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The house where Harriet Beecher Stowe was born has been sold for a bicentennial $1 coin.
Chandler Saint, a restorer of antiques and furniture, and a partner bought the house Friday from a private school that wanted to tear it down to make room for a dormitory.
The new owners plan to turn the house into a museum honoring the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” writer and abolitionist. She was born in the rambling, gray house in 1811 and lived there for 13 years.
The house, built in 1774, sits abandoned, paint peeling, on the grounds of the school, which had used it as a dorm.
Beginning Monday, workers plan to carefully catalog and dismantle it. It will be taken to a yet undetermined location in town to be restored, Saint said.
