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Continuing Good Maintenance Practices at the Stoughton House
January 30, 2012
2011 was another busy year at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses. Ongoing repairs and maintenance are essential to preserve these important historic sites, and Longyear’s historic house team was active throughout the year. This image gallery takes a looks at work done in December 2011 at the Wentworth home in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
Mary Baker Eddy (then Mary Baker Glover) lived with the Wentworth family from 1868-1870. Alanson and Sally Wentworth were farmers. They had four children, Horace, Celia, Charles, and Lucy. In 1868 Sally Wentworth invited Mrs. Glover to live with them in return for instruction in her metaphysical system of healing. The Wentworth home provided Mrs. Glover with a quiet refuge while she searched the Scriptures and wrote. Here she completed her first work on Christian Science, a teaching manuscript entitled The Science of Man. You can read more about the Wentworths and Mrs. Eddy’s time in Stoughton on our website.
In addition to being a farmer, Alanson Wentworth was also a shoemaker, and the Stoughton property boasts a unique architectural feature: a cobbler’s workshop with a small stove and central chimney. This little building has six windows, two of which are south-facing, exposing them to a great deal of sun. In December two window sashes were replaced, and several other small repairs were made to the house.
