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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some notes from my Scrapbook. (search)
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The Royall towers.
There were two such structures at the Royall house. One, doubtless the older, was a lookout-room upon the roof at its southern end. The exact date of its construction we may not say, but certainly between the years 1739 and 1775, and more probably prior to 1754, and while the location was a part of old Charlestown.
Features still in evidence indicate that it was a part of the final construction made by the younger Colonel Royall.
This lookout-room was the interior of a Colonel Royall.
This lookout-room was the interior of a cupola, as the modern term has it, one side of which was formed by the brick wall between the massive chimneys which overshadowed it. It was doubtless as elaborately finished on its exterior as was the house itself.
The views we present are those by Mr. Hooper in The Evolution of the Royall House, for the showing of its locality and means of access, and not of architectural detail.
From its four windows the lord of the manor could view his extensive domain, or the overseer the numerous slave