Tag: Quincy History

History Posts Howard Johnson's Quincy Businesses Uncategorized
September 6, 2024

Quincy Youth Corps 2024 Series: The Glorious Days of Howard Johnson’s

This essay was written for the 2024 Summer Youth Corps internship program. This City-run program partners cultural institutions around Quincy with historically curious students from the public high schools for six weeks over the summer. At Quincy Historical Society our student interns are tasked with selecting a topic from Quincy history to research and present in a short essay. This essay was written by Helen Cao, a student from North Quincy High School. We hope you enjoy it!

History Posts Revolutionary History The Adamses
August 20, 2024

John Adams’ Role In Framing The Massachusetts Constitution: An Arduous Yet Fascinating Process

This article was written by William Cunniff Jr., an archival intern with Quincy Historical Society during the summer of 2024. He is a recent graduate of Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree. During his tenure with the Historical Society, he decided that he wanted to contribute an article for the blog. He decided to focus on John Adams’ contributions to the Massachusetts State Constitution.

History Posts Revolutionary History The Adamses
July 5, 2024

A Tale of Two Busts: The Later Friendship of John Adams & Thomas Jefferson

“Thomas Jefferson always reminded me of my great-grandmother.

When I was younger, she had a house overflowing with dolls. Jefferson was also a collector of faces, though they were more of the sculptural variety, and his motive for such an assortment of figures differed greatly from hers.

It was with a few starting busts that Jefferson began a collection that would span his entire lifetime, fueled by pride, comradery, and even animosity. This assortment would come to be known as Jefferson’s “gallery of worthies.” There is one bust amongst these figures that covers the full range of motivations; a portrayal of John Adams whose history and involvement in Jefferson’s home and life lives on, recorded in everlasting marble.”

Architecture Historic Buildings The Society
November 9, 2022

Adams Academy Sesquincentennial

“Adams Academy, the architectural gem at the corner of Adams and Hancock Streets, turns 150 years old in 2022. With recent renovations completed, Quincy boasts one of the finest 19th century buildings in the country. In addition to the sesquicentennial of the Academy, we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of John Adams’ donation of the land “for a Greek and Latin School or Academy.” To round out the triple play of anniversaries, the Adams Academy became the home of Quincy Historical Society in 1972, making this our 50th anniversary of occupancy.”

History Posts Quincy Granite
June 24, 2020

Solomon Willard: The Enigmatic Man Behind the Monument

“Willard and his work can seem a series of technical achievements by a remote figure. But Willard is worth another look. A main source of information is “Memoir of Solomon Willard”, an 1865 biography by William Wheildon, … . Wheildon provides enough detail about the man to tease out a picture of his personality and of the quite complicated story of his dedication to the Bunker Hill Monument.”

The Society
May 26, 2020

Quincy Historical Society in 1893 and Today

“The Historical Society remains committed to telling Quincy’s history in new ways and also to telling new parts of Quincy’s history. For all the work that has been done, there are great sections of Quincy history still to be preserved and to be told.”

History Posts
April 28, 2020

Sacco and Vanzetti at 100: The Quincy Connections – Introduction

“For nearly all of the 100 years since 1920, the [Sacco and Vanzetti] case and its two principal figures have been objects of world-wide fame and controversy, the stuff of legend and fierce emotions. … Yet, for all its international attention and accumulated symbolic significance, the Sacco-Vanzetti case is in many respects a deeply local story.”