Moose/Parker House

Broad Street

Private - Not Open to the Public

Claremont Literary Walking Tour--Stop 10

All that remains of this once grand house is the altered front wall and front porch.

Built in 1875, this was the home of Hosea Parker. Following his death in 1921, the house was the summer home of Parker's daughter and grandchildren until 1957 when they sold the house. The house was purchased by the Claremont Moose and in 1967 they extensively remodeled the building adding to the first floor and removing the upper floors.

Hosea Parker was a distinguished lawyer in Claremont and served in the U. S. House of Representatives.

In 2002 Elizabeth Gallagher von Klemperer, who spent summers at the old homestead, published the collected letters of her great-grandparents, Hosea and Lovisa Southgate Parker and of her grandparents, Lee and Lizzie Southgate Parker McCollester. This collection, Love and Letters in New England, detail the courtships of two generations of Parkers.

Her grandfather, Lee Sullivan McCollester, wrote The Passing of the Old Homestead. This small 18 page book tells the story of Hosea taking Lee's two children (the grandchildren) on a ride to Hosea's boyhood home.