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:
“Debussy—A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The square dance fiddler’s first concern is to carry a tune, but he must carry it loud enough to be heard over the noise of stamping feet, the cries of the “caller,” and the shouts of the dancers. When he fiddles, he “fiddles all over”; feet, hands, knees, head, and eyes are all busy.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“This is the rat
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 4–6)