Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2029 Ball Hughes House

[Earl Taylor]

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2029

 

Home of Robert Ball Hughes, sculptor, at 3 School Street, corner of Washington Street.

 

Noted for his statues of New York Governor Clinton, of Alexander Hamilton and Nathaniel Bowditch, Robert Ball Hughes also created a large high-relief marble memorial to Bishop John H. Hobart for Trinity Church, New York.

In the 1830s the couple purchased a home on Adams Street in Dorchester opposite what would later become the Cedar Grove Cemetery. In 1851, they moved to a house at the corner of School and Washington Streets that had been owned by Captain Jeremiah Spalding, a ship-master in the East India trade. Here they entertained some of the world's leading celebrities including Charles Dickens, the author, and Jane Stuart, the artist.

The house on School Street still exists, but it has been modernized to the point that there seems be very little of the original left.

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