Essex National Heritage Area
Stevens-Coolidge Place
North Andover Visitors


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North Andover, Massachusetts

Andover Street, North Andover, MA 01840
Telephone Number: 978-682-3580
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Hours: Gardens open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. House open for tours Mother's Day through Columbus Day weekend, Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. Also open on Wednesdays, 2 to 4 p.m. in July and August. Allow a minimum of 1 hour, 2 hours if also taking a house tour.
Admission: Gardens: free to all. Garden tours for groups of 10 or more: Adult $2, child (under 16) $.50. House Tours: Trustees members free. Nonmembers: adult $5, student (with valid ID $3, child (under 16) $3.



(The Early Settlement Trail)


Formerly known as Ashdale Farm, the Stevens-Coolidge Place was the summer home of John Gardner Coolidge and Helen Stevens Coolidge from 1914 to 1962. Mr. Coolidge, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a diplomat. Helen Coolidge devoted herself to preserving and improving Ashdale Farm, which her family had first acquired in 1729 and subsequently farmed for six generations. Between 1914 and 1918, preservation architect Joseph Everett Chandler remodeled the two connected late-Federal period farmhouses. The house's collections include Chinese porcelain and other Asian artifacts, American furniture, and American and European decorative arts, reflecting the Coolidges' wide-ranging interests and frequent trips abroad. Chandler also enhanced the design of the landscape, which eventually included a perennial garden, a kitchen and cut flower garden, a rose garden, a French potager garden with a brick serpentine wall, and a greenhouse complex. Intermingling with the formal gardens are rustic elements, including hay fields, an orchard, and extensive woodlands.

Photography Credit (c) TTOR / Tom Reichard

Web address: Stevens Coolidge Place
email: neregion@ttor.org




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