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Christian Science Pleasant View Home
Location: 227 Pleasant St.
Concord, New HampshireCoordinates: 43°11′42″N 71°33′31″W / 43.195°N 71.55861°WCoordinates: 43°11′42″N 71°33′31″W / 43.195°N 71.55861°W Built: 1927 Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 84003222 [1] Added to NRHP: September 19, 1984 The Christian Science Pleasant View Home is an historic senior citizen residential facility located at 227 Pleasant Street in Concord, New Hampshire, in the United States, It was built in 1927 by the Christian Science Board of Directors as a retirement home for aged Christian Science practitioners and other workers in the cause of Christian Science and occupies the site of Pleasant View, Mary Baker Eddy's last home before moving to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1908. It is now Pleasant View Home, a secular nursing home. On September 19, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Contents
National Register listing
- Pleasant View Home (added 1984 - Building - #84003222)
- 227 Pleasant St., Concord
- Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
- Architect, builder, or engineer: Shurcliff, Arthur A., Bowditch, Arthur H.
- Architectural Style: Colonial Revival
- Area of Significance: Architecture, Religion, Social History, Landscape Architecture
- Period of Significance: 1925-1949
- Owner: Private
- Historic Function: Domestic
- Historic Sub-function: Institutional Housing
- Current Function: Work In Progress
History
Pleasant View was Mary Baker Eddy's last home before moving to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1908. It was destroyed by the Christian Science Board of Directors and all evidence of it was buried.[6] The Directors in 1927 built a charitable retirement home for aged Christian Science practitioners on the site. The home and the large estate on which it stood were later sold to the State of New Hampshire, which later sold the building to a secular group which operates it as a profit-making retirement home.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Merrimack County, New Hampshire
- List of former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-07-27. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ National Register listings for Merrimack County
- ^ Mary Baker Eddy's Pleasant View in Star of Boston
- ^ Waymarking listing for Pleasant View with photos of the Mary Baker Eddy historical marker there
- ^ Pleasant View Retirement website
- ^ Healing The Sick A Means, Not An End
External links
- National Register listings for Merrimack County
- Mary Baker Eddy's Pleasant View in Star of Boston
- Waymarking listing for Pleasant View with photos of the Mary Baker Eddy historical marker there
- Pleasant View Retirement website
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- Former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings
- Buildings and structures in Concord, New Hampshire
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