Article by Andrea Abramoff


Overview

The Truman Beckwith House is one of the oldest houses on College Hill. Located at the corner of College and Benefit streets, this Colonial style brick mansion is built on the steep-grade of college hill and consequently the land it is built on was leveled so that the house sits high above street-level along Benefit Street. This dramatic setting, along with the tall iron fence around the property, helps to maintain the isolated feeling that Truman Beckwith intended when he built his home up the hill from the developed parts of town.
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