Barberry House

Site: N08-30
Municipality: Cornish, NH
Location: 70 Saint-Gaudens Road
Site Type: House.

At 0.6 m on this road is Barberry House, the summer home of Homer Saint-Gaudens, the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Built about 1780 it is a large square hip-roofed structure with huge central chimney set amid finely landscaped grounds. Homer Saint-Gaudens is now the Director of the Department of Fine Arts of Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. While a guest in this house, Witter Bynner wrote 'The New World.' Here Louis Evan Shipman spent a summer in 1893.
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