A report on Waltham, Massachusetts, Gore Place and Watertown, Massachusetts
Gore Place is a historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.
- Gore PlaceWaltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.
- Waltham, MassachusettsThe 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.
- Waltham, MassachusettsThrice portions have been added to Cambridge, and it has contributed territory to form the new towns of Weston (1712), Waltham (1738), Lincoln (1754) and Belmont (1859).
- Watertown, MassachusettsThe property's recorded history of ownership dates to early colonial times, when Waltham was part of Watertown.
- Gore PlaceGore 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.
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