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Historic Deerfield

Historic Deerfield

Step into early America as and tour Historic Deerfield’s eleven house museums. Explore hundreds of years of history along an original, mile-long street. Two houses, the Stebbins House and Sheldon House, are available for self-guided tours all day during the regular season.

The Flynt Center of Early New England Life at Historic Deerfield has dramatically enhanced public access to the museum’s nationally acclaimed decorative arts collections. Set back from the village street at the edge of a pumpkin field, and in line with several 19th-century barns, the Flynt Center is fully accessible to all visitors with a dramatic entrance into a lobby that leads to exhibition galleries.

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