View up Little's Lane
The first view of the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm is one of pastoral dignity. The lane, lined first with elms and then with sugar maples, leads to the manor house, set nearly a quarter of a mile from the main road. Though this is not unusual today, when the house was built in 1690, its placement in the middle of the property was a clear statement of wealth and status, the recreation of an English manor house in the fledgling Newbury community.
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