Peter and Oliver Tufts House (also known as the Peter Tufts House) is a historic house at 78 Sycamore Street in Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...

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The earliest part of the house was built around 1714. The house "was originally built on Barberry Lane (Highland Ave.) by Peter Tufts, grandson of the Peter Tufts

Peter Tufts

Peter Tufts was a prominent early citizen of Medford, Massachusetts, and ancestor of Charles Tufts who donated land for the Tufts University campus...

 who emigrated to America in 1646, and who operated a ferry from Charlestown to Malden. From 1775 to 1776, the house served as headquarters for General Henry Lee of the American Army during the siege of Boston

Siege of Boston

The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen—who later became part of the Continental Army—surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within...

. Some 50 years later Charlotte Cushman, the noted Boston actress, spent her childhood holidays at 'Uncle Oliver's Farm'" The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1989.