{"id":2560,"date":"2011-01-30T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:50:33","slug":"the-col-william-lee-house-1743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2560","title":{"rendered":"Col. William Lee House (1743)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/William-Lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Col. William R. Lee House\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/William-Lee.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/William-Lee-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In 1743, <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2540\">Robert &#8220;King&#8221; Hooper<\/a> sold land at what is now <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=HCnn3t_nH_MC&#038;lpg=PR3&#038;pg=PA275#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">185 Washington Street in Marblehead<\/a> to Justice William Lee, who had plans to build a new house on the site which were not carried out.  Instead, the smaller home located on the property was inherited by his grandson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityarchives.com\/Find-an-Item\/Results-List\/Item-Detail.aspx?ItemID=52835\">Col. William R. Lee<\/a>, a merchant and officer in the Revolutionary War, who hired Charles Bulfinch to design an expansion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.periodpaper.com\/index.php\/subject-period-art\/u-s-history-sites-cities\/new-england\/1911-print-interior-william-r-lee-house-marblehead-ma\">his home<\/a> into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marbleheadhistory.org\/exhibit4\/e42841a.htm\">a mansion<\/a> that would resemble <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2608\">that of his uncle, Jeremiah Lee<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marbleheadhistory.org\/exhibit4\/e42842a.htm\">The house<\/a> features a wood exterior designed to resemble granite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1743, Robert &#8220;King&#8221; Hooper sold land at what is now 185 Washington Street in Marblehead to Justice William Lee, who had plans to build a new house on the site which were not carried out. Instead, the smaller home located on the property was inherited by his grandson, Col. William R. Lee, a merchant and officer in the Revolutionary War, who hired Charles Bulfinch to design an expansion of his home into a mansion that would resemble that of his uncle, Jeremiah Lee. The house features a wood exterior designed to resemble granite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,148],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-marblehead","tag-bulfinch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}