[graphic] National Historic Landmarks Program header [graphic]NPS Arrowhead and link to www.nps.gov[photo] Chrysler Building, New York[photo] Brown Chapel, Selma AL[phtoto] Cape Hatteras Light Station, Buxton, North Carolina[photo] Pioneer Deep Space Station, Fort Irwin, CA
     
 
Harding, Chester, House

Boston, Massachusetts
County of Suffolk.
16 Beacon Street
National Register Number: 66000764
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Domestic - single dwelling.
Certified Local Government: YES
This NHL offers public access.
Please contact the NHL directly for visitor information.
Current use/information: Headquarters of the Boston Bar Association.

Statement of Significance (as of designation - December 21, 1965):
Harding was one of America's notable portrait painters in the four decades before his death in 1866. Gilbert Stuart, himself an artist of no mean repute, complained of the "Harding fever" that temporatily eclipsed his own popularity. Harding occupied this four-story brick residence in 1826-30.


Comments and questions about the database may be directed to NHL_info@nps.gov