{"id":543,"date":"2009-08-05T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T06:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:34:07","slug":"the-cordis-house-1832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Cordis House (1832)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cordis-House.jpg\" alt=\"Cordis House\" title=\"Cordis House\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cordis-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cordis-House-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longmeadow.org\/historichomes\/pages\/30.html\">Cordis House<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longmeadow.org\/historichomes\/index.html\">Longmeadow<\/a> is a late Federal-style house with Greek Revival elements, built at 715 Longmeadow Street in 1832.  It was originally constructed as a parsonage, occupied first by Rev. Jonathan B. Condit, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=1mGEiuq3P4EC&#038;pg=PA52#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">described in<\/a> <em>Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Longmeadow<\/em> (1883), as  &#8220;youthful, singularly winning, ornate, magnetic\u2014for personal attractions most admired of all the occupants of our pastorate, before or since.&#8221;  The house was then occupied by Condit&#8217;s successor, Rev. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=1mGEiuq3P4EC&#038;pg=PA254#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">Hubbard Beebe<\/a>.  In 1845, the house was bought by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=P7axAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA543#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">Thomas Cordis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kmujIJi3_FkC&#038;pg=RA1-PA261#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">a Boston merchant<\/a>, and has ever since been occupied by the Cordis family.  The brick house&#8217;s elaborate porch ironwork was added in the late nineteenth century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cordis House in Longmeadow is a late Federal-style house with Greek Revival elements, built at 715 Longmeadow Street in 1832. It was originally constructed as a parsonage, occupied first by Rev. Jonathan B. Condit, who is described in Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Longmeadow (1883), as &#8220;youthful, singularly winning, ornate, magnetic\u2014for personal attractions most admired of all the occupants of our pastorate, before or since.&#8221; The house was then occupied by Condit&#8217;s successor, Rev. Hubbard Beebe. In 1845, the house was bought by Thomas Cordis, a Boston merchant, and has ever since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-longmeadow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}