Cushing House Museum and Garden
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| Caleb Cushing House | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | Newburyport, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1802 |
| Architect: | Hunt,William |
| Architectural style(s): | Federal |
| Designated as NHL: | November 7, 1973 |
| Added to NRHP: | November 07, 1973 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000327 |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Cushing House Museum and Garden (circa 1808), sometimes known as the Caleb Cushing House, is a Federal style mansion with fine garden located at 98 High Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States, and now the home of the Historical Society of Old Newbury and a National Historic Landmark. Guided tours are offered many days between May 1 - October 31.
The house is a center entrance three-story brick mansion in the Federal style, with center entrance at both the front and sides, and two chimneys at each side. In shape it is a flattened cube, with five windows arranged symmetrically across both front and sides. Its main entry is crowned with a modest fanlight, echoed by a fan-shaped wooden motif atop the window above it. On the grounds, visitors will find a nineteenth century garden, an herb garden, fruit trees, a summer house, cobbled yard and carriage house.
Within the house are fine collections of silver, furniture, portraits, clocks, needlework, antique fans, hatboxes, nineteenth century toys, and more from New England and the Orient. The Oriental Room displays early China Trade decorative arts including four Chinese coastal Hong paintings. An extensive clock collection includes examples made by local master clockmakers David Wood and Daniel Balch. In the canopy bedroom stands a carved seventeenth century Dutch cradle and a three-sided crib. Many oil portrait paintings hang in the house, including a Cecelia Beaux portrait of Margaret Cushing and 1801 paintings by John Brewster, Jr., of Newburyport's Prince family. The museum also maintains a collection of area maps, photographs, and genealogical references.
The house has a ghost story attached to it; Caleb Cushing was brutally murdered in the house in 1878. Some tourers say they can see the ghost of Caleb in the basement at the hour of 8 a.m.
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- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
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