Dining room
During the time Josiah Quincy III owned the house, he and his family spent summers here, and lived the rest of the year in Boston or Cambridge. His prominent social and political position meant that entertaining was common at the house, and larger spaces were needed. The dining room was expanded, doorways were opened up, and a porch was built on the side of the house. A servant’s wing was built in 1808 and then expanded to two stories c. 1850. New amenities and more room allowed for entertaining such distinguished guests as the Marquis de Lafayette, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Daniel Webster, and Commodore Matthew Perry.
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