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The Lynn Restoration is an ongoing project to restore the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. Check back here often for updates, videos, and image galleries of the work as it progresses.
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November 14, 2011
It has been an extraordinary opportunity to see the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts, being transformed, and we are happy to report that Phase One of the Lynn restoration is nearing completion. This month the contractor is focusing on those all-important finishing touches, including installing and painting the fence. Earlier this fall we received good news from the City of Lynn when they agreed to change the house number from 12 back to 8 – the number Mrs. Eddy had when she lived here from 1875-1882. We hope you enjoy this photographic tour of the restored exterior and the new accessible entrance.
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October 20, 2011
Longyear Museum members, community leaders, local press, and residents from throughout the greater Boston area attended a unique Open House in Lynn, Massachusetts, on October 15.
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October 10, 2011
Longyear Museum is pleased to announce that the street address of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn recently changed from 12 Broad Street back to its original number, 8 Broad Street. Mrs. Eddy’s address was 8 Broad Street when she lived in this house from 1875 to 1882.
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September 12, 2011
In this two-minute video, Preservation Architect Gary Wolf shows us an inside look at construction of the new vestibule that is on the east side of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. Phase One of the Lynn project includes a complete exterior restoration of the house, as well as accessibility improvements as outlined by the Massachusetts Building Code. This new universal entrance includes a lift to take visitors to the first floor of the house, and also to the accessible restrooms now installed in the basement.
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August 15, 2011
This three-minute video features an exterior restoration update from Preservation Architect Gary Wolf at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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August 1, 2011
As we reach the final stages of the exterior restoration of the Mary Baker Eddy historic house in Lynn, Massachusetts, the lovely Italianate style of the house, typical of the 1870s, is shining forth. As you look at the house, you will notice how the colors highlight the decorative brackets, pendants, and other architectural elements so typical of the Italianate style. The browns and beiges are meant to suggest a villa in Tuscany. The windows are designed to disappear, and they nearly do with the black-green paint.
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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.
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January 31, 2011
The Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts, is all bundled up for winter. The exterior restoration team buttoned up the project at the end of December in advance of what turned out to be the first of New England’s major winter storms! The work site will reopen in mid-March, with an expected completion date for Phase One of early June. This image gallery takes a look at the Broad Street house at the end of December 2010.
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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.
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December 1, 2010
This three-minute video shows the beginning stages of the construction of the new vestibule entrance to the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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November 22, 2010
As winter approaches, carpenters, masons, and roofers are busily working to complete repairs on the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. As you’ll see in the following photographs, many clapboards have been repaired or replaced, and primed front and back before being installed. New sections of corner pilasters, fascia boards, soffits, and brackets have been installed where there was serious rot. When the carpenters have completed 50% of their work it will be time for the painters to begin applying a coat of primer and at least one finished coat of paint before the site is closed for the winter. The project will resume in the spring when the team puts the final coat of paint on the house and finishes the vestibule.
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October 25, 2010
Phase One of the Lynn project includes a complete exterior restoration of the house, as well as accessibility improvements as outlined by the Massachusetts Building Code. In compliance with the building code, a fully accessible vestibule is being built on the east side of the house. This new universal entrance will include a lift to take visitors to the first floor of the house, and also to the basement, where accessible restrooms are being installed.
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October 20, 2010
This two-minute video features Preservation Architect Gary Wolf and Project Manager Tom Weathers describing the process of paint removal and clapboard replacement at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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September 27, 2010
The Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts, is currently a hard-hat zone. By the end of 2010, exterior restoration efforts will have transformed the outside of the house so that it resembles much more closely the home that Mary Baker Eddy lived in from 1875-1882.
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September 27, 2010
This two-minute online video features Preservation Architect Gary Wolf and it offers a brief introduction to the scope of the restoration efforts underway at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eddy lived in this house on Broad Street from 1875-1882, and it’s a significant landmark in American religious history.
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September 27, 2010
The exterior restoration of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, Massachusetts, officially got underway in August. Over the course of the project, we’ll be sharing progress reports through a series of image galleries and short video clips. This gallery takes a look at paint removal — one of the first steps in the exterior restoration.
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Image Gallery - Breaking Ground in Lynn
June 2, 2010
One hundred and thirty-five years after Mary Baker Eddy purchased the house on Broad Street in Lynn, Massachusetts, this historic structure is about to be transformed back into its original state, so that it will resemble much more closely the house Mrs. Eddy lived in and knew.
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Lynn Restoration: A Progress Report
April 19, 2010
This house on Broad Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, is a vital, major landmark in the history of Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science movement.
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April 19, 2010
When Longyear Museum purchased Mary Baker Eddy’s former home in Lynn, Massachusetts, in October 2006, it embarked on a process of research and architectural “detective work” to rediscover the home as Mrs. Eddy knew it. During the past three years, a team of preservation consultants with expert knowledge across many disciplines have examined the house from top to bottom.
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March 16, 2010
When Longyear Museum purchased Mary Baker Eddy’s former home in Lynn, Massachusetts, in October 2006, it embarked on a process of research and architectural “detective work” to rediscover the home as Mrs. Eddy knew it. During the past three years, a team of preservation consultants with expert knowledge across many disciplines have examined the house from top to bottom.
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May 18, 2009
As a 2009 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund Grant, the house where Mary Glover completed her manuscript of Science and Health will receive funding to help with projects such as a new entry vestibule, accessible restrooms, and a complete exterior restoration.
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