The Jeremiah Curtin House

Jeremiah was born in 1835 in Detroit, where his parents had recently immigrated from Ireland. At the age of 2 his family moved to the Milwaukee area to join his mother's family on their farm. Jeremiah's father built this house in the early 1840's, &  the Curtins moved into their new, "typically Irish stone house" when Jeremiah was a boy--he lived there until he left for Harvard "to pursue his love of learning and languages". He graduated from Harvard in 1863, and his command of the Russian language won him  a position in the U.S. Legation in St. Petersburg in 1864. This launched his 40-year world-wide career as linguist, translator, folklorist and diplomat. He died in 1906. I pass his former home once in awhile and always think it looks so quaint! I've put a side view of it in the extras, as it's bigger than it looks from the front & looks equally pretty in this view.  :))