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Gallery Category: Historic Houses
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Continuing Good Maintenance Practices at the Stoughton House
January 30, 2012
This image gallery takes a looks at work done in December 2011 at the Wentworth home in Stoughton, Massachusetts. View This Gallery »
North Groton Sawmill Excavation
October 3, 2011
Today the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in North Groton, New Hampshire, sits in a quiet hollow, surrounded by heavily wooded hills. But when Mary Baker Eddy and her second husband, Daniel Patterson, moved there in 1855 to be near her 10-year-old son, George, North Groton was anything but quiet. It was a bustling community with farms, mica mines, and mills scattered across the cleared land. View This Gallery »
Preserving the Skylights
April 4, 2011
The skylight in Mrs. Eddy’s attic room is one of the most famous architectural features of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. But did you know there are three skylights in this house? In addition to the skylight on the west elevation that opens into Mrs. Eddy’s room, there are two skylights on the east elevation. All were in need of repair and preservation, and this image gallery takes a look at the skylights before they were restored. View This Gallery »
Beneath the floors: A Look at the Basement
December 27, 2010
Visitors to Longyear’s Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses are often curious about the basements and attics of the houses, which are generally “off limits” in tours. At the historic house in Lynn, however, the basement will be available for all to see. In order to preserve the original floor plan of the upper floors, the coatroom and two new accessible restrooms are being located in the basement. This image gallery takes a look at the work that is underway to prepare for these visitor services. View This Gallery »
Emergency Repairs at 400 Beacon Street
August 30, 2010
Last March three “Nor’easter” storms in three weeks pounded fifteen inches of rain in the Boston area. FEMA declared these storms New England’s worst natural disaster in 100 years. While most of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses weathered these storms without incident, the Chestnut Hill house suffered considerable damage from leaking chimneys. View This Gallery »
Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Return to Boston
June 24, 2009
In 1908 Mary Baker Eddy, then 86, made national headlines by her surprise move back to greater Boston. In this study, rebuilt to mirror her former study at Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy directed the officers of her church to publish a daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. View This Gallery »
Concord, N.H.: Two Decades of Work
June 23, 2009
This house was the starting point of the nearly two decades of work Mrs. Eddy carried out while living in Concord, New Hampshire. Here she revised Science and Health and wrote Retrospection and Introspection. Visitors can also view scale models of her next home, Pleasant View, also in Concord. View This Gallery »
Lynn, Mass.: Mrs. Eddy as Author, Teacher, Founder
June 22, 2009
In the first house she ever owned, the future Mrs. Eddy completed the manuscript of Science and Health. Here in 1877 she and Asa Gilbert Eddy were married, and here she taught classes on Christian Science healing, formed her student association, and started her church and the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. View This Gallery »
Stoughton, Mass.: A Refuge for Writing
June 21, 2009
The future Mary Baker Eddy’s stay in Stoughton from 1868 to 1870 was a year-and-a-half respite from moving from one home to another in Lynn and Amesbury. Here she had time for studying the Bible and for writing her earliest works on Christian Science. View This Gallery »
North Groton, N. H.: Years of Isolation and Growing Conviction
June 17, 2009
This little five-room cottage is where the future Mary Baker Eddy lived from 1855 to 1860 – five years of invalidism and disappointment – and of growing conviction that in medicine, it was faith in the drug, rather than the drug itself, that seemed to heal. View This Gallery »
