Sargent House Museum

Judith's second husband, John Murray, the founder of the first Universalist Church in America, also lived in the house.

This stair was almost purchased by the MET Museum in NY around 1915 for installation in one of their "period rooms."

The Museum houses a small but exquisite collection of American decorative arts and furniture.

It displays sculpture by Hiram Powers and one of the finest collections of family portraits in the United States by major American artists like Christian Gullager, Thomas Sully, James Frothingham, and Alvan Fisher.

Artifacts from the life of Judith Sargent Murray such as her dictionary and first edition "The Gleaner" (1798) are also exhibited.