 Sarah Orne Jewett and her sister Mary inherited this house in 1887, with their younger sister Caroline moving into the 1854 house next door.The two sisters, neither of whom ever married, lived in the house for the rest of their lives, Sarah dying in 1909, and Mary in 1930.The house was inherited by Caroline's husband Edwin Eastman; he gave the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England).