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William H. Prescott House (on left)
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| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Built: | 1808 |
| Architect: | Benjamin, Asher |
| Architectural style: | Federal |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 66000765 |
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| Added to NRHP: | October 15, 1966[1] |
| Designated NHL: | December 29, 1964[2] |
Headquarters House, also known as William Hickling Prescott House, is an historic house at 55 Beacon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the left-hand portion of a double townhouse at 54-55 Beacon Street, seen in the photograph.
Built in 1808, the twin units were designed by architect Asher Benjamin.[3] The portion at 55 Beacon Street is named after William Hickling Prescott, a virtually blind historian from a prominent Boston family,[2] who lived there from 1845 to 1859.[3]
55 Beacon Street was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1964.[2] It was added to the National Historic Register in 1966.[1] William H. Prescott had celebrated novelist William Makepeace Thackeray as a houseguest.[4]
One of the two units (possibly both) is memorialized as a Victorian dollhouse at the Cayuga Art Museum in Auburn, New York.
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