This pair of town houses, distinguished by their early use of rusticated granite and the roofed iron balconies of the second story, were perhaps the best work of Cornelius Coolidge, a prolific but underappreciated architect and developer of the South Slope of Beacon Hill in the 1820s and 1830s. Edward Tuckerman lived at number 33 until his death in 1850. Nathaniel Pope Russell, a leading China Trade merchant,
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Parkman and Tuckerman Houses
1825, Cornelius Coolidge. 33–34 Beacon St.
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