The
Bayard Thayer estate designed by
Guy Lowell c. 1901 in Lancaster,
Massachusetts with landscaping by
Herbert W.C. Browne. Thayer was the grandson of
Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Thayer, Unitarian minister of the
First Church of Christ in Lancaster and son of Nathaniel Thayer, banker. His obituary called him simply a "millionaire sportsman". Today the house operates as the
Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center. Click
HERE to see the Thayer estate on google earth and
HERE on bing.
Photos from
Architectural Review, 1906.
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The Thayer family built half a dozen magnificent houses around the neighborhood, including a remodel of old Rev. Thayer's homestead by Ogden Codman. Most still stand.
Bayard Thayer's townhouse on Beacon Street in Boston, also by Codman, became famous as the exterior for 'Cheers'
(Although to my mind, the finest building in Lancaster is the brick church, designed by Charles Bulfinch. Superb)
Are these Thayer's any relations to the Titanic Thayer's?
a simply stunning gated forecourt
http://mysite.verizon.net/lancasteronline/history/mansion.html
More pictures here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3dKTK-TzGFsC&pg=RA1-PA103&lpg=RA1-PA103&dq=bayard+thayer+lancaster&source=bl&ots=itbE40ymk6&sig=pxELOU7jkSwXlXxJ6c09ao0YCCA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IA25T7urCdTG6AGyqNCDCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCQ
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