► The building was originally the summer home of Irish poet, journalist, and rebel John Boyle O’Reilly, who died there in 1890 of an apparent overdose of sleeping medicine.
► The body of a British soldier who died in 1775 after a skirmish at Boston Light is buried somewhere on the property.
► The “Camperdown Elm” in the front yard probably was planted in the late 1800s, and is a descendant of trees grown on the estate of the Earl of Camperdown in Scotland.
SOURCES: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; Hull Public Library