Historic Neighborhood Photo: Hartt House on Copp’s Hill
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Photo courtesy of Boston Public Library, Print Department
Old photo of the Hartt House on Copp’s Hill. The original owner of the house, Edmund Hartt, owned the shipyard that built the USS Constitution.
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