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Last week Adams House proudly celebrated its twentieth anniversary. But imprisoned within its walls stands an even older structure, Apthorp House, with two centuries of tradition behind it. Neither the bold new buildings around it nor the passage of time have dimmed the colonial beauty of the three-story mansion that East Apthorp built...
After an Oxford education, Rev. East Apthorp came home to Cambridge in 1760 as missionary to the University village. An old history book says "He came, not only out of the greatest luxury of life in America, but fresh from his student life in England, and with a knowledge of the elegancies of life there that many simpler American citizens had ever possessed...
...simpler American citizens" had no use for Apthorp's extravagant "excellencies of life" or his pro-British sympathies. Cambridge made life so tough for the young minister that he soon set out for England, leaving everything behind him. No one was sorry to see Apthorp go, and the "Bishop's Palace" went unoccupied for almost a year...
...second owner of the Bishop's Palace was no more palatable to the Cambridge citizenry than the first. John Borland, a shady Tory merchant, was finally kicked out of town in 1775. General Israel Putnam and the Rebel Army then took over the mansion as their headquarters, and the Apthorp house remained a military establishment during the Revolution...
Griswold plans to remain for the night at Apthorp House, the residence of David M. Little '18, the Gold Coasters' master. On Wednesday, he will deliver a speech before the Yale Club of Boston...