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13-468: Fay House was built in 1807 by Nathaniel Ireland. It faces Cambridge Common across Garden Street. Ireland lived in the house with his wife Sally, but was forced to mortgage the property in 1809. The house was sold at auction to Dr. Joseph McKean, a Harvard graduate, in 1814. After McKean's early death in 1818, the house and property changed hands several times. In October 1831, the house was purchased by Stephen Higginson, bursar of Harvard College . In 1870,

26-409: A mansard roof was added to the structure. Fay House was the first building owned by Radcliffe College . In 1890, the mansard roof was removed, and a third story was constructed to house the college library. Another addition was made to the south side of the building. In 1892, another addition on the west side of the building was built to create an auditorium and classrooms. Fay House was renovated by

39-551: A military training ground. It originally extended from what is now Linnaean Street in the north all the way south to Harvard Square between Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street. Public executions took place in the northern portion of this space, known as Gallows Hill, located today west of Massachusetts Avenue around Lancaster Street. Executed at this site on September 22, 1755, were two enslaved African Americans, Mark and Phillis, who were both accused and convicted of poisoning their enslaver, John Codman of Charlestown . Phillis

52-539: Is a public park and National Historic Landmark in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States. It is located near Harvard Square and borders on several parts of Harvard University . The north end of the park has a large playground. The park is maintained by the Cambridge Department of Public Works. In the colonial period, Cambridge Common served as a pasture on which animals grazed. It was also used as

65-589: The Boston Athenæum . As a result of the American Civil War , he lost his moderate fortune, and in 1868 moved with his family to Florence, Italy, where he devoted himself to study and work. His West Wind , originally sculpted in 1870, stirred controversy in 1874 when it was denounced as a copy of Canova 's Hebe , with the exception of the drapery, which was modelled by Signor Mazzoli. Animated newspaper correspondence followed this charge, and it

78-680: The Continental Army in a ceremony underneath the Washington Elm . Yet historical research suggests no such ceremony took place. The current space was not enclosed until 1830. Barracks were constructed on the common during World War I as the Navy Department built structures for its Radio School on the grounds. Cambridge Common has long been a site for public gatherings in which groups met before marching to Boston Common as part of protests for Civil Rights or against

91-573: The Radcliffe Institute in 2013. Baker, Christina Hopkinson. The Story of Fay House . Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. Cambridge Historical Commission. Survey of architectural history in Cambridge . Cambridge, Distributed by the M.I.T. Press, 1965–1977. 42°22′34.33″N 71°7′20.36″W  /  42.3762028°N 71.1223222°W  / 42.3762028; -71.1223222 Cambridge Common Cambridge Common

104-651: The Vietnam War . Matt Damon recalled how Ben Affleck helped him in a fight during a football game on the Common in the mid-1980s. A commemorative plaque marks the location of the Washington Elm , a tree under which legend claims Washington stood as he first assumed command of the Continental Army . Nearby is the Prince Hall Monument by Ted Clausen and a trio of bronze cannons, a plaque for Henry Knox , and another for Tadeusz Kościuszko . In

117-545: The Great , Cleopatra , Timon of Athens , Ariel , and John Hancock (now in the town hall of Lexington, Massachusetts ). Gould visited Boston in 1878, where he executed a number of portrait busts, including those of Emerson (now in the Harvard University library), John Albion Andrew , Seth Wells Cheney , and Junius Brutus Booth . Two alti-rilievi representing Steam and Electricity, displayed within

130-599: The northeast corner is the Statue of John Bridge , also known as The Puritan , by Thomas Ridgeway Gould . Slightly southeast of the center of the Common is a memorial to the American Civil War with a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a covered area near the base of the memorial. On top of the memorial is a statue of a soldier. Cambridge Common is also the site of an Irish Famine Memorial , dedicated on July 23, 1997, by then President of Ireland , Mary Robinson , and unveiled to an audience of 3,000 people. The Memorial sculpture

143-550: Was burned at the stake, and Mark was killed by hanging on gallows some ten yards away from the stake. His body was subsequently exhibited publicly for decades in Charlestown, such that even Paul Revere remembered passing by its site while on his famous ride. Phillis was later described by a newspaper as "the last recorded victim" of this punishment in New England. Legend has it that George Washington took command of

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156-597: Was created by Maurice Harron , a sculptor from Derry , Northern Ireland. There is a similar memorial in downtown Boston . Thomas Ridgeway Gould Thomas Ridgeway Gould (November 5, 1818 – November 26, 1881) was an American neoclassical sculptor active in Boston and Florence . Gould was born in Boston on November 5, 1818. He was at first a merchant with his brother in the dry-goods business, but studied sculpture under Seth Wells Cheney starting in 1851 and in 1863 exhibited two large heads of Christ and Satan at

169-510: Was proved groundless. Gould declared that his designs were entirely his own, and that not a statue, bust, or medallion was allowed to leave his studio until finished in all points on which depended their character and expression. West Wind was later shown in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and all told Gould subsequently made seven copies in two sizes. He also created statues of Kamehameha

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