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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.
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- 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
[edit] 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.[2] 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.
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