Phineas Cook(e) house

Title:: Phineas Cook(e) house
Description:: Phineas and Abigail Durant Cook(e) house, corner of Centre and Pearl Streets, Newton just over the Watertown boundary. Later owned by General William Hull who surrendered Detroit to the British in 1812. Dr. Walter Hunnewell's wife, Susanna Cooke, was born in this house. She was Mary Cooke Fowle's sister, married Hunnewell (the town physician) in 1800 and lived with him on Main Street.
Format:: Photographs
Location:: Watertown Free Public Library
Collection (local):: Watertown Houses
Subjects:: Hunnewell, Walter--1769--1855
Cook, Phineas--1735- 1784
Cook, Mary--1759-1820
Hull, William--1753-1825
Durant, Abigail--1741-1831
Cook, Susanna--ca. 1776-1841
Architecture, Domestic--Newton (Mass)--History
Dwellings--Massachusetts--Newton
Real property--Massachusetts--History
Newton (Mass.)--Social life and customs
City and town life--Massachusetts--Newton
Places:: Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Newton
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv043647p
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