Sometime in the 1840's this beautiful little Gothic
farmhouse was built by Merrick Stebbins for an artist named Blake. Little
is known of the artist, but the Stebbins family was one of the earliest
settlers in the area. In 1869 Mr. Franklin Wade, a Civil War veteran from
New York, bought the house. Mr. Wade married Caroline Whitney, a school
teacher who taught school in Longmeadow from 1861 to 1883. The Wades lived
in the house until 1897. In 1922 the house was purchased by Mr. Guy
Perkins, a farmer and reader in the Christian Science Church. In 1943, the
property was purchased by Bay Path College and currently houses its Human
Resources Department.