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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 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
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Built for John Chandler, grocer, 1896
Creator
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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
Date
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1896, 1988
Contributor
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Joyce King
Language
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English
106
106 Federal
1896
Chandler
Federal
grocer
John
John Chandler