John Adams Peacefield
1250 Hancock St, Quincy, MA 02169, USA
Massachusetts, USA
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EST. 1731
EST. 1731
1787
Adams, Abigail Smith
Adams, Thomas Boylston
Adams, Charles
Smith, Abigail "Nabby" Adams
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at John Adams Peacefield.
The Adams family’s original eighteenth-century residence survives as a furnished historic house museum within Adams National Historical Park. The National Park Service preserves the house, Stone Library, gardens, grounds, collections, and associated structures, generally presenting the property through ranger-led access rather than unrestricted entry.
About John Adams Peacefield
The property was owned during the Revolution by the Loyalist Borland family and was leased while its owner lived abroad. John and Abigail Adams purchased it in 1787 after returning from Europe. Although Adams did not live here during the Revolution, Peacefield became his principal home afterward and preserves the legacy of the patriot diplomat who promoted independence, secured foreign support, and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at John Adams Peacefield
The Adamses returned in 1788 to occupy the house, farmland, and orchards. They were disagreeably surprised by the house, however, after their years in England. To Abigail Adams, it resembled a 'wren's nest' with all the comfort of a 'barracks.'" They would call it "Old House."
During the subsequent 12 years, with Adams resident in Philadelphia first as vice president and then as president, Abigail Adams attended to the house and farm. She greatly expanded it, adding what is now the right side of the front facade, with a fine hallway and large parlor on the ground floor and a large study above. The additions were built in the Georgian style with a gambrel roof creating a nearly full attic story.
Adams returned to the house full-time in 1801 after his defeat for a second presidential term. His son John Quincy Adams also returned to the house at that time, after completing his ambassadorial term in Berlin. Further extensions to the house were made by his son, Charles Francis Adams.
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