Choate House (Massachusetts)

This article is about the Choate House in Massachusetts. For the Choate House in New York, formerly owned by the same Choate family, see Choate House (New York).

Choate House is a historic house on Choate Island in the Crane Wildlife Refuge, Essex, Massachusetts, owned and administered by the nonprofit Trustees of Reservations.

Choate House, built around 1730, was the birthplace of lawyer and public citizen Rufus Choate (1799–1859),[1] and of his grand-niece, art teacher Agnes Choate, who continued to spend her summers there, into the early 1900s.[2] It has remained virtually unchanged for over two centuries. It stands on Hog Island, also called Choate Island, and is accessible only by boat.

References

  1. ^ "This Small island is the Ancestral Home of Forty Lawyers and of Many Beautiful and Talented Women". New York Herald. June 18, 1916. p. 59 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Neighborhood Notes". The Daily Item. March 3, 1903. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

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