Whittier Home
Open May 4 2013 through October Oct 26.
It will be open on Saturdays from 11 to 4 pm. The last tour will begin at 3:30.
Private tours are available by appointment. Please call 978-388-1337 or 978-388-465-5963.
Admission: Adults $7.00 Students (age 7-17) and Seniors $5.00 Children (under 7)
free. Group rates on request
www.whittierhome.org/
In 1836, the 19th-century Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf
Whittier purchased a small four-room cottage with an attic in Amesbury. It was near
the Friends' Meeting House, which the family attended. Over the years the home expanded,
but the original four downstairs rooms and furnishings remain nearly the same as
when the family occupied them. Here Whittier wrote much of his literary legacy, including
Snowbound, and led a crusade against slavery.
For more than 100 years, the Whittier Home Association has been steward of this historic
house museum. The Association recently renovated the buildings and grounds for the
2007 town-wide celebration of the 200th anniversary of Whittier's birth. Visitors
will rediscover his extraordinary fife and legacy through new exhibits and programs
at the home and other sites. Call for details.
