Coffin House Tours

45 minute guided tour of the Coffin House

Occupied by the Coffin family for over three centuries, this tour reveals insights into domestic life in rural New England. The house, which contains the family furnishings, began as a simple dwelling built in the post-medieval style and expanded over the years. With rooms from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, Coffin House depicts the impact of an expanding economy and new concepts, such as the notion of privacy, on architecture and modes of living.