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Andover is home to 1,500 structures that are considered historic, meaning that they are on either the National or State Registers of Historic Places or the Andover Historic Building Survey. Every year there are requests to demolish some of them for the land value.  
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was born in 1844 and was educated at Abbot Academy. Her birth name was Mary Gray, but, after her mother died when Mary was eight, she took her mother's name, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. She published her first piece of work at age 18, and her first book, ''The Gates Ajar'', in 1869, when she was 24. It proved to be a 19th century bestseller. She went on to author 57 books.  She also challenged the prevailing idea that women were meant to lead a life of domestic pursuits. She championed a woman's right to keep her maiden name after marriage, believed that women could be financially independent, and challenged the need to wear a corset. At 44 she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a man 17 years younger. She died in 1911 and is buried in Newton MA.


There are seven historic preservation districts in Andover.
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*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=464982&t=elizabeth%20phelps&tp=author&l=5&d=0&hc=17&rt=author&s=titlesort&sd=asc ''Austin Phelps: A Memoir''] 1891 The biography of her father, a professor at Andover Theological Seminary
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* 1. Academy Hill (Phillips Academy campus, School, Main, Wheeler, and Highland Streets)
* 2. Andover Village Industrial District (Roughly bounded by North Main,Railroad, Stevens  and Moraine Streets)
* 3. Ballardvale (Roughly bounded by Center, Andover and High Streets)
* 4. Central Street (Bounded by Phillips Street and Essex Street)
* 5. Main Street-Locke Street
* 6. Shawsheen Village (Centered on Haverhill and York Streets)
* 7. West Parish Center (Lowell Street and Reservation Road
Andover also has a Andover Historic Preservation Commission.  In 2005, the Preservation Commission, the Andover Historical Society, and Memorial Hall Library received a grant from the Essex National Heritage Commission to update the town's inventory of historically significant buildings and make it publicly accessible.  The database that was created may be accessed through the Andover Historic Preservation Commission's web site.


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*[http://www.andovertownsman.com/townspeople/x54240962/Andover-Stories-Before-bra-burning-feminists-there-was-Andover-author-Elizabeth-Stuart-Phelps Andover Stories: "Before Bra-Burning Feminists, There Was Andover Author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps"] by Jennifer Tarbox. ''Andover Townsman'' 7/8/2010
*[http://readseries.com/auth-oz/phelps.html Elizabeth Stuart Phelps] Readseries.com. January 3, 2012.
*[http://readseries.com/auth-oz/phelps-daught.html Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward]. Readseries.com. January 13, 2012.
*[http://www.ruthnestvold.com/Phelps.htm The Literary Fate of the Woman Artist: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's ''The Story of Avis''.] http://www.ruthnestvold.com 1/13/2012


*[http://www.mhl.org/historicpreservation/ Andover Historic Preservation Commission].
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1286191&t=state%20register%20of%20historic%20places&tp=title&l=5&d=1&hc=1&rt=title State Register of Historic Places 2010]. (R974.4 Sts 2003) pp.5-9.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1286191&t=state%20register%20of%20historic%20places&tp=title&l=5&d=1&hc=1&rt=titleAndover Historic Building Survey], Volume 17.
*[http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcstreg/streg.htm State Register of Historic Places]
* "Central Street National Register Certificates Available", ''Andover Townsman'', April 23, 1987.


*"Plan aims to save town's historic buildings", ''Eagle Tribune'', March 18, 2002.


*"Historic buildings go 21st century", ''Andover Townsman'', May 15, 2008.






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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was born in 1844 and was educated at Abbot Academy. Her birth name was Mary Gray, but, after her mother died when Mary was eight, she took her mother's name, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. She published her first piece of work at age 18, and her first book, The Gates Ajar, in 1869, when she was 24. It proved to be a 19th century bestseller. She went on to author 57 books. She also challenged the prevailing idea that women were meant to lead a life of domestic pursuits. She championed a woman's right to keep her maiden name after marriage, believed that women could be financially independent, and challenged the need to wear a corset. At 44 she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a man 17 years younger. She died in 1911 and is buried in Newton MA.


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