{"id":8654,"date":"2021-03-02T19:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2021-03-02T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:49:17","slug":"sargent-house-museum-1782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8654","title":{"rendered":"Sargent House Museum (1782)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sargent House Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><\/p>\n

The Sargent House Museum<\/a> is located at 49 Middle Street in Gloucester<\/a>. Also known as the Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough House<\/a>, the home<\/a> was built in 1782 for Judith Sargent Murray<\/a> (1751-1820<\/a>), an author and early advocate for women’s rights<\/a>, and her first husband, Capt. John Stevens<\/a>, a merchant in the West Indies trade. Her second husband was John Murray<\/a>, a founder of the Universalist Church<\/a> in America. The museum<\/a> has a collection of American furniture and art, including paintings by Sargent family descendant John Singer Sargent<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sargent House Museum is located at 49 Middle Street in Gloucester. Also known as the Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough House, the home was built in 1782 for Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), an author and early advocate for women’s rights, and her first husband, Capt. John Stevens, a merchant in the West Indies trade. Her second husband was John Murray, a founder of the Universalist Church in America. The museum has a collection of American furniture and art, including paintings by Sargent family descendant John Singer Sargent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,209,8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-gloucester","category-houses","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}