ASHLAND — The Ashland Historical Society received a matching grant from The 1772 Foundation in cooperation with the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. Thanks to this support, the society was able to install a new roof for the Whipple House Museum, located at 14 Pleasant St. in Ashland.
In addition to the generous grant, our roofing contractor, Steve Krauz Roofing, helped keep the project within budget by substantially reducing the invoice through added materials, labor, and improvements that weren’t in his contract. The Ashland Historical Society is deeply grateful for the support that helps preserve the Whipple House Museum.
The Whipple House Museum in Ashland is the boyhood home of Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, along with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia.” Dr. Whipple is the only Nobel Prize winner from New Hampshire. In 1970, he generously donated his home to the Town of Ashland, where it is preserved and continues to serve as a historical museum operated by the Ashland Historical Society. Built in 1837 by Dr. Whipple’s great-grandfather, Obadiah Smith, the Whipple House was home to five generations of the same family for 133 years.
The Whipple House Museum is open Saturdays in June, July, and August from 1 to 4 p.m.
For more information, visit ashlandnhhistory.org.
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