{"id":391,"date":"2009-07-20T07:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T04:49:19","slug":"the-hancock-clarke-house-1698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Hancock-Clarke House (1698)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hancock-Clarke<\/center><\/p>\n

The Hancock-Clarke House<\/a> in Lexington began as a small parsonage, built by the Reverend John Hancock in 1698. It was enlarged by his son Thomas, a wealthy Boston merchant, in 1738. The minister’s grandson was the John Hancock who signed the Declaration of Independence. The Reverend Jonas Clarke<\/a>, Rev. Hancock’s son-in-law<\/a>, occupied the house<\/a> when he succeeded Hancock as minister in Lexington. Rev. Clarke was an inspiring figure for the Patriots during the period leading up to the Revolutionary War. On the evening of April 18, 1775<\/a>, John Hancock<\/a> and Samuel Adams<\/a> were staying in the house<\/a> when William Dawes<\/a> and Paul Revere<\/a> arrived separately to warn them that British troops were approaching. This historic home<\/a> faced demolition in 1896, when it was acquired by the Lexington Historical Society<\/a> and moved across the street from its original location. It is now a museum<\/a> open to the public. In 2008, the house<\/a> underwent a large scale structural restoration<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington began as a small parsonage, built by the Reverend John Hancock in 1698. It was enlarged by his son Thomas, a wealthy Boston merchant, in 1738. The minister’s grandson was the John Hancock who signed the Declaration of Independence. The Reverend Jonas Clarke, Rev. Hancock’s son-in-law, occupied the house when he succeeded Hancock as minister in Lexington. Rev. Clarke was an inspiring figure for the Patriots during the period leading up to the Revolutionary War. On the evening of April 18, 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying in the house when William Dawes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,130],"tags":[18,99,36],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-lexington","tag-museum","tag-paul-revere","tag-revolutionary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}