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Angelica Rudenstine took to gardening in Elmwood??s flower beds...
...presidents, the stately house has long been a part of Harvard history—in fact, since its construction in 1767, the building has only housed Harvard graduates, professors and now presidents. As the former residence of governors, wounded soldiers, members of Congress, English professors and deans, Elmwood??s history is closely tied to that of both Massachusetts and Harvard...
After Gerry’s death, the house went to the Rev. Charles Lowell, Class of 1800, who first named the house “Elmwood?? and changed the landscaping of the expansive yard better to attract birds. Perhaps most importantly, Lowell brought with him his personal library of nearly 3,000 volumes. In 1819, James Russell Lowell, Class of 1838, was born in one of the building’s bedrooms. The younger Lowell eventually inherited the house and went on to be the Harvard professor of belles-lettres...
Dunlop, though, used the house for entertaining and recalls leaving his home in Belmont with table settings, driving with his wife to Elmwood, greeting the mansion’s maid and butler in the ample kitchen, meeting his guests, hosting a small dinner in Elmwood??s formal dining room, bidding his guests farewell, and then driving back to Belmont...
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