Hancock–Clarke House
The front or main portion of the house consists of the 2+1⁄2-story structure with central chimney, a short center hall, two rooms on each of the two floors, and an attic.The small rear ell, 1+1⁄2 stories high with gambrel roof, contains a kitchen and tiny study downstairs and two low-studded chambers upstairs.[2] Succeeding Hancock as minister in 1752, the Reverend Jonas Clarke, who reared 12 children in the parsonage, was an eloquent supporter of the colonial cause.This house is one of two surviving residences associated with John Hancock, famous American patriot, President of the Continental Congress, first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.On the evening of April 18, 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, having attended the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Concord and wary of returning to Boston, were guests of Rev.
U.S. National Register of Historic PlacesU.S. National Historic LandmarkLexington, MassachusettsNational Historic LandmarkFounding FatherJohn HancockBattle of Lexington and ConcordSamuel AdamsLexington Historical SocietyReverend John HancockThomasBostondendrochronologyJonas ClarkePresident of the Continental CongressUnited States Declaration of IndependenceGovernor of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsThomas HancockMassachusetts Provincial CongressJoseph WarrenWilliam DawesPaul RevereBurlingtonNational Register of Historic PlacesList of National Historic Landmarks in MassachusettsNational Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, MassachusettsNational Park Service1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts, 1780–1785, 1787–1793PresidentSecond Continental Congress, 1775–1777, 1785-1786Boston Board of Selectmen, 1766–1775United Statesfounding eventsHMS Liberty confiscationSons of LibertyCo-inspired, Boston Tea PartyPresident, Massachusetts Provincial CongressChairman, Massachusetts Committee of Safety(signingArticles of Confederation1788 Massachusetts CompromiseHancock ManorMassachusetts Hall, Harvard UniversityBoston CadetsAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences1788–89 United States presidential electionGranary Burying GroundAmerican RevolutionpatriotsSyng inkstand1972 filmLiberty's KidsJohn AdamsUSS HancockUSS John HancockJohn Hancock CenterJohn Hancock TowerMemorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of IndependenceDorothy QuincyJohn Hancock Jr.John Hancock Sr.Edmund QuincyU.S. National Register of Historic Places in MassachusettsContributing propertyKeeper of the RegisterHistoric districtHistory of the National Register of Historic PlacesProperty typesBarnstableBerkshireBristolFranklinHampdenHampshireMiddlesexNantucketNorfolkPlymouthSuffolkWorcesternorthernHarwichFall RiverNew BedfordTauntonAndoverGloucesterIpswichLawrenceMethuenSpringfieldArlingtonCambridgeConcordFraminghamLexingtonLowellMarlboroughMedfordNewtonReadingSherbornSomervilleStonehamWakefieldWalthamWestonWinchesterBrooklineMiltonQuincysouthernSouthbridgeUxbridgeeasternnorthwesternsouthwesternBridgesCape Cod National SeashoreNational Historic Landmarks