FALL RIVER, Mass. — The Massachusetts home where Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were slain with an ax has been listed for sale.
The three-story Fall River clapboard house that has been converted into a museum and bed and breakfast was listed for sale online at an asking price of $2 million, The Boston Globe reported.
Borden was charged with and acquitted of the murders. The murders were never officially solved.
This is a sketch of Lizzie Borden, made during her trial in New Bedford, Mass., in 1892 on a charge that she murdered her father and stepmother with an ax. The sketch was made by Louis F. Grant, an artist for a Boston newspaper. Carl Nesensohn/Associated Press
The listing agent and part-time tour guide at the museum, Suzanne St. John, said the owners are retiring after 15 years and that the sale is a “turnkey” opportunity.
The potential buyer would own the home, the bed and breakfast website, intellectual property, and merchandise sold at the museum.
“We are hoping that someone will come in and buy it and keep it as a bed and breakfast and for tours,” St. John said. “It’s one of the most visited tourist attractions in New England. It’s well known all over the world, and on a normal year you have people that come in from all over.”
Last year another one of Borden’s homes, a seven-bedroom home known as “Maplecroft,” was listed on the market and is still for sale, St. John said.
The listing for the site of the double murder says that both homes can be purchased together.
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