A 1914 Massachusetts mansion built after a high-society scandal is listed for $3.5 million

A Gilded Age mansion built after a scandal that shook early 20th-century American high society has gone on the market for $3.5 million. The estate, known as The Crossways, stands on Adin Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts. The street was once called "Millionaire's Row" because of its many grand homes built by industrialists who ran the town's loom-making empire. The 1914 home covers 10,269 square feet on a 2.36-acre lot. It has 12 bedrooms, six full bathrooms and one half-bathroom, according to listing details published by real estate website Realtor.com.Disowned heir and the chorus girlThe mansion's history is closely tied to a family dispute that made national news in 1907. B.H. Bristow Draper, the son of then-Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Eben S. Draper, ended his engagement to a well-known Boston society heiress and married Queena Sanford, a New York chorus girl. After the marriage, the elder Draper disowned his son and stopped his financial support. Without his family allowance, Bristow Draper took a job at a cotton mill in Vermont, where he worked 10-hour shifts each day. According to newspaper reports from 1909 preserved by local historians, the family made peace after...