The former residence of D.L. Moody, on the grounds of Northfield Seminary around 1904. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.
The house in 2014:
D.L. Moody was an influential Christian evangelist throughout much of the late 19th century. He was born in Northfield, Massachusetts in 1837, in a house just up the hill behind this building. He later lived in Boston and Chicago, in addition to traveling around the country and to Europe as part of his evangelistic tours. He returned to Northfield in 1875, and in 1879 he opened the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies, which later became the Northfield campus of Northfield Mount Hermon School. This house, which he lived in after his return to Northfield, is part of the campus, which has been vacant since 2006, when the school consolidated to just the Mount Hermon campus in nearby Gill.
My mother attended Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1912. I have a post card that she wrote to her family with a beautiful sepia photograph of the school.
Priscilla – it owuld be wonderful to see the photograph – can you post it on this website? Or send it to me? dzwicker@mac.com