John Quincy Adams Birthplace Dining Room

Dining Room of the John Quincy Adams Birthplace

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Quick Facts

Location:

141 Franklin Street, Quincy, MA

Significance:

John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams used this room as a dining room when they lived in the home in the summer of 1805 and 1806. When John and Abigail Adams lived in the home, it housed John Adams's law clerks.

This room is part of the lean-to in the John Quincy Adams Birthplace. When John and Abigail Adams lived in the house, this room may have housed John’s law clerks, Nathan Rice and John Thaxter, Jr. It may have been a dining room when John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams lived in the home in 1805 and 1806.