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Elmwood, Thomas Oliver's House

Four thousand people around the house, and the signature they came for.

Collection: Boston: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Elmwood, the yellow house among trees
Elmwood, the yellow house among trees · Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

"My house at Cambridge being surrounded by about four thousand people, in compliance with their command I sign my name." Thomas Oliver wrote that on the second of September, 1774, at this house, which he had built about 1767. Earlier that day he had been out calming those crowds. He was about forty, a rich man's son with plantations in Antigua, and he had never been active in politics.

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Visiting

33 Elmwood Avenue, Cambridge. The official residence of Harvard's president, and not open to the public. You can see it only from outside, in the distance from Lowell Park. A historical marker stands near Mount Auburn Street.

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