{"id":420,"slug":"amos-j-blake-house-museum-fitzwilliam-new-hampshire","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Blake House is the lawyered — the 'only lawyer' that's the town's count, the '1865' that's the purchase's year. The '13 rooms' is the themed — the '19th century' that's the decor's period, the 'commercial' that's the building's start. The 'self-made' is the risen — the 'legislator' that's the office's height, the 'bank commissioner' that's the crisis's post.","The 'grandfather fought' is the inherited — the 'Revolution' that's the sergeant's war, the 'Rindge' that's the family's seat. The 'Northup gave' is the donated — the '1965' that's the heir's death, the 'Historical Society' that's the recipient's name. The house is the kept — the 'Common' that's the location's center, the 'free tours' that's the access's price.","The file keeps the Blake House: the lawyered residence, the themed rooms, the self-made man, and the donated museum.","Amos Blake House is the archive's New Hampshire file — the lawyer's office that stayed home."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Amos Blake House is the archive's New Hampshire file — the small town's memory made of rooms.","A house keeps its rooms — the file's suggestion being that Blake's hold is the domestic: the '13 rooms' that's the museum's space, the 'self-made' that's the biography's arc, and the 'Common' that's the community's heart."]}],"name":"Amos J. Blake House Museum","aliases":[],"type":"MUSEUM","type_label":"Museum","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Museum research record.","full_desc":"Amos J. Blake House Museum is a museum in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, built in 1837. Museum research record. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Fitzwilliam","county":null,"state":"New Hampshire","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1837,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":308,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Visitors describe a child apparition, moving objects and unexplained bells. Museums collect the dead's effects by definition; Amos J. Blake House Museum's reports are the interpretation nobody scheduled. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. 'Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops' carries the account. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops","url":"https://www.visitnh.gov/blog/undiscovered-nh-spooky-stops","publisher":"New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"House dates to 1837. Amos J. Blake House Museum's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops","url":"https://www.visitnh.gov/blog/undiscovered-nh-spooky-stops","publisher":"New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops","url":"https://www.visitnh.gov/blog/undiscovered-nh-spooky-stops","publisher":"New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}