Stone house built by General Nathaniel Austin

Title:: Stone house built by General Nathaniel Austin
Description:: Stone house built by General Nathaniel Austin. Built of stone brought from the outer Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, which he purchased for $400 in 1799. The island is 17 acres in extent, and is said by Edward Rowe Snow to have cliffs that surpass that of Nahant. The Austin House still stands at the junction of Main and Harvard Streets. He also built the stone house on Town Hill later occupied by the Charlestown Dispensary (1873). He was a strong advocate of free bridges, and he or his sons, Nathaniel and Arthur, provided more of this same stone for the macadamizing of Warren Bridge.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: [ca. 1850–1925]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Warehouses
Furniture industry
Undertakers
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Main Street District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: See also slide #290.
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Captain Thomas G. Frothingham
Notes (date):: Date from accompanying materials: Before 1925
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-95-B1