Gore Place Timeline
GORE OCCUPATION (1786 – 1834)
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Christopher and Rebecca Gore purchased 50 acres of land in 1786. Over the years they purchase more and more land until they own 197 acres of land by 1834.
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Features on the property included: a mansion, barn, paper mill, house, grapery and fruit wall, a flower garden, greenhouse, vegetable garden, ice house, and other buildings.
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When the Gore’s lived here, there were also house servants, gardeners, and a farm manager on the property.
LYMAN OCCUPATION (1834 – 1838)
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Purchased by Theodore Lyman, Jr., the fifth Mayor of Boston.
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Expanded the property by about 100 acres.
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Hired a farm manager and gardener named Robert Murray in 1836. Robert Murray lived in the farm house with his family and a group of laborers.
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Robert Murray redesigned the formal flower garden and improved the greenhouse and grapery facilities.
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During Lyman’s occupation, the mansion was painted white.
GREEN OCCUPATION (1838 – 1856)
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Green was an Episcopal
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Robert Murray continued to work on the property. He maintained two greenhouses and a pleasure garden.
WALKER OCCUPATION (1856 – 1907)
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Removal of the vegetable garden north of the Carriage House.
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Removal of the greenhouses.
ESPICOPAL CHURCH OWNERSHIP (1907 – 1911)
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Removed trees and household furnishings (things inside your home) from the mansion.
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A sawmill was set up on the property to take up space on the property’s open fields.
METZ OCCUPATION (1911 – 1921)
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Neighborhood surrounding Gore Place saw significant change: a lot more houses and buildings began to fill the Waltham and Watertown areas.
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Charles Metz produced bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. He used some of the property for factory buildings.
WALTHAM COUNTRY CLUB OCCUPATION (1921 – 1935)
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Much of the landscape transformed into a golf course.
GORE PLACE SOCIETY OCCUPATION (1935 – PRESENT)
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Preserves and maintains the estate.
