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He, University Trustee Dr. William E. Chenery and Chenery's wife donated the mansion to Boston University in 1939. From then until 1967, the Castle was used as the home of Boston University's presidents. In 2007, the Castle was a filming location for the Kevin Spacey movie 21, [3] and in 2016, for Ghostbusters. [4]
Hammond Castle is located on the Atlantic coast in the Magnolia area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The castle, which was constructed between 1926 and 1929, was the home, laboratory, and museum of John Hays Hammond Jr., an inventor and pioneer in the study of remote control who held over four hundred patents. The building is composed of modern ...
In the late 1960s, the University of Massachusetts Boston leased the building and converted it into the university's first library. [5] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 [ 1 ] and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1977.
In 1890, the Federal government ceded Castle Island (excluding the fort) to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The city of Boston commenced filling the marshes separating Castle Island from South Boston in 1890 with the intention of creating green space and promenades. The process was finished in the 1920s and Castle Island ceased to be an island.
The Castle, also known as Usen Castle, is a historic building at 415 South Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Medieval style structure, built in 1928 in the style of a Norman castle , stands on the campus of Brandeis University , where it served as a dormitory until 2017.
The estate was established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman on 400 acres (160 ha) of grounds, and was the Lyman family's summer residence for over 150 years. It consisted originally of the mansion and its lawns, gardens, greenhouses, woodlands, a deer park, and a working farm.
The Kimball Tavern is among the oldest buildings in Massachusetts, and one of the oldest buildings in the city of Haverhill. A plaque identifies it as the site of the founding of Bradford College in 1802. Stanley Lake House: Topsfield 1693 Stanley Lake House, built in 1693, is a historic house at 95 River Road in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
Ironically, Aaron Davis Williams, Jr., used his profits from industry to build a house that could remind him of a medieval castle. Following setbacks in his business, Williams was forced to sell Abbotsford to James M. Smith, who was born in Scotland in 1811, came to Boston in 1854, and was treasurer of the Suffolk Brewery in South Boston. Smith ...