Christopher Gore - Later Years and Legacy

Later Years and Legacy

Gore resigned his Senate seat in 1816, probably due to poor health, and retired from political life. He remained active in the administration of Harvard, and was active in a number of organizations, incuding the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Historical Society (whose president he was from 1806 to 1818). He spent most of is later years at his country estate in Waltham, until declining health in 1822 forced him to return to Boston. He died on March 1, 1827 in Waltham and is buried in Boston's Granary Burying Ground.

Gore's wife died in 1834; the couple had no children. The major beneficiary of the Gore estate was Harvard, although bequests were also made to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Waltham estate passed through several hands, and was saved from demolition by the Gore Place Society (established for the purpose of preserving it), which now operates it as a museum.