The Quincy Mansion , also known as the Josiah Quincy Mansion, was a summer home built by Josiah Quincy, Jr. in 1848. The mansion itself was situated where Angell Hall now stands on the campus of the

Eastern Nazarene College The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a private, Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. Established as a holiness college in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1900, the college moved to Rhode Island for several years. With its expansion to a four-ye ...

. The mansion, once a

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landmark, was demolished in 1969.

Architecture

The mansion, which was built in the mid-19th century, was three stories and white, in

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, with marble fireplaces in most of the rooms and large

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s on the first floor that "opened upon either little balconies or broad

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s." From the captain's walk of the Mansion, Wollaston Bay was clearly visible down to the "ships entering and leaving the port of Boston."

Ownership

Quincy family

The mansion was once located, along with the

Josiah Quincy House The Josiah Quincy House , located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six men named Josiah Quincy that ...

and the

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on a parcel of land known as the "Lower Farm" belonging to the

Quincy family The Quincy family was a prominent political family in Massachusetts from the mid-17th century through to the early 20th century. It is connected to the Adams political family through Abigail Adams. The family estate was in Mount Wollaston, first ...

. It was built by Josiah Quincy, Jr., then-mayor of

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, c. 1848. Elm Avenue, with its four rows of elms, had been the avenue, or driveway, for the

and the Josiah Quincy Mansion.Information provided by the

History of the Babcock Arboretum, published in 2003, written by Gerry Wood
founder. Found in the Nease Library, Reference Section.

Quincy Mansion School

The property eventually came under the ownership of Horace Mann Willard, who established the Quincy Mansion School for Girls, a

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, and

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, and became principal. When Dr. Willard died in 1907, his wife took over as principal until she could no longer manage the property.

Eastern Nazarene College

At the urging of

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, who knew the property was for sale, the

moved to its current location in the Wollaston Park area of Quincy,

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, in 1919, and acquired the mansion as part of a property that also included the classroom building called the Manchester (1896), the stables (1848) (where Memorial Hall was built in 1948), and the Canterbury (1901), which still stands today as Canterbury Hall. The mansion, which had seen many uses and was need of costly repair, was instead torn down in 1969, three years after the creation of the

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but before local buildings such as the

had been placed on it.

Notes and references

External links

Photograph of the Quincy Mansion
page 4, ''Quincy History'', Spring 1983. {{Coord, 42.272, N, 71.012, W, display=title Buildings and structures demolished in 1969 Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts Eastern Nazarene College Quincy family homestead Houses completed in 1848