1851
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
GUSN-198638
"This spacious and lofty old building, situated at the corner of High and Pearl Streets, in this city, is about to be torn down to make room for modern improvements, and a more judicious and economical occupation of the extended site it occupies. It was erected some fifty years since, by Jonathan Harris, and is, even to this day the [largest?] private dwelling-house ever built in this city's history, though the surrounding grounds have been much curtailed within the last twenty years. The liberal design and costliness of this mansion must have indeed surprised the good people of Boston half a century since, with their unostentatious habits and Puritanic notions; and this, it is well understood, was the case, for it has been known, from the day of its completion, as Harris's Folly."
mansions
exterior views
follies (architectural)
prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR298
1 engraving on newsprint
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.3800.004
6 x 7.25 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Worcester & Co. (Engraver)
prints (visual works)
line engravings (prints)
Good, except for 2 holes
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
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