Winchester Sanborn House c1910

The Winchester Historical Society and the community of Winchester are transforming the Sanborn House into a community cultural center, gallery, and meeting place. A revitalized Sanborn House offers space for community and Society activities in a historic house while building community, minimizing cost to the taxpayers, and stabilizing an architectural treasure and its green space!

Summary of Benefits

  • Strengthen and promote commitment to being a caring community
  • Preserve the Town’s architectural heritage
  • Preserve green space
  • Minimize the cost to the Town of preserving the Sanborn House
  • Enhance the Ambrose Campus and the Neighborhood
  • Enhance Winchester as a cultural venue
  • Provide a facility to preserve and encourage the study of the Town’s history
  • Provide a home for the Winchester Historical Society

Click here to see 20 Years – Sanborn Transformation in Pictures  – a brief pictural history of the transformation of the Sanborn House over time.

Organizations Supporting the Sanborn House and Winchester Historical Society Programs

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Featured Publication

Wright-Locke Farm: A History in Pictures - Enhanced Edition
by Ellen Knight

Now in an expanded, 44-page edition! Learn about the historic farm buildings, the farm families, and farming in the 19th-20th centuries and take a look into that history with a wealth of unique illustrations, many from the Locke family itself. Read More.

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