Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Adams Houses, Quincy, Massachusetts

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Adams Houses, Quincy, Massachusetts

WHERE TWO PRESIDENTS WERE BORN John Adams was born and spent his boyhood in a simple farmhouse near Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts…

The Adams Houses, Quincy, Massachusetts: Smith

During those early years the young lawyer had other occupations than ditch-digging. The records of the family show that he was assiduously…

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