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Interior view of Hancock House, entry staircase, Beacon St., Boston, Mass., 1859

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1859

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Boston: Beacon St.: Hancock House: Unmounted

GUSN

GUSN-196704

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Description

The lithograph was done by A. Waud and published in "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," March 26, 1859. It was republished in "Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine" in October, 1860. Greely Stevenson Curtis had a summer estate at Manchester, Massachusetts. Curtis installed the Hancock House staircase in this house in 1869, as described in "Historic New England magazine, " Summer 2005, p. 3.

Details

Descriptive Terms

interior views
houses
dwellings
historic houses
stairs
statesmen
governors
lithographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 001586
AccessID 2585
Other identifier HNEDID-001586

Physical Description

1 lithograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0860.004

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Manchester (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

lithographs

Other People

Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Curtis, Greely "Steen" Stevenson, 1830-1897
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891

Subjects

Beacon Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Boston: Beacon St.: Hancock House: Unmounted

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