Historic Structures Report: Carriage House, Adams National Historic Site
Kryston CE. Historic Structures Report: Carriage House, Adams National Historic Site. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Adams National Historic Site, [Quincy], Massachusetts
The Carriage House was built by Charles Francis Adams in 1873 and was the last major structural addition to what is now the Adams National Historic Site. Source material for the Historic Structures Report is centered primarily on the "Diary of Charles Francis Adams" for the period 1871 to 1874. The diary suggests that construction was approached with reluctance as he faced the challenges of managing the property as he aged, the arrival of a new road built by the town of Wollaston, and the cost of construction. The Carriage House was needed because several farm buildings on the property were removed for the building of the road. The building was a single, two-storied granite and brick structure, Victorian in styling and U-shaped in design. It contained horse stalls and a tack room on the first floor, cow stalls and a goat room in the basement, a hay loft, and the coachman's living quarters. The report is divided into three sections: the circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the Carriage House, the various phases of construction, and a physical description and diagram of the building.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kryston, Cynthia
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- ADAM , NER
- Keywords
- Carriage House, Charles Francis Adams, Cummings and Sears, diary, Newport Avenue, Quincy, Wollaston
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000009: Adams Estate - Carriage House