Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street

Description:

Photograph of the side garden at the Nathaniel Russell House. Paine set his camera up in the side yard to shoot toward Meeting Street and captured a large portion of the garden with a bird bath.

Completed in 1808 for merchant Nathaniel Russell, it was designed by an unknown architect in the Federal-style. Constructed with delicate and elaborate details, this three-story town home features oval-shaped rooms, palladian windows, fanlights and a free-flying staircase. The two-story kitchen house in the rear housed 18 enslaved people on the second floor and the original garden was laid out with patterned flower beds, fruit trees and ornamental shrubs.

• Title: Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: Undated

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 14359
• Address: 51 Meeting Street

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