The front or main portion of the house consists of the 2+1⁄2-story structure with central chimney, a short center hall, two rooms on each of the two floors, and an attic.

The small rear ell, 1+1⁄2 stories high with gambrel roof, contains a kitchen and tiny study downstairs and two low-studded chambers upstairs.

[2] Succeeding Hancock as minister in 1752, the Reverend Jonas Clarke, who reared 12 children in the parsonage, was an eloquent supporter of the colonial cause.

This house is one of two surviving residences associated with John Hancock, famous American patriot, President of the Continental Congress, first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

On the evening of April 18, 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, having attended the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Concord and wary of returning to Boston, were guests of Rev.

[1] This house contains furnishings and portraits owned by the Hancock and Clarke families and an exhibit area that includes relics of April 19, 1775.