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Gallery Category: Historic Houses
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Plaster Ceilings: Conservation and restoration – Amesbury, Massachusetts
May 13, 2013
During the months of December 2012 and January 2013, several plaster ceilings and a small portion of a wall were conserved and repaired at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Amesbury, Massachusetts. This was the home of Sara Bagley, where Mary Baker Eddy was a guest for the months of June and July 1868 and again in the spring of 1870. To read more about Mrs. Eddy’s stay in Amesbury, please visit the Historic Houses section of this website. Longyear staff had been keeping an eye on some ceilings in the house where the plaster was noticeably loosening. In December, the Museum brought in conservator Andrew Ladygo, historic plaster specialist to make the repairs. He carefully re-adhered multiple areas of loose plaster back to the lath in several rooms without having to remove or replace any plaster. However, in the southwest corner of the family parlor where the plaster had pulled away from the lath 1 ¼”, he had to remove a section of plaster, clean up the lath, and then re-adhere it. Following the plaster repairs, painters were brought in to repaint the ceilings. The ceilings are now in good condition and preserved for the next generation. View This Gallery »
Lynn Interior Restoration - Image Gallery #2
March 25, 2013
Since January, the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts, has been a beehive of activity! Multiple trades have been busily at work on the interior restoration. This collection of photographs provides an overview of the work during the past several weeks. They focus on the spaces where the transformation has been the most dramatic. View This Gallery »
Tack Conservation at 400 Beacon
February 4, 2013
This winter, Longyear Museum has been carefully preserving the tack used for Mrs. Eddy’s horses at her 400 Beacon Street home in Chestnut Hill. View This Gallery »
Lynn Interior Restoration: Phase Two
January 14, 2013
As 2013 gets underway, so does the second phase of restoration of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. Phase 2 focuses on restoring and repairing the interior of the building. Restoration of the room configuration on the second and third floors, and the re-alignment of the front and rear stairs to their original, c.1871, state are some of the major elements of Phase 2. View This Gallery »
Fresh Paint for the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Swampscott, Massachusetts
October 1, 2012
As summer wanes here in New England, Longyear Museum’s historic house in Swampscott is getting some special attention. View This Gallery »
Garage Repairs at 400 Beacon Street
August 27, 2012
In April of this year, repairs were made to the garage at the Mary Baker Eddy historic house in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The 400 Beacon Street home, where Mrs. Eddy lived from 1908 until her passing in December 1910, was her last residence. The property includes multiple buildings: the main house, a carriage house with attached gatehouse, and a small garage. Most of these buildings have stone and masonry exteriors; the garage is the only completely wood structure. During the replacement of the garage roof a short time ago, it became evident that other repairs would be needed to take care of areas of rot found in the rear of the garage. The sill on the southwest elevation was completely rotten, thus putting the structural integrity of the building in jeopardy. With a temporary jack in place to ensure that the frame of the building held together until spring, plans were made to begin repairs in April. Here, in this image gallery, you’ll see the work that was finally done in April, and the summer-long painting of the whole building. View This Gallery »
400 Beacon Street Formal Garden
June 18, 2012
Enjoy wandering through the formal garden at Mary Baker Eddy's historic Chestnut Hill house. View This Gallery »
Amesbury Storm Windows
March 19, 2012
Progress in storm window repairs at the Amesbury Historic House View This Gallery »
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 »
