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John Quincy Adams Birthplace Parlor

Adams National Historical Park

A room with painted floors and walls, a desk, clock, crib, and portraits on the walls.
Parlor of the John Quincy Adams Birthplace

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Quick Facts
Location:
141 Franklin Street, Quincy, MA
Significance:
Members of the Adams family used this parlor as a family and social space.
Like the John Adams Birthplace, the original footprint of the John Quincy Adams birthplace included a Hall and a Parlor on the ground floor. The Parlor was the social and family space of the house. John Adams referred to it as his “office of evenings and mornings.” Visitors to the house recalled Abigail Adams sitting in a chair in the parlor. Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, recalled receiving guests in the parlor when she lived in the house in 1806: “I was making and baking Cake, and was obliged to dress before I could appear...The shaking off of the Kitchen drapery for the parlour finery; and the assumption of the fashionable manners of my Station: was such a transition: as robes Cinderella as a Princess.” 

Last updated: June 6, 2024

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