AW desk
Original finish, appears to retain original brasses, on bracket base. See manuscript collection for drawer contents. View more details
Original finish, appears to retain original brasses, on bracket base. See manuscript collection for drawer contents. View more details
A very small, saltbox style house was built, possibly for use by tenants on the Ward farm. The family lived across the street in a large two-story farmhouse.
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...