The Christian Science Pleasant View Home is an historic senior citizen residential facility located at 227 Pleasant Street in Concord, New Hampshire, in the United States, It was built in 1927 by the Christian Science Board of Directors as a retirement home for aged Christian Science practitioners and other workers in the cause of Christian Science and occupies the site of Pleasant View, Mary Baker Eddy's last home before moving to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1908. It is now Pleasant View Home, a secular nursing home. On September 19, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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