The Houghton Mansion: Twelve Days in August 1914

The Houghton Mansion at 172 Church Street, North Adams, Massachusetts — the white Neoclassical Revival house with the brick Masonic lodge addition behind it

About 6 min readBuilt in the 1890s for North Adams’ first mayor, the Houghton Mansion is remembered for a single devastating fortnight in August 1914 — a car crash, a suicide and a death from grief — and for the ghost stories the Masons who later met there began to tell.