Oliver Wendell Holmes House is a National Historic Landmark at 868 Hale Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.
The house was built in 1909 by Asa Obear Marshall for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. The building was added to the National Historic Register in 1972.
This house is frequently confused with the Oliver Wendell Holmes House at 1124 Massachusetts Ave. This house was constructed for Holmes in 1882 when he began teaching at Harvard Law School, and was his place of residence until his Supreme Court appointment in 1902. This building is now the clubhouse for Sigma Chi at Harvard College.
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“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.”
—Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)
“Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“A pilgrim I on earth perplext,
with sinns, with cares and sorrows vext,
By age and paines brought to decay,
and my Clay house mouldring away,
Oh how I long to be at rest
and soare on high among the blest!”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)