Beacons Great Estates: Henry Sargents Wodenethe. The closest our community has ever come to having something like nobility in our midst is when the Sargents lived here (mostly in summers) at their estate Wodenethe for nearly 70 years. Friend and student of A.J. Downing, Henry Sargent was a landscape designer and an artist of a kind who dealt in trees and gardens as his canvas. In 1912, a national magazine touted Wodenethe as the Most Artistic 20 Acres in America. By then, Henry was long dead but his son Winthrop and daughter-in-law Aimee Sargent had kept up the tradition of striking gardens and magnificent vistas at Wodenethe. Change came with their passing: about 1920, Dr. Clarence Slocum purchased the Sargent estate as added living quarters for his patients at his Craig House sanitarium. In the early 1950s, with Dr. Slocums death, Craig House downsized and Wodenethe was sold off as a housing development. The magnificent house was sold to a salvage company which, in 1954, had Beacon Engine stand by in a controlled burn to raze the house. ... Our citys great loss.
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