George Nixon Black spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. In an art-filled townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill and in the architectural masterpiece Kragsyde, his...

George Nixon Black spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. In an art-filled townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill and in the architectural masterpiece Kragsyde, his house at Lobster Cove, he lived in obscurity, harboring a secret of violence and a secret of love.

If Black were mentioned at all in his time, it was almost as rumor. As Boston's largest taxpayer he traveled to the opera in a carriage that was the envy of his peers. Glimpsed on the street, it was usually only with one of his beloved dogs by his side. His collections of antiques and paintings were said to be extraordinary. When his own portrait was painted, just twice, he chose women artists. Each winter he quietly boarded a luxury Europe-bound steamship with a man eighteen years his junior, with who he had lived for years.

In the end it was his house that gave him away. While Black was probably content to slip unnoticed into history, Kragsyde was to have no such fate. Published many times and adored by architects and scholars, the famous house has made it impossible for Black to disappear. In The House at Lobster Cove you will see behind the doors of the house that sheltered and shaped this elusive Boston bachelor and continued to tell his story long after both were gone.

Author: Jane Goodrich
Publisher: Benna Books
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781944038021

About the Author
Goodrich, Jane: - Jane Goodrich, a co-founder of Saturn Press, is a native of New England. A lifelong love of the 19th century has inspired her work as a designer, builder, printer, and storyteller. George Nixon Black's Kragsyde, first built on the North Shore of Massachusetts, was later demolished and rebuilt in every detail by Goodrich and her husband, doing all the work themselves, on an island in Maine. Writing from a room that sits above Kragsyde's famous arch, Goodrich has penned The House at Lobster Cove, as her first novel, a vividly imagined and historically accurate picture of a man who has long inspired her.