The Manor, Franklin Pierce

New Hampshire · United States · School

Edna McGuinness ran a brothel here at the turn of the century and hung a portrait of herself in the stairwell. When she died the building sold. The.

The building students at Franklin Pierce in Rindge, New Hampshire know as the Manor was, at the turn of the century, a brothel run by a woman named Edna McGuinness.

She hung a large portrait of herself in the stairwell leading up to the second floor.

When she died the building was sold. Nobody took the portrait down, and it stayed where she had put it.

During the late 1990s an employee of the college had an experience in the building that has been repeated ever since.

A woman who ran a house of that kind in rural New Hampshire a hundred years ago was, whatever else, a businesswoman operating outside every respectable structure available to her. Hanging her own portrait in the stairwell was a statement, and it outlasted her, the business and the ownership.

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Where is The Manor, Franklin Pierce located?

The Manor, Franklin Pierce is in New Hampshire, United States.