The View from 92

Jack is truly a jack- of -all trades and does multiple duty as house cook, day tour guide and housekeeper, and gift shop cashier.  Jack enjoys performing specialty tours garbed as Borden neighbor and family doctor, Seabury Bowen.

Carol Ann and Eliza like to dress up Victorian-style and have too much fun as daytime house tour guides and also participate in the annual August 4th dramatization at the house. Carol Ann, a costume designer and actress, will play Lizzie this year on August 4th.

Suzann loves to share her knowledge of the case on day time tours and has an impressive Irish accent as the Borden maid, Bridget Sullivan.

Ben is a long-time evening tour guide and innkeeper with a great knowledge of the case and Borden-related sites around the city.  He is also an accomplished actor who has joined in the August 4th activities as Detective Seaver or Officer Medley for many years.

Shelley has worked at #92 as weekend evening guide and innkeeper since 1998 and writes the annual script for August 4th, taking on the roles of Lizzie and Abby Borden over the years. She loves dressing up 1890’s style for guests and showing them the city.

You never know what you may find in an auction box stuffed full of odds and ends.  Recently Lizzie Borden B&B co-owner, LeeAnn Wilber inherited an interesting document signed by Abby Borden’s half-sister, Sarah Bertha Whitehead. Case historians will tell you how important the Gray-Whitehead house on Fourth Street figured in the further decline of warm family feelings among the Borden sisters and their stepmother when Andrew Borden bought out and deeded over this property to his second wife without informing “the girls”.

This 1901 document grants right of way for septic hook-up on the property until such a time Spring Street pipes were installed, and is signed by Bertie Whitehead.  At the time of the murder, Spring Street stopped at the corner of Second Street. Later on the Gray-Whitehead house was shifted onto a new foundation on the continued Spring Street where it rests today.

It’s October. It’s Halloween- It’s time for Lizzie: Cradle to Grave. Email for reservations!

Looking great at 154!

Thanks for all the well-wishes and concern.  Max came home today about 3:30, thin but none the worse for wear.  Another mystery to solve as to where he has been so long.

The Morgan Street School where Lizzie attended until the age of 14 was sold to TA Restaurant, Inc. of Fall River for $5,000.  The intent is to turn it into a parking lot.  The restaurant is located on South Main Street. Built after the Civil War, the three storey brick and granite structure was in use until 2006 as a grammar school, named the N.B. Borden School. For more about Lizzie’s school years and an appraisal of her personality as a student visit

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Since the Bed & Breakfast opened in 1996, many gals have filled the shoes of Miss Lizzie B. Here are a few memories which include house employees Kathleen Troost-Cramer, Shelley Dziedzic, Carol Ann Simone and Colleen Johnson and Lizzie aficianada Lorraine Gregoire.  Even B&B owner Lee Ann Wilber took a “stab” at it in 2004!

As the leaves begin to turn in September, thoughts begin to turn towards Lizzie Borden again. After a brief respite from the August Lizzie fever, cooler temps and the approach of Halloween always seem to inspire revivals of Borden-centered plays around the country. The Boston Lyric Opera has some exciting news. The BLO’s Opera Annex production this year is a commissioned work, a new chamber version of Jack Beeson’s Lizzie Borden (Nov. 20-24, in the Castle at Park Plaza). – (See more at: http://bostonclassicalreview.com)

Paranormal groups and television production companies are drawn to the house on Second Street to capture that something extra which flavors the very atmosphere this time of year.  The house is busy with overnight guests and day tours and thoughts are turning to Halloween night, which is a sell-out every October 31st.

Congratulations to the Pear Essential Players for nine performances on the 4th!  See you next year.