The sitting room was part of the original saltbox house. The wallpaper and carpet are not original to the house but were custom-designed and installed as part of a 1970s restoration project to furnish the house as it might have looked in 1830, the date of the last addition. View more details.
Served at Second and Third Continental Congress.
Thomas Walter Ward II died heavily in debt, and the Worcester County Institution for Savings foreclosed on the Ward farm. Henry Galbraith Ward, a relative who had summered at the house as a child, bought the 135 acre farm and its buildings for $4500. He neither lived at the house nor planned to...
The house was restored according to museum practices of the day. For instance, custom carpets with period-appropriate designs were produced and installed. The inside of the house has changed very little since this restoration, as it is no longer accepted practice to restore houses as...