CORNELIUS COOLIDGE

Background

Cornelius Coolidge was born in 1778.

Career

Formerly engaged in a mercantile business, in 1823 he was listed in the City Directory as Architect, with an office at No. 5 State Street, while in later years he advertised himself as a building contractor, and sometimes as a real estate agent.

Mr. Coolidge is said to have planned and erected about fifty houses on Beacon Hill during the early nineteenth century. They were built in the area between the State House and Charles Street and on the Hancock property on Chestnut, West Cedar and Acorn Streets. In 1833 he put up a block of houses on Joy Street numbered 1 to 14 (extant in 1925) and designed a residence at 36 Beacon Street. About the same time he purchased the property at 57 Beacon and in I83S altered the house extensively.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Acorn Streets, Boston