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- And yet the tiny town (pop 2,300), which was settled in the early 18th Century, is home to a plethora of artistic residents, including actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, musical composer Stephen Sondheim, journalist Gay Talese, actor Joseph Godfrey and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
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May 20, 2008 · Just across Lexington Road from Lucy, on the same side of the street, the Jimmy Stewarts lived at No. 918, and across from them, on the west side of Roxbury, lived the Oscar Levants.
- Todd Purdum
General John Thomas, in charge of the troops in Roxbury (the right wing of the patriot army), lived in the (now) Dillaway-Thomas House. Although no battles were fought in Roxbury, firing back and forth between the British and Americans also disrupted the community.
Sep 23, 2016 · Monroe lived in Brentwood for only six months and took her life there in August 1962. But as with a burned-out star, her light, though extinct, continues to shine.
- Jeffrey Meyers
Jan 27, 2023 · Roxbury's history is significant for its role in the Revolutionary War, for its being an example of a "streetcar suburb," and for its broad cross section of 19th century residential structures which are still used and lived in—still habitats of common life.
Some of the homes of these wealthy residents still stand today, such as the Edward Everett Hale House on Morley Street, the Alvah Kittredge Mansion on Linwood Street, the Spooner Lambert House on Dudley Street, Rockledge on Highland St., and Ionic Hall on Roxbury Street.
Beginning in the 1930s, native-born African Americans who had previously lived in Beacon Hill and the South End, as well as new immigrants from the Caribbean, came to dominate Lower Roxbury and the old Jewish neighborhood around Fort Hill.
