History
Its historical owner was General Samuel Parker, best known for his role in suppressing the 1919 Boston Police strike. The farm's most recent private owner was Henry Saltonstall Howe, an insurance executive, who bought it in 1951, built the house, and lived there as a bachelor gentleman farmer until his death in 1994. He had donated the property to the state with a life estate in 1976, so on his death it passed to the management of the Metropolitan District Commission which later became the Department of Conservation and Recreation. In 2006, the DCR granted a permit to Brookwood Community Farm, Inc., a non-profit, to organically farm 1-acre (4,000 m2) for food and flowers. That has continued through 2010.
The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1980, reference number 80000655. The barn was added separately at the same time, reference number 80000660.
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