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42 Old- Time New England 42 Old- Time New England WILLIAM SUMNER APPLETON IN 1917. (Photo SPNEA.) Beacon KATHARINE H. RICH hen William Sumner Appleton, buildings of increasing architectural mag- Jr., was born on 29 May 1874 to nificence. In that year, a development W William Sumner Appleton and syndicate created a commercial scheme his cousin-wife Edith Stuart Appleton, he and unwittingly helped to create a cultural entered not merely the human dimension, revolution. With eighteen and a half acres but that of Beacon Hill. The name con- purchased from John Singleton Copley, jures up a world of culture unknown to portrait painter fled to England, the de- most of America by personal experience, velopers under the name of Mount Ver- one which has earned national sig- non Proprietors began to shape a social nificance as an image, a foil, a vision, a world. Among the proprietors were contrast to the vast physical quality dem- Charles Bulfinch, who represented the onstrated by the burgeoning west, the arts - he had just returned from Eng- corporate appetite, and the political ma- land’s Adam influence, and Harrison chine. It connotes a world of the mind, Gray Otis, of politics and the law, whose active, abstract, esoteric. It suggestsboth three houses built by Bulfmch acrossthe leadership and subtlety of approach. The hill date that social spread and yet remain triple mound whose beacon early gave the to grace the urban scene. There were name has long since changed; the beacon apothecary William Scollay, merchant visible in ancient prints has disappeared. Jonathan Mason, shipowner Joseph Yet the beacon’s image has remained, Woodward, representing commerce in all carried forward from the 18th century by its variegated forms, and the only woman an articulate handful whose vitality of member, Mrs. Hepzibah Clarke Swan.’ In self-definition and intellectual vigor their combination of interests, they built a helped to create 19th century Beacon Hill, residential world, as the vigorous, the which was then real and which has successful, and the ambitious in the port become a vision. Sumner Appleton did of Boston began to establish themselves not discover that he too was a carrier of on Beacon Hill. that vision and image until 1910, when he Bulfinch was planner first as he laid out was 36 years old; his contribution to the the grid of streets, then architect. Having environment of preservation in the 20th lost money on the Tontine Crescent tract, century was a direct result of Beacon he was forced to become a professional Hill’s contributions to him. architect, not merely a gentleman-ama- In real terms, the hill in 1795 rose in teur. On the spine of the hill on Mount empty splendor over the crowded city Vernon Street grew at first the choicest elements clustered near the Boston water- residential properties, including in front - the small timber detached houses 1800-1802 the second Harrison Gray Otis and stores, the few mansions of the house at #85. Otis had moved up there energetic, not-so-idle rich, the public from Cambridge Street on the north side, 43 44 Old- Time New England Dramatis Personae NATHAN APPLETON (1779-1861) married 1. Maria Theresa Gold married 2. Harriot Coffin Sumner (1786-1833) -18671 Issue: Thomas Gold Appleton (18 12-84) un- Issue: married, painter, writer, aesthete, wit William Sumner Appleton (1840- 1903) Mary (18 13- 1889) married 1839 Robert married Edith Stuart Appleton James McIntosh (1806-64) of Lon- Issue: don, Gov. of British Leeward Is. WILLIAM SUMNER APPLETON Charles Sedgewick Appleton (18 15-35) ( 1874- 1947) unmarried, founder unmarried SPNEA Frances Elizabeth (18 17-61) married Dorothy 1843 Henry W. Longfellow Eleanor Issue: Gladys Charles A. Longfellow (1844-93) Harriot (1841-1923) married Maj. Ernest Longfellow (1845-1921) Greely Stevenson Curtis Fanny (1847-8) Nathan Appleton (I 843- 1906) Alice Mary Longfellow t 1850- 1928) Edith (1853-1915) married Richard H. Dana III Anne Allegra (I 855- 1934) married Joseph Thorp George William Appleton (1826-7) and, again ahead of the social tide, would behind carved wooden pilasters which move to #45 Beacon Street in 1806-07 stretch to the fourth floor (Figure I). Built where Bulfinch built him a third house at by James Colburn in 1806, their architect about the middle of the Common. Each of was Asher Benjamin, who became an- these houses was imposing, of brick other leader in the development of facing lightened with stone, a freestand- Beacon Hills’ style. In 1808 Colburn sold ing monument to worldly success. #54 Beacon Street to Nathan Appleton, a This Bulfinch-Otis combination was rising merchant who thereupon began to irresistible, so a younger group of the move in the best social circles. ambitious middle class followed their lead to Beacon Street, where windows looked In real terms, Beacon Hill was an on trees and open space. Just down the attractive residential area for leaders and hill was (and still is) a pair of bow-front potential leaders of Boston. They by their town houses, graceful and elegant in brick ideas - creative and far-reaching - and Beacon FIG. 1. 54 AND 55 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, 1806, ASHER BENJAMIN, ARCHITECT. (Photo SPNEA.) Old- Time New England by their real accomplishments molded in freedom from British manufacture. With succeeding decades the public image of cotton from the South, Yankee vigor and the hill. water power and labor, textiles could be Nathan Appleton was clearly a success made in Massachusetts. Although pros- (Figure 2). From Ipswich, Massachusetts, pects looked bleak for a time, and New where Samuel, his Appleton ancestor had England’s mercantile problems increased farmed since his arrival in 1636 from with the Embargo, Appleton’s far-sighted Little Waldingfield, England, near the investment was only the first of many. In Winthrop home, to New Ipswich, New 182 I, he was one of the founders of the Hampshire, where Isaac Appleton began Merrimack Manufacturing Company to farm about 1750,* the Appletons were (and thereby the town of Lowell) owning good Yankee stock. Nathan, however, 180 out of 600 shares of its stock. In 1825 rejected the farm and chose the city. he was its president, the company a Before the age of 27, he had become a growth stock paying annual dividends for successful merchant, dealing in fabrics, decadesto come of l2%.4 It was the power laces, and other textiles, and established loom which changed the face of New himself sufficiently to marry well. On I3 England, and indirectly that of all the April 1806 he married Maria Theresa nation, and it was Nathan Appleton who Gold, daughter of Thomas Gold and had the responsibility for establishing Marsha Marsh Gold of Pittsfield. Progres- works for the manufacture of printed sive and affluent in western Massachu- cloth.s From this time on, his investments setts, Gold, lawyer and Yale graduate, had a ripple effect, multiplying geo- believed in education for women; he sent metrically. 1 his daughter to boarding school at the age During these years the Appletons both of 12. The young Appletons were intel- established a family and moved farther up ligent and also handsome. Nathan com- Beacon Street, higher on the hill. They missioned Gilbert Stuart in 1812 to paint produced five children, and by 1817 had his wife’s portrait, and then consented to outgrown their house. The grace and have his own done as well.3 They offered delicacy of their Asher Benjamin house at distinction to the second floor parlor or X54 had been newly stylish when the the oval dining room at 54 Beacon Street. Appletons had moved into it in 1808. By Nathan Appleton was a collector. He 1817, however, a different style offering an first collected wealth. Although he had interpretation of classic forms far more made a solid mercantile start prior to his austere, formal, and masculine was com- marriage, in 181 I-1814 he took vigorous ing into vogue. It is probable that the steps towards founding the fortune which architect they selected in 1817 who built would enrich not only his descendants, for them R39 Beacon Street was Alex- but also the cultural institutions of ander Parri@. (See cover.) It was (and yet Boston. At that time he invested $5,000 remains) handsome, bow-fronted and (thinking that $10,000 would be foolhar- generous in proportion, with one of the dy) in the Boston Manufacturing Com- first Greek doorways in Boston, charac- pany at Waltham, thereby entering the terizing an entirely new architectural business of cotton manufacture of plain, expression. The interior of this house, unprinted goods. Like others in New finished in 1821, shows a graceful curving England, he had begun to believe that the stair and a mantelpiece on which was future of American business was in true carved a symbolic laurel wreath. This was Beacon 47 FIG. 2. NATHAN APPLETON, 1884. From a miniature by B. M. Staigg. (Photo SPNEA.) ,. 48 Old- Time New England a sophisticated townhouse appropriate to (facing what would shortly become the economic and social status of a Copley Square) he was appointed one of merchant-industrialist king. the Harvard Trustees according to the charters’ special categ0ry.a He was Other Appletons of the merchant gen- sufficiently enthusiastic about the mu- eration had also come to Boston early in seum, and yet self conscious then as a the 19th century and likewise established patron of the arts, that he wrote “A their families on Beacon Hill - both Companion to the Catalogue” of that Samuel and William Appleton had done museum anonymously. He began in a so, and been at least as successful in literary vein: financial terms as Nathan.
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