A report on Gore Place

The main house
Detail of Gore Place gardens.
Sketch of the estate by Charles William Eliot, c. 1902

Historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.

- Gore Place
The main house

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Waltham, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.

City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.

Boston Manufacturing Company
Waltham, 1793
Map of Waltham, 1877
The Charles River in Waltham
Age Distribution
Waltham Supermarket on Main Street, established in 1936, was a large historic grocery store that closed in the 1990s. The building continues to be a supermarket, occupied subsequently by Shaw's, then Victory, and now Hannaford.
Brandeis University
Deena (Drossin) Kastor

The city is home to a number of large estates, including Gore Place, a mansion built in 1806 for former Massachusetts governor Christopher Gore, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, a residence designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1810–1905), and the Lyman Estate, a 400 acre estate built in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman.

Portrait by John Trumbull, c. 1816

Christopher Gore

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Prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat.

Prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat.

Portrait by John Trumbull, c. 1816
Rufus King became a lifelong friend of Gore's while they were at Harvard.
Gore's business partner William Duer
The First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia
William Pinkney served as Gore's cocommissioner in England
Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts
Gore defeated Levi Lincoln Sr. in the 1809 Massachusetts governor's race.
The seal of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard's Gore Hall library is the spired building in the center.

His palatial mansion in Waltham, Massachusetts, now known as Gore Place, is one of the finest extant examples of Federalist architecture, and has been declared a National Historic Landmark.

Watertown, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing
Edmund Fowle House, built in the 1700s and used by the Massachusetts government during the Revolutionary War
Browne House, built c. 1694
St. Stephen Armenian Apostolic Church
Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Eliza Dushku

Gore Place is an early 19th-century historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 31.6 acres of the 45-acre estate located in Watertown.