The House At Lobster Cove | Jane Goodrich

A vanished house, an elusive owner, and a story where history mingles with the secrets of the human heart. George Nixon Black spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. And an art filled townhouse in Boston’s Beacon Hill and in the architectural masterpiece Kragsyde, his house at lobster Cove, he lived in obscurity, harboring, a secret of violence, and a secret of love. If black were mentioned at all in his time, it was almost a rumor. as Boston’s largest taxpayer, he traveled to the opera in a carriage that was the envy of his peers. Glimpsed on the street he was usually seen only with one of his beloved dogs by his side. His collections of antiques and paintings, seldom exhibited, said to be extra extra extraordinary. when his own portrait was painted just twice, he chose woman artist. Each winter he quietly boarded a luxury Europe found steamship with a man 18 years, his junior with whom he had lived for years. Black‘s life was an exceptional quest to be himself. After a youth, Mard by violence and the Civil War, and a life of privilege contrasted with the dangers, his true nature placed him in, his success and happiness were remarkable, and his secrecy understandable. In the end, it was his house that gave him away. While black was probably content to slip unnoticed into history, Kragsyde was to have no such fate. Published many times in adored by architects and scholars, the famous house has made it impossible for black to disappear. In the house at lobster Cove, you will see behind the doors of the house that sheltered and shaped this elusive Boston bachelor and continue to tell his story long after both were gone.