John Greenleaf Whittier House

John Greenleaf Whittier moved into this modest frame house at eighty-six Friend Street in Amesbury in eighteen thirty-six and lived here for most of the rest of his life. Whittier was a Quaker poet who became one of the most effective literary voices of the abolitionist movement, editing anti-slavery newspapers and writing verses that circulated across the North. His poem Snowbound, published in eighteen sixty-six, drew on his memories of a week-long blizzard on the family farm in Haverhill and became one of the most widely read American poems of the nineteenth century.

He died in eighteen ninety-two. The house is preserved as a museum by the Whittier Home Association.