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165 Federal Street, Unit 1
Samuel Buffum
Glazier
And His Wife Lucretia Buffum
Built c.1766
Researched and written by Connie Barlow
April 2023
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street
(978) 745-0799 / HistoricSalem.org
©2023
�CH A IN OF T IT LE , 1 6 5 FE DE R A L S TRE E T , E SSE X C OU NT Y , SA LE M , M A S SA CH U SE T T S
Date Recorded
[1700
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Edward Flint
Considera�on
Conveyance of
September 13,1766
Thomas Blaney,
shoreman of Salem
Samuel Buffum,
Glazier of Salem
34 pounds.2
shillings,8 pence
May 12,1767
Samuel Buffum of Salem
John Rowe, Esq. of
Boston
April 3,1782
John Rowe, Merchant of
Boston
James E. Tutle,
chairmaker & Abigail his
wife; Daniel Bancro�,
housewright & Sarah his
wife; and Ephraim
Cloutman, tailor all of
Salem
Mary Tutle, widow, of
Salem
Ephraim Emerton of
Salem
Mary Tutle, widow,
of Salem
228 pounds, 4
shillings, 10
pence
330 pounds
“a piece of land in Salem on a
town way lately laid out
commonly called the New
Street…”
“a piece of land…being the same
land sold to Blaney…with the
dwelling house now thereon…
“a piece of land in …Salem…with
dwelling house thereon
“a dwelling and land under and
adjoining, the same lately owned
and occupied by Ephraim
Emerton deceased…on Federal
Street…”
Henry C. Tutle,
physician, of Salem
$800
January 3, 1877
Harry A. Tutle of Salem
Samuel A. MacIn�re
of Salem
$900
May 8, 1878
Harry A Tutle of Salem
Ezra Woodbury of
Salem
$40.98
May 9, 1878
Samuel A. MacIn�re,
atorney of Salem
Ezra Woodbury
$300.13
February 11, 1825
October 6, 1835
$1,000
Source
Map of Salem
from the
Researches of
Sidney Perley
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Document
Map
Book:Page
Deed
117:170
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
121:39
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
139:96
Deed
236:232
“dwelling house and land under
and adjoining the situate by
Federal street so called in
Salem…being the estate formerly
of Ephraim Emmerton and
described in deed…from John
Rowe on land formerly of S.
Buffum . . .”
Total of 4 mortgages held
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
285-67
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
968:170
“land situate in said Salem with
buildings thereon…on Federal
Street”
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
996:184
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
996:185
“in execu�on of the power
contained in said mortgage
deed…sold the premises …by
public auc�on”
Notes
Land along North
River belonging to
Edward Flint]
�CH A IN OF T IT LE , 1 6 5 FE DE R A L S TRE E T , E SSE X C OU NT Y , SA LE M , M A S SA CH U SE T T S
May 16,1925
Lillie Woodbury widow
of Salem
Orville A. L’Heureux
$2,000.00 and
taxes for 1925
January 6,1926
Orville A, L’Heureux ,
unmarried, of Salem
Thomas F. Litle of
Salem
“considera�on
paid “
January 14, 1926
Thomas F. Litle of Salem
John P. Shallow of
Salem
“considera�on
paid”
December 11, 1933
Mary Shallow and John
Shallow, both of Salem
Joseph F. Shallow
and
Edward J. Shallow
both of Salem
June 30, 1944
Joseph F. Shallow and
Edward J. Shallow both
of Salem, being
unmarried
November 10, 1945
“granted to me by Probate court
Essex Co, Registry
of Deeds
Deed
2641:145
Estate of Harrison
O. Woodbury
Essex Co. Registry
of Deedss
Deed
2663:163
Plan BK.45:PL.29-A
Easement over
right -of-way
“with Warranty
Covenants…shown as lot “B” on
plan 45:29
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
2665:319
“considera�on
paid”
“with Warranty
Covenants…shown as lot “B” on
plan 45:29
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
2973:567
Theophile Belleau of
Salem
“considera�on
paid”
“conveyed
subject to taxes
for year 1944”
“with Warranty
Covenants…shown as lot “B” on
plan 45:29
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
3394:413
Theophile Belleau of
Salem
Anna E. Seward of
Salem
“Quitclaim
covenants”
“land with buildings…being
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
3430:336
May 11 1954
John J. Seward
administrator of Estate
of Anna Elvira Seward
Paul C. Malawka and
Jeanete M.
Malawka, husband
and wife, of Salem
$4,750.00
“land in Salem with building
thereon…shown as Lot “B”on
plan dated December 1925”
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
4066:598
March 1, 2000
Jeanete M. Malawka of
Salem
$111,500.00
Land iden�fied as 165 Federal
Street, Salem
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
16224:14
March 31, 2005
Hilario M. Cunha and
Adelaide B. Cunha f/k/a
Adelaide B. Quaresma
Hilario M. Cunha
and Adelaide B.
Quaresma
Patricia A Berking
“Land has benefit
of easement over
Right-of-Way in
common with
…lots A and C
shown on plan”
“Land has benefit
of easement over
Right-of-Way in
common with
…lots A and C
shown on plan”
“Land has benefit
of easement over
Right-of-Way in
common with
…lots A and C
shown on plan”
“Land has benefit
of easement over
Right-of-Way in
common with
…lots A and C
shown on plan”
“Land has benefit
of easement over
Right-of-Way in
common with
…lots A and C
shown on plan”
$426,000.00
“land in Salem with buildings
thereon being shown as Lot B on
plan dated December 1925
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
24128:488
May 12, 1925”
“with Warranty
Covenants…referred to a plan
recorded herewith”
shown as Lot “B” on plan from
1925”
�CH A IN OF T IT LE , 1 6 5 FE DE R A L S TRE E T , E SSE X C OU NT Y , SA LE M , M A S SA CH U SE T T S
July 6, 2005
Patricia A Berking
MASTER DEED FOR 165 FEDERAL
STREET CONDOMINIUM
Conveyance of
165 Federal Street, Unit 1, Salem
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Source
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Master
Deed
Document
Deed
24523:478
Date Recorded
August 3,2005
Grantor(s)
Patricia A. Berking
Grantee(s)
David W. O’Connell
Considera�on
$222,200.00
January 20, 2011
David W. O’Connell of
Salem
Harry A. Prat and
Kathleen M. Prat,
husband and wife
$198,500.00
Unit 1 of The 165 Federal Street
Condominium
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
29495:348
February 24, 2011
Harry A. Prat and
Kathleen M. Prat,
husband and wife
Kathleen M. Prat,
individually
A nominal
amount of less
than One
($1.00) Dollar
$245,000.00
165 Federal Street, Unit #1,
Salem with quitclaim covenants
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
30256:462
April 28, 2017
Kathleen M. Prat, a
widowed woman, of
Salem
Erin Stewart,
individually
165 Federal Street, Unit 1, Salem
With quitclaim covenants
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
35829:118
February 28, 2020
Erin Stewart, an
unmarried woman, of
Salem
Linda Y. Goldstein,
individually, now of
Salem
$310,500.00
Unit No. 1 of the 165 Federal
Street Condominium; conveyed
herewith is the exclusive right to
use the parking space
designated…on the site plan…in
the Master Deed
Essex Co. Registry
of Deeds
Deed
38299:257
Book:Page
24655:310
Notes
Common area
interest
appurtenant ro
unit: 42%
Undivided
percentage
interest of the
unit…42%
Undivided
percentage
interest of the
unit…42%
Undivided
percentage
interest of the
unit…42%
�Detail of Perley Map of Salem 1700, above, showing land owned by Edward Flint along North River where 165
Federal Street is today.
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Samuel Buffum
Glazier
And his Wife Lucretia Buffum
Built c. 1766
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1766
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Massachusetts
Salem
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183 Rear Federal Street
Michael Pitman, tanner
Built by 1831
Researched and written by Leslie Fontaine
October 2022
Historic Salem Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | info@historicsalem.org
© 2022
�183R Federal Street, 1980
(MACRIS SAL.658)
183R Federal Street, 1995
(MACRIS SAL.658)
1
�Federal Street was laid out about 1769; called the new street in 1770, new street laid out near the North
River around 1779, a town way in 1782 and, finally, Federal street by 17941.
The house currently known as 183R Federal Street was originally 103 Federal Street, the houses and
buildings at this address were sometimes referred to as Lummus or Tuttle Court in various city
directories. According to Michael Pitman’s probate record of 1831/1832 he had two workshops on the
property2. By the time Andrew Lunt bought the property in 1832 it was being used as a wheelwright
shop3. At the time of the 1837 Salem City Directory it was still being used as a wheelwright shop by David
Ross. Between 1842 and at least 1853 it continued to mostly be used as a wheelwright shop while also
being occupied as a dwelling house.
By the 1855 Salem City Directory, 103 Federal had been renumbered to 183R Federal, which remains so
numbered to this day. Various members of the Tuttle family have lived in this house for around 105 years
between 1859 and 1964.
183R Federal Street, 1981
(MACRIS SAL.658)
1
Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 7, Pg. 67
Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
3
Adams, G. The Salem directory ... Salem: H. Whipple.
2
2
�SOURCES
3
�1820 Map of Salem
1851 Map of Salem
4
�1874 Atlas of Salem, Plate I
1883 Birds Eye View of Salem
5
�1890 to 1903 Atlas, Plate 27
1897 Atlas, Plate 7
6
�1906 Atlas, Plate 53
1911 Atlas, Plate 14
7
�Michael Pitman Probate Record, 18314
4
Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
8
�Michael Pitman Probate Record 18315
5
Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
9
�Homeowner
Date
Purchased
Willis Tuttle Realty Trust
09/09/1986
Robert J. Metzger
05/31/1984
George J. Dubois & Stephanie M.
Dubois
11/13/1964
Tuttle Family
Elinor R. Tuttle
Edward G. Tuttle
Charles H. Tuttle
Frank A. & Marion R. Gardner
Francis R. Tuttle, Charles H. Tuttle,
Caroline F. Tuttle (single woman),
and Charlotte W. Moore
08/16/1949
05/29/1915
05/10/1915
12/31/1914 &
01/15/1915
11/19/1912
Years of
Number of
Ownership
Years
1984-1986
2
1964-1984
20
1859-1964
105
1949-1964
1915-1949
1915
1914-1915
1912-1914
Purchase Price
$137,000.00
Consideration
paid
Documents
Referenced
Description
8499:234
Master Deed
7423:417
Beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof by other land of mine, thence running
Southeasterly by land now or formerly of Whittridge one hundred (100) feet; thence
running Southwesterly by land now or formerly of Grant sixty-two (62) feet, two (2)
inches; thence running Northwesterly by land now or formerly of Weston et all, one
hundred seventeen (117) feet, two (2) inches; thence running Northwesterly by
other land of mine sixty-two (62) feet, to the point of beginning.
5223:350
Beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof by other land of mine, thence running
Southeasterly by land now or formerly of Whittridge one hundred (100) feet; thence
running Southwesterly by land now or formerly of Grant sixty-two (62) feet, two (2)
inches; thence running Northwesterly by land now or formerly of Weston et all, one
hundred seventeen (117) feet, two (2) inches; thence running Northwesterly by
other land of mine sixty-two (62) feet, to the point of beginning.
3736:580
Running from a point of land of Tuttle, Ninety-eight feet by land now or late of
Whittredge in a Southeasterly direction, thence Southwesterly, Sixty-Two feet, two
inches by land now or late of Grant; thence Northwesterly, one hundred fifteen feet
and two inches by land now or late of Weston et als, thence Northeasterly Sixty-six
feet by the parcel first described.
2299:59
Running from a point of land of Tuttle, Ninety-eight feet by land now or late of
Whittredge in a Southeasterly direction, thence Southwesterly, Sixty-Two feet, two
inches by land now or late of Grant; thence Northwesterly, one hundred fifteen feet
and two inches by land now or late of Weston et als, thence Northeasterly Sixty-six
feet by the parcel first described.
Running from a point of land of Tuttle ninety eight feet by land now or late of
Whittredge in a southeasterly direction, thence Southwesterly sixty two feet, two
inches by land now or late of Grant; thence Northwesterly one hundred fifteen feet
and two inches by land now or late of Weston et als., thence Northeasterly sixty six
feet by the parcel first described (183 Federal - front house)
15
Consideration
paid
34
$1 and other
valuable
consideration
paid
1
$1 and other
valuable
consideration
paid
2293:534
1
$1,339.99 &
$1,253.20
2284:432
(Execution) &
2282:595 (Deed)
2
$1 and other
valuable
consideration
paid
2189:167
Foreclosure - Property taken by sheriff
Being numbered 183 and rear of 183 Federal Street in Salem.
William Tuttle & Emma A. Tuttle
08/01/1859
1859-1912
53
$1,500.00
592:22
Ezra Lummus & Ann Lummus
11/30/1840
1840-1859
19
$1,300.00
321:231
All that real estate situated in the rear of one hundred eighty three Federal Street,
so numbered - consisting of a dwelling house and land with all other buildings
thereon, and bounded as follows - running from a point on land of said Tuttle ninety
eight feet by land now or late of Whittredge in a southeasterly direction, thence
southwesterly sixty-two and two twelths feet by land of Grant thence Northwesterly
one hundred fifteen feet and two twelths feet by land of Weston and others and
thence Northeasterly sixty six feet by land of said Tuttle to the point of starting being as the fences and bound now stand - said real estate being situated in the
rear of One hundred eight three Federal Street.
A certain parcel of land situate in said Salem on Federal Street and bounded as
follows viz. Beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof and running
Southwesterly by Federal Street 70 feet more or less then running Southeasterly on
land of Tuttle, Pitman and Very 212 feet more or less, then running Northeasterly
by land of Stevens 64 feet to land of said Crowninshield, then running
Northwesterly by land of said Crowninshield to the first bound, with the privileges
and appurtenances to the same belonging and the buildings thereon standing,
being the same land which was conveyed to me by Wm E. Hacker, administrator of
the estate of the late Michael Pitman, of said Salem, by his deed dated the 26th
day of May 1832 and recorded Book 265, Leaf 174.
265:174
Situated on Federal Street in said Salem and bounded as follows biz; beginning at
the Northeasterly corner thereof on Federal Street by land of B.W. Crowninshield
and running Southwesterly by Federal Street 70 feet more or less, then running
Southeasterly on land of Tuttle, Johnson, and Proctor 212 feet, more or less, by
land of the heirs of Proctor, then running Northeasterly by land of said heirs of
Proctor 64 feet then running Northwesterly by land of said Crowninshield to the first
bound. Being the same land conveyed to Michael Pitman Book 240, Page 103
Mortgaged on October 17, 1844: 348:237 and discharged: 426:80
240:103
Beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof on Federal Street by land late of
William S. Gray and running Southwesterly by Federal Street 70 feet, then running
Southeasterly on land of Proctor, Johnson, and others 212 feet to land of heirs of
the late Ebenezer Proctor, then running Northeasterly by land of said heirs of the
late Proctor 64 feet to land late of William S. Gray, thence Northwesterly by land
late of said Gray to the first bound.
Andrew Lunt (through
administration of Pitman estate by
William Hacker)
Michael Pitman and Mary
(Bowditch) Pitman
05/26/1832
2/25/1826
1832-1840
1826-1832
8
6
$1,025.00
$500.00
Notes
Front of
property was
sold 10/3/1854
to Tuttle with a
mortgage - 501:
251.
�������������������������������Inventory No:
SAL.658
Historic Name:
Common Name:
Lund, Andrew Wheelwright Shop
Address:
183R Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem;
Local No:
25-123;
Year Constructed:
C 1830
Architectural Style(s):
Federal;
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Shop Other;
Significance:
Architecture; Industry;
Area(s):
SAL.HD
Designation(s):
Local Historic District (03/03/1981);
Building Materials:
Roof: Asphalt Shingle;
Wall: Wood; Wood Shingle;
Demolished
No
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3/3/1981
FORM B - B U I L D I N G
USGS Quad
Area(s)
Salem
HU
Town
658
Salem
Place
(neighborhood or v i l l a g e ) -
Central
Address
Uses:
Salem
183R F e d e r a l
Historic
Street
Name
Present
Residential
Original
Date
Form Number
Possibly
of Construction
Industrial
c. 1830
Source
See B i b l i o g r a p h y *
Style/Form
Federal
Architect/Builder
Exterior
Material:
Foundation
Not V i s i b l e
Wall/Trim
Wooden
Roof
Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary
Shingles/Wood
Shingles
Structures
M a j o r A l t e r a t i o n s (with dates) W i n g o n S
e l e v a t i o n b u i l t (1851-1874); wing on N
e l e v a t i o n added ( l a t e 1 9 t h - e a r l y 20th C ) ;
m o s t t r i m r e p l a c e d , new d o o r f r a m e , wooden
shingle siding applied (mid-late 20th C ? )
Condition
00
/"\
/
Recorded
1
i
/\\
by: Susan
Ceccacci,
Moved
Acreage
Lisa
and Dianne L. S i e r g i e j
Commonweal C o l l a b o r a t i v e
Date:
J u l y 1995
I
no
yes
Date
6,745 S F
Hartmann
Organization:
I
X
Good
|— (
J — |\/[Zr
l — W I w i V LZ U
Setting
S e t behind o t h e r houses on a
narrow row o f f F e d e r a l S t r e e t , i n a
densely-settled, neighborhood of mostly
19th-century residences.
SEP 2 9 1995,
SS. H I S T . C O M M .
�(
BUILDING
183R
FORM
ARCHITECTURAL
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
DESCRIPTION
Describe a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
Street
E v a l u a t e t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h i s b u i l d i n g i n terms of o t h e r b u i l d i n g s
w i t h i n t h e community.
This
2
1/2-story,
chimneys
north
and
a
end.
story
frames
are
form,
paired
chimneys,
Federal
period
windows w e l l
Twentieth
evidence
century
which
HISTORICAL
center-entry,
gable-roofed
Window
center-entry
possible
5-bay,
2-story,
date
molded
of
below the
help
and
eaves
date
NARRATIVE
and
on
the
close
suggests
the
the
house
has
a
south
end
and
window sash
eaves
construction,
alterations to
would
gable-end
wing
trim
but
a
are
the
later
and
are
door
pair
of
interior
another
6/6.
The
on
i n d i c a t i o n s of
placement
rather
frame
of
than
have
the
5-bay,
a
the
second
earlier
date.
eliminated
other
building.
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
D i s c u s s t h e h i s t o r y of t h e b u i l d i n g .
E x p l a i n i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with local (or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
I n c l u d e uses
of t h e b u i l d i n g and t h e r o l e ( s ) t h e owners/occupants p l a y e d w i t h i n t h e community.
The
house
which
at
183R
developed
nineteenth
nearby
c.
dwelling
1830
associated
the
house
Tax
records
(probably
Street
in
residents
Boston
Street.
During
industry
expanded
at
and
leather
the
the
Federal
Federal)
appears
a wheelwright
property.
Federal
In
Street
Street
an
were
1840,
to
the
to
the
in
sold
house
located
the
on
of
site
buildings
from
that
time;
a
when
and
a
land
constructed
Federal)
and
the
period.
L u m m u s , who
Federal)
at
dominate
1830's
183R
the
nineteenth
converted
the
the
Ezra
(183
mid-
curriers in
industrial
have been
front
unfinished
and
early
shop d u r i n g
Lund
Street
and
rapidly to
late
blacksmith,
(directly
early
were tanners
economy by
Street
housed
indicate that
183R
local
Federal
183
183
on
Federal
i n the
in
1841.
shop
e a c h was
valued
$2,000.
William
the
owned
with
upper
the
of
183R
on
Many o f
building that
Andrew Lund
at
at
i s located
neighborhood
shoe
sector
Street
residential
district
Salem's
manufacturing
The
a
century.
leather
century,
Federal
as
Tuttle
first
Tuttles
the
purchased
appeared
rented
family
BIBLIOGRAPHY
at
the
the
at
least until
and/or
Salem.
*King,
Inc.,
city
house
Salem,
Salem
Beers,
the
in
1854.
The
d i r e c t o r y as
183R
Federal
middle
of
a
as
the
property
dwelling
a
duplex.
twentieth
at
183R
i n 1872.
The
Federal
I t
seems
dwelling
stayed
century.
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
X
REFERENCES
Massachusetts
for
property
i n the
Historical
Commission Reconnaissance
Survey
Report
1985.
Joyce,
Research
Massachusetts,
Directories,
D.
G.
&
Report:
183
February
Federal
Street,
Historic
Salem
1987.
1837-1946.
Company,
Atlas
of
Essex
County,
Massachusetts,
1872.
Hopkins,
G.
M.
Mclntyre,—Hsory
Recommended
for
&
Co.,
C.
listing
Atlas
E.,
i n the
Map
of
of
Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s ,
the
National
City
of
Register
Salem,
of
Mass,
Historic
1874.
1851.
Places;
�I f c h e c k e d , s e e a t t a c h e d N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement form.
INVENTORY
FORM C O N T I N U A T I O N
SHEET
Salem
183R
Area
BIBLIOGRAPHY
and/or
REFERENCES
Richards,
L. J . ,
HU
Street
F o r m No.
658
(continued)
Atlas
of the City
o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . ,
1897.
S a n b o r n Map Company, S a n b o r n F i r e I n s u r a n c e M a p s o f S a l e m ,
M a s s a c h u s e t t s 1 8 9 0 New Y o r k , S a n b o r n M a p C o . , 1 8 9 0 .
S a n b o r n Map Company, S a n b o r n F i r e I n s u r a n c e Map o f S a l e m , M a s s . ,
1 9 0 6 , New Y o r k , S a n b o r n M a p C o . , 1 9 0 6 .
1906
S a n b o r n Map Company, S a n b o r n F i r e I n s u r a n c e Map
t o F e b . , 1 9 5 0 , New Y o r k , S a n b o r n M a p C o . , 1 9 5 0 .
Salem,
Walker L i t h o g r a p h and P u b l i s h i n g
M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1911.
Company,
Atlas
o f Salem,
Mass.,
of the City
of
�6 5 8
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ption:
irce
i n r e l a t i o n to n e a r e s t c r o s s s t r e e t s a n d
other b u i l d i n g s . Indicate north.
Exterior wall fabric \ K X A ,
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X
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Date
Moved
Date
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One a c r e o r l e s s
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A p p r o x i m a t e frontage
QPAO^
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Organization ^ g f ^ y s x ^ ^ \ g ^ \ Q G & C b f O
Date
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known)
O r i g i n a l use
S u b s e q u e n t u s e s ( i f any) a n d d a t e s
8. T h e m e s ( c h e c k a s m a n y a s
Aboriginal
Agricultural
Architectural
The A r t s
Commerce
C ommunication
Community development
9. H i s t o r i c a l s i g n i f i c a n c e
applicable)
Conservation
Education
Exploration/
settlement
Industry
Military
Political
Recreation
Religion
Science/
invention
Social/
humanitarian
Transportation
( i n c l u d e e x p l a n a t i o n of t h e m e s c h e c k e d a b o v e )
1
10. B i b l i o g r a p h y and/or r e f e r e n c e s (such as l o c a l h i s t o r i e s , deeds,
early maps,
etc.)
assessor's
records,
�Inventory No:
SAL.657
Historic Name:
Pitman, Michael - Lummus, Ezra
House
Common Name:
Tuttle, William House
Address:
183 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem;
Local No:
25-122;
Year Constructed:
1841
Architectural Style(s):
Federal; Greek Revival;
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House;
Significance:
Architecture;
Area(s):
SAL.HD
Designation(s):
Local Historic District (03/03/1981);
Building Materials:
Roof: Asphalt Shingle;
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard;
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut;
Demolished
No
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FORM B - B U I L D I N G
USGS Quad
Assessor's
Area(s)
Form Number
Number
Salem
25-122
HU
657
Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission
Massachusetts Archives B u i l d i n g
220 M o r r i s s e y B o u l e v a r d
Boston, Massachusetts
02125
Town
Place
Salem
(neighborhood
or v i l l a g e )
Central
183
Salem
Federal
Street
Michael
Pitman/
E z r a Lumus House
Residential
c.
See
|Form
1826-1831
Bibliography*
Federal/Greek
Revival
ect/Builder
or
Material:
Granite
Wall/Trim
Clapboard/Wood
Roof
Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary
Major
Alterations
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded
by:
Organization:
Susan Ceccacci and
Dianne L. S i e r g i e j
Commonweal C o l l a b o r a t i v e
Date:
July
1995
O
r ~ fs
f l t
U
SEP
f
t
VE
2 9
\m
X
Shingles
Structures
(with dates)
Good
no
yes
Date
6,030 S F
Setting
Set close t o t h e sidewalk behind
a narrow s t r i p o f land enclosed by
granite post and i r o n fence, i n a denselys e t t l e d , neighborhood
o f mostly 1 8 t h&
19th century r e s i d e n c e s .
�B U I L D I N G FORM
183
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
Federal
Street
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
E v a l u a t e t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h i s b u i l d i n g i n terms of o t h e r b u i l d i n g s
w i t h i n t h e community.
This 2
both a
situate
likely
molded
1/2-story,
5-bay, c e n t e r - e n t r y , g a b l e - e n d house i s 3 bays
2 - s t o r y and a 1 - s t o r y , r e a r e l l .
A p a i r of i n t e r i o r , end
d on t h e f r o n t s l o p e o f t h e r o o f .
Because of t h e i r p o s i t i
t h a t a n o t h e r p a i r o n c e e x i s t e d on t h e r e a r s l o p e .
Window
and window sash a r e
6/6.
deep w i t h
chimneys are
o n , i t seems
frames are
Elements consonant w i t h a Federal period date of c o n s t r u c t i o n are the
t r a d i t i o n a l , f i v e - b a y , c e n t e r - e n t r y form, p a i r e d chimneys, c l o s e eaves, s l i m
c o r n i c e and s e c o n d s t o r y windows s e t d i r e c t l y under t h e e a v e s .
The
handsome
p i l a s t e r / a r c h i t r a v e / c o r n i c e door frame of the main entrance
suggests
t r a n s i t i o n a l Federal/Greek
Revival period date (1830's-1840's).
I t h a s some
of the w e i g h t i n e s s of the Greek R e v i v a l s t y l e , e s p e c i a l l y i n the c o r n i c e , but
r e t a i n s t h e s h o r t s i d e l i g h t s and o v e r a l l s l i m m e r p r o p o r t i o n s c h a r a c t e r i s t i c o f
the Federal
style.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
X
D i s c u s s t h e h i s t o r y of t h e b u i l d i n g .
o f t h e b u i l d i n g and
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
E x p l a i n i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with l o c a l (or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
Include
uses
t h e r o l e ( s ) t h e owners/occupants p l a y e d w i t h i n t h e community.
T h i s h o u s e s t a n d s d i r e c t l y i n f r o n t t h e d w e l l i n g a t 183R
Federal Street
(see
F o r m No.
658).
T h e l o t s o n w h i c h b o t h 183 a n d 183R
a r e l o c a t e d seem t o have
b e e n p a r t o f a s i n g l e p a r c e l t h a t was s u b d i v i d e d f r o m t h e W i l l i a m S h e p a r d G r a y
p r o p e r t y ( s e e 1 7 7 - 1 7 9 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , F o r m No. 655)
i n 1818.
The f i r s t h o u s e
o n t h a t l o t may
h a v e b e e n t h a t a t 183 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , p r o b a b l y b u i l t b e t w e e n
1826
and 1832
d u r i n g the ownership of Michael Pitman, tanner.
Pitman also
o w n e d t h e h o u s e a c r o s s t h e s t r e e t a t 180 F e d e r a l S t r e e t a n d t h e a d j o i n i n g
tannery
( S e e F o r m No.
611).
P i t m a n b o u g h t a v a c a n t l o t f o r $500 i n 1826
and
s o l d t h e p r o p e r t y t o Andrew Lunt, wheelwright,
i n 1832
f o r $1025, more t h a n
twice his purchase price.
E x i s t i n g data leaves u n c l e a r what b u i l d i n g s e x i s t e d
o n t h e l o t w h e n i t was s o l d i n 1832.
R e s e a r c h o f t h e 1832
d e e d may
provide
additional information.
A c o m p a r i s o n o f d e t a i l i n g on t h e
1 8 3 F e d e r a l S t r e e t may
have been
The w e l l - p r e s e r v e d , F e d e r a l d e t a i
d o o r f r a m e a t 183 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
two d w e l l i n g s s u g g e s t s t h e h o u s e a t
b u i l t e a r l i e r t h a n t h e one a t
183R.
l i n g and t r a n s i t i o n a l F e d e r a l / G r e e k
Revival
s u g g e s t a c. 1830 d a t e o f c o n s t r u c t i o n .
The l e s s w e l l - p r e s e r v e d h o u s e a t 183R ^ F e d e r a l S t r e e t i s m o r e d i f f i c u l t t o
because of the s c a r c i t y of o r i g i n a l t r i m .
Placement of i t s second f l o o r
window frames a good d i s t a n c e from the eaves i n d i c a t e s a l a t e r date
of c o n s t r u c t i o n .
V i s u a l a s s e s s m e n t o f t h e a r c h i t e c t u r e and deed r e s e a r c h
i m p l i e s 1 8 3 R may
h a v e b e e n b u i l t b e t w e e n 1840 and
1858.
date
The
original,
when
183
Federal
BIBLIOGRAPHY
l a r g e r l o t was
Street
was
and/or
Recommended
subdivided
s o l d by
REFERENCES
for
listing
Ezra
X
i n the
into
two
separate
Lummus, a b l a c k s m i t h ,
parcels
to
i n 1858
William
Tuttle
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
National
Register
of
I f c h e c k e d , see a t t a c h e d N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement form.
Historic
Places;
�INVENTORY
FORM C O N T I N U A T I O N
SHEET
Salem
183
Area
HISTORICAL
NARRATIVE
HU
Federal
Street
F o r m No.
657
(continued)
of Salem.
T h i s d i v i s i o n suggests t h a t both houses were s t a n d i n g by t h a t date.
The d w e l l i n g a t 183 F e d e r a l S t r e e t r e m a i n e d i n t h e T u t t l e f a m i l y u n t i l i t was
s o l d t o R o b e r t E. W a r n e r i n 1 9 6 8 . More r e c e n t o w n e r s a r e l i s t e d i n t h e
r e s e a r c h r e p o r t by Joyce K i n g f o r H i s t o r i c Salem, I n c .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Salem
and/or
REFERENCES
*King, Joyce,
I n c . , Salem,
Research Report:
Massachusetts.
183 F e d e r a l S t r e e t ,
1987,
Historic
* B a i l e y , P. a n d W a l s h , K.,
Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l
Commission
S u r v e y F o r m B, N o . 6 1 3 , 1 8 3 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , S a l e m , M a r c h 3 0 , 1 9 7 8 .
Beers,
D.
G.
& Company,
Atlas
of Essex
County,
Massachusetts,
1872.
H o p k i n s , G. M. & C o . ,
A t l a s o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1874.
M c l n t y r e , H e n r y C. E . ,
Map o f t h e C i t y o f S a l e m , M a s s , 1 8 5 1 .
R i c h a r d s , L. J . , A t l a s o f t h e C i t y o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . ,
1897.
Salem,
Walker L i t h o g r a p h and P u b l i s h i n g
Massachusetts, 1911.
Company,
Atlas
of the City
of
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SALEM
183 FEDERAL ST
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.657
SAL.HD, SAL.HU
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applicable)
Aboriginal
Agricultural
Architectural
The A r t s
Commerce
Communication
Community development
Conservation
Education
Exploration/
settlement
Industry
Military
Political
Recreation
Religion
Science/
invention
Social/
humanitarian
Transportation
9. H i s t o r i c a l s i g n i f i c a n c e ( i n c l u d e e x p l a n a t i o n of t h e m e s c h e c k e d a b o v e )
The l o t of land that t h i s house now stands on was owned
by W i l l i a m Sheppard Gray u n t i l 1818 when he f l e d Salem
(see H i s t o r i c a l s i g n i f i c a n c e on #177-179 Federal St.)
The Amesbury N a i l Factory Co. then owned t h i s l o t u n t i l i t
was s o l d to Michael Pitman, tanner i n 1826 f o r $500 (240:103).
Pitman b u i l t the e x i s t i n g house i n about 1830 and then sold the
property f o r $1025 to Andrew Lunt, wheelwright, i n 1832 (265:174)
Lunt b u i l t a shop on the land i n 1834 worth $400, and i n 1840
the land, house, and shop were sold to Ezra Lummus f o r $1300
(321:231).
W i l l i a m T u t t l e bought the property i n about I860 from
Lummus, and he owned i t u n t i l at l e a s t 1897.
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183R Federal Street, Salem, MA, 01970
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Michael Pitman, tanner
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1831
183R Federal Street
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John Huse House
169 Federal Street
Built c. 1842
for John Huse, currier
and Lydia Dale Huse, wife
Researched and written by Dan Graham
March 2022
�April 1978, source: MACRIS SAL.651
July 1995, source: MACRIS SAL.651
�June 2017, source: MACRIS SAL.651
�As noted in the MACRIS report for this home, this 2 ½-story, 5-bay, center-entry house is
2 bays deep with a wing on the south side. The only visible ornamental element is the fine,
Italianate gabled overdoor with returns on scroll brackets. Window frames and all eave trim,
cornice and gable returns are covered with aluminum siding. Fenestration consists of 6/6,
double-hung sash.
The John Huse House is located on upper Federal Street which developed as a
residential neighborhood in the early to mid-nineteenth century. Many of the residents were
tanners and curriers in the nearby leather district on Boston Street. During the early nineteenth
century, Salem’s shoe and leather industry expanded rapidly to dominate the manufacturing
sector of the local economy by the late industrial period.
The MACRIS report suggests that John Huse (b. March 25, 1800, Sanbornton, New
Hampshire; d. January 12, 1881), a currier at 59 Boston Street in Salem, built this house and the
house at 171 Federal Street circa 1845, having purchased the corner lot from Ezra and Cynthia
Northey on June 17, 1836 for $850 (bk 291, pg 14). City directories have John Huse living at the
property earlier than 1845, however; as early as 1842 based on research conducted as part of
this report. Huse married Lydia Dale Huse (b. Mass ~1803-1805, d. February 12, 1877) on
September 13, 1827 in Danvers, MA after establishing intent to marry on August 26, 1827 in
Beverly, MA. Among their descendants are daughter, Hannah (b. 1834 approximately), Mary
Huse Perkins (d. September 3, 1895), son-in-law Joseph S. Perkins (postmaster), and grandson,
John Perkins.
As noted above, Huse also owned 171 Federal Street nextdoor, and is said to have
completed work on that house around the time this 169 Federal property was sold in 1850. In
�1860, 171 Federal Street was occupied by John Huse, age 60; his wife, Lydia Dale Huse, age 56;
his daughter Hannah; his married daughter, Mary Huse Perkins; her husband, Joseph S. Perkins,
postmaster; and their four-year-old son, John Perkins. Joseph Perkins was the son of Mary
(Parrott) Perkins and a direct descendant of Francis Ingalls, one of the settlers of Lynn, and was
a currier for 50 years and Postmaster of Salem from 1858 to 1860. He was for many years a
member of the Democratic State Committee and served one year on the Salem Board of
Aldermen. The MACRIS report for 171 Federal suggests that Huse owned that property as early
as 1837. He was successful at his business and acquired his own tanyard and erected a shop
around 1840 on Boston Street. (According to John’s will dated 1879, he had two “currying
shops” on Boston Street which he left to his grandson. The will is included in this report.) In
1851 he is said to have improved the basically Greek Revival house to its present, somewhat
Italianate appearance, increasing the value of the homestead from $2200 to $3000.
In 1850, James Braden, a tanner and currier at 47 Boston (in 1853), purchased 169
Federal for $2,850. During Braden’s ownership, other tenants included Josiah Dewing (a
captain), William Roberts (who worked as a mason and colorer), and Lydia Webb (a boarder):
these individuals all feature in the 1855 directory. James Braden is shown as still occupying the
home in 1866, the year in which he sold the property to Mary Millett (wife of Joseph Hardy
Millett). Apparently, Braden had become a successful manufacturer in the leather industry, and
built a fine house across the street (170 Federal) in 1867. For an expansive history of Braden’s
life, see Robert Booth’s excellent report below, which featured as part of the house history for
170 Federal St.
�According to city directories and Salem atlases, the street numbers on Federal Street
were altered at some point between 1864 and 1874. The Historic Salem house history for 171
Federal Street dates this alteration earlier--in 1855--though residents’ addresses in city
directories conflict with that information.
In 1872, Mary Millett sold the 169 Federal Street house to James Silver Newhall (b. Aug
13, 1843, d. Sep 21, 1918) and his wife Marion Wentworth Clarke Newhall (b. Mar 7 1853, d.
Feb 3, 1928), who retained the property until 1890 when Mary J. Saunders purchased it. Several
members of the Saunders family lived in the house into the twentieth century. The women
were dressmakers, who at one point ran their business out of the home. Most of the male
family members living at the property were employed as curriers and shoemakers. The house
remained in the Saunders family well into the twentieth century. Indeed the deed history for
this home jumps from 1890 to 1995, suggesting a rather pronounced longevity within the
Saunders family before the Charettes gained ownership in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Thus the
property is striking for its relatively small number of owners across nearly two centuries.
Extensive history of the Huse family features in North America, Family Histories, 15002000, included in the source documents below. His father enlisted to fight in the Revolutionary
War several times, and was notably at West Point during the discovery of Benedict Arnold’s
treason (see screenshots of family history pages below). Huse’s 1881 obituary reads as follows:
Mr. John Huse died on Thursday morning in his 81st year. He was a tanner and currier, actively engaged in
business, until, within a few years, he retired in failing health. He was a man of strict integrity, and always
enjoyed the highest respect and confidence of the community. He was an Engineer of the Fire Dept. from
1847 to 1857, and Chief Engineer in 1856 and 1857; a member of the common Council in 1858; an
Overseer of the Poor from 1858 to 1873, and for many years a Director in the Mercantile National Bank.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church. The flags of the different companies of the Fire Dept. were
displayed at half-mast in respect to the ex-Chief and the funeral on Saturday afternoon was very
numerously attended by the late associates of the deceased.
�The closest match found to Mary J. Saunders suggests she was born in 1836 and died in
1914, and is buried in Locust Grove Cemetery in Gloucester. No other Mary J. Saunders is
buried in Massachusetts. Her parents were William Wilkins and Ruth Charlton. Mary married
Edward H. Saunders. The next known owner of the property was Ellen Saunders, from whom
Robert C. Lane inherited the premises (see Essex Probate No. 223706).
Mary J Saunders grave marker, Locust Grove Cemetery, Gloucester, MA
�Mary J. Saunders death certificate, 1913
�Deaths registered in Salem (1881), showing John Huse, line 16
�����John Huse and Lydia Dale House are buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery.
�Image of James Newhall, who owned the property from 1850-1866: https://www.ancestry.com/mediauiviewer/tree/181821493/person/432362893603/media/0440e994-c16c-4663-97e4-162be38303c9?usePUBJs=true
�Grave marker of Robert C. Lane (who owned the property throughout the twentieth century), Saint Mary’s
Cemetery, Peabody, MA.
�Owner
Years of
Ownership
Number
of Years
Purchase Price
Ezra Northey
Cynthia Northey
John Huse
James Braden
Mary Millett
James Newhall
Marion W Newhall
Mary J Saunders
Ellen Saunders
Robert C Lane
Roland Charette
Heather Blake
Jason Charette
Virginia Charette
Roland Charette
Jason Charette
Virginia Charette
Jason Charette
Virginia Charette
Evergrain Orchard LLC
Brian Peters
Alicia Peters
1836
1
--
Document
Referenced
(Book-Page)
291-15
1837-1850
1850-1866
1866-1872
1872-1890
13
16
6
18
$850
$2,850
$4,000
$4,800
291-15
436-45
702-86
849-185
1890-1995
105
1284-281
12880-503
1995-2003
8
$1 and other
valuable
considerations
$125,000
2003-2018
15
Less than $100
20394-396
2018-2021
3
---
2021
2021-present
1
1
$400,000
$735,000
37034-568
37045-137
39796-302
40364-003
12880-503
�Residents
John Huse, currier
Directory Year
1842-1851
James Braden, currier
1853
Josiah Dewing, captain
William Roberts, mason and
colorer
Lydia Webb, boarder
Josiah Dewing
1855
1857, 1864
James Braden, tanner currier
1866
Joseph H Millett Jr.
Mrs. Joseph H Millett
Edward A Millett
1869
1872
James Newhall, tanner currier
1874
P Henry Devine
1876, 1878
Robert W Wilet
Catharine F Abbott
1881-1886
Jeremiah Saunders
James H Murphy
1890-1900
Mrs M A Saunders
E F Saunders (likely Eugene F)
Ellen Saunders, dressmaker
Joseph B Saunders, lawyer
Ellen F Saunders
1901-02
1906-1931
Directory Notes
Huse was a currier at 59
Boston St. The house was still
identified as 93 Federal
during this time.
Braden was a currier at 47
Boston St. The house was still
identified as 93 Federal
during this time.
The house was still identified
as 93 Federal during this
time.
The house was still identified
as 93 Federal at this time.
This is the first time that 169
Federal is identified.
Newhall worked at 65 Boston
Street.
Devine sold ale and liquors at
3 High Street and 23 Front
Street.
Abbott was identified as a
resident beginning in 18821883
Murphy is only identified as a
resident in 1890-1891
Ellen is only identified as a
resident in 1931.
1933-34
1936, 1937, 1946
Note: Available Salem City Directories span 1837-1964. All currently accessible City Directories were consulted.
Some years were not available at the time of research.
�LHD
3/3/1981
FORM B - B U I L D I N G
Assessor's
USGS Quad
Area(s)
Form Number
Number
Salem
Town
HU
Salem
Place
(neighborhood or v i l l a g e )
Central
Address
169
Historic
Uses:
Date
651
Name
Salem
Federal
John
Huse
House
Present
Residential
Original
"
of Construction
Street
c. 1845
Source
See
Style/Form
Greek
Bibliography*
Revival/Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior
Material:
Foundation
Granite
Wall/Trim
Aluminum
Roof
Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary
Siding
Shingles
Structures
M a j o r A l t e r a t i o n s (with dates) A d d i t i o n s
the S end (1851-1874)
Condition
Moved
n 105
2Mt.
Acreage
way
Recorded by: Susan Ceccacci,
L i s a Hartmann
and D i a n n e L. S i e r g i e j
Organization:
Commonweal
Collaborative
Date:
J u l y 1995
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n
L
U
C
l
V L . U
X
on
Good
no
yes
Date
5.069 SF
Setting
Se t on narrow l o t close t o
sidewalk behind a narrow, landscaped plot
enclosed with chain l i n k fence i n a
d e n s e l y - s e t t l e d n e ig h b o r h o o d o f m o s t l y
1 9 t hcentury
r e siiddee n c e s .
SEP 2 9 1995
MkSS. HIST. CCJW
�BUILDING
169
FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe
a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
Federal
Street
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
Evaluate
t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f t h i s b u i l d i n g i n terms o f o t h e r
buildings
w i t h i n t h e community.
T h i s 2 1 / 2 - s t o r y , 5-bay, c e n t e r - e n t r y house i s 2 bays deep a n d w i t h a w i n g
on t h e s o u t h s i d e .
The o n l y v i s i b l e ornamenta l element i s t h e f i n e ,
I t a l i a n a t e gabled overdoor with returns on s c r o l l brackets.
Window f r a m e s
and a l l e a v e t r i m , c o r n i c e and g a b l e r e t u r n s a r e c o v e r e d w i t h aluminum s i d i n g .
F e n e s t r a t i o n c o n s i s t s o f 6/6, d o u b l e - h u n g s a s h .
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
t h e h i s t o r y of the b u i l d i n g .
E x p l a i n i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with
local
(or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
Include
uses
of t h e b u i l d i n g and t h e r o l e ( s ) t h e owners/occupant s p l a y e d w i t h i n t h e community.
The J o h n H u s e H o u s e i s l o c a t e d o n u p p e r F e d e r a l S t r e e t w h i c h d e v e l o p e d
r e s i d e n t i a l neighborhood i n t h e early t o mid-nineteenth century.
Many
the r e s i d e n t s were tanners and c u r r i e r s i n t h e nearby l e a t h e r d i s t r i c t
Boston Street.
D u r i n g t h e e a r l y nineteenth century, Salem's shoe and
i n d u s t r y expanded r a p i d l y t o dominate t h e manufacturing s e c t o r o f t h e
economy b y t h e l a t e i n d u s t r i a l p e r i o d .
as a
of
on
leather
local
J o h n H u s e , a c u r r i e r a t 59 B o s t o n S t r e e t i n S a l e m , b u i l t t h i s h o u s e a n d t h e
h o u se a t 171 F e d e r a l S t r e e t c. 1845. I n 1850, James B r a d e n , a t a n n e r a n d
c u r r i e r , p u r c h a s e d t h e house f o r $2,850.
He s o l d i t t o M a r y M i l l e t t i n 1 8 6 6 .
H a v i n g become a s u c c e s s f u l m a n u f a c t u r e r i n t h e l e a t h e r i n d u s t r y , B r a d e n b u i l t
a f i n e h o u s e a t 170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t ( s e eForm No. 616) t h e n e x t
year.
I n 1 8 7 2 , M a r y M i l l e t t s o l d t h e 1 6 9 F e d e r a l S t r e e t h o u s e t o J a m e s S. N e w a l l ,
who
r e t a i n e d t h e p r o p e r t y u n t i l 1890 when Mary J . S a u n d e r s p u r c h a s e d i t .
S e v e r a l members o f t h e S a u n d e r s f a m i l y l i v e d i n t h e house.
T h e women w e r e
d r e s s m a k e r s , who a t o n e p o i n t , r a n t h e i r b u s i n e s s o u t o f t h e home.
Most o f
t h e m a l e f a m i l y members l i v i n g a t t h e p r o p e r t y were e m p l o y e d a s c u r r i e r s
and s h o e m a k e r s .
The house remained i n t h e Saunders f a m i l y u n t i l t h e
mid-twentieth
century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
X
and/or
Recommended
REFERENCES
f o rl i s t i n g
If checked, see attached
X
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
i nthe National
Register
of Historic
N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement f o r m.
Places;
�INVENTORY
FORM C O N T I N U A T I O N
SHEET
169
Area
BIBLIOGRAPHY
and/or
HU
Federal
Form
Salem
Street
No.
651
REFERENCES
B o s t o n E v e n i n g T r a n s c r i p t . F e b r u a r y 26, 1895.
* C a m p b e l l , Dan.
M a s s a c h u s e t t s H i s t o r i c a l C o m m i s s i o n S u r v e y F o r m B.
No. 6 5 1 , 169 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , S a l e m , M a s s a c h u s e t t s .
A p r i l 3, 1 9 7 8 ,
( i n c l u d e s deed r e s e a r c h ) .
Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission, Reconnaissance Survey Report:
Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1985.
Salem D i r e c t o r i e s , 1842-1965.
T o l l e s , B r y a n t F . , J r . a n d T o l l e s , C a r o l y n K.
Architecture i n
Salem: An I l l u s t r a t e d Guide. (Salem, Mass.: Essex I n s t i t u t e , 1983)
Beers,
D.
G.
& Company,
Atlas
of Essex
County,
Massachusetts,
1872.
H o p k i n s , G. M. & C o . ,
A t l a s o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1874.
M c l n t y r e , H e n r y C. E . ,
Map o f t h e C i t y o f S a l e m , M a s s , 1 8 5 1 .
R i c h a r d s , L. J . , A t l a s o f t h e C i t y o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . ,
1897.
S a n b o r n F i r e I n s u r a n c e Company, S a l e m , M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1 8 9 0 , 1 9 0 6 ,
1906/51.
W a l k e r L i t h o g r a p h a n d P u b l i s h i n g Company,
Atlas of the City of
Salem, Massachusetts, 1911.
and
�Inventory No:
SAL.616
Historic Name:
Braden, James House
Common Name:
Address:
170 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem;
Local No:
25-71;
Year Constructed:
C 1867
Architectural Style(s):
Italianate;
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House;
Significance:
Architecture;
Area(s):
SAL.HD
Designation(s):
Local Historic District (03/03/1981);
Building Materials:
Roof: Asphalt Shingle;
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard; Wood Flushboard;
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut;
Demolished
No
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FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's
Area(s)
USGS Quad
Form Number
Number
Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission
Massachusetts A r c h i v e s B u i l d i n g
220 M o r r i s s e y B o u l e v a r d
Boston, M a s s a c h u s e t t s 02125
25-71
Salem
HU
Salem
Town
Place
616
(neighborhood
or v i l l a g e )
C e n t r a l Salem
170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
James Braden House
Residential
Wall/Trim
Wood t r e a t e d as a s h l a r
(facade), Clapboard (Side elevations)/Wood
Asphalt Shingles
Roof
O u t b u i l d i n g s / S e c o n d a r y S t r u c t u r e s 1-bay
r o c k f a c e d cement b l o c k garage w i t h a
s l a t e , h i p r o o f ( e a r l y 20th C.)
Major A l t e r a t i o n s
(with dates)
Condition
Good
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by: Susan C e c c a c c i , L i s a Hartmann
and Dianne L. S i e r g i e j
O r g a n i z a t i o n : Commonweal C o l l a b o r a t i v e
Date:
J u l y 1995
3: NI§T:
X
no
yes
Date
8,192 SF
S e t t i n g S e t c l o s e t o t h e s i d e w a l k behind
a s m a l l , landscaped e n c l o s e d by a 19th C.
c a s t i r o n fence i n a d e n s e l y - s e t t l e d ,
neighborhood o f m o s t l y 1 9 t h - c e n t u r y
residences.
mm . .
�[
BUILDING FORM
170
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe
a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
See
Evaluate
continuation
Federal
Street
sheet.
t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h i s b u i l d i n g i n terms of o t h e r
buildings
w i t h i n t h e community.
This two-and-a-half-story,
t h r e e - b a y , c e n t e r - e n t r y , h i p - r o o f e d house i s t h r e e
bays deep and i s s e t on a h i g h stone basement. A one s t o r y e l l i s a t t a c h e d t o
t h e r e a r . C e n t r a l emphasis i s c r e a t e d by the segmented-arched r e c e s s e d e n t r y
w i t h a l a r g e , h i g h l y - o r n a m e n t e d overdoor on s c r o l l b r a c k e t s s u p p o r t i n g a
r e c t a n g u l a r bay window above i t a t t h e second f l o o r l e v e l .
T h i s house i s n o t a b l e f o r i t s p r o f u s e , h i g h - q u a l i t y ornament i n t h e I t a l i a n a t e
style.
I t a l i a n a t e features includ e the square-plan, h i p roof, broad,
b r a c k e t e d eaves w i t h a shaped f r i e z e and l i n k e d - a r c h - w i t h - d e n t i l ornament,
p r o j e c t i n g c o r n i c e window caps on b r a c k e t s , c o r n i c e w i t h l u n e t t e window caps
on b r a c k e t s , faux a s h l a r wood facade and c o r n e r q u o i n s . An o u t s t a n d i n g
I t a l i a n a t e element i s t h e e l a b o r a t e overdoor w i t h pendants on l a r g e , heavy,
s c r o l l b r a c k e t s and h i g h l y - o r n a m e n t ed b r a c k e t e d eaves. P a r t of t h e same
element i s t h e r e c t a n g u l a r bay window above i t w i t h p a n e l l e d p i l a s t e r s , Roman
a r c h e d windows w i t h k e y s t o n e s , and t h e same r i c h l y - o r n a m e n t e d , eave c o r n i c e as
seen on t h e o v e r d o o r .
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss
See
t h e h i s t o r y of the b u i l d i n g .
of t h e b u i l d i n g and
continuation
sheet.
Explain i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with
t h e r o l e ( s ) the owners/occupant s p l a y e d
l o c a l (or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
Include
uses
w i t h i n t h e community.
The James Braden House i s l o c a t e d on upper F e d e r a l S t r e e t w h i c h d e v e l o p e d as a
r e s i d e n t i a l neighborhood i n the e a r l y and m i d - n i n e t e e n t h c e n t u r y .
Many of t h e
r e s i d e n t s were t a n n e r s and c u r r i e r s i n the nearby l e a t h e r d i s t r i c t on
B o s t o n S t r e e t . D u r i n g t h e e a r l y n i n e t e e n t h c e n t u r y , Salem's shoe and l e a t h e r
i n d u s t r y expanded r a p i d l y , becoming t h e dominant m a n u f a c t u r i n g c o n c e r n by t h e
late i n d u s t r i a l period.
Around 1867, James Braden b u i l t t h i s I t a l i a n a t e house at 170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t on
a p l o t w h i c h a t t h e t i m e bordere d t h e N o r t h R i v e r . The new house was
c o n s t r u c t e d on t h e s i t e of an o l d e r d w e l l i n g . In 1868, t h e house was v a l u e d
at $8,000, a c o n s i d e r a b l e amount i n t h i s neighborhood of modest houses.
Braden had l i v e d a t 169 F e d e r a l S t r e e t f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s (see Form No.
651)
b e f o r e b u i l d i n g h i s new house. He was a t a n n e r and c u r r i e r who d e v e l o p e d a
s u c c e s s f u l company l o c a t e d at 67 Boston S t r e e t . A prominent member of t h e
community, Braden served on t h e Board o f . D i r e c t o r s a t t h e Merchants N a t i o n a l
Bank. A f t e r James Braden's death i n 1895, Braden's widow moved out of
t h e house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
X
See
continuation
sheet.
B o s t o n E v e n i n g T r a n s c r i p t . February 26, 1895.
M a s s a c h u s e t t s H i s t o r i c a l Commission Reconnaissanc e Survey Report
f o r Salem. 1985.
B o s t o n E v e n i n g T r a n s c r i p t . February 26, 1895.
Recommended f o r l i s t i n g i n the N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r of H i s t o r i c P l a c e s ;
I f c h e c k e d , see a t t a c h e d
N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement form.
�I
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
Salem
170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
A r e a HU
Form No. 616
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued)
M a s s a c h u s e t t s H i s t o r i c a l Commission Reconnaissance Survey R e p o r t
f o r Salem. 1985.
* B a i l e y , P a u l a and Walsh, Karen. M a s s a c h u s e t t s H i s t o r i c a l
Commission Survey Form. 170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , Salem. No. 616.
March 30, 1978.
Salem D i r e c t o r i e s , 1851-1901/02.
B e e r s , D. G. & Company, A t l a s o f Essex County, M a s s a c h u s e t t s ,
1872.
H o p k i n s , G. M. & Co., A t l a s o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1874.
M c l n t y r e , Henry C. E., Map o f t h e C i t y o f Salem, Mass, 1851.
R i c h a r d s , L. J . , A t l a s o f t h e C i t y o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . ,
1897.
Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn F i r e I n s u r a n c e Maps o f Salem,
M a s s a c h u s e t t s 1890 New York, Sanborn Map Co., 1890.
Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn F i r e I n s u r a n c e Map o f Salem, Mass.,
1906, New York, Sanborn Map Co., 1906.
Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn F i r e I n s u r a n c e Map o f Salem, Mass.,
1906 t o Feb., 1950, New York, Sanborn Map Co., 1950.
Walker L i t h o g r a p h and P u b l i s h i n g Company, A t l a s o f t h e C i t v o f
Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1911.
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169 Federal S t r e e t was b u i l t i n about 1845 by John Huse,
Tanner, the same man who buj.lt_#171 Federal S t r e e t . (291:15).
In 1850 Huse s o l d the m^s^sge f o r $2850 t o James Braden, c u r r i e r
(436:45), and the property then passed t o Mary M i l l e t t i n 1866
(702:86), James S. Newhall i n 1872 (849:185), and f i n a l l y to Mary
J . Saunders i n 1890 (1284:28). The Saunders f a m i l y owned i t u n t i l
at l e a s t 1897.
0. B i b l i o g r a p h y and/or r e f e r e n c e s (such as l o c a l h i s t o r i e s , deeds,
e a r l y maps, etc.)
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USGS Quad
Form Number
Number
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Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 M o r r i s s e y B o u l e v a r d
Boston, Massachusetts
02125
HU
Salem
Salem
Town
Place
652
(neighborhood
or v i l l a g e )
Central
171
Ss
ric
Name
Lydia
Salem
Federal
(Dale)
Street
and John
Huse
House
Present
Residential
Original
"
)f C o n s t r u c t i o n
1850
See B i b l i o g r a p h y *
Form
Greek
Revival/Italianate
;ect/Builder
Lor
Material:
Foundation
i\-
Wall/Trim
Granite
Flushboard
Roof
Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary
J u l y 1995
1V
Structures
(with dates) R e a r a d d i t i o n s
Condition
Fair
Acreage
Date:
Shingles
Major A l t e r a t i o n s
(1851-1874).
Moved
Recorded by: Susan C e c c a c c i and
D i a n n e L. S i e r g i e j
O r g a n i z a t i o n : Commonweal C o l l a b o r a t i v e
and Clapboard/Wood
X
no
yes
-
Good
Date
5,069 SF
Setting
Set close t o sidewalk behind a
s m a l l , landscaped s t r i p o f l a n d on a
quiet, tree-lined street i n a denselys e t t l e d , r e s i d e n t i a l neighborhood o f
mostly mid 19th-century buildings.
SEP 2 9 1995
M A S S . HIST. C O M M .
�B U I L D I N G FORM
171
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
Federal
Street
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
E v a l u a t e t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h i s b u i l d i n g i n terms of o t h e r b u i l d i n g s
w i t h i n t h e community.
This
wall,
of
a
2
1/2-story,
5 x
interior-chimney
large,
additions
2
1-bay,
1/2-story,
w e r e made t o
center-entry,
plan.
The
gable-roofed,
the
rear
gable-end
main block
rear
has
e l l .
b e t w e e n 1851
house has
a
paired
been expanded by
Map
and
study
the
shows
rear-
addition
that
1874.
The r e c e s s e d m a i n e n t r a n c e , w i t h i t s s m o o t h - s h a f t e d , D o r i c p i l a s t e r s ,
filleted
f r i e z e , c o r n i c e , t r a n s o m and f u l l - l e n g t h s i d e l i g h t s and t w o - p a n e l d o o r a r e
c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of the Greek R e v i v a l s t y l e .
Other ornament,
mostly
c o n c e n t r a t e d on t h e f a c a d e , i s I t a l i a n a t e .
These f e a t u r e s i n c l u d e : broad,
overhanging, bracketed eaves with gable returns, quoins, wide, flushboard
s i d i n g a n d r e c t a n g u l a r 6/6,
double-hung sash w i t h c o r n i c e d window caps
d e t a i l e d by shaped m o d i l l i o n s .
The e l a b o r a t e n e s s o f t h e I t a l i a n a t e o r n a m e n t
c o n t r a s t s s t r o n g l y w i t h the unassuming p r o p o r t i o n s of the house i t s e l f .
I t seems p o s s i b l e t h a t t h e s e d e t a i l s were added i n e m u l a t i o n o f t h e
imposing,
c. 1867
I t a l i a n a t e h o u s e a c r o s s t h e s t r e e t a t 170 F e d e r a l S t r e e t ( s e e F o r m
No.
616).
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
X
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
D i s c u s s t h e h i s t o r y of t h e b u i l d i n g .
of t h e b u i l d i n g and
This
property
century
by
c.
and
1769
1779,
On
17,
once p a r t
Buffurn
called
a t o w n way
June
local (or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
Include
uses
t h e r o l e ( s ) t h e owners/occupants p l a y e d w i t h i n t h e community.
was
the
E x p l a i n i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with
1836,
of
Family.
New
Street
i n 1782
and
Ezra
and
a
l a r g e p a r c e l owned
Federal
i n 1770,
Federal
Cynthia
S t r e e t was
new
Street
Northey
i n the
late
seventeenth
laid
out
across
street laid
out
near
in
private
the
river
land
in
1794.
sold a
corner
lot to
John
Huse,
t a n n e r and c u r r i e r , f o r $850 (Bk. 291; Pg. 1 4 ) .
H u s e ( b . N.H.,
1800;
d. S a l e m , J a n u a r y 12, 1881)
b u i l t t h e h o u s e a t 169 F e d e r a l S t r e e t ( s e e F o r m
No.
651) w h e r e he l i v e d u n t i l 1850 when he c o n s t r u c t e d t h i s h o u s e .
Huse s o l d
169 F e d e r a l S t r e e t i n 1850
f o r $ 2 , 8 5 0 , a b o u t t h e t i m e 171 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
was c o m p l e t e d .
I n 1855, t h e p r o p e r t y a t 171 F e d e r a l S t r e e t was v a l u e d
at
$3,000.
I n 1860,
171 F e d e r a l S t r e e t was o c c u p i e d b y J o h n H u s e , age 6 0 ; h i s
w i f e , L y d i a D a l e H u s e , age 56, ( b . M a s s . d. F e b r u a r y 12, 1 8 7 7 ) ; h i s d a u g h t e r ,
H a n n a h a g e 2 6 ; h i s m a r r i e d d a u g h t e r , M a r y H u s e P e r k i n s ( d . S e p t e m b e r 3, 1 8 9 5 ) ,
a g e 3 1 ; h e r h u s b a n d , J o s e p h S. P e r k i n s , p o s t m a s t e r , a n d t h e i r f o u r - y e a r - o l d
son, John P e r k i n s .
J o h n H u s e was e n g a g e d f o r many y e a r s i n t h e t a n n i n g a n d c u r r y i n g b u s i n e s s
i n Salem.
I n 1881,
h i s s h o p was l o c a t e d on B o s t o n S t r e e t .
He w a s a l s o a n
e n g i n e e r o f t h e S a l e m F i r e D e p a r t m e n t f r o m 1847 t o 1857
and i t s C h i e f
Engineer
i n 1856
and 1857.
He w a s a m e m b e r o f t h e Common C o u n c i l i n 1 8 5 8 ,
an
BIBLIOGRAPHY
X
a n d / o r REFERENCES
Recommended
for
listing
X
i n the
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
National
Register
of
I f c h e c k e d , s e e a t t a c h e d N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement form.
Historic
Places;
�I N V E N T O R Y FORM C O N T I N U A T I O N
Salem
SHEET
171
Area
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
(continued)
Overseer
of
from
National
Bank
the
Poor
1858
to
1873,
and
a director
of the
HU
Federal
Form
Street
No.
652
Mercantile
f o r many y e a r s .
J o s e p h Sumner P e r k i n s ( b . L y n n , D e c e m b er 10, 1829; d. M a i d e n ,
J a n u a r y 27, 1 9 1 2 ) , son o f Mary ( P a r r o t t ) P e r k i n s and a d i r e c t
descendant
of F r a n c i s I n g a l l s , one o f t h e s e t t l e r s o f L y n n , was a c u r r i e r f o r f i f t y
y e a r s a n d P o s t m a s t e r o f S a l e m f r o m 1858 t o 1860.
He w a s f o r m a n y y e a r s a
member o f t h e D e m o c r a t i c S t a t e C o m m i t t e e and s e r v e d one y e a r on t h e S a l e m
Board of Aldermen.
John Huse bequeath t h i s p r o p e r t y t o h i s i n v a l i d d a u g h t e r , Hannah, f o r t h e
r e m a i n d e r o f h e r l i f e , t o be e q u a l l y s h a r e d by h i s d a u g h t e r , M a r y P e r k i n s
and g r a n d s o n , John Huse P e r k i n s , a f t e r her demise.
John Huse i n t e n d e d h i s
p r o p e r t y t o r e m a i n t h e f a m i l y homestead as l o n g as p r a c t i c a b l e and i t a p p e a r s
the
h o u s e was o c c u p i e d b y h i s i n v a l i d d a u g h t e r , Hannah M a r i a , M a r y , J o s e p h and
J o h n H u s e P e r k i n s a t l e a s t u n t i l 1895 when M a r y d i e d .
The p r o p e r t y was s o l d i n 1902 t o C a t h e r i n e J . W a l s h a n d r e m a i n e d i n t h e W a l s h
f a m i l y u n t i l 1971.
Tax r e c o r d s i n 1904 l i s t t h e o c c u p a n t s o f 171 F e d e r a l
S t r e e t a s J o h n J . W a l s h , c l e r k , a g e 3 4 , T h o m a s F. E . N o l a n , s a l e s m a n , a g e 4 4 ,
and owner, C a t h e r i n e Walsh.
Research
carried
inhabitants
and
BIBLIOGRAPHY
out
owners
and/or
*King,
Inc.,
by
Salem,
Beers,
Joyce King contains
of
171
Federal
addition
information
on
subsequent
Street.
REFERENCES
Joyce, Research
Report
171
Federal
M a s s a c h u s e t t s , September 1981.
D. G. & C o m p a n y ,
A t l a s of Essex
Street,
County,
Historic
Salem
Massachusetts,
1872.
H o p k i n s , G. M. & C o . ,
A t l a s o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1874.
M c l n t y r e , H e n r y C. E . ,
Map o f t h e C i t y o f S a l e m , M a s s , 1 8 5 1 .
R i c h a r d s , L. J . , A t l a s o f t h e C i t y o f S a l e m , M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . .
1897.
Walker
Salem,
L i t h o g r a p h and
Massachusetts,
1911.
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Atlas
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�OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
171 Federal Street
Built for
JOHN HUSE, currier
in the year 1850
Research by,
Joyce King
Sept. 1981
"to preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and objects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true value of the same."
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171 Federal Street
The land on which this house stands was once part of a large parcel
owned by the Buffum family during the early history of Salem (appendix
A).
"Federal street was laid out across private land about 1769.
It was called the new street in 1770; new street laid out near the
North river, 1779; a town way 1782; and Federal street, 1794 (Essex
Antiquarian, vol. 7 pg. 67).
On June 17, 1836 Ezra and Cynthia Northey sold for the sum of $850
to John Huse, currier* a lot of land:
(book 291 page 14)
*A currier
tanned.
is a man who dresses and colors leather, after it is
�Hr. Huse built a house on the property (formerly called ·;/93 since
renumbered /f.169 Federal) and lived there until 1850 vrhen financial
conditions allowed him the opportunity to build a larger home for
his family.
This is substantiated by the building permits listing
"Buildings errected in the City of Salem the last year that is to
say, from Narch 1850 to March 1851."
Name of Owner
John Hues
Description of Building
dwelling house
Name of Street
Federal Street
The Huse family had moved into their new home by Nov. 1, 1850, for
this is the date that John and Lydia Huse sold the dwelling house
(#169) to James Braden for $2,850:
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(book 436 page 1+5)
�'I'he 1850 census shows the Huse family up close:
John Huse
age 50 currier
prop. val.
II
Lydia II
47
II
II
Mary
22
II
Hannah II
17
If
Joseph T. Fuller
12
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born N.H.
If
Mass.
II
ll
II
II
II
II
The 1855 Street Books at City Hall tax the house for the first time:
Federal St., John Huse "new house"
value $3,000
By 1855 the street had been renumbered and the house took on its
present number
with the occupants listed as (males only over
18 given) John Huse age 55 and Joseph Sumner Perkins age 25.
The 1860 census gives additional information:
tJohn Huse
age 60 currier
fl
Lydia II
56
II
II
Hannah
26
Joseph s. Perkins 30 postr:iaster
T:1ar',:/
II
II
31
John
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By
1870 the household
John Huse
Lydia 11
Hannah II
II
l"iass.
II
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II
II
It
II
II
had dwindled:
age 70
II
66
It
born I\T .H.
36
After the death of
currier
keeps house
no occupation
born r\T.I1.
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Lass ..
II
II
(Dale) Huse, which occurred on Feb. 12, 1877,
the Perkins fruaily moved back into the house at 171 Federal St., as
shown in the 1880 census:
�Perkins
Bary E •
"II
John II•
,John Huse
Hannah 1\1. Huse
1,,1ary Davenport
age 50
ti
51
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80
II
46
35
11
c;J.rrier
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keeps house
son
currier
father-in-law
sister-in-lavr
nurse
John Huse died on Jan. 12, 1881.
born
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This obituary notice appeared in
the local papers:
"Mr. John Huse died on Thursday morning in his Slst year.
He
was a tanner and currier, actively engaged in business, until, within a fev; years, he retired in failing health.
He was a man of strict
integrity. and always enjoyed the highest respect and confidence
of the community.
of the Fire Dept. from 1847 to
He was an
1857, and Chief Engineer in 1856 and 1857; a member of the common
Council in 1858; an Overseer of the Poor from 1858 to 1873, and for
many years a Director in the ·>1 ercantile National Bank.
member of the First Baptist Church.
He was a
The flags of the different
companies of the Fire Dept. were displayed at half-mast in respect
to the ex-Chief and the funeral on Saturday afternoon was very
numerously attended by the late associates of the deceased."
In his will (probate ffli-3175) Lr. Huse left his house in trust for
the benefit of his family "with especial regard to my invalid
dauther Hannah Maria Huse so long as she may live • 11
Daughter l·;ar;y
was allowed to have, hold and occupy with her faimly free of rent
"the homestead on Federal street, V!here I now live consistj_ng of a
dwelling house, yard and garden.
At the decease of my said daughter
Hannah the principal to go in equal shares to ;fary Perkins and
�5.
grandson John Huse Perkins.
I wish that my said homestead estate
on Federal street shall be kept as a homestead for all the members
of my family as long as shall be formed practicable, and to that
end I direct that it shall not be sold during the life of my
daughter Mary Elizabeth Perkins without her consent."
(appendix B)
The real estate was listed as:
house and land Federal St.
land on Broad St.
Curriers shop (2) on Boston St.
II
II
land under "
$4,300
700
1,100
1,100
Personal estate:
12 shares Salem and Danvers Oil Co.
1 share Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway R.R.
Bond of the City of Toledo, Ohio
Bond Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway R.R.
U.S. funded loan of 1861
1 share Eastern R.R.
16 shares Mercantile Bank Salem
Pew 1st Baptist Church
cash
I'-iTG. of J.P. Hamlin
Lot in Harmony Grove
furniture
The heirs were listed as:
Hannah Huse
Mary E. Perkins -
:fH,080
20
500
1,700
660
. 35
1,920
5
1.50
21,750
35
100
daughter
It
wife of Joseph
s.
Perkins
A few interesting expondi tures 1Here listed in the probate:
tJan. 1882 - S.F.Nichols painting house and blinds
'.:il06.92
board for nurse July 1880 to Jan. 1881
42.00
wages due nurse
10.00
�March 1882 - Repairs on real estate on Federal and Broad
Insurance
Water bill
Taxes
Nurse for Hannah
17 weeks
Board for Hannah
Jan. 13, 1881 to Apr. 27
Aug. 24 to March 1, 1882
$205.98
15.62
3.60
100.80
68.00
75.00
1.35
From 1882 to 1895 the Street Books give the occupants as:
Joseph s. Perkins
John H. Perkins
owners the heirs of John Huse
house value $3,000
land value
1,300
Hannah Maria Huse died on Sept.3, 1895.
This simple obituary was
printed in the Salem News:
Danvers - Hannah M. Huse of this city, daughter of the late John
Huse, Esq. died at the age of 60 years 11 months 6 days. (Funeral
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on Thursday 3:30 P.M. from her late residence 171 Federal street.
Relatives and Friends invited."
After the death of Hannah the property was taxed as:
i Mary E. Perkins
i John H. Perkins
house
11
500
11
ti
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On July 31, 1902 .Mary Perkins and John Huse Perkins trustees under
the will of John Huse Feb. 1881 sold to Catherine J. Walsh the land
and buildings "meaning to convey the premises conveyed by Ezra
Northey to Huse Jan. 17, 1836 except what sold to James Braden
on Oct. 1, 1850. 11
�(book 1679 Page 504)
Before moving on to t.he '.'!alsh far:1ily it may be of interest to
include this obituary notice of Jan. 27, 1912:
Passed Away at His Home in
This I:orning in His Eie;h ty 'l1hird Year
FIFTY YEARS
"Joseph Sumner Perkins, postmaster of Salem under President
Buchanan, died at his home, 25 C:olumbia street, ilalden, early this
raornins, in his 83rd year.
Funeral service will be held : :onday
afternoon at Harmony Grove Chapel at 2 P.M.
Lr. Perkins \'tas born in Lyn:1 Jee. l'.), 182Si in the portion lmol'm
at:.; '.food r:nd, and h:Lr..:3 mother nas : ary (Parrott) Perldns, a d.irect
descendant of Francis Ingalls, one of the settlers of Lynn.
He
learned the currying business and was engaged in it for a number of
�years in Salem, his whole connection with it covering nearly
half
a century and ending in 1901.
Through his activity in the interests of the Democratic party in
President Buchanan's time, the latter appointed him postmaster of
Salem in Feb. 1858, succeeding the late George B. Loring, who was
appointee of President Pierce.
He held office until 1860, and was
succeeded by John Ryan.
Mr. Perkins was senior deacon for many years of Essex Lodge, F. 8,
A. 1-'Iasons, and was for many years a member of the Democratic state
committee.
He served one year in the Salem board of aldermen.
He
leaves one son, John Huse Perkins."
The tax records reflect the change of ownership in 1904:
..occupants
John J. Walsh, clerk age 34
Thomas F. E. Nolan, sale srnan
age
411-
owner
Catherine Walsh
house val. $2,300
land val.
1,300
A reception was held at this house on June 28, 1910 for the wedding
of fviichael J. O'Connor and Hattie J. Kennedy.
The Salem News gave
this account:
"Wedding reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Walsh, 171 Federal St. where a large number of friends of the
contracting parties Michael J. O'Connor and Hattie J. Kennedy,
called to extend congratulations."
�On i':Tay 21, 1925 John J. Walsh, unmarried, gave to Mary T. \'ialsh
"for love and af fection 1,
the same property conveyed to Catherine
J. Walsh by John Huse Perkins, and by will of Catherine to John J.
Walsh.(book 2638 page 165)
On August 19, 1971 Thomas J. Walsh, unmarried, sold for $25,000 to
Francis T. Murphy and Helen P. Murphy, husband and wife, "the same
premises conveyed to my sister Mary T. Walsh, also known as l'·fary V.
Walsh,on May 21, 1925 from John Jo Walsh.
See also the estate of
my sister #300152".(book 5794 page 612).
On July 20, 1977 Francis T. and Helen P. Murphy sold
t
of 171 Federal
St. to Raymond E. Peritz and Shelley Erwin and the other
J. Rioux, for the total sum of
Thomas J. Walsh Aug. 19, 1971."
,000.
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to Robert
title see deed from
(book 6373 page 113)
On Oct. 15, 1979 Raymond M. and Shelley E. Peritz (formerly Shelley
Erwin) and Robert J. Rioux sold 171 Federal St. for the sum of $88,500
to Mark and Judith King.
"The same conveyed to them by Francis and
Helen Murphy." (book 6642 page 524)
On June 29, 1981 Mark A. and Judith
c.
King, of 31 Chestnut St., sold
for $119,000 to Gregory B. Andrews, Susan Battles-Andrews, John
Battles and Mary Battles the land and buildings at 171 Federal St.
"For title see deed book 6642 page 524."
(book 6835 page 394)
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Robert Moulton was the owner of this lot,
west of the dashes. It afterward came
into the hands of Robert Buffum. He
died in 1669, having bequeathed it to his
wife Tamosin. She died in 1688, and it
came into the hands of her sons Joshua
Buffum and Caleb Buffum, who owned it
together until after 1700.
The strip east of the dashes was con·
veyed to the two Buffum brothers by Edward Flint of Salem, yeoman, April 18,
1679.t It was a half of two acres that
Mr. Flint bought of Anthony Needham of
Salem, yeoman, March 10, 1678-9.§
Joshua B11ffum House. Robert Moulton was the owner of this lot easterly of
the dashes and also the Caleb Buffum lot
adjoining, about 1636. (For the triangular
lot west of the dashes, see above.) Boston
street was laid out across the corner of
the lot in 1642, when he was the owner.
He was a builder of vessels, and probably constructed several on this lot. The
estate soon afterward came into the possession of Robert Buffum, a Quaker, and
he died in 1 669, possessed of it. In his
will he devised it to his wife Tamosin.
She died in 16S8, and the estate came
into the possession of her son Joshua
Buffum.
There were two houses on this lot in
1705, and probably they were both there
in r 700, ancl standing where they are
marked on the map. The western one
was the old house. Between r 705 and
17 lo, this was moved by Samuel nuffum,
*Essex
ni Deeds, honk q, leaf 79.
tEssex
of Deeds, 1Jlluk i 5, leaf 88.
:::Essex Registry of bee.ls, book 5, leaf 31.
§Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, ).,af 25.
son of Joshua, who had devised the lot
to him, to the western corner of what is
now the junction of Boston and Fowler
streets. Samuel Buffum was a cooper, and
had removed to Newport, R. I., before
Aug. 7, 1716, when he conveyed the old
dwelling house and its new site, for ninety
pounds, to Samuel Pope of Salem, blacksmith.* Mr. Pope conveyed the same,
for one hundred and forty pounds, to
Thorndike Procter of Salem, yeoman,
June 6, r720.t Mr. Procter probably
took the old house down some years later,
and built the house now standing on that
site.
The other house anri the land adjoining was devised by Joshua Buffum to his
son Joshua in I705, and he devised it in
his will in 1762, to his son· Joshua Buffum.
The latter, in 1760, lived in the house
with Isaac Needham. In the inventory
of the estate of Joshua Buffum, appraised
in I7 6 2, it is called an old dwelling house.
Joshua Buffum lived in Salem, being a
mariner or fisherman, and died in the
winter of 1768-9. His heirs conveyed it
to Ezekiel Fowler of Salem, blacksmith,
as follows : by deed of Amos
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Swansey, husbanrlman, and wife Jane,
daughter of the deceased (one-fifth), Aug.
2 7, 1770; t of Joshua Buffum of Salem,
mariner, son of the deceased (one-fifth),
Feb. 15, 1773;§ of Benjamin Symonds
of Salem, fisherman, and wife Abigail,
daughter of the deceased (one.fifth), Oct.
24, 1i7 5 ; II and of Samuel Buffum of
Salem, sailmaker (two fifths) (by partition,) l\lay 17, 1779.U Ezekiel Welman
was living in the old house .May 2, 1796,
when Mr. Fowler conveyed the estate
to his son Samuel Fowler of Salem, cordwainer., The latter took the old house
down in 1807.
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�170 Federal Street
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According to available evidence, this house was built in 1866 for James Braden,
currier and tanner; it occupies the site of an earlier house, perhaps built for
Jonathan Buffum, tailor, c.' 1770.
Soon after the end of the Civil War, on 21August1865, James Braden, "tanner &
currier," for $3800 purchased from Thomas Reynolds a dwelling house and land
on the north side of Federal Street (ED 688: 108). The lot was bounded southerly
70' on Federal Street, westerly 158' on land of Nichols, northerly on the North
River, and easterly on land of Forsyth. In the 1866 Salem real-estate valuation,
James Braden was assessed for personal property worth $13,700 and for real estate
that included the house at 168 Federal Street worth $8000 and land at 168-170
Federal Street, 12920 square feet, worth $2000. At the same time, another set of
city books was kept, the less-formal "street books," in which, for 1866, James
Braden's property was described as 168 Federal Street "vacant, house removed,"
and the lot for 168-170 Federal Street valued at $2000. The street book for 1867
had an erroneous listing for the premises, and the street book for 1868 listed James
Braden's homestead as 168 Federal Street, house worth $8000 and lot worth
$3000. From the evidence of these primary sources, there can be little doubt that
Mr. Braden had removed the old house that once stood here, that the lot was vacant
by the spring of 1866, and t.hat the new house was built probably in summer and
,
fall of that year.
James Braden was born in 'Middleton, Conn., on 18 Dec. 1818, the son of Irish
immigrant parents. The Brf).dens moved to Salem in the 1820s. In 1829, when he
was ten, James went to sea as a cabin boy, on a voyage from Salem to Europe.
Upon his return, he made another voyage, to South America and back. At the age
of thirteen or so, circa 1831, he was apprenticed to James Stimpson of Salem, to
learn the trade of currying and tanning leather (info from obit of26 Feb. 1895
Salem Evening News). Mr. Stimpson had a tan-yard on Boston Street, opposite
Federal Street.
;
The Salem of the 1820s
in transition from seafaring to manufacturing. Into the
1820s the sea-borne foreign trade had continued prosperous; and new markets were
opened with Madagascar (1820), Which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar
(1825), whence came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and
lucrative trade in which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to all
1
�of the east African ports. At the same time that this trade flourished, Salem's more
traditional areas of trade began to diminish, and general maritime foreign
commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports, the cargos in Salem ships,
were supplanted by American goods, now being produced in great quantities. The
interior of the country was' being opened for settlement, and many Salemites
moved away. To the north:, the falls of the Merrimack River powered large new
textile mills (Lowell was' founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their
investors; and in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away
from Salem. In an ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and
to harness its potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and
capitalists banded together in 1826 to raise the money to dam the North River for
industrial power. The project, which began with much promise, was suspended
(before construction began) in 1827, which demoralized the town even more, and
caused several leading citizens to move to Boston, the hub of investment in the
new economy.
'
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt.
. '
Joseph White, a wealthy
owned and resided in the house now called the
Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his
Gardner-Pingree house,
mansion and stabbed him' tP· death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of
murderous thugs; but the klller was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed
himself at the Salem Jail), 4ired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt.
Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results
of the investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more
of the respectable families quit the notorious town.
'
Salem's remaining merchants had to move quickly to take their equity out of
wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into manufacturing and
transportation, as the adven,t of railroads and canals in the 1830s diverted both
capital and trade away froni the coast. Some merchants did not make the
transition, and were ruinea:: Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making,
and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared. Well into the 1830s,
Salem slumped badly.
·
Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8 and
the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 1837, a brief, sharp, nati9nwide economic depression, caused even more Salem
families to head west in search of a better future. Salem had not prepared for the
industrial age, and had few .natural advantages. The North River served not to
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�power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many tanneries (23 by
1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the leaders of Salem
scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many of whom were
mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and hard work
would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the business of tanning and curing leather, which was
conducted on and near Boston Street, along the upper North River. This was the
business that young James Braden had entered as an apprentice in 1831. There
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The leather
business would continue to grow in importance throughout the 1800s. Another
inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based manufacturing
enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant built in 1818 in
North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue vitriol was a
specialty; and it proved a
successful business. Salem's whale-fishery, active
for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 183 Os, to the manufacturing of highquality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils. The candles proved very
popular. Lead-manufactudpg began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830, when
Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were retooled for making high-quality
approach to Marblehead is still called Lead Mills
white lead and sheet lead
Hill, although the empty mill buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8 the
Eastern Rail Road began op'erating between Boston and Salem, which gave the
people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market. The
new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel under
Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to Newburyport in
1840.
James Braden completed his apprenticeship in 1839, and was free to pursue his
calling as a currier and tanner. He was a hard worker and a smart young man, and
soon went into business for'himself. On Christmas Day, 1842, he married
Margaret Jane Ashby, 22, of Salem. She was born on 4 August 1820, the first
child of Thomas W. Ashby and Margaret Fabens, both of old Salem families. Mr.
Ashby was a cordwainer (shoemaker), with his shop on Essex Street and his house
on upper Broad Street (see Salem Directory 1837) (see also EIHC 18:63, Dr.
George A. Perkins' Fabens family genealogy). In 1843 James and Margaret would
have a child, Sarah P. Braden; and much later they had sons James and Jerry
(neither of whom survived childhood).
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�In 1841, James "Brayden" was listed as a cmrier at 66 Boston Street; by 1845 he
was a currier at Pope's Court (now Pope Street), residing at 4 Boston Street (shared
with the family of Samuel Pitman, tanner & currier), near Essex Street (see Salem
Directories, 1842, 1846). By 1845, Thomas W. Ashby was residing at 7 Dean
Street (now the western part of Flint Street). At that time, Salem had 16,800
inhabitants. In May, 1849, Mr. Braden and Daniel C. Haskell, curriers, bought a
parcel of land on Mason Street (ED 411 :209). There, they set up a thriving currier
shop; and in September, 1849, for $1125 Mr. Braden sold out his share to Mr.
Haskell (ED 419:4). At about this time, James Braden belonged to the local social
and military group, the Second Corps of Cadets; and he remained active in its
affairs for the rest of his life. He was also very active in the affairs of the First
Universalist Church, and would later help underwrite the cost of its new church
building.
In the 1840s, new companies in new lines of business arose in Salem. In 1846 the
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at Stage Point of
the largest factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was an
immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of
them living in industrial tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s, a new method
was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe production. In Lynn,
the factory system was
and that city became the nation's leading shoe
producer. Salem had shoe.,factories too, and attracted shoe workers from outlying
towns and country areas. Even the population changed, as hundreds of Irish
families, fleeing the Famine, settled in Salem; and the men went to work in the
factories and as laborers.
I
In the face of all this change, some members of Salem's waning merchant class
continued to pursue their
businesses; but even the conditions of shipping
changed, and Salem was left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships
replaced the smaller vessel,s that Salem men had sailed around the world; and the
clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too large for Salem
and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of little more than ZanzibarDown East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and
trade vessels and visits
building timber. By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port. A picture
of Salem's sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in his "introductory section"
(really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter, which he began while working in
the Custom House.
In 1849-1850, the Bradensresided in one unit of 4 Boston Street, along with Mrs.
Braden's brother Elias W. Ashby, 19, a currier (see 1850 Directory, 1850 census,
4
�house 691, ward four). Mr. Braden continued successful in his leather business,
and probably employed several men as curriers. In October, 1850, for $2850 he
bought a nice homestead
the southerly side of upper Federal Street, #169
opposite #170 (ED 436:45).
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The symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large twin-towered granite
train station, built in 1848-9 on filled-in land at the foot of Washington Street,
where before had been the merchants' wharves. The 1850s brought continued
growth: new churches, schools, streets, stores, etc. Catholic churches were built,
and new housing was constructed in North Salem and the Gallows Hill areas to
accommodate the workers. In March, 1853, several streets were re-named and renumbered, including the consolidation of County, Marlboro, and Federal Streets as
Federal Street. Mr. Braden's leather currying business continued apace in the
1850s and he grew steadily wealthier. By 1860, when he was 42, Mr. Braden had
real estate worth $7000 anij personalty worth $25,000. He and his wife Margaret,
39, had children Sarah
16, James B., four, and Jerry M., two; and Ellen W.
Ashby, 23, lived with them
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or died
of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered
wounds, or broken health. •The people of Salem, including the Bradens,
contributed greatly to efforts to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and
their families; and there was great celebration when the war finally ended in the
spring of 1865.
During the 1860s, Mr. Braden continued his leather-currying business at a good
clip; perhaps he had contracts with the Army, or with those who did. In June,
1863, for $2000 he bouglita tanyard lot adjoining in the rear of his own Boston
Street tanyard (ED 653:148). As has been mentioned, on 21August1865, Mr.
Braden for $3800 purchased a dwelling house and land on the north side of Federal
Street, across from his residence (ED 688: 108). On 30 April 1866 Mr. Braden for
$4000 sold his former homestead to Mrs. Mary Millett (ED 702:86). As has been
mentioned, he soon had the old house at 170 Federal removed, and a new one built.
Presumably he and his family occupied their new house at 170 Federal Street
within a few months of that conveyance.
The old house had been built, evidently, for Jonathan Buffum, a Salem tailor. Mr.
Buffum, who resided, evidently, on Essex Street (at the c01ner of Boston Street)
5
�owned a good bit of land hereabouts, including a farm across the river in North
Salem. In 1770 he purchased a piece of land that fronted about 140' southerly on
Federal Street, bounding easterly on a parcel that he already owned and westerly
on land of Jeremiah Hacker (ED 142:64). Mr. Buffum died by December, 1793,
when his estate included a house and barn on the north side of Federal Street with
3.5 poles in front and bounding on the North River, worth 90 Ii. The 3.5 poles was
about 58'. In 1798, yeoman farmer Jonathan Buffum, a son, owned one house and
half of another house hereabouts; and in that year he sold the house and a small
piece of land (southeast quadrant of the lot) to Miss Anna B. Graves (ED 163:147).
In September, 1818, for $1000 he sold half a house, with the rest of the lot, to Miss
Peace Buffum (ED 218:1). The lot fronted 45' on Federal Street, and was bounded
southwesterly by land and the other half of the house, already belonging to Peace
Buffum, and northwesterly about 66' on the North River, and northeasterly on land
of Kimball and of Cook (formerly Graves'). It is not known which house-of the
ones sold to Graves and
to Peace Buffum-was the one built for Jonathan
Buffum, tailor. Peace Buffum owned the house and land here for many years.
In February, 1848, Miss Peace Buffum for $2500 sold to Thomas Reynolds,
laborer, the house and lanc(here (ED 393:108). The lot was described as fronting
79' on Federal Street and rµnning back 158' to the North River. The eastern
boundary run northerly 43'. in from Federal Street, then ran 21' easterly, then 119'
was evidently built originally for Jonathan Buffum, a
to the river bank. The
tailor, in the 1700s. Mr. Reynolds, born in Ireland, had owned the parcel just to the
west of this homestead, and had sold it in January, 1848, for $762. Having bought
the house and land at 170 Federal, he immediately sold a half-interest in the same
for $1275 to William Cabeen (ED 393:122). Mr. Cabeen, also a laborer, resided in
the eastern part of the house for more than a year, and then sold his share back to
Mr. Reynolds in September, 1849 (ED 416:294,74). The Reynolds family
probably continued to resiqe in the west half of the old Buffum house; and the
easterly part was rented out to others. In 1850 the Reynolds half-house was
occupied by Thomas Reynolds, "35" and wife Elena, 34, both born in Ireland, and
by their children Joseph, 11, James, 9, Mary E., 5, George, 3, and Lucy, one, and
the eastern half was occupied by Ann Kelley, 30,
by laborer Hugh
William E. Kelley, 4, Katy Kelley, 2, and Mary Ann Kelley, an infant, and by
Mary Ring, 60, and Mary Ring, 35, the adults all having been born in Ireland (1850
census ward four, house 629). In 1860 the house was occupied by the same two
family units, headed by Thomas Reynolds (who had added one more child, Charles
H., in 1855) and Ann Kelley (1860 census, ward four house 2023). It was this
house that Mr. Braden took down in 1866 in order to build his new residence.
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�In 1870, the house was occupied by James Braden, 51, currier (real estate worth
$25,000, personal estate worth $70,000), wife Mary Jane, 49, and daughter Sarah
P., 26, along with servant Ellen Foley, 21 (1870 census, ward four, house 243).
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street). For the
textile workers, they built inore and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point.
A second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company
would be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ
1200 people and produce annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing
also continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40 shoe factories
employing 600-plus operatives.
, In the 1870s,
families began coming to work in Salem's mills
and factories, and more houses and tenements were built in what had been open
areas of the city. Above the North River, new streets were laid out on the
highlands above Boston Street, and the leather workers' houses went up in that
area, known as the Gallows Hill neighborhood.
In 1880 the occupants here.were James Braden, 61, leather manufacturer, wife
Margaret J., 58, and
Margaret Callahan, 26, a native of Vermont (1880
census, ED 235, p.8).
As Salem's leather business grew and thrived, the owners continued to
industrialize, and employed more powerful and efficient machines in the process of
currying and tanning. With industrialization came larger numbers of workers and
then labor unions, and then strikes and other job actions. James Braden was a
member of the manufacturer's combine, but took "small part in the active
opposition to organized labor" (see obit).
'
More factories and more
required more space for buildings, more roads,
and more storage areas. After withstanding the pressures of the new industrial city
for about 50 years, Salem's rivers began to disappear. The once-broad North River
was filled from both short(s, and eventually became a canal along Bridge Street
above the North Bridge. The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the
whole area between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street, and Loring
Avenue, finally vanished
streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and
parking lots. The South River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why
there was a Custom House built there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement of
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�Riley Plaza and New Derby Street, and its old wharves (even the mighty Union
Wharf, formerly Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street) were joined together
with much in-fill and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was
left, running in from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street.
During the 1880s, the leather business faltered for a while in Salem, but Mr.
Braden kept at it, and continued to oversee operations at "the church." In addition,
he served as a trustee of the Merchants National Bank (starting in 1873 or so), and
was a stockholder in many Salem enterprises. He was a member of the consortium
that purchased the armory building for his beloved Second Corps Cadets. In 1891,
he sold out and retired from business. He had been one of Salem's business
leaders for more than 40 years, and, as much as anyone, had been responsible for
the city's manufacturing prosperity.
In 1894, aged 77, Mr. Braden fell very ill, and faced the prospect of a fatal
sickness. For months he et).dured his affliction; and on Monday, 25 February 1895,
at 4 PM, he died here at home, 170 Federal Street. He was survived by his wife
Margaret and his daughter Mrs. Sarah Goodhue. His remains were interred at
Harmony Grove Cemetery., He was memorialized as "a man of sterling integrity,''
"held in esteem by all who)mew him, either in a business or social capacity." He
"was a member of that
famous coterie of leather manufacturers,
C. Haskell, Joseph Waldron, N.C. Osgood, John
consisting of himself,
Culliton, Leonard Harringt9n, James Dugan, and others, who were so conspicuous
in the trade years ago, and made the name of Salem famous as a leather producing
place throughout the country and the world." (see obituary).
'
1,·1
After Mr. Braden's death, Mrs. Braden moved to the house at 12 Summer Street
and left 170 Federal Street yacant. By 1899 # 170 was occupied by Mrs. Sarah E.
Hathaway, widow of Samuel R. Hathaway. By 1902 it was occupied by George
W. Grant, a Boston banker.,
Mrs. Margaret J. (Ashby) Braden was deceased, evidently, by September, 1907, at
which time Mrs. Sarah P. (Braden) Goodhue became owner of the property (ED
1891 :88). She continued to rent it out to Mr. Grant. On 18 May 1909 Sarah P.
Goodhue (ux Albert P.) sold the homestead to the tenant, George W. Grant (ED
1963:544). Mr. Grant (1859-1938) had grown up in Salem and attended local
schools. After high school,' he was employed by the Exchange Bank in Salem, and
then in the 1880s went to
for Blake Brothers, a Boston commercial lending
company. He married Jennie Donaldson Ward; and they would have no children.
In 1887 he became chief cashier of the National City Bank in Boston, an important
8
�position. He remained in banking for the next 15 years; and in 1902 he became
treasurer of the City Trust .Company, which merged with the Old Colony Trust Co.
in 1910. At that time he p-prchased this house.
In 1913 he became vice president of the Old Colony Trust, in which position he
would continue until his retirement in 1928. While still in business, he became (in
1923) president of Salem Hospital. He also served as trustee of the Ropes
Memorial and the Salem Savings Bank, among other institutions. He was a
member of the First Church, Unitarian, in Salem (info about Mr. Grant taken from
his obituary). As early as 1913, the Grants had a summer residence at 19 Beach
Avenue, Juniper Point in Salem (per Directory)
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. The
occupants of this house, if at home, may have strolled down Federal Street to see
what was happening. This fire soon raced out of control, for the west wind was
high and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and
out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and
smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad
Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other
residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed
over into South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street,
then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the
tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many
towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the
large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress
Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and
across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour
rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41
factories, and leaving three. dead and thousands homeless. Some people had
insurance, some did not; all received much support and generous donations from
all over the country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the
history of the United States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover
from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were
rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard,
which involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration.
9
�Glossary & Sources
A figure like (ED 123:45) refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South registry of Deeds,
Federal Street, Salem.
A figure like (#12345) refers to Essex Probate case 12345, on file at the Essex Probate
Court, Federal Street, Salem, or on microfilm at Mass. Archives, Boston, or at the Peabody
Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem.
MSSRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
MSSCRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers, Sailors, & Marines in
the Civil War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
EIHC refers to the Essex Institute Historical Collections (discontinued), a multi-volume set
(first volume published in 1859) of data and articles about Essex County. The indices of
the EIHC have been consulted regarding many of the people associated with this house.
The six-volume published Salem Vital records (marriages, births, and deaths through
1849) have been consulted, as. have the Salem Directory and later Naumkeag Directory,
which have information about residents and their addresses, etc.
Sidney Perley's three-volume'His'tory of Salem, 1626-1716 has been consulted, as has the
four-volume William Bentley's Diary, J. Duncan Phillips' books, some newspaper
1
obituaries, and other sources.
Salem real estate valuations, and, where applicable, Salem Street Books, have also been
consulted, as have genealogies.
There is much more material available about Salem and its history; and the reader is
encouraged to make his or her own discoveries.
--Robert Booth
11
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aliteu, was found unconscious at the under wbosoRnsplcca til\e present: Cadet
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andt olt.hoQgh Second Corps Gndets. l\.11'. Braden wna
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John Huse House
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1842
2022
currier
Huse
John Huse House
Massachusetts
Salem
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1833
1995
89 Federal Street
Duncan
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Salem
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Chain of Title
155 Federal Street
c.1828
Built for Aaron and Josiah Hayward, Bricklayers
Researched and compiled by
W.H. Demick
wh.demick@gmail.com
November 2020
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�W.H. Demick
Researcher
155 Federal Street, Salem
Essex County, Massachusetts
Chain of Title
Date Recorded
1828 Feb. 25
Grantor(s)
Mary Buffinton (here as both
Buffinton and Buffington),
Widow and Eliza B. Craft
Grantee(s)
Aaron Hayward and Josiah
Hayward, Bricklayers
1829 June 12
Aaron Hayward and Josiah
Hayward, bricklayers
Samuel Cook
1836 Oct 1
Josiah Hayward, Bricklayer
Aaron Hayward, Bricklayer
1842 Nov. 28
Aaron Hayward, Bricklayer
1855 July 27
Consideration
Conveyance of
Source
$575.00 "…a certain lot of land on Federal Street in said Salem
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
bounding Northerly on said Street sixty five feet: Easterly
on land of Holten J. Breed Two hundred and three feet
and five inches: Southerly partly on land of Bancroft and
partly on land of Robert Cowen sixty three feet and five
inches and westerly partly on said Cowen and partly on
land formerly of Tucker now of Bridget Cross two
hundred and sixteen feet and eight inches..."
Page 1
Document Type
Deed
Book | Page
Bk 249|Pg 14
Notes
The same day is recorded a
mortgage of $575.00 taken
granted by Mary Buffinton to
Aaron and Josiah Haywood. Mary
and Eliza were the wife and
daughter of John Buffinton
(elsewhere Buffington), sea
captain.
Mortgage
Bk 252 | Pg 128
This is the earliest mention of a
dwelling house. As it was "just
raised" as of June 1829, and as
the land was initially purchased
in February of 1828, it can be
safely assumed that - given
average construction times and
viable work seasons - the house
was finished in 1828.
"…the said Aaron's part or one half thereof is bounded by Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
a live running directly through the middle of said house +
barn from said Federal street back to land of Bancroft,
thence running Easterly on land of said Bancroft to the
corner of said lot to land formerly of Holten J. Breed, now
of Allen, then northerly by land formerly of said Breed,
now of said Allen to the street aforesaid, then westerly
on said street thirty two + an half feet, more or less, to
the middle of said house or point began at."
Deed
Bk 294 | Pg 222
This deed - along with its
matching deed of release from
Aaron to Josiah, splits the home
into its current eastern and
western sections - or 155 and
157 Federal Street,
respectively.A3:I8
Leonard B. Harrington, Tanner
$1,475.00 "…one half or Eastern end of that lot of land situate on
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Federal Street in said Salem which my brother Josiah and
myself heretofore purchased together of Mary
Buffington, and which Eastern end has been set off to me
by divisional deed thereof between my said brother and
myself, together with my Eastern end of the dwelling
house since erected and now standing thereon and the
half of the barn, said Eastern end is bounded by a line
running directly through the middle of said house and
barn from said Federal Street back to land formerly of
Bancraft now of Ives, thence Easterly on land now of said
Ives to the corner of said lot to land formerly of Breed
and Allen now belonging to me the said Aaron to the
street aforesaid, then Westerly on said street thirty two
and a half feet, more or less, to the middle of said house
or place begun at..."
Deed
Bk 335| Pg 197
With the Hayward brothers as a
middle party, the transition of
the house mirrors the transition
of Salem's primary industry from
maritime trade (Mary Buffinton's
late husband John Buffinton is
described in the 1828 deed as
"Master marriner") to
manufacturing (Leonard B.
Harrington being a tanner).
Leonard B. Harrington, Currier
Charles Higbee, Leather Dealer
$3,000.00 "…a certain parcel of land in said Salem, on Federal
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Street, with that part of the dwelling house, barn, etc.
thereon standing, thus described, to wit: bounded by a
line running directly through the middle of the house and
barn from said Federal Street back to land formerly of
Bancroft, now of Ives, thence Easterly on land of said Ives
to the corner of the lot, now conveyed, to other land of
mine, thence Northerly on my land to the said Street
thence Westerly on said Street about thirty two and a
half feet, to the middle of said house, or point begun
at..."
Deed
Bk 517 | Pg 95
1886 Nov. 11
Charles Higbee
Annie E. Waldo
$1.00 "…a certain parcel of land in said Salem, on Federal
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Street, with that part of the dwelling-house, barn, etc.
thereon standing thus described, to wit. bounded by a
line running directly through the middle of the house
from said Federal Street back to land formerly of Bancroft
now of City of Salem, to the corner of the lot now
conveyed, to land of Leonard B. Harrington thence
Northerly on other land of said Harrington to the said
street, thence Westerly on said street about thirty-two
and a half feet, to the middle of said house, or point
began at,
Deed
Bk 1186 | Pg 89
1915 April 26
William F. Martin, Annie E.
Martin (previously Annie E.
Waldo)
Mary A. E. Donovan
"…for consideration
paid"
"…the land in said SALEM, together with the buildings
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
thereon, bounded by a line running directly through the
middle of the house from Federal Street, back to land
formerly of Bancroft, now of the City of Salem, thence
easterly on land of said City of Salem, to the corner of the
lot now conveyed, to land of Leonard B. Harrington;
thence northerly on other land of said Harrington to said
Federal Street, thence Westerly on said street about
thirty two and one half feet to the middle of said house
and point begun at."
Deed
Bk 2293 | Pg 441
1917 Feb. 23
Lydia F. Harrington, Mary A. E.
Donovan, et al.
City of Salem
"…we determine and
award the same as
follows: Lydia F.
Harrington $1877.97
Mary A.E. Donovan
$1,089.93…"
(see plan "Land Taken for the Addition to the Bowditch
School, Salem, Mass, December 9, 1915" Bk 2358 | Pg
549)
Taking (see plan "Land
Bk 2358 | Pg 550
Taken for the Addition to
the Bowditch School,
Salem, Mass, December 9,
1915" Bk 2358 | Pg 549)
On 29 October that same year
Mary A.E. Donovan et al.
released another portion of land
on Federal Street to the city for
"...$1 and other valuable
considerations..." (See Bk 2379 |
Pg 250). Ultimately, the house
remained unchanged and the
lots southern boundary was
towards the house.
1932 Sept.19
J. Helen Donovan,
Administrator of the Estate of
Mary A. E. Donovan
Alice M. Hogan
Deed
One year later, in 1933, John J.
Donovan is listed in the Salem
directory at 155 Federal Street.
John likely received the house
through marriage to Alice M.
Hogan, who later appears as
Alice M. Donovan.
$1,500.00 "...a certain lot of land on the Southerly side of Federal
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
street in Salem aforesaid which we purchased of Mary
Buffinton by deed of Feb 25, 1828…bounded Northerly on
said street sixty five feet, Easterly on land now or late of
Holten J. Breed two hundred and three feet and five
inches, Southerly partly on Bancroft and partly on Robert
Cowen sixty three feet and five inches, and Westerly
partly on said Cowen and partly on land now of Bridget
Cross two hundred sixteen feet and eight inches, with a
new wooden dwelling house now standing thereon just
raised..."
$1 and "…for the
further consideration of
a Deed of Release this
day given me by the
said Aaron of his right +
title to the western half
of the premises herein
described..."
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
$3,000 "…the land in said SALEM, together with the buildings
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
thereon, bounded Beginning on Federal Street and
running southerly by a line directly through the middle of
the house from said Federal Street back to land formerly
of Bancroft, now of the City of Salem, thence running
easterly by land of the City of Salem to land now or late
of Leonard B. Harrington, thence running Northerly by
said land now or late of Harrington to said Federal Street,
thence running westerly by said Federal Street about
thirty-two and one half feet to said middle of said house
and point of beginning."
Bk 2928 | Pg 553
�W.H. Demick
Researcher
155 Federal Street, Salem
Essex County, Massachusetts
Chain of Title
1973 June 20
Louise K. O'Neil, Alice M.
Donovan, et al.
Louise K. O'Neil and Alice M.
Donovan
"…for consideration
paid"
1983 April 25
Neil Moynihan, Administrator
of the Estate of Eileen
Moynihan
Raymond D. Buso and Martha
M. Jarnis
1983 May 13
Paul Shortell, Robert J. Shortell, Raymond D. Buso and Martha
Marueen Mattraw (formerly
M. Jarnis
Maureen Shortell), Ruth C.
Pattee, James M. Shortell and
Albert V. Shortell, Executor of
the Estate of Ruth Shortell
$12,333.40 "An undivided one-sixth interest in and to…155 Federal
Street in said Salem…"
1983 May 13
Margaret V. Geiter, Katherine
Constantine, James Donovan,
Leo Donovan
Raymond D. Buso and Martha
M. Jarnis
2008 Sept. 26
Raymond D. Buso and Martha
M. Jarnis
Erica Udoff
$530,000 "The land in Salem…numbered as 155 Federal
Street…Beginning on Federal Street and running:
SOUTHERLY by a line directly through the middle of the
house from said Federal Street back to land formerly of
Bancroft, now of the City of Salem…EASTERLY by land of
the City of Salem to land now or late of Leonard B.
Harrington...NORTHERLY by said land now or late of
Harrington to said Federal Street...WESTERLY by said
Federal Street about thirty-two and one half (32.5 ft.) to
said middle of said house and point of beginning."
2010 Sept. 3
Erica Udoff
2019 July 26
Thomas J. Collins and Nina R.
Collins
Page 2
"the land in Salem…described thereof: Beginning on
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Federal Street and running southerly by a line directly
through the middle of the house from said Federal Street
back to land formerly of Bancroft, now of the City of
Salem; thence running easterly by land of the City of
Salem to land now or late of Leonard B. Harrington,
thence running Northerly by said land now or late of
Harrington to said Federal Street; thence running
Westerly by said Federal Street about thirty-two and onehalf feet to said middle of said house and point of
beginning."
Deed
Bk 6037 | Pg 732
The inheritors of the estate of
Mary F Donovan and J. Helen
Donovan (through probate
dockets #312365 & #318043)
quitclaim their shares of 155
Federal Street at this point,
effectively handing the property
over to two of the inheritors,
Louise K. O'Neil and Alice M.
Donovan as Joint Tenants rather
than Tenants in Common.
$12,333 "…an undivided one-sixth interest…described as follows: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Beginning on Federal Street and running southerly by a
line directly through the middle of the house from said
Federal Street back to land formerly of Bancroft, now of
the City of Salem: thence running easterly by land of the
City of Salem, to land now or late of Leonard B.
Harrington, thence running Northerly by land now or late
of Harrington to said Federal Street: thence running
Westerly by said Federal Street about thirty-two and onehalf feet to said middle of said house and point of
beginning."
Deed
Bk 7109 | Pg 475
It seems that after the deaths of
Alice M. Donovan and Louise K.
O'Neil, the land was divided into
6ths among the same parties
involved in the quitclaim deed of
1973. 1/6th is sold here. See
subsequent entries for remaining
5/6ths.
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Deed
Bk 7109 | Pg 474
It seems that after the deaths of
Alice M. Donovan and Louise K.
O'Neil, the land was divided into
6ths. 1/6th is sold here, see
subsequent entries for remaining
5/6ths.
$49,333.60 "the land in Salem…commonly known and numbered as Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
155 Federal Street…Beginning on Federal Street and
running Southerly be a line directly through the middle of
the house from said Federal Street back to land formerly
of Bancroft, now of the City of Salem; thence running
easterly by land of the City of Salem to land now or late
of Lenoard B. Harrington, thence running Northerly by
said land now or late of Harrington to said Federal Street;
thence running Westerly by said Federal Street about
thirty-two and one-half feet to said middle of said house
and point of beginning...Meaning herein to convey foursixth interest."
Deed
Bk 7109 | Pg 476
The remaining 4/6ths of the
property is sold here. Total cost
of property = $80,000.
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
Deed
Bk 28061 | Pg 1
Thomas J. Collins and Nina R.
Collins
$535,000 "…the land in Salem together with the buildings
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
thereon…numbered as 155 Federal Street…bounded and
described as follows: Beginning on Federal Street and
running Southerly by a line directly through the middle of
the house from said Federal Street back to land formerly
of Bancroft, now of the City of Salem; thence running
easterly by land of the City of Salem to land now or late
of Leonard B. Harrington, thence running Northerly by
said land now or late of Harrington to said Federal Street;
thence running Westerly by said Federal Street about
thirty-two and one-half feet to said middle of said house
and point of beginning."
Deed
Bk 29746 | Pg 217
Andi Kociaj and Jillian M. Rubel
$630,000 "…the land in Salem together with the buildings
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
thereon…numbered as 155 Federal Street…bounded and
described as follows: Beginning on Federal Street and
running Southerly by a line directly through the middle of
the house from said Federal Street back to land formerly
of Bancroft, now of the City of Salem; thence running
easterly by land of the City of Salem to land now or late
of Leonard B. Harrington, thence running Northerly by
said land now or late of Harrington to said Federal Street;
thence running Westerly by said Federal Street about
thirty-two and one-half feet to said middle of said house
and point of beginning."
Deed
Bk 37698 | Pg 83
�W.H. Demick
Researcher
155 Federal Street, Salem
Essex County, Massachusetts
Chain of Title
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c.1828
Built for Aaron and Josiah Hayward, Bricklayers
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English
155 Federal Street
1828
2020
bricklayer
Hayward
Massachusetts
Salem
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192 Federal Street
Built for
James B. Stimpson
Currier
and his wife
Mary E. Horton
in 1856
Researched and written by
Robert Booth
November 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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Federal Street
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192 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House Histories
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
James B. Stimpson
Currier
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Mary E. Horton
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178 Federal Street
Likely built
in the 18th Century
Moved to this spot for
Mary Pitman
Widow
in the 1830s
Research provided by
Dan Graham
November 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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�Chain of Title, 178 Federal Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
1832 April 10
Rufus Marshall, Mary Marshall
Albert Wilkins, tanner
Consideration
$875
1832 July 12
Albert Wikins, a tanner
Mary Pitman, widow
$900
1866 May 14
Mary Pitman
Henry C. Pitman
$1,500
1877 Aug 6
Henry C. Pitman (of San Francisco, CA)
Arthur P. French (of Boston, MA) $1 and other considerations "a certain parcel of land in Salem Deed
in the County of Essex and said
Commonwealth with the dwelling
house and all other buildings
thereon, bounded and described
as follows: to wit Beginning at
the South east corner thereof by
land of Buffum, thence running by
Federal Street three (3) poles, to
land late of Michael Pitman;
thence running North by
land of said Pitman and others
nine (9) poles and eighteen (18)
links to the sea-wall at North
River: thence running South by
said Buffum's land nine (9) poles
and eighteen (18) links to Federal
Street, together with all my
right..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 981 : Pg 52
1877 Aug 6
Arthur P. French
Anna Augusta Pitman (wife of
Henry Pitman)
$1
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 981 : Pg 52
Part of this sale also involved
messuage near the Second Cove
in Marblehead
1888 June 23
Anna A. Pitman
Sarah E. Parshley
$1
"a certain parcel of land in said
Deed
Salem … with the dwelling house
and all other buildings thereon
bounded and described as
follows…"
Deed
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 1227 : Pg 7
This document is incorrectly
referred to as Bk 1225 Pg 7 in
other records consulted. Also
includes messuage in
Marblehead
1894 Sept 8
David Parshley
Mary E. Chapman
$1
"a certain parcel of land in Salem Deed
with the buildings thereon,
bounded as follows: Beginning at
the Southeast corner thereof by
land of Buffum, thence running by
Federal Street three (3) poles to
land late of Michael Pitman,
thence running north by land
of said Pitman and others nine (9)
poles and eighteen (18) links to
the sea wall at North River;
thence running East by said wall
three (3) poles to land of said
Buffum; thence running South by
said Buffum's land nine poles and
eighteen links to Federal Street,
together with all my right title
and interest to the flats on North
River Northerly + Easterly of the
above lot."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 1422 : Pg 404
Part of this sale also involved
messuage near the Second Cove
in Marblehead
Conveyance of
"a certain lot of land in Federal
Street in said Salem bounded …
Beginning at the Southeasterly
corner thereof by land of Buffum
on Federal Street…"
"certain lot of Land in Federal
Street
in said Salem,
bounded…Beginning at the
Southeasterly corner thereof, by
land of Buffum on Federal Street,
and thence running by said Street,
three poles of land late of
Michael pitman, thence running
Northerly by land of said Pitman
and others, nine poles and
eighten links, to the Sea Wall at
North River..."
"a certain parcel of land in said
Salem with the dwelling house
and all other buildings thereon
bounded as follows, to wit
beginning at the S.E. corner
thereof by land of Buffum, tehnce
running by Federal Street, three
poles to land late of Michael
Pitman, thence running N.
by land of said Pitman and others,
nine poles and eighteen links to
the sea wall at North river, thence
running E. by said wall three poles
to land of said Buffum, thence
running S. by said Buffum's land
nine poles and eighteen links to
Federal Street..."
Source Document
Book : Page
Deed Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 263 : Pg 200
Notes
Deed
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 265 : Pg 240
No known house on plot at time
of purchase; by 1836 Pitman
moved an eighteenth-century
house from an unknown
location to 178 Federal Street,
see MACRIS record SAL.612
Deed
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 704 : Pg 168
�1913 Dec 16
Mary E. Chapman (widow, and only
surviving heir of morther, Sarah E.
Parshley, who died in 1891)
Edward N. Chase
$1
"a certain parcel of land, with the Deed
buildings thereon, situated in said
SALEM and bounded southerly by
Federal Street about three (3)
rods; westerly by land formerly of
Michael Pitman, now or late of
Lord and Vaughan; northerly by
Bridge Street about three (3)
rods, and easterly by land
formerly of Buckham, now or late
of Walden. I, the said Mary E.
Chapman, was the only surviving
heir of my mother, Sarah E.
Parshley, late of said Salem, who
died in the year 1891. Further for
title see deed to me from David T.
Parshley, my father, dated
September 8, 1894, and recorded
with Essex South District Deeds in
Book 1422, page 404."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 2267 : Pg 587
1914 July
Edward N. Chase, Lillian Hillman
Chase
Charlotte Reid Robson
$1
"a certain parcel of land, with the Deed
buildings thereon, situated in said
SALEM and bounded southerly by
Federal Street about three (3)
rods; westerly by land formerly of
Michael Pitman, now or late of
Lord and Vaughan; northerly by
Bridge Street about three (3)
rods, and easterly by land
formerly of Buckham, now of late
Walden..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 2267 : Pg 588
1921 Dec 10
Charlotte Reid Robson, unmarried
Bessie D Vaughan
"for consideration paid"
"the land in said SALEM, bounded Deed
northerly by Bridge Street 50.30
feet, easterly by land of Little
230.50 feet, southerly by land of
Robson 49.70 feet, and westerly
by land of Sargent 230.50 feet;
containing 11,340 square feet, all
as shown on a plan of the same
made by T. A. Appleton, C. E.,
dated December, 1921, and to be
recorded herewith, to which
reference may be had..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 2500 : Pg 375
1959 Dec 11
Charlotte Reid Robson, being unmarried Sylvania Electric Products Inc., a
Delaware corporation
"for consideration paid"
"a parcel of vacant land in Salem, Deed
Essex County, Massachusetts,
shown as Lot 1 on a "Plan of
Sylvania Electric Products Inc.,
Bridge and Federal Sts., Salem,
Massachusetts," dated November
1959, by Edwin T. Brudzynski,
registered surveyor…"
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 4628 : Pg 193
1959 Dec 14
Eleanor J Connolly, John J Connolly, John
J Connolly Jr
Marcella R. Estes (executor under the
will … of Charlotte R. Robson)
Sylvania Electric Products Inc., a
Delaware corporation
Willard H. Estes, Marcella R.
Estes,
husband and wife
N/A
See drawing
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 4628 : Pg 191
$7,400
"the land in said Salem, together Deed
with the buildings thereon,
situated at and known as 178
Federal Street, being shown on a
"Plan of Sylvania" Electric
Products Inc. Bridge and Federal
Sts. Salem, Mass." dated
November 1959, by Edwin T.
Brudzynski, Registered Surveyor,
designated "Charlotte Reid
Robson" on said plan, recorded
with Essex South District Deeds,
Book 4628, Page 191, and more
particularly bounded and
described as follows"
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 5275 : Pg 574
Willard H. Estes, of Beverly
Robert E. Warner, of 12 Salt Wall $15,500
Lane, Salem
"the land in said Salem, together Deed
with the buildings thereon,
situated at and known as 178
Federal Street, being shown on a
"Plan of Sylvania" Electric
Products Inc. Bridge and Federal
Sts. Salem, Mass." dated
November 1959, by Edwin T.
Brudzynski, Registered Surveyor,
designated "Charlotte Reid
Robson" on said plan, recorded
with Essex South District Deeds,
Book 4628, Page 191, and more
particularly bounded and
described as follows..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 6034 : Pg 480
1965 June 8
1973 Dec 13
Plan
No longer includes messuage in
Marblehead
"Being a portion of the
premises conveyed" in previous
deed (Bk 2267 Pg 587)
"being the same premises
conveyed to said Charlotte R.
Robson, described in the deed
as Charlotte Reid Robson,
by Edward N. Chase by deed
dated July -- 1914, recording
with said Deeds Book 2267,
Page 587, excepting the
portions of said premises
conveyed by said decedent to
Bessie D. Vaughn and to
Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
by deeds recorded respectively
with said Deeds Book 2500,
Page 375, and Book 4628, Page
193." A notice on this deed says
"See B. 6023 P. 530" (an
inheritance tax release of lien).
"being the same premises
conveyed to Willard H. Estes
and Marcella R. Estes, husband
and wife, tenants by the
entirety, by deed of Marcella R.
Estes, Administratrix, dated
June 9, 1965, and recorded with
said Registry in Book 5275,
Page 574. Said Marcella R.
Estes died in Salem on January
10, 1973. See Essex County
Probate Court Docket #318964"
�1976 June 29
Robert E. Warner
Robert C. Simpsons, Emery
K. Warner, joint tenants, of 182
Federal Street
1985 May 1
Robert C. Simpsons, Emery K. Warner,
joint tenants
1999 May 28
Paul S. Konstadt, Marin F.
Konstadt (f/k/a Fine)
$27,000
"the land in said Salem, together Deed
with the buildings thereon,
situated at and known as 178
Federal Street, being shown on a
"Plan of Sylvania" Electric
Products Inc. Bridge and Federal
Sts. Salem, Mass." dated
November 1959, by Edwin T.
Brudzynski, Registered Surveyor,
designated "Charlotte Reid
Robson" on said plan, recorded
with Essex South District Deeds,
Book 4628, Page 191, and more
particularly bounded and
described as follows..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 6254 : Pg 120
Paul S. Konstadt, Marin Fine, of $115,000
125 Webster Street, Newton, MA
and 205 Common Street,
Watertown, MA
"the land in said Salem, together Deed
with the buildings thereon,
situated at and known as 178
Federal Street, being shown on a
"Plan of Sylvania" Electric
Products Inc. Bridge and Federal
Sts. Salem, Mass." dated
November 1959, by Edwin T.
Brudzynski, Registered Surveyor,
designated "Charlotte Reid
Robson" on said plan, recorded
with Essex South District Deeds,
Book 4628, Page 191, and more
particularly bounded and
described as follows..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 7738 : Pg 404
Paul S. Konstadt, Marin F.
Konstadt, husband and wife
"the land in Salem, together with Deed
the buildings thereon, situated at
and known as 178 Federal Street,
being shown on a "Plan of
Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
Bridge and Federal Sts. Salem,
Mass." dated November 1959, by
Edwin T. Brudzynski, Registered
Surveyor, designed 'Charlotte Reid
Robson' on said plan..."
Essex Registry of Deeds Bk 15717 : Pg 444
$1
�����������������������������1842
70
SALEM IDIRECTORY.
13
21
jr.
Pinnel, Philip P. mariner, 14 Marlboro'
Pitman, Benjamin, clerk Asiatic bank, h 11 Andover
Pitman, John, mariner, 23 Oliver
Pitman John C. currier, 5 Pope's court, h 12 Boston
Pitman, Joshua, bell ringer, E. R. R. h 18 River
Pitman, Mark, cabinet maker, 324 Essex, h 327 Essex
Pitman, Mary, Mrs. 94 Federal
Pitman, Nathaniel, currier, 24 Boston, h 418 Essex
Pitman, Samuel currier, Goodhue, h 4 Boston
Pitts, Darling, sempstress, 76 Lafayette
Pitts, Henry, laborer, Lafayette
Pitts, Simeon, laborer, Everett
Pitts, Thomas, laborer, Ward
Planders, John G. mariner, 10 Turner
Plummer, Caroline, Miss 372 Essex
Plummer, Hezekiah, carpenter, 66 Boston
Plummer, Moses, blacksmith, 21 Northey
Plummer, Moses,
Northey
cordwainer,
Plummer, Rhoda, governess, Children's Friend Society,
Charter
45
98
Boston
12
57
E.
98
25
355410
Pond, Joseph
grocer,
Front,
Pool, Elizabeth, Aborn
Pool, Nathan, grocer,
Lafayette
Poor, James, mariner,
Lafayette
Poor, William, tanner,
Boston
Pope, Eleazer, tanner,
Boston,
Pope, Hannah, rear 28 Marlboro
Pope, Henry,
tanner,
Boston
Pope, James, tanner,
Boston
Pope, Lot, tanner,
Pope's court
Pope, Mary,
Dean
Pope, William, tanner,
Boston
Porter, Benjamin, currier,
Boston
h
4
98
7
h 14
h
h
Federal
h
12
4
P. S.
17
16
21
H.
12
46
Plummer, William, carpenter,
Broad
Plummer, William, tanner,
Franklin, h97 North
Plummer, Zeba
Northey
cordwainer,
Poland, John, cordwainer, 407 Essex
Pollard, Ellen, dress maker,
St. Peter
Mill,
Pomroy, Arad, blacksmith,
South
Washington, Prince
Pond, James
grocer,
�1842
SALEM DIRECTORY.
QS
Wiggin Peirce L. 9 Daniels
Wiggin, Thomas D. block maker, 9 Ash
Wilder, Amasa,
trader, 8 Federal
Wildes, Ira, cordwainer, 189 Essex, h 269 Essex
Wildes, James, 16 Church
Wilkins, Albert, tanner, 4 Boston
Wilkins, Amos S. carpenter, 1 Federal
Wilkins,
Wilkins,
Wilkins,
Wilkins,
Wilkins,
Wilkins,
Charles, mariner, 15 Williams
Gideon, 119 Derby, h 74 Essex
Hezekiah, mariner, 20 Derby
Jason, carpenter, 30 Union
John G. teamster, 92 Boston
Rufus, painter, 92 Boston
Wilkinson, William, stone cutter, 383 Essex
13 Ash
Williams, Charles F. mariner, 81 Essex
Williams, Elizabeth, Mrs. 19 Chesnut
Willey, William, cordwainer,
h
B.
29
O.
Williams, Ruth, Mrs.
27
19 Chesnut . [Federal
Washington,
counsellor,
John
John, cooper,
Derby
Robert, laborer, 112
R.
55 19
27 167
Willis, Sarah,
10
Lynde
Williams, Samuel, mariner,
Chesnut
Williams, Thomas, mariner,
Derby
Williamson, Mary, Mrs. Elm
Willis, John, mariner,
Oliver
Willis, Joseph, cooper,
Williams
235 Essex
97
h
64
18
19
27
32
5
S.
56
Williston, Samuel
cabinet maker,
Broad
Wilson, Edward, mariner,
Elm
Wilson, Edward, tailor, Phelps
Wilson, Jacob, fisherman,
Bridge
Wilson, James, laborer,
St. Peter
Wilson, Jonathan,
Summer
Wilson, Nancy,
River
Wilson, Nathan, cordwainer, Phelps'
Wilson, Samuel, wagoner, Phelps' court
Winchester, Jacob, trader,
Boston,
Boston
3
John B. mariner,
S.
Williams,
Williams,
Williams,
Williams,
ct.
Williams, Henry L. mariner, 19 Chesnut
Williams, Israel P. mariner, 19 Chesnut
Williams, James, mariner, 11 Osgood
�2
Writeup by David Moffat for
Christmas in Salem 2019
guidebook.
Mary Pitman House
178 Federal Street
www.thefelinehospital.com
Built c. 1810
This mysterious house was likely built in the eighteenth century and moved to
the present site in the 1830s. In 1832, Mary Pitman, a widow, purchased a lot of
land from the tanner Albert Wilkins. Pitman soon moved an older house to the
site, though its actual age has yet to be determined. The house’s gambrel roof and
window placement suggest construction in the mid to late 1700s, but vernacular
architectural styles have dates which are more flexible than high style architecture.
The one-story addition at the back as well as the side entrance were added in the
early twentieth century. The house remained in Pitman’s family until 1888 when
it was sold to Sarah E. Parshley. Sarah’s husband, David, was a tanner. Sarah’s
widowed daughter, Mary E. Chapman, lived in the house until 1913. From 1914
until 1965, it was home to Charlotte Reid Robson, who never married.
Many thanks to House Captains Nina Cohen and Kathleen Keefe Ternes
Decorated by Flowers by Darlene
40
41
�Inventory No:
SAL.612
Historic Name:
Pitman, Mary - French, Arthur P. House
Common Name:
Address:
178 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
25-67
Year Constructed:
c 1810
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Federal
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling
House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Local Historic District (03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Granite
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�LHD 3/3/1981
FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's
USGS Quad
Area(s)
Form Number
Number
Salem
25-67
Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission
Massachusetts A r c h i v e s B u i l d i n g
220 M o r r i s s e y B o u l e v a r d
Boston, M a s s a c h u s e t t s 02125
Salem
Town
Place
612
HU
(neighborhood
or v i l l a g e )
-
C e n t r a l Salem
178 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
c Name
Mary Pitman House
resent
Residential
riginal
"
Construction
18th
Century
See B i b l i o g r a p h y *
orm
ct/Builder
r Material:
ion
Granite
Wall/Trim
Clapboard/Wood
Roof
Asphalt Shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary S t r u c t u r e s
Major A l t e r a t i o n s ( w i t h d a t e s ) Rear a d d i t i o n s
(mid 19th o r e a r l y 20th C.)
Condition
Good
X
Moved
y e s Date
5,710
Recorded by: Susan C e c c a c c i , L i s a Hartmann
and Dianne L. S i e r g i e j
O r g a n i z a t i o n : Commonweal C o l l a b o r a t i v e „,
Date:
J u l y 1995
mm
Between 1832
and 1836
SF
S e t t i n g Set p e r p e n d i c u l a r t o t h e
street with the side elevation
d i r e c t l y on t h e s i d e w a l k , i n a densely: t l e d neighborhood o f p r i m a r i l y
Cth-century houses.
(
v
�(
178 F e d e r a l S t r e e t
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe a r c h i t e c t u r a l features.
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
E v a l u a t e t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h i s b u i l d i n g i n term s o f o t h e r b u i l d i n g s
w i t h i n t h e community.
T h i s 2 1 / 2 - s t o r y , gambrel-roofed house i s p e r p e n d i c u l a r l y - o r i e n t e d t o t h e
s t r e e t w i t h i t s 4-bay facade f a c i n g west and w i t h i t s 2-bay, gambrel end t o
the s t r e e t .
The chimney i n t h i s s e c t i o n of t h e house i s somewhat c e n t r a l l y
l o c a t e d . The o f f - c e n t e r main e n t r a n c e i s t h r o u g h an e n c l o s e d 1 - s t o r y ,
h i p - r o o f e d p o r c h o f an apparent C o l o n i a l R e v i v a l p e r i o d t h a t i s trimmed w i t h
C l a s s i c a l d e n t i l s and c o r n i c e . A study of h i s t o r i c maps suggests t h a t t h e
2 1 / 2 - s t o r y , g a m b r e l - r o o f e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e n o r t h s i d e was i n p l a c e as e a r l y
as 1874.
A 1 - s t o r y a d d i t i o n t o i t s n o r t h end appears t o have been b u i l t
during the e a r l y twentieth-century.
Window frames are molded and window sash
are 6/6.
Dormer windows p r o v i d e l i g h t t o t h e h a l f s t o r y i n t h e gambrel.
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e p r e s e n t owner, t h e house was b u i l t about 1730 and moved t o
t h i s s i t e i n t h e mid n i n e t e e n t h c e n t u r y .
Further research i s necessary t o
v e r i f y t h i s s t a t e m e n t . A l t h o u g h a l a c k of ornamental d e t a i l make a q u i c k
v i s u a l assessment of t h e dat e o f c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h i s d i f f i c u l t , t h e
heavy, p r o j e c t i n g window frames, t h e p o s i t i o n i n g of second f l o o r windows
i m m e d i a t e l y under t h e eaves, and t h e e x i s t e n c e on t h e e a s t and south
s i d e s of s k i v e d c l a p b o a r d s a t t a c h e d w i t h wrought n a i l s suggest e i g h t e e n t h century c o n s t r u c t i o n .
The v e r n a c u l a r c h a r a c t e r of t h e house i n c r e a s e s t h e d i f f i c u l t y o f i d e n t i f y i n g
changes t h a t have o c c u r r e d beyond t h e obvious a d d i t i o n s t o t h e n o r t h end.
F u r t h e r p h y s i c a l and documentary r e s e a r c h are n e c e s s a ry t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d
t h e age, h i s t o r y , and t h e a l t e r a t i o n s of t h i s house.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
X
D i s c u s s t h e h i s t o r y of t h e b u i l d i n g .
of t h e b u i l d i n g and
See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
Explain i t s a s s o c i a t i o n s with l o c a l (or s t a t e h i s t o r y .
Include uses
t h e r o l e ( s ) t h e owners/occupants p l a y e d w i t h i n the community.
The Mary P i t m a n House i s l o c a t e d on upper F e d e r a l S t r e e t whic h d e v e l o p e d as a
r e s i d e n t i a l neighborhood i n t h e e a r l y and m i d - n i n e t e e n t h c e n t u r y .
Many o f t h e
r e s i d e n t s were t a n n e r s and c u r r i e r s i n t h e nearby l e a t h e r d i s t r i c t on B o s t o n
S t r e e t . D u r i n g t h e e a r l y n i n e t e e n t h c e n t u r y , Salem's shoe and l e a t h e r
i n d u s t r y expanded r a p i d l y , t o dominate t h e m a n u f a c t u r i n g s e c t o r o f t h e l o c a l
economy by t h e l a t e i n d u s t r i a l p e r i o d .
I n 1832, widow Mary Pitman bought a p l o t o S - l a s d on F e d e r a l S t r e e t w h i c h , at
t h e t i m e , b o r d e r e d t h e N o r t h R i v e r . The l o t was purchased f o r $900 from
A l b e r t W i l k i n s , a tanner.
I t appears t h a t t h e s a l e d i d not i n c l u d e a house,
but by 1836, Pitman had moved t h i s e i g h t e e n t h - c e n t u r y house from an unknown
l o c a t i o n t o 178 F e d e r a l S t r e e t .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
X
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See c o n t i n u a t i o n s h e e t .
Recommended f o r l i s t i n g i n t h e N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r o f H i s t o r i c P l a c e s ;
I f c h e c k e d , see a t t a c h e d N a t i o n a l R e g i s t e r C r i t e r i a Statement
form.
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
178 F e d e r a l
A r e a HU
Salem
Street
Form No. 612
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ( c o n t i n u e d )
The house remained i n t h e Pitman f a m i l y u n t i l 1877 when i t was s o l d t o
A r t h u r P. French from Boston. David T. P a r s h l e y , a t a n n e r and c u r r i e r f o r
P a r s h l e y & Stone a t 14 F r a n k l i n S t r e e t , l i v e d i n t h e house from c. 1874 u n t i l
h i s d e a t h i n 1900.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
*Essex County Deeds. (265:240), (981:52).
M a s s a c h u s e t t s H i s t o r i c a l Commission Reconnaissance Survey Report
f o r Salem. 1985.
B a i l e y , P. and Walsh, K. Massachusetts H i s t o r i c a l Commission
Survey Form. 178 F e d e r a l S t r e e t , Salem. No. 612. March 30, 1978.
Salem D i r e c t o r i e s , 1851-1897/98.
B e e r s , D. G. & Company, A t l a s o f Essex County, M a s s a c h u s e t t s ,
1872.
Hopkins, G. M. & Co., A t l a s o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1874.
* M c I n t y r e , Henry C. E., Map o f t h e C i t y o f Salem, Mass, 1851.
R i c h a r d s , L. J . , A t l a s o f t h e C i t v o f Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s . . . . ,
1897.
Walker L i t h o g r a p h and P u b l i s h i n g Company, A t l a s o f t h e C i t v o f
Salem, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1911.
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
SALEM
178 FEDERAL ST
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.612
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101-103 Federal Street
Built for
Ichabod Glover
Chairmaker & Mariner
by 1799
Research Provided by
Isabella Connor & Alyssa G. A. Conary
October 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Chain of Title, 101-103 Federal Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
December 17, 1771 Samuel Punchard of Salem, fisherman
Grantee(s)
Consideration
Ichabod Glover of Salem,
chairmaker
"A piece of Land in said Salem containing about Eleven
Poles and three quarters bounded Easterly on Land of
Stephen Cook and there measures four Poles nine Links and
a half [Southerly] on Land of [Benjamin] Punchard and there
Twenty-seven
measures three Poles fourteen Links & a half Westerly on
Pounds, Six
said [Benjamin] Punchard and there measures two Poles
Shillings, and Eight twelve Links and a half [Northerly] on the new Lane so called Essex County
Pence
and there measures three poles eighteen Links and a half..." Registry of Deeds Deed
129 : 151
"a certain parcel of land with the dwelling house thereon
situate in Salem aforesaid and bounded as follows, Northerly
on Federal Street so called measuring there forty nine feet,
Easterly on a line running southerly on a twelve feet way,
thro' the center thereof sixty one feet four inches, till it
comes to the garden fence, where said way ends & thence
on said line continued till it comes to land of Morgan thirty
six feet Southerly on said land of Morgan, there measuring
thirty six feet and Westerly on land of Johnson, there
measuring on a strait line sixty two feet, eight inches, and
then on a strait line in a different direction thirty three feet
nine inches till it comes to the boundary first above
Essex County
$3,000.00 mentioned..."
Registry of Deeds Deed
176 : 103
Nathan Peirce Jr., merchant, & Betsy, his
wife; Ichabod Glover, mariner; and Priscilla Archelaus Fuller, coach painter, of
May 17, 1805 Glover, singlewoman, all of Salem
Salem
March 29, 1826 Joseph Peabody, Esq. of Salem
September 28, 1833 Samuel Cook of Salem, merchant.
October 4, 1836 John Jewett of Salem, cabinet maker
Phebe P. Chapman, George R. Chapman,
August 12, 1873 and John O. Chapman of Salem
Conveyance of
Source
Document Book : Page Notes
"a parcel of Land with the Dwelling house thereon, situate in
said Salem, bounding northerly on Federal Street forty nine
feet, easterly on a line running southerly through the centre
of a twelve feet way sixty one feet and four inches where
said way ends and thence on said line continued till it comes
to land of Morgan thirty six feet southerly on said land of
Morgan Thirty six feet and westerly on land late of Edmund Essex County
$600.00 Johnson..."
Registry of Deeds Deed
241 : 149
John Jewett of Salem, cabinet
maker
"a parcel of Land with the dwelling house thereon, situate in
said Salem, bounding Northerly on Federal Street forty nine
feet, Easterly on a line running Southerly through the centre
of a twelve feet way, sixty one feet four inches, where said
way Ends, and thence on the line as the...now stands, till it
comes to land of Morgan thirty six feet, Southerly on said
Morgan forty six feet, and Westerly on land late of...Johnson, Essex County
$2,150.00 about ninety six feet five inches..."
Registry of Deeds Deed
272 : 198
John Chapman of Salem, printer, &
Rebecca Thayer of Salem, widow
"the Dwelling House with the land...bounded Northerly on
$3,000.00 Federal Street forty nine feet..."
293 : 135
Benjamin Shreve of Salem
"The messuage in said Salem which is bounded
Commencing at the Northeast corner on Federal Street by
other land of said George R. Chapman this day conveyed by
him to the grantee, thence running Southwesterly by said
Street 49 feet to land of said grantee, thence Southwesterly
by said grantee's land 36 feet 8 inches, thence Southerly by
the grantee's land 62 feet by the Morgan estate thence
Easterly by the Morgan estate 46 feet 3 inches, to other land
of said George sold to the grantee as aforesaid and thence Essex County
$6,150.00 Northerly 119 feet to Federal Street and the point began at." Registry of Deeds Deed
"being the same
premises conveyed by
Priscilla Glover and
others to Archelaus Fuller
by deed dated May...
1805 and by him
reconveyed to them in
mortgage, under an
assignment of which I
hold the same..."
Samuel Cook of Salem, merchant
Essex County
Registry of Deeds Deed
887 : 6
"Part of the estate was
purchased by said Geo.
R. Chapman and part was
owned by John Chapman
late of said Salem
deceased the grantors
being the widow and all
the heirs at law of said
John."
�Chain of Title, 101-103 Federal Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Consideration
Conveyance of
Source
Document Book : Page Notes
Charles L. Curtis and Josephine
Curtis, both of said Salem,
husband and wife
"One undivided half part of the messuage in said Salem
which is bounded as follows: Commencing at the Northeast
corner of Federal Street by other land of the Benjamin
Shreve Estate, thense running southwesterly by said Federal
Street, 71.95 feet to land of Hannah Moulton et al; thense
running southerly by land of said Hannah Moulton et al 73.10
feet; thence Easterly 85/100 of a foot; thence continuing
southerly by land of saif Hannah Moulton et al and of
Elizabeth F. Daland 24.85 feet to land of C. O. Emmerton;
thence easterly by land of Emmerton 66.70 feet to land of
said Benjamin Shreve Estat; and thence northerly by said
land of Shreve Estate 131.70 feet to Federal Street and the
Essex County
$4,500.00 point of beginning."
Registry of Deeds Deed
2570 : 286
Octavious B. Shreve of Salem, Essex
County, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Trustee under the last will
of Benjamin Shreve late of Salem in the
County of Essex and the commonwealth Charles L. Curtis and Josephine
aforesaid, deceased, for the benefit of
Curtis, both of said Salem,
September 27, 1923 Henry M. Shreve and for other purposes
husband and wife
"One undivided half part of the messuage in said SALEM
which is bounded as follows: Commencing at the Northeast
corner of Federal Street by other land of the Benjamin
Shreve Estate, thense running southwesterly by said Federal
Street, 71.95 feet to land of Hannah Moulton et al; thense
running southerly by land of said Hannah Moulton et al 73.10
feet; thence Easterly 85/100 of a foot; thence continuing
southerly by land of saif Hannah Moulton et al and of
Elizabeth F. Daland 24.85 feet to land of C. O. Emmerton;
thence easterly by land of Emmerton 66.70 feet to land of
said Benjamin Shreve Estat; and thence northerly by said
land of Shreve Estate 131.70 feet to Federal Street and the
Essex County
$4,500.00 point of beginning."
Registry of Deeds Deed
2570 : 288
"The land in said Salem, together with the buildings thereon,
bounded NORTHWESTERLY: by Federal Street 71.95 feet;
SOUTHWESTERLY: by land now or late of Hannah Moulton,
et al, 73.10 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY: 85/100ths of a foot;
SOUTHWESTERLY: again by land now or late of said
Hannah Moulton, et. al, and now or late of Elizabeth F.
Daland 24.85 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY: by land now or late of
C. O. Emmerton, 66.70 feet; and NORTHEASTERLY: by land Essex County
$11,000.00 now or late of the Shreve Estate, 131.70 feet."
Registry of Deeds Deed
3616 : 467
"The land in said Salem, together with the buildings thereon,
bounded NORTHWESTERLY: by Federal Street 71.95 feet;
SOUTHWESTERLY: by land now or late of Hannah Moulton,
et. al, 73.10 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY: 85/100ths of a foot;
SOUTHWESTERLY: again by land now or late of said
Hannah Moulton, et. al, and now or late of Elizabeth F.
Daland 24.85 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY: by land now or late of
C. O. Emmerton, 66.70 feet; and NORTHEASTERLY: by land Essex County
now or late of the Shreve Estate, 131.70 feet."
Registry of Deeds Deed
8740 : 245
Octavious B. Shreve of Salem, Essex
County, and the First National Bank of
Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, both in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Trustees under the last will of Benjamin
Shreve late of Salem in the County of
Essex and the commonwealth aforesaid,
deceased, for the benefit of Henry M.
September 27, 1923 Shreve and for other purposes
Robert W. Hill of Marblehead, Essex
County, Massachusetts, Executor of the
will of Charles L. Curtis, late of Salem in
August 4, 1948 said County
Guinevere F. Pitman, Executrix under the
will of Lester E. Pitman, late of said Salem
July 23, 1986 in said County
Lester E. Pitman and Ila D. Pitman,
as tenants in common, both of said
Salem
Guinevere F. Pitman
Melissa Machernis, a/k/a Melissa Foster
Machernis, individually and as Executrix of
the Estate of Guinevere F. Pitman, a/k/a
Guinevere Foster Pitman, and Executrix of ProProcess It, LLC., a Delaware
the Estate of Jennifer Walker Pitman of
Limited Liability Company, of One
August 30, 2012 Warren, New Jersey
Washington Square, Marblehead
ProProcess It, Inc., a/k/a ProProcess It,
July 15, 2013 LLC
Stacey E. Soper & Myrna F. Soper,
husband and wife of Salem
one dollar
"The land in said Salem, together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows: NORTHWESTERLY: by
Federal Street 71.95 feet; SOUTHWESTERLY: by land now or
late of Hannah Moulton, et. al, 73.10 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY:
85/100ths of a foot; SOUTHWESTERLY: again by land now
or late of said Hannah Moulton, et. al, and now or late of
Elizabeth F. Daland 24.85 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY: by land
now or late of C. O. Emmerton, 66.70 feet; and
NORTHEASTERLY: by land now or late of the Shreve Estate, Essex County
$355,000.00 131.70 feet."
Registry of Deeds Deed
31674 : 464
Entire house; Master
Deed for new
condominium association
can be found in Book
32508, Page 381
"Unit Number 101...in The 101-103 Federal Street
Condominium...established by Master Deed dated May 17,
$499,900.00 2013..."
32654 : 186
Only Unit 101
Essex County
Registry of Deeds Deed
�Chain of Title, 101-103 Federal Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
August 2, 2013 ProProcess It, Inc.
Stacey E. Soper & Myrna F. Soper,
September 16, 2016 married, of Salem
Grantee(s)
Consideration
Conveyance of
Source
Document Book : Page Notes
James Gwin & Jennifer Lucht of
Salem
"Unit Number 103...in The 101-103 Federal Street
Condominium...established by Master Deed dated May 17,
$499,900.00 2013..."
Essex County
Registry of Deeds Deed
32714 : 332
Only Unit 103
Tina A. Ward & Jonathan A. Hill,
married, of Salem
"Unit Number 101...in The 101-103 Federal Street
Condominium...established by Master Deed dated May 17,
$565,000.00 2013..."
Essex County
Registry of Deeds Deed
35269 : 464
Only Unit 101
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Inc. House History for 105 Federal
Street (Research by Joyce King,
1978) relevant to the history of
101-103 Federal Street.
105 Federal Street
House and Shop of
ED::.UND JuHNStJN, cabinetmaker
before 1801
ReseBrch by:
Joyce King
1978
�0n March 13, 1797 John mortgaged his property once more, this time
to his son .John Chamberlain Jr. , a baker, for $166.67. The same
property described in book 144 page 141. The first mortgage was
still unpaid. (book 162 page 104)
John Chamberlain Jr. died in 17g8 leaving most of his estate to
his father, John, until his brothers Garland and Jcseph turned 21
years old. This same year Elizabeth gave birth to a son. The
couple named this child John.
On June 28, 1799, John Chamberlain, hired Gideon
to set
the line between Chamberlain's and Glover's land. On Nov. 11,
an agreement between Chamberlain and Glover was written:
For Sl John Chamberlain granted to Ichabod Glover all the
estate
to the east of the following line;
at
a notch cut in stone set in the ground by the south side of Federal
St., which notch is 10 inches west of the waterboard of said
Glover's house measuring so as to make a right angle with the
house then run south 33 feet g inches to another stone set in the
ground with a notch cut in the top. This notch is 11 inches from
the waterboard of said Glover's house, then from the stone till it
shall intersect the line which divides my garden from said Glovers.
It is to bP understood that if upon raising a perpendicular line
(from the aforesaid) it should be intersect of cut the e8ves or
covjng of said 3lover's house, in that case the said Jlnver is to
continue the jmprovement of the Paves or coving as it now is. The
intersection of the perpendiculat line aforesaid notwithstanding
to with the reversion and reversions. (105 Federal St. is not
mentioned in this document and probably was not here at this time.)
Soon after this agreement, John Chamberlain died. In hls
taken May 5, 1800,· his real estate was listed as: house 8nd land on
corner of Beckford St. $2, 000 and shop st;:inding on saj d 18.nd, formerly S. Lampson's. The widow, Elizabe·th, was told if she would sign
over her rights to the mansion house and land and
a
that
stood on one part of the land, the committee would fix the shop into
8 house for her, that t.here would be cons id ern l.Jl e money 1 eft to
divide among the heirs and that her child would
allowed part to
maintqin him until he was 7 years old. She at last agreed to it
and was given a dower described as a small two story house about 20
fPet wide on the front and 21 feet wide in depth,
on land
Adjoining east on Federal St. next to the mansion house of the late
John Chamberlain, with the land under house and with land. (see
sheets #16 - 18)
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SAL.1526
Historic Name:
Glover, Ichabod - Cook, Samuel House
Common Name:
Thayer, Rebecca - Chapman, John C. House
Address:
101-103 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-508
Year Constructed:
c 1799
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Federal
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling
House; Doctor Or Dentist Office
Significance:
Architecture; Commerce; Health Medicine
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Asphalt Shingle; Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut
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�F O R M B - BUILDING
NRDIS 8/28/73; LHD 3/3/81
Assessor's Number
26-508
Town
TJSGS Quad
Salem
Area(s)
HU
Form Number
1526
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Central Salem
Address
101 -103 Federal St.
Historic Name Ichabod Glover House
Uses: Present Single-Family Dwelling
Original Single-Family Dwelling
Date of Construction
before 1799
Source Tolles
Style/Form
Federal
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Granite Block
Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard S & E; Asphalt Shingle W
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition Good
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by Leslie Donovan
Organization Salem Planning Department
Date (month/year) 2/96
x no
yes
Date
Less than 1 Acre
Setting Set directly at the sidewalk in 18th & 19th century
residential area
JUL 0
8 1996
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
�BUILDING F O R M
101-103 Federal Street, S a l e m
A R C H I T E C T U R A L DESCRIPTION
see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
101-103 Federal Street is a classic three-story Federal style house, one of several examples in the Mclntire district,
including many similar examples nearby on Federal Street. Set on a relatively wide lot, it has no front (north) or
west setback, as it was built within two feet of its neighbor to the west. Clad in clapboards (except for its west
elevation, which is sided with asphalt shingles and has no windows), it has a rectangular plan with a two-story
wing extending two bays to the east. Surmounted by a projecting cornice, the main block of the house is five bays
wide by three bays deep. It has a low hip roof clad in asphalt and pierced by four symmetrically positioned interior
chimneys. The center entry has a paneled door surrounded by partial sidelights, fluted pilasters, and an entablature
with a modillion cornice. Windows have 6/6 sash, except for the 3/6 third story sash. Simple molded frames case
the windows, and those at the third story are incorporated into the wide tripartite fascia boards. The wing contains
a recessed and paneled secondary entrance. A two-car, cast stone, garage with an asphalt shingle hip roof sits in
the southeast comer of the lot.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
see continuation sheet
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the
building and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
Known as the Glover-Cook-Chapman House, 101-103 Federal Street was constructed prior to 1799, and was
originally 33 Federal Street. In the 1770s Ichabod Glover, a mariner, acquired the land from Samuel Punchard
and presumably built this house. The District Study Committee Report named this the John Archer/Ichabod
Glover House, suggesting it had been built as a two-family house. However, the HSI research did not indicate
there were two owners or what Archer's association might have been with this building. In 1822, Samuel Cook
purchased the house and owned it until 1833, when he sold to cabinetmaker John Jewett. It is not known whether
the house was built as a two-family, but presumably it bad become such by 1836, when Jewett sold to Rebecca
Thayer and John C. Chapman. Mrs. Thayer, a widowed schoolteacher, lived here with Sarah, Rebecca and Nancy
Thayer. Chapman, a printer and the publisher of the Salem Register, also lived at this address. The 1851 Salem
map shows Chapman as the owner, but by 1874 the building was owned by Benjamin Shreve, a member of one of
Salem's most prominent merchant trade families. Shreve lived at 27 Chestnut Street (see form for the
Pickman-Shreve-Little House, 27 Chestnut, Form 752). By 1897 his estate owned houses at 17, 27 and 29
Chestnut Street, 92, 94, 95-97, 122, 124-126 Federal Street, 9 Lynn Street, and a large lot bounded by Broad.
Pickering, and Warren streets. The Shreve family never resided at 101-103 Federal Street. By 1911, the title had
passed to Mary L. Shreve. During the forty-plus years of Shreve ownership, the building footprint remained
essentially the same, and the house was an investment property. Residents in 1884 included William H. Simonds
at 101. and Mrs. Sarah F. Jenks at 103. In 1897 and 1910, C. W. Richardson, a lawyer, resided at 101 Federal
Street. He bought 100 Federal in 1901 and owned it until he died in 1924. John J. K. Coker, a painter, lived at
103 in 1897; he later lived across the street at 92 Federal, also owned by the Shreves. In 1910, 103 Federal was the
residence of Frank L. Smith, principal of Bowditch Grammar School. By 1930, 101 Federal Street was the home
and office of Charles L. Curtis, a physician. He was followed in 1950 by another physician. Maurice J. Keller.
From at least 1950-1970. 103 Federal Street was occupied by Lester E. Pittman. a salesman at Jordan Marsh.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
x
see continuation sheet
Reardon. Elizabeth K. Salem Historic District Study Committee Investigation. Typescript, 1968.
Salem Citv Directories. 1836- 1970V
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Tolles. Bryant J. Architecture in Salem. Salem: Essex Institute. 1983.
�INVENTORY F O R M CONTINUATION SHEET
Community
Salem
Property Address
101-103 Federal St.
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Area(s)
HU
Form No.
1526
Maps
Hopkins. G. M. Atlas of Salem. Philadelphia. 1874.
Mclntyre. H. Map of the City of Salem Philadelphia. 1851
Phillips. James Duncan. Map of Salem about 1780 Based on Research by Sidney Perley and the accounts of
Colonel Benjamin J. Pickman and Benjamin F. Browne with additional information assembled by Jones Duncan
and Henry Noyes Otis. Salem: James Duncan Phillips. 1937.
. Part of Salem in 1700. From the research of Sidney Perley. Assembled by William W. K. Freeman.
Salem: James Duncan Phillips, 1933.
Richards. L. F. Atlas of Salem. 1897.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of Salem. Boston. MA: 1911
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a
completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
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Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.1526
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86 Federal Street
Built for
Robert Peele Jr.
Tailor
and his wife
Elizabeth Ropes
1769
Research & Writing Provided by
Robert Booth
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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144-146 Federal Street
Built for
Capt. Thomas Whittredge
Shipmaster
and his wife
Sarah Whittredge
c. 1802
Researched and written by
Michele Felski-Smith
January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�The house at 144-146 Federal Street in Salem, Massachusetts was built for shipmaster
Captain Thomas Whittredge and his wife Sarah, around 1802. It is located on the northeastern
corner of Federal Street and Flint Street (originally known as Dean Street). i
The Whittredge house was built in the Federal style, which was the prevailing American
architectural style between around 1780 and 1820, particularly popular along the eastern
seaboard in port cities. The lot on which it is situated is 8,825 square feet, and the house
measures 5 X 3 bays. ii The house is a three-story wood-frame building with clapboard siding and
has a brick chimney on both the east and west sides of the house. It has a low-pitch hipped roof,
which is the subtype of Federal houses most common to New England. iiiiv Three-story hippedroof Federal houses in particular have “an unusually important concentration in the town of
Salem, Massachusetts,” and are usually “of landmark quality.” v Originally, the house had outbuildings, including a shed, and a two-story stables on the northern end of the lot. vi It has a low
foundation made of granite with three granite front steps leading directly from the sidewalk to
the front door.vii viii While almost all of the characteristics of the house match typical Federal
style elements, the low foundation with no porch is one holdover from the preceding Georgian
style.ix
The front door has six panels and is surrounded by two Doric half-round and fluted
pilasters which support a triangular denticulated broken pediment. x Above the door is an
elliptical fanlight with five segments. xixii There is a similar six-panel door on the east side of the
house with pilasters supporting a less elaborate triangular pediment. This door also has three
granite steps extending down to the walkway.
On the front façade, the windows are singly-placed, five-ranked, and balanced
symmetrically with the front door in the center. xiii The third floor is a foreshortened story, and
�thus the windows are shorter than on the first and second floors. xiv Each window has a doublehung 6/6 sash, which is a window made up of six panes separated by muntins, or thin wooden
supports, above another set of six panes. xv By the late 1990s, the house was vacant, and the
windows were empty and boarded up. xvi Since then, they have been reinstalled and restored to
their original style.
During this architectural era, according to Virginia McAlester in A Field Guide to
American Houses, “the first true architects appeared on the American scene.” xvii One of the few
most notable in the country was an architect from Salem, named Samuel McIntire. He was a
master at the Georgian and Federal style of architecture, and several of his works remain in
Salem today. According to Bryant F. Tolles, in Architecture in Salem, An Illustrated Guide, his
greatest achievements came during this mid-Federal period between 1800 and 1815. xviii He was
particularly attracted to the Federal Street area, because of its “elegant streetscape” and was hired
by merchants to build their mansions there. xix The Whittredge House is part of the McIntire
Historic District. The McIntire-designed Samuel Cook/Henry Oliver House is next door at 142
Federal Street, and features some of his famous wood carving. xx Aspects of the Whittredge
House and original stable “show close relationship with McIntire’s work,” according to Fiske
Kimball, an architectural historian, though Kimball was not able to find specific evidence of a
connection.xxi The Whittredge House, and the Federal style in general, share similarities with the
earlier Georgian style, but are a refinement of the style. Houses of the mid-Federal period, are
described as “having a lightness and delicacy in comparison with their close Georgian relatives”
and “the exteriors… have few elaborations other than the fanlight and accentuated front door,”
which fits the Whittredge House perfectly.xxii This new refined architectural development
�borrowed from European styles of the time and was first used by wealthy merchants on the New
England coast, like Thomas Whittredge himself.
Thomas Whittredge was born on May 2, 1766 in Salem, Massachusetts. xxiii Sarah Waters
was born in 1766 in Danvers, Massachusetts to Abel Waters and Lydia (Trask) Waters. xxiv Sarah
married Thomas in Danvers on November 11, 1793 when they were both 28 years old. xxv The
two lived in Danvers in the early years of their marriage, and had three children before building
and moving to their mansion on Federal Street. Henry Trask Whittredge was the first, born
December 29, 1794, followed by Eliza, born November 25, 1796, Thomas Cook, born May 27,
1799, and Edward A., born December 15, 1801.
Thomas Whittredge was a Master Mariner, or Shipmaster, and traded in the mid-Atlantic
states.xxvi He was part of Salem’s proud and important history as a seaport, participating in it
during a time when the merchant culture and rich commerce were at their prime in the town.
According to the History of Essex County, Massachusetts published in 1888, “From the close of
the War of the Revolution until the embargo in 1808, Salem was at the height of her commercial
prosperity. The white sails of Salem’s ships were unfurled in every port of the known worlds and
carried the fame and name of Salem to the uttermost parts of the earth.” xxvii While Whittredge
perhaps was not quite as rich or well-known as some of the other merchants in town, he did a
good business and was quite wealthy, owning real estate not only at the Federal Street property,
but elsewhere in Salem, and in neighboring towns such as Peabody. xxviii
Whittredge was part owner of many ships that sailed from Salem. The 1906 Ship
Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900 lists him as an owner
of two vessels that served as privateers in the War of 1812; the Alexander carried twenty guns
and one hundred fifty-five men before being captured on May 19, 1813, and the Buckskin, a
�schooner, carried five guns and fifty men, and was captured by the British Frigate Statira on
August 7, 1812. He was also an owner of the Andrew Jackson, after its capture in the war,
registering it as a merchant ship when the war was over. Earlier in his career, Whittredge was
also an owner of the Clarissa, registered in 1794, and the Argo, registered in 1808. Whittredge’s
will and other documents reveal interest in ships not mentioned in this register as well. xxix The
ship register shows a chart of private signals from commercial houses, which includes an image
of Whittredge’s signal, shown below. xxx
In the mid-eighteenth century, Joseph Dean owned a large piece of land in Salem, just
south of the North River. The road to the west of this land was named for him for nearly a
century. When he died, he left it to his son John Dean, who in turn sold it to Joseph Sprague on
October 25, 1774.xxxi During that time, Federal Street was laid on the southern border of this
land, named in 1792, and a bustling community of merchant families was created. Sprague, also
a merchant, sold a piece of his land which would become 144-146 Federal Street, to Thomas
Whittredge on November 30, 1799 for six hundred and twenty-five dollars.xxxii This original deed
describes the boundaries of the land, which have remained unchanged to this day. It explains that
the western edge of the land was bounded by Dean Street (later Flint Street) and ran one hundred
and fifty-one feet. The north end was bounded by a school house’s land and ran forty-six feet,
eight inches. The east end was bounded by more land that still belonged to Sprague, and ran one
�hundred and fifty-one feet, equal to the western side. The southern border was a little longer than
the northern border, spanning sixty-one feet, one inch, and was, and still is, bounded by Federal
Street. Whittredge had the mansion built soon after purchasing the land, and it was completed
around 1802.xxxiii
The image below, from an 1890 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, shows the border of the
property, along with its original buildings, including the two-story stable on the northern border.
Behind the lot is the school house property mentioned in the deed, which had been turned into a
six-dwelling tenement house by 1859. xxxiv (The top of the image is East.)
xxxv
After moving into the new house, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s fourth child, Edward,
died on August 25, 1803 at only twenty months of age.xxxvi The next year, however, their
youngest, Sarah, was born on November 1, 1804. The children were all raised in the Federal
Street mansion, and Thomas Whittredge lived there with his wife until he died at age 63 on
September 16, 1829 of “mortification of toes and foot.” xxxvii
In his will, Whittredge stated, “I give and devise to my wife Sarah the mansion house,
buildings, and land under and adjoining the same where I now dwell.” Sarah Whittredge
continued to live in the house until 1841, when she transferred the deed of mortgage to her
�daughter Sarah W. Osborne, and son-in-law, George S. Osborne, a physician from Danvers. xxxviii
Sarah Whittredge then moved to Danvers, where she died on August 16, 1845 at age seventyeight after a “bowel complaint.” xxxix
Upon her death, she left the property equally to her daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her
granddaughter, Elizabeth Williams (the daughter of Thomas Cook Whittredge, and wife of
Henry S. Williams). xl The following year, Sarah Osborne paid her niece Elizabeth Williams two
thousand dollars to purchase her half of the property. As of March 25, 1846, the house belonged
entirely to Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her husband
George.xli
Though the house was in the family for four generations, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge
appear to be the only family members who actually lived in the house as adults. Beginning in the
1850s, the house was split up and rented out, first as a two-family dwelling, and later into
tenement rooms. Around this time, Salem’s booming commerce and shipping economy began to
decline a bit; fewer stately mansions were being built, those that were built were instead erected
further inland, and many existing mansions were being repurposed for other uses. In a 1914
book, Historic Homes of New England, Mary H. Northend laments the end of a romantic era of
young merchants and “jolly sailor lads… bound for Kit’s Dancing Hall,” and the long-closure of
local Inns. Further, she complains that “the large, square homes of yesterday are now
degenerated into tenement houses.” xlii
While this shift may have seemed like a negative one to some in Salem, it is likely a
major reason that some houses such as the Whittredge House remained standing for so long.
Additionally, although none so lucrative as the merchant career of Thomas Whittredge, many of
the house’s residents owned successful businesses in various trades.
�The first renters kept the merchant community alive, as they were both sea captains
themselves. By 1851, Sarah and George Osborne were renting out the house to Captain John Day
on the 144 Federal Street side, and Captain Richard Matthews at 146 Federal Street. xliii The 1851
survey map shows Day and Matthews’ names as owners of the property’s buildings (and the
existing MACRIS record cites Day as owner because of this), however the map must be referring
solely to the house’s residents at the time, as it was still owned by the Osbornes. xliv
In 1860, Xenophon Hector Shaw and his wife Eliza began renting the 144 Federal side of
the house. Xenophon was born on October 28, 1799 in Middlesex, Massachusetts, and Eliza was
born August 16, 1801 in Salem. xlv xlviThe two married on July 1, 1821. xlvii By the time they
moved to the Whittredge house, the couple was older and had three grown children, Mary Shaw,
Brown Emerson Shaw and Hannah Tappan,.xlviii Eliza died just seven years later on November
14, 1868. Eventually Xenophon’s daughter Mary Shaw moved into the house and is listed as a
boarder and housekeeper in the city directories between 1870 and 1886. xlix The two lived in the
house until Xenophon’s death on December 7, 1886. Xenophon owned a picture framing and
gilding business with his son Brown Emerson Shaw, called Xenophon H. and Son. The business
was established in 1820, when Xenophon himself was just twenty years old, so was likely
already a family business. Brown continued the family business with his sister Mary after their
father’s death until 1896, which is the last year it is listed in the directory. l They had large
advertisements placed in several of the Salem City Directories between the 1860s and 1890s.
Shown below is their ad from 1886. li
�By 1866, on the 146 Federal side, Daniel Frye Nichols had moved in with his family.
Daniel was born in 1805 and was married to Lydia F. Cheever (born 1806) on August 8, 1827 in
Salem.lii Similar to the Shaws, the couple moved into the Whittredge house as an older couple
with adult children. In this case, many of their adult children moved with them into the house,
including Randle, Lydia, Abbie, Benjamin, and Henry C. Nichols, all between the ages of twenty
and thirty-four. Daniel F. Nichols made his living as a tanner, working in the tanneries on the
North River near the house. liii In another similarity to the Shaw’s side of the building, Lydia died
only a few years after moving in, on September 1, 1872 at age sixty-six of unknown causes.
By 1880, though Daniel still lived in the house, his son Henry C. Nichols had taken over
as the head of household at 146 Federal Street, living there with his wife Mary, and young son
Edward.liv The Henry Nichols family lived in the house until 1889, following the death of Daniel
Nichols on October 8, 1888. Abby F. Nichols, Henry’s older sister, also continued to live in the
house as a boarder until 1889.
While the Nichols and Shaw families lived in the house, house owners Sarah Whittredge
Osborne died on February 17, 1883 and her husband George Osborne died on September 21,
1882. Upon their deaths, they left the property to their two children George S. Osborne, and
�Eliza D. Shepard. lv The two were “tenants in common” and continued to live elsewhere and rent
out the building until Eliza’s death in 1930.lvi
In 1890, James H. Fitzpatrick moved to 146 Federal, though only for a short time. lvii In
1895, William Sheehan, a physician, moved into the home. William married Katherine C. Anglin
in 1909. Beginning in the 1912 city directory, “K.C. Sheehan” is also listed with William, also as
a physician.lviii This is clearly referring to Katherine, who was also a doctor. In the 1924
directory, her name is listed with William’s in its entirety, both as physicians. lix In the
directories, William gives his office hours next to their address, so it seems he may have visited
patients at the home. lx The couple raised five children in the home and lived there until
William’s death in 1924. Katherine was there for two more years on her own, still practicing
medicine, before moving to another house. lxi
When she died in 1930, owner Eliza D. Shepard left the property to her two children,
Thomas O. Shepard, and Sarah W. Shepard. They never lived there, nor do they seem to have
rented it out, as during their brief ownership the city directory lists the house as vacant. lxii Neither
Thomas nor Sarah ever married or had children, living together until they died. Thus, this is
where ownership of the house left the Whittredge family line.
Thomas and Sarah sold the house to Francis J. Murphy and his wife Louise in 1931, not
long after inheriting it.lxiii Francis was a leatherworker, born July 16, 1899, who married Louise
M. Brophy in 1926.lxiv The two had a daughter, Mary, in 1929, and purchased the Federal Street
home on April 7, 1931.lxv They lived there with their daughter and a servant, eventually giving
birth to a son, Frances.lxvi It seems that they preferred to use the house for only their family
instead of renting it out to tenants, as Francis Murphy is listed as the only occupant of both 144
and 146 Federal Street on the city directories of this time. lxvii They lived in the house until about
�1945, before moving elsewhere in Salem. In 1945, the house was rented out as furnished
tenement rooms, advertised by Laura M. Smith in the city directory, who also lived in the house,
and must have managed the tenants for the owners. lxviii In 1945, there were many tenants,
including Nathan Tucker, Florence and Silvio Landry, Julia Symonds and her husband Frank, a
lathe hand, and widow Marie Maillet. lxix
The Murphys sold the house soon after turning it into tenements, on April 27, 1946 to
Joseph and Tekla Rostkowski, a couple from Poland.lxx They owned the house for just over a
year, and it doesn’t appear that they ever lived there themselves. Laura M. Smith continued to
advertise furnished rooms at the house during this time, until the next owner took over the job
herself. Esther M. and Thomas F. Henry purchased the house on June 25, 1947 and continued to
rent out furnished rooms, advertising them in the directory, while also living there themselves. lxxi
Thomas Henry was born June 5, 1920 in Peabody, and Esther Trabucco, known as Babe,
was born October 8, 1919 in Beverly. lxxii They were married in 1941 in Salem, and had four
children, Thomas, Michael, Barbara, and Patricia. Thomas was enlisted in the army as a private
on October 9, 1944 for the duration of the war; his cemetery marker shows him as a Technician
Fifth Grade. When not serving, Thomas was an engineer at New England Instruments, and
Esther started Henry Associates, a real estate business, in addition to managing tenants in her
home.lxxiii
Below is a picture of Esther and three of their children in 1944, and a picture of Thomas
in 1945.
�The Henry’s tenants listed between 1946 and 1950 are Frank and Julia Symonds;
Josephine Rostkowski, a payroll clerk at John Lynn and Sons, incorporated, and her husband
John; Clifford M. Smith, a machinist; Donald and Doris Haskell; Marie Henry; Mary McGrath;
George Angelico; Joseph Angelico; Mary Kelly; Albert and Ruth Thibodeau; Kenneth Shepard,
a cable splicer at NET&T Company; a nurse, Mrs. Ellen Linscomb; Constance “Connie” Clay, a
telephone operator at NET&T Company, and her husband Leo, a contractor; and several
employees of the Sylvania light bulb factory, Augusta V. Rostkowski, Alice M. Rostkowski,
Robert O. Westman, and Esther Crowell. lxxiv
Additionally, four members of the United States Coast Guard Air Station lived in rooms
in the house at the same time, three of them with their wives. Between 1935 and 1970, Winter
Island, off the coast of Salem, was the site of a United States Coast Guard Air Station, which
patrolled the northeastern shore by plane, “responding to emergency calls off the Atlantic Coast
�from as far south as Connecticut and as far north as Halifax… the men bravely saved dozens of
lives at sea, and risked their own,” according to Salem collector and history writer, Nelson
Dionne.lxxv The USCG Air Station aviators who lived in the Whittredge House beginning in 1949
are Wilbur Stanley, and his wife Eileen, Clarence W. Stanley, Cecil R. Furr, and his wife Jean,
and Paul H. Lavallee and his wife Beatrice. lxxvi
Owners Thomas and Esther Henry lived in the house until Thomas’ death on March 31,
1983, though it isn’t clear for how long its rooms were rented out, as the city directories stop
listing its residents in the 1950s. lxxvii By the 1990s, Esther was no longer living in the Whittredge
House, and it was no longer kept up. In 1997, when the MACRIS report was made, the house’s
windows were gone and had been boarded up.lxxviii
On March 26, 1998, current owners Michaeline D. La Roche and her husband Robert J.
Ouellette purchased the house and land from Esther Henry. Since then, its traditional windows
have been replaced, and the exterior restored, and the house at 144-146 Federal Street remains a
beautiful and historic example of Salem’s Federal architecture, a monument to the maritime
history of Salem.
�i
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
Essex South County Registry of Deeds (hereinafter ESCRD) Book 426, Page 1959.
iii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 762
iv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
v
Virginia & Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
vi
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
vii
Ibid.
viii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
ix
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 76
x
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
xiii
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xiv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xv
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 745
xvi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xvii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 799
xviii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. xviii
xix
“The McIntire Historic District Architectural Walking Trail,” National Park Service and the Salem Partnership,
https://www.nps.gov/sama/planyourvisit/upload/McTrail.pdf
xx
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 8-9
xxi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 784
xxiii
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xxiv
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xxv
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xxvi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxvii
Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketched of many of its pioneers
and prominent men., Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis an& Co., 1888, pg. 64
xxviii
Ancestry.com. Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
xxix
Ibid.
xxx
Hitchins, A. Frank, Stephen Willard Phillips, Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts,
1789-1900, Essex Institute, 1906. Pgs. 1-12
xxxi
ESCRD Book 134, Page 54
xxxii
ESCRD Book 166, Page 154
xxxiii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxxiv
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890 [Massachusetts State Library].
xxxv
Ibid.
xxxvi
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 331 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxxvii
Ibid.
xxxviii
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xxxix
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USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xl
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xli
ESCRD Book 381, Page 214
xlii
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 6-7
xliii
Salem City Directory, 1855
xliv
McIntyre, Henry, “Map of the city of Salem, Mass : from an actual survey,” Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection., https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9g54xk154
ii
�xlv
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlvi
Ibid.
xlvii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlviii
Ancestry.com. The Choates in America, 1643-1896, John Choat and his descendants, Chebacco, Ipswich,
Massachusetts., pg. 161 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlix
Salem City Directory, 1886
l
Salem City Directory, 1896
li
Salem City Directory, 1886
lii
Salem City Directory, 1866
liii
Salem City Directories, 1837-1866
liv
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: 532; Page: 690A;
Enumeration District: 235
lv
ESCRD Book 1150, Page 188
lvi
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lvii
Salem City Directory, 1890
lviii
Salem City Directory, 1912
lix
Salem City Directory, 1924
lx
Salem City Directory, 1895
lxi
Salem City Directory, 1926
lxii
Salem City Directory, 1931
lxiii
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lxiv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850., pg. 316 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.; Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013
lxvi
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01589; Page: 1A;
Enumeration District: 5-347
lxvii
Salem City Directory, 1933
lxviii
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxix
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxx
ESCRD Book 3459, Page 118
lxxi
ESCRD Book 3554, Page 565
lxxii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2013.
lxxiii
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts). October 16, 2005., pg. 10,
https://www.newspapers.com/image/443766729/?terms=esther%2Bhenry
lxxiv
City directories 1946-1950
lxxv
Smith, Bonnie Hurd, Nelson Dionne, U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Massachusetts: 1935-1970: a
Pictorial and Chronological History., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
lxxvi
Salem City Directories, 1949-1950
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
lxxviii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
lxxvii
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84 Federal Street
Built for
Lois E. Mooney and Alvin J. Mooney,
Conductor of Boston & Maine Railroad
1899
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
May 2018
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�In 1899, 84 Federal Street (originally 86 ½) was constructed by the Mooney family on the plot that previously housed a barn belonging to 86 Federal
Street which they purchased in 1890. Easement to the property was granted to 84 Federal Street by 86 Federal Street in 1967 (Deed 5480:781)
Date of Purchase
October 29, 1890
Conveyed by
Lynn Hospital
Conveyed to
Mrs. Lois E. Mooney
Amount
$3,350
Document
Deed 1293:222
May 28, 1940
Alvin J. Mooney
Mabel F. Ward
“Consideration Paid”
Deed 3219:514
October 3, 1967
Anna M. Kelley, Power
of Attorney for Mable F.
Drolet (nee Ward)
Arthur L. Gaudette
Althea Gaudette
Unknown
Deed 5480:781
June 1, 1970
Arthur L. Gaudette
Althea Gaudette
Donald P. Deveau
Susan A. Deveau
$20,000
Deed 5687:291
June 11, 1971
Donald P. Deveau
Susan A. Deveau
Raymond R. Cooper
$23,000
Deed 5773:584
October 4, 1972
Raymond R. Cooper
Richard E. Gauthier
Ruth G. Gauthier
$26,7000
Deed 5911:557
July 3, 1974
Richard E. Gauthier
Ruth G. Gauthier
John D. Hall, Jr.
Medora K. Hall
$31,500
Deed 6080:522
Notes
“certain parcel of land
with the buildings”
�March 7, 1978
John D. Hall, Jr.
Medora K. Hall
Franklin O’Brien
Marcia A. O’Brien
$33,000
Deed 6453:494
February 11, 1984
Franklin O’Brien
Marcia A. O’Brien
James F. Dykes Jr.
Ghislaine R. Dykes
$83,000
Deed 7344:505
May 27, 1988
James F. Dykes Jr.
Ghislaine R. Dykes
John M. Wathne
Mary A. Wathne
$187,000
Deed 9537:419
Mary becomes sole
owner in February 1997
for $1.00 and other
considerations
Deed 13971:159
(Quitclaim)
July 29, 2016
Mary A. Wathne
Kevin Cassidy
Lindsay Hurley
$550,000
Deed 35126:522
����������������������������Inventory No:
SAL.1643
Historic Name:
Mooney, Alvin J. House
Common Name:
Ward, Mabel - McTiernan, Charles House
Address:
84 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-630
Year Constructed:
1899
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Queen Anne
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Glass; Wood; Wood Clapboard; Wood Shingle
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FORM B - B U I L D I N G
N R D I S 1973; L H D 3/3/81
Assessor's number
USGS Quad
26-630
Salem
Town
Area(s)
Form Number
HR,HU,HJ,HD
1643
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
84 Federal Street
H i s t o r i c Name
A l v i n J . Mooney House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1899
Salem City Directories
Style/Form
Queen Anne
Architect/Builder
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Wall/Trim
W o o d Clapboard, W o o d Shingle
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
M a j o r Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
AUG
0 5
1997
FollowMassachusetts
1ASS. HIST. COMM.
Setting
HistoricalCommission
none
good
__
no
•
yes
Date
less than one acre
setback from sidewalk on narrow lot between
82 and 86 Federal Street, fronted by grassy lawn
Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
�BUILDING F O R M
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features.
Evaluate
the characteristics
of the building
in terms of other buildings
within the
community.
Setback on a narrow lot which it shares with 86 Federal Street, 84 Federal Street is a modest, 2 1/2-story, Queen Anne-style
dwelling. The building is sheathed i n a combination o f wood clapboards and wood shingles and is capped by an asphalt roof
with an off-ridge brick criirnney. Dominating the gablefront is a two-story, three-sided bay window which is capped by a
flared-hip roof and lit by wide 1/1 windows. T o the west of the bay window is a single-story porch which fronts the
remainder o f the facade as well as the west elevation. The porch is supported by Roman Doric columns which rest on a
wood-shingled wall. The sidehall entrance contains a glass-and-panel front door. Adjacent is an oval, stained-glass window
accented by four keystones. The remaining windows are primarily 1/1 sash. A tri-partite window consisting o f a 1/1 sash
flanked by two narrow 1/1 windows is centered in the gable, flanked by fishscale wood shingles. The triangular section in the
top of the gable is extended forward and there is a pent roof at the base, enclosing the gable. Projecting from the east
elevation is a two-story cross gable.
The house is setback from the street with an asphalt driveway extending in front o f the house. A low brick w a l l and
ornamental plantings are immediately adjacent to the building. A chain link fence marks the boundary between 84 Federal
Street and its neighbor to the east.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building.
Explain
its associations
with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building
and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The house at 84 Federal Street was constructed in 1899 for A l v i n J. Mooney. The building was constructed on the site of the
former b a m associated with 86 Federal Street, owned in 1897 by M r s . Louise Mooney. Mooney, a conductor for the B & M
Railroad, had this house (originally known as 86 1/2 Federal) constructed for his own use. The adjacent house at 86 Federal
was then rented out. A l v i n Mooney continued to occupy 84 Federal until 1944. M a b e l W a r d lived here from 1945-1948 and
Charles McTiernan, a station engineer, and his wife, A l i c i a , lived here from 1950 until about 1965.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
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History of owners and occupants
Ninety Federal Street, Salem
By Robert Booth, Sept. 2017
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1887 for
Annie Bertram Webb, investor; and for many years (1896-1935) it
was the home of Capt. Edward B. Trumbull, shipmaster, the last of
Salem's foreign-trade sea captains. It is the site of a house built c.
1825 for Nathaniel Reed, Salem's first town crier, a sexton and
constable for many years.
By 1826 Nathaniel Reed, sexton, had a house on this lot, whose land
he leased from the Margaret Hillard estate. In September, 1826, the
Hilliard estate sold the lot, with its buildings "except those which
belong to Mr. Reed", to tanner Ben Cheever for $770 (ED 243:127).
On 25 June 1829 for $800 Nathaniel Reed, sexton of the Second
Baptist Church, purchased from the tanner Benjamin Cheever a lot on
Federal Street and all buildings thereon, bounded south 49' 8" on
Federal Street, west 123' on Gould heirs, north 42' on North River,
and southeast 78' and east 48' 7" both lines on John Perkins land (ED
253: 177). Mr. Reed (and wife Deborah) then mortgaged the premises
for $400 to Mr. Cheever and $200 to Thomas Saunders, merchant (ED
253: 177). In the mortgages, Mr. Reed alludes to the buildings twice:
(1) "all the land and buildings contained in my deed from said
Cheever and also including all the buildings which I owned standing
on said land before my purchase of said Cheever" and (2) "the
dwelling house and all other buildings on said land which I owned
before my purchase of Cheever".
Nathaniel Reed of Salem, then about 26, married Deborah Witham of
Gloucester in Gloucester in 1813. They had a son, Henry L., in 1814,
a son Samuel, and a daughter, Lucy D., in 1819. They resided in
Salem where Mr. Reed worked as a sexton at the Second Baptist
Church, to which the family presumably belonged.
�It would seem, per 1830 census (p. 381), that the buildings were
occupied by Mr. Reed, in his 40s, a male in his 20s, a male 10-15, a
female 10-15, Mrs. Deborah Reed, 40s, and a woman in her 60s. To
the east was the house of David Merritt.
Mrs. Deborah Witham Reed died in late March 1831, aged 45 years.
On Oct. 27 of that year, Mr. Reed married Hannah Leach, aged about
44, the daughter of George Leech and Betsy Cox of Salem.
By 1836 (per 1837 directory), Mr. Reed was listed as working as the
city crier and residing at "20 Federal Street" {the original numbering
system of Federal Street was different from today's). Since Salem had
just incorporated as a city, he was probably the first city crier. By
1842 he was a city constable, or policeman, which he made his career.
Salem's general maritime foreign commerce fell off sharply in the late
1820s. Imports in Salem ships were supplanted by the goods that
were now being produced in great quantities in America. The interior
of the country was being opened for settlement, and some Salemites
moved away. To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered
large new textile mills {Lowell was founded in 1823), which created
great wealth for their investors; and in general it seemed that the tide
of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem. In an ingenious attempt
to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its potential
water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
banded together in 1826 to raise the money to dam the North River for
industrial power. The project, which began with much promise, was
suspended in 1827, which demoralized the town even more, and
caused several leading citizens to move to Boston, the hub of
investment in the new economy.
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem.
Old Capt. Joseph White, a wealthy merchant, resided in the house
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�now called the Gardner-Pingree house, on Essex Street. One night,
intruders broke into his mansion and stabbed him to death. All of
Salem buzzed with the news of murderous thugs; but the killer was a
Crowninshield (a fallen son of one of the five brothers; after he was
put in jail he killed himself). He had been hired by his friends, Capt.
White's own relatives, Capt. Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank
(they would be executed). The results of the investigation and trial
having uncovered much that was lurid, more of the respectable
families quit the now-notorious town.
As the decade wore on, Salem's remaining merchants had to take their
equity out of wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into
manufacturing and transportation, as the advent of railroads and
canals diverted both capital and trade away from the coast. Some
merchants did not make the transition, and were ruined. Old-line
areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making, and ship chandleries,
gradually declined and disappeared. Salem slumped badly, but,
despite all, the voters decided to charter their town as a city in 1836the third city to be formed in the state, behind Boston and Lowell.
City Hall was built 1837-8 and the city seal was adopted with an
already-anachronistic Latin motto of"to the farthest port of the rich
East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic of 1837, a
brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more
Salem families to head west in search of fortune and a better future.
Salem had not prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural
advantages. The North River served not to power factories but mainly
to flush the waste from the 25 tanneries that had set up along its
banks. Throughout the 1830s, the leaders of Salem scrambled to reinvent an economy for their fellow citizens, many of whom were
mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and
hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first sciencebased manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce
chemicals. At the plant built in 1818 in North Salem on the North
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�River, the production of alum and blue vitriol was a specialty; and it
proved a very successful business. Salem's whale-fishery, active for
many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the manufacturing
of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils. The
candles proved very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the
1820s, and grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the
Forest River were retooled for making high-quality white lead and
sheet lead (the approach to Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill,
although the empty mill buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction.
In 1838 the Eastern Rail Road, headquartered in Salem, began
operating between Boston and Salem, which gave the local people a
direct route to the region's largest market. The new railroad tracks
ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel under
Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840.
Nathaniel's son, Henry L. Reed, became a carpenter and in 1840
married Mary D. Southwick of Salem. Their surviving son Charles F.
would be born in 1853.
In the 1840s, as more industrial methods and machines were
introduced, new companies in new lines of business arose in Salem.
The tanning and curing ofleather was very important by the midl 800s. On and near Boston Street, along the upper North River, there
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The
leather business would continue to grow in importance throughout the
1800s. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the
construction at Stage Point of the largest factory building in the
United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was an immediate success,
and hundreds of people found employment there, many of them living
in tenements built nearby. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected,
and that city became the nation's leading shoe producer. Salem had
shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from outlying towns
and the countryside. Even the population changed, as hundreds of
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�Irish families, fleeing the Famine in Ireland, settled in Salem and gave
the industrialists a big pool of cheap labor.
In September, 1848, many landowners hereabouts sold off parts of
their lots for railroad development: Nathaniel Reed, the owner here,
for $78 sold to the Essex Rail Road Company the northern part of his
lot, being flats on the North River on which the railroad tracks ran
(ED 402:103).
The Gothic symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large
twin-towered granite train station-the "stone depot" built in 1847smoking and growling with idling locomotives, standing on filled-in
land at the foot of Washington Street, where before had been the
merchants' wharves. In the face of all this change, some members of
Salem's waning merchant class continued to pursue their sea-borne
businesses; but even the conditions of shipping changed, and Salem
was left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships replaced
the smaller vessels that Salem men had sailed around the world; and
the clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too
large for Salem and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of
little more than Zanzibar-trade vessels and visits from Down East
coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and building timber. By 1850
Salem was about finished as a working port. A picture of Salem's
sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in his mean-spirited
"introductory section" to The Scarlet Letter, which he began while
working in the Custom House.
In 1850, the house here was occupied, per census taker (house 552) as
a three family by Nathaniel Reed, 60, police, Hannah, 59, and Lucy,
31; also Eunice Leaviit, 58, Harriet and Rebecca, 19 and 16; also
Joseph S. Leavitt Jr., 34 provision dealer, Rachel, 37, and Josephine,
three, all of the Leavitts except the toddler having been born in New
Hampshire.
In the 1851 atlas, we see the footprint of the house, identified with "N.
Read".
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�Nathaniel Reed died on February 28, 1853, aged about 70 evidently.
By his will dated Jan. 20, 1853, he devised his real estate in trust to
his son Henry and Daniel Jewett for the benefit of wife Hannah. His
real estate consisted of this homestead, a house on Barr Street, and a
land bounty (maybe from service in the War of 1812). At Hannah's
death, Lucy was to have the lifetime the use of the personal estate and
of the western half of the house on Federal Street. At that time (1853)
that western half was occupied by Mr. Reed and Lucinda Stone. The
sons, Samuel and Henry, were to have the use of the rest of the
property, and their widows after them.
His real estate was valued at $4040, of which the Federal Street
homestead came to $2000. An excellent inventory of its furnishings
was taken (appended). Among other things, we see a mahogany table,
chair set, and rocking chair, some silver spoons, looking glasses,
clocks, mantel ornaments and pictures, rugs, and carpenter's tools in
the workshop.
For years the house would be occupied (as in 1855 per census, house
104) by Mrs. Hannah Reed, 60 in 1855, and by Lucy Reed, 37.
Salem's growth continued through the 1850s, as business and
industries expanded, the population swelled, new churches (e.g.
Immaculate Conception, 1857) were started, new working-class
neighborhoods were developed (especially in North Salem and South
Salem, off Boston Street, and along the Mill Pond behind the Broad
Street graveyard), and new schools, factories, and stores were built. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company was added in 1859, down at Stage Point, where a new
Methodist Church went up, and many neat homes, boarding-houses,
and stores were erected along the streets between Lafayette and
Congress. The tanning business continued to boom, as better and
larger tanneries were built along Boston Street and Mason Street; and
subsidiary industries sprang up as well, most notably the J.M.
Anderson glue-works on the Turnpike (Highland Avenue).
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�As it re-established itself as an economic powerhouse, Salem took a
strong interest in national politics. It was primarily Republican, and
strongly anti-slavery, with its share of outspoken abolitionists, led by
Charles Remond, a passionate speaker who came from one of the
city's notable black families. At its Lyceum (on Church Street) and in
other venues, plays and shows were put on, but cultural lectures and
political speeches were given too.
By 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, it was clear that the
Southern states would secede from the union; and Salem, which had
done so much to win the independence of the nation, was ready to go
to war to force others to remain a part of it. In that year (1860 census,
house 2120), the house was occupied as a two family by Hannah
Reed, 70 ($5500 in real estate, $3000 in personal estate) and Lucy
Reed, 39; and by Mary Clements, 52, a nurse, C. H. Williams, 25, a
male cook, Emma Williams, 26, and by Williamses Anna, 23, dress
maker, and Lizzie, 21, tailoress.
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years,
during which hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy,
and many were killed or died of disease or abusive treatment while
imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered wounds, or broken health. The
people of Salem contributed greatly to efforts to alleviate the suffering
of the soldiers, sailors, and their families; and there was great
celebration when the war finally ended in the spring of 1865.
Through the 1860s, Salem pursued manufacturing, especially of
leather and shoes and textiles. The managers and capitalists tended to
.build their new, grand houses along Lafayette Street (these houses
may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street; many are in the French
Second Empire style, with mansard roofs). A third factory building for
the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company was built in 1865.
In 1865, the house (per census, house 3190 was occupied by Lucy, 46,
and Hannah Reed, 80, and four other family units, headed by David
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�Hall, 37, blacksmith, some shoemaking Sheldons, Mary Ball, 72, and
Matilda Thompson, 45.
In 1870 Salem received its last cargo from Zanzibar, thus ending a
once-important trade. By then, a new Salem & New York freight
steamboat line was in operation. Seven years later, with the arrival of
a vessel from Cayenne, Salem's foreign trade came to an end. After
that, "the merchandise warehouses on the wharves no longer
contained silks from India, tea from China, pepper from Sumatra,
coffee from Arabia, spices from Batavia, gum-copal from Zanzibar,
hides from Africa, and the various other products of far-away
countries. The boys have ceased to watch on the Neck for the
incoming vessels, hoping to earn a reward by being the first to
announce to the expectant merchant the safe return of his looked-for
vessel. The foreign commerce of Salem, once her pride and glory, has
spread its white wings and sailed away forever". 1
On July 26, 1870, at Rowley, Mrs. Hannah {Leach) Reed died of old
age at 85. The Reed property descended per the will. Lucy D. Reed
died May 11, 1871, of consumption {tuberculosis), aged 52 years and
5 months.
In March, 1873, for $3150 the trustees of the will of Nathaniel Reed
sold to Mrs. Annie Bertram Webb, "the buildings and land" bounded
fronting 49' 8" on Federal Street, etc. (ED 876: 121).
Mrs. Annie Bertram Webb, of Chestnut Street, was a daughter of the
rich merchant John Bertram (his mansion is now Salem Public Library
building), and the wife of William G. Webb, a merchant employed in
his father-in-law mercantile enterprise. She would own this property
for years, and manage it for income among her many other local
holdings.
1
Rev. George Bachelder in History of Essex County, II: 65
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�Salem was now so densely built-up that a general conflagration was
always a possibility, as in Boston, when, on Nov. 9, 1872, the
financial and manufacturing district of the city burned up. Salem
continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leathermaking business. In 1874 the city was visited by a tornado and
shaken by a minor earthquake. In the following year, the large
Pennsylvania Pier (site of the present coal-fired harborside electrical
generating plant) was completed to begin receiving large shipments of
coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new owner began subdividing the
old Allen farmlands into a new development called Salem Willows
and Juniper Point. In the U.S. centennial year, 1876, A.G. Bell of
Salem announced that he had discovered a way to transmit voices
over telegraph wires.
In this decade, French-Canadian families began coming to work in
Salem's mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were
built. The better-off workers bought portions of older houses or built
small homes for their families in the outlying sections of the city; and
by 1879 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually nearly 15 million yards of cloth. Shoemanufacturing businesses expanded in the 1870s, and 40 shoe
factories were employing 600-plus operatives. Tanning, in both Salem
and Peabody, remained a very important industry, and employed
hundreds of breadwinners. On Boston Street in 1879, the Arnold
tannery caught fire and burned down.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new
businesses arose, and established businesses expanded. Retail stores
prospered; horse-drawn trolleys ran every which-way; and machinists,
carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. In 1880,
Salem's manufactured goods were valued at about $8.4 million, of
which leather accounted for nearly half. In the summer of 1886, the
Knights of Labor brought a strike against the manufacturers for a tenhour day and other concessions; but the manufacturers imported labor
from Maine and Canada, and kept going. The strikers held out, and
there was violence in the streets, and even rioting; but the owners
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�prevailed, and many of the defeated workers lost their jobs and
suffered, with their families, through a bitter winter.
By the mid-1880s, Salem's cotton-cloth mills at the Point employed
1400 people who produced about 19 million yards annually, worth
about $1.5 million. The city's large shoe factories stood downtown
behind the stone depot and on Dodge and Lafayette Streets. A jute
bagging company prospered with plants on Skerry Street and English
Street; its products were sent south to be used in cotton-baling. Salem
factories also produced lead, paint, and oil. At the Eastern Railroad
yard on Bridge Street, cars were repaired and even built new. In 1887
the streets were first lit with electricity, replacing gas-light. The gas
works, which had stood on Northey Street since 1850, was moved to a
larger site on Bridge Street in 1888, opposite the Beverly Shore.
In 1887 Mrs. Annie B. Webb removed the Reed house and other
buildings were on the lot, and she had this house built. The old house
had been valued at $1200 (1886 valuation book, p. 59); the new house
was valued at $6000 (see 1887 Salem valuation book, p. 60). The lot,
14,690 square feet, was valued at $2,000.
From 1887 until 1908 the house was rented to tenants. The first (as far
as is known, per 1890-1 directory) were the "Misses Kimball"
(Elizabeth H. and Mary R.) and Mrs. Catherine Ireson, widow of
Samuel J. Ireson. Next was John R. Woodbury, who died Jan. 19,
1895. Annie's husband William G. Webb died in May, 1896, in his
64th year. Starting in about 1897, the tenant was Capt. Edward B.
Trumbull, shipmaster, and his family. In 1888-1890 Trumbull was
listed as master mariner residing at 117 North Street; then he
"swallowed the anchor" and in 1893-5 he was listed as working as
"manager, Salem Storage Warehouse Company" residing still at #117;
and in the 1897-8 directory he appears as the Warehouse Company
manager residing at 90 Federal Street. The 1900 census (house 259)
lists the occupants here as Edward Trumbull, 46, manager, wife
Lizzie, and daughters Mabel W., 20, and Elizabeth, 8; also servant
Mary McHarg, 19, born Ireland.
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�In November, 1908, Mrs. Webb, now widowed, sold the premises to
the tenant, Captain Trumbull (ED 1943:39), who conveyed the same
to his wife (via straw Samuel H. Batchelder) Mrs. Lizzie F. Trumbull,
subject to $5200 in mortgages (ED 1942:463). Mrs. Webb would die
on Oct. 2, 1925, aged eighty years.
Capt. Edward B. Trumbull (1853-1934) was born 28 April 1853 in
Salem, and would die on Dec. 31, 1934. In 1860, his father, Edward
H. Trumbull, had come from Haverhill to Salem and been a
shipmaster in trade with the Orient. In 1860 he worked as a merchant;
he and his wife Mary resided in ward two and had a family of five
children at that time, and two servants ( 1860 census, house 1713).
Edward B. was bred a mariner. As a teenager, he was captain's clerk
on voyages to Hong Kong by the ship Mutlah, and kept the log (18681871) for Capt. Ballard.
Edward B. Trumbull was residing on Brown Street (when ashore)
with his mother Mary (widow) and brother Walter, a merchant's clerk,
in 1880, per census. He was already a shipmaster in trade with
Zanzibar, where he had served as assistant consul in 1879. On May
12, 1880, at Antrim, NH, he married Lizzie Florence Manning, 21, of
Antrim, born at Salem. She was the daughter of Daniel Augustus
Manning, a cabinet-maker, and Elizabeth Reith. Her father died at
New Orleans while in the navy during the Civil War. Lizzie had three
older brothers and a younger sister, Sarah. Lizzie and Edward
Trumbull would have two children, Mabel Augusta and Elizabeth
Manning.
In the 1880s, Edward shipped out, perhaps as mate, under Capt. N.A.
Bachelder, on the famous brig Taria Topan, the last Salem-registered
vessel to be engaged in trade with the East. Again, from 1881 to 1884
E. B. Trumbull kept the log.2
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doubt there is more about E. B. Trumbull in the shipping records and in G. P. Putnam's series on
Salem's foreign trade. The PEM has a file on the family's activities
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�More factories and more people required more space for buildings,
more roads, and more storage areas. This space was created by filling
in rivers, harbors, and ponds. The once-broad North River was filled
from both shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the
North Bridge. The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the
whole area between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street, and
Loring Avenue, finally vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junkyards, rail-yards, and parking lots. The South River, too, with its
epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a Custom House built
there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement of Riley Plaza and
New Derby Street, and some of its old wharves were joined together
with much in-fill and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a
canal was left, running in from Derby and Central Wharves to
Lafayette Street.
Salem kept growing. The Canadians were followed in the early 20 th
century by large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families, who
settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By the eve of
World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported
large department stores and large factories of every description.
People from the surrounding towns, and Marblehead in particular,
came to Salem to do their shopping; and its handsome government
buildings, as befit the county seat, were busy with conveyances of
land, lawsuits, and probate proceedings. The city's politics were
lively, and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street
opposite Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden
tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and raced out of
control, for the west wind was high and the season had been dry. The
next building caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the
fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke, wiping out
the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and
then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other
residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous
fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods
12
�west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette
Street itself, and raged onward into the tenement district. Despite the
combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the
fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large
factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress
Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette
Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union
Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed
250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and
thousands homeless. Some people had insurance, some did not; all
received much support and generous donations from all over the
country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in
the history of the United States, and the people of Salem would take
years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the former
houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal
projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing
old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect. Atop the
Hawthorne Hotel, the Salem Marine Society, of which Capt. E. Bo.
Trumbull was a member, had a club-house built; and it was designed
by Captain Trumbull as an exact replica of the cabin of the old Taria
Topan.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its
tercentenary in 1926 was a time of great celebration. The Depression
hit in 1929, and continued through the 1930s.
Capt. Edward B. Trumbull died on Dec. 31, 1934. In August, 1936
(ED 3082:339) the property was sold to Dennis and Helen Foley,
husband and wife. The Foleys owned it for the rest of their lives. In
1955 a half-interest in the premises was sold to James J. Bradley (ED
4170:408).
Salem, the county seat and regional retail center, gradually rebounded,
and prospered after World War II through the 1950s and into the
1960s. General Electric, Sylvania, Parker Brothers, Pequot Mills
(formerly Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.), Almy's department store,
13
�various other large-scale retailers, and Beverly's United Shoe
Machinery Company were all major local employers. Then the arrival
of suburban shopping malls and the relocation of manufacturing
businesses took their toll, as they have with many other cities. More
than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present with
success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials,
but also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of
Bowditch, McIntire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it
remains a city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners,
constables, shipmasters, and mill-operatives are all honored as a large
part of what makes Salem different from any other place.
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�Glossary & Sources
A figure like (ED 123:45) refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South registry of
Deeds, Federal Street, Salem.
A figure like (#12345) refers to Essex Probate case 12345, on file at the Essex
Probate Court, Federal Street, Salem, or on microfilm at Mass. Archives, Boston,
or at the Peabody Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem.
MSSRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
MSSCRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers, Sailors, &
Marines in the Civil War, available at the Salem Public Library among other
places.
EIHC refers to the Essex Institute Historical Collections (discontinued), a multivolume set (first volume published in 1859) of data and articles about Essex
County. The indices of the EIHC have been consulted regarding many of the
people associated with this house.
The six-volume published Salem Vital records (marriages, births, and deaths
through 1849) have been consulted, as have the Salem Directory and later
Naumkeag Directory, which have information about residents and their addresses,
etc.
Sidney Perley' s three-volume History of Salem, 1626-1716 has been consulted, as
has the four-volume William Bentley's Diary, J. Duncan Phillips' books, some
newspaper obituaries, and other sources.
Salem real estate valuations, and, where applicable, Salem Street Books, have
also been consulted, as have genealogies.
There is much more material available about Salem and its history; and the reader
is encouraged to make his or her own discoveries.
--Robert Booth
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Federal Street
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90 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House History
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Built in 1887 for Annie Bertram Webb. Home of Edward B. Trumbull, shipmaster.
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Historic Salem, Robert Booth
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House History
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1887, 2017
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Robert Booth
1887
Annie Bertram Webb
Captain Edward Trumbull
investor
Nathaniel Reed
shipmaster
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History of occupants & owners
92 Federal Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built by James Gould,
housewright, in 1788. It was his residence from 1794 until his death in
1810. It was later (1830-1861) the home of Caleb Warner, a prominent
silversmith and jeweler.
James Gould bought the land hereabouts in May, 1767, from Mrs. Mary
Toppan: it fronted 7 poles I link (115') on "a new town way" (Federal Street)
and butted on the broad North River (ED 128:28). On the westerly part of the
lot (evidently), he built a house in 1770 which he and his family occupied as
their residence, probably with the easterly part used as a garden. In 1788 he
built a second house on the easterly part of the lot. 1
In September, 1794, Mr. Gould sold the westerly house and its land,
fronting 65.5' on Federal Street, to grocer Samuel Archer (ED 157:235).
Thereafter he resided in this house (#92).
James Gould was born in Danvers about 1735. Like most boys of his place
and time, James was apprenticed to learn a trade when he was twelve or
thirteen. His master was a housewright, and James spent eight years learning
that trade. His younger brother Josiah followed him into that trade, and may
have worked with him. James was a journeyman as of 1757, and, as a good
and dependable worker, probably received a good deal of patronage. In 1758
he married Mehitable Townsend, who came from Lynn, as had his own
mother. No children were listed as born to the couple, but the records are not
complete. In August, 1758, at about the time of his marriage, James Gould
purchased a piece ofland on Cambridge Street, and built a house thereon as
his residence (see ED 96:220, 122:250).
At this time, Salem was a prosperous seaport, with a thriving fishery as
well as an extensive merchant shipping business to the Caribbean and Europe.
Salem's main export was salt cod, which was caught far offshore, and then
"cured" until it was hard and dry and could be shipped long distances. This
was a staple food in Catholic Europe (Spain and Portugal especially) and also
in the Caribbean, where it was fed to slaves. To Europe went the
"merchantable" cod (highgrade), and to the Caribbean went the "refuse" cod
(low quality). Either sort, put into a pot of boiling water, would tum into
1 It is not possible to be certain which house was built first, now-#94 or now-#92. Both were built on
the same parcel that Gould acquired in 1767; and #94 has already been assigned the earlier date.
�nutritious food. Lumber, horses, and foodstuffs were also sent to the
Caribbean, whence came sugar, molasses, cotton, and mahogany. The
molasses was turned into rum in Salem's distilleries, and sold locally and
regionally, and some overseas. From Europe came finished goods, wine, fruit,
feathers, and leather. There was also some trade between Salem and the
Chesapeake Bay area, which provided com, wheat, and tobacco, while South
Carolina provided rice. Most merchant vessels were small, under 60 tons. Toe
salt water came in along Derby and New Derby Streets all the way to the
present Post Office; and in this secure inner harbor, known as the South River,
were most of the wharves and warehouses, although some wharves were built
along the North River too.
In 1761, a group of Salem and Boston merchants sued to prevent the
use of search warrants ("writs of assistance") by the Customs officials who
were trying to inspect their vessels and warehouses. In the courtroom, attorney
James Otis Jr. electrified the audience with his argument for American rights
and liberties-an event that John Adams later identified as the birth of''the
child independence." Later in the decade, Salemites protested against the
Stamp Act, and applied tar and feathers to a couple of men who disagreed. In
Boston, the opposition was even larger and more determined, as mobs
attacked the royal officials' houses and beat up their flunkies. The British
authorities were surprised at the Americans' resistance to their policies, and
feared an insurrection. In 1768, they sent over a small army of occupation and
installed it in Boston. Now the Americans were forced to see themselves as
misbehaving colonials, and to realize that they were not free. They did not like
this picture, and the result was bitter public opposition and more street
violence in Boston.
The Boston Massacre, in which townsmen were gunned down by the
soldiers, took place in March, 1770; and then all of Massachusetts turned
openly against the British, and the clouds of war gathered on the horizon.
James Gould was able to make a good living in the early 1760s for, despite the
political problems, Salem remained pretty prosperous, and contracts were
always being given for construction of new houses, additions, wharves, stores,
warehouses, barns, distilleries, and other buildings. Mr. Gould was a member
of the First Church. His faith was tested by the early death of his wife
Mehitable, who died, probably, in 1762 or 1763. Eventually, he began to
socialize again, and in April, 1764 he married Lydia Sherman of Lynn. Later
that year, his brother Josiah Gould married Sarah Sherman of Lynn, perhaps
Sarah's sister. It may be that James and Josiah Gould were partners in the
construction business. In March, 1767, James Gould sold to James Punchard,
fisherman, a new house that he had built on a small lot on North Street (ED
124:248). As has been noted, he bought the lot here on "New Street" in 1767;
and he mortgaged it to the seller for about 39 li (ED 121 :54). In 1770, Mr.
2
�Gould had the house (#94) built. Its plan was unusual for Salem, in that it
fronted on the street with four window bay, with raised-field paneled
throughout, showing the taste and quality of Mr. Gould's work as a carpenter.
James Gould was a devout person. In 1770 the First Church minister,
Rev. Thomas Barnard, had a stroke and needed a young colleague minister.
The congregation could not agree on an assistant, and so a large minority
withdrew amicably and formed the North Church with Mr. Barnard Jr. as its
minister. James Gould was one of this group. The new North Church was built
in the spring of 1772, at the comer of North and Lynde Streets. No doubt Mr.
Gould was involved in the construction of the edifice. The new society had
some of the richest families in town, including the Brownes and others who
would prove to be loyalists at the time of the break with England. The ruling
elder of the First Church, John Nutting, became the ruling elder of the North
Church (with Joshua Ward), and James Gould and Samuel Holman were
elected its first deacons. 2
In 1771, Mr. Gould's father, a Danvers farmer, died. In 1772 and 1773
James and his brother Josiah for 50 Ii purchased the interest of their brothers
Benjamin and Amos in the 60-acre farm and a two-acre piece in Lynn (ED
130:230). In November, 1772, Mr. Gould sold his former home, on
Cambridge Street, for 120 Ii to Rev. Thomas Barnard (ED 122:250). And in
April, 1774, for 156. 12.8 James and Josiah Gould sold their father's property,
at a good profit, to Elizabeth Foster, wife of Joshua Foster, a Marblehead
tailor (ED 137 :2).
Pre-revolutionary Salem had more than its share of Tories; but the
Sons of Liberty were in the majority. Wealthy scions of families like the
Curwens, Pickmans, and Brownes, stayed loyal to the King, as did many
others who had married into the merchant families. In 1774, military rule was
imposed from England as Gen. Thomas Gage became governor of
Massachusetts and the port of Boston was shut down in punishment for the
Tea Party of December, 1773. On June 2, 1774, Salem became the new capital
of Massachusetts, as a reward for its supposed loyalty. Governor Gage and his
officials relocated to the North Shore, and the Customs operation was
conducted from Marblehead, while Salem became the major seaport of New
England, handling virtually all of the commercial business that Boston had
done. Hundreds of new people moved to Salem, and the legislature met in
Salem's Court House. In short order, that legislature, led by Sam Adams,
turned into a rebel body, and voted to ignore British laws and to send
delegates to a continental congress. Gage tried to shut it down, but it was too
late: he had lost control of Massachusetts to the rebel assembly gathered in
Salem. The town still had a powerful and outspoken group ofloyalists, led by
2
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3
�Peter Frye, a prominent merchant and magistrate whose wife was a Pickman.
One night in October, Judge Frye learned just how far the rebels were willing
to go: his fine house on Essex Street was burned down and his family barely
escaped with their lives as half a block of houses and stores and a church all
burned down.Next day, the rebel assembly met again and voted to move their
proceedings to Concord; and Gage and his officials moved to Boston, and
many of the loyalists followed.
Outside of Boston, all of Massachusetts was under the control of the
rebels. By January, 1775, loyalists had been purged from the Salem militia
regiment, and Col. William Browne was replaced by the rebel Col. Timothy
Pickering, who was writing a book on military drill. One Sunday in February,
1775, the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem. When everyone was in
church, Col. Leslie's redcoats marched overland from Marblehead and arrived
in downtown Salem, hoping to seize cannon and munitions in North Salem.
They came down North Street, in sight of this house, and suddenly halted at
the North Bridge the Salem men, alerted by a Marblehead rider, had pulled up
the draw of the bridge. Presumably James Gould, who lived so near the
bridge, was present on that day, and perhaps even involved. His pastor, Rev.
Thomas Barhard Jr. of the North Church, engaged Col. Leslie in discussion;
and his folio~ congregant, Capt. John Felt, warned Leslie that blood would
flow ifhe did not turn back. Negotiations followed, and agreement was
reached: theidraw went down, Leslie's men advanced a short distance into
North Salem, faced about, and marched back through Salem's South Fields
and Marblehead, whose own regiment, led by Col. Jeremiah Lee, could have
slaughtered them. Instead, the Marbleheaders fell in behind them, marching in
mockery of Leslie's Retreat as the British made their way back to the beach
and boarded their whaleboats to return to the transport vessel. With the battle
at Lexington & Concord, April 19th, 1775, the die was cast. Of course no one
knew how the war would end, and there was little to indicate that the colonials
could actually defeat the King's army and navy, but virtually every ablebodied Salem man and boy gave himself over to the cause.
Salem's regiment participated in the siege of Boston, as George
Washington took command of the army in Cambridge. The British left in
March, 1776, never to return. Washington's army was pushed southward from
Long Island in a series of defeats, during which Salem's Col. Timothy
Pickering became one of the General's most trusted officers, and
Quartermaster General of the army. Washington's first victory was the Battle
of Trenton, on Christmas Day, 1776, made possible by the Marblehead
regiment of Gen. John Glover. Eventually most of the Salem men came home
and sailed in privateers for the duration of the war, which went on for years.
The land war ended in 1781 at Yorktown, but the war continued at sea and
Salem men continued to risk and lose their lives until 1783.
4
�In some places, the post-war loss of the former colonial connections
and trade routes was devastating, for Americans were prohibited from trading
with most British possessions; but in Salem, the merchants and mariners were
ready to push their ships and cargoes into all parts of the known world. They
did so with astonishing success. For a period of about 25 years, Salem was a
famous center of commercial enterprise: by virtue of competing fiercely,
pioneering new routes, and opening and dominating foreign markets, Salem
won a high place in the world. Hasket Derby, William Gray, Eben Beckford,
and Joseph Peabody were the town's commercial leaders. In 1784, Derby
began trade with Russia; and in 1784 and 1785 he dispatched trading vessels
to Africa and China, respectively. Voyages to India soon followed, and to the
Spice Islands and Pepper Islands (Sumatra, Java, Malaya, etc.). Once again,
Salem was a boom-town, fueling much new construction. James and Josiah
Gould partook of their share of the new business, and did well. James and
Lydia had no children, but Josiah and Sarah had sons Josiah and James, born
in 1766 and 1768. Deacon James Gould left the North Church to join the
Tabernacle Church, and became deacon of the congregation there by 1783
(see Worthley, pp. 542-544).
The Tabernacle's minister, Rev. Joshua Spalding, was aggressively
orthodox in a town whose other congregations were embracing Unitarianism.
Spalding made many enemies, including Rev. William Bentley, who, in his
diary, has much to say about the Tabernacle and its minister. Bentley seems to
have respected James Gould (many years later, on November 8, 1801, Bentley
noted in his diary, after being irked by Mr. Spalding, "honest Deacon Gould
says, when I work I use the sharpest tools I can find. Mr. Spaulding differs
from his neighbors, as he prefers the dullest. Well said, Deacon."). In 1784
through 1787 James Gould was taxed on a house and shop (worth 300 Ii in
1784) and on stock & faculty (worth 250 Ii in 1784). In 1787, with currency
changes, the house was valued at 175 Ii and Mr. Gould (a second adult male
lived in the house) had personalty valued at 120 Ii. In 1788, he was also taxed
on a "new house," valued at 50 Ii. It was probably brand-new and not yet
occupied. The new house (#92) probably had interior trim (later most ofit was
removed) similar to that still intact at #94.
From a January 11, 1789, entry in the diary of William Pynchon,
Salem lawyer, we learn that Deacon James Gould was noted for wearing his
hair plain at a time when most men wore wigs. As Mr. Pynchon came to
church that day, evidently not wearing his wig, the parson said "I took you for
Deacon Gould," to which a friend joked, "You certainly have on the deacon's
wig." By 1790 Mr. Gould was taxed on one house & shop again (200 Ii; 150 Ii
for personalty), evidently because this house (#92) was taxed to the tenants
who resided here.
In 1790, his namesake nephew died at the age of 22.
5
�By the 1790s, the new foreign-trade markets-and the coffee trade,
which would be opened in 1798 with Mocha, Arabia-brought great riches to
the Salem merchants, and raised the level of wealth throughout the town: new
ships were bought and built, more crews were formed with more shipmasters,
new shops and stores opened, new partnerships were formed, and new people
moved to town. In 1792 Salem's first bank, the Essex Bank, was founded,
although it "existed in experiment a long time before it was incorporated," per
Rev. William Bentley. From a population of7921 in 1790, the town would
grow by 1500 persons in a decade. At the same time, thanks to the economic
policies of Alexander Hamilton, Salem vessels were able to transport foreign
cargoes tax free and essentially to serve as the neutral carrying fleet for both
Britain and France, which were at war with each other.
By the early 1790s, Deacon James Gould was in his fifties, and he
probably was slowing down. Rev. Mr. Bentley, in his diary, noted that on 23
Oct. 1794 the draws of the North Bridge collapsed as 20 oxen were crossing
over. He notes that "the builder of the bridge, one Gould, was totally ignorant
of mechanics." He also notes that the bridge was repaired five years before. It
is not clear that the builder of the draws was James Gould, or that the problem
arose from the repairs of 1789 or from the original construction of the bridge,
much earlier.
On 3 Sept. 1794, having subdivided the property here, James Gould
sold off the western part of the lot, with the house (#94) thereon, for 300 Ii to
Samuel Archer Jr., Salem shopkeeper (ED 157:235,235). Mr. Gould would
live on for another 16 years, residing in this house (#92) and eventually
becoming a lumber dealer. He died in July, 1810, aged 76 years. In the
inventory of his property, made on Dec. 19, 1810, the "house and lot ofland
in Federal Street" were valued at $2000. He also owned half a house in South
Street, and a pew in Mr. Worcester's meeting house. The furnishings of the
house included three beds, four quilts, walnut desk and table, mahogany and
maple tables, a musket, the usual fireplace equipment, apparel including three
linen shirts and one camb!et cloak, and one lot of books and a silver watch
(see inventory appended).
In May, 1812, for $ 1061, the house and land here were sold to Josiah Gould,
Beverly gentleman; the land fronted 60' on Federal Street and butted 55' on
the North River (ED 197:21). In 1820 the house was occupied (per census, p.
I 04) by tenants John Grant and Joseph Pettingell and their families. In 1822,
Josiah Gould, Beverly gentleman, died. In August, 1829, for the Josiah Gould
heirs sold the premises to one of their number, Sarah Gould of Salem,
singlewoman (ED 253 :279). She had been born in Boxford in 1780, the
daughter of Daniel Gould and Sarah Bradstreet. In January, 1830, she married
Caleb Warner, a Salem jeweler, and they resided here. The 1830 census (p.
6
�3 71) lists them as residing here with two teenaged girls, a girl 5-10, a boy 510, a boy 10-15, and a boy 15-20----probably all of these are the offspring of
Caleb Warner by his first two marriages.
Caleb Warner (1784-1861) came from Ipswich (the son of William
and Susannah Gould). He was evidently apprenticed to a Salem silversmith
(perhaps Jabez Baldwin) and from 1801 to 1820 worked as a silversmith and
jeweler, with a shop on Essex Street and then on Essex Place, perhaps
specializing in clocks and watches. In January, 1812, he, jeweler, and Timothy
Brooks, merchant, together bought a house and land on Bridge Street, west of
the comer lot of Winter Street (ED 196:114). Evidently they occupied that
house as a double family residence. In September, 1815, Caleb,jeweler, for
$1325 bought out Mr. Brooks's half-interest in the Bridge Street homestead
(ED 208:135). Caleb was twice a widower: in 1809 he had married Mary
Pearson (died 1817); and in 1819 he had married Mrs. Mary Porter (died
1825, aged 40, of consumption, soon after the birth of son William). Both left
children, baptized at the Second Church. Caleb partnered with John Warner
from 1820 to 1822, and then went to Portland in 1825 and partnered with
Charles Lord as silversmiths and jewelers. He returned to Salem and partnered
here in 1830 with Thomas Lord and later with J.F. Fellows. 3
In September, 1835, Caleb Warner, Salem jeweler, for $600
mortgaged to Elizabeth G. Warner, Salem widow, his house and land on
Bridge Street (ED 284:201). In the 1842 directory we find Caleb Warner,
jeweller at 201 Essex Street, with residence at 22 Federal Street (this house
had a low number before Marlborough Street, which lay east of North Street,
was absorbed into Federal Street).
In September, 1848, Sally G. and Caleb Warner sold for $112 to the
Essex Railroad Company a parcel of flats on the North River, adjoining the
railroad tracks, it being the northernmost part of the homestead land (ED
402;105).
In the 1851 directory we find Mr. Warner listed as selling "spectacles,
179 Essex Street, house 22 Federal". Spectacles were by then evidently his
main product line, although he was chiefly noted (as at the time of his death)
as a watchmaker. It is reductive, given his 50-year career as silversmith and
jeweler, to reduce him to association with one product.
Per the 1860 census (house 2113), Caleb Warner, 76, "jeweller",
resided here with wife Sally, 77, and Margaret J. Gould, 20, probably a grandniece of Sally. On April 18, 1861, Caleb Warner, "watchmaker", died of
3
See the appended biographical sketch from "American Silversmiths" for more
notes on his career as a distinguished silversmith and jeweler, including time spent
in Portland, Maine.
7
�cancer, in his 77th year. Four years later, on April 12, 1865, Sarah Gould
Warner, widow, 85, died of"old age".
In April, 1871, the heirs of Mrs. Sarah (Gould) Warner sold the house
and land for $3650 to Benjamin Shreve, of Salem, who was, like Caleb
Warner, ajeweler (ED 823:146). Mr. Shreve (b. 1808) in 1865 had resided
nearby with his wife Charlotte (1865 census, house 314). He was a well-to-do
partner in the Boston jewelry firm which later became Shreve, Crump & Low.
Sometime in the 1870s, evidently, Mr. Shreve converted the house to a
duplex, in the process of which (evidently) he took down the original central
chimney, walled off the two units through the center of the house, added a
second front entry (evidence in cellar with introduction of milled joists under
the floor of the easterly entry), added a door hood to the enlarged double front
entry (original hood recently removed), and remodeled the interiors with new
moldings except (evidently) for the front rooms, where original paneled
interior shutters were left intact.
-Robert
Booth, 15 Sept. 2017.
8
�Glossary & Sources
A figure like (ED 123:45) refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South registry of
Deeds, Federal Street, Salem.
A figure like (#12345) refers to Essex Probate case 12345, on file at the Essex
Probate Court, Federal Street, Salem, or on microfilm at Mass. Archives, Boston,
or at the Peabody Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem.
MSSRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
MSSCRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers, Sailors, &
Marines in the Civil War, available at the Salem Public Library among other
places.
EIHC refers to the Essex Institute Historical Collections (discontinued), a multivolume set (first volume published in 1859) of data and articles about Essex
County. The indices of the EIHC have been consulted regarding many of the
people associated with this house.
The six-volume published Salem Vital records (marriages, births, and deaths
through 1849) have been consulted, as have the Salem Directory and later
Naumkeag Directory, which have information about residents and their addresses,
etc.
Sidney Perley' s three-volume History of Salem, 1626-1716 has been consulted, as
has the four-volume William Bentley's Diary, J. Duncan Phillips' books, some
newspaper obituaries, and other sources.
Salem real estate valuations, and, where applicable, Salem Street Books, have
also been consulted, as have genealogies.
There is much more material available about Salem and its history; and the reader
is encouraged to make his or her own discoveries.
--Robert Booth
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Born: 5 Jun 1784, Ipswich MA
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Federal Street
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92 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House History
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Built by James Gould, housewright 1788
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Historic Salem, Robert Booth
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House History
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Historic Salem
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1788, 2017
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Robert Booth
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92
Caleb
Federal
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Housewright
James
jeweler
silversmith
Warner
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OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
POST OFFICE BOX So.3
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (61JJ 745-0799
102 Federal Street
.Built by
GEORGE W. MARTIN, carpenter
by 1806
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Joyce :-:ing
Nov. 1984
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�102 Federal St.
This house was built on a portion of land owned by the Bullock
family for many years. The heirs of John Bullock divided the
estate on April 30, 1806. The lot, now. known as 102 J.ederal St.,
was conveyed to George Whitefield Martin of Salem, cabinetmaker
(book 191 page 235).
A certain lot of land in Salem, bound as follows:
Begining at the Southwest corner on Federal St. at a stone by
land this day released by William Farrington to the childr·en
of Sarah Bullock, then run
East bound South by said street 40 1 8 11 to land in occupation of
Sarah Bullock,. then run
North bound East by the last mentioned land 45' 611 to an angle in
the fence, then run still
North by inclining more easterly by the same land 128 1 to the
high water mark, then run
West by said high water mark 53' to the land of Martin then run
South bound West by the last mentioned land 89 1 to said land
released as aforesaid,then run
East bound South by said released land 9 1 511 to the corner part
of the fence, then run
South again and bound West by that land 69 1 4 11 to an angle in the·
fence, then run
South still by inclining more Easterly 41 1 611 to the stone on
Federal St.
Containing about 31 poles, together with the flats north of the
above described land to the channel of the North River (the portion
of the North River called Bickford St. basin was filled solid in
1881 - see appendix A).
A jump in the 1806 tax valuation, for George Martin, see~s to indicate
that the house was on the lot very soon after the above convayance.
This valuation remained : George Martin h(ouse) & s(hop) value $1,200
until 1810, the year Mr. Martin died.
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�The house remained in the Martin family, under the ownership of
the onlY surviving daughter, Lucy, for manY years.
Lucy Hartin, single, §()ld the land·
Book 698 page 219
Jan. 1, 1866
$2,900
and dwelling house i/102 Federal St.
to Janette L. Hood the wife of Asa
FormerlY owned by my father
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daughters Lucy and Amelia, and son Edward A. Hood. Asa Hood died
on Aug. 16, 1910.
Book 2242 page 217
Dec. 12, 1913
Amelia J. Hood of, Salem, and Edward A.
Hood of Boston sold the land and
dwelling house to their sister Lucy B.
Hood.
Lucy B. Hood died on Dec. 5, 1915. She bequeathed her homestead on
Federal st. and household furnishings to her sister Amelia (probate
1 22861 ) •
Amelia lr. Hood died on Feb. 23, 1939. Her homestead, on Federal st.,
was bequeathed to her sister-in-law, Laura w. Hood, with contents
of the house to be hers absolutely (probate #193221).
Book 3329 page 17
April 22, 1943
Laura w. Hood, widow, sold the land
and buildings to Marion B. Ells.
The same premises conveyed to Lucy B.
Hood by Amelia J. Hood and Edward A.
Hood on Dec. 12, 1913. For my title
see will of Lucy B. Hood. Also the
will of Amelia J. Hood by which latter
will the said premises were di vise'd
to me.
Laura w. Hood
Affidavit to title.
widow of Edward A. - the premises
were owned fee simple by Janette Hood
at the time of her death, on Nov. 7,
1903. She was the wife of Asa Hood
who died on August 16, 1910. The
only he±rs of Janette were three
children Lucy, Arpelia and Edward.
I am now the sole owner.
�Book 5095 page 76
Aug. 9, 1963
l'.arion B. "Slls, widow, of Pompano
Beach ~la. sold the land nnd buildings
to Raymond L. Truche and Sylvia A.
Truche. The same premises conveyed
to me by T~aura ·:r. doocf~on ,\pril 22,
19Li.3.
Book 5Li.18 page Li-30
Jan. 11, 1967
Raymond L. ~ruche and Sylvia A. Truche
sold the larid and b11ilding to ·:1. ITeil
Goddard Trustee of Federal Realty
Trust. The same premises conveyed
to us by deed of Marion ~. Ellis.
Book 5661 page LJ.99
Jan. 15, 1970
w.
Neil Goddard Trustee of Federal
Realty Trust sold the land and building
to Edmund A. Marukelli Jr. and Patricia
Marukelli.·. The same c9nveyed by deed
of Raymond and Sylvia Truche.
·~~.
Book 663Li. page 4Lrli.
May 8, 1979
Edmund A. Marukelli Jr. and Patricia
Marukelli as tenants by entirety to
Edmund A. Marukelli Jr. of 102 Federal
St. and Patricia Marukelli of
'
27 Shepard St., Marblehead as tenants
in common and not as joint tenants.
Book 7494 page 451
August 15, 1984
Edmund A. Marukelli Jr. and Patric.ia
Marukelli sold the land and building
at 102 Federal St. to Robert C. Bramble
Trustee of Allyn Realty Trust.
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11 Unlike its neighbors,
this ti'To-story, plus pitch roof, wooden house
is gable end to the street with the entrance in the east yard. This
undoubtedly allowed room for the five-bay facade. The_)10use has a
nice Federal period door which is now sheltered by the ·added overhead
roof supported by Victorian consoles. There are several small additions
in the rear of the house." (Salem Historic District Study Committee
Investigation)
George Whitefield Martin, the son of Isaac and Hannah Martin, was
baptized in Marblehead on May 5, 1771. He married Sally Bullock
on April 11, 1797. The couple had two children: Sally born in 1798,
died Sept. 1802 and Lucy born Feb. 17, 1801, died Sept. 16, 1889.
The notice of Mr. Martin 1 s death appeared in the Salem Gazette on
Jan. 5, 1810. His wife Sally died in Oct. 1815 at the age of 43.
�Reference to book and paga are deed books at the Registry of Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court. Both offices are located
in the same building on Federal St. All maps in this report are not
meant to be exact, just for illustration purposes.
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102 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built for George Whitefield Martin, cabinet-maker c. 1800
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102
102 Federal
cabinetmaker
Federal
George
George Whitefield Martin
Martin
Whitefield
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THE ASA l,AJJSON
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iIOTf.'31';
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DOCUMSN'T'A111 ION
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LUC'{ MAH.Tm of Salem,singlewoman, for ~600 sells to ASA
LAMSON of Salem, upholsterer, 'l certain lot of land on
Federal st. bou:·1derl as follows: beginning on SR.id street at SE
corner of the house of Peter Webster, rurming N by house and
land of Webster as the sa:ne goes 74 1 -l•" to SE co!'ner o.f Webster's barn; then E by land of Jonathan Hillet 25•; then S by
other land of said IlTGY SS' to Federal st. ;then W on st-r'eet
49' to first bounds. ·premises in part haYi.n~ descended to
said IUCY .from her grandfather Benjamin Sullo:::k dee. 1nd in
part from her fathet• neorge w. Hal't.in,do.c.
CITY OF SAI.EM TAX: >?SGORDS
I.ams on, Ward
3 or 2
]810
no list inc: f nr
1811
no
1812
Asa lams on, 1 poll (no property· ) in Ward 2
1813
Asa
1814
Ward 2, ,\sa Iamson (not.e) nsee 113".
Ward 3 (writt~n in pencil at bottom of list) Asa
I.amson int- - - Holwe ( dashos are und~}Ci phP-rab le letters,
no valuation ~i ven.)
listin~
laIT130ll,
AS~l
for Asa Iamson, Ward 3 or 2
1 poll (no property ) in Ward 2
ward 3 Listing
1815 Asa Iamson
1016
house
& shop
in it
1000
same as above
1817
to 182)
li326
soo
same listing, valuation ?OD
same, onl-r vaJ.uation is
1828 same, except valuation S/')0
1829 &
PROBATE
1830
Sar.19
excent valuation
.'.l!i48J3 ASA LAMSON, upholst:..3rer
100'.)
March 2, 1858
will drmvn inc;7
No mention of ·:dfe or adopted son
Residue of estate aft.er bills are paid ~oes to various
neplrnws, etc. and deacons of ~'irst Rantist ::hurch.
Inver.torv: onl•r r~al estate - 104 Federal st.
�799 - 124 August 5, 1858
Robert Penle of Salem, exec. under will of ASA l.A.MSON, upholsterer, dee. of SalPm sells real estate .for pavment of rlebts; for
$2375 sells to JOHN s. F'E6TC1·l, trader o.f Sal•3:n, land and buildings bounde<l: on 1.1 in 2 courses by :i_and of .John Chandler 71+ '-4 11 ;
on N by land of 11/ebster 2 1~'; on r:; b'r land of rucy Martin 581;
on s by Federal st. h9'. Being same pur·r,has{~d by I~son "8ook 238
pag-3 153 and which he occupied at the tir.tl~ of his decease.
925 - 61
April 12, 1875
Charles Symonds and George Burt, trustees une!er the vri11 of
JOHN s.
F"J.,TON, dee. of Salem, sell for 73000 to ItTGY WOODRURY
wife of James Woodbur•r tlrn messuage ( sam9 description as above)
Premises having been conve red to Frt;L'l'ON nook y19 page P4
992 - 187
Februar:r lB, 1870
JA!JF:S and JUlj{ woonBU'?Y of Salem sell for :~2600 to J0•1N H. BEII.
of Salem the messuage (s~me description) Rei:ig same premit'!es
convered to said wonnrnfl'f b r rleed Book 925 page 61
1
1292 - 229
October 7, 1890
JOHM B8LL to .T()S'll:PH A. BR.OWN to GHAn..LO'r'l'B -gl<l.L w::lf·':l of J()l-TN
B-i;;J L in 2 dm:!ds: !:'lessuar::e in Salem (same description) Being
· sar!le premises conve·red to me by lTar.i.2s ·~voodbur7 Book 992 - p.187
2454 - 160 July 19, 1920
MARY A. ,JODRSY of London, England sells to J. MOflTON DA''IS and
lil:RNmE R. G. DAVIS land and buildings (same description)
This land crune to me b'r inh8ri tance, see part of premises
describ~d in deed Book 1?9~? page 229
3362 - h62 March 17, 194h
ELRNOR~
B.
G. DA'IS of trarblehead sell::; to OIIVE M. and LRO
and buildin~s r described above) Reing same
premises conveved ".look 21~54 oaee 160
B~NR'r'!' J n.nd
3758 - 10
August 1, 19)0
I.lf'fl r,. 'l!'!d 01.J\Tft: H. RSNN'ln'T sell to r.:DNA G. on-r;-;r.r., rt;S'T'!J:-\R and
land and buildinrss at lClu Federal st; bounded:
be~innine; at SW corner on Fede1·al st. b 1r land now or late of
Chandler, running NW and N by lanci of said ~ha:1dler ?li ,-h 11
to land of said Chandler; runninr, B bV" said la!1rt 2~' to land
now or latA of Luc·r Hartin; thence S'S bv· said Martin's land S8•
to Federal st.; tlten Sl'i hy- F8deral St. 49 t to hep:inning. Also small
plot of lRnd in rear of ahove premises extending back to land novr
or late of ~!orris. 'Reim; same premises conve·red to us .Book _;J62
page !i62.
TlU'l'H ODSLI
�SUMMAHY
In tracing the housA at lOh Federal st., we canv:i upon a curious
circumstance wr··ich used to occur
tions in the old da•rs in
Sal·~m.
o~casional1',r
in real estate transac-
Asa 1amson, an upholsterer, purchasod a
"lot of land", the dimensions of which are t.hA same as at present from
I,ucy JJartin in
la25.
Tn the 8itv of Salem 'l'ax '1ecords, Asa Jamson hegan
pa•.rine taxes on a n:-iouse" in 18lh.
He
ownc~d no
othel' property, and so Hp-
parentlv IuclT Hartin permitted him to bui.ld his combin·'ld house o.nd shop
on her land, which he finall•r purchased from her 11 years later.
Jamson died in
Ghurch deacons.
18~8
ir1hen Asa
his 1vill remembered various nephews and the Baptist
His house and land
wr~re
solrl for
11
pavment of iiebts ".
Oddly
there is no mention of his ·wife or adopted son, for whora no record of death
can be found up to
inso.
geni:~alogy
Iamson
straightened out a confusing duplication of names.
Anot!'ler Asa Lamson, a sadd1 er and chaise maker, liv13d :Ln
had a shop on nridge
st.
No~th Sal,~m
and
He wa.s the son of a Capt. A.sa I.amson of Beverly.
A third Asa Iamsnn, a "R9VGrend 11 , was born in New Tfamshire, lived in
Andover and died in Salem in 1R6o.
'T'he Asa I amson of lOh Federal st. was
I
proboblr distantly related to these others.
Be was born in Exeter N. f.!.
son of Joseph Iamson in 1783. In 18lh h:i married rtargaret Bro1•m in Salem,
and this was t11r:i IGar he built '.1.is house on Fecl1ral
had no children of their own, but
in 1833.
st.
'rhe;sr apnar8ntly
adootocl Aueustus f-IodgkiI)s 1ar.1son
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OFFICE AT HAMILTON HALL
~~JMorporated
POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (617) 745-0799
106 FEDERAL STREET
Built for
JOHN CHANDLER, grocer
in 1897
Research by,
Joyce King
February 1988
"to preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and objects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true value of the same."
�106 FEDERAL STREET
DATE -
September 1, 1987
GRANTOR -
Richard Minturn and Suzanne Freeman
GRANTEE -
Robert and Denise Kiel
DESCRIPTION -
Land and buildings
North - formerly John Bell 32 1 7"
East - formerly John Bell by two
courses 28 1 5" and 34'5"
South - Federal street 40'8"
West - Beckford street 63 1
BOOK 6775 PAGE 521
DATE -
December 18, 1980
CONSIDERATION
$85,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
Frances D. Rizzotti, Josephine
Rizzotti and Theresa Madison
GRANTEE (buyer)
Richard Minturn and Suzanne Freeman
husband and wife
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
deed of Frances D. Rizzotti April 19,
1977, recorded in book 6340 page 460.
�BOOK 6340 PAGE 460
DATE -
April 19, 1977
CONSIDERATION
Love and affection
GRANTOR (seller) -
Frances Rizzotti
GRANTEE (buyer)
Frances D. Rizzotti, Josephine
Rizzotti and Theresa Madison
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same premises conveyed to me and
my sister Grace E. Rizzotti by deed
of Lawrence Rizzotti on November 2,
1963, recorded in book 5124 page 332.
For my title see also estate of Grace
Rizzotti docket #329710.
BOOK 5124 PAGE 332
DATE -
November 2, 1963
CONSIDERATION
Less than $100, subject to prior
mortgage.
GRANTOR (seller) -
Lawrence Rizzotti
GRANTEE (buyer)
Grace E. Rizzotti and Frances D.
Rizzotti
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same premises conveyed by The
Wesley Methodist Church on June 2,
1952, recorded in book 3903 page 371.
�BOOK 3903 PAGE 371
DATE -
June 2, 1952
CONSIDERATION
$1,150
GRANTOR (seller) -
Trustees of The Wesley Methodist
Church
GRANTEE (buyer)
Lawrence Rizzotti
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
said church by deed of the Salem
Seaman's Orphan and Children's Friend
Soc. and by deed of the Association
for the Relief of Aged and Destitute
Women in Salem in February 1912.
BOOK 2133 PAGE 450
DATE -
February 28, 1912
CONSIDERATION
$1 and other valuable consideration
GRANTOR (seller) -
The Association for the Relief of
Aged and Destitute Women
The Salem seamen's Orphan and
Children's Friend Soc.
GRANTEE (buyer)
The Wesley Methodist Church
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Devised to us in the will of John
Chandler in equal shares.
�BOOK 1112 PAGE 250
DATE -
August 2, 1883
CONSIDERATION
$2,750
GRANTOR (seller) -
Harlan P. Sanborn of Chelsea
Administrator of the will of
Joseph Chandler, late of Cambridge
GRANTEE (buyer)
John Chandler
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
None listed
�NOTES AND DATE DOCUMENTATION
106 FEDERAL STREET
PERIOD: FOURTH QUARTER
"This large wooden house is a Colonial Revival period,
two-story plus gambrel roof building.
There are bay windows,
cross gables, and a dentil cornice, all of which are representative of this style.
Charles Archer writing for the Salem
Evening News in 1922, tells of an old house which was
previously on this site.
In it the Chandler family lived and
ran a store which was the local gathering place for the
community and the center of news and gossip.
The same Chandler
family built the present grocery store diagonally across the
street."
(Salem Historic District Study Committe Investigation vol. 3 pg.64)
CHANDLER'S OLD GROCERY DURING CIVIL WAR DAYS
Old Times Up-town
"Chandler's store, on the lower corner of Beckford street, was
the general centre for local news and gossip of our
neighborhood on upper Federal street, especially in the long
summer evenings and particularly after the great rebellion, as
it was then called, broke upon the community.
It as a typical
old-fashioned grocery in an ancient yellow wooden dwellinghouse (originally) dating back to the early years of the
nineteenth and very possibly to the close of the eighteenth
century.
The store occupied the whole of the first floor with
a huge fat chimney passing up through the middle to the story
above, where dwelt a family up-stairs.
This chimney materially curtailed the space and the flour,
sugar and cracker barrels left little narrow pathways for the
customers. .A long counter extending from the door to the back
wall, traversed the eastern side of the store and back of that
was the long row of deep tin canisters for the teas and
coffees, sugar, spices, peas and beans.
Ham and bacon in
yellow and brown canvas coverings, hung from the beams overhead
and were diversified by strings of dried apples festooned
between.
But it was the barrel tops that furnished us our reat
forum for full and free discussion of the conduct of the war- a
tremendously engrossing topic.
Chandler's grocery dated back for years and years.
Joseph D.
Chandler, a very old man when I came on the stage, was the head
of the establishment from my earliest recollection and was soon
succeeded by his energetic and bustling son, John Chandler, who
years later built a modern grocery store across the street at
107 Federal, on the corner diagonally opposite of its old home,
and moved the business to the new location. The old store did
a flourishing business for certainly two generations in the
family, if not more, for it had a very solid community to cater
to,"
(Salem Evening News article by Charles Archer)
�As mentioned, an old house/store previously occupied this
site.
In 1874 John Chandler removed the old buildings on the
corner of Federal and Beckford streets (now #107) and built a
store and dwelling house.
In 1896 he removed an old house at
21 Beckford street and built a new house on the site.
He
repeated this pattern in 1897 when he removed the old building
at 106 Federal and had a new one built.
Salem tax records:
1896
John Chandler
House 107 Federal
House 21 Beckford
Shop 109 Federal
House and barn 7 River
House 106 Federal
House 22 1/2 and 24 Beckford
value $5,200
value 1,200
value
200
value
900
value 1,500
value
500
1897 John Chandler
House 107 Federal
House 21 Beckford
House and barn 7 River
House 106 Federal
value $5,200
value 3,200
value
900
value 1,500
1900 John Chandler
House 107 Federal
House 21 Beckford
House and barn 7 River
House 106 Federal
House 24 Beckford
value
value
value
value
value
$3,200
3,200
$4,500
3,200
900
3,200
700
This notice, published in the Salem Gazette on May 1, 1896,
was written about 21 Beckford street, but could also apply to
106 Federal:
"Old house on Beckford Street about 175 years o~belonging to
John Chandler was demolished to make room for a dwelling built
in modern style, designed by Joseph c. Foster, architect.
we
understand Mr. Chandler proposes to erect a fine
two-story-and-a-half house with all the modern improvements,
for which there is abundant space."
�John Chandler was the son of John D. and Mary (McDonald)
Chandler.
He was born on May 31, 1832 at 7 River street.,
where he lived until 1874 when he went to live in his new house
at 107 Federal street.
Mr. Chandler attended Salem schools and
at an early age began to work as clerk in his father's grocery
store.
He was ambitious to do business on his own account and
established a grocery store at the corner of Beckford and
Federal streets.
He was fortunate in his business.
He had the
necessary experience, knowledge and foresight, the sound
judgment and sterling character that brought him substanial
rewards for his industry and activity in business.
He had an
attractive personality, winning friends readily by his kindly
and democratic manner and sympathetic nature.
He belonged to
no clubs or fraternal organizations; he divided his time
between his business and his home.
He was active in the North
unitarian Church and a generous supporter of its work.
He
married, October 26, 1865, Caroline F. Edwards, born at Salem,
April 26, 1840, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail R. (Peele)
Edwards. John and Caroline Chandler had no children.
(Gen~alogy of Boston and Eastern Mass.)
John Chandler died on January 29, 1903. Subsequent to a few
small bequests, the estate was put in a trust to care for his
wife Caroline.
After her death it was to be divided, in equal
shares, by the Association for the Aged and Destitute Women in
Salem and the Salem Seaman's Orphan and Children's Friend soc.
The total personal property was valued at $12,825.01.
The real
estate was valued at $16,000, as shown in the inventory:
Dwelling, store and land s.w. corner of Federal and Beckford
$6,000; House and land 21 Beckford $4,000; Two houses and land
corner of Federal and Beckford $4,800; House, stable and land
7 River $1,200.
The Salem Evening News carried this simple obituary:
"Death of well known grocer, for many years kept a store on
the corner of Federal and Beckford streets.
Mr. John Chandler
died at his home 107 Federal St.
He was a graduate of the
Hacker School.
Leaves a widow."
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Federal Street
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106
106 Federal
1896
Chandler
Federal
grocer
John
John Chandler
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107
Federal Street
Salem, Hass.
Deeds
Book page
5573
110
November 15, 1968
Louis J. i'loocls III an:i wifG Rosaline s.ell to '!iillial!l ~ and ~~ary
Maraurett 3urns land and buildings at 107 J?ederal St. '..Juunded:
N.W. by Fede~al St. 65.75'
N. by corner. of Federal and Beckford Sts. 5.76 1
E •. by Beckford st. 46.54' , then running
w. by land of devisees under will of John Chandler 35.9 1 and
w. by said land·21.19• to s.w. corner of granted :rirer:iises, then
U.lr.w. by land now or formerly of ChishoJm. 25024' to b0ginning.
Being same premises conveyed us by. deed Book 5455 p2ge 121.
5455
121
June 30, 1967
Louis J. and Alice D. 1.'/oods of Salem for consideration grant to Lou5.~
J. Woods ITI and wife J?.osalin.e of Beverl;J' land and. buildint;s in Salen
(described above) Being sai:ie :premises conveyed 3ook 5077 :pa;·~ 206.
5077
206
July 1, 1963
Jeannette E. Dub::ils and Ruth s. Woods of Salem for coas:'..deration paid
grant to Louis J. and Alice D. 'Hoods of Salem, le.nd ci.nd buildi:.:.;n
(sa."lle description as above) Being srune p:;.~emise3 conv0yed :aook 4410
pai;e 587.
4410
587
October 14, 1957
s J. and Katt.eri!1e A. C2.rr of 33.le:u grant to Jeannette ~. ".)ubois
and Ruth s. Woods of Sa.ler:i land and bu;.ldinss (s::tm.e descri.9ticu)
Being saue premises cinveyed 3ook 3701 pa.::;e 416.
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3701
415
3470
25
:rove~ber 2, 1949
Zildred A. !fe::-::.';.ck widow an'.l Carol:i.ne ::!?. 3rid"'.es ·,·:ido;-; of Sahi:~ sell
to Francis .J. .::!.::J.d !(atherine A. Ca:!.~r of S.:.:.lem land anl buildin.;s
(sruoe description) See deed ~o us Book 3470 page ~5.
July 12, 1946
Hildred A.. 5errick widovr an·i Sarn:.tel F. Bridi;es to ::ra.ry :s. Tud~'.l"-7 .'!'!10
in turn g,ran '.:.s to .~ildred A. Herrick and ~G.muel F. an.:1 C3.rol:i.·::s F.
B.ridr;;es ·.:>f Salem land and bnili:lin;s (same az above)
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32.50
369
April 1 , 19!~ 1
William D. C:C.a:p:ple exec. of will of An~a F. Jen~s late of Sale~ by
t~e po\'rer CO!].::'erred by the Coct~t, for ~2100 paid, grants to ~,::i_ldrsd
A. Herrick and Samuel F. E·rid~es both of Beverly the ree..l es-::ate in.
Salen (s?.me dGscription as n.bove)
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233
M2rch 6, 1912
S·3.le!:1 s~a!!len•s Or-chan an:l Cl:il::lren's Friend Society for '.>1 and consids:::-ati0ns relc<;i.ses tc Albe:-t Jeri.~:s of Sa.le~:1 0 11e und:!_vid.ed 1-.alf .:::i~:rt of ·"".
certai!l :·:it cf 13.nC: and build'in;s thereon (name de.::icri:ptio::i., acH "iron
pipe" between ~:Ce two '!!. bol:.ndaries) P.remises sb.o'm on ;_:>:!.R!l :'a!'ew~.:..t!!,
and were devised by \'!ill of Jo:m Chandler, doc. of Salen in c::ual
s~ares to :t'1e granter o.nd the Association fo:i:- Relief of A:.;ed arid. Desti tu ti~ ·:ro:01cn.
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231 ~1arch 6, 1912
The Associc::.tion For The Relief e>f A!';ed Anr1. D!3st; tute '.'!o~~m in S2lera
for $1 and considerati'.JYI:J r3lcases to Aloe.ct Jenl~s of Salem o::ie undivided half of Lmd and builc!.in;:s (same description)
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Harlan P. So.nborn ::td'.1i1~ •. of t!w will of <I_oce1.Jh Cl-ia:idler 1n.te of C2.r.ibridse under licence of t:ie c01~rt sold t!:e real estate of the deceased
a.t public auction on July 10 to ,To}rn Chandlc:r' of Sale.re· for $2, 750~
Real estate consists of land and buildings at the corner of Federal and
Beckford Sts. bounded:
;7.?) b:' Federal St. 40'-8 11 from corner to a sto!le bound
on ?-~ • E.
(S.S.?) by 3ecl:f'.Jrd st. 63'
on s. ti.
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b,;' ot!'lar la;1d. of the estate ':Jf "Tosep.11 Chandler 32'-T 1
on n.w.
on ~T .s. ( S. ~'I.?) by lani now of John H. Bell o::: two lines 34'-5 11
and 28 '-5 11 to said stone bo:md on Federal st.
Shown on ple.n of estc.te by Charles P:itnam dated July 17, 1883: Plan
Book 2 fJ6 .(see photocopy follovd.ng~)
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Tnformation from Salem City Directories
1881 John Chandler Grocer
1882-3 (s~~e listinG)
188lr
house ditto
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1899-1900
107 Federal St.
( sa::1e)
Historic District Study Co.:nmi ttee
107 Fede:::-al St.
1960
3rd quarter (19th C.) 2 story pl us :.ransard roof, o:::-;:ia te
dormers and It:J-lianate trim. 2nd fl. bay Y::i. :dow on Feder<1.l
St. loo~-::s lil:e a later a:idi tion. built by John. c. C11n.."ldler.
City of Salem map, 1897 shows the present building vms in existance.
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of Salorz! Tax Records
reo.l estate tax
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1882
1883
1884
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1888
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At so:Je p'.:lint i!! the Chandler :a:·:'.i.ly 1s 10:1::
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much older comb5.nation house an 1 sfio;:.' :;;;lus l'.)ri.s 21.:1 ·:: r1.::.s taken down a.nd a ni:;vr
house and shop of sr1alle:::- tottl liround
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been· unabl3 to
locate any Salem buildin,s permit records th2.t would pin t'·.e year exactly.
1883 when the prGperty of the late Joseph Chandler
Wf!S
plan of the estate shows the old structure standing on
time the Salem City
was there.
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oold to his son John, the
t~at
corner plot.
By the
of 1897 was published, the outline of the new building
1!/e kno\'f from City directories that son John Chandler,
11
grocer 11 was
living in his father's house and operating the store well before he bought the
property in 1 ~83.
Tax records, often incomplete an..:. inexact, show an increase
in the assessment by 1884.
It was not a large increase however, but this_ could
ba explained in that more area of old buildings had been torn down than new
built_ up.
Hy opinion, considering the taxes, maps, and all other information is that
John
C~1andler
tore down the old a;:id put np the present structure by the next year
after he acquired title to his father's property.
This would make the building
1ag4, which is quite consistent with its handsome architectural style.
Sally Dee, researcher,
April 8 1975
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John Chandler, grocer, 1884
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Chandler
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grocer
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112-114 Federal Street
Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built for Col. John Page,
merchant, in 1782.
John Page was born in 1751, the son of Samuel Page and Elizabeth Clark, who in
1772 had come to Salem from Medford. Samuel became a very successful distiller
and merchant.
John Page (1751-1838) married Sarah Porter of Danvers in 1773, and they had two
surviving sons, John Jr. and Josiah Page. During the Revolution, John Page was a
volunteer in the Rhode Island expedition of 1778. Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Page died,
whereupon John married, second, Esther Mackey, who soon died. John married,
third, in 1793, Ruth Holman, the daughter of an Essex Street hatter, Samuel
Holman. John and Ruth would have four children between 1794 and 1802.
On 7 September 1782 for 170 Ii John Page, merchant, purchased from Ebenezer
Beckford, merchant, a piece of land :fronting southerly 62' on "the north or new
street" (Federal Street), westerly 126' on land of Leach, northerly 62' on land of
John Beckford, and easterly 100' on land of Jenks (ED 139:226). On this land, Mr.
Page had a house built, evidently in that same year, 1782. The house was large and
distinctive: three stories high, five bays across in front, it had (and has) a pitched
roof, rather than the hip roof that would soon be common among houses of this
class. It is of a style that is known as Post-Colonial, meaning that it was somewhat
evolved from Pre-Revolutionary "Georgian" style, but had not yet partaken of the
elements of what is known as "Federal" style.
Up until the time of the Revolution (1775), Salem's trade was prosperous but
modest. The salt water came in as the South River along Derby and new Derby
Streets all the way to the present post office; and in this secure inner harbor were
most of the wharves and warehouses.
After the Revolution, Salem's merchants were ready to push their ships and
cargoes into all parts of the known world. Hasket Derby, William Gray, and
Joseph Peabody were the leaders in this effort. In 1784, Derby opened trade with
Saint Petersburg, Russia; and in 1784 and 1785 he dispatched trading vessels to
Africa and China, respectively. Voyages to India soon followed, and to the Spice
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�islands (Sumatra, Java, Malaya, etc.). The size and number of vessels was
increased, and by 1800 Salem was the greatest trading port in America, with some
of the wealthiest merchants.
In this bustling and prosperous seaport, John Page sought military and political
advancement, and received it (see EIHC 3:92-93). He was elected Lt. Col. of the
Essex Regiment in 1791 (John Fiske was Brig. General; see Bentley's Diary
IV :64), and he was a federal employee as a Weigher & Gauger at the Custom
House. He also owned a part interest in the distillery that his father had operated.
In 1793, evidently, he and Samuel Ropes formed a partnership, Page & Ropes, to
do business as ship chandlers. They were quite successful, and in 1798 they
contributed $100 toward construction of a privately financed Salem frigate, the
Essex, for defense against marauding French ships (EIHC 75:6). Rev. William
Bentley noted in his diary that he went on a pleasure excursion to Baker's Island in
May, 1798, in the company of Col. Page and Captains Derby and Prince.
In 1800 Page & Ropes spent over $4000 in purchasing from the Derby heirs a store
at the head ofUnion Wharf, fronting northerly on Derby Street (ED 167:176-177).
This store (which they may have leased earlier), with land and wharfage, stood
opposite the mouth of present Union Street, and was a good location for the
enterprise of outfitting ships and their crews. The chandlery was a nautical
department store and grocery store combined, from which was sold everything
from biscuits and quadrants to cordage and barrels of tar. Page & Ropes' s
chandlery appears to have handled more than its share of the trade along Salem's
booming waterfront.
John Page (1751-1838), b. 20 Nov. 1751, Medford, son of Samuel Page &
Elizabeth Clark, died 2 Dec. 1838, Salem. He m/11773 Sarah Porter. He m/2
1793 Esther Mackey (1763-1793). He m/3 9 July 1793 Ruth Holman, born
1761, d/o Samuel Holman. Known issue:
1. John
2. Josiah
3.
4.
5. Samuel, 1794
6. William 1796
7. Elizabeth, 1799
8. Henry Lawrence, 1802, died in infancy.
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�In 1800, the house was occupied by John Page and family (himself, his wife, 7
boys and young men, 3 girls) and by William Hathorne (16-26 & male 10-16, and
female 45+ and 4 16-26), who may have been Capt. William Hathorne who m.
1800 Miss Dutch and in 1801 moved to Essex Street, where he kept a store.
Mr. Bentley noted (8 Feb. 1803) that Col. Page was among several men who had
commissioned a Major Watkins to build them tombs. When the cost began to soar,
Col. Page was deputed to confront Maj. Watkins, and in the event Watkins drew
his sword and beat Col. Page. The Colonel had him arrested. Bentley noted, "The
Major has come out and done penance to the public satisfaction, by asking pardon
and imploring forgiveness. The reduction of the account (for tomb-building) will
probably be more terrible to him."
Salem at the turn of the century was growing and thriving. The town's merchants
were among the wealthiest in the country. In Samuel Mcintire, they had a local
architect who could help them realize their desires for large and beautiful homes
built and decorated in the Adamesque style. This style (called "Federal" today)
had been developed years before by the Adam brothers in England and featured
fanlight doorways, palladian windows, elongated pilasters and columns, and large
windows. It was introduced to New England by Charles Bulfinch upon his return
from England in 1790. The State House in Boston was his first institutional
composition; and soon Beacon Hill was being built up with handsome residences
in the Bulfinch manner.
Samuel Mcintire, a talented joiner and draftsman of Salem, was quick to pick up
on the style, and to adapt it to Salem's larger lots, as on Chestnut Street, Federal
Street, and Washington Square, a somewhat boggy expanse which was filled in
and cleaned up in the period 1802-4. Mclntire's first local composition, the
Jerathmeel Peirce house (on Federal Street, near North), contrasts greatly with his
Adamesque compositions of just a few years later. The interiors of this style
differed from the "Georgian" and Post-Colonial by eschewing walls of wood
paneling in favor of plastered expanses painted in bright colors or, more
commonly, covered in bold wallpapers. In vernacular (less high-style) houses, the
"wallpaper" effect was achieved by painted walls with an overlay of stencilled
designs. The Adam style put a premium on handsome casings and carvings of
central interior features such door-caps and chimney-pieces (Mclntire's specialty).
On the exterior, the Adam style included elegant fences and houses that were often
built of brick, and, sometimes, attenuated porticoes and, in the high style, string
courses, swagged panels, and even two-story pilasters.
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�Salem's foreign commerce was booming in the first decade of the nineteenth
century, as was the commerce of Newburyport and even Marblehead. Salem
vessels sailed to the Caribbean and Europe-including Russia--as before, but were
opening trade to the East as well, sailing to the far side of the globe to trade with
the merchants of the Spice Islands, India, and Malaya. Salem cargoes were
exceedingly valuable.
Salem's boom came to an end with crash, when, in January, 1808, Pres. Jefferson
and the Congress imposed an embargo on all American shipping in hopes of
forestalling war. The Embargo proved futile and nearly ruinous in Salem, whose
commerce ceased. As a hotbed of Democratic-Republicanism, the seafarers of the
Derby Street area, led by the Crowninshield family, loyally supported the Embargo
until it was lifted in spring, 1809. Salem, out of patience with Jefferson, furiously
resumed its seafaring commerce, but still the British preyed on American shipping,
Salem's included; and in June, 1812, war was declared against Britain.
Most of the New England towns opposed the war as being potentially ruinous and
for the benefit only of the western war-hawk states. Not Salem and Marblehead,
which went to war eagerly. Forty privateers were immediately fitted out in Salem,
manned by Marblehead and Salem crews, who also served on U.S. Navy vessels,
including the Constitution. In addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and
artillery.
Salem and Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of
British supply vessels. While many of the town's men were wounded in
engagements, and some were killed, the adventure and possible riches of
privateering kept the men returning to sea as often as possible. The first prizes
were captured by a 30-ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame, and by a 14-ton
luxury yacht fitted with one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem privateers, the
Crowninshields' 350-ton ship America was the most successful. She captured
more than 30 prizes worth more than $1,100,000.
Salem feared attack from British vessels, and erected forts and batteries on the
Neck. On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. Along the western
frontier, U.S. forces were successful against the weak English forces; and, as
predicted by many, the western expansionists had their day. At sea, Salem's
vessels often were captured, and its men captured or killed. After almost three
years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the menfolk were disappearing.
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�Hundreds of Salem men and boys were imprisoned in British prison-ships and at
Dartmoor Prison in England.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored.
Page & Ropes evidently continued to do a good business into the 1820s. By 1820,
Col. John Page and family had moved out of this house and into another one
farther down Federal Street. In 1820, the tenants here were Thomas Cole, a
prosperous "gentleman," and Jonathan Peele Saunders, an auctioneer (see 1820
census, p.106). Mr. Saunders, in 1813, had been a part-owner of the 260-ton
merchant ship Bolina, Capt. John Fairfield (EIHC 39:207).
Through the 1820s the foreign trade continued prosperous; but at the end of that
decade, Salem's maritime commerce sank rapidly. Before that point, Col. Page
decided to sell this house on Federal Street. On 5 April 1823 he sold the house and
land for $3200 (ED 232:24) to his nieces, the well-to-do Misses Abigail, 40, and
Elizabeth Lawrence, 32, daughters of the Colonel's sister Abigail and her husband
Abel Lawrence, of Barton Square. Col. Page and wife Ruth moved into the house
at 335 Essex Street at about this time, and resided there for the rest of their lives.
The Colonel died on 2 December 1838, aged 87 years.
The owners as of 1823, the Misses Lawrence, evidently did not reside here, but
rented the house for income. The tenants in 1830 are difficult to discern; but by
1836 the house (then numbered 44 Federal Street) was occupied by Charles
Mansfield, a mariner, his wife, and whatever children they had. Mrs. Mansfield
was Rebecca B. Dean, and married Charles in 1833. He eventually became a
merchant and shipmaster.
The great lawyer Rufus Choate (1799-1859) was evidently also a tenant of this
house at some point during his residency in Salem, 1828-1834. He is said to have
"occupied the house, 14 Lynde Street, and also lived at 114 Federal Street" (p.197,
Visitor's Guide To Salem, Essex Institute, 1927). The records indicate that in
1828 and 1829 Mr. Choate resided in Ward Four (this ward) in a house not
identified, and that in 1830 and 1831 he resided on Federal Street in a house owned
by John Holman. In 1832 and 1833 he was a Member of Congress and presumably
in Washington, but was listed for tax on personal property in Ward Four. In 1834
he was listed as "gone."
Rufus Choate, a native ofChebacco (now Essex), was among the foremost lawyers
of his day, eclipsing even Daniel Webster in the esteem of many. He won renown
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�for his successful defense of an alleged murderer, whom he persuaded the jury to
believe may have committed his crime while sleep-walking. He came to Salem in
1828, evidently, and practiced here for at least three years before being chosen a
U.S. Representative. He evidently resided primarily in Washington, DC, in 1832
and 1833, but maintained an address here until 1834, when he left never to return.
He also served an appointment as a U.S. Senator. In the 1850s his health was not
good, and he died while on a cruise in 1859 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
With the advent of railroads and canals in the 1830s diverted both capital and trade
away from the coast. American goods were now being produced at a level where
imports were not so much needed as in the past, and the interior of the country was
being opened for settlement. People moved west, including some from Salem, and
the economic attention of the merchants turned westward with them.
Manufacturing and the railroads now attracted Salem's capital, and many of the
more notable merchants moved to Boston, the center of investment in these nonmaritime industries. The Eastern Rail Road began operating between Salem and
Boston in 1838; the tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond. Salem did
engage in some manufacturing-leather, shoes, textiles--but not on the scale of the
factory towns of Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, with their mills driven by the
powerful waters of the Merrimack.
Of the Misses Lawrence, Abigail, of Danvers, died in 1840; and on 29 January
1845 for $2700 her sister Eliza (with the trustees of Abigail's will) sold the
homestead to George P. Farrington, Salem trader (ED 392:208).
The new owner, George Pickman Farrington, 37 in 1845, grew up in Salem, the
son of a Lynn-born grocer, William Farrington, and of Mary (Ward) Farrington.
George's Salem grandparents were Capt. Ebenezer Ward and Mehitable (Buttolph)
Ward, and he had several sets of Salem uncles and aunts, including Capt. Samuel
Skerry, a prosperous former shipmaster who was killed by the kick of a horse in a
Federal Street stable, and Daniel Farrington, who came from Vermont and may
have been his father's brother. The William Farringtons resided in this
neighborhood.
In 1836 George, a young apothecary (druggist) married Caroline Dean, the
daughter of a hardware dealer, Col. George Dean, and his wife Judith Briggs, who
was the daughter of a well-known shipbuilder, Enos Briggs (EIHC 4:137).
Caroline may well have been the sister of Rebecca Dean, who had married Charles
Mansfield in 1833 and resided in this house in 1836, the year in which Salem
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�became a city. George, the bridegroom, was a member of the Salem Light
Infantry, an outfit he had joined in 1835 (EIHC 26:269).
In the late 1830s Mr. G.P. Farrington occupied the apothecary shop formerly ofDr.
William Stearns, located at was then 350 Essex Street, at the easterly corner of
Beckford Street. Mr. Farrington had already added on to the northerly side of that
building when, in February, 1839, he entered in a lease agreement with Mrs. Sarah
W. Steams for the store, to run for ten years at $175 per year (ED 311:182-3). In
some circles G.P. Farrington was known as Dr. Farrington in deference to his skill
as a druggist. He was the tenant at 112 Federal as early as 1840.
George Pickman FARRINGTON (1808-1885), born 22 Aug. 1808, son of
William Farrington (1766-1831) & Mary Ward of Salem; died 1885. He m/1
28 Jan. 1836 (Salem) Caroline A. DEAN, b. 22 Aug. 1808, d/o George Dean &
Judith Briggs. He m/2 Susan BRIGGS Clark (1826-1916), d/o Samuel &
Mary Briggs and widow of Mr. Clark. Known issue:
1. Caroline Dean, 1837
2. Mary Ward, 1839
3. George P., 1841
4. Anna Warren Braser, 1843
Somewhat stubbornly, Salem's waning merchant class pursued their business on
the sea; but as the years went by the conditions of shipping changed, and Salem
was left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller
ships that Salem men had sailed around the world; and the clippers, with their deep
drafts and large holds, were usually too large for Salem and its harbor. The town's
shipping soon consisted of little more than visits from Down East coasters with
cargoes of fuel wood and building timber. By 1850 Salem was finished as a
working port; and its glory days were over. An excellent picture of Salem's
waterfront, during its period of decline from glory, is given by Hawthorne in his
"introductory section" (really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter, which he
began while working in the Custom House and complete at home on Mall Street.
In 1850, the residents here were George P. Farrington, 40, apothecary, wife
Caroline, 40, children Caroline, 13, Mary W., 11, George P., 9, Anna W. B., 7, and
servant Mary Daley, 22, born in Ireland (1850 census, house 108).
Salem re-tooled as an industrial center, with good success; the symbol of its new
economy was the large twin-towered granite train station, which stood at the foot
of Washington Street, where it had joined the inner harbor. Beginning in the 1840s,
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�the Salem capitalists built factories that soon filled with Irish immigrant workers as
well as the native-born. Salem's water-oriented downtown area remained intact, or
nearly so, for most of the 19th century, although no more were square-rigged ships
pulled up to wharves along the inner harbor (from Derby Wharf to where the Post
Office now is), and the railroad had been built across the middle of the beautiful
Mill Pond, which extended from the inner harbor all the way to Loring A venue, in
a broad sheet of water between what are now called Canal Street and Jefferson
Avenue. In the early 20th century, both of these ancient bodies of water would
vanish, as they were filled in and buried beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards,
rail-yards, and parking lots.
Manufacturing.
The tanning and curing of leather was an important industry by the mid- l 800s. It
was conducted near Federal Street Street, along the upper North River and Boston
Street. There were 85 tanneries in 1850, employing 550 hands. The manufacture
of textiles also became important. In 1847 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company
erected its first mill, 400' by 60', the largest in the U.S. It was an immediate
success, and a secong, larger, building was added in 1859, and a third in 1865. In
this new industrial economy, Mr. Farrington prospered, as more and more people
had need of his medications and drugs. He acquired a new store at 310 Essex
Street, comer ofNorth Street, and ran a second store at 159Y2 Essex Street. The
store at 310 Essex was housed in the so-called Witch House (still standing), of
which Mr. Farrington was a good steward. It had a very different appearance when
it was a drug store.
The Civil War, 1861-1865, evidently had little direct impact on the Farrington
family. George Jr. became an apothecary too, and in 1869 resided at 34 Barr Street
and worked at 310 Essex Street. By that time, the house was being used as a twofamily, with the Farringtons residing in 112 (easterly half) and Rev. James T.
Hewes, 34, and family residing in 114 (westerly half). The Heweses included
Ellen, 30, Henry, two, Elizabeth, one, and a helper, Ellen Bolen, 20, born in Ireland
(1870 census, house 178). They were residing here in 1872 but had moved by
1874.
At some point, Mr. Farrington's first wife, Caroline, died; and he married, second,
a widow (of a Mr. Clark), Susan Briggs, who was much younger than he. She may
have been a relative of Caroline, in that Caroline's mother was a Briggs. George
was born in 1808; Susan in 1826.
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�In 1878, Mr. Farrington and wife were visited by Francis H. Lee, who was
evidently collecting for the Essex Institute. Among other things, Mr. Farrington
gave him 60 coins, Capt. (Philip P.) Pinell's Marine Society certificate, and a
silhouette of Robert Brookhouse's first wife. Mr. Lee noted that portraits of all of
the Farringtons had been painted by Miss Marianne Derby. "Dr. Farrington's house
was built in 1782 for a Mr. Page, of the firm of Page and Ropes," reported Mr.
Lee. "He also gave me several shop-keeper's shin plasters which circulated in the
early days of the war." (EIHC 60:75).
In 1880, the house here was occupied by George P. Farrington, 71, druggist, wife
Susan B., 53, daughter Mary W., 41, and servant Catherine Burke, 70, born in
Ireland (1880 census, house 73).
George P. Farrington died of heart disease on 29 April 1885, in his 77th year. His
remains were interred at Harmony Grove cemetery. By his will, he evidently
devised this homestead to his wife Susan for her lifetime, with reversionio his
heirs.
Mrs. Susan Farrington resided here for many years more. She was 87 when, on
June 25, 1914, a great fire came up out of Blubber Hollow (Boston Street at
Federal Street) and spread southeasterly, attacking South Salem and ending after a
13-hour rampage. It had consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories,
leaving three killed and up to 15,000 people homeless.
Mrs. Farrington died on 30 May 1916, in her 90th year. The Farrington heirs
(devisees under Mr. Farrington's will) were George P. Mackie, of Worcester, and
Mrs. George H. Putnam (Carrie L.) of Boston. In April, 1918, Mr. Mackie
conveyed his half-interest in the premises to Mrs. Putnam, who thus became sole
owner (ED 2409:582).
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 13 Feb. 2001
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�Glossary
#1234 refers to probate case 1234, Essex County probate
ED 123:45 refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South Registry of Deeds
Salem Directory refers to the published Salem resident directories
Census refers to census records, taken house-by-house with occupants listed.
EIHC refers to Essex Institute Historical Collections
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SALEM DIRECTORY.
GEO. P. FARRINGTON, · .:~:
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Where may be found a inrge assortment or :j; .
PURE DRUGS & FAMILY MEDIC,.,~
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Perfumery and Toilet Articles of every rariety, &~- .
Particular attention paid to the compoundi~ ,
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medicines. A full assortment of Drugs and Medicines, includil.lg :· · ··
latest preparations, constantly on hand. Medicine dispensed at all_ hi>
G. A. &T. BROWN,
CARPENTERS,
AND
Bill~~ ll BJS100
No. 158 Derby Street,
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Orders promptly executed.
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No. 223 Derby Street.
:r.Inson work of every description
done in a thorough and workrnonlike
rnnnner. Hot-Air Furnaces, Cooking
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JOSEPH MANSF
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Federal Street
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112-114 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built for Col. John Page, merchant 1782
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Property of &
11.3 Federal St., Salem, Maaeachusetta
Gran tor
Description
Fsoex County Regiatry of Deeds
Laurence Dailey
North~rly by Federal Street
John &:'cymann
u.x, Perol
we, Janette
N F. and E on two or more c ours• by land.a
now or late of w. A. Chisholm, \{. t.
f.shton, First &otiet Church and Willia 11
conveyed 6/16/1964.
Penn Hose Cor-pany
S by lands now or late of L. A. Russell
Recorded in Book $180, page 740
and A. s. Rorero and
two or more oourl!les by land nOW'
or late of J. T. Upton.
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Laurence Dailey
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conveyed 1/31/1961
Recorded in Book if4740, page 597
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conv~yed
2/27/1948.
Recorded in Book 3$89, page 401
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we, Frieda P.
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conveyed 9/7/191+5.
Reoorded in . ook
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Donald J. Pnricn
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(foreclosure)
convoyed 9/16/1941.
Hecorded in Book 3271 1 pai;e 47
Salerr Savinr:s Bllllk
Salem Savings Bank
(holder of mtge frc~r· Anna J. Co:in
of Salem __.:. to said Savings Bank
dtd. 8/7/1919 recorded in l:asex
So. Dist. Deeds Book 2)42) par,e 33
for $J,5('0 17,ro.nt to Salem S 11 vinr,a
Bank the premises conveyed in eaid
mtge.)
co:wcyed 5/J/1938.
llecorded in fuok 113144, page 2·12
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Grantee
Salem Svgs. Dank
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Oran tor
Anna J. Coan, singlawoman
Description
(To secure pnyment of $J, 500
in one year -- int. 5 1/2% per
annum, payable qtrl.y.)
"fuine; san'e premises conveyed to
me by North '·~eeting House
11/13/1906" - - - grantor, heirs
exec1i., adm., or assir,nn shall nay
same
all taxes •••••·•••• on said pram:Lsee
Ptc. etc.
oonvnyed R/7/1919
Recorded in Book #2423, page JJ.
Posseeeiona
(Anna J. Coan to Sa.lorn Savings Bank)
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" ••••• certify on 25th of !.larch, 1938~ Holund A.
Stanley, Salem SVgs. Bank Treasurer •••••••
made open peacable and unopnosed entrance
tor the purpose of foreclosing •••••• "
Recorded 1n Book
Anna J. Coan
for $4,700.00
#3141,
page 166.
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Proprietors of North
Meeting House in Salem
sometimes known as :forth
Society Coneregational,
Unitarian
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I. 'd 113 F'ederal Street in
Salem
"bein~ the estate devised by w/o Catharim Felt to
Charles Hoffman and by him devised to hie wife Eliza
A.. Hoffman and by her devised to the above Society".
conveyed 11/13/1906.
Recordf>d in Book #18$1, page 272
( air,nod on side - mtr:e paid in full
2/141 1918)
Fsaex County Probate Records1
Probate /!;/Jfl72
Cnthnrina Felt, einr:l(>"ffooan
fuok 4.3J, page 92 her will is recorded - "••• ren-Vcstnte 0tc.r:tc.to rrry frl('nd Charles
Hoffmnn •••·•"
(see below)
Josenh Felt (fathPr) di~d intestate
Book 138 page 115 his inventory· is recordod -"/.'7 - House in Federal St. valuation iJ, 500.
Book 43 page 448, Ephraim, his son, pctitirna to be appointed adm. S/1/1845 "Joseph 1'~elt who died within last 12 years".
Book 135 page 176, cphraim petition r,ranted. 5/20/1845.
Book 129 page 7oll, appraisers of E.statc appointed.
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(He was a. fo.r:l](lr)
fuok 246 page 3 records anpt of Administrators - . mos Prime, JosEYJh Symonds 2/5/1867.
Book 248 page 96, appraisers of Latate appointed - Chas. E.. Symonds, Dan 'l St.a'lifard
bphrnim F'. \'.ill er, 2/5/186 7.
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The na!r:e of Ruth A. Hoffman, sister deceased is Mentioned in her will also.
The names of ncices .i:.lizabeth Ann and Sarah Jane ~tft/we.re given sums of money •
mentioned also :in wi
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�113 Federal St., Snlem,
Oran tee
Joserih Felt
nssachusetts continued
11
Ora!1tor
Fnsox County
William Pickman
Rer,ist~\'
housewri.~ht
Description
of r,reds
A L'>T n, L/lim aitunto in Sl!lcm containing
t5 poles and 1/2 of a. oole bounded
Jl:!if?THJ •)LY BY rn· ro\L STHl<FT 61 '• Westerly
from aald street 3J' Sou the ,·ly to a st.ake
by land aold be rne this day to Jacob
Saunderson (115 Fvderal Street - Jaod:>
Sanderson 'Nork Shop) running S from eaid
atake and bounding W tr; tho last mentioned
land 96' 6" to l3u.ffington 1e 1 S by the
last mentic.,nod land 4J' 9", E b/ land ·
of Wm. Stearns 40 ' partly and partly by
land sold by me this day to Drown and
~odhue 98' 9" and rnrtly by land sold by
me this day to Ooodhuo 26' 9"•
conveyed 4/17/179).
Reoort.leu in ik>ok k156, pa~e 123
Tax heoorda - City Ba.11 1 0alcm, •,t.aasachusotts
Ward
Ward
4-
1793•
Joseph fi'elt, eon of Jonathan
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listed ln \'1ard
howevc:r, no real estate de•crfue.i
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pt house and houso lot
4 - 17941
Joseph Felt, son of Jona.than
and
4
Valuatk>n
200
1/2 aorcf in 'forth
Fields
Ward
4 - 179Sr
Joseph Felt, eon of Jonathan --
pt houso :rnd h(.'1.lse lot
and I~ 1/2 acres in North
700
Fields
alao lioted are oth r
Felts - l\:1thnrine, llathaniel felt, Will.lam Felt, and Joseph,
son of tioseoh Folt paying ta.XE·s on the same described
properties for the above years.
In the Vitnl llccorda I found that Catharine Felt was born 9/1/1800. No name of FathEI".
Ho Ruth Felt was rocorcled. No Ephraim, son of Joseph was recorded.
till) .Federal St. is a l.:i.r~e house - a double house - no doubt the "Felt Fanily"
and their children occupied both halves - Catharine Felt bPing the last survivor.
She then willed it to. relatives of her docoaaed sistc~·, Ruth.
Since thero is such a crcia.t increase in valuation in the year 1795, I feel that
is the date which ahould be elven to the house - 11 Juilt for Joseph Felt - 1795"·
Joun H. Bailey
120 Federal St.
Snlem, ~·ass.
December 6, 1967.
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Bailey
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113
113 Federal
1795
Federal
Felt
Joseph
Joseph Felt
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
120 Federal Street
Built by
ELIJAH and JACOB SANDERSON, cabinetmakers
in
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Book 139 page 39
March 6, 1781
155 pounds
Ebenezer and Hannah Beckford sold a parcel
of land to Elijah and Jacob Sanderson,
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August 7, 1782
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Book 141 page 78
August 28, 1783
Benjamin Goodhue Jr. sold a small piece
of land (B) to Elijah and Jacob Sanderson.
A division was made between Elijah and
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�1810 Feb. - Jacob Sanderson died at the age of 52. In his will
(#24568) Mr. Sanderson bequeathed all his estate, both real and
personal, to his wife Catharine (Harrington) Sanderson. The real
estate was listed as: "Mansion house in Federal Street" (now 120
Federal), a store and land in Federal Street, a pew in Dr. Barnad 1 s
Meeting-house,and the dwelling house on Andover St.
Book 194 page 238
August 19, 1811
$1,435
Catharine Sanderson, widow and executrix
of Jacob, sold "half of the mansion house
where said Jacob did dwell and land under
and adjoining" to Rev. Brown Emerson.
Mrs. Sanderson sold this property to help
raise the sum of $5,500 needed to settle
the estate.
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March 22, 1847
Brown Emerson, doctor in divinity, sold
the land and half a dwelling house to
Josiah Hayward, master mariner. "Being
the whole estate conveyed to me by
Catharine Sanderson executrix of the
estate of Jacob Sanderson."
Book 998 page 155
May 23, 1878
The heirs of Josiah Hayward sold the
land and buildings to Malvinia L. Hamblet.
"The same premises conveyed by deed of
Brown Emerson to Josiah Hayward on March 22,
1847."
Book 2907 page 289
Jan. 9, 1932
$2,000
Marcia c. Hamblet of N.Y., N.Y., administrix
of the will of Laura M. Hamblet sold the
property to Mary L. Hamblet of Burrillville,
R.I.. "For title see deed of Josiah
Hayward et als to Malvinia L. Hamblet on
May 23, 1878 recorded in book 998 page 155.
Said Malvinia L. Hamblet was the mother of
Laura M. Hamblet deceased and Augustus P.
Hamblet deceased. The said Mary L. Hamblet
is the daughter of Augustus P. Hamblet and
Marcia c. Hamblet is the widow of Abel M. 11
Book 3525 page
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Book 3696 page 304
Oct. 11, 1949
Margaret T. Rasmusen, widow, sold the
property to Margaret T. and Edward D.
Rasmusen. "The same conveyed by deed of
Mary L. Hamblet on April 9, 1947."
L. Hamblet, unmarried, sold the
and buildings to Margaret T. Rasmusen.
my title see deed recorded in book
page 289-290."
�Book 4739 page 503
Jan. 26, 1961
Margaret T. Rasmusen, unmarried, and
Edward D. Rasmusen sold the land and
buildings to James A. and Joan L. Bailqy.
11 The same conveyed to Margaret T. Rasmusen
et al by deed of Margaret T. Rasmusen on
on Oct. 11, 1949·"
Book 6945 page 684
June 17, 1982
James A. Bailey sold the la;1d and building
at 120 Federal St., to Anthony F. Di Croce.
Reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry of Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court. Both offices are
located in the same building on Federal st. All maps in this report
are not meant to be exact, just for illustration purposes.
�DATE DOCUMENTATTON
The first mention of a dwelling house on this land appears in the
August 1783 deed in which Elijah and Jacob Sanderson divide the
"house" and land. The Sandersons first appear on the tax rolls
in "1784-5" when the brothers are each taxed for part of a house,
valued at $300 and a shop, valued at $75.
"Built as a two-family house by and for Jacob and Elijah Sanderson in
1783 ~ this three-story plus hip roof building has two front
entrances, one in each side yard. The house still has Pre-Federal
period molded window caps and sills; the latter are not seen
frequently. The eastern half of the house was modified when Victorian trim and bay windows were added, but the west side remains
as it was with a pedimented, pilastered entrance. Archer says that
Josiah Hayward, a stone mason, lived at #120 where his daughter
kept a pr:Lvate school and that Deacon John Punchard and his daughter
Keziah lived in the other half of the house.
The Sanderson brothers, who bmilt the house, originally came from
Lexington; Elijah is said to have followed a British officer to
Lincoln where he was captured and kept prisoner in the same field
vri th Paul Revere on the eve of April 16, 1776. Not long after this
incident, the two brothers came to Salem and carried on an extensive
venture cabinet trade, shipping fine Salem-made furniture wherever
Salem vessels sailed." (Salem Historic District Study Committee
Investigation)
building permits have been found reeardinc; this house:
1883 April 12 - Mrs. M. Hamblet
bay window in yard over the door.
1888 April 23 - Malvina Hamblet - alteration of building.
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culvert near the gas house, at half past five yesterday morning •.
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Mary Dean
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Patrick Dean - A tinsmith, employed at 29 Front St. - Greenbacker
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�DA'11E DOCUMENTATION
The first mention of a dwelling house on this lot appears in Samuel
Tilton 1 s mortgage to John H. Nichols, August 24, 1852. In this
mortgage Mr. Tilton is described as a housewright and is listed in
the directory as a carpenter with a shop at 10 Lafayette St. The
Tilton famil~-lived at 4 Ash St. while renting out the house at
10 Smith st.
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1854 John J. Washington
Owner
Samuel D. Tilton or John Nicho1
value $300
1857 George Webber, ropemaker
s.
1858 John D. Brown
John Nichols
1859 Mrs. Ruth R. Finley, widow
John H. Nichols
1860 James Dean
James Dean
value $300
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120 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Elijah and Jacob Sanderson, cabinetmakers, 1783
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120
120 Federal
1784
cabinetmaker
Elijah
Elijah Sanderson
Federal
Jacob
Jacob Sanderson
Sanderson
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House & Land at 121 Federal Street,
Salem, Hass.
This house was built in 1843 for Capt. Joseph Winn ( 1805-80).
Joseph Winn was born in Salem 4 Ap 1805, the son of' Capt.
Joseph ( 1761 -1839) and Marcia, Mercy, or Eary (Hu..v1t) Winn ( 17651805, 2 Oct), who had married in Salem on 14 Dec 1788; Capt. Winn Sr.
married, ·secondly, widow Hary Sluman (died 1831) on 14 Sept 1806,
and she raise~ Joseph, Jr from infancy.
Like his father, young Joseph was bred to the sea, beginning
his maritime career in 1820, at the age of f'ifteen. He made four
voyages on the old ship George, Salem's "school ship. 11 Winn learned.
his lessons well, and, in 1831, when his captain, William C Dean,
died at Calcutta, Joseph assu..med comrnand of Dean 1 s vessel and successfully completed the voyage, ~eturning to Salem and his wife,
Hannah C Stimpson, whom he had married in Salem on 16 Feb 1829.
His next command was i;he ship Sapphire.
By 1837 Joseph Wirn1, then living at 80 Boston St, was accounted
one of Salem 1 s finest sea captains, and as such was given command
of the city 1 s largest vessel, the 463-ton St. ~, m·med by
StAphen C Phillips. On 17 Jan 1837, the St Paul cleared New York
bound for lfanila via M:obile & Liverpool;
she returned to Salem one year, three months, and
twelve days later, on 29 Ap 1838--Mrs Winn having accompanied her
husband the whole voyage!
One :;.nonth later, Capt. Winn & the St Paul again set sail f'or
.Manila, clearing Salem 3 June 1838. The passage to Anjier was
made in 90 days, cnd from Salem to Hanila in 100 days--rema.rkably
fine time for this old ship, built for carrying and not for speed.
On 11 Nov 1838, Capt Winn sailed for home, and made the passage
in 148 days (125 from lmjier, & 53 from St Helena), .arriving at
Salem on 8 Ap 1839. Her cargo consisted of 5,145 bags of sugar,
2, 568 bales of hemp, & other merchandise; she paid duties arnounting
to $12,074.95.
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Capt. Winn never again cormnanded the St Paul: by 1842, aft1;;r
a nautical life spent on voyages to the 3ast Indies, the Pacific
islands, & other parts of the Far ~ast, he retjred from the sea.
The St Paul--her figurehead was a ·white bust of the apostle Paul,
& her stern was embellished with a superb carving of the Biblical
story of St Paul shaking the viper from his hand into the fire-foundered at Hasbata Island in the Straits of San Bernardino, on
her fourteenth round-the-world voyage, without loss of life. On
that lust voyage, her master had prophesied her .demise, for the
figurehead of St Paul had been removed. A painting exists of the
St Paul, in the possession either of the Peabody Kuseurn or the
Phillips l'ilem.orial on Chestnut Street.
In 18t1-2, the new landsman Joseph l·!inn resided at 28 Har>lboro
(now Federal) Street, and was in the wholesale shoe business with
S. Driver Jr & Co., 16 'dashington Street, Salem. Ashore now for
good, Capt Winn kept a weather eye out for a new home, or land on
which to build t:P.e same; a year' later, on 21 Ap 1843, Winn 1 s friend
�David Pingree sold him a house lot on Federal Street. Having
moved from 28 Marlboro to 51 Federal Street in 1842, Winn was
in good position to oversee the construction, next door, of this
Greek Revival-style hcuse in the year 1843.
Capt Winn stayed with the firm of S Driver Jr & Co until
1851, when David Pingree, now Mayor of Salem, appointed him City
Marshal at $700 per y'7ar--a position Winn held for three years.
In 1855, County & Marlboro Streets were made a part of Federal
Street, and so #53 became #121 Federal Street. During the Civil
War, Winn was an acting volunteer lieutenant in the U. S. Navy,
and cormnanded the U.S. gunboat James L Davis of the Es.st
Blockading Squadron. In 1863, Capt Joseph Winn returned to Salem,
where he resided at 121 Federal Street until his death 11 Aug 1880.
His widow, Hannah, was willed the estate, then worth $5800
(see Joseph Winn 1 s probate #57491 } , and she in turn willed it in
trust to the Winns' adopted daughter, An.nab., who had married
Nathan P Cutler of Newton; on 29 Ap 1901 (Deeds, 1639:547), her
trustees sold it to Mary E Read, who then sold it to Mabel W .
Bigelow & Cora S Haskell, sisters, on 16 Nov 1904 ~Deeds, 1763:8).
Cera S Haskell died 19 July 1908, leaving her half of the estate
to her sister Mabel W, wife of Walter K Bigelow {see Cora S Haskell
probate #104082).
On 21 Jan 1930, by deed 2834:231, Mrs Bigelow, now widowed,·
sold off a small strip of land to her next-door neighbor; Mrs.
Bigelow died 9 Jan 1939, leaving a daughter, Hrs Lucy H Gould, to
inherit the property (see Mabel "vv Bigelow probate #192917), which
then had a garage on it, and was appraised at $7730.
From that point forward, the history of the house & its lot
is set forth in the accompanying deed schedule.
The information above has been drawn from the Salem Vital
Records; the Salem Directory; the 3outhern Essex County Registries
of Deeds & Probate; and the Essex Institute Historical Collections,
vol. XL, pp.127-9.
Robert Booth
23 June 1976
�Deed Schedule of House & Land at 121 Federal St.,
Salem, Hass.
21 Ap 1843: David Pingree, Salem, for $1500 grants to Joseph
Winn, Salem merchant, a lot of land in Salem, bounded starting
at the n.e. corner on Federal Street by Sanderson's land, and
runs w. 64 1 11" by Federal St to a corner, then
runs s. 124' 6 11 by land today sold to Robt Saunders to a cor.;
runs e. 55: 7 11 by other land of Pingree to a cor. by Clark;
runs n. 5' 8" by land of Clark;
runs e. 20 1 by sd Clark;
runs n. 127' 6 11 by the Saunderson estate to the corner begun at.
(So. Essex County Deeds, ~36:224J.
29 Ap 1901 : Whereas Joseph Winn, Salem dee 1 d, by his will of
30 l'far 1878 authorized his wife (Hannah C Winn} to dispose of his
estate; & Whereas Hannah C Winn by her will of 1 Jan 1890 did dis-
pose of this real estate by leaving it in trust to Joseph B F
Osgood of Salem & Nathan P Cutler of Newton for benefit of Annah
W Cutler & others; Now, for $1 & other valuable considerations,
JBF Osgood & NP Cutler grant to Mary E Read, wife of Charles W,
of Salem, a Salem lot with a dwelling house thereon, numbered
121 ?ederal Street, boundad starting at the n.e. corner on Federal
Street by land of Chisholm, and
runs w. 64' 11 " by Federal St;
runs s. 124' 6" by a fence along land of Fay;
runs e. 55 1 7" by Johnson & Kimball and by Benson;
runs n. 5' by sd Kimball;
runs e. 20 1 by sd Kimball;
runs n. 127' 6" by Chisholm..
(Deeds, 1639:547)
16 Nov 1904: Charles W & wife Mary E Read, in her own right,
of Salem, for $1 grant to Mabel W Bigelow & Cora S Haskell, both
of Salem, a Salem lot. with a dwelling house thereon, numbered
121 Federal Street (bounded exactly the srune as 29 Ap 1901 ); being
the same premises that Osgood et al, trustees, sold to Nary E Bead
29 Ap 1901, 1639:547. See also deed of Mary E read to Wm D Chapple
19 Oct 1902, 1686:477; and deed of Wm D Chapple to Mary E Read,
27 Feb 1903, 1699:395.
(Deeds, 1763:8)
21 Jan 1930: Habel W Bigelow, Salem widow, grants to Hary B
Browne, wife of' Ralph C, a piece of Salem land bounded starting
at a atake on Federal St, on the present dividing line bewteen
the land of the granter & grantee, and then
runs s. from Federal St to a point 10 1 east of the present
boundary point between the grantor & the grantee;
runs w. 10 1 to land of grantee;
runs n. several courses on the eastern boundary line of grantee;
meaning to convey on its western side & for the purpose of straightening the line, a small part of the lot sd Bigelow bought of Chas.
H Read, 16 Nov 1904, Deeds 1763:8); the Cora S Haskell named with
sd Bigelow, in that 16 Nov 1904 deed, having since died.
(Deeds, 2834:231)
�26 June 1957: Lucy H Gould, Salem, grants to John G & Nancy C
Bisgrove, husband & wife of Ashland Hass., the land in Salem with
the buildings th&reon, num.bered 121 Federal Street, bounded starting at the n.e. corner on Federal Street by land now or formerly
(n/f) of Chisholm, and
runs w. 64' 11 11 by Federal St;
runs s. 1 24 1 6 11 by an old fence along n/f Fay;
runs e. 55 1 7 11 by n/f Johnson & Kimball and n/f Benson;
runs n. 5' by n/f sd Kimball;
runs e. 20 1 by n/f sd Kimball;
runs n. 127 1 6 11 by n/f Chisholm;
excepting from the sd parcel a strip described by deed of Bigelow
to Brown, 21 Jan 1930, 2834:231, said land haviYig been sold to
straighten the line. The above premises are the same conveyed to
Bigelow & Haskell by Read, 16 Nov 1904, 1763:8. See also the
probate· of Mabel W Bigelow, #192917, and of Corn S Haskell,
#104082. Roscoe W Gould, husband of the granter, releases all
his rights to the above.
(Deeds, 4380:251)
10 Sept 1959: John G & wife Nancy C Bisgrove, Brunswick Me.,
grant to James Alan & Ruth K Curwen, husband & wife of Salem, the
land with buildings on Federal Street (bounded & described exactly
as in the deed above). For title, see Gould to Bisgrove, June
1957, 4380: 251 •
(De eds, 4599 :236)
15 Sept 1959: James A & Ruth K Curwen, Salem, for $18,500
mortgage to Marblehead Savings Bank, Marblehead, the land with
buildings on Federal Street (bounded & described exactly as in
the deed above). Being the same premises conveyed by Bisgrove to
the Curwens by deed recorded herewith (deed 4599:236 above).
See also deeds 5263:556; 5289:149; 5296:280,281,283.
{Deeds, 4599:237)
29 Ap 1965: Marblehead Savings Bank, holder of a mortgage from
the Curwens on the property at 121 Federal St, Salem, 15 Sept 1959,
4599:237, has filed a bill in equity for authority to foreclose
said mortgage.
(Deeds, 5263:556)
30 July 1965: vlilbur T Moulton, treasurer of Marblehead Savings
Bank, the mortgagee named in a mortgage gi::ven by the Curwens 15 Sept
19.59, 4599:237, now takes peaceable possession of the property at
121 Federal Street.
(Deeds, 5289:149)
�25 Aug 1965: 1'farblehead Savings Bank, holder of a mortgage
from James A Curwen, for $17:000, dated 15 Sept 1959, now grants
to Harry A & wife Mary R Tavis, Peabody, the land with buildings
numbered 121 Federal St in Salem, bounded starting at the n.e.
corner on Federal St by land n/f of Chisholm, and
runs w. 64 1 11 11 by, Federal St;
runs s. 124' 6 11 by an old fence along n/f Fay;
runs e. 55' 7" by n/f Johnson & Kimball and n/f Benson;
runs n. 5' by n/f sd Kimball;
runs e. 20 1 by n/f sd Kimball;
runs n. 127 1 6 11 by n/f Chisholm;
exceptins from the above parcel a strip described in deed of 21 Jan
1930, Bigelow to Brown, 2834:231, said land having been sold to
straighten a boundary line.
All of the above being the same premises conveyed to the Curwens
by Bisgrove by deed 4599:236.
(Deeds, 5296:281}
8 Sept 1972: Mary R Tavis, Salem, grants to herself' & her
daughter Elaine M Rocheville, Salem, as joint tenants, the land
in Salem with the buildings thereon numbered 121 Federal St
(bounded & described exactly as above, including the same exception).
Being the same premises conveyed to .sd Mary R Tavis & her late
husband Harry A Tavis (died 30 May 1971 ) by Marblehead Savings
Bank, 25 Aug 1965, 5296:281. See also Harry A Tavis, Probate
#310730.
.
(Deeds, 5904:762)
28 Ap 1976: Mary R Tavis & Elaine M Rocheville, as joint tenants,
Salem, for $47,500 grant to Gerald W & wife Barbara Porter, as
tenants by entirety, the lal1d in Salem with the buildings thereon
(bounded&. described exactly as above, including the sanie exception).
Being the same premises that sd Tavis & rtccheville were granted
by Tavis, 8 Sept 1972, 5904:762.
(Deeds, 6235:504)
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121
121 Federal
1843
Captain
Federal
Joseph
Joseph Winn
Winn
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House and Land at 123 Federal Street,
Salem, Mass.
This house was built by Jonathan F Carlton, Salem housewright,
for Robert S Saunders, Salem merchant, in the year 1843.
Th~oughout
most of the 18th century the land of which this lot
is a part was owned by the Ropes family of Salem. Jonathan
Ropes ( 1718-99), eminent merchant and Revolutionary patriot,
ov:ned the land from 1754 until his death in 1799; in the year
1760 the 11 New Street" (Federal Street) was laid out through
Mr Ropes' property. The property descended to Mr Ropes•
grandson, Jonathan Waldo Jr, merchant, who died unmarried
in 1817; his brothers & sisters released their rights to
Iv.Ir Waldo 1 s estate to their step-father, Rev. John Prince Jr
of Salem, who owned it until 6 Dec 1841, when he conveyed a
large piece of the Waldo estate for $6010 to 'rhomas Perkins,
Salem merchant (328:152). Mr Perkins then sold it for $7600
on 15 Nov 1842 to David Pingree, also a Salem merchant (335:246).
On 21 Ap 1843, Mr Pingree, for $1500, granted to Robert S
Saunders, Salem merchant, the lot (fronting 64 1 11 11 ) that
now comprises 123 Federal Street (339:8). That Mr Saunders
intended to build on the lot is reflected in th_e $1,500
mortgage to the property which he gave to Mr Pingree on the
same day, for therein he mortgages not just the lot, but
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all the buildings which may be put on the -same preVL(j.ls to
the cancelling of this deed 11 (336:213). On 13 June 1843
Mr Pingree assigned this $1.500 mortgage to the same Thoma~.
Perkins from whoin_J:ie hap_-_originally bought the land ( 338 :43);
Mr Perkins discharged the mortgage on 9 Mar 1844 (336:213).
On 1 July 1843, Robert S Saunders and Jonathan F Carlton,
Salem housewright, signed a contract in which Mr Carlton
agreed to do all the carpenter work on the "two story housen
that I"Ir Saunders was 11 about erecting • • • on Federal Street
on land re~ently bought of David Pingree; 11 Mr Carlton also
agreed to provide men to do the work at $1.75 per day, to
provide all materials 11 at fair market prices 11 that Mr Saunders
himself did not provide, and to allow ¥.Ir Saunders' brother,
Philip Saunders, to do "such work as he or they may deem
expedient" ( 338 :43). 'rhe existence of such a contract is
a real rarity; without it, we would never know that Jonathan
F Carlton was the man who actually built the house.
We may surmise that Mr Carlton's men finished the house before
winter, for in the real estate assessments for 1843, Robert S
Saunders was noted as living at 53 Federal Street, ward four.
This notation has been made in pencil, and he was not assessed
a property tax for that year, for by the time the house was
finished the time period for 1843 taxes had expired. The pencilled
�note does indicate, however, that a house was standing the~e
before the end of the year 1843.
On 23 Feb and 8 Mar 1844, Mr Saunders mortgaged his Federal
Street messuage (a messuage is an old term for a house, its
land, and the outbuildings) once to John Russell and thrice
to John H Nichols, both of Salem; these mortgages were discharged
at various times up to ~O Ap 1847 (342:80, 163,179,211). The
terms of these mortgages clearly imply the existence of a house
on the land.
On 13 May 1845 William Whiting, Roxbury lawyer, aa the assignee
of Robert S Saunders, gave to Mr Saunders' wife, Louisa, the
lot of land with the two story dwelling house thereon "being
the same now occupied by said Robert S Saunders" (355:127).
It appears that Mr Saunders knew he was dying, and wanted his
wife to have the estate before his death occurred; he therefore
conveyed it to his lawyer, Mr Whiting, who conveyed it to Mrs
Saunders. There is no Essex County probate record for Robert
S Saunders• He died on 22 July.1846; on 18 Sept 1846,
Louisa Saunders, Salem widow, for $1370 sold the Federal Street .
est&te to Andrew Ward, Salem merchant; the property was still
mortgaged for $2500 to John Russell, trustee (377:94).
Capt Andrew Ward (1793-1860), formerly a sea-captain, and his
wife Abigail Richardson (Abbott) {d.1877) now moved into the
Federal Street house. Capt Ward and his wife lived here for
fourteen years, until his death an 2 Aug 1860. On 21 Mar 1853
old County & Marlborough Streets were incorporated into Federal
Street, and so the house number changed from 51 to 123 Federal
Street. By his will of 3 Ap 1860 Capt Ward left 123 Federal St.
in.trust to his wife and his son-in-law, Rev. George SG Spence,
who had married the Wards' only child, Abby Richardson Ward,
in 1847; on 21 Feb 1861 the house & land were appraised at
$5500 ( #56290) •
Mrs Ward continued to reside at 123 Federal Street until her
death 30 Mar 1877; four years earlier, 23 June 1873, she had
purchased for $7 a triangular piece of land fronting 3 1 on
Federal St f'rom her neighbor to the ·west, Mary Eliza Gould
(974:104 & plan). From 1874 forward, the Salem Directories
show 1'1rs Abby R (Ward) Spence to be the head of' the house;
she seems to have been widowed. Her sons boarded with her at
various times (her eldest son, Andrew Ward Spence, had his
name changed to Andrew Ward in 1 866). In 1887- her three. sons
Bold thei·r ~.rights to the est.ate to· their sister,: Abbie W,. ,
wife of Charle·s F Tay ('1207: 269, 1213.:.37; 39}. - ·_ . ·
In 1900 the trustees of the Winn estate (121 Federal St)
adjusted the boundary of the two estates with Abbie W Tay
(1623:225). In that same year George F Jelly of Boston reconveyed the premises to Mrs Tay (1623:412); she had conveyed
the estate in trust to Mr Jelly in 1889 ( 1243 :509).
�On 18 Sept 1916, Mrs Tay granted the estate to Margaret G,
wife of William F Carney of Salem (2342:442). Less than two
yearn later, Mrs CarneJ" sold the property to Josiah H Gifford
of Salem, on 3 May 1918 (2391 :230). Mr Gifford soon (25 June
1918) sold the premises to May B, wife of Ralph C Browne of
Salem (2392:)79).
Mrs Browne owned the estate until her death on 10 Ap 1952.
By her will of 8 Oct 1921, she left .the property to her
husband, Ralph C Browne (#237424). V.tr Bro~me remarried;
he died 1 Jan 1960 and left the estate to his wif'e F'lorence
by his will o"t 9 Nov 1959 (#263839). Mrs Browne continues
to own and occupy the estate at 123 Federal Street.
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Robert Booth
8 Feb 1977
Notes
Jonathan F Carlton, the builder of this house, married Mary
Ann Buxton on 9 May 1832. I do not know if they had any children.
Mr Carlton developed much of lower Federal Street, which was
once referred to as Carlton.ville. On 23 Mar 1843--just about
the same time that Robert S Saunders bought this house-lot-Y.tr Carlton was authorized to build a bridge across the North
River (which was then quite wide all the way back to Boston St)
from the foot of Flint-St over to Hasen St. His bridge lasted
until the terrible storm of 18 Ap :851, when it was swept down
the river and came to rest near the North Bridge (now the
North St overpass).
Robert Shillaber Saunders (1805-46) was born in Danvers, the
son of Henry Saunders of Salem and Sarah Shillaber of Danvers.
He married Louisa Courtis of Salem on 27 Jm 1831 and was a
merchant, described as a shoe dealer in the Salem Directories
for 1842 and 1846. I do not know if he had any children. Mr
Saunders died of consumption on 22 July 1846, aged 41 years.
Capt Andrew Ward {1793-1860) was a sea captain who became a
merchant. He married hbigail Richardson Abbott 11 July 1819,
and they had one child, Abby R, who married Rev George SG Spence
of West Wrentham on 6 Ap 1847. Mr Ward was the son o:f Andrew
Ward, a shipwright, and his wife Martha (Babbidge).
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123 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Jonathan F. Carlton for Robert S. Saunders, 1843
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123
123 Federal
Carlton
Federal
Jonathan
Jonathan F. Carlton
Robert S. Saunders
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124 FEDERAL STREET
Built for Jonathan Ropes, Merchant
1784
Rear ell erected f()r Joanthan Waldo, Merchant
c. 1807
124 1/2 Federal Street built for Benjamin Shreve, Purveyor of !"inc Goods
c. 1877
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October, 1995
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�124 Federal street
built in 1784 for Jonathan Ropes, Merchant
(rear ell erected for Jonathan Waldo, Merchant, circa 1807)
124 1/2 Federal Street
built for Benjamin Shreve,
Purveyor of Fine Goods,
circa 1877
One Lynn Street
built for Jonathan Waldo,
Merchant,
by 1811
History of the structures:
The early Federal house presently bearing the address 124
Federal Street was built in 1784 for Salem merchant Jonathan Ropes
on or near the
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100 poles" of land bequeathed to him by his father,
John Ropes, Jr., in 1754 along with "a mansion house, shop and
barn''·
The younger Ropes made few changes to his estate until
after 1780 when he tore down the "ancient" homestead and began
aguiring adjoining northerly properties along the
11
new road" (Lynn
Street) lately laid out by his neighbor Benjamin Goodhue.
By 1783,
he had consolidated the property on which he would construct his
new house in the following year. 1
Jonathan Ropes bequeathed his entire estate to his only
grandchild, Jonathan Waldo, in 1799.
Waldo's professional
occupation was that of an apothecary, but he referred to and
conducted himself primarily as a "merchant" and also had many parttime public pursuits.
In the 1790s he served successively as a
i
Essex (South) County Registry of Deeds, Book 139, leaf 229
(October 15, 1782), and Book 141, leaf 35 (May 30, 1783); Salem Tax
Valuations, 1784-85; James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
�town official, major of the militia, and overseer of the repairs of
Fort Pickering.
Several years after receiving his inheritance,
Waldo increased the assessed value of the Federal Street house by
either erecting or extending the rear ell along Lynn Street in
order to open a shop.
In their valuations of 1807-1810, Salem's
tax assessors indicate quite clearly that Waldo's new shop is
located in his house, not adjacent to it.
In 1810-1811, Waldo was
assessed for an additional store, referred to as "a brick store" in
mortgage deeds of 1811, 1813, and 1818.
Presumably this structure
is the present-day One Lynn Street, possibly built by Waldo's
neighbor Nathaniel Chamberlain, a noted Salem bricklayer. 2
After the death of Jonathan Waldo in 1817, his heirs
bequeathed the entire estate, referred to as "a certain messuage
consisting of a dwelling house and the land under and adjoining and
the brick store and all other buildings thereon, bounding southerly
on Federal street seventy-eight feet more or less, easterly on Lynn
Street one hundred and four feet more or less, northerly by land
late of David Bancroft deceased about one hundred thirty-five feet,
westerly partly by land of Ebenezer Shillaber deceased and partly
by land of Nathaniel Chamberlain about one hundred and eighty feet
or however otherwise bounded or reputed to be bounded" to John
Holman of Salem, a mariner, who occupied the house until 1830 and
owned the property until 1832.
In the early 1830s, Holman appears
Essex County Probate File #24175; Salem Tax Valuations,
1799-1813; ECRD Book 199, leaf 173 (April 15, 1811); ECRD Book 200,
leaf 215 (April 5, 1813) ECRD Book 216, leaf 298 (September 19,
2
1818).
�to have removed both himself and his business from Salem to New
York, and consequently he conveyed "a certain messuage consisting
of a wooden dwelling house and Brick House and barn and land under
and adjoining the same .... situated at the corner of Federal Street
and Lynn Street" to the Reverend John Brazer, pastor of the North
Church, in 1832. 3
John Brazer and his large family owned and occupied 124
Federal Street, then designated alternatively 50 or 52 Federal
Street, until the Reverend's death in 1845.
Based on the tax
assessments, there were no changes made to the existing structures
of the estate during this time.
The following year, Brazer's heirs
transferred the property to Thomas Perkins of Salem, a relatively
wealthy shipmaster and merchant. 4
It is during Thomas Perkins' possession of 124 Federal Street
(1846-1876) that the·present-day One Lynn Street, the brick house
adjoined to the wooden rear ell of the dwelling house on Federal
street, is officially listed as a separate structure in the Salem
Tax Valuations.
There is no evidence, however, that the brick
building (with no address) was used as residence but rather as a
warehouse or store for storage and/or display of Perkins'
substantial goods in stock.
The structure was certainly
embellished during this period, as its assessed value increases
considerably, as does that of the main house.
Perkins likely added
Essex County (South) Registry of Deeds, Book 216, leaf
299 (September 19, 1818); ECRD Book 263, leaf 230 (May 7, 1832).
3
Salem Tax Valuations, 1820-1848; ECRD Book 373, leaves
122-124 (October 24, 1846).
�the Greek Revival entrances and bay windows to both structures at
different periods in his thirty-year occupation. 5
The west wing of 124 Federal Street, or 124 1/2 Federal
Street, was built after the Perkins heirs conveyed the property to
Benjamin Shreve in 1876.
Shreve, "importer of French goods,
watches, and jewelry" and founder of Shreve, Crump & Low in Boston,
purchased the Perkins estate as an addition to his many rental
properties in Salem.
The first tenant of 124 1/2 Federal Street,
Samuel Pitman, a currier, appears in the 1878 Salem Directory.
In
that same year, Franklin Tyler, a "morocco dresser" is listed as
living in the house on "Lynn near Federal" and William H. Carter,
an importer of wines in Boston, takes up residence in 124 Federal
Street shortly thereafter. 6
124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street were occupied by a succession
of tenants, both short-term and long-term, during the Shreve
family's ownership (1876-1929).
The main house's occupant of
longest duration was Frederick Broadhead, an insurance broker
(1901-1917), while Frank A. Laws, a professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, lived in the addition from 1907 until
1920.
In 1929, the trustees of Benjamin Shreve's estate conveyed
"the property now numbered 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street and
Number One Lynn Street" to Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem, a mortgage
broker and real estate agent who partitioned the estate and
5
6
Salem Tax Valuations, 1848-1855.
ECRD Book 2802,
Directories, 1876-1884.
pages
557-558
(May
30,
1876);
Salem
�promptly sold off its component parts in the following year. 7
The Cooke sisters, purchasers of 124 and 124 1/2 Federal
Street in 1930, lived at the latter address and leased out the main
house.
David Limauro, a physician, lived and practiced at 124
Federal Street in the early forties and this use continued after
Dr. Melvin Goodman and his wife Alyce purchased the property from
Florence and Lilla Cooke in 1945.
The Goodmans owned, occupied,
and practiced in 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street for nearly fifty
years, after which its present owners purchased the house from the
executor of Alyce Goodman's estate in 1995. 8
History of the property:
The land on which 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street and One Lynn
Street were eventually built was part of the original seventeenthcentury land grant of Richard Bishop (d. 1674-75), which was
conveyed successively to his son Thomas and grandson Richard
Bishop.
Robert Kitchen purchased the Bishop property in the early
1690s, and quickly turned it over to Joseph Neal, one of the
largest landowners in the neighborhood.
Neal possessed the
property, which adjoined his "mansion house" on the main street
(Essex Street) for several years, after which it was transferred to
7
ECRD Book 2826, page 427 (November 1, 1929); ECRD Book
2845, page 508 (May 17, 1930); ECRD Book 2843, page 518 (May 3,
1930); Salem Directories, 1884-1930.
ECRD Book 3415, pp. 457-460
13053, page 179 (June 6, 1995).
8
(June 15,
1945);
ECRD Book
�the Ropes Family. 9
The Ropes brothers, John Jr. and Samuel, built and possessed
half-interests in a house and outlying buildings on their property,
all of which was conveyed to Jonathan Ropes in 1754.
After the
laying out of Federal Street (after 1766) and Lynn Street (after
1780), Ropes greatly enlarged the property, probably with the aim
of increasing its access to the North River.
A representative
purchase came in 1782, when Nathaniel Lang of Salem, a silversmith,
conveyed to Jonathan "a certain piece of land adjoining a new road
lately laid out by Benjamin Goodhue junior from the new street in
said Salem so called down to the water side".
Additional parcels
of land (on the western side) were added to the property after the
construction of the new Federal house in 1784 and its additions by
both Ropes and his heir, Jonathan Waldo.
There were few or no
changes made to the property for most of the nineteenth century,
until Benjamin Shreve added the circa 1877 addition to the main
house.
The division of the Ropes/Shreve estate came in 1930, when
124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street became legally separated from One
Lynn Street. 10
Transfers of title:
Essex (South District) Registry of Deeds, Book 216, leaf 299
ECRD Book 9, leaf 69 (December 22, 1691, February 7, 169293); ECRD Book 17, leaf 33 (June 4, 1695); ECRD Book 21, leaf 164
(November 7, 1709).
9
ECRD Book 139, leaves 228-229; see enclosed plan of "Land
of Rebecca Dembofsky, Salem, Mass., Jan. 1930 11 , ECRD Book 2838,
pages 25-30).
10
�Grantors: Charles F. Waldo of Charleston in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, Edw~rd w. Waldo of Salem in the County
of Essex, Merchant, Mary R. Waldo of said Salem, Spinster, and
Henry s. Waldo of Boston in the County of Suffolk, Gentleman
Grantee: John Holman of Salem, Mariner
Consideration: $4030
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage situated in Salem aforesaid
consisting of a dwelling house and the land under and
adjoining and all the buildings thereon, bounded .... on Federal
Street and Lynn Streets .... "
Date recorded: September 19, 1818
ECRD Book 263, leaf 230
Grantor: John Holman of Ithaca, New York, Trader
Grantee: John Brazer of Salem, Clerk
Consideration: $3800
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage consisting of a wooden
dwelling house and Brick House or barn and land under and
adjoining with all the buildings thereon, the forementioned
is situated at the corner of Federal Street and Lynn Street
in Salem aforesaid .... 11
Date recorded: May 7, 1832
ECRD Book 373, leaves 122-124
Grantors: James W. Cheever of Salem, Merchant, Guardian of
John Brazer, William Brazer, Anne Brazer, and Edward Brazer,
minor children of th€ Reverend John Brazer, late of Salem, and
Mary Brazer of Salem
Grantee: Thomas Perkins of Salem, Master and Merchant
Consideration: $3750
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage situated in Salem .... on the
corner of Federal and Lynn Streets .... "
Date recorded: October 24, 1846
ECRD Book 2802, pages 557-558
Grantor: Thomas Perkins, Executor of the will of Thomas
Perkins, late of Salem
Grantee: Benjamin Shreve of Salem
Consideration: $9105
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street; One Lynn Street
Date recorded: May 30, 1876
ECRD Book 2826, page 427
Grantors: Octavius B. Shreve of Salem and the First National
Bank of Boston, Trustees under the will of Benjamin Shreve,
late of Salem
�Grantee: Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem
Consideration: $16,000
Conveyance of: "the property now numbered 124 and 124 1/2
Federal Street and Number One Lynn Street in Salem"
Date recorded: November 1, 1929
ECRD Book 2843, page 518
Granter: Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem
Grantees: Susie J. and Lilla Cooke of Lowell and Florence
G. Cooke of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal street
Date recorded: May 30, 1930
ECRD Book 3415, pages 457-460
Granters: Lilla Cooke and Florence G. Cooke of Salem
Grantee: Melvin Goodman of Boston
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: "the land with the buildings thereon situated
on 124 - 124 1/2 Federal Street in Salem"
Date recorded: June 15, 1945
ECRD Book 13053, page 179
(Fiduciary Deed)
Grantor: Louis Kolow of Newton, temporary executor of the
will of Alyce Goodman, late of Salem
Grantees: Kevin and Deborah A. Guinee
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street
Date recorded: June 9, 1995
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February27, 1996
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Guinee
124 Federal Street
Salem, MA 01970
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Guinee:
As you are aware, WGBH had retained Historic Salem to do a house history of your property which is a
regular service we provide. At the time the history was completed, no plaque was requested.
We typically charge an additional $75.00 for the painting and installation of house plaques.
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In appreciation of the wonderful restoration which you have undertaken and the fine example of quality
restoration which was represented to the national viewing public, we would like to extend to you a plaque as
a gift. Please give Alice Clarke a call at our office (745-0799) to arrange for it's installation.
Sincerely,
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John M. Wathne
President
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�October 25. 1995
Mr. Bruce Irving
Producer. This Old House
WGBH
125 Western J\ vc.
Boston, !Vii\ 02134
Dear Bruce:
At long las!, the house report you've been waiting for on 124 Federal St. Tiiank you for
your patience. Fortunately the turn-around time for painting the plaque is «:1uut (\\ll
weeks. Please remit the $75.00 balance and we will get our painter going.
Sincerely,
Debbie I lilbert
Office Staff
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P.O. BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETIS 01970 I PHONE (508) 745-0799
126 FEDERAL STREET
8uilt for
NATHANIEL CHAMBERLAIN, bricklayer
in 1782
Research:
Mark r..Jystedt
December, 1992
�The house at 126 Federal Street was built by Nathaniel Chamberlain,
bricklayer, in 1782. The property had belonged to the Ropes estate on
Essex Street when the laying in of Federal Street seperated this parcel
from the main part of the estate. Benjamin Ropes sold this back parcel
of land to Nathaniel Chamberlain in April of 1782 for 99Ll2s (see,
Edward Stanley Waters, Some Old Estates, Essex Institute Historical
Collection, Vol. XVI, 1879, pg47; and ECRD bkl41 pg35) The deed which
conveyed the adjacent property, at the corner of Lynn Street, from
Jonathan Waldo to Jacob Ashton and Samuel Putnam (ECRD bkl91 pg292),
confirms this, as that property bordered Nathaniel Chamberlain's
property.
Deeds and wills conveying the property from Nathaniel Chamberlain to
the present owners are as follows:
April 1 1822
Nathaniel Chamberlain to my son, Benjamin Porter Chamberlain of the
Island of Cuba, merchant
$1600
ECRD bk228 pgl87;
June 16, 1856
Benjamin Porter Chamberlain to John Calef, merchant
$2,900 (now occuppied by Rev. T. H. Shahan)
ECRD bk546 pgl28;
March 1876
John Calef to David P. Ives
$500 & $2500 mortgage
ECRD bk950 pgll9;
October 15, 1879
David P. Ives of Lynnfield to Mary Dayton, wife of Isaac Dayton
$3,500 & $2,500 mortgage
ECRD bkl026 pgll;
December 3,1915
will of Mary Dayton conveyed the property to her niece, Mary E Rowley
ECPC bk736 pg219;
July 18, 1934
William D. Chapple and Robert F .Cameron of Salem, Executors of the will
of Mary Elizabeth Rowley to
Robert F and Agnes M Cameron
$2,000
ECRD bk2998 pg402;
May 19, 1960
Robert F Cameron, widower, of Salem to Robert E and Ruth L. Cameron
consideration paid
ECRD bk4668 pg237;
�April 28, 1986
Christine Miller of Peabody, Roberta E. Lineham of Salem, and Mary M.
Cameron of Medford, administrators of the estate of Ruth M. Cameron to
Roger W. and Carol 0. Hedstrom of 62 Washington Squre ·South, half
interest, and to Bryce 0. Suydam of 4 Bowden Street, Marblehead, half
interest
$160,000
ECRD bk8225 pglSS;
December 2, 1986
126 Federal Street Condominium Trust Master Deed filed
ECRD bk8663 pg207;
January 28, 1987
Hedstrom, Hedstrom, and Suydam, trustees of 126 Federal Street
Condominium Trust to
James M. Keefe of unit 1, 126 Federal Street
ECRD bk8774 pg251.
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Low who married his sister were Druggists in ~veral y~. ;a.emrning ~o :Sal,em, he aei.
Salem and afterwards in New York. Thos. tled. down as a merchant r!!Siding in the ho~
was born Dec. 31, 1790 and died at New Or- 011 Federal street, -now occupied. by Stephen
1~ .Oct. 1818, unmarried. (See Vol. 4 A. Chase; but doing business in Boston; in
the neighborhood of :which be now lives. lie
of these Collec.tions Page 76.
married. Eijr.a S. Smith of Portland Maine and
11. Aaron Porter wa8 a native of Salem,
survives her.
eon of Aaron and Euni~ (HathorneYPorter.
15. Joseph Ve_ry, son of ;Epliraim and AbiAaron senior was a currier, and had his shop
gail (Rowl~) Very. Father was a
and dwelling in South Salem, near where Mill
.and Lafayette streets intersect. Aaron Jr. ter. Joseph was .a Painter and settled
in Eastport, Maine, wl;iere he died. Bon, in
let\ Salem in early life and died abroad.
179i. (See 2nd Vol. of these Oolleetio~
12. J obil P. Babbidge was a native of SaP~ge 37).
lem, son of Benjamin and Mary (Phippen)
Babbidge. Benja. was a retired shipmaster,
16. JamesBullock, nowbyauthorityofthe
but lost most of his property by endorsing·for Legislature known .as James Ballard. By
a relative, and went to sea again as ma~er.of trade a Coach painter. ·Lives
·.;i:..arayetf.e
a vessel in 1811 and was :u<>t heard from. treet, South Salem. Bon of Isaac and ElizaBis wife died March 7th 1812. John P, beth (Boyd) Bullock. Married Eliza Cotton
-was 4th Captain of the. Rangers arid after- Archer, daughter of Col. Samuel A., and she
wards went to sea. He died August 2d 1826, is now living. (See Vol. 4 of these CollecofYellow·Fever, at City Point Virginia, where tions, Page 137.)
he bad gone to take charge of ~ship.. He
17. Benjamin Bullock, twin brother of
married Sarah daughter of FranCJS Pulsifer. James, was a Harness maker. Died unmar-
al;Upm.
in
13. William Babbidge son of John and Sarah (Becket) Babbidge, was a native of Salem
and cousin to John P. His father was a boat
builder and was of the firm of Hawkes and
Babbidge, ship builders. He lived to the remarkable age of 93;i , having died March
261860 and his wife Jdly 19, 1856,aged 82.
Wm. died August 27th, 1816, unmarried.
(See Vol. 4 of these CollectioDS Page.9.)
14. Benja. Porter Chamberlain eon of .Nathaniel & Amy (Porter) Chamberlain. She
was from Danvers, New Mills. Nath. was a
mason and lived in the house now occupied. by
John Calaf.on Federal street. Benja. when
a youth ~ clerk in the grocery store of
Samucl Very, at Buffum'a Corner. In early
manhood, he went to Cuba and remained. tbei:e
209
born August 28th, 17.~l, and ditid in Jack·
,sonville, Florida:, August 27th, issi.
20. Stephens Baker, fl()D of Joseph & Lucy
(S~phens) Baker .of Beverly.
He came
from Beverly to Salem and learned. the busi.ness·of a jewpller from Jabez Baldwin. He
~born No~"14th, 1791 and is now living
,in Beverly. He married Adeline, daughter
of C'apt. AA Batchelder of B. He went to
Wilmington N. 0. in 1816 and after remaining there about two years returned. to Beverly
and kept a shop for the sale of jewelry, stationery, medicines &c. J;le was many years
.Post Master and Justice of the Peace. A
few years since, he rem!>ved. to Sheffield, Illi_nois, but has lately ~ed. to BeverJy.
21. George Dean Jr,, native of Salem, son
.of George !lDd Sarah (Phippen) Dean and
cousin to John P. Babbidge No. 10. Was
·a clerk in Salem and died in Bost.on Jan'y
10th, 1830, unmarried. Born 1791.
22. John Trumbull, son of Nathaniel and
Capt. Edward Allen. Edward was born in Salem in 1790. Married. lst--. Williams niece
of Samu.el. Williams the American Banker in
London; and 2nd a southern lady. He sett1ed. in Mississippi, and died at Hernando iµ
that state April 7th 1845. (See Vol 3 of
these Collection.s Page 178, and also Vol. .4
Page 87.)
25. Wm. Archer, son of Wm. a.nd Mary
(Daland) Archer ;was a clerk to his uncle John
Daland, and afterwards kept a grocery store
for himself, married Eliza Dariiels.. Has
been an insurance agent and manager of a
Loan ana Fund Association. Born August
13th, 1791. I have before expressed my indebted.n~ to him for many facts in relation
to these notices:
26. Nathaniel Ladd was not a Bal!lm boy.
I think he was learning the cabinet inaker's
trade from one of the Sandersons in Federal
street, but he left Salem in a fe"w yeaJ:S and I
know no more of him.
·21. Peter Gerard was bomin Boston of
French parents. They carried him .to St.
Domingo, where they lost their lives by the insurreclion of the blacks and massacre of the
whites. Peter was secreted by a black man,
who found means to put him ~n ~ of .a
;essel bound to .the U. States. Arriving in
Salem, he was protected and educated. by .a
French resident named Peter Barras. He
was a very intelligent ~dwell behaved .boy
and young man. He learned th~ trade of .a
Tailor and went South. I heard of him afterwards as living in Charleston S. C. and,
well to do in the world, but· I know not his
later history.
Hannah (Picket) Trumbull, born in Salem
Jan'y 29th, _1790. Harri~ Hannah, daughried.
ter of Pelatiah Brown. His father ~e to
18. ·Jesse Smith, son of Aaron & Lucy
(Baker) Smith, was a native of Ipswich, bul Salem from Charlestown Mass. and his moth~me young to Salem .and learned. the watch er was from Beverly. John was a Tailor i:nd
maker's trade of Benja..Balch, whose eopart- .. removed to Londonderry N. H. where he died
ner he afterwards w.as, now cairies on the · Nsiv. 8th, 1824.
23. John W. Archer, son of Samuel and
same business ·~n F.sse:x street, opposite B .
Square. He was born 12th Deer. 1789, and Sarah (Woodbury) Archer. Born in Salem
married Priscilla Treadwell whom he survi..-es. 1790, and married.16th October 1821, Deb(Bee Vol. 3 of these Collections, Pages 2f1 .orah H. Little of Beverly, was a mariner and
afterwards had a book store on the comer of
and 212.)
Esse:x and Elm streets, moved to Alton, Illi19. John Punchard, son of Samu.el & Alice (Poor) Punchard, was clerk in a ~ · nois and is now living. (Bee 3 Vol. of these
::Collections, Page 255.)
He removed to New Hampshire and married
Sarah,. daughter of .(Malthus Ward) of Ha24. Ed ward Orne, son of Josiah and Alice
28. Stedmaµ 4.therton was not a Salem
verbill N.·H. He was a stationer and livell · (Allen) Orne. His father was a shipmaster boy and did not re~ain here long and I.~
in Boston and removed. to Florida. He ~ and merchant and his mother a daughter of not trace him since.
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about 1740),-·itwent to his sons Roger.and Sa.muelj;~<
in·~1741 sold .it to .. ROger Peele~. : He was. unfortuii;·
enough io lose it, or a part .of. it,. by sundry executi~
about 1748, to Samuel Ropes' and J'ohn Beckett, the·:fti'
mer of whom bought the latter's portion, his own beiif
the western strip,. and Beckett's the eastern; and 1 t~f
added the middle portion with a ho.use, etc., upon itjilJ
·purchase from Robert Peele in 1749, who, I think,. w~
son of Roger.. " . · ..
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Richard to whom had .been .bequeathed: the other or
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. part of. ~e hom~stead, to which ·we now come. =;;
was. of about the same depth as the other, and 26 :~
in width, and inherited probably from hiS fatherA~~
. this purchase frOm .Ropes he .became. owner··of. the~ ··
original homestead•..The deed ?fa part·of this to'1.•
jam.in Ropes, mentioned -in "Ropes' Family,'! I think~ .
· have been a morfbo-age, which was afterwards discharg~
.and probably the sale mentioned there of a part. of-j
next estate from John3 to Samuel8 was of the same na~1 ·~
This Derby land was in 1796 the property of Jacob "{~"
In 1801, when Monroe street was laid out, it was t<o·
land on Essex St. belonging to Capt. Lawrence & : .-i
Manning." In 1846 the western portion was ·la~1
Hannah Wall~, whose shop was on the comer- untiL~·
1866, when it, together with the two-story dwelling
above, were removed or demolished by Mr. Be
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owner of the land, which was added to his grounds;
The ne:i...-t property, that which . now forms the' l~
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corner of Monroe and Essex streets, we read was:l-1,
Darland's homestead in 1678.. It app~rs. afte '.~--.
belonging to Joseph Neale, who was afterwai:ds,o,
castle, Penn~; in 1709, and deceased in 1716 ;<hE.
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.thext east of his. This homestead extended from a
)blt about three foet west of the eastern corner of Mon~•street to a point east about 116 feet, which would be
~rhaps in front of the western half of the present house
'.f='.Mr. Johnson. It was of an irregular shape, at about
isf!.nce of 93 feet back from Essex street making an
iguli- turn and running west, behind the Derby land tt>
·.e::Ruck land, and then stretching north 24 7 feet, and
~ond what is now Federal s~eet.
[twas sold Nov. 7, 1709, oy his brother and Attorney
!i_eut~ Jeremiah Neal to the brothers. John8 and Samuel3
1pes; the latter, father to the one who owned for a time
ie' Derby land adjoining. At this time it was boimued
~rth by land formerly Bishop's and Robbins', and east
·~itslllorthern part by land of Mr. Robert Kitchen.
· .e brothers divided it, and in 1734 exchanged porns;· Samuel taking the western and John the eastern,
. d here wexe their homes. Samuel married a daughter,
'p.ia, of Joseph Neal .and thereby inherited, and also
:light of the other heirs small portions of the next
~te, his wife's grandfather Croade's, after the death of
.:widow Frances in 1716. He died about 1762, and
'real estate, about half an acre with a dwelling-house,
nt to his son Benjamin.~
:He reserved the part of the estate which was the immeie homestead, extending from Essex street north about
2;feet, but sold the· next lot north, in 1781, to Nath.
.J.Id, 27 rods in size and fronting on the southern side
pederal stPeet. The piece on the other side, which'
.~·. b.een cut off by the laying out of the latter street, he
.d fa April, 1782, to Nath. Chamberlain. It was next
:to that of Mr. John Appleton, sold him by widow
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126 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built for Nathaniel Chamberlain, bricklayer in 1782
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126 Federal
1782
Chamberlain
Federal
Nathaniel
Nathaniel Chamberlain
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135 Federal Street
The Captain Benjamin Carpenter House
built in 1802
Historic Salem, Inc.
January 2000
Research by
Donna Vinson
�135 Federal Street
The Captain Benjamin Carpenter House
built in 1802
History of the property:
The house which now bears the address 135 Federal Street was erected
by Captain Benjamin Carpenter, Revolutionary War veteran, Salem sea
captain and merchant, and namesake of the present,day Carpenter Street,
shortly after he purchased a lot bounded by the relatively "new" Federal
Street in late 1801. 1 Captain Carpenter apparently commissioned Salem's
renown architect and woodcarver Samuel Mcintire to design the house, as
an extant plan of the first floor exhibits the legend: "Sketch of ye plan of
Capt. Carpenter's House." 2 Fiske Kimball confirms this commission in his
authoritative survey of Mclntire's work and comments further that as the
house was "much modified" in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
"little survives" of Mclntire's work. 3 The Captain Benjamin Carpenter
house has a connection to another illustrious Salem family: in the later part
of the nineteenth century it was part of an expansive "Bertram Estate",
which included the present,day Salem Public Library and Assembly House,
owned by the Bertram family.
Before he built his new Federal Street house, Captain Carpenter lived
1
Essex County (South) Registry of Deeds (hereafter ECRD), Book 170, leaf 145
(recorded March 11, 1802).
2
3
1940.
Mcintire MSS., Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel Mcintire, Carver. The Architect of Salem (Portland, ME),
�on Essex Street and owned several parcels of property in the adjacent area.
He purchased part of the future "Bertram Estate" lot from Daniel Mackey in
1796, and conveyed the same to the Widow Fisk in 1800. 4 This parcel was
part of a much larger lot that belonged to the Ruck family for much of the
eighteenth century and the Spooner family in the seventeenth century.
Captain Carpenter's fortunes appear to have fluctuated both dramatically
and routinely if his many property transactions are any indication; a year
after he sold his large Essex Street/Federal Street lot he bought back the
northern, or Federal Street parcel and began construction on his new house.
Carpenter lived in his "homestead" for only eight years, perhaps
another indication of plummeting fortunes. In 1809 he conveyed his Federal
Street property, "with the dwelling house and all other buildings thereon
standing" to Richard Wheatland, another Salem merchant. 5 Wheatland
owned and occupied the property for nearly two decades, until his debts, and
the Court of Common Pleas in Newburyport, forced him to auction off the
property in 1828. 6 The buyer was Michael Shepard, another Salem
merchant who maintained offices on Central Wharf. Shepard's income was
apparently more stable than that of his predecessors at 135 Federal Street (or
61 Federal Street, the property's address until 1860), as his family owned and
occupied the estate for over fifty years, during which both the house and the
land were extended substantially.
Neither tax or property records indicate precisely when 135 Federal
Street was enlarged and its exterior remodeled with Italian Revival elements,
but it was certainly after 1847 and probably around 1860. Shepard began
expanding his property soon after the acquisition of his new house with the
purchase of adjacent land from the Buffington Estate, which extended from
Essex to Federal Streets on his western boundary. 7 In 1847 he expanded his
4
ECRD Book 160, leaf275 (July 8, 1796); ECRD Book 166, leaf252 (May 30, 1800).
5
ECRD Book 186, leaf240 (September 6, 1809).
6
ECRD Book 249, leaf97 (April 28, 1828).
7
ECRD Book 265, leaf 170 (June 7, 1832).
�lot further with the acquisition of another adjacent Federal street property
"bounded northerly on the street forty,six feet, more or less, [and] easterly
on land of Shepard one hundred twenty feet more or less." 8 Later in that
same year he procured an additional adjacent estate, bounded "westerly on
land of Shepard, and northerly by Federal Street." 9 There was now
considerable room for expansion and outbuildings. The fences separating
the Shepard and Bertram estates on the former' s southern boundary were
realigned in 1859, conveying Michael Shepard an additional fifteen feet of
property. 10 Tax assessments on the Shepard property increase noticeably
after 1860, indicating both the increased size of buildings and lot.
The Shepard family conveyed 135 Federal Street to their neighbors,
the Bertrams, in 1880, though the latter never occupied the house. At that
time the Bertrams still lived in their adjacent homestead on Essex Street,
now the Salem Public Library, and they owned several other properties in the
immediate neighborhood and on Chestnut Street. Captain Carpenter's
house was leased to the Robson family, headed by Matthew Robson, a
prominent Salem tanner and currier. 11 The house is commonly regarded as
the "Robson House" in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, even
though the family did not take legal possession of the property until 1910.
According to Henry Oliver's 1885 reminiscences of Federal Street, "the
three,story large and convenient house [is] now occupied by Mr. Matthew
Robson (currier) and family. It is no. 135. I do not learn the date of its
erection. In general shape it is square with an addition on the westerly side
of one story for a dining room. On this westerly side is also an ample fruit
orchard." 12
8
ECRD Book 380, leaves 190-191 (April 13, 1847).
9
ECRD Book 389, leaves 233-234 (November 5, 1847).
10
ECRD Book 597, page 12 (November 9, 1859).
11
Salem City Directories, 1880-1910.
12
Essex Institute Historical Collections 82 (April, 1946): 179-185.
�The Bertram heirs conveyed 135 Federal Street in its present form to
Fidelia E. Robson, the wife of Matthew Robson, in 1910. 13 The plans
accompanying the partition of the Bertram estate at this time established and
illustrate the present-day property. 14 Members of the Robson family now
owned, and continued to occupy, the house well into the twentieth century
and brought about interior modifications which Fiske Kimball refers to as "in
the direction of restoration." 15 John C. Robson, Treasurer of the William G.
Webber Company, was primary householder until the late 1930s, after which
Alice Robson, President of the Salem Seamen's Orphan and Children's
Friend Society, resided in the house until her death in 1953. 16 Richard
Connelly, a Salem physician, took up residence in 1955, and the Connelly
family purchased the Captain Benjamin Carpenter House at public auction
in 1968. 17 Its present (2000) owners, Richard A. Stevens and Victoria H.M.
Stevens, came into possession of the property in 1996. 18
13
EIHC Book 2014, page 558 (April 29, 1910).
14
See attached. The plans accompanying the above transaction could not be found in the
Essex Country Registry of Deeds, but those corresponding to a later transaction illustrate 135
Federal Street as lying between the letters "BCDJ" and occupying 19,030 square feet.
15
Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel Mcintire, Carver, p. 100.
16
Salem City Directories, 1910-1960
17
EIHCBook 5540, page 119 (July 2, 1968).
18
EIHC Book 13710, page 167 (August 15, 1996).
�Transfers of title/property acquisitions:
Essex Country (South) Registry of Deeds (hereafter ECRD), Book
170, leaf 145
Grantor: Sarah Fisk of Salem, Widow
Grantee: Benjamin Carpenter of Salem, Merchant
Consideration: $1150.00
Conveyance of: "a certain piece of land in said Salem bounded as
follows: viz., northwardly by running westerly on Federal Street, there
measuring one hundred and three feet, westerly running southerly
on land of Nehemiah Buffington there measuring ninety.-five feet two
inches and a half an inch, southerly on land of the said Sarah Fisk
running eastwardly seventy.-six feet four inches and a half an inch,
easterly on land of Ovid Dickerson, running northwardly one hundred
and twelve feet and eleven inches to the first.-mentioned bounds as the
fences now stand."
Date recorded: March 11, 1802
ECRD Book 186, leaf 240
Grantor: Benjamin Carpenter of Salem, Merchant
Grantee: Richard Wheatland of Salem, Merchant
Consideration: $6000
Conveyance of: "a certain lot of lands situated on Federal Street
in said Salem bounded as follows ...beginning at the northeasterly
corner thereof on Federal Street by land of Ovid Dickerson, then
running westerly bounds northerly on said street one hundred three
feet to land of Nehemiah Buffington, then running southerly on said
Buffington's land ninety.-five feet, two inches and a half then running
easterly on land of Mrs. Orne seventy.-six feet four inches and a half,
then running northerly on land of said Dickerson one hundred and
twelve feet and eleven inches to the bounds first mentioned with the
dwelling house and all other buildings thereon."
Date recorded: September 6, 1809
�ECRD Book 249, leaf 97
Grantor: Robert W. Gould of Salem, Master Mariner
Grantee: Michael Shepard of Salem, Merchant
Consideration: $3530
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage on the southerly side of Federal
Street in Salem aforesaid consisting of a dwelling house and
outbuildings and land under and adjoining the same having been
formerly the homestead of Captain Benjamin Carpenter and by him
sold and conveyed to Captain Richard Wheatland and taken from
the said Wheatland on Execution against him in favor of the said
Gould issued on a judgement recovered at the Court of Common
Pleas at Newburyport .... "
Date recorded: April 28, 1828
ECRD Book 380, leaves 190-191
Grantor: Ephraim Brown Jr. of Salem, Trustee and Executor of the
last will of Ephraim Brown, late of Salem deceased
Grantee: Michael Shepard of Salem, Merchant
Consideration: $1520
Conveyance of: "a certain parcel of land on Federal Street in said
Salem bounded thus: northerly on the street forty~six feet, more or
less, easterly on land of Shepard one hundred twenty feet more or
less, southerly on land of Goodhue forty~four feet more or less,
westerly on land of heirs of Ephraim Brown deceased one hundred
twenty feet, more or less, with all the privileges thereto."
Date recorded: April 13, 1847
ECRD Book 389, leaves 233-234
Grantor: Michael Shepard of Salem, Merchant and Executor of
the last will and testament of Ovid Dickerson late of Salem, Laborer,
deceased intestate
Grantee: Michael Webb Shepard of Salem, Merchant
Consideration: $1000
Conveyance of: "... having given public notice of the intended sale
�by causing a notice thereof to be published in the Salem Gazette, and
having first given bonds and taken the oath by laws in such cases
required .... a small piece of land, with a dwelling house thereon,
situated westerly by land of Shepard and northerly by Federal
Street."
Date recorded: November 5, 1847
ECRD Book 597, page 12
Agreement as to Bounds between John Bertram and Michael Shepard.
Date recorded: November 9, 1859
ECRD Book 1040, pages 68 .. 69
Grantor: Michael W. Shepard of Salem
Grantee: John Bertram and Mary Ann Bertram, both of Salem
Consideration: $12,000
Conveyance of: "the messuage in said Salem which is bounded
and described as follows: beginning at the northwesterly corner
thereof on Federal Street by land of Mrs. Walcott, thence running
southeasterly one hundred and twenty feet to land of Wheatland,
thence northeasterly by land of Wheatland forty.-four feet, thence
northwesterly fifteen feet and nine inches by land of Bertram, thence
northeasterly by land of Bertram seventy.-three feet eight inches,
thence southeasterly by land of Bertram twenty.-six feet and two
inches, and northeasterly again by land of Bertram twenty feet and
eight inches to land of Williams, thence northwesterly by land of
William Ropes and Emery one hundred and forty.-nine feet to Federal
Street and thence southwesterly by Federal Street about one hundred
and seventy feet to the point begun at."
Date recorded: June 25, 1880
ECRD Book 2014, page 558.. 559
Grantors: Jennie M. Emmerton, Widow and Annie B. Webb, Widow,
both of Salem, and David P. Kimball and Clara B. Kimball, his wife
in her right, of Boston, the residuary legatees under the will of John
�Bertram
Grantee: Fidelia E. Robson, wife of Matthew Robson of Salem
Consideration: $1 and other good and valuable considerations
Conveyance of: "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon
situated on Federal Street in said Salem ... containing 19 ,030 square
feet more or less, being part of the premises conveyed to John Bertram
of Salem by Michael W. Shepard."
Date recorded: April 29, 1910
ECRD Book 5540, page 119
Grantor: Thomas F. Fitzgibbon of Wenham, Commissioner,
"to make partition under Decree of the Essex County Probate Court
Docket no. 295197"
Grantees: John J. Connelly, Jr. and Eleanor J. Connelly of Salem,
husband and wife as tenants by the entirety of Salem
Consideration: $27,100 .00
Conveyance of: at public auction: "the land with the buildings
thereon, situated in said Salem at 135 Federal Street... containing
19,030 square feet more or less ... Said parcel is more particularly
shown on a plan entitled "Land of Bertram Estate, Salem, by
Guy Ricker, C.E., dated Jan. 1910 and recorded with deed from
Jennie M. Emmerton, et al to Fidelia E. Robson in Essex South
District Registry, Book 2014, page 558."
Date recorded: July 2, 1968
ECRD Book 7705, page 486.. 487
Grantor: Eleanor J. Connelly of 135 Federal Street, Salem
Grantees: Eleanor J. Connelly, Maureen Connelly, Kathleen A.
Connelly, and Virginia Connelly, as joint tenants and not tenants
1ncommon
Consideration: less than $100
Conveyance of: the above estate
Date recorded: March 28, 1985
ECRD Book 13710, page 167
�Grantors: Maureen Connelly, Kathleen A. Connelly and Virginia
Connelly of Salem
Grantees: Richard A. Stevens and Victoria H.M. Stevens,
husband and wife as tenants by the entirety
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: "the land with the buildings thereon, situated in
said Salem, at 135 Federal Street."
Date recorded: August 15, 1996
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135 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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The Captain Benjamin Carpenter House 1802
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1802, 2000
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Donna Vinson
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English
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1802
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OFFICES AT 15 SUMMER STREET
POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
136 Federal Street
Built for
JOSE~H G. SFRAGUE ESQ.
Cashier of the Naumkeag Bank
in the year 1832
Research by,
Joyce King
;;to preserve H isiOrk Sites/ Bujldings and objects,··.
and to work for the education of tlie com11111nity
in the true value of the same."
�136 Federal Street
"This two-story plus pitch roof, wooden house is back from and
eable end to the street.
Two of its handsome features are the
cast iron fence on Federal St. and the iron railing at the base
of the full-length first floor Wyatt windows.
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On July 7, 1832 Ebenezer and Samuel Shillaber sold to Joseph
0prague a lot of land which was a portion of the land their father
Ebenezer purchased in 1798 (this land extended from Federal St.
to the North River and included both sides of Carpenter St.).
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�Joseph G. Sprague seems to have been most active in social and
civil affairs.
He was born in Danvers, April 20, 1787.
cashier at the Naumkeag Bank for twenty years.
He was
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1823, when he was thirty-seven, he married l'riscilla Gould of
Bradford, Mass. He is accorded the rank of Colonel in an item
concerning the "Active l!"'ire Club, which was formed Feb. 20, 1806.
It is said to have consisted of "men well known in our city, and
men who have had a prominent part in public affairs. ii At one time
it had as its moderator, Colonel Joseph G. Sprague.
His part in public affairs was principally as President of the
Common Council~ He served as its head from 1845 through 1847.
But previous to that he was an alderman.
It was when serving in
·this capacity that he was appointed to a committee, on April 15,
1839 "to consider what alterations, if any, shall be made in the
ordinance to establish a City Seal."
He was appointed an honorary member of the Salem Glee Club in
1837. But his chief interest was Masonry. He rose to the position
~f High Priest of Washington Chapter, in which capacity he served
in 1820. (Essex Institute Historic Collections)
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The federal census of 1850 gives a closer look as to the occupants
of 60 Federal St. (now 136 Federal St.)
Joseph G. Sprague
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Margaret Reed
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House in Danvers
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Land in Lawrence
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(inventory, see appendix A)
�On July 6, 1854 the land and buildings "the same estate conveyed
to Joseph G. Sprague by Ebenezer Shillaber" was sold to Benjamin
Wheatland, gentleman, for the sum of $6,700. (book 497 page 274)
Benjamin Wheatland, born May 27, 1801, was the son of Richard and
Martha (Gootlhue) Wheatland. He was a graduate of Harvard College
in 1819, studied law with Hon. Leveret Saltonstall in Salem where
he practised for a while. He was greatly interested in Free Masonry
and served as Secretary of the Essex Lodge in 1825. Mr. Wheatland
married on April 8, 1827 Mary E. Bemis of Watertown, born July 4,
1801, daughter of Luke and Hannah (Eddy) Bemis. Mr. and Mrs.
Wheatland resided for a number of years in Newmarket, N.H. He
returned to Salem in 1846 where he died Tiec. 28, 1854.
The family home was at 374 Essex St. for several years after their
return to Salem and later they removed to Federal St. where Mrs.
Wheatland passed away June 23, 1864. The couple were the parents
of two daughters, they both died unmarried. (Portraits at the
Essex Institute)
As stated previously, Mr. Wheatland died on Tiec. 28, 1854, just
five months after purchasing the Federal St. property. In his
will $10,000 was left in trust for the support of his widown Mary.
All the rest of the estate was left to Mary and daughter Martha.
His estate was listed as:
$7,000
House and land Essex St.
8,000
House and land Federal St.
1/3 house and land Boston St.
Woodland in Lynn and Tianvers
1,325
Furniture in house on Federal St.
(probate #56847)
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Mary Wheatland
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Julia Tionavan
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�Martha G. Wheatland sold the property i•the same conveyed to my
late father Benjamin Wheatland" on July 15, 1870 to John Bertram,
for the sum of $9,550. (book 802 page 121)
The property is listed
as unoccupied in 1870.
Captain John Bertram, one of Salem's greatest benefactors, was born
on the Isle of Jersey, Feb. 11, 1796.
in 1807 and settled in Salem.
His family came to America
John was described as a poor boy
who went around with a basket peddling apples, candies and turn-overs
and later went to sea as a cabin boy, before the mast, as mate,
captain and still later became the merchant prince and beloved
benefactor of his fellow citizens. ~for further reference see
John Bertram, edited by Rosamond De Laittre)
Captain Bertram gave this house for a parsonage, to the South Church,
on July 18, 1870.
This transaction is recorded in book 801 page 229.
"John Bertram, of Salem sold to Proprietors of the South Church for
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of Chestnut and Cambridge 8ts.
dedicated on Jan. 1, 1805.
It was erected in 1804 and was
Its architect was Samuel Mackintire.
This church stood until it was consumed by fire on Dec. 19, 1903.
The first pastor to reside in the "South Church Parsonage" at 136
Federal St. was Rev. Edward S. Atwood.
Rev. Atwood was born in
4, 1833, graduated at Brown University in 1852,
and was installed in Salem vctober 13, 1864. He had been pastor
Taunton, Mass., June
of a church in Grantville (now Wellesley Hills) previous to his
settlement in Salem.
The 1880 census gives a closer look into the life of the Atwood
family:
Edward S. Atwood
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Frank S.
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His replacement was Rev. James
F. Brodie who remained with the South Church until 1904 when he
moved to Tennessee.
directory.
The house is listed as vacant in the 1905
1906 shows Rev. A. A. Berle and 1907 the occupant is
Rev. Harold C. Feast.
lThe Essex Institute has pictures and further
information on the South Church and its pastors)
The year 1908 brings a substantial change when the house is listed
as J. A. Sylvester - lodgers.
The Salem Street books for the year
1910 which lists all males over the age of 21, has this entry;
1)6 1?edera1 St.
owned by South Church
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John A. Sylvester
Walter
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Edward C. Clark
Charles Brigham
Edwin W. Joslyn
Alwyn H. Jones
Michael Quinn
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�On Jan. 15, 1912 the "J?roprietors of the South Church" voted to
sell the South Church }arsonage to Jennie M. Emmerton for the sum
of $8,160.
vn Jan. 24 the deed was drawn and the "l'roprietors of
the South Church conveyed to Jennie
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Emmerton the"land and
building the same conveyed by deed of John Bertram." (book 2127
page 497)
lVl rs . ..tmmerton was the widow of George R. Emmmerton and the daughter
of Capt. John Bertram and Mary c. (Smith). un May 17, 1912 Jennie
M. Emmerton, of Salem sold the property to Harrison lVl. Davis and
his wife Mary A. Davis.
(book 2147 page 307)
Mr. Davis was a lawyer with an office at 21 Court St., Boston and
resided at 136 Federal St., Salem.
On Get. 17, 192Y Harrison M.
and Mary A. Davis sold the land and building to Jessie S. Tolman
wife of Henry Tolman Jr.
(book 2825 page 262)
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. June 7, 1954 Jessie S. Tolman sold the land and building to Robert A.
and Annie IL Henley, of Middleton.
(book 4073 page 351)
June 30, 1959 Hobert Henley Sr. and Annie R. Henley, husband and
wife, sold the land and building to vscar and Esther Kessler and
Joseph L. Kessler, of Lynn.
(book 4574 page 530)
April 24, 1961 Joseph L. Kessler, of Marblehead and Oscar and Esther
Kessler, husband and wife, sold the land and building to Henley
Nursing Home Inc. (book 4763 page 350)
Henley Nursing Home sold to Nelson S. and Harriet Kessler, husband
and wife, of 0wampscott.
July
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1976
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(book 5546 page 355)
Heritage Co 0perative, h0lder of a mortgage from
Nelson S. hessler and Harriet, his wife to Salem Co Gperative (now
Heritage Co Operative) grant to Salem Co Operative th~ same as
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conveyed by Henley Nursing Home Inc. (book 6263 page 480)
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sold to Pace Properties Inc. \book 6503 page 449)
.B'eb. 22, 1980 J:ace l'roperties Inc. of 131 Russell Ave., Watertown
sold to Clifford T. Hughes, Trustee of Chien Nominee Trust. (book
6680 page 300)
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THE RETROSPEO'l' OJ!' THE YEA.B.
lections brought together there; of his great.systematic
work upon the Birds and Mammals of North America,
and of the volumes which contain the results of his researches. We know, too, when the labors of administration became so vast that he could no longer give his time
to personal research, how he placed with generous hand
the means he bad accumulated at the disposal of others,
and of the impetus he gave to the study of natural history
by providing for workers not only.the material for reeearch,
but salaried positions that they might continue their studies. He thus fostered research in the broadest manner, and
brought up a set of workers in Washington, which has resulted in making it the great centre of science in our country, where to-day, nearly five hundred men are professionally engaged in scientific work hi all departments, and·
many of these departments were actually created by the
foresight and labors of this hard-working, self-sacrificing
man. '\Ve know also of his founding the United States Fish
Commission, and the truly wonderful results it has attained,
not only in a scientific way, but in adding immense wealth
to the country by fornishing food for the people, restoring
fish to exhausted streams and portions of the coast, and introducing species that have become important in our supply
of food on both sides of the continent. Had this one work
of Professor Baird been his only and life-long effort, he
would ever be remembered as a great benefactor, but while
this work will ever stand out in prominence, from the great
economic results achieved, it is only one of the many farreaching results which we owe to him.
Surely, .Mr. President, we have lost from our little roll
of Honorary .Members, two men, whose equals in their respective lines of research and influence we cannot hope to
see in our time.
THE RETROSPEOT OJ!' THE YEAR.
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REv. EoWAB.D SUMNER ATWOOD, minister of the South
church, Salem, died at the parsonage on Federal street on
Sunday mori1ing May 13, 1888.
His death was very
sudden and unexpected to the community, though his fail- ·
ing health for the past year indicated that his life would
thus terminate.
Mr. Atwood was the son of George B. and Eliza(Snmner) Atwood and was born at Taunton, Mass., June 4,.
1833, graduated at Brown University, 1852, at Andover
Theological Seminary in 1856 ; in 1883 his alma mater conferred upc:m him the honorary degree of. D.D. ;._ordained
pastor of the church in Grantvi!le-; Wellesley Hilla, Oct.
23, 1856, where he continued until 1864. On the 13th of .
October, 1864, he was installed over the South church as
colleague pastor with the late Rev. Dr. Brown Emerson,
succeeding in that capacity Rev. I. E. Dwinell now of
Oakland, Cal. Since Dr. Emerson's death, July 25, 1872,
he had been the sole pastor.
.As a pulpit orator, Dr. Atwood had few equals: a terse,
forcible and effective speaker.
Gifted with a wonderful
command of language, and keeping abreast with all the
progressive knowledge of the day, he clothed his thoughts
with striking b~auty and wealth of felicitous illustrations,
and was equally ready on all occasions. As a citizen, he
was foremost in every good word and work and especially
in the cause of education and advanced culture. As a member of the prudential committee of the .A.. B. C. F. M.,
he was ve1·y devoted, and wherever his services were .
needed he was ever ready, willing and energetic.
Soon after corning to this city he connected himself with
several of our local scientitic, literary and educational institutions. He was elected a member of the school board
and half of the years of his resiuence here he contributed
by his labors to its educational interests. In this work
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he was prominent in the advoeaoy of ·the best edueatiqn,..
the freest education based upon publie duty and the pub~
lie good.
He was also enrolled as a member of the Essex Institutej ·
and from that time to the close of his life he 'manifested a
deep interest in it8 prosperity; he believed in its objects,
he recognized the good it had done and its powers for. accom plishing greater good in the; future, and t.o this end he
gave freely of his time and versatile talents. The records
of the Institute bear abundant testimony to the value of his
membership. From time to time he favored the fnstitute
with addresses and lectures. Among the interesting contributions on these occasions was a learned paper" On the beginnings and growth of· language." It is noteworthy that
his first address was upon the Bible. He profoundly be'lieved in the Bible, had no fear of true science, believing
that all truth was of God. He recognized no antagonism
between true science and true religion. This was ata field
meeting held in Essex on Wednesday, July 1, 1868, an old
Genevan Bible having been exhibited at the afternoon session, by Hon. David Choate. When called upon by the
chair, he took for his theme this old volume,• giving some
interesting facts respecting the history of the different editions and spoke of the clea1· and exquisite printing which
these books reveal,many of them not being surpassed by the
best printing of the present day. This edition was printed
at Geneva for the use of the English exiles who took refuge
there.
Soon after the death of .Prof. Louis Agassiz, Dr. Atwood paid a beautiful tribute to the character and achievments of that distinguished scientist at a meeting held on
Monday, Dec. 15, 1873. He was a member of the com-See Proceed,. Essex Institute, VOL. TI, p. 81.
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Prof. A. Graham Bell on the occasion of the first public
ex,hibition. of that wonderful invention, the telephone,• at
a lecture of the lns1fitute course delivered Monday, Feb.12,
1877. He WftS one of the most active members of the committ.ee of arrangements for t~e celebration of the twentyfifth anniversary ·of the Institute, Wednesday, March 5,
1873, t and on this occasion read a poem.
He was also an active and interested member of the
committee on the commemoratioa by the Institute, Sef,t.
18, 1878, of the fifth half century of the landing ef Gov..
ernor Endicott in Salem,l and h~llfoo an eloquent ad.;
dress on this occasion.
,,,. _For many years he was chairman of the publication com-.
mittee of the Institute, a position of much resp6nsibnity
and usefulness. One of the most important of Dr~ Atwood's later services was the preparation of a noble tribute
to the life and character of the late John Bertram.
Dr. Atwood will long be cherished in grateful memory
by the members of the Essex Institute.
REV. JosEPH BANVARD, D.D., a well known Baptist
clergyman, died at Neponset on Wednesday, Sept. 28 t
1887, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was bom
in the city of New York, May 9, 1810. His father, David
Bonverd (the spelling of the 111µne being changed to Banvard in the course of a business life), was the son of ·a
Huguenot refugee who came trom France about l 770 and
settled in the city of New York; his mother was Elizabeth
Mead, of Stamford, Conn. His health was delicate dui.. .. --ing his childhood and boyhood. He was a pupil at Joseph
• See Bulletin of 1£eeex Ioetitute, VOL. IX, pp. 21-:n.
t See Bulletin of Essex Institute, VOL. V, P• 66.
t See Bulletin of Eesex Institute, VOL. :x, p. 161; also Hilt. Collectiou
Institute, VOL. xv, pp. 101-ll32.
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�Note:
The Essex Institute has in its photo collection a view of Federal St.
as a tree lined, dirt street.
The date is given as 1884-5 and
features horse and carriages.
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now (1921) res. of Harrison M. Davis."
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
145 Federal Street
Built for
JOHN CULLITON, tanner and currier
in the year 1859
Research by,
Joyce King
May 1981
"to preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and objects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true value of the same."
�145 Federal Street
This large two-story plus hip roof house has many of the features
which were popular when it was built (1859) such as pedimented
windows, paired brackets and a square columned portico and balustrade
above.
The house has a handsome iron fence in front of it. (Salem
Historic Commission District Study, 1956)
The land on which this house stands was once part of the Stearns
estate (384 Essex St.) which extended from Essex to Federal Streets.
The Stearns family used this land as their garden for many years.
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In May of 1859, to settle the estate of Sarah
Stearns, the heirs
sold a portion of their land to John Culliton tanner and currier,
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�John Culliton was born in Ireland in 1817.
He landed in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, in 1834, where he worked at printing for a short time.
(It was common for Irish immigrants, who were unable to pay the
fare for regular passage to the United States, to book passage on
Canadian lumber ships which would otherwise return home empty.
Once in Canada the Irish would save their money and work their way
down the coast into the United States.
taken by Mr. Culliton.)
This could be the route
Ivir. Culliton arrived in Salem in
1835 and
began as a journeyman to invest in small purchases of hides which
he tanned and curried himself in his off hours and sold on his own
account.
It was in this way that Mr. Culliton said he laid the
foundation of his subsequent fortune.
His speciality was light
African matemoras and Central American kip. (Salem News Oct. 14, 1887
and July 8, 1923)
John Culliton, described as a quiet reserved man, was married in
Salem to Lucy D. Johnson on Dec. 31, 1848.
The couple made their
home at 9 Friend st. until the completion of their beautiful new
mansion house at 145 Federal St.
The Culliton family was settled into
their new residence by June 1860 when the federal census was taken:
John Culliton
Lucy
Catherine
John
James
Willie
Carrie Grant
age 42
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�The tax records for 1860 list John Culliton as the owner of 147
(now 145) Federal st. valued at $6,500; currier shop and tannery at
R91 Mason st. valued at $3,400; one horse (no value given).
In 1862 the tax was - 5,300 ft. of land $2,000 Total
$4,400-
barn $100 - house
1~6 ,500
On March 21, 1866 John Culliton purchased,for $452, a small parcel
of land adjoining his from the heirs of Lydia P. Stearns.
the same land conveyed to Lydia by the heirs of Sarah
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$20,000
stock
machinery
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3 horses
500
carriages, carts, etc.
300
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furniture
house 145 Federal
6,500
tan yard and 3 buildings
1,500
vats
700
house 87t Mason St.
400
500
land #3 and 4t Friend st.
land $2,000
land 1,200
land
200
The 1870 census shows one addition and one correction*:
John Culliton
Lucy D.
Katie E.
John F.
James E.
William H.
Edward J.
Carrie L. Grant
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The tax value had risen in 1870 to - $8,000 for the house and $1,300
for the land.
at $1,800.
By 1876 the house was valued at $9,000 with the land
The value dropped in 1880 to $7,800 for the house and
$1,600 for land.
In 1880 another census was taken:
age
John Culliton
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Lucy D.
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James E.
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William
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Edward J.
Caroline L. Grant 11
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In the 1881 directory John Culliton was a currier at Rl09 Mason st.
and at 91 High St., Boston. His house was 145 Federal St.
�Mr. Culliton died at his residence on Oct. 13, 1887 at the age of
70.
This obituary appeared in the local paper:
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:the Houth Society, died
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j70. He Wll!I born In ll'cl:111tt 1 :1nde1l l11 Hall- I
:rax in 1834, 011m6 to ~ll.~8110i1udet.ts and
1wol'ked at his tmtle ns 11 p1foter In the office
'ot the Boston Post. lill me to S.1lem In
;l83i'i, nnd worli,cd lu UH! ottloe of th~ 811lem
:J,1rndmark. He le111'11ed the trnde ot a cur·rler with the 111t11 Uavl•l' lloberts .of Pea-I
:~odr, us ~n npprentlce, laylug the touuda~,
_t1vn of 111~ fu.ture co111pe~e11t•y \l.r. working;
,·""t-l'Htti.: nt 111ght UlJOll lnllCS \>Ul'Ch:tsetl i'i:Y
,hhmwlr a 1111 aoltl by 11111 ns hi. ow 11 venture!
·to hb employrr. lfo 1101.;umulatcd wealth!
! 'rapidly during the war, and.torse\'l'l'al years:
1 was at thi; head ot thl' flt•m of Vullit.on, I
;.'1'rl'udwell & Co., 88 High stl'eet, .Boston. i
:':He e111ur11c<>tl th1! Protc~t11nt religion nnd
·:was n member of th() 801,1th C:hu1,~b P11.rlsh
'iCummittee. He wu~ 1o Dfrectrll' .hi the Naulnr.keag Bauk aud 811lem & ,;outh Danvers Oil
i' Cou1p1111y. · A 1111111 of ~e1wrous impulses, he
.i w11s one of the bt·st friends the workingmen
ievet·.had. He le11ves I\ widow aQd tour :$OU•
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In his will (probate #65503) Mr. Culliton left his widow, Lucy D.,
"a share as she is entitled to at law 11 , to his son William H. the
sum of $100, 1/4 of the remainder to Charles Tuttle to hold in
trust for John F. Culliton of Peabody, and the rest to children
James, Edward and Kate.
(see also appendix A)
On Sept. 21, 1888 Charles H. Tuttle, trustee under the will of
John Culliton transferred the 1/4 share of the dwelling house
at 145 Federal St. to Lucy D. Culliton (book 1233 page 505).
Lucy D. Culliton died on June 25, 1893.
The Salem News carried
this obituary:
"Lucy D., widow of the late John Culliton, died at her residence
on Federal St. yesterday noon, after an illness of some duration.
The deceased was born and always resided in Salem.
She was an
�attendant at the South church, and although never conspicuous in
charitable work, gave a large amount of money to the poor and
deserving.
The deceased was in her 70th year.
wife of
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She leaves a daughter Catherine,
H. Tuttle, and three sons James, William and Edward. 11
On July 29, 1893 the heirs of Lucy D. Culliton conveyed their
shares of the dwelling house 145 Federal st. and the land on the
corner of Federal and Flint, "the same conveyed to John Culliton
as by deeds of Stearns 101 to William H. Culliton.
"The same inherited
by us from our late mother Lucy D." (book 1395 page 145).
The 1895 tax shows that the valuation had dropped to $7,300 for the
house and $2,100 for the land.
1913 shows
a further drop to $6,700
for the house and $2,100 for the land.
William H. Culliton died on July 3, 1914.
His obitutary as it was
printed in the Salem News:
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William H. Culltion died at his home, 145 Federal St., Saturday,
after a long illness.
Oct. 24, 1857•
manufacturer.
His father was John Culliton, a large leather
He leaves a brother Edward J. and a sister Mrs.
Charles H. Tuttle.
home.
He was a note broker, and was born in Salem,
His funeral was held this forenoon at his late
Rev. Thomas G. Langdale of the South church officiating.
burial was in Harmony Grove."
The
�In his will (probate #118985) William bequeathed
1~500
to h·is cousin
Caroline L. Grant and several pieces of jewelry to the T~ttle
frunily.
The rest and remainder to Charles
c.
Tuttle to pay brother
Edward J. Culliton all the income (see also appendix B).
The directory for 1915 states that the house was vacant at the time
those listings were made.
On Sept. 21, 1915 Charles
c.
Tuttl~
trustee under the last will of
William H. Culliton,sold for $6,600 to Catherine Ronan "the same
conveyed to John Culliton by deeds of Stearns (book 2311 pages 450-1).
Catherine Ronan was the wife of a prominent leather manufacturer 5
James Ronan.
The property was apparently put in Catherine's name
for legal purposes.
The 1915 tax valuation shows Catherine Ronan as
the owner of 145 Federal st.
house valued at $5,60D; land $2,400.
The Ronans moved, from 44 Holten st., Peabody with their impressive
family, to the Federal St. house immediately after the purchase
as indicated in the 1916 directory:
Bartholomew J. Ronan,
II
Catherine F.
11
Francis J.
11
James J.
11
John J.
James (wf~ Catherine)
William J.
works at
clerk (Peabody)
dentist - 114 Washington st.
student
lawyer - 252 Essex St.
lawyer - 118 Washington st.
morocco dresser
II
II
lives at
145 Federal st.
II
II
II
II
II
11
(daughter Helen Ronan, dentist was listed along with the others in
1918)
�The yea:r 1925 brought sadness to the 145 Federal St. household, for
on May 8th Dr. Helen E. Ronan died:
Salem News - May 10, 1925
"Dr. Helen E. Ronan, one of the best known of the younger dentist
of this city, passed away Saturday after an illness of only a few
days duration.
She was a native of this city.
After completing her
High School course in three yea:rs, she entered Tufts Dental School,
from which she graduated with honor and distinction in 1919.
Her great zeal and enthusiasm for her work, and her ma:rked ability
and skill in executing the same, soon attracted the attention of the
college authorities who upon her graduation, made her a member of
the faculty.
She hel• this position for a few yea:rs and until the·
practice established by her sister, Dr. Catherine F., became so
large as to require her attention.
Thereupon, she associated with
her sister and the two have since been actively engaged in the practice
of their profession.
Endowed with a bright and happy disposition, Dr. Helen Ronan always
had a kind and pleasant word for everyone with whom she came in
contact.
She was a great favorite with the children, especially
those who were numbered among her patients.
25 years of age.
Dr. Ronan was only
She was in her usual good health and spirits and
about her duties as late as last Thursday.
Her demise was entirely
unexpected and was a distinct shock to the community.
Besides her grief stricken pa:rents and sister, Dr. Ronan leaves
six brothers."
�Just two years later another death stunned
the family.
Salem News - Nov. 7, 1927
"The many friends of John J. Ronan a well known attorney were
shocked to learn that he passed away at his home 145 Federal St.,
yesterday afternoon after an illness lasting but a few days.
He
was about his duties until Thursday when he complained of a slight
indisposition.
He was apparently recovering when a heart condition
developed which culminated in his death.
Mr. Ronan was born in Salem, but moved as a child with his parents
to Peabody.
He was educated in the public schools of that city,
graduated from Peabody High in 1912.
He continued his studies
at the Boston University law school, received his degree from that
institution in 1915.
He began the practice of his profession in
Salem, but his duties were interrupted by his enlistment in the
navy in 1918.
After serving most creditably under Lt. Comm. David Little,
until the armistice was signed, then returned to his office and
resumed his law practice.
He had a particular aptitude for probate and real estate law and
devested himself almost exclusively to the practice of those two
branches.
At the time of his death he was conveyancer for the
Roger Conant Co-op Bank.
Attorney Ronan was a man of reticence and unassuming disposition
but his earnestness and integrity and sympathetic understanding
endeared him to all who knew him.
He was a member of the Essex
Bar Assc. and the American Legion.
Besides his mother and father he is survived by five brothers and
one sister
Katherine~'
�The 1935 valuation for Catherine F. Ronan was listed as:
House 145 Federal st.
Garage
Factory (3 Waters st.)
$6,000
500
9,000
On Oct. 16, 1937 James Ronan succumbed to a long illness:
Salem News
Oct. 16
"James Ronan died this morning at his home 145 Federal St.,
following a long illness.
A native of Salem he spent many of his
early years in Peabody where, for a long time he conducted a large
tannery, retiring
from business 15 years ago.
Mr. Ronan devoted his life chiefly, in the interest of his family
and home, yet was kindly and helpful to all whom he met bearing his
lingering illness with patience.
He married Catherine Doody of Salem more than 50 years ago in the
old St. James church, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Fr. Gray,
Besides his widow he is survived by one daughter Dr. Catherine F. of
Salem and five sons.
Funeral from his late home."
On July 12, 1950, after the death of their mother in 1949, James,
William, Bartholomew, Arthur and Frank sold their shares in the
land and building on the corner of Eederal and Flint Streets to
Catherine F. Ronan.
Ronan.
"All we inherited from our mother Catherine F.
For title see Charles Tuttle to Catherine F. Ronan 1915"•
(book 3762 page 297)
Catherine and Frank remained in the house until for some unknown
reason they moved to 366 Essex St. in 1954•
vacant during 1954 and 1955.
The house remained
�It may be of interest to make note of some members of the Ronan
family after their departure from 145 Federal St.:
Bartholomew practiced law for 45 years and was the vice president
and director of the Merchants Warren National Bank of Salem.
James Ronan became Justice of the State Supreme Court
William and Frank were the proprietors of "Ronan's" restaurant
at 40 Boston St. for many years.
Catherine continued to practice dentistry in Boston, Wakefield
and Salem. She died on March 22, 1976 at the age of 82.
On Jan. 19, 1955 Catherine Ronan, unmarried, sold to Arthur Thomas
Cyr the land and buildings at 145 Federal St. "For title see deed
of James Ronan et al to me July 12, 1950, also probate of Catherine
Ronan #228016 11
(book 4135 page 293).
On Oct. 9, 1956 Arthur T. Cyr secured
Conant Bank for $2,200.
a mortgage from the Roger
The property was also subject to a prior
mortgae for $16,300 (book 4314 page 132).
The bank took possession
of the property on Feb. 11, 1958 (book 4442 page 154).
On Feb. 26, 1958 the Roger Conant Co-op Bank sold the property to
Elmer H. Warner (book 4442 page 155-7).
The title was changed on
April 29, 1958 ro read Elmer and Eleanor Warner (book 4456 page 292).
Dec. 10, 1959 Elmer H. and Eleanor
to Israel Frisch, of Beverly.
Bank
(book 4628 page 382).
c.
Warner,husband
and wife, sold
"The same conveyed by the Roger Conant
�On Dec. 31, 1966 Israel and Minnie Frisch, husband and wife, of
Beverly changed the title of this property as well as three other
parcels to "Israel Frisch as he is trustee of the Federal St. Realty
(book 5417 page 512).
Trust of Salem"
Oct. 29, 1980 Minnie Frisch surviving spouse of Israel Frisch and
the successor trustee of the Federal St. Realty Trust of Salem
sold for $100,000 to Harkness and Wick Development Corp., business
at 7 East st., Ipswich the land and building on the corner of
Federal and Flint Sts.
For title see book 5417 page 512
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145 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for John Culliton, tanner & currier 1859
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Joyce King
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145
145 Federal
1859
Culliton
currier
Federal
John
John Culliton
Tanner
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Land and House at 153 Federal Street, Salem, Mass.
This house was built for Aaron Hayward, master mason, in 1842.
In 1740 Hannah Orange, a widow of Boston, for,450 li sold
3 3/4 acres of land to Thomas Blaney, Salem shoreman (a man
involved in unloading, preparing, and selling the fish brought
back to Salem from the fishing grounds); this land ran down
along what is now Flint Street to what was then the broad
North River, of which Bridge Street was the southern bank
(80:101). In the 1760s Federal Street was laid out through
this land, and Mr Blaney 1 s widow, Alice Blaney, proceeded to
sell off the land for house-lots. On 18 Sept ·1773 she sold
to Benjamin Nourse, Salem sadler, for 35 li, a house-lot fronting about 36 1 on Federal Street and running ba~k about 200 1 ,
as well as a shallow triangular piece (gore) or land fronting
127' on Federal Street to the east {133:22).
Benjamin Nourse (a direct descendant of Rebecoa Nurse, the
witch trial victL~) built a house on this lot soon after
purchasing it in 1773; on 20 Nov 1789 he bought from Ebenezer
Beckford, a merchant, a parcel of land adjoining to the west,
fronting one pole (16.5 1 ) on Federal Street and running about
200 1 deep; on this strip stood a wood-house and the southerly
end of a dwelling house (148:251}. Mr Nourse immediately
mortgaged his dwelling house, his newly-enlarged house-lot,
and the gore to Mr Beckford, who discharged this mortgage on
15 April 1790 (148:252).
Mr Nourse, "a sexton," died nof old age 11 on_17 Jan 1798 in
his 78th year, having earlier changed his occupation from
sadler to chair-bottom maker; by his will of 24 Nov 1797 he
devised to his (second) wife Abigail a life estate in half
of his hcuse and land, and to his son Samuel the other half
of the homestead, along w:l.th the right to Abigail's half after
her death; to his son Benjamin he left just $50; according to
the inventory, the dwelling house and land were worth $800
(#19685).
On 7 Jan 1799 Samuel Ncurse, a cordwainer (shoemaker1 mortgaged
his half snd his right to his mother's half to Sarah Hathorne,
shopkeeper; she discharged this mortgage 30 April 1801 {164:205).
Again, on 28 April 1801, Mr Nourse mortgaged the same premises
for $500 to John Osgood, merchant, who was acting, evidently,
on behalf of his ward Joseph Jackson hroodbridge ( 169 :243).
11r Nourse paid off this mortgage on 20 Aug 1804 for $604 to
Messrs 0Rgood & Woodbridge (175:33).
It was probably at this time that Mr Nourse began the decline
that ended in death two years later; certainly his actions
were those of a man dete!'lllined to put his house in order. On
�20 Aug 1804 Mr Nourse for $500 granted to his step-mother
Abigail (who was also his mother-in-law) a life estate in
his undivided half of the homestead (175:33). On that same
day Mr Nourse, for $500,sold to William Coombs, baker,
~"'rederick Coombs, mariner, and Elizabeth Coombs, spinster
(his wife 1 s siblings )3:~his :r-ight to his step-mo':;her 1 s right
to the homestead and gore (175:33}; also at this time Mr
Nourse granted his right to his mother's remaining undivided
1/4 right in the homestead & gore to Joseph Mansfield, cordwainer, who immediately reconveyed this 1/4 right to Mr Nourse's
wife, Abigail (Coombs}, (these last two deeds were lost or
destroyed, and were renegotiated on 22 & 23 Oct 1806, 193:69).
Having conveyed all of his property to his ste~-mother and
to his wife and her siblings, Samuel Nourse died late in
November, 1806.
Mr Nourse 1 s step-mother, Mrs Abigail Nourse, died 1 Mar 1814,
aged 70 years. After her decease, the whole homestead & gore
came into the outright possession of William and Frederick
Coombs, and Mrs Elizabeth (Coombs) Symonds and widow Abigail
(Coombs) Nourse. On 20 Oct 18t4 and 22 July 1816, these four
people, for a grand total of $ 1100, granted their rights
to the property to Capt Holten Johnson Breed, master mariner
(203:301, 209:277-8).
Capt Breed lived here for several years; on 19 May 1829 he
sold the estate for $760 to Benjamin Allen, Salem tann9r
{252:81 ); from the sale price, one surmises that the property
had been allowed to run down. Mr Allen died 31 Mar 1839,
aged 36 years; the estate then descended to his father, John
Allen, Salem gentleman. On 6 Jan 1842 John Allen for $1000
granted to his neighbor to the west, Aaron Hayward, Salem
mason, the 11 lot of .land on Federal Street with all the buildings
thereon" as well as his right to the gore (328:259).
Evidently, Mr Hayward proceeded to raze or remove (or drastically
remode~ the old Nourse house, and to build this house in its
place. The 1842 Salem real estate assessments show that Mr
Hayward sold to Leonard B Harrington his half-house (now 155
Federal Street, worth then $1600), that he owned two houses
worth a total of $2800, and that he owned another house worth
$1400 unfinished and $2500 finished. This last house was
unfinished at the time of assessment (probably summer 1842),
but it was probably finished by the end of the year. The 1843
assessment show that }fr· Hayward lived at 75 Federal Street
(now 153 Federal St; the street numbers were changed 21 Mar
1853}, which was assessed at $2500; he still owned the other
two houses worth $2800.
On 26 Ap 1855 Mr Hayward for $4500 sold his homestead to
Leonard B Harrington, Salem leather-dealer (511:264). Mr
Hayward, a master mason, died on 25 Nov 1879, aged about
85 years. He left his wife Eliza (Glazier), daughters
�Eliza Ann (wife of Edward D Loring, who was the son of Joshua
Loring, coach-ms..ker, who built 55-57 Federal Street), Mary
Ellen Hayward, and son Charles Henry Hayward, all of Salem
(#42020).
Leonard Bond Harrington, leather manufacturer (1803-89), lived
here for more than 30 years. He died 6 Mar 1889. having outlived
his wife, Marg~ret G (Hearsay); a wealthy man, he left most
of his holdings to his daughter Mrs Mary E Goodhue, to his
grand-daughter, Mabel C Har~ington (daughter of his deceased
son Leonard), and to his son Henry Harrington (to whom he
left his Federal Street homestead), (#67478).
Henry Harrington (1832-98), like his father a leather-merchant,
died on 20 June 1898; the homestead, valued at $7500, was
devised to his wife Lydia Frye (Nichols) Harrin,~ton (82831 )'.
Mrs Harrington owned the premises up to the time of her death
on 30 Nov 1919; she willed 153 Federal Street to Eunice Alice,
wife of her brother Benjamin C Nichols (134881 ).
Mrs Nichola died on 27 May 1831; by her will of 29 Sept 1924
she left the estate to her daughter Marion Winchester Nichols,
the. present owner (#171078). ·
Robert Booth
6 March 1977
Notes: A parenthetical number such as (#123) refers to
Southern Essex County Probate Docket #123, on file at the
Registry of Probate. A number such as (123:456) refers to
deed bcok and page at the So. Essex County Registry of Deeds.
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153 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Aaron Hayward, master mason
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1842, 1977
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Robert Booth
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English
01970
153
1842
Aaron
Booth
Federal
Hayward
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
Street
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7 CAMBRIDGE STREET
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (508) 745-0799
167 FEDERAL STREET
Built by
EZRA WOODBURY, carpenter
in 1878
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Research by,
Joyce King
January 1989
�BOOK 6430 PAGE 214
DATE -
December 22, 1977
CONSIDERATION
$25,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joseph P. McKay of Beverly
Executor under the will of Ellen E.
Neville
GRANTEE (buyer)
William D. Little trustee
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Said premises were conveyed to John
Neville and Ellen E. by deed recorded
in book 4201 page 441.
BOOK 4201 PAGE 441
DATE -
September 2, 1955
CONSIDERATION
$4,200
GRANTOR (seller) -
Lillian E. Gay of Peabody executrix
GRANTEE (buyer)
John J. and Ellen E. Neville
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
Thomas F. Little to Charles F. Gordon
et ux by deed book 2663 page 186.
�167 FEDERAL STREET
BOOK 9678 PAGE 228
DATE -
August 31, 1988
CONSIDERATION
$145,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John
GRANTEE (buyer)
David J. and Elizabeth M. Parks
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
Northwest - Federal st. 20.30'
Northeast - Right of way 69.80'
southeast - Lot c by two courses
7.05' and 15.81'
Southwest - Saunders 77.75'
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same premises conveyed by deed of
William D. Little trustee as recorded
in book 6431 page 792.
w.
P. McHale
BOOK 6431 PAGE 792
DATE -
December 29, 1977
CONSIDERATION
$30,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
William D. Little trustee of Federal
Street Realty Trust
GRANTEE (buyer)
John
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
deed of Joseph P. McKay exc.
and
recorded in book 6430 page 214.
w.
P. McHale of Marblehead
�BOOK 2663 PAGE 186
DATE -
January 8, 1926
CONSIDERATION
None listed (nortgage $1,900)
GRANTOR (seller) -
Thomas F. Little of Salem
GRANTEE (buyer)
Charles F. and Mary A. Gordon
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
me by deed of oville L'Heureux on
Jan. 6, 1926.
BOOK 2663 PAGE 163
DATE -
January 6, 1926
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
oville A. L'Heureux of Salem
GRANTEE (buyer)
Thomas F. Little
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
me by Ezra L. Woodbury et al and
recorded in book 2641 page 145 & 146.
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�BOOK 2641 PAGE 145
DA'I'E -
May 16, 1925
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
The Heirs of Ezra Woodbury
GRANTEE (buyer)
Oville A. L'Heureux
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
Ezra Woodbury, deceased.
BOOK 996 PAGE 60 & 184
DATE -
May 1878
GRANTOR (seller) -
Samuel A. Macintire by foreclosure of
a mortgage given by Henry Tuttle
.;.
Clarissa F. Tuttle of Whittier, Ill.
GRANTEE (buyer)
Ezra Woodbury
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
Reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry of
Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court.
All maps
in this report are for illustrative purposes and are not meant
to be exact.
�167 FEDERAL STREET
Federal street was laid across private land about 1769. It was
called the new street in 1770; new street laid out near the
North river, 1779; a town way, 1782; and Federal street, 1794.
(Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 7, pg. 67)
As shown in the chain of title, this land was owned by Henry
Tuttle prior to Ezra Woodbury's purchase in May of 1878. Mr.
Tuttle lived at 165 Federal and had a small shop on the spot
where this house stands. Mr. Woodbury removed this shop and
obtained a building permit on August 5, 1878:
Ezra woobury - resident at 130 Bridge st. - to build at 167
Federal St. a wooden dwelling house 14' X 27' - two story with a pitched roof.
A summary of Ezra Woodbury's life was published in the Salem
Evening News, on May 4, 1899, at the time of his death:
"Ex Engineer Ezra Woodbury, news of whose critical illness was
announced in the first edition of today's News, died at his
residence, 168 Bridge street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. Woodbury was born in Salem in the house on the corner of
Northey street and Woodbury court, Feb. 10, 1821. He was the
son of Israel and Susan Woodbury. He attended the old Williams
street school, and, after completing his education, learned the
carpenter's trade. On attaining his majority, he went into
business as junior member of the firm of Perkins & Woodbury.
The partnership lasted several yars, and upon its dissolution
he carried on the business alone, continuing it up to a few
years ago. He was largely interested in real estate and the
care of the property has been sufficient of late to keep him
busy.
He was always interested in fire matters and when quite a
young man was captain of one of the old hand engine companies,
and on April 4, 1879, was elected a member of the board of
engineers, serving until April 7, 1878. At the time of the
great fire in Boston, in 1872, in response to a call for help,
he was sent to that city in command of a portion of the Salem
fire department.
He was a member of the common council in 1856 and 1857, and
he had always been an earnest and outspoken temperance worker.
Mr. Woodbury was twice married, his wives being sisters,
Elizabeth and Mary Knight, and daughters of the late William
Knight of Salem. Both are dead. He leaves three sons, Ezra
Woodbury, assistant clerk of courts of Essex county, George P.
Woodbury a contractor and builder and Albert K. Woodbury first
assistant engineer of the Salem fire department, and one
daughter, Miss Abbie K. Woodbury who has kept her father's home
for him since the death of his second wife."
�Ezra Woodbury's real estate holdings in 1896 were listed as:
House 166-168 Bridge, $3,500; house 164 Bridge, $2,300; land,
6900 ft., $1,200; carpenter shop 58 Bridge, $100; land under
and around, $100; barn foot Howard, $700; land under and
around, $700; house 8 Saunders, $1,500; house 3 Cross st. ct.
$1,200; land, 3842 ft., $500; house 15 Northey, $2,000; land
2730 ft., $400; house 5 Woodbury ct. $500; land 1760 ft., $200;
house 7 Woodbury ct., $600; land, 2800 ft., $300; house 9
Woodbury ct., $600; land, 1400 ft., $100; house 165 Federal,
$1,000; house 165 Federal rear, $2,000; shop 167 Federal, $300;
land 8400 ft., $2,500; house 10 Glendale, $1,500; land, 5000
ft., $500; house 103 Essex, $1,600; land, 3800 ft., $1,100;
house 19 Northey, $1,500; land 2720 ft., $400; house 27 Boston,
$2,200; land 3440 ft. $700.
A few occupants of 167 Federal St.
1880 census
Edward Rushford age 38, marbleworker
Isabell Rushford age 22, wife, dressmaker
1884 City Directory - James Stone apothecary
1886/7 City Directory - James Stone M.D. drugs
1900 census
Christopher Ballard age 35, born Canada, teamster
Anna Ballard, wife, age 42, born Canada
Edith Ballard, daughter, age 11, at school
Anna Ballard, daugher, age 10, at school
1901/2 City Directory - Mrs. Margaret Tobin variety store,
house same
1905 City Directory - Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ring variety store,
house same
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Joyce King
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01970
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1878
1989
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Federal
Joyce
King
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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172 Federal Street
Built circa 1849 for George Nichols, Tanner
History of the property:
172 Federal Street was built at the peak of the Greek Revival
era of American architecture in the 1840s by Salem tanner George
Nichols for his son Nathan. The elder Nichols built the house and
resided in it briefly before conveying it to Nathan Nichols, a
clerk, who owned and occupied the property for the next fifteen
years.
The western end of the present-day Federal Street, which was
laid out across private lands after 1769 and referred to as the
"new street" on or near the North River until its formal
designation as "Federal Street" in 1794, was owned primarily by the
Buffum family, who had purchased it from the original land grant
recipient Robert Moulton in the later seventeenth century. Both
the Moulton and Buffum families were Quakers, and they located
their meeting house on the nearby "main street", or Essex Street.
The Buffum family retained, their property on Federal Street
until well into the nineteenth century, when it was divided into
house lots and sold to several grantees, including Thomas Reynolds,
a Salem laborer who purchased the lot on which the present-day 172
Federal Street now stands from Peace Buffum, a spinster, in 1847. 1
Reynolds purchased a lot of land bounded southerly by Federal
Street, westerly by land of Miss Buffum extending to the high water
mark of the North River, northerly by the river, and easterly by
land of Daniel Haskell, "together with all the flats belonging to
said lot". Less than a year later, he conveyed this lot to George
Nichols, Jr.,-a Salem tanner, who erected 172 Federal Street. 2
George Nichols did not transfer the deed to 172 Federal Street
to his son in his lifetime, but Nathan Nichols and his wife
Elizabeth took up exclusive residence in 1850 according to the
Salem Directories.
After his father's death and his subsequent
inheritance of the property, the younger Nichols obtained a
mortgage with which he expanded the original house in the early
1860s. The enlarged house was conveyed to Roderick A. MacKenzie,
Essex country (South) Registry of Deeds, Book 386, leaf
293; August 30, 1847.
1
2
E.C.R.D. Book 392, leaf 242; January 26, 1848
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a Salem tailor, in 1865. 3 The MacKenzie family resided at 172
Federal Street for five years, after which they conveyed the
property to Daniel Haskell, who owned an adjacent house as well as
the Daniel c. Haskell & company, Tanners and Curriers, on Mason
street. Haskell immediately conveyed 172 Federal Street to one of
his employees, James Donaldson.'
The Donaldson family owned and occupied 172 Federal Street for
over twenty-five years, and their ownership is illustrated on both
the 1876 and 1897 Atlases of Salem (attached).
In 1906 James
Donaldson conveyed the property to the Wesley Methodist Episcopal
Church, and it became the rectory and residence of its pastor, the
Reverend Thomas W. Fessenden. 5
Six years later, the Church
transferred the house and land to the four Cuffe sisters of Salem,
who promptly took up residence. 6
Alice, Nellie, and Sarah Cuffe were single "career women"; the
former two were clerks and the latter was a factory forewoman.
Their elder sister Katharine Cuffe is listed simply as a "boarder"
in the Salem Directories. They apparently experienced difficulties
maintaining their household, as they obtained several mortgage
loans and took in a succession of boarders during their term of
ownership of the property (1912-1946). Of course, the Depression
coincided with several of these difficult years.
In 1946 the
surviving Cuffe sister, Sarah, conveyed the property to a nephew,
John L. Cuffe, and his wife Marion. 7 Though the Cuffes' property
was reduced by the construction of the Sylvania plant along "West"
Bridge Street, 172 Federal Street remained in the family for nearly
forty years through the inheritance of their daughter, Marion
Andrews.
The latter sold the property to its present owners,
Kenneth and Joyce Wallace, in 1984.
Transfers of title:
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Book 386, leaf 293
Grantor: Peace Buffum of Salem, Singlewoman
Grantee: Thomas Reynolds of Salem, Laborer
Consideration: $600
Conveyance of: "a lot of land in said Salem and bounded thus:
southerly on Federal Street thirty-six feet and six inches,
3
E.C.R.D. Book 694, leaves 252-253; December 6, 1865
4
E.C.R.D. Book 810, leaves 205-207; December 2, 1870
5
E.C.R.D. Book 1837, pages 196-197; August 7, 1906
6
E.C.R.D. Book 2144, pages 444-447; May 1, 1912
7
E.C.R.D. Book 3441, pages 473-474; February 13, 1946
�Westerly by land conveyed by me Peace Buffum to Daniel Haskell
one hundred and two feet and seven inches more or less to high
water mark of North River, Northerly on the line of the high
water mark thirty-six feet and six inches, Easterly by a line
running Southerly to said Federal Street parallel to the
Eastern line of said Haskell's land and thirty-six feet and
six inches from the same, together with all the flats
belonging to said lot."
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Date recorded: August 30, 1847
E.C.R.D. Book 392, leaf 242
Grantor: Thomas Reynolds of Salem, Laborer
Grantee: George Nichols, Jr. of Salem, Tanner
Consideration: $762
Conveyance of: the above lot
Date recorded: January 20, 1848
E.C.R.D. Book 694, leaf 252
Grantor: Nathan Nichols of Salem
Grantee: Roderick A. MacKenzie of Salem
Consideration: $5050
Conveyance of: the above lot, in addition to "the dwelling
house and other buildings now standing thereon."
Date recorded: December 6 ;· 1865
E.C.R.D. Book 810, ·leaves 205-207
Grantor: Daniel Haskell of Salem
Grantee: James Donaldson of Salem
Consideration: $6000
Conveyance of: "a lot of land situated in said Salem, bounded
Southerly on Federal Street thirty-six feet and six inches,
Westerly on land of said Haskell sixteen feet then Northerly
on land of said Haskell seventeen feet then Southerly on said
land four feet nine inches, then on a line coincident with the
western line of sixteen feet first described bounding westerly
on land of said Haskell sixty-nine feet seven inches more or
less to high water mark on North River: Northerly on the line
of said high water mark thirty-six feet six inches, Easterly
on a straight line running from the North River to Federal
Street and thirty-six feet six inches distant at each end from
the line of the land of said Haskell which is the western
boundary line of the above conveyed premises, together with
all the flats thereto belonging and extending into the North
River and the dwelling house and other buildings on said
conveyed premises. Being the same estate which was conveyed
this day to said Daniel Haskell by Roderick A. and Sarah A.
MacKenzie."
Date recorded: December 2, 1870
�E.C.R.D. Book 1837, pages 196-197
Grantor: James Donaldson of Salem
Grantee: the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, "a religious
society duly incorporated and having its home of worship in
said Salem"
Consideration: $1 and other considerations
Conveyance of: the above property, "with the exception of
the flats named in said deed which flats have since been
filled."
Date recorded: August 7, 1906
E.C.R.D. Book 2144, pages 445-446
Grantor: the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Salem
Grantee: Nellie M. Cuffe, Sarah A. Cuffe, Alice M. Cuffe, and
Katharine J. Cuffe, all of Salem
Consideration: $1 and other valuable considerations
Conveyance of: the above property
Date recorded: May 1, 1912
E.C.R.D. Book 3441, pages 473-474
Grantor: Sarah A. Cuffe of Salem
Grantee: John L. Cuffe and Marion L. Cuffe of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: the above property, "excepting therefrom and
reserving to myself a life tenancy in the said demised
premises during my natural life."
Date recorded: February 13, 1946
E.C.R.D. Book 7367, page 502
Grantor: Marion L. Andrews of Salem
Grantee: Kenneth s. Wallace of and Joyce E. Wallace of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 172 Federal Street
Date recorded: March 30, 1984
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172 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for George Nichols
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c. 1849, 1996
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Donna Vinson
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English
01970
172
1849
1996
Donna
Federal
George
Massachusetts
Nichols
Seger
Street
Vinson
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
OFFICE AT HAMILTON HALL
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (617) 745-0799
175 FEDERAL STREET
Built by·
JOSHUA CROSS, housewright
Circa 1790
Research by,
Joyce King
May 1988
"to preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and objects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true value of the same."
�175 FEDERAL STREET
BOOK 9455 PAGE 126
DATE -
April 1, 1988
CONSIDERA'fION
$235,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John M. and Sherlyn Anastasi
GRAHTEE (buyer)
Walter P. Dupuis
DESCRIP'fION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For title see deed recorded in book
8566 page 268
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�BOOK 8566 PAGE 268
DATE -
October 8, 1986
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
John M. Anastasi
GRANTEE (buyer)
John M. and Sherlyn Anastasi
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For my title see deed recorded in
book 7774 page 251.
BOOK 7774 PAGE 251
DATE -
May 31, 1985
CONSIDERATION
$140,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
William J. and Karen Whitworth
GRAN'l'EE (buyer)
John M. Anastasi
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For title of granter see deed of
John J. Crowley recorded in book
6512 page 514.
BOOK 6512 PAGE 514
DATE -
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August 21, 1978
CONSIDERATION
$33,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John J. and Helen
GRANTEE (buyer)
William J. and Karen Whitworth
of 182 Federal st.
DESCRIPTION
Land and building
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
us by deed of Patrick J. Crowley and
Mary E. Crowley on June 8, 1946 and
recorded in book 3463 page 229.
c.
Crowley
�BOOK 3463 PAGE 229
DATE -
June 8, 1946
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
Patrick J. and Mary E. Crowley
GRAWJ.'EE (buyer)
John J. and Helen
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
deed of Nellie R. Friend on Jan. 6,
1928 and recorded in book 2779 page
553.
c.
Crowley
BOOK 2779 PAGE 553
DATE -
January 6, 1928
CONSIDERATION
None listed (mortgage $5,500)
GRANTOR (seller) -
Nellie R. Friend widow
GRANTEE (buyer)
Patrick J. and Mary E. Crowley
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises which Mary B.
Osgood conveyed to William R. Austin
on May 11, 1880 and recorded in book
1039 page 125 and which he devised
to the granter by his last will.
BOOK 1039
P~GE
125
DATE -
May 11, 1880
CONSIDERATION
$3,500
GRANTOR (seller) -
Mary B. Osgood widow
GRANTEE (buyer)
William R. Austin
DESCRIPTION
Parcel of real estate on the south
side of Federal street
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate deeded to Mary B.
Osgood by Joseph Osgood guardian
on August 2, 1866 and recorded in
book 708 page 133.
�BOOK 708 PAGE 133
DA'l'E -
August 2, 1866
CONSIDERATION
$3,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joseph Osgood guardian of Ebenezer
Beckford an insane person
GRAN'l'EE (buyer )
Mary B. Osgood
DESCRIP'l'ION
Land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate which was purchased
by Nathaniel w. Osgood of Thomas
Moriarty on March 23, 1830 and
recorded in book 256 page 45.
BOOK 256 PAGE 45
DATE -
March 23, 1830
CONSIDERA'l'ION
$1,650
GRANTOR (seller) -
Thomas and Jenima G. Moriarty
GRANTEE (buyer)
Nathaniel
DESCRIPTION '
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate conveyed to William
Low by Michael Webb as recorded in
book 195 page 126 and by the
administrator of William Low to
Moriarty as recorded in book 233 page
53.
w.
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DATE -
April 29, 1823
CONSIDERATION
$323.44 exclusive of a mortgage and
the amount of the widow's dower
GRANTOR (seller) -
Benjamin R. Nichols administrator of
the estate of William Low
GRANTEE (buyer)
Thomas Moriarty, mariner
DESCRIPTION
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
bui !dings
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The same conveyed on January 2, 1812
subject to a mortgage of $359.84 and
the widow's dower.
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�BOOK 195 PAGE 126
DATE -
January 2, 1812
CONSIDERA'.l'ION
$1,400
GRANTOR (seller) -
Michael and Sally Webb
GRANTEE (buyer)
William Low, mariner
DESCRIPTION
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate (and no more)
conveyed by Samuel Peters as recorded
in book 192 page 144.
BOOK 192 PAGE 144
DATE -
December 26, 1810
CONSIDERATION
$1,100
GRANTOR (seller) -
Samuel and Hannah Peters
GRANTEE (buyer)
Michael Webb, merchant
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being part of the same land I
purchased of William Cleaveland as
recorded in book 168 page 87.
�BOOK 164 PAGE 275
DATE -
May 16, 1799
CONSIDERATION
$1,650
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joshua and Lydia cross
GRAN'rEE
(buyer)
William Cleaveland Jr., watchmaker
DESCRIPTION
Land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same piece of land I purchased
from Jonathan Buffum on June 13,
1783.
BOOK 137 PAGE 150
DATE -
June 13, 1783
CONSIDERATION -
60 pounds
GRANTOR
Jonathan and Sarah Buffum
(seller) -
GRANTEE (buyer) -
Joshua Cross, housewright
DESCRIPTION -
Spot of land on the south side of
the new street, so called, near the
town bridge.
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NOT~S:
Documentation shows that the house built by Joshua Cross was
of one story in height and had 15 windows. Since the structure
is now two stories plus and definitely Greek Revival (1825 1850) in style, it must be assumed that it was altered during
that time frame. There has been no documentation found to
indicate that a new structure was built on this land after
1825.
Since the house was sold to Nathaniel ~. Osgood, in
1830, he is the person n1ost likely responsible for the
transformation.
1790 Census (pg. 94)
Joshua Cross 1 male over the age of 16; 1 h1ale under 16; 6
females.
(The abutters listed, Nathaniel Fisher and Ephraim
Emerton, place Cross as living on the lot now 175 Federal by
this date)
1850 census (Ward 4 #645:974)
Nathaniel Osgood age 53; tanner; prop. val. ~4,200; b. Mass.
Mary b, Osgood age 50; b. Mass.
Joseph Osgood age 25; master mariner; b. Mas~.
Caroline Osgood age 22; b. Mass.
Mary B. Osgood age 18; b. Mass.
Lucy Osgood age 16; b. Nass.
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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175 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built by Joshua Cross, housewright
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Joyce King
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01970
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Joshua
Joyce
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Street
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Capt. John Felt House
1757
47
Federal St.
Sal"m, Maaa.
Historio
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John Pelt House
47 Federal St., Salem, Mass.
1757
*******************************************
Deeds to 47 Federal Street, Salem, now Robert .B. Bowman and Frank c. Hancock.
look 115176 Page 739
John F. O'Connell and.Barbara F. o•Connell, u:x, grant to
Richard P. Keville and Virginia, uxa
land with bldgs. thereon:
northerly by Federal St. 30 1
easterly by land now or i'mrly. of Pease - 66' more or less
eout.herly by land now or fmr~ of Chamberlain; and
wester~ by land now or formerly of Towne
Beini; eame premises conveyed to us by deed from
James Georges et ux. 11/3/1960 Book 4718, page .347.
Book
114 718
Page
34 7 James
Georges and Elizabeth P. to 0 •Connell, ll/3/1960
Book 4558 Paga 181
Bartholomew R. Brennen and Hannah M. to Georges, 5/1/JfJ59
Book 4556 Page 283
turiel A. St. Pierre to Brennen, April 28, 1959 (Straw 1ale)
Book
4556
Page 282
Bartholomew F. Brennen to St. Pierre, April 28, 1959
loo k 3054 Page 197
E. Barker (widew) and Jennie P. Arvedson {singlewoman)
to Bartholomew F. Brennen and Elizabeth G. oat. 24, 1935
$2800.00 Sale!ll Five 1"'ortgage {Elizabeth r.Jrennsn di"d ll/14/.57
•Being the same premises conveyed to our mother, Ellen L.
Arvedson in deed of E.c. Battis, dtd. 3/18/1880
(Book 1035, page 286) and deed of Andrew Jackson dtd
11/17/1862 (Book 644, page 81). See also probate #67994.
Book 10.35 Page 286
Ecbrud
c.
lo<* 1035
George
Arvid~on
Page 286
Book 732 Page 247
look
508
Page 104
Mary'
Battis to Arvedson, March
a,
1880
to .Battis, March 8, 1880
Andrew Jackson to George Arvidson, Sept. 28, 1867
(Andrew Jackson was mariner and aon
Nathaniel Jackson.) *
lnoo.oo mortgage.
or
Ellen L. Jackson to Andrew Jackson, Feb. 27, la.55
$1.hOO.OQ.;tale prioe. (Ellen Jackson was daughter of
Nathaniel Jaekson).
Premises described as being formerly
17 tbrlborough Street.
Book 508 Page 103
Book
355
Page 133
Andrew Jackson to Ellen L. Jackson, Feb. 23, 1855
(trader) and Catherine Symonds (widow)
both of Salem and Sarah H. Brown, grandchild of Sarah s.
and Edward B. ~own. minor children of Benjamin Brawn convey to
lathaniel Jackson {stone cutter) for ~895.00, property
at 17 Marlborough Streat, April 10, 1845~
Samu~l &-own Jr.
**
* descriptions
lot of land with the huilrlings thereon N. JO' on Federal St.
E. 6o• on estate now or former~ #'d 45J S. on the Est. ntM or
formerly of Bartlett; if~ or.. Est. now or formerly of David Perkins
Which estate my late father Nathaniel Jackson died siezed.
______________________
ff desoription:
,_
dwelling ho1.1se and land #17 Marlborough Stree\ bounded N. 30' on
�Ca~.
John Felt House
1757
47
Page 2
hderal St.• Salem, Ku••
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1aid Street, E. on Est o! 1115 about 66 teet;
land ot !avid Perkins as the fences stand."
s.
on Bartlett wtJ and •· on ·
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Edward Brawn was the son-in-law
Vital Reccrda Essex County:
or Capt.
Benjamin
John Felt.
Brown, eon of Edward Brown bp. 6/7/1795
E81ex Count7 Probate #9390 John Felt, et al minors a
merptaa
Edward Brown of Salem, in said County, Gentleman, authorized by the
Bon. the Justices of the Sp. Jud. Ct. held in Sal.em October 7, 1804 to sell and convey two undivided seventh parts of Real Estate belonging to
John Felt, Porter Felt, Deborah Felt, Sa.Uy Felt and Ephraim Felt, then minors
etc. etc.
having: sold their said interest in said Real Est. nvw on oath
accounts for the proceeds thereof as follmvs:
Tiz a by the gross sales or the said i/7ths parts ot all said
Real Estate sold at auction on Feb. 25, 1804
$1,51B.h4
The said Edward prays to be allowed the following ohargess
TizJ
For cash paid to 8Ulldry creditors ot the estate
ot John Felt, deo 1d. grandfather of said
minors - to which the real estate aforesaid
was 8Ubject
pa.id on account of said minor•
178.32
tor eash paid 2/7ths of eJitp. ot
obtainin:.; order of ·court,
coiweyancing, advising etc.
15.84
For services of said Brawn
57.14
Probate Fees
. For cash paid to the said John Fel•
11ho ia now living, since he became
ot
age
1.00
2SJ.2S
For cash paid to ~;moy Felt, the
Gdn. to the said Porter, Deborah
Sally and Ephraim Felt
•an
the petition or MJJ:ry Felt or Salem etc. widow of John Felt, late of Salem~ and
guardian to all his children; viz. John Felt, Porter Felt, Feborah .Felt. Sally Felt,
and Ephraim Felt, minors under the age of 21 yrs. - smtvdng that said minors are
•eized in fee of and in two undivided seventh parts or the .following real estate
1ituate in Salem afroesaid, and here described viz. (a dewll~ house and land by
Lynde,d. Street, ther,~, and aboundin~ southerly by '. . hat Street 55 1 , westerly by land
Benjamin King 100 •; north'2rly partly on land of Katharine Felt dee 'd, and partly
on land of Edward Brcwn, 59' and one half; and easterly by land of the widow Rand
100• with the appurtenances, etc. etc. 11
lditora
prop~y
Therefore to pay debts owed .from John Felt Eatate, the house (a.nd oth<=>r
named) eomea into hands of Edward Bl"c;wn, Capt. Felt•a son-in-law.
�Capt. John Felt House.
1757
47
page
Federal st;., Salem, Ma.as.
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Book
104 Pa.ge 81
Benjamin Lynde, ux Mary to Capt. John Felt tor $2 pounds
on February 2, 1757 conveys
House lot in Salem oontaining about 55 polea lying tront
on Izynde St. •o called bounded as followeth:
s.w. comer being the S.E. eomer of
John Holton' s lott and running along by said Holton fenc~
or line on a course North 16° 2$k JO•; East 254 • till it
comes to Owdell's or Cook Fish fence then turning and
running F,asterly 13° South 65' by said Fish Fence then
turning South and running on a course about South 19°
West along by Mr. Hunt and Mr. Orne •s land as the fences
now stand about 254 feet to said Lynde Street then turning
and running on said Street to the first menticned
bounds measurin~ in the front 55'.
Beginning at the
It is agreed that whereas Benjamin Lynde hath
~iven
in
2 feet to widen said street, Felt agrees to erect no
buildings or fence within 2 feet more of the st.reet.
i\U.l ccnsideration paid by
**
5/13/1757.
* **
Capt. John Felt, a ehoreman, or owner of vessels, trading coastw:iae, patriot
died ot eancer :in Danvers, r:ass. August 1785. Administrat'ion of' his .:..state
was granted to Capt. Richard Hanning, June 71 1786 - who gave bonds rlth John
.Felt and Edward Brown (son and son-in-law of Capt. John Felt) as su.::..~iea.
Ineluded in this tracing is a copy of a petition of Uar:r Felt, wid....-..r ot
.John Felt, and gdn. of all his children who are minors, an aocount. c~ sale of
real estate of Felt minors by order of court, and also aome interes-:..:..ng dcinga
ot thie moat interesting man which were recorded in the Felt Gene.a.l.:Q"•
men causing the
Jrr. Felt was patriot and leader of tht:i retreat at the :,iorth .Brici,,,,C"1! :,-- Col. Leslie.
Thia in.t'ormation is ;:;iven in great detail in this 5enealogy1 al.so ~'8Cific
mention of the tact that Capt. Felt purchased 5/10/1757, just preTi. ~ to hi•
second marriag~ a:mi house and lot on 1ynde Street in Salem and ~:;ment~ became
the owner of a large amount of land in the "!forth Fields".
These additicnal pa.pers mentioned above are given to the house
OW'!!:~ ..
We, therefore, state with no hesitation that the house was built i=. :_'""57.
�47 FEDERAL STREET Salem Directory Research
by Jeanne Stella P.O. Box 534 Salem MA 01970
1837 Directory
Hoffman, Charles, merchant, h 47 Federal
1842 Directory
Felt, Joseph, jr. farmer, 47 Federal
1846 Directory
Felt, Joseph, jr. farmer, h 47 Federal
1850 Directory
Felt Joseph, jr. house 47 Federal
1851 Directory
Felt Joseph, jr. house 47 Federal
1864 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1866 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1869 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1872 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1874 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, h 47 Federal
1876 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, h 47 Federal
1881 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1884 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
�1886 Directory
Arvedson George, salesman, 206 Essex, house 47 Federal
1890-91 Directory
Arvedson George, shoe dealer, h 47 Federal
Conant Annie R. Mrs. dressmaker, 47 Federal, h. do.
1893-94 Directory
Arvedson George, shoe dealer, h 47 Federal
1895-96 Directory
Arvedson George, h. 47 Federal
Abbott Mary, widow of George A. h. 47 Federal
1897-98 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1899-1900 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1905 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1906 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1908 Di rectory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1910 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1911 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1912 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1913 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1914 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1915 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
�1916 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1917 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1918 Directory
Barker, Mary E. wid. Benjamin, h. 47 Federal
1920 Directory
Wiggin J Edward {Jennie) elect h 47 Federal
1921 Directory
Wiggin J Edward {Jennie) electrician h. 47 Federal
1922 Directory
Taylor Elizabeth Mrs h 47 Federal
1924 Directory
Taylor Elizabeth Mrs h 47 Federal
1926 Directory
47-Vacant
1929 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1930 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) tea room 47 Federal h do
1933-34 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1935 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1936 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) slsmn h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room {Eliz Brennan) 47 Federal
1937 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) dept mgr Sears Roebuck & Co h 47 Federal
Nook The (Eliz Brennan) tea room 47 Federal
�1939 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) slsman h 47 Federal
Nook The {Eliz G Brennan) 47 Federal
1940 Salem Directory
Brennan, Bartholomew F (Eliz G) slsmn 47 Federal
NOTE: THE NOOK IS NO LONGER LISTED
1941 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) slsmn Parkers Farm Supply Store r 47 Federal
1942 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) mgr Parkers Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
1943 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew E {Eliz G) mgr Parker Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
Brennan Eliz M wid Bartholomew r 47 Federal
1944 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) mgr Parker Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
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House and Land at
55-57
Federal Street,
Salem, Mass.
This double house was built for Joshua Loring, Salem coachmaker, in.the year 1836.
The lot on which the house stands was first sold on 26 Oct 1815
by Isaac Cushing, Salem bookbinder, for $1000 to Joshua Loring,
Salem chaise-maker, "with all the buildings thereon ••• 11 (207:181 ).
Mr Cushing had, the day before (25 Oct 1815) purchased from the
estate of Hen,ry Rust, deceased Salem merchant, "a dwelling
house and all other buildings 11 together with a lot running
155' from Marlborough (now Federal) to Lynde Street, fronting
59 1 on each street (207:180). Mr Cushing had simply divided
this lot, and sold the Marlborough half to Mr Loring.
Henry Rust had purchased the street-to-street lot and house
on 7 Jan 1812 from Joseph Andrews of Salem for $2510 (195:192);
Mr Andrews had bought the premises at public auction I'.or
$2510 on 10 Dec 1811 (195:139); up to that time it had belonged
to Nathaniel Frothingham Esq, Salem coach-maker, who defaulted
on a debt and so lost the property. Mr Frothingham had
assembled the lot by two purchases from the Cook .family: one
in 1806 (179:168), when he bought an empty lot fronting 20'
on each street, and one in 1810 (192:130), when he bought
a dwelling house and land bounding 401 on each street.
It seems that Mr Cushing sold to Mr Loring the half of the lot
with Nathaniel Frothingham 1 s coach-mslring buildings on it, while
he (l'1r Cushing) retained the Lynde Street half with the house
thereon (probably t·he present yellow house on Lynde Street,
recently fixed over, in the rear of 35-37 Federal Street).
Mr Loring probably maintained his shop here up to 1829.
From 1815-29, he was annually assessed ;for.a:liduse & shop
valued at $500. The location of this house is not known to
me. In 1830 his assessment leaped to $1400, reflecting the
presence of a new hous~ that he had built on the Marlborough
(Federal) Street lot. Here he and his .family lived for the
next five years.
Joshua Loring was born in Hingham on 26 Mar 1782, the son of
Joshua Loring of that place. Joshua Jr was in the seventh
generation from his English immigrant ancestor, rhomas Loring.
He married Sarah vfoodbury Bray of Gloucester, the daughter of
Edward and Edith (Doane) Bray, about 1806. They had at least
eight children, onlY three of whom survived them. Most of
these children were still at home when Mr Loring built his
new house in 1830.
1
�Then, on 4 Sept 1835, Joshua Loring's house burnt to the ground!
(Details may be found in Essex Institute Historical Collections
vol. 39, P• 18; also the Salem Directory, 1904, chronology of
Salem events, under the year 1835). After this disaster, a
new house was begun on the site--this new dwelling being a
double house, the one that is presently standing. 'I'he new
house was built double to house Mr Loring's own family as well
as that of his daughter, Mrs Sarah Hunt.
By the time of the 1836 assessment, the #23 Marlborough Street
half was evidently finished, for the tax records show that
John D Hunt, Hr Loring 1 s son-in-law, was living there; at the
same time, Mr Loring was assessed 0!1lly $500 for "one-half an
unfinished house, No. 21 Marlboro." The double house was
probably finished before the year came to a close. Further
evidence for this conclusion is provided by the 1837 Salem
Directory (which was based on locations as of 1836); it lists
Joshua Loring as a coach-maker with a place of business at
2 Marlboro' St and a house at 21 Marlboro'; John D Hunt is
listed as a chaise-maker with a place of business at 14 Court
Street (now ,upper ;Federal -st.) and a house at 23 Marlboro 1 St.
In the year 1837, Mr Loring and Mr Hunt were taxed for their
respective halves of the double house, each valued at $1400.
In that same year, on 2 Mar 1837, Mr Loring for $2600 sold to
Mr Hunt 11 all the westerly half part of' the dwelling house and
the land on the southerly side of Marlboro' Street •.• being
No. 23 on said street ••• 11 (297:163). Mr Hunt immediately
mortgaged the property to Isaac Cushing ($1100), (297:164),
?-nd to his mother, Mary Hunt, for $1500 (297:164).
Joshua Loring, the original owner of the house, sold his half
for $1900 to Thomas Robbins, Salem chaise-maker, on 14 May 18L~2
(331 :160); the Robbins family lived there for quite a while.
On 28 July 1845 John D Hunt and his mother, widow Mary Hunt
(by right of her interest as mortgagee) sold #23 Marlboro
Street to George Wheatland of Salem (357:123). Mr Wheatland
owned the premises for five years, selling for $2000 to
William Hunt, Salem merchant, "the messuage on Marlborough
Street occupied by John D Hunt" on 18 June 1850 (430:232).
I am not sure what relation ~villiam Hunt bore to John D Hunt;
possibly he was his brother or father.
Meanwhile, in the other half of the house, Mr Robbins died
and his son Thomas A Robbins inherited the place; on 25 Oct
1867 he sold it for $950 to George W Pease of Salem (733:65).
Mr Pease liked his half so well that on 2 July 1869 he bought
the other half for $3500 from William Hunt ( 777~1'67). Mr Pease
thus secured title to the entire double house and land.
�Mr Pease immediately conveyed the house
& land for $3500 to
John S Williams of Salem (890:201 ); this transaction seems
to have been a mortgage, for on 9 Oct 1873, Mr Williams reconveyed the premises to Mr Pease (890:201 ).
Although it certainly appears that Mr Pease had bought up
all rights to 55-57 Federal Street, on 9 Oct 1880 we find
him buying the western half-house (#57), formerly that of
John D Hunt, from a group composed, apparently, of the
living heirs of Joshua Loring (Edward D Loring of Salem,
and John D, John L, Carrie L, & Sarah M Hunt, all of San
Francicco); Mr Pease paid them $2800 for the property, but
I do not understand on what right they based their claim
to the premises (1309:161 ).
·
After the death of Mr Pease, three of his four children
(Mrs Margaret H Fielder, Mrs Helen L Pousland, Mrs Caroline
L Brown) on 6 May 1891 released their rights to their father's
double house to the fourth Pease heir, Mrs Sarah F Pratt of
Salem (1308:485). Mrs Pratt owned the property for many
years; after her death the adminstrator of her estate
(the Naumkeag Trust Co.) on 8 Feb 1930 sold the double
house for $8000 to Mrs Teresa N Johnston of Salem (2836:224).
Mrs Johnston soon (26 June 1930) sold the place to Florence
Boardman Porter of Beverly (2849:224).
Florence B Porter owned the premises about twelve years,
selling on 26 May 1942 to Katharine M Lawless of Waltham
(3295:56). After the death of Katherine M Lawless, on
· 31 Oct 1962 the executor of her will, Philip J Durkin
of Salem, sold the property for $20,000 to Alice B Rogers
of Salem, who continues to own 55-57 Federal Street (%006:285).
Robert Booth
26 Jan 1977
�LORING Family of
55-57
Federal Street
Joshua Loring (1782-1866), Salem coach and chaise maker,
was born in Hingham, Mass., on 26 Mar 1782, son of Joshua
Loring of that place. He married Sarah Woodbury Bray of
Gloucester about 1806; she was the daughter of Edward and
Edith (Doane) Bray; born in 1783, she died 5 Nov 1866, just
after the decease of her husband 21 June 1866. This longlived couple was survived by only two of their children.
Known offspring:
1) Henry Stevens, b 1807, bp 7 Nov 1824, d. at Wenham
29 Dec 1851.
2) S~rB.h. Curtis, b abt 1810, bp 7 Nov 1824, m 8 May 1834
John D Hunt, Salem coach-maker.
3) Joshua, b 22 May 1815, d young
4 )) Lydia Ann, b 1815, bp 7 Nov 1824, d 5 Sept 1880.
5 Mary Toppan, b 1816, d young
6) George Bailey, b 1 81 7, bp ·7,;-Nov 1824; d at sea.
7) Edward Doane, b 9 Feb 1819, m 3 Jan 1850, Salem,
Eliza A Hayward; they had at least
one child, George E, b 1 Aug 1858;
Mr Loring died 21 Ap 1890.
8) Caroline, b 1 Mar 1822, d young (?).
Some of the above information comes from the Loring
Genealogy by Charles H Pope, assisted by K.P. Loring;
Cambridge, Murray & Emery, 1917.
Note: Joshua Loring was a charter member of the Salem
Chari table Mechanics Association, 1817.
HUNT Family of 57 Federal Street
John D Hunt, Salem coach-maker, married Sarah Curtis Lo~ing
(b. abt 1810)~ daughter of Joshua and Sarah W (Bray) Loring
of Salem, on tl May 1834. Known offspring:
1) John Lewis, bp 12 July 1835, m. Martha B. _ __
2) Sarah Mosley, bp 7 Ap 1839
3) Carrie L, bp 21 Aug 1842
4) William, b May 1844, d young (?).
In 1880, Mr Hunt (his wife Sarah was evidently deceased)
and his three children were living in San Francisco, Cal.
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60 Federal Street:
built
ca. 1818
for
David Crowell
cordwainer
Researched by: John V. Goff
post office box 86SS, Salem, MA 01971
March 7, 1991
�60 Federa1 Street:
bui1tca. 1818
for
David Crowe11. cordwainer
1. Site: Odell Hill
60 Federal Street, the present Rifkin Law Office, is located on the north side
of Federal Street near the east side of North Street (also known as Route
114). Historically, this area of Salem was known as Odell Hill, apparently
named for the family of James Odell, who owned land north of 60 Federal
Street in the early 19th century [ref: 1826 deed 238:85, also early maps
e.g. 1780, and 1851 maps of Salem]. "Odell Square" was the name given to
a private street which traversed Odell Hill north and east of 60 Federal
Street; portions of its course were located on the 1851 map of Salem.
Eventually, Odell Square was discontinued as a route, and its land was
adapted as common property [ref: 20th c. maps, and 1908 deed 1973:291.)
2. Marlborough Street
The portion of Federal Street east of North Street was originally laid out as
a "lane" separate from Federal Street in the late 18th century. By circa
1780, the path of this road had been drawn on paper, but the lane
supported no buildings, and was apparently newly established [reference:
1780 map of Salem]. By the early 19th century, the street was called
"Marlborough" (or Marlboro) Street. It continued to be known as
Marlborough Street until circa 1855, when it was conceived to be an
extension of the existing Federal Street west of North Street. In or about
1855, Marlborough Street was renamed, and aH of its buildings were given
new Federal Street addresses. The building now known as 60 Federal
Street was known as 28 Marlborough Street before 1855. [ref. 1853. 1855
Salem City Directories].
3. The Architecture of 60 Federal Street (28 Marlborough Street)
60 Federal Street is an early 19th century two-story Federal Style wood
frame building which is oriented along a north-south axis running
perpendicular to Federal Street. Federal Street runs adjacent to the
structure on the building's south side, and the structure is oriented with its
narrow end facing the street. Close inspection of this facade reveals that
originally the building was built with a narrower end; the portion to the
right of the porch is of the earliest period. In the mid-to-late 19th century,
the building was extended and altered on the west side (the old front of
the house) to create a wider building with a porch and larger floor plan. 60
Federal Street assumed its present size and shape betwen 18 51
�and 187 4 [l'~f; 1851, 18 74 Sal~m maps]. The brick foundation which runs
under the whole structure, and the major re-design of the house are
believed to have been created for Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, a
prominent Salem printer who occupied the building for nearly the entire
second half of the 19th century (ca. 1859-ca. 1895). [research cited below]
4. Earliest documented owner: David Crowell. cordwainer
David Crowell, cordwainer, is the earliest documented owner of the house
at 60 Federal Street. He is believed to have been the person who originally
financed its construction circa 1818. David Crowell was a cordwainer--one
who worked "cordwain" or Cordovan leather--probably as a shoemaker.
(Deeds 238:218 and 238:219; 1963 Funk & Wagnalls Standard College
Dictionary definition of "cordwain" and "cordwainer", p. 300 ).
In the first decade of the 19th century, David Crowell purchased separate
lands from Emery Moulton and fellow cordwainer William Pool on
"Buffum's Street" in North Salem. [ 1806 deed 180:251; 181 O deed 188: 179].
Buffum Street is located one block west of North Street on the north bank
of the North River. To its west is Barr Street, perhaps named for Salem
trader John Barr. [map of North Salem, Bryant Tolles Architecture in Salem,
1983, p. 254].
John Barr originally owned the land upon which 60 Federal Street was
built. In 1818, John Barr leased 30 feet of frontage on the north side of
Marlborough Street to David Crowell.IDeed 238:218]. Crowell sold the lease
and the [new! building upon it to Hiram Pond five years later, in 1825. The
deeds suggest that 60 Federal Street was first built or put upon its present
site by David Crowell between the years of 1818 and 1825.
In deed 250:77, Ebenezer Perkins (a later owner of the house) described
"the two story wooden building ... partly on land of Barr ... being the same
building lately owned by Crowell and by him sold to Sanborn and by
Sanborn to said Perkins" [deed 250:77]. Crowell's name as a the earliest
documented owner and occupant is also made evident in deeds 238:219
( 1825) and 240:218 (1826 ). The logic of Crowell building a house shortly
after he aquired a site for it, the language of these early deeds, and the
architectural style of the present building on the site all suggest a circa
1818 construction date for David Crowe H's house at 60 Federal Street.
The modest size (one-room deep, two stories tall) of 60 Federal Street as
first built and the fact that Crowell only owned the building but not the
land beneath it-- suggest that David Crowell was not a wealthy man, and
that the cordwainer's lot was not especially lucrative. In the 1830s, a
�cooper's shop once stood near 60 Federal Street, and in the 1850s, a cigar
manufactory was located one building to the west [deed277: 129, 1851
Salem map]; it appears that this neighborhood on the west end of
Marlborough Street was first developed as an active, tradesman's
neighborhood in the early 19th century.
5. Hiram Pond. Salem trader
In 1825, Hiram Pond purchased David CroweH's lease of John Barr's land,
and also purchased from David CroweU "a certain dwelling house scituate
on Marlborough Street...being the same in which I now live." [Deed
238:219 ]. In its earliest history, the building at 60 Federal Street was
owned separately from the parcels of land which lay beneath it, severely
compJicating its recorded history.[Deeds 238:219, 250:77, etc.] Joseph P.
Pond and his wife released their interest in the property to William M.
Arrington in 1847; Joseph P. Pond is assumed to have aquired his title from
the earlier Hiram Pond [Deed 390:26].
6. Ebenezer Perkins. housewright
Between 1826 and 1828, 60 Federal Street was owned by Ebenezer Perkins
and his wife Betsey. Perkins was a Salem housewright, who removed to
Albany, New York in 1828. Perkins described Crowell's building as being
"partly on above land and partly on land of Barr" and noted that CroweU
sold the building to one Mr. Sanborn, and Sanborn sold it to Perkins. [Deed
250:77]. Unfortunately, Sanborn's ownership can not be further
substantiated. According to cooper Daniel Story, Crowell sold directly to
Perkins in 1826 !Deed 240:218, also cited by Perkins). Perkins sold the land
and the house to Temple Hardy in 1828.[Deed 250:77].
7. Temple Hardy. baker
Between 1828 and 1833, 60 Federal Street was owned and occupied by
Mr. & Mrs. Temple and Sally Hardy. Hardy was a Salem baker, and
described the "two story dwelling house theron" which he purchased from
Ebenezer Perkins and the Barr estate [Deed 277: 128). In 1833, the Hardys
sold this property to William M. Arrington.
8. WiHiam M. Arrington. painter
William M. Arrington and his wife Lydia Arrington aquired 60 Federal
Street from Temple Hardy in 1833, and owned the property until 1838.
Under the Arringtons' ownership, apothecary John S. Harrison lived at 60
Federal Street in 1835-1836 [Salem Directory, 1836--lists Harrison at 28
Marlborough. 28 Marlborough was renamed 60 Federal Street under
�He was in business in Boston, on Church Street, for 9 years, and
then returned to Salem and established himself in the same
business in the Conrad Block. He remained there for 28 years, then
transferred his business to the Price Block, 15 years later removed
to the Kinsman Block, and about two years ago moved to his
present quarters 225 Washington Street. He at one time edited a
paper in Marblehead ...
He married Miss Mary E[llen] Skinner, a sister of Assistant Marshal
Skinner, January 1, 1844, and four children were
born to the couple, only one of whom Edward C. Hutchinson,
associated with his father in business, survives. The funeral will
take place from 60 Federal Street Wednesday. Essex Lodge of
Masons will attend. See notice" [Salem Gazette July 16,
1895, page l l
[NOTE: I wonder if T.J. Hutchinson's wife Mary E. Skinner might also have
been related to the "Richard Skinner and Son" who had a cigar manufactory
and residence one house west of 60 Federal Street in the 1850s--see 1851
Mcintyre Map of Salem, also Salem City Directory listings after 1855.1
According to the Salem City Directories, T.J. Hutchinson was a "job printer"
at 175-112 Essex Street before ca. 1859; and was established at 183 Essex
Street from circa 1859 through 1874. It seems logical to conclude that the
earliest was the address of the Conrad Block, and the latter was the address
of the Price Block. These buildings survive on Essex Street opposite the East
India Mall/ Museum Place complex. According to Salem architectural
historian Bryant Tolles, the Kinsman Block was built in 1882 at 81
Washington Street, and is the magnificent four story ornamented brick
building immediately north of City Hall. [Tolles, Architecture in Salem,
1983, pp.108-109.]
Further information on Hutchinson's printing career was recently supplied
by C. Deirdre Phelps in her essay on "Printing, Publishing, and Bookselling
in Salem, Massachusetts, 1825-1900" published in the Essex Institute
Historical Collections edition of October, 1988. It appears that the original
account books for the Salem Register survive at the Essex Institute, and
from these account books it is evident that Hutchinson apprenticed at the
Register from 1836 through 1839. [EIHC op. cit, p. 277). By 1849,
Hutchinson was established as a printer on his own, and he exhibited some
of his works at the Mechanic's Fair of 1849 in Salem. The Report of the
First Exhibition of the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association ( 1849) noted
that:
"A Card Printing Press ... designated the "Star" Press ... was worked by
T.j. Hutchinson, who also exhibited some commendable specimens
�of his own work, some of which, in different colored bronzes, were
printed with a superior sizing, manufactured by Mr. Hutchinson."
(EIHC op. cit, p. 241]
In 1853, Hutchinson advertised "Bronze printing and printing in colors" in
the Salem City Directory. Before 1860, he also printed a broadside which
survives at the Essex Institute which advertised "Plain and ornamental job
printing." [EIHC op. cit, p.277) T. J. Hutchinson printed most of the Essex
Lodge of Freemasons' by-laws and notices during the second half of the
nineteenth century, and a portrait of T.J. Hutchinson may have been
published in Harold Pierce Hadley's 200 Years of Masonry in Essex Lodge
1779-1979 printed in Danvers in 1979. [EIHC op. cit, p. 240.l Hutchinson's
career with the Masons was also documented in the mid-19th century by
William Leavitt, who published biographical information on Hutchinson in
Volume 3, page 267 of the Essex Institute Historical Collections.
Thomas and Mary Hutchinson's son Edward C. Hutchinson began his
printing career working in his father's office. In 1871, "Eddie C. Hutchinson
12 years of Age" printed a four-page newsheet called The Young Fireman.
no. 1., which opened with a poem about news editing. In 1873, young
"Edward C. Hutchinson" printed a periodical called the City Mirror. From
1878-1885, Edward worked as a "printer" at his father's; from 1886-1887
he was a "foreman", and from 1888-1896 he was a "partner" in T.J.
Hutchinson and Son's Salem printing office. [EIHC op. cit, p. 277)
12. John and Kate McMorriH
Thomas J. Hutchinson's wife Mary Ellen Hutchinson purchased additional
lands for the Hutchinson homestead in 1880 from Wi11iam H. Gove (Deed
1042:209 ]; two years after her husband's death, she sold the 60 Federal
Street property to John McMorriH, whose wife was named Kate McMorrill.
[Deed 1502: 193.] The McMorrills owned the property briefly in 1897, and
sold Hin May, 1897 to Clara P. Wardwell. (Deed 1512:293.l
13. Clara P. Wardwell. single woman
Clara P. Wardwell in 1896 purchased the property immediately east of 60
Federal Street (between the Hutchinson's and the Baptist Church)--see
Deeds 1475:330-331. In May, 1897, she bought 60 Federal Street from the
McMorrills, expanding her holdings on Federal Street [Deed 1512: 293.) In
1908, Clara P. Wardwell bought an additional 67 · x 6' piece of property
on the north from Elizabeth Odell which formerly was set off as "Odell
Square," a private way. (Deed 1973:291.) In 1925, Miss Wardwell sold 60
Federal Street with the former Odell strip on the north to Nellie M. Fay
!Deed 2663: 440.)
�Sleeper's ownership] In 1838, the Arringtons sold the property to Maria M.
Sleeper. [Deed 390:261.
9. Maria M. Sleeper. widow
Maria M. Sleeper, widow, purchased 60 Federal Street in 1838, and resided
here through 1854, according to deeds 390:26, 499:207, and Salem City
Directories. Under Sleeper's ownership, the property was renumbered from
28 Marlborough Street to 60 Federal Street circa 1854. I 1853 and 1855
Salem directories, also deed 499:207).
10. Michael W. Shepard. merchant
In August 1854, Maria M. Sleeper conveyed the 60 Federal Street property
to Salem merchant Michael Shepard, according to deed 499:207. However,
Michael Shepard died shortly therafter, and in 1854, the executors of the
Shepard estate, (Thomas P. Shepard, Michael W. Shepard and Henry F.
Shepard) sold the property to Salem printer T. J. Hutchinson. [deed
572: 130). Hutchinson's full name was Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, and he
was an important Salem citizen in the mid-to-late 19th century.
11. Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson. printer
Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson resided at 60 Federal Street from 1854 until
his death in January, 1895--a period over forty years long! [Deed 572: 130;
also obituary Salem Gazette July 16, 1895 p.1 ]. Of equal significance,
Hutchinson was a prominent Salem citizen--a printer when Salem was a
vital center of the printing and publishing trade--and he left definite
marks on the architecture of 60 Federal Street (the brick foundation, and
west side porch and additions are late 19th century in style and were
apparently added during the Hutchinson family's residence.)
Hutchinson's life is of interest to any student of Salem history, and can be
reconstructed in part from his obituary which was printed in 1895. The
Salem Gazette reported:
USEFUL CAREER FINISHED.
UNEXPECTED DEATH OF THOMAS J. HUTCHINSON.
For more than 50 years he engaged in printing.
Prominent in Masonic and other organizations.
Thomas]. Hutchinson, died at his residence, 60 Federal Street,
yesterday noon. He was born in Salem February 18, 1822, and
during his whole life, after leaving school, engaged in the printing
business, either in Salem or Boston. He learned his trade in the
Salem Register office.
�During Clara P. Wardwell's ownership of 60 Federal Street, others lived
here including Frank Austin, painter ca. 1899) Flora Alden, a dressmaker
ca. 1911 and J. G. Woodbury, a clerk ca. 1920. (Salem City Directories].
14. The Fay Family
Nellie M. Fay resided in Hingham before she purchased 60 Federal Street
from Miss Clara P. Wardwell in 1925. [Deed 2663: 440.] After Nellie M. Fay
died, 60 Federal Street was transferred to two of her heirs Martin F. Fay,
and Mary E. Deviney of Dover, Massachusetts. (Probate Docket 254,193].
Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney owned the property until 1975. [Deed
6123:193.I
During the Fay ownership of 60 Federal Street, others also resided here,
including clerks Lillian B. Harding and Marian Taylor ca. 1930, and Robert
j. Kobierski and Mrs. Mary E. Turner ca. 1960. (Salem City Directories]
1S. Edward and Phyllis M. Mello
In 1975, Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney sold 60 Federal Street to
Edward Mello and Phyllis M. Mello [Deed 6123: 193). The Mellos sold the
property in 1976 to David and Dori Rifkin [Deed 6250: 696].
16. The Rifkins
David Rifkin and Dori Rifkin, "Trustees of Reuben Realty Trust" purchased
60 Federal Street from the Mellos in 1976. [Deed 6250:696). They currently
own the property as of March, 1991, and maintain the "Rifkin Law Office"
here. [Historic Salem house research and plaque application form dated
January 10, 1991; also field inspection of property, 1991.] The Rifkins are
the latest owners of the building which served as the house for printer
Thomas j. Hutchinson and his family for much of the 19th century, and
which is believed to have been built for cordwainer David Crowell circa
1818.[research cited above; see also deed transcriptions, attached.]
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Book:238
Page:218
Grantor: john Barr
Grantee: David Crowell ...cordwainer
Price: $20 per year (ten year lease)
Description: land ...
[property bounded southerly 30 feet on Marlborough Street and Mrs.
Cook's land; westerly by land of Barr; northerly by land of Scates;
easterly by land of Lemuel Briggs]
Source: None cited
Date: January 28, 1818
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Book:238
Page:219
Grantor: David Crowell, cordwainer
Grantee: Hiram Pond, trader
Price: $248 [transfers remainder of his ten year lease from john Barr]
Description:
" a certain dwelling house scituate on Marlborough Street...being
the same in which I now live."
Source: None cited
Date: August 31, 1825
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:2SO
Page:77
Grantor: Ebenezer Perkins of Salem .. .lately but now of Albany NY ...
housewright...
Grantee: Temple Hardy, baker
Price: $625
Description:
[piece of land with 60 feet frontage on Marlborough Street,
bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by Story's
land; northerly by Barr; easterly by Briggs land]
"with the whole of the two story wooden building thereon
including the chimney cellar stones ... partly on above land and
partly on land of Barr ... being the same building lately owned by
Crowell and by him sold to Sanborn and by Sanborn to said
Perkins"
Source: (land from Daniel Story, Book 240, Page 218)
Date:
September 30, 1828
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Boole 272
Page: 123
Grantor: Henry Barr, mariner; Jonathan Holman, merchant & Sarah ...wife;
Wifliam W. Palfray, Gentleman & Mary ...wife;
Grantee: Temple Hardy ... baker
Price:
$300
Description:
[piece of land with 31 feet frontage on Marlborough Street,
bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by Hardy,
Barr, and others; northerly by Joseph Scates Heirs; easterly by
Lemuel Briggs land)
Source: None cited.
Date:
July 10, 1833
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Boo.k:277
Page: 128
Grantor: Temple Hardy ... baker
Grantee: William M. Arrington, painter
Price:
$82S
Description:
(piece of land with 54 foot-3 inch feet frontage on Marlborough
Street, bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by
Daniel Story, and John Barr Heirs; northerly by Joseph Scates;
easterly by Lemuel Briggs]
"with a two story dwelling house thereon"
Source: Cites Barr, and Ebenezer Perkins.
Date:
August 12, 1833
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:390
Page:26
Grantor: William M. Arrington, painter
Grantee: Maria M. Sleeper, widow
Price:
$1300
Description:
(land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on Marlborough
Street, bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by
William M. Arrington, Barr Estate, and James P. Pond; northerly
by land of Odell; easterly by land of Briggs)
"with buildings"
Source: None cited.
Date:
November 13, 1847
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:499
Page:207
Grantor: Maria M. Sleeper, widow
Grantee: Michael Shepard of Salem, merchant
Price:
$1300
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street (late
Marlboro)", bounded southerly by "Federal Street (late Marlboro);
northerly by Odell; easterly by Odell]
"with privileges and appurtenances"
Source: Cites William M. Arrington, Book 390, Page 26; also john Dodge
Book 390, Page 27.
Date:
August 14, 1854
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book.:572
Page: 130
Grantor: Thomas P. Shepard of Providence ... Michael W. Shepard and
Henry F. Shepard of Salem ... e1ecutors of estate of Michael
Shepard, deceased
Grantee: Thomas j. Hutchinson, Salem, printer
Price:
$1300
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; northerly by Odell;
easterly by Odell]
"land with dwelling house"
Source: Cites Maria Sleeper to Michael Shepard, Book 499, Page 207.
Date:
junel4,1858
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1042
Page:209
Grantor:William H. Gove
Grantee: Mary Ellen Hutchinson, wife of Thomas j. Hutchinson
Price:
$2500
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs]
"with all the priviledges and appurtenances ... "
Source: None Cited.
Date:
August 10, 1880
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1S02
Page: 193
Grantor: Mary Ellen Hutchinson
Grantee: john McMorrill
Price:
$1
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs]
"with buildings"
Source: Cites William H. Gove, Book 1042, Page 209.
Date:
January 21, 1897
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1512
Page:293
Grantor: john McMorrill
Grantee: Clara P. Wardwell
Price:
$1
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs}
"with buildings"
Source: Cites Mary E. Hutchinson, Book 1502, Page 193.
Date:
May 14, 1897
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ABSTRACT
OF
DEED
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book: 2663
Page: 440
Grantor: Clara P. Wardwell, unmarried ...
Grantee: Nellie M. Fay of Hingham ...
Price: (None Listed)
Description:
Iland with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell; northerly by land now or formerly Odell; easterly by land of
Irishj
Source: Cites John McMorrill, Book 1S12 Page 29 3; also Elizabeth Odell
Book 1973, Page 291 (Odell for strip on north side formerly Odell
Square]
Date:
December l, 1925
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ABSTRACT OF DEED
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book.: 6123
Page: 193
Grantor: Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney of
Dover ... Massachusetts ... devisees under will of Nellie M. Fay
Grantee: Edward Mello and Phyllis M. Mello ...
Price: $30,000
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell 66'-9"; northerly by land now or formerly Odell 28'-6";
easterly by land now or formerly of Irish 58.14 feet)
"with buildings ... "
"subject to restriction in deed to Clara P. Wardwell Book 1973, Page
291;
"subject to .. easements ... deed to Alphonso D. Irish & wife ... Book 2588,
Page 591 ...
Source: Cites Nellie M. Fay probate docket
Date:
January 14, 1975
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254, l 93.
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ABSTRACT
OF
DEED
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Book: 6250
Page: 696
Grantor: Edward Mello and PhylJis M. MelJo, Trustees of Federal Street
Trust...of Peabody ...
Grantee: David Rifkin and Dori Rifkin, Trustees of Reuben Realty Trust...of
Ipswich ...
Price: $35,000
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell 66 '-9"; northerly by land now or formerly Odell 28 '-6";
easterly by land now or formerly of Irish 58.14 feet]
"with buildings ... "
"subject to restriction in deed to Clara P. Wardwell Book 1973, Page
291;
"subject to ..easements ... deed to Alphonso D. Irish & wife ... Book 2588,
Page 591...
Source: Cites Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney, Book 6123, Page 123 ..
Date:
June 16, 1976
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ca. 1818, 1991
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OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
63 Federal Street
Built for
NATHANIEL R. TREADWELL, leather manufacturer
in 1875
Research by,
Joyce King
Sept. 1982
"to preseroe Historic Sites, Buildings and obiects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true t>alue of the same."
�63 Federal Street
On July 15, 1874 William R. Weeks sold a lot of land on the
south side of Federal St., for the sum of $3,100, to Nathaniel
R. Treadwell (of 18 Barr St.)
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(book 909 page 70)
Tax records:
63 Federal St.
1875 - land 3,030 ft.
owner Nathaniel R. Treadwell val. $1,200
On June 7, 1875 Nathaniel R. Treadwell was issued a buildiDg permit
to build a dwelling house 38.8' X 39', two story with a "french
roof". (Essex Institute - Salem building permits)
1876 tax:
63 Federal St.
Nathaniel Treadwell
house $9 ,ooo; land $1,200
$20,000
Valuation- stock in trade
machinery manufacturing
3,000
horses
400
carriages
400
house 18 Barr
3,000
1,200
land
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tannery and buildings
Franklin St. 11
land Laboratory St.
land Orchard St.
$8,000; land $3,000
11
6,ooo
5,000
500
1,200
Directory listing:
1875- Nathaniel R. Treadwell, tanner & currier
11 & 13 Franklin St. (& 82 High St., Boston)
house 63 Federal St.
1879 May 29 - Nathaniel Treadwell purchased the adjoining property
fronting on Lynde St.:
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(book 1019 page 154-156)
�Nathaniel Treadwell died of spine disease on March 1, 1888.
This obituary notice appeared in the local papers:
"Mr. Nathaniel R. Treadwell, one of the leading leather manufacturers in Salem, died Thursday night, after a lingering illness of several months, in the 62nd year of his age. Mr. Treadwell
was a North Salem boy. He learned the tanning and currying business of the late Alvan A. Evans, though he worked for a time with
L. B. Harrington, Mr. Treadwell began business for himself in a
small way before the war, and when the struggle came he amassed
wealth rapidly. He was especially successful as a manufacturer
of heavy wax leather, and built and operated one of the largest
tanneries and leather factories in N~w England. Twice he suffered
heavily by fire, his buildings being swept away, but each time
he rallied with great energy and pluck and rebuilt better than
before. Mr. Treadwell was $Sociated with the late John Culliton,
in the firm of Culliton, Treadwell & Co. who conducted a successful
hide and leather business on High St. in Boston before the great
fire and was subsequently the senior partner of the firm of
Treadwell, Dugan & Osgood in the same business at 68 High street
for several years after the fire. He was a member of the Salem
Common Council in 1866, 1 67 and 1 68 and was formerly a Director of
the Asiatic National Bank. Mr. Treadwell's estate is estimated
in the vicinity of $500·,ooo. He was a veteran member of the Salem
Light Infantry. A widow and three children survive him."
The heirs of Nathaniel Treadwell remained in the house until
1897 when they rented to Henry G. Rice. Mrs. Lucy Treadwell was
listed as living at 30 Lynde St.
1898 May 20 - Mrs. Lucy E. Treadwell died. Her obituary read:
"Mrs. Lucy Emily, widow of Nathaniel R. Treadwell died yesterday, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence s. Clark,
376 Essex st. She was born in Salem, April 24, 1830land was
the daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Blake) Redding.
Death was caused by a appendicitis. She leaves three children,
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Mrs. Clarence s. Clark, Frank R. and Harry D. Treadwell. Her
husband was an extensive morocco manufacturer for many years on
Franklin street, and the business which he established is still
conducted by his children under the firm name of Treadwell Bro.
& Clark."
The estate was divided on Nov. 19, 1900. The house and iand at
63 Federal St. along with a parcel of land on Foster St. became
the property of Annie F. Clark, wife of Clarence s. Clark and
Harry D. Treadwell:
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1900 tax record:
63 Federal Street
Owner - Heirs of N.R. Treadwell, house $7,000, land $1,300
Occupant - Luther G. Straw, shoemanufacturer
On Feb. 3, 1909 the land and building at 63 Federal St. was
sold to Jennie M. Straw, wife of Luther G. (book 1952 page 511)
�The 1910 tax record reflects the change in ownership:
63 Federal Street
Owner - Jennie M. Straw, house $7,000, land $1,600
Occupant - Luther Straw age 46 owner of Luther G. Straw Co.
located at 47 Canal St.
In 1912 Luther G. Straw was listed as the President of Marston &
Brooks Co. (Hallowell, Maine). The Straw family remained at 63
Federal St. until 1916 when they moved to Maine.
In 1917 the house was leased to Walter
232 Essex St.
s.
Sikes
a clerk at
On June 10, 1918 Luther and Jennie M. Straw sold the land and
dwelling house at 63 Federal St. to Margaret A. Tivnan. "Being
the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Clarence s. Clark
and Annie F. Clark date February 4th 1909." (book 2392 page 334)
Margaret Tivnan was the wife of Jeremiah F. Tivnan a janitor at
the post office. The Tivnans converted their large home into a
rooming house. The 1932 tenants were:
James Dean
Martha P. Goodell
John Hennessey
Thomas King
Michael F. Regan
Jeremiah Tivnan
�THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE LAND
ON WHICH 63 FEDERAL STREET STANDS
Sttphm s:wall House. The northern
portion of this lot, down to the lot of Dr.
Weld, was the western portion of Elder
Elder Sharp died
Samuel Sharp's field.
in or before 1662, and his wife Alice survived him three years. Upon her decease this section of the field was divided
among four of his children, the division
lines running from east to west where the
dashes are placed at either end.
To whom the northern strip was assigned the writer does not know, but it
was "ye widow Eleanor Robinson's" in "
I 6 7 l. She probably had only a dower interest in it, and at her decease in 1674 it
came into the possession of Edmund Batter, who died in 1685, having devised it to
his son Edmund. The latter conveyed it
to Stephen Sewall O~t. 9, 1696.t
, 1 he next strip was assigned to Elizabeth,
first wife of Christopher Phelps. Mr.
Phelps conveyed it to .Mr. Sewall May 18,
1685.§
The third strip was assigned to Nathaniel Sharp, who conveyed it to John Turner
June 5, 1671.!I Mr. Turner died possessed of it in 1680; and his widow Elizabeth subsequently married Maj. Charles
Redford and possessed it. Upon her decease, Mr. Turner's only son and heir,
Capt. John Turner, conveyed it to Mr.
Sewall Jan. 10, 1697.t
The next strip was assigned to Hannah.
Sharp, who afterwards married Peter Od-'
Jin., They conveyed it to Mr. Sewall
Mav 2, 1685.* Upon this part of Sharp's
field (at the cross+) was erected about t 630
the block house or fort for the defence of
the town, Mr. Sharp being the gunner.
The remainder of the lot came into the
po~session of Mr. Sew:i.ll as fol1ows: T~e
northern part down to the dashes wa~ on¥inally owned by Henry Cook, who died m
Tudith Cook, his widow, com·eyed
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it to Joshua Rea, husbandman, May 21,
1 662.t The next space (down to the next
dashes) Mr. Cook's son John conveyed
to Thomas Maule March 7, 1671.§ June
10, 1672, Mr. Maule sold the northern
half of the strip to Mr. Rea; II and also
about that time Mr. Rea became possessed
of the other half. He <lied owning the lot,
and his son Joshua conveyed both this. and
the section above to Mr. Sewall Apnl 6,
1685.t The next section (down to the
next dashes) was a portion of the estate of
Edward Norris, who conveyed it to George
Booth, as a part of the considerati~n for
the instruction of his son Edward m the
trade of a carpenter, Jan. 9, 167~-8.~ .Mr.
Booth conveyed it to Dr. Dame! \\eld,
who sold it to Mr. Sewall April 7, 1685.t
The remainder of the lot was a part of the
original lot of Edmund Batter, who conveyed it to Mr. Sewall. Oct. - , 1681..••
Upon this portion of his homestead, which
was the first part he bought, Mr. Sewall
erected his res,idence.
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Joyce King
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91-93 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Mason-Roberts-Colby-Nichols
built on highway by the common
1768
Moved to Federal St.
1818
by 60 oxen
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98-100 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Joyce King
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95-97 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Joyce King
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94 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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1770, 2003
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Robert Booth
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88 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Robert Booth
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Federal Street
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A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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House history
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House and shop belonging to the Sprague Brewery
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house history
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Federal Street
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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Federal Street
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historic Society
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Joyce King
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Federal Street
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A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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Federal Street
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A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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134 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built 1800 for Benjamin Blanchard, Dry-Goods Dealer
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1800, 2001
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Robert Booth
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134 Federal
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dry goods
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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126.5 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House History
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An account of the resource
Mary Drayton, dressmaker, and Isaac Drayton, harnessmaker, 1885
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1885, 2017
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Kimberley Whitworth
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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122 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built by Elijah & Jacob Sanderson, cabinetmakers in 1783
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1783, 1985
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Joyce King
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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117-119 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
Built for Nancy Courtis, singlewoman, 1846-47
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1846-7, 1988
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Joyce King
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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116-118 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
Leach-Nichols House Built circa 1782
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1782, 1986
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Joyce King
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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115 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
Built by Joseph Edwards, housewright in 1814. Stands on the site of the shop of Deacon Jacob Sanderson, cabinet-maker, built in 1793
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house history
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1814, 2008
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Robert Booth
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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111 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
Abner Goodhue, blacksmith, 1793
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1793, 1998
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Larry Davis
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English
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A name given to the resource
Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
A name given to the resource
108-110 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
“The Prince Mansion” built for John Orne, sailmaker ca. 1785-1793
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Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1785-1793,1988
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
John Goff
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English
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
A name given to the resource
105 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
House & Shop of Edmund Johnson, cabinetmaker, before 1801
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An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1801, 1979
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Joyce King
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English
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