A Piece of PPH History

While working through the papers of Constant Huntington this week, the intern team found a fascinating piece of PPH institutional history! Among the assorted documents was found a copy of a quitclaim deed in which Constant granted his portion of the Forty Acres estate to his brother and PPH Museum founder, Dr. James Lincoln Huntington. After the tragic passing of their father and grandfather on the same day in 1904, the grounds around the house were split between James, Constant, and the other Huntington children. When Dr. Huntington set out to turn his beloved family home into a museum, one of the first things he had to do was acquire his siblings’ shares of the property. Though PPH was first and foremost Dr. Huntington’s project, and would not have happened without his intense dedication, it is documents like this that remind us the museum’s founding was made possible by not just one man, but the collective efforts of an entire family.