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The Advancing Century

This year Longyear Museum is celebrating 100 years of historic preservation! In 1920, Mary Beecher Longyear made her first purchase of a home that once sheltered Mary Baker Eddy. Now, Longyear Museum enters its second century of stewardship. Enjoy our featured article "A Most Valuable Day" from our most recent Report to Members.

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A Musical Discovery in Amesbury

For nearly a century, the musical instrument in the Garden Room at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Amesbury, Massachusetts, has been referred to as a “melodeon.” But when an organ restoration expert recently examined and cleaned it, he also fine-tuned Longyear Museum’s understanding of it. Read to learn more!

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Annual Appeal Underway

Enjoy a look back at 2020 and all that Longyear has brought to your doorstep! Your gift to Longyear's 2020 Annual Appeal enables us to continue preserving and sharing the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy. We are deeply grateful for your support - we can't do it without you!

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A reed organ by any other name . . .

December 16, 2020

The musical instrument in the “Garden Room” of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Amesbury, Massachusetts, has been referred to as a melodeon for at least a century. But when organ restoration expert Joe Sloane recently examined and cleaned it, he fine-tuned Longyear Museum’s understanding of when and how the instrument was built, and…

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There's still time for a year-end gift!

December 14, 2020

Friends, as 2020 draws to a close, the Trustees and staff at Longyear Museum send warm greetings to you and your family. While this has been a year of many challenges, we trust that you have also gained fresh inspiration and insights that have brought renewed hope and progress. Here at Longyear, this year…

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Longyear’s collections team discovers an artifact under wraps

October 29, 2020

To understand how much care goes into every object in Longyear Museum’s collection – and the joy of finding surprises there – look no further than this summer’s unwrapping of a large ironing board dating back to Mary Baker Eddy’s time at 400 Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Collections manager Leslie Vollnogle documented each…

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Longyear’s recent members-only virtual event draws an international audience of all ages

October 28, 2020

Children and adults from across North America and as far away as the UK, Switzerland, and Japan tuned in this past weekend to participate in Longyear’s members-only virtual event, The Bakers of Bow. Over the course of two days, attendees enjoyed both live and on-demand offerings that introduced Mary Baker Eddy and her family and…

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Chatting with the author of “A Woman of Sound Education” – Mary Baker Eddy’s School Years

August 31, 2020

For back-to-school season, I asked my colleague Heather Vogel Frederick about her new Longyear Museum Press publication, “A Woman of Sound Education” – Mary Baker Eddy’s School Years. Replete with photos and original research that help lend context to the subject and place the reader into early 19th-century schoolrooms, this book is available at our…

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Explore the life of Mary Baker Eddy

The Advancing Century

A Musical Discovery in Amesbury

Annual Appeal Underway

A reed organ by any other name . . .

December 16, 2020

There's still time for a year-end gift!

December 14, 2020

Longyear’s collections team discovers an artifact under wraps

October 29, 2020

Longyear’s recent members-only virtual event draws an international audience of all ages

October 28, 2020

Chatting with the author of “A Woman of Sound Education” – Mary Baker Eddy’s School Years

August 31, 2020

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Browse our archive of research articles about Mary Baker Eddy and the early Christian Science movement

Abigail Dyer Thompson’s Healing Practice in Minneapolis

Bradford Sherman: Painter and Practitioner

Annie Knott: First Woman on Board of Directors (1919)

John Salchow’s Shutters

Maple Month with the Baker Family

Christian Science Comes to Germany (1890s)

Inspiration Behind Establishing Longyear Museum (1923)

Discovery at North Groton (1850s)

Explorer Robert Peary and Mrs. Eddy’s Victrola

Tour the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses

Visit the Museum in Chestnut Hill

Follow @LongyearMuseum on Instagram

Support Longyear with a membership