Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . inherited great wealthfrom his father, David Sears, merchant. The western half of the house, two storiesin height and containing one circular bay, was built in 1821. The entrance then wason a court-yard on the easterly side of the house. In 1831 Mr. Sears doubled the sizeof the house and made it three stories in height. This made the house the mostcostly one of the day in Boston, and its owner lived in it until his death in 1871.

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Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . inherited great wealthfrom his father, David Sears, merchant. The western half of the house, two storiesin height and containing one circular bay, was built in 1821. The entrance then wason a court-yard on the easterly side of the house. In 1831 Mr. Sears doubled the sizeof the house and made it three stories in height. This made the house the mostcostly one of the day in Boston, and its owner lived in it until his death in 1871.It became the property of the Somerset Club in 1872, and, even in these days of lux-urious club-houses, makes an ideal home for Bostons representative club on Bostonsrepresentative street. Hon. David Sears was in his day a leading citizen of Boston.Born in 1787 on the same street on which he died eighty-three years later, his socialposition was always high in his native town and city. He was also prominent inpolitical life, and served the Commonwealth in both branches of the legislature. Hischaritable endowments were numerous and large, and endure to this day.. WEBSTER HOUSE Junction of Summer and High Streets At the corner of Summer and High Streets stood for years the house which wasfor ten years the home of Daniel Webster, whom Boston delighted to honor as thefirst citizen of the city, and whose memory still lingers in the place of his adoption.Mr. Webster first occupied the house about 1828, he having bought the estate in1825, and he lived there until 1839, selling it in that year to Hon. Peter C. Brooksfor thirty-two thousand dollars. It was in 1830, during his residence in this house, that Webster, then a leader in the United States Senate, made his celebratedreply to Senator Hayne of South Carolina, in which he defended with his matchlesseloquence the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which had, in his own words, kepthim in the councils of the nation for so many years. Peter