1772 Grant Recipient: Wentworth-Brown House

Haverhill Heritage is one of sixteen grantees in 2023 for funds through The 1772 Foundation for work on the Wentworth-Brown House

Haverhill Heritage, Inc. (HHI) acquired this 195’ connected farmstead adjacent to the town common to preserve and revive an underutilized landmark. The house is a contributing structure in the Haverhill Corner National Register Historic District and was listed on the N.H. Preservation Alliance’s Seven to Save in 2018. This $7,500 grant will fund rehabilitation of the front porch on the main house. A related LCHIP grant supports continued work on the connector barn and horse barn. HHI’s incremental improvements funded by prior N.H. Preservation Alliance/1772 Foundation grants have included foundation and sill repairs and exterior painting.

According to Elizabeth L. Bayne, President, Haverhill Heritage, Inc., “The Wentworth-Brown House is unique and special, not only for its complex evolution and many intact historic details, but as a major character-defining element of the historic Haverhill Common. Primary historic details include its mostly symmetrical, massive, 195-foot long, front-facing façade, cantilevered elliptical staircase and federal style entry-way thought to be the work of an early master joiner, kitchen hearth with Rumford roaster and Bradford bake oven, and original hardware and fireplace surrounds. With this grant, Haverhill Heritage Inc. will mostly complete this phase of the exterior rehabilitation.”