{"id":1174,"date":"2010-02-26T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T04:46:01","slug":"the-ebeneezer-bliss-house-1720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Ebeneezer Bliss House (1720)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/690-Longmeadow-Street.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"690 Longmeadow Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/690-Longmeadow-Street.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/690-Longmeadow-Street-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4n1rJz1z8k8C&#038;pg=PA67#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">Ebenezer Bliss<\/a> built <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longmeadow.org\/historichomes\/pages\/26.html\">his house in Longmeadow<\/a> in 1720, the year after his marriage to Sarah Colton.  It was next owned by his son, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davefinlay.com\/ghtout\/gp155.htm\">Ebeneezer<\/a>, and then by his grandson, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_ktGAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA21#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">Gad Bliss<\/a>.  The house was much expanded in the mid-nineteenth century, with the newer rooms being in the front, facing Longmeadow Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebenezer Bliss built his house in Longmeadow in 1720, the year after his marriage to Sarah Colton. It was next owned by his son, Ebeneezer, and then by his grandson, Gad Bliss. The house was much expanded in the mid-nineteenth century, with the newer rooms being in the front, facing Longmeadow Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-longmeadow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/7450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}