
This third Clarke Street gambrel takes its name from its most famous occupant. Built to serve as the rectory for Second Congregational “forever,” this broad, five-bay, two-and-one-half-story house was home to the learned reverend briefly (1775–1776) while he served as minister of the church. He had previously served for thirty years as librarian of the Redwood, where he wrote his Ecclesiastical History of New England and North America and investigated fields as disparate as Abyssinian geography, astronomy, and silkworm cultivation, while also drafting an