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Speaker 1: Between a busy intersection and a gas station in Swampscott

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Speaker 1: is a witness to more than two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: years of history.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the.

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Speaker 3: Last and final home of Revolutionary War veteran General John Glover.

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Nancy Schultz, share of the Swampscott Historical Commission,

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Speaker 1: in front of the General John Glover farmhouse. The war

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Speaker 1: hero retired here after the Revolution, after it was seized

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Speaker 1: from a British loyalist. There's been a campaign to save

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Speaker 1: the dilapidated house from demolition for years now. The Glover

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Speaker 1: just got a little boost.

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Speaker 2: We learned about the donation a couple weeks.

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Speaker 1: Ago, a fifty thousand dollars donation with the promise of

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand more to add to more than three hundred

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Speaker 1: grand already pledged. They're looking for two mil to have

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Speaker 1: a developer preserve the house, and Nancy has some idea.

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Speaker 3: Of what they can do with it, perhaps veterans' offices

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Speaker 3: and maybe a community meeting space.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schaffel to b Busy, Boston's news radio