{"id":1893,"date":"2010-10-17T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2020-01-19T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T23:27:58","slug":"the-charles-sumner-house-1805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Charles Sumner House (1805)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Charles-Sumner-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Home of Charles Sumner\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Charles-Sumner-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Charles-Sumner-House-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At 20 Hancock Street on Beacon Hill in Boston is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Sumner_House\">the home<\/a> once occupied by Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/USASsumner.htm\">Charles Sumner<\/a>.  It was built in 1805 by Ebenezer Farley and was purchased by Sumner&#8217;s father in 1830.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Sumner\">Charles Sumner<\/a> was a fiery opponent of slavery and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuelbrenner.com\/URIHI141\/Documents\/caningsumner.htm\">the victim<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/minute\/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm\">a famous caning<\/a>, delivered by Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=B000885\">Preston Brooks<\/a> on the floor of the Senate on May 22, 1856.  After the Civil War, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org\/inside.asp?ID=162&#038;subjectID=2\">Sumner<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.com\/11biographieskeyindividuals\/charlessumner.htm\">a leader of the Radical Republicans<\/a>.  He lived in the house until 1867 and was possibly the one who added the Greek Revival portico that links nos. 20 and 22 Beacon Hill.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 20 Hancock Street on Beacon Hill in Boston is the home once occupied by Senator Charles Sumner. It was built in 1805 by Ebenezer Farley and was purchased by Sumner&#8217;s father in 1830. Charles Sumner was a fiery opponent of slavery and the victim of a famous caning, delivered by Representative Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate on May 22, 1856. After the Civil War, Sumner was a leader of the Radical Republicans. He lived in the house until 1867 and was possibly the one who added the Greek Revival portico that links nos. 20 and 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,8],"tags":[41,43],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","category-federal","category-houses","tag-beacon-hill","tag-row-houses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}