Charles Sumner House

The Charles Sumner House is a historic house on in Boston, Massachusetts. The brick townhouse, built c. 1806, is notable as the home for many years of Charles Sumner, an outspoken and aggressive political opponent of slavery, whose beating on the floor of the United States Senate in 1856 was a defining moment of the pre-American Civil War period.
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  • House
  • …lies at an elevation of around 40 feet (10 metres)
  • Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States

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Charles Sumner House

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Latitude
42.36046° or 42° 21′ 38″ north
Longitude
-71.06438° or 71° 3′ 52″ west
Open location code
87JC9W6P+56
Geo­Names ID
12382526
Wiki­data ID
Q5082765

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In Other Languages

From French to German—“Charles Sumner House” goes by many names.

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