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Boston Preservation Alliance
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2015
French Library
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Before it was the French Library, 53 Marlborough Street housed some of Boston’s greats: wine merchants, museum curators, and sculptors. Built in 1867, the house was designed by one of Boston’s most famous architects, Charles Brigham. Over nearly 100 years, the house was home to wine merchant Edward Codman and his family, then Gardiner Martin Lane, president of the Museum of Fine Arts in the early 1900s. Lane’s daughter, Katherine Lane Weems, sculptor, later took over the home. You may recognize her bronze rhinoceroses at Harvard University’s Biological Laboratories or the group of Dolphins at the New England Aquarium. In a deed in 1961, Katharine Weems donated the house to the French Library, specifying that the house was to be used only for the purposes of the French Library and could not be sold.
Filmmaker: Padriac Farma
Illustrator: Laurea McLeland
Producer: Matthew Dickey
Before it was the French Library, 53 Marlborough Street housed some of Boston’s greats: wine merchants, museum curators, and sculptors. Built in 1867, the house was designed by one of Boston’s most famous architects, Charles Brigham. Over nearly 100 years, the house was home to wine merchant Edward Codman and his family, then Gardiner Martin Lane, president of the Museum of Fine Arts in the early 1900s. Lane’s daughter, Katherine Lane Weems, sculptor, later took over the home. You may recognize her bronze rhinoceroses at Harvard University’s Biological Laboratories or the group of Dolphins at the New England Aquarium. In a deed in 1961, Katharine Weems donated the house to the French Library, specifying that the house was to be used only for the purposes of the French Library and could not be sold.
Filmmaker: Padriac Farma
Illustrator: Laurea McLeland
Producer: Matthew Dickey
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Dave was my childhood hero. He used to babysit me and my sister's in New London, NH. I'm not surprised he is into historic preservation as he used to walk across the 1830's hand hewn beams in our old farmhouse.
Amazing! I've been shooting this lighthouse for 3 years and never knew any of this.
Beautiful restoration! Hope you fill in that other wedge in the rock (opposite side of the boat parking spot) with boulders. It funnels the water right at the lighthouse.
Graves Lighthouse is in Suffolk County. There are maps on file. not Plymouth county where Hull is..
Their business model is to kill the building by not repairing water leaks, then use that as a reason to get a grant for a big renovation and then have something to show as a before and after transformation to show for the money they received. If they repaired small water leaks and other small repairs along the way, nobody would see the need to give them a big money grant because their house would still be in normal shape.
you just described the American way of doing well...everything - It's not a problem until it's a lawsuit or a complete restructuring. I work in admin - little computer errors could be fixed - but they rather wait for the next version which hopefully addresses it.
Damn the house is old and so is my school and ugly but I go to there, only reason I searched this up cause my school right next to it and I always wonder what the inside of this house looked like
this place is awesome , I was lucky enough to have worked here thru the 2020 summer
So many of us grew up looking at that magnificent protecter. And now, it is being protected. Thank you, both of you, for saving it from the ravages of time and brine.
WOW an absolutely great job by Dave & Lynn and all "the hands" that helped them restore this beautiful Boston Harbor landmark!
We agree! Dave and Lynn, like Graves Light, are Boston treasures.
This is amazing, thank you for sharing! Love the illustrations too.
Great interview. Well done Nat. Your work is so important.