Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb__ A Tour of Presidential Gravesites - Brian Lamb [17]
Sign outside the Adams crypt at the United First Parish Church (Church of the Presidents)
Touring John Quincy Adams’s Tomb at United First Parish Church
United First Parish Church (Church of the Presidents) is located in Quincy, Massachusetts, about ten miles south of Boston.
From Boston: Take Interstate 93 or Route 128 south. Take exit 7, onto Route 3 South to Braintree and Cape Cod. Take the first exit off Route 3 South, marked exit 18 for Washington Street. Continue on Burgin Parkway through six traffic lights. At the seventh light, turn right onto Dimmock Street. Go one block and take a right onto Hancock Street. The church is located at 1306 Hancock Street.
The church is also accessible via the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority’s subway system. From Boston, take the red line train to the Quincy Center station. Go right when exiting the train and continue up the stairs. Take a left at the top of the stairs and exit onto Hancock Street. The church is located at 1306 Hancock Street.
The Adams family graves are located in the basement crypt. To reach the crypt after entering the church through the main doors, take a right, go down the stairs, and take a left.
Guided tours of the crypt are also available for $5.00, beginning at the Adams National Historical Park Visitors Center, located at 1250 Hancock Street. The tour also includes the John Adams birthplace and the Adams family home. Tours operate from April 19 through November 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $5.00, free for those under sixteen.
For additional information
United First Parish Church (Church of the Presidents) 1306 Hancock Street (Quincy Center)
Quincy, MA 02169
Phone: (617) 773-0062 / Fax: (617) 773-7499 www.ufpc.org
Adams National Historical Park Visitors Center 1250 Hancock Street
Quincy, MA 02169
Phone: (617) 773-1177 / Fax: (617) 847-3015
www.nps.gov/adam/
“…the sarcophagus provided for…JQA was too small for his elaborate coffin…”
—Richard Norton Smith
Upright and unadorned, the Quincy meetinghouse reflects the characters of the two presidents who, with their wives, share a subterranean crypt carved from solid granite. John and Abigail Adams were placed there in 1828. Twenty-four years later the area was enlarged to accommodate the remains of John Quincy and his wife Louisa. As it happened, the sarcophagus provided for the second President Adams was too small for his elaborate coffin, forcing a halt in the ceremony while stonemasons were summoned to widen the enclosure. Somehow it made perfect sense, given Adams’s failure while in the White House to fit his spacious views within the cramped vision of nineteenth-century agrarianism. Almost forty years would pass before the iron grillwork fronting the Adams crypt swung open to admit the general public.
—RNS
John Quincy Adams lies next to his British-born wife Louisa in the Adams crypt
Andrew Jackson
Buried: The Hermitage, Hermitage, Tennessee
Seventh President - 1829-1837
Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina
Died: 6:00 p.m. on June 8, 1845, at the Hermitage, Tennessee
Age at death: 78
Cause of death: Heart failure
Final words: “We shall all meet in heaven.”
Admission to the Hermitage: $17.00
Andrew Jackson’s reputation as a man of the people was cemented at his inauguration. After his swearing-in at the Capitol, many citizens returned with the new president to the White House. The celebration lasted throughout the night and went down in history as one of the most raucous parties ever held on the South Lawn.
Two women played prominent roles in Andrew Jackson’s presidency. The first was his beloved wife, Rachel. His election campaign of 1828 was marred by charges of adultery when it became known that Rachel