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John Templeman

John Templeman

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John Templeman

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  1. JOHN TEMPLEMAN The artistic mansion, Wentworth-Coolidge was formerly owned by a wealthy man called John Templeman together with his two wives Katherine Parkman and Abigail Parsons. During this moment, this extensive mansion was used as a summer period tourist attraction site for celebrities as well as artists from Boston and beyond. The popularity of this mansion grew massively during this period and people saw it as a site where past history of Boston could be learnt. The Templeman family used its wealth to make the building very attractive and encourage other well-meaning friends to develop the empty farm land near the mansion. After it was handed over to the state Of Hampshire in 1954, it became known as The Wentworth-Coolidge Commission and it has been honoring the real owners since then. This massive edifice now serves as an exhibition center for artistic works of great and talented artists. John Templeman was himself a talented artist with great skill of creating beautiful art pieces. He was born in Boston to a family considered as one of the oldest in America. He was exceptionally wealthy due to many valuable properties he inherited from his fore-parents. Though born with "golden spoon", he decided to live his life independently of the family's wealth. In 1879, he graduated from Harvard and immediately got married to his lover, Katherine Parkman, a daughter of one of the greatest American historians, Francis Parkman. In the same year, John Templeman relocated to Paris, France together with his wife, Katherine. While in Paris, he decided to learn art work in the art shop of J. Carolus Duran where he became a professional and master of creative art. Armed with great skill of art work, he and his wife returned home to Boston in 1884 after just five years of acquiring artistic skills in Paris and making huge

  2. sum of money. Also in the same year, 1884, they bought Wentworth Coolidge Mansion from the city of Boston and use it for the purpose of gathering artists and art lovers in one place to exhibit great work of creative art. With large acres of land surrounding the mansion, he called on fellow artists to develop the land and build near the mansion thus encouraging and attracting a lot of visitors from near and far.

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