TheQuincy Mansion/ˈkwɪnzi/, also known as theJosiah Quincy Mansion, was asummer home built byJosiah Quincy Jr. in 1848. The mansion itself was situated where Angell Hall now stands on the campus of theEastern Nazarene College. The mansion, once aQuincy, Massachusetts landmark, was demolished in 1969.
The mansion, which was built in the mid-19th century,[1] was three stories and white, inGeorgian architecture, with marble fireplaces in most of the rooms and largeFrench windows on the first floor that "opened upon either little balconies or broadpiazzas."[2] From the captain's walk of the Mansion,Wollaston Bay was clearly visible down to the "ships entering and leaving the port of Boston."[2]
The mansion was once located, along with theJosiah Quincy House and theDorothy Quincy House on a 200-acre (0.81 km2) parcel of land known as the "Lower Farm" belonging to theQuincy family. It was built byJosiah Quincy Jr., then-mayor ofBoston, c. 1848. Elm Avenue, with its four rows of elms,[3] had been the avenue, or driveway, for theJosiah Quincy House and the Josiah Quincy Mansion.[4]
The property eventually came under the ownership ofHorace Mann Willard,[5] who established theQuincy Mansion School for Girls, aChristian,college-preparatory, andboarding school, and became principal.[6] When Dr. Willard died in 1907,[7] his wife took over as principal[8] until she could no longer manage the property.
At the urging ofCharles J. Fowler, who knew the property was for sale, theEastern Nazarene College moved to its current location in theWollaston Park area ofQuincy,Massachusetts, in 1919,[9] and acquired the mansion as part of a 12-acre (49,000 m2) property that also included the classroom building called the Manchester (1896), the stables (1848) (where Memorial Hall was built in 1948), and the Canterbury (1901), which still stands today as Canterbury Hall.
The mansion, which had seen many uses and was need of costly repair, was instead torn down in 1969, three years after the creation of theNational Register of Historic Places but before local buildings such as theJosiah Quincy House had been placed on it.
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