John Quincy Adams Birthplace

133 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169, USA

Massachusetts

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MA - Norfolk

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MA - Boston

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It is the saltbox home in which the sixth United States President, John Quincy Adams, was born in 1767. Family lived here during the Revolution and rented the house next door.

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The family lived in this home during the time John Adams helped found the United States with his work on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. His own birthplace is only 75 feet (23 m) away, on the same property.

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EST. 1717

The house was built in 1717, with the rear lean-to added later. This house was purchased in 1744 by Deacon John Adams, and was probably enlarged by him, adding the rooms on the other side of the chimney. He gave the house to his son, the future second president, in 1761. The younger John Adams moved into the house in 1764; it was around this time that the lean-to was added, as well as the door trim and the secondary entrance.