Today I went to the Peabody Public to look at the Eben Dale Sutton Room. The history of the Sutton room is that Eben Dale Sutton's mother bought the room in honor of her son who died at a young age. Eliza Sutton offered 20,000 dollars to the Peabody Institute Library trustees. The room is always locked because it has a lot of historical value books like the history of John Quincy Adams and the Civil War. You can go in the room as I did by asking one of the librarians. The room also holds original John Audubon prints. The two prints are of a turkey and a bird eating a fish. The room is in the original part of the library which is getting restored.
http://www.peabodylibrary.org/history/suttonroom.html
http://www.peabodylibrary.org/history/
Very interesting Jeff. Good thing the Peabody Insitute Library has the Eben Dale Sutton Room locked because the books such as you mention like the history of John Quincy Adams and the Civil War are worth a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteThe room also holds all the archives of George Peabody and the history of Peabody as a town and a city.
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