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Both Nathan and David Goodale had large families. Though Nathan was the oldest son he decided David should be the house's owner and occupant, supposedly stating, "Thou art the one to remain. Our father was a deacon, you are also a deacon, and let remain as the Deacon Goodale farm."
235:-story timber-frame house dates to 1702, making it the oldest existing building in Hudson. George Francis Dow and John Goodale designed and built the house. It was later home to Goodale's various notable descendants. The house may have been a stop on the 1117: 270:
Abner and his wife Mary "Molly" Howe Goodale had at least ten children. Their first son Nathan Goodale became a schoolteacher while his younger brother David Goodale followed in their father's footsteps as a deacon. Their youngest sister
707: 1015: 1010: 255:. When he died in 1752, the house passed to his only son Nathan Goodale. At least five generations of notable Goodales were born or lived at the homestead, including Nathan's only son Abner Goodale, a captain in the 1005: 638: 703: 683: 678: 673: 643: 394: 693: 663: 565: 698: 688: 668: 648: 1037: 658: 653: 1042: 990: 870: 824: 757: 920: 895: 855: 783: 752: 731: 1000: 936: 905: 860: 845: 840: 995: 900: 890: 793: 910: 885: 875: 850: 803: 788: 778: 762: 736: 946: 941: 915: 880: 865: 808: 798: 302:. David's son David Brainard Goodale also became a deacon, making him the fifth generation of Goodales and third generation of deacons who were born or lived at the ancestral homestead. 558: 1127: 972: 967: 1072: 574: 551: 1122: 350:
and includes an original stone chimney. The house's western ell and a brick chimney are later additions, though still predating the American Revolution. The extant
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The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1975. Since 1975 the house has been owned by corporations established by
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George Francis Dow and owner John Goodale designed and built the original 1702 portion of the Goodale Homestead in what was then
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owned by the Goodale family surrounded the house. A small portion of this formerly agricultural landscape is preserved as the
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are 1920s-era reproductions. A northern ell was removed in 1955. The property includes two existing barns.
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inventoried the house as a historic property in 1974, Mrs. Greenwood's estate owned it.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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In 1955 then owner Mrs. Arthur Greenwood donated the house's northern
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ticket. The house therefore possibly served as a stop on the
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became one of the first American Protestant missionaries in
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Goodale Homestead is located in Massachusetts
Goodale Homestead is located in the United States
Hudson, Massachusetts
42°22′46″N 71°30′14″W / 42.37944°N 71.50389°W / 42.37944; -71.50389
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First Period
Hudson
Massachusetts
United States
Underground Railroad
National Register of Historic Places
Marlborough, Massachusetts
American Revolutionary War
Battle of White Plains
deacon
Lucy Goodale Thurston
Hawaii
anti-slavery abolitionist
Free Soil Party
Underground Railroad
American Civil War
ell
Smithsonian Institution
Massachusetts Historical Commissions
Thurston Twigg-Smith
clapboards
lead glass
dentiled

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