Harvard College, was erected by William F. Weld, in memory of his brother
Stephen Minot Weld. Dr. Christopher Weld, another son of Captain Weld,
was the first homoeopathic physician here, and was much esteemed and
beloved during his long practice.

Upon the site of the present Seaverns mansion, on Morton Street, near
Washington Street, stood the old house of the gifted and scholarly
Margaret Fuller between the years 1839 and 1842. Her father had died a
short time before, and her mother, sister (the late Mrs. Walter
Channing), and two brothers made with her the household. In this quiet,
rural home, Margaret found time and inspiration for many of her charming
outdoors sketches. She often wandered through the lovely walks in Bussey
Woods, soft with fallen needles from pine and hemlock, and bright with
abundant wild flowers, and drew glowing pictures from nature's wealth,
which her pen has preserved for us. It was while living here she
inaugurated the literary conversations, which produced such a marked
effect upon the young and old of the women of the time. They were weekly
meetings for free conversation on literary and aesthetic topics at which
she was the principal talker. They began in the autumn of 1839 at the
home of Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody, on West Street, Boston, and continued
through five successive winters. It was also while here that she edited
"The Dial," a quarterly journal, in which she was aided by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Theodore Parker, George Ripley, and others. In this old house
Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded for a time with a Mrs. Tilden, who afterward
had a young ladies' boarding school at the Cold Spring House on
Washington Street, opposite Green Street. In Franklin Park, on
Schoolmaster's Hill, may now be seen a bronze tablet, inserted in a
boulder, which records the fact that Mr. Emerson lived in a farmhouse in
that spot for two years, from 1823 to 1825. The home of Rev, James
Freeman Clarke, D. D., on Hillside Avenue, has a lasting interest,