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.
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Went home and addressed a short note to the King:
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—Beatrice Curtis Brown (1901–1974)
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