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MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites QUARTERLY NEWS MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites VOL. 15, NO. 3 PUBLISHED BY LONGYEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY AUTUMN 1978 THE SETTING OF 1870 An advertisement in The Christian Science Monitor of June 5, 1961 sent many of its readers to look over family treasures and to assess their future disposition. The advertisement read: IN STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS THE WENTWORTH HOUSE Where Mrs. Eddy lived during a portion of the years 1868-1870 (see Sibyl Wilbur biography) is now being restored by LONGYEAR FOUNDATION and will be open to visitors when the work is completed. If you know of any furniture or furnish­ ings of that period, suited to the simple aud moclost oilNironmcnt of that hom&;-­ please write to us so we may communi­ cat"' '"'Jth th9 ownl'>r abovt BCQViring svch authentic pieces. In the 1960's many remembered their grandparents' and great grand­ parents' homes and the furnishings Painting by F. Mortimer Lamb shows Wentworth house, barn and shoe shop as they were in 1868-1869. which dated back to the 1860's. So furniture, quilts, clocks, footstools, home. The Longyear collection also chase of the Amesbury Historic candlesticks and whale oil lamps, provided several items from the House, also associated with Mrs. stereoscopes and dishes, along with Baker homestead, including a glass Eddy during this period, where most their happy memories, were sent off in an antique pattern called "thumb of the original furnishings had been to Longyear Foundation to find their print," brass andirons, a curling iron left intact. However, finding one places in the reconstructed Went­ and some curling pins, straight piece, the Wentworth chest, was suf­ worth home, where Mrs. Eddy (then razors and a shaving mug. ficient to tie history and the house Mrs. Glover) had spent periods of An original Wentworth piece, - together with other items of the time from 1868 to 1870. considered variously as a carpenter period, and the interest and love ex­ Among the pieces donated were a chest, sea chest or blanket chest, was pressed made up in atmosphere the pair of chairs bought at an auction of donated by Mrs. Doris Holmes Blake, essence of Mrs. Eddy's time there. the poet Nathaniel Hawthorne's be- . daughter of Lucy Wentworth Holmes The house had been sought out by longings; four ramekins once owned and granddaughter of Sally Went­ Mrs. Longyear during the 1920's and by Mrs. Eddy's sister, Abigail Tilton; worth. In fact Lucy had said that as an offer made to the owners. Al­ a footstool that came from the Colby long as she could remember this though they refused to sell any part of house, neighbor to the Bakers; and a chest had been in the upstairs back their farm, permission was granted to sewing stand bought when Mrs. Eddy bedroom where it now stands. place a bronze marker on a large moved from her Columbus Avenue The many changes of owners of the boulder under one of the spreading house had unfortunately scattered maple trees bordering the road. f' Quarterly News Autumn 1978 the furnishings which would have Through the years the plaque has ©Longyear Foundation 1978 Vol. 15 , No. 3 made up an authentic background of caught the eye of passers-by, and Subscription, $6.00 Annually Mrs. Eddy's stay there. This was in of Christian Science visitors who (Includes Activities at Longyear) Sent without charge to Members of Longyear contrast to what was so happily knew of Mrs. Eddy's experience in achieved in Mrs. Longyear's pur- Stoughton. It reads: 233 Left, marker placed on property in 1920's by Mrs. Longyear, with owner's permission. Right, Historic House as it appears today case, the fluted door frames of the tion. A front porch, probably added MARY BAKER EDDY parlor contrasting with the plain around 1900, had to be removed; the THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF ones of the rest of the house, the many ell, originally the oldest part of the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE RESIDED IN THIS changes in the kitchen area, the cel­ building, needed its early 20th cen­ HOUSE FROM THE AUTUMN OF 1868 lar, the wee shoemaker's shop. tury second story taken off. This lat­ TO THE SPRING OF 1870 Old foundation stones in the cellar ter project when further studied When in 1961 changes had come to indicated the presence of a small called for a complete demolition, and the town and the property was no house on that site dating from colo­ a total rebuilding on the old founda­ longer being farmed, the house came nial times and later investigation of tion of an authentic copy of what had on the market and was bought by an town records confirmed this fact. The originally been a small one-story interested Christian Scientist, and Wentworth house was built about house. soon after it was given to Longyear. A 1840, the small wing being con­ The following statement was made most interesting and exciting restora­ structed first. Alanson Wentworth in an article on the Wentworth house tion then took place. added the large part in simple Greek appearing in The- Christian Science Mr. William G. Perry of the ar­ Revival design. One surprising fea­ Monitor of June 2, 1962, written by chitectural firm of Perry, Shaw, Hep­ ture was the single staircase at the Kenneth Hufford. "Another intrigu­ burn & Dean, who had worked on the back where the main house and the ing feature of the house was the use of restoration of Colonial Williamsburg wing joined. That arrangement saved large timbers for basement and ceil­ in Virginia, was available for consul­ a good deal of space in the bedroom ing beams, whose mortise joints tation. His first visit to the house was area, but the lack of a front stairway served no functional purpose. It is of an exploratory nature. Founda­ was unusual for that type of construc­ presumed that the beams were sal­ tions, joints, rooflines, timbers, tion. vaged from an earlier structure for beams, all were examined. Other ob­ The intent of the examination was which the mortises were necessary jects for consideration were the deli­ to bring the structure back to an -probably a barn." cate window sashes, the single stair- historically accurate 1870 presenta- A wonderful confirmation of Mr. Left, house with front porch and second story added to original building, before Longyear restoration. Right, porch and ell removed prior to reconstruction 234 Left to right, shoe shop interior, grindstone with initials "A.C.W. ", and shoe shop undergoing restoration Perry's vision of the house was found bought fo r the sitting room, smaller watching over the house and all who in a painting by F. Mortimer Lamb scatter rugs of old hooked patterns set foot on the property, and being (1861-193 6), an artist raised in the were acquired. Later, Mrs. Blake do- keeper of the keys! Stoughton area and a nephew of the nated a small braided rug to the His- Portraits of Alanson and of Sally Wentworths.1 The painting has a toric House made by Lucy Went- Wentworth, also by Mortimer Lamb, statement on the back of the canvas worth Holmes in her BOth year. had been commissioned by Mrs. that this was an accurate representa­ When it came to making a Longyear years before, and were ap­ tion of the Wentworth home in 1868- homelike atmosphere by putting pic- propriately hung in the parlor where 1869. The statement was signed by tures on the walls, all sorts of in- guests to the resto.red house were to Mrs. Lucy Wentworth Holmes, Ar­ teresting ideas presented themselves. be welcomed and registered. What thur L. Holmes, Horace T. Wentworth One donor supplied a small painting would be more natural than to have a and Susan M. Wentworth, and wit­ of a canary and a moss rose, the deli- painting of their daughter Lucy? nessed by Anna R. Lamb. cate pink rose so much admired by Lucy had played a happy part in Mrs. And so the work of reconstruction Mrs. Eddy. Another gave an old print Eddy's stay at Stoughton. She had went on and the furnishings came in. called "Reading the Scriptures" been a devoted companion on Mr- Perry confirmed the accuracy of showing a Yict.or.iaiLS.etlin.o;g_w.lllL.Lituh.J....J:aL__._,n""e><.!i,..g..!lh""b~o~rh~o~o~d~w~a\!!l~k>f!s ....... .!.!hc!!a!o!d-"wt!..h'.o~rn~M~rs~. the proposed decorations - wall­ family gathered around a table listen- Eddy's ring (and Mrs. Eddy hers) for papers, paints, floor coverings, fab­ ing to the reading of the Bible. short periods, had been met at school rics, etc. The few window sashes Another gave a "chromo" type of by Mrs. Eddy, and had been wei­ which did not conform to the right print showing children playing in a corned into Mrs. Eddy's room after period were removed and copies of home. A fas cinating illustrated ver- the day's study had been completed. the older ones installed. sian of the Lord's Prayer was also Unfortunately the only existing One floor treatment had an in­ donated. All of these were found to be painting of Lucy was by Mortimer teresting sidelight. The parlor pro­ suitable for the walls of the room Mrs. Lamb depicting her at age 80 sur­ claimed itself a special room with its Eddy had occupied, the same room in rounded by colorful hollyhocks. It simple fluted woodwork as con­ which she searched the Scriptures, was obviously not the right portrait, trasted with the plain undecorated and the room that was frequently the as Mrs.
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