Watercolor sketch of old Holmes house

Watercolor sketch of old Holmes house

Watercolors (paintings)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Holmes was born and grew up in the “gambrel-roofed house,” facing Cambridge Common, where the Littauer building now stands. In 1870, he and his brother sold the house to Harvard University and in—to use Holmes’ words—“a case of justifiable domicide,” it was demolished in 1883.

Watercolor of the Holmes House in Cambridge

Unknown

1890, circa

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Boston Medical Library Art Collection

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DigID0002125

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