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CDV OF THE HOUSE OF HARRIETT BEECHER STOWE IN ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS

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Nice horizontal view of the 1828 home Harriett Beecher Stow revitalized and lived in while her husband was a professor at Andover Theological Seminary from 1852-1864.

The beautiful stone building is framed by trees on each end with a number of seminary students lined up in front of the home.

Contrast and clarity are excellent. Mount and paper are also very nice.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for YEAW & CO… LAWRENCE, MASS. There is also some collector information in pencil.

The "old stone workshop" was built in 1828 by "The Mechanical Association" to give the Andover Theological Seminary students manual training by the making of wheelbarrows, coffins, cradles, rolling pins etc., which were sold to help pay tuition costs. It then stood at the end of the common on the site of the present Andover Inn. It was subsequently used for a student gymnasium.

In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe arrived in Andover with her family to join her husband, Rev. Calvin Stowe, Professor of Sacred Literature at the Seminary. At that time, "the stone shell of a building" was being used for rubbish storage. Although the trustees were reluctant to allow the Stowe family to reside there, Mrs. Stowe said, "I always longed to plan a house for myself" and offered them her first royalty check from the phenomenal sales of "Uncle Tom's Cabin, $10,300 towards its remodeling.

Dr. Calvin Stowe and his family lived in Samaritan House at the site of Cochran Chapel today, from 1852-1853, while waiting for their "stone cabin" to be remodeled. The professor presumably stayed here before his family moved down from Brunswick, Maine. His tenure was not up at Bowdoin, before he started his new job as Professor of Sacred Literature at Andover Theological Seminary. Stowe solved this problem by teaching one term in Andover between finishing up his course at Bowdoin, leaving his wife at home in Maine to finish up her monumental epic, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Although this novel was published before Mrs. Stowe moved to Andover, her "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" was written during their stay at Samaritan House. This was a defense of her controversial novel, citing sources and proof for her fictional work.

Harriet had the long building separated into rooms, added fireplaces, window seats, painted the walls, pointed the cement and added an Italianate style piazza at the entrance and fence. Harriet christened it "Stowe Cabin", at a cost of $2891.12, - "transformed at an expense of some thousands of dollars into a beautiful country residency". Mrs. Stowe lived there 11 years with her husband and six children and it was remembered as the liveliest house on the hill, with its many parties and famous visitors.

After the Stowe’s moved to Hartford, CT, in 1864, Mrs. Wilde, a relative of Mrs. Stowe, ran it as a dormitory until in July, 1887, when the house was damaged by fire. After the "Mansion House", burned to the ground on Nov. 29, 1887, there was no hostelry on the hill. The "Stowe Cabin" was renovated for use as an inn. On May 4, 1888, Charles L Carter opened it to the public as Uncle Tom's Cabin, but in October 1888 the Trustees renamed it Mansion House.

In 1894, at the cost of $22,000 a wooden west wing was added to accommodate more guests.

Elisha Pike Hitchcock was the proprietor from 1890-1902, followed by Charles Ripley and John Milton Stewart. In 1908, the name was changed to Phillips Inn.

In 1929, when the entire campus of Phillips Academy was re-designed, the 1893 addition of the Inn was demolished. The Stowe House was lifted off its foundation, turned 90 degrees and moved down to the current site on Bartlet.

The Trustees of Phillips Academy own the property and it is used as faculty housing and dormitory space.

In the 1950's one of the rooms at Stowe House was used to stage the play "Harriet", starring Helen Hayes. [ad][ph:L]

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