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:
“Put me on a moving train if I’m sick, and I’ll get well. It’s good for mind and body to get out and see the world.”
—Maria D. Brown (1827–1927)
“This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)