Hayden House History

It's one thing to have an old house, it's another to have a "historic" old house. With this renovation, we're attempting to update the interior of the house to fit todays modern family, but are committed to keeping the look of this historic home. Dave has spent a few late nights already searching for pictures and historic articles about the property and it's former owners.
Here's some of the things that he's turned up:

• The house was built sometime in the 1850's by a local thread mill manager - Whaling Hayden for his son James Hayden
• In 1898, James Hayden died and all of his property and assets were willed to Willard Hayden who's family lived at the house until at least the start of the depression. In 1898, the property was valued at 20,000 dollars at the time (roughly half a million in today's dollar). Of course, back then the property included our neighbors house and everything that has since been turned into a park.
  
• There's (so far) a gap in information from the start of the depression to the beginning of WW2.
  
• August 6th, 1944 the first church service was held in the house (church) by the Christian Science Church.
  

Dave is still doing plenty of research, hoping to turn up some old photos. We'll post those when we find them.

In other news: The laundry room is almost complete (pictures to follow) and play room / mud room (carriage house) has been gutted and is being re-framed (before and after pictures to follow)