 This period of occupancy coincides with Coolidge's political rise from city council to Governor of Massachusetts, then Vice President and President.In 1930, Coolidge moved to "The Beeches" at 16 Hampton Terrace in Northampton, a move he said was necessitated by the increasing number of tourists coming to this address and the attendant lack of privacy.This property is one of the most unusual of those occupied by a US president on a long-term basis, in that he did not own it, and that it was a duplex.