11) 20 Quincy Street
In 1866 the James family moved into an old house here at 20 Quincy Street. The house was demolished in 1930 to make way for the Harvard Faculty Club.
Here William's parents would live for almost the remainder of their lives, and William himself for the next decade.
Living in this house placed the Jameses near to the people who would soon become some of the closest family associates. Half a block away the Agassizes built a three-story home. A few blocks further lived Charles Eliot Norton, then editor of the North American Review, to which Henry James Sr. and Jr. both contributed.
Charles Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Chauncey Wright were also frequent visitors, as their philosophical discussions with William at the house turned into the Metaphysical Club, which was never mentioned by any person in the club other than Peirce, but became the subject of a Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Louis Menand.