The Sir Isaac Newton Room

The Sir Isaac Newton Room, purchased for Babson College by Roger Babson's wife Grace in 1937, was installed in the former Sir Isaac Newton Library (now called Tomasso Hall) on the Babson campus in 1939. It consists of the original pine-paneled walls and carved mantel from the fore-parlour of Isaac Newton's house on St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London, where he lived from 1710-1725.  Novelist and diarist Frances Burney describes the room where her parents entertained many interesting guests during their period of owning the house. The room is furnished with original artifacts as well as period reproductions. The Isaac Newton Room is just one component of The Grace K. Babson Collection of Newtonia. 

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