Historic New England Phillips House

The Historic New England Phillips House is a house museum occupying the site of a Federal-style mansion. The house contains four intact rooms, which once made up part of an earlier house and were moved to the site in 1821. It got its name from Anna Phillips and her husband Stephen Willard Phillips, who moved there in the early 1900s. They renovated the house in the colonial revival style and added a family collection that had been gathered five generations of her family. Today, the house is the only mansion on historic Chestnut Street that is open to the public. Tours occur every half hour and give visitors a clear picture of how people lived in the early 20th century.