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Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens, North Andover, MA

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Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens

A former farm turned early-1900s summer estate in North Andover, with a Colonial Revival house and extensive gardens run by The Trustees of Reservations.

153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA 01845 · North Andover, MA

About Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens

Once known as Ashdale Farm, this 91-acre property was the summer retreat of Helen Stevens Coolidge and her diplomat husband John Gardner Coolidge from 1914 to 1962. The couple worked with preservation architect Joseph Everett Chandler to remodel two connected Federal-period farmhouses into a Colonial Revival estate. Visitors can wander perennial beds, a rose garden with a greenhouse complex, and a French vegetable garden enclosed by a brick serpentine wall. The house holds Asian porcelain alongside American and European decorative arts, and it has a notable entry hall mural. Trails link the grounds to nearby Weir Hill and other conservation land.

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