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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – A yearslong effort to restore the ramshackle Massachusetts homestead where a woman accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials resettled after escaping the hangman’s noose is nearing an end.
A $1.5 million renovation project at the Peter and Sarah Clayes House in Framingham is expected to be completed in the spring.
“This is an amazing piece of national history, and it was just falling apart,” said Annie Murphy, executive director of the Framingham History Center and a member of the Sarah Clayes House Trust, formed several years ago to save the structure. In addition to its connection to the witch trials, the house is thought to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad and once housed Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son when he lived nearby.
The home on Salem End Road was privately owned until it was essentially abandoned after a foreclosure around 2000.
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