Harrison Gray Otis
Harrison Gray Otis was elected a United States Congressman when the family was living here. He went on to become a United States Senator in 1817, and then the third mayor of Boston in 1829. Otis had a special interest in Beacon Hill; he was one of the “Mount Vernon Proprietors,” a group of real estate developers who owned the south slope of Beacon Hill, where the 1795 Massachusetts State House was located, and successfully transformed it from undeveloped pasture land into the grandest residential area in Boston. The Otises moved to the South Slope of Beacon Hill in 1801, and then to another house Charles Bulfinch designed for them on Beacon Street, facing Boston Common. Throughout his life, Otis was a member of the Federalist Party, and a prominent politician, landowner, and developer.
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