{"id":2432,"date":"2011-01-11T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:08:38","slug":"the-lee-benson-house-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Lee-Benson House (1834)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Lee-Benson-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lee-Benson House\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Lee-Benson-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Lee-Benson-House-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/melystu\/5270562729\/\">Lee-Benson House<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northofboston.org\/travelogues\/travelogue.php?log_id=120\">on Chestnut Street in Salem<\/a>, was built in 1834-1835 for <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lUfPAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA813#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">John C. Lee, a banker who, with George Higginson<\/a>, founded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee,_Higginson_%26_Co.\">Lee, Higginson &#038; Co.<\/a>, a prominent Boston-based investment bank.  In 1924, Lee&#8217;s heirs sold <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YZuiVv-NipAC&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;pg=PT26#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">the house<\/a> to the artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbenson.com\/\">Frank Weston Benson<\/a>.  After his death in 1951, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemweb.com\/tales\/benson.shtml\">Benson<\/a>&#8216;s heirs continued to owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hankzby\/488126257\/\">the house<\/a> until 1957.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Weston_Benson\">Benson<\/a> is known for <a href=\"http:\/\/giam.typepad.com\/100_years_of_illustration\/2006\/08\/index.html\">his impressionist portraits<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfaoi.com\/aa\/6aa\/6aa78.htm\">etchings<\/a> which conveyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godine.com\/isbn.asp?isbn=1567921116\">his love of the sportsman&#8217;s life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee-Benson House, on Chestnut Street in Salem, was built in 1834-1835 for John C. Lee, a banker who, with George Higginson, founded Lee, Higginson &#038; Co., a prominent Boston-based investment bank. In 1924, Lee&#8217;s heirs sold the house to the artist Frank Weston Benson. After his death in 1951, Benson&#8216;s heirs continued to owned the house until 1957. Benson is known for his impressionist portraits and his etchings which conveyed his love of the sportsman&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-revival","category-houses","category-salem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}