Rydal Mt. Ladies Boarding School - Charleston, Boston Mass.

Rydal Mt. Ladies Boarding School. The home of the Nathan Tufts, who died in 1835, was occupied by his widow until 1843 when it became the Rydal Mount Ladies Boarding School for a number of years. The house stood high above Chelsea Street, and was approached over terraced lawns to a round porch, whose columns rested on semi-circular stone steps. The view from the doorway took in the Navy Yard, the harbor, the State House, and the more elevated parts of Boston. The four large rooms on the lower story of the main house, the long entry with the fine stairway branching off on two sides at the end of it, the recessed windows, some of them arched, with keystones in Masonic order, all are said to have been very imposing. The Rev. Thomas R. Lambert and his wife (the widow of Judge Colby of New Bedford where Dr. Lambert had served as the first rector of Grace Church) lived here for a third of a century.
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