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The Amos J. Blake House Museum was built in 1837 next to the historic Fitzwilliam Inn. It later became the residence and law office of community leader, town official and state legislator Amos. J. Blake.

The house boasts of 13 rooms that are available for viewing. Each room is filled with numerous pieces from the early Fitzwilliam homes in order to depict the everyday life the people had in an old New Hampshire village.

Built by Levi Haskell, the Blake House was intended to be a commercial building. Aside from the door in the center, each corner of two stores has a separate door. Haskell, who was just married to his wife then, rented the storage space in the basement and the attic for wooden boxes while he and his wife lived on the second floor.

After Haskell?s ownership, the building had many other owners who used it for their respective businesses. In 1865, Amos J. Blake bought the house and lived there until 1925, when he passed away. It was occupied by his son, Leroy, until his death in 1965. A year after, his cousin, Ida Mae Northup, gave the house to the Fitzwilliam Historical Society requesting for the use of the Blake name in the Museum.
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