{"id":8007,"date":"2020-01-22T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:42:12","slug":"puritan-house-1810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8007","title":{"rendered":"Puritan House (1810)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The oldest brick building<\/a> in the town of Gloucester is a former hotel<\/a> at 1-3 Washington Street and 2 Main Street that was built in 1810. It was constructed<\/a> by Col. James Tappan<\/a>, a New Hampshire schoolteacher who once taught Daniel Webster<\/a>. An addition in 1840 doubled the size of the building<\/a>. As related<\/a> in The Gloucester Book<\/em> (1921), by Frank Lucius Cox, “It has been known successively as the Tappan Hotel, Gloucester House, Mason House and Puritan House, but during recent years it has not been used as a hotel. During the middle of the nineteenth century all the important social functions of the town were held at this hotel.” Winslow Homer<\/a> stayed at the hotel in 1873<\/a>. Today it has a sign put up in 1978 that says “Blackburn Tavern” for a former restaurant located in the building<\/a>. Currently Tono Restaurant<\/a> occupies the building<\/a> on the Main Street side, while GAP Promo<\/a> is on the Washington Street side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The oldest brick building in the town of Gloucester is a former hotel at 1-3 Washington Street and 2 Main Street that was built in 1810. It was constructed by Col. James Tappan, a New Hampshire schoolteacher who once taught Daniel Webster. An addition in 1840 doubled the size of the building. As related in The Gloucester Book (1921), by Frank Lucius Cox, “It has been known successively as the Tappan Hotel, Gloucester House, Mason House and Puritan House, but during recent years it has not been used as a hotel. During the middle of the nineteenth century all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,209,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-gloucester","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","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=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}