Hull Shore Drive, Nantasket Avenue District
- Address: Hull Shore Dr, Nantasket Ave
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1892/00/00 | A 8,000 Sq ft Tudor-style house is built at 940 Nantasket Ave. | |||||
1915/00/00 | John F Fitzgerald | Home | Honey Fitz buys 940 Nantasket Ave to use as a summer home. | |||
1915/05/00 | Joseph P Kennedy | Home | Joseph and Rose Kennedy, rent a two-story summer cottage a mile from 940 Nantasket Ave, at 201 Beach Avenue on the corner of C Street. | |||
1915/05/00 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy | Home | Joseph and Rose Kennedy, rent a two-story summer cottage a mile from 940 Nantasket Ave, at 201 Beach Avenue on the corner of C Street. | |||
1915/07/25 | John F Fitzgerald | Grandfather | Honey Fitz sprints into the Beach Ave house from the strand to see his grandson. He immediately calls the Boston papers saying "Is he going into politics? Well ... he is going to be President of the United State...." | |||
1915/07/25 | Joseph P Kennedy Jr | Born | Rose gives birth to her first son, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr in Hull, Massachusetts, in an upstairs room of a rented house at 201 Beach Avenue at C Street. | |||
1915/09/19 | Joseph P Kennedy Jr | Faith | Joseph Patrick Jr is baptized at the recently finished St Ann's Catholic church at 208 Samoset Avenue Hull, MA. | |||
1920/07/00 | John F Kennedy | Home | Young Jack and the Kennedy clan summer in Hull at 940 Nantasket Ave. Pencil marks remain on a living room wall that mark JFK's and his brothers and sisters heights during their summer visits. |
Particulars for Hull Shore Drive, Nantasket Avenue District: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Area of Significance | Conservation |
Historic Use | Conservation Area |
Area of Significance | Engineering |
Area of Significance | Entertainment - Recreation |
Criteria | Exemplar |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Historic Use | Natural Feature |
Historic Use | Outdoor recreation |
Historic Use | Park |
Historic Use | Road-related |
Owner | State |
Area of Significance | Transportation |
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