- widow of Admiral Francis S. Low. He had no children by his second or third wives. Due to the illness of his second wife, in 1958 Weeks retired to his farm in Lancaster NH. In 1941, he and his sister Katherine Weeks Davidge had given their father's summer estate on Mt. Prospect in Lancaster to the State of New Hampshire to be a State Park. They intended the historic Arts & Crafts-style 1913 Lodge and 1912 Observation Tower on the summit to educate the public about sustainable forestry management. Today Weeks State Park, with its historic 1910 NH Scenic Byway road to the top, Lodge and Tower, attracts thousands of visitors annually to enjoy a panoramic 360-degree view of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont. In the 1960s, Weeks worked with his friend and Republican colleague NH Governor Sherman Adams and others to ensure that Interstate 93 did not destroy the fragile environment of Franconia Notch State Park through which the Interstate was intended to run. As a result, Interstate 93 is transformed into the unique eight-mile long scenic Franconia Notch State Parkway before reverting to a major US Interstate. He died on February 7, 1972, at age 78, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is buried in Summer Street Cemetery in Lancaster, New Hampshire. External links Finding aid for the Sinclair Weeks Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Papers of Sinclair Weeks The Papers of Sinclair Weeks at Dartmouth College Library |- |- |- 1893 births 1972 deaths Harvard University alumni Mayors of Newton, Massachusetts United States Secretaries of Commerce American Enterprise Institute Republican Party United States senators from Massachusetts Massachusetts Republican Party chairs Military personnel from Massachusetts Eisenhower administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians People from Lancaster, New Hampshire