on Cambridge Street was built in 1796. Charles Bulfinch designed this house, and two additional houses, for the businessman and politician who was instrumental in Beacon Hill's development and Boston becoming the state capital. The Otis House also houses the headquarters of Historic New England, previously known as Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Other notable houses are the Francis Parkman House and an 1804 townhouse, now the Nichols House Museum. The Nichols House "offers a rare glimpse inside [the] Brahmin life" of Rose Standish Nichols, a landscape artists. Suffolk University Suffolk University and its Law School are adjacent to the Massachusetts State House and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The Suffolk University Law School was founded in 1906. Transportation Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stations in Beacon Hill are: Park Street – Red and Green Lines Bowdoin – Blue Line Charles/MGH – Red Line MBTA bus, MBTA commuter rail, and ferry services are also available. Notable residents Beacon Hill has been home to many notable persons, including: Mildred Albert Louisa May Alcott John Albion Andrew William Blaxton, original owner of Beacon Hill Edwin Booth Peter Bent Brigham Charles Bulfinch John Cheever Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney John Singleton Copley Michael Crichton Robert Frost James Gibson (Captain) Janet Doub Erickson John Hancock Chester Harding Teresa Heinz Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Julia Ward Howe Abigail Johnson Edward M. Kennedy John Kerry Henry Cabot Lodge James Russell Lowell Robert Lowell Mary Osgood Harrison Gray Otis Sylvia Plath William Prescott Eleanor Raymond C. Allen Thorndike Rice Henry Rice David Lee Roth George Santayana Anne Sexton Robert Gould Shaw Carly Simon Charles Sumner Uma Thurman David Walker Gretchen Osgood Warren Fiske Warren Daniel Webster Jack Welch In popular culture Published in 1937, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand satirizes the upper-class white residents of Beacon Hill. William Kane, one of the protagonists in the Jeffrey Archer novel Kane and Abel, lives in Beacon Hill. On Beacon Street, the Bull and Finch Bar was inspiration and source of exterior shots for the Cheers television show. Make Way for Ducklings (Viking, 1941) is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Most of the story is set at the foot of Beacon Hill, especially the route taken by the fictional Mrs. Mallard and her children on foot across Beacon Street. It is commemorated