Village Green

A 1905 committee headed by Morris K. Jesup finally got things moving, with the help of the Village Improvement Association. In 1907, Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts donated the large granite seat facing Main Street in honor of their son John, who had died in 1904. In 1909 Philip Livingston gave a bronze fountain from an estate near Florence, Italy in memory of his wife. It deteriorated, and didn’t spout for many years until in the summer of 1992, with the help of a local group called Friends of the Fountain, it became a working fountain again.

Thirty members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the early part of the 20th century, gave Sunday afternoon concerts here for several years, from 4 to 6 p.m. In 1921, the V.I.A. hired famous landscape artist Beatrix Farrand from Reef Point to improve the place; in 1992 they joined with a Village Green Committee to further restore the area.