selected to fill Dr Everett's place, working until his death in 1897.
1897/00/00 Dr William Everett is reappointed as master at Adams Academy. He will lead the school until its closure in 1907. Although small, it fulfilled for several decades its intentions as a sound preparatory school for Harvard College.
1924/00/00 Bruce Wilder Saville Sculptor Sculptor Bruce Wilder Saville creates a bronze "Doughboy" statue for a World War I memorial in Quincy. It will first stand at outside the Coddington Building before moving to the grounds of the Adams' Academy.
1928/00/00 F F Ziegler Sculptor Sculptor F F Ziegler executes a bronze memorial plaque for the Great War memorial. Mounted on a rough hewn granite boulder, the bas relief features a fully uniformed soldier and sailor flank each side of the inscription.
1951/00/00 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company Benefactor The John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company donates a granite monument crowned by a heroic-size bronze bust of John Hancock that had been removed from the old John Hancock Building in Boston.
2018/05/08 F F Ziegler Sculptor F F Ziegler's bronze Great War plaque is moved from the Adams Academy on Adams Street to the northeast corner of Hancock Street and Furnace Brook Parkway.
2018/05/08 Bruce Wilder Saville Sculptor Saville's bronze "Doughboy" is moved from in front of the Adams Academy on Adams Street to the northeast corner of the intersection of Hancock Street and Furnace Brook Parkway.

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Particulars for Adams Academy, Quincy:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Architectural Style High Victorian Gothic
Architectural Style Late Gothic Revival
Historic Use Library
Level of Significance National
Historic Use School



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 74000379
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Ware and Van Brunt
Architectural Style: Late gothic revival, Gothic, Other
Attribute: High Victorian Gothic
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National; State
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1869
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: School, Library
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Education
Current Sub-Function: Library Museum

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