Identifier: historicguidetoc02mass (find matches)
Title: An historic guide to Cambridge
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Winthrop chapter, Cambridge
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hinson bought the Shirley house, and there Governor Shirley camein his old age to die a poor man. He was, with Charles Apthorp, the chief pro-moter of the building of Kings Chapel, and his name is under the corner stone.Both the Apthorp and the Hutchinson families were cordially interested in thegrowth of the Episcopal Church in America. When the young rector builtAptliorp House, he came, not only out of the greatest luxury of life in America,but fresh from his student life in England, and with a knowledge of the ele-gancies of the life there that many of the simpler American citizens had neverpossessed. Apthorp House, after all the vicissitudes of nearly a century and ahalf, is still stately. Its rooms are spacious, with many windows and deep windowseats. The chief dining room has a fine fire-place with the original blue Dutchtiles. The carved woodwork is especially fine. The old staircase is unchangedand has the three patterns of balusters so often found in the best colonial houses.
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HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 77 The Venerable Andrew Barnaby, Archdeacon of Leicester, England, in hisTravels through the Middle Settlements of North America, 1760, p. 141, says:The Itev. East Apthorp is a very amiable young man, of stirring parts, greatlearning, and pure and engaging manners. The records of Christ Church bearproof that he was generous in liis gifts to it. He was evidently on friendly rela-tions with the college authorities and remained so. After tlie fire in Han-ardCollege Library, in January, 1764, President Holyoke appealed for help to supplythe loss, and the general assembly of New Hampshire, guided by Governor Bea-ning Wentworth, made a gift of three hundred pounds to the colloge to buybooks. A catalogue of tlie remainder of the library was sent to the Rev. EastApthorp, then in Croydon, near London, with the request that he should buybooks according to his own judgment. He was made vicar of Croydon, in Surrey,England, where he remained twenty-eight years. He had o

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