The North Andover Improvement Society hosted its Fall program “An Experiment in Aestheticism” by Zoom on the evening of Tuesday December 1, 2020. Click HERE for a link to the video presentation.

Moses Stevens was fully aware of the perennial challenge that Osgood Hill would present to future citizens of North Andover, Mass., when the estate was designed and built in 1886. With the headwinds of progress, as constant at that time as they are today, Osgood Hill was designed as a symbol of strength, of oneness with nature and with longevity, resourcefulness and purpose in mind.

The issues of land and historic asset preservation reflected questions about broader social and economic values and priorities at the time, as they do today.

Moses Stevens understood the necessity to preserve and protect the land that today is 153 acres of woods and parkland with the creation of Osgood Hill, but his efforts in providing the town of North Andover with this unique treasure of its’ own, guaranteed the gift of history, culture, and enrichment to future generations of citizens that most towns would envy…