The New Hampshire home built by a Titanic survivor is listed for the first time in a century

In New Hampshire’s Squam Lake, a historic summer house with ties to the Titanic is looking for its first new owner in a century.

The eight-bedroom, four-bathroom, 5,600-square-foot property sits on 3.8 acres that includes over 960 feet of shoreline, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It’s currently priced at $9.5 million and would break the area record — which currently stands at less than $9 million — if it came close to the asking price.

The mansion was built around 1899 by real estate broker Richard Beckwith, who was also a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic along with his wife, Sallie Beckwith, and Sallie’s daughter from a previous marriage, Helen Newsom.

As some versions of the story tell, banker Karl Behr proposed to Newsom on their lifeboat after the ship sank, and their story is what inspired the romantic plot in James Cameron’s still famous 1997 film Titanic. Journal. reported.

Beckwith’s extended family still has a house nearby, but he sold “Waialua,” as he called the house, to industrialist John J. Evans in the 1920s.

Six generations of the Evans family have since enjoyed Waialua, which has changed very little over the decades.

Waialua remains uninsulated and lacks so much as a central heating system, not to mention televisions and Internet, John Evans IV, a great-grandson of John J. Evans, told the Journal.

“If someone from 1920 came back now,” added Evans, who has spent every summer of his life in Waialua, “they might see a little change, but not much.”

Perched atop a pipe, the slate-roofed property boasts three fireplaces, a screened-in porch ideal for alfresco dining, a wrap-around porch and numerous period details including bathtubs, door handles, windows and more. a lot.

Also, there are a number of outbuildings – including a restored boathouse and the original ice house – a chicken coop and a private house with a pump to bring lake water to the house for bathing.

The listing is held by Joe and Jacalyn Dussault of Dussault Real Estate.