John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park
127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169, USA
Massachusetts, USA
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EST. 1681
EST. 1681
1735
Adams, Abigail Smith
Adams, John Sr.
Adams, Elihu
Adams, Peter Boylston
Adams, John
Adams, Susanna Boylston
Adams, John Quincy
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park.
John Adams’s original saltbox birthplace survives beside the John Quincy Adams Birthplace in Quincy. The National Park Service preserves both furnished houses, their architectural fabric, grounds, and visitor facilities as part of Adams National Historical Park, generally presenting the homes through guided tours.
About John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park
The house, a 2+1⁄2 story wood-frame structure sheathed in wooden clapboards, is a classic New England home with two lower and two upper rooms built around a massive central chimney. Extensive alterations were made over the years, including the building of a lean-to in the 18th century that added two downstairs rooms and two small upper chambers. The main facade is three bays wide with the entry in the center. The doorway is framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature and triangular pediment.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park
Upon the Deacon's death in 1761, the house passed to his second son, Peter; the younger John received the house next door, where John Quincy Adams was born to John and Abigail Adams in 1767. Peter lived in the house with his mother until 1768, when he married. In 1774 he sold the house to his brother John, who rented it out after their mother died in 1780. In 1803 John sold both houses to his son, who lived in the house of his birth, and rented this one out. The house was occupied from 1810 to 1818 by John Quincy Adams' son, Thomas Boylston Adams.
Both houses remained in Adams family ownership, and were rented out until 1885, when most of the surrounding farmland was sold off. After sitting vacant, Charles Francis Adams Jr. authorized the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to use the house as meeting space. This they did until the chapter folded in 1950. The Adamses sold the house to the City of Quincy in 1940, which turned administration of the property over to the Quincy Historical Society (which had earlier taken over the adjacent house) in 1950.
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