Union Club of Boston

Built in 1809, for John Gore (1769-1817), the nephew of Christoper Gore of Gore Place, Governor of Massachusetts. All of the houses on Park Street on Beacon Hill were designed by Charles Bulfinch and Gore purchased the lots on which Numbers and 7 and 8 were built from his uncle's brother-in-law, William Payne. Gore lived with his family in No. 8 and either leased or sold No. 7 to "the famous surgeon" Dr John Collins Warren (1778-1856), Dean of Harvard Medical School, President of the American Medical Association and founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital. When Gore died in 1817, he left his mansion to his widow who continued to live here until her death in 1836. It was then purchased by Abbott Lawrence, co-founder of the City of Lawrence and a benefactor of Harvard. In 1838, he hired architect Gridley J.F. Bryant (1816-1899) and the house underwent a metamorphic change costing $42,000....