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Northshore October 2025
Historic house museums don’t only preserve old structures. They’re also snapshots in time, telling personal stories that go far beyond history and architecture and giving visitors a chance to step inside someone’s home and experience a small slice of the past.    “As you’re walking through, you can kind of picture yourself living there,” says Kristen Weiss, Historic New England’s Cape Ann site manager. “I think that helps us understand what it was like to live in other times.” Here’s a look at a few of the North Shore’s most notable house museums. Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester Henry
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