Brown Square House is a historic house at 11 Brown Square in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
It was built in 1801 by Moses Brown, a Newburyport landowner, shipbuilder, and shipping merchant. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
It currently houses the Garrison Inn, named after the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
Famous quotes containing the words brown, square and/or house:
“They dragged you from homeland,
They chained you in coffles,
They huddled you spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.”
—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)
“Houses haunt me.
That last house!
How it sat like a square box!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:10.