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House History and Plaque Program
15 Pleasant Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Resear ch and Wri ti ng Provided by
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Historic Salem
May 2017
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9 North St reet, Salem, MA 01970
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The House History of 15 Pleasant Street
�In the spring of 1864, men from Salem marched across wide swaths of Virginia fighting
in the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. The members of the 23rd Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry fought in small battles at Port Waltham Junction and
Arrowfield Church before engaging in the disastrous assault at Cold Harbor and the long siege of
Petersburg. Salem men died fighting for the Union, and a memorial to their service is affixed to a
58-ton boulder a short walk from Pleasant Street, at the end of Winter Street by the Salem
Common.
To the north of Salem that same spring, Nathaniel Hawthorne passed away in the
Pemigawasset Hotel in the White Mountains of New Hampshire while on a walking tour with
Franklin Pierce. From 1846 to 1850, Hawthorne had lived just a few streets down at 14 Mall
Street, where he composed the classic The Scarlet Letter.
In that year, too, a middle-aged carpenter named Abraham Towle, built a new family
home at 15 Pleasant Street.
Almost all the surviving buildings on Pleasant Street date from the nineteenth century.
The earliest buildings on the street are the Thomas Bickford House, c. 1800, at 1 Pleasant Street,
the 1805 house at 26-28 Pleasant Street, and the 1809 house at 10 Pleasant Street built for John
Rhodes, a mariner. Other Federal-period houses can be found at 8 Pleasant Street, 22-24 Pleasant
Street, and 23-25 Pleasant Street.1 These boxy, symmetrical structures testify to the status of
Salem as a major seaport in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
The last house mentioned, that at 23-25 Pleasant Street, also bears elements of the Greek
Revival style which dominated residential American building in the 1830s. The Greek Revival
filtered down from the work of European antiquarians and architects to American polymaths like
Thomas Jefferson and architects like William Strickland and received a great boost of popularity
from the 1830 pattern-book, The Practical House Carpenter, by Connecticut-and-Massachusettsbased architect Asher Benjamin. The John Cook House at 14 Pleasant Street was constructed in
1845 in the Greek Revival Style. So too are the houses at 16 Pleasant Street, 20 Pleasant Street,
and 29 Pleasant Street.2
The Italianate style of architecture, which drew on Italian Renaissance architectural
features such as flat roofs, long arched windows, and heavy cornices, reigned from the 1840s to
the 1860s, and is represented on Pleasant Street by numbers 9 (the 1860 William F. Luscomb
House), 31 (the c. 1851 Charles Millett House), and 33 (the 1851 William B. Parker House). The
1
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS): SAL.3147, SAL.3158, SAL.2300, SAL.3165.
2
MACRIS: SAL.3157, SAL.3156, SAL.2300, SAL.2804
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�houses at numbers 3-7 and 13, both built in 1869, and number 30, built in 1870, are later
examples of the style. 3
The Second Empire style, drawing on French Renaissance forms repopularized during the
reign of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, has but three representatives on the street: clothing
manufacturer James Trefren’s circa 1870 home at 35 Pleasant Street, the Daniel Henderson
House, built around 1874 at 19-21 Pleasant Street, and the house at 15 Pleasant Street built in
1864.4
The large house at 15 Pleasant exists today, at least in terms of footprint, as it appears in
the 1874 Atlas of Salem.5 The 2 1/2 –story house sits at the corner of Pleasant and Walter Streets,
with its ridgeline running WSW to ENE. It features a mansard roof with nine dormers, each with
their own small mansard top. There is a veranda projecting from an addition on the southern face
of the house and a back ell at the eastern side of the house.
Pleasant Street existed as the “Ancient Highway” in the seventeenth century, though the
northern side of the street was the “Ship Tavern Pasture” and the land of Deliverance and
Susannah Parkman.6 The street was laid out in 1796. Judging by maps from the two years, it
appears the area around 15 Pleasant Street was first developed between 1795 and 1806.78 This
date is borne out by the surviving houses as listed above.
Immediately prior to its purchase by Abraham Towle in 1864, the land at 15 Pleasant
Street was owned by Seabury F. Rogers, a confectionary with a shop at 170 Essex Street in a
building which was located where the East India Fountain stands on Essex Street. Rogers bought
the property in 1858 from the trustees of Mary F. Loring, wife of the prominent merchant George
B. Loring.9 The couple lived in the brick mansion at 328 Essex Street. Mary Loring had inherited
the parcel in 1857 on the death of William Pickman, a Salem merchant and investor.10
3
MACRIS: SAL.3150, SAL.2782, SAL.2783, SAL.3148, SAL.3152, SAL.2298.
4
MACRIS: SAL.2784, SAL.3175, SAL.3156.
5
Busch, Edward. Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. From actual Survey & Official records. G.M. Hopkins
& Co. Philadelphia, 1874.
6
Phillips, James Duncan, Sidney Perley, and William W.K. Freeman. “Part of Salem in 1700.” Map. In Salem in the
Seventeenth Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933.
7
Map of Salem, c. 1795. Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, MA.
8
Bowditch, Nathaniel. “Chart of the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Manchester, and Beverly: From a survey taken
in years 1804, 5, & 6.” Map. 1806. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. http://
www.leventhalmap.org/id/10920
9
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 0574, Page 228. 26 July 1858.
10
Essex County Probate Records.
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�After selling the property, Rogers moved to 6 Cross Street on Bridge Street Neck, 11 and
in 1866, he was elected a Resident Member of the Essex Institute.12 Rogers, who was originally
from New London, Connecticut, returned to his home city and died there in 1905. 13
Salem in 1864 was a large and culturally important city. Four years earlier, it had been the
42nd largest city in the United States with a population of 22,252.14 This was a ranking similar to
that of Raleigh, Atlanta, Miami, or Minneapolis today.
Salem’s Lyceum, founded in 1831, attracted speakers of international fame like Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass on a regular basis. The 1863-64 season included
lectures by Oliver Wendell Holmes on the “Weaning of Young America”, Wendell Phillips on
“National Reconstruction”, and Emerson on the “True American Idea.” 15 The Essex Institute,
founded in 1848, hosted lectures, displayed art and historical objects, and featured exhibitions on
horticulture and agriculture. The Essex Institute Historical Collections, begun in 1859, gathered
lectures and articles on the history and genealogy of Essex County. The Salem Athenaeum,
housed in Plummer Hall on Essex Street since 1857, provided a vast library for those who
subscribed.
The Golden Age of Sail had closed in Salem, but still 44 wharves dotted the city’s
shoreline.16 The city directory for 1864 attests to the diversity of the town’s workforce. There are
insurance agents, clerks, engineers, teamsters, painters, carpenters, hoteliers, and railway men;
and that’s just among the Abbotts! The inhabitants of the city called on the service of carriage
painters, leather measurers, fur sewers, vest-makers, building movers, ketchup manufacturers,
cigar makers, and bonnet bleachers.
11 Adams,
Sampson, & Co. The Salem Directory, containing the Names of the Citizens, City Officers, A Business
Directory, and an Almanac for 1861. Also, a Business Directory for South Danvers. Salem: Henry Whipple & Son,
1861. p. 154.
12
Proceedings of the Essex Insitute, Vol. V - 1866/67. Salem: Essex Institute Press, 1866-1868, p. 65.
13
Wellman, Joshua Wyman. Descendants of Thomas Wellman of Lynn, Massachusetts. Boston: Arthur Holbrook
Wellman, 1918. p. 257.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. “Table 9. Population of the 100 Largest Urban Places: 1860” 15 June 1998. Accessed
3 May 2017. https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/tab09.txt
14
15
Historical Sketch of the Salem Lyceum, with a List of the Officers and Lecturers since its Formation in 1830, with
an Extract of the Address of Gen. Henry K. Oliver, delivered at the Opening of the Fiftieth Course of Annual
Lectures, November 13th, 1878. Salem, MA: The Salem Gazette, 1879. p. 60.
16 Adams,
Sampson, & Co. The Salem Directory, containing the City Record, the Names of the Citizens, and a
Business Directory, with an Almanac for 1864. Salem, Massachusetts: Geo. M. Whipple & A.A. Smith, 1864. pp.
46-47.
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�There were 11 apothecaries, 9 boarding houses, 15 bakers, 9 dealers in books and
stationary, 6 cabinetmakers, and 21 physicians. For entertainment, there was a bowling saloon on
Washington Street. Essex Street afforded a gymnasium and shooting gallery and the Essex
House, a tavern. There were also numerous establishments around town offering oysters and
refreshments.
Abraham Towle purchased the land at 15 Pleasant Street from Seabury Rogers in 1860
for $987. 17 Towle was a master carpenter and contractor. There were 45 carpenters in Salem the
year that he constructed the house, but Towle was one of the most prominent. In 1850, he was a
trustee of the Salem Charitable Mechanic Associates, 18 an organization founded in 1817 with the
purposes of “relieving the distresses of unfortunate mechanics and their families, in promoting
inventions and improvements in the mechanic arts, by granting premiums for such inventions
and improvements, and in assisting young mechanics with loans of money.”19
Towle had served as a contactor with Simeon Flint in building the Superior Court
Building on Federal Street in 1861 and 1862. The initial building was finished in mastic, a
waterproof cement, but in 1891 it was refinished in brick.20 This later renovation altered the style
from Italianate to the Richardson Romanesque appearance the courthouse bears today. Enoch
Fuller was the architect, though he died shortly after the building began at the age of 33.21
While serving as master carpenter for the city of Salem in 1873, Towle built “a pile
structure for a fender for the pipe bridge and siphon” for the Salem Water Works at the Bass
River to protect the pipes from boat strikes. 22
Towle was born in circa 1808 in New Hampshire. By 1842, he was working as a
carpenter in Salem. Towle at that time lived near to Pleasant Street at 9 Spring Street, in a house
whose origins and date are currently unknown, but which may have been built by Towle
17
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 0606, Page 163. 17 May, 1860.
18 Adams,
George. The Salem Directory: containing the City Record, Banks, Insurance Companies, Churches, and
Societies. Names and Business of the Citizens, An Almanac for 1851 with a Variety of Miscellaneous Matter. Salem,
MA: Henry Whipple, 1851. p. 190.
19
Private and Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from May 1822, to March 1830: Revised and
Published by the Authority of the Legislature in Conformity to a Resolve, Passed April 16, 1836. Vol. 6. Boston:
Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1837. p. 3.
20
Robinson, John. Visitor’s Guide to Salem. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1895. pp. 55-56.
21
Tolles, Bryant F and Carolyn K. Tolles. Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide. Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 2004. pp. 119-120.
22
The Fifth Annual Report from the Wenham Water Board of the City of Salem, Mass., to the City Council, for the
Year Ending in December 31, 1873. Salem: Salem Press, 1873. p. 27
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�himself.23 From approximately 1846 to 1864, Towle lived on Harbor Street in what is today the
Point neighborhood. In that time he worked as a carpenter at 8 Lafayette Street with his partner,
Walter Norris. The house at 19 Harbor Street was the left half of a 2 ½ story two-family house
with 13 rooms, though it was destroyed in the Great Salem Fire of 1914 and replaced in 1915
with a brick Colonial Revival apartment building.
Towle built a 1 ½-story carpentry shop 20 feet by 35 feet separate from the main house.
He got his lumber from J.P. Langmaid & Sons at 175 Derby Street and George F. & S. Brown at
38 North Street.24 Towle reared fruit trees and grape vines in the yard running along Webster
Street. In the 1860 census, a 20-year-old Irish maid named Katie Sullivan is living with the
family on Harbor Street.25 It is not clear if she moved with the family to Pleasant Street.
Towle’s probate give further clues to his life at 15 Pleasant Street. Towle got his
groceries from George Hodgkins, a grocer who lived down the street at 45 Pleasant Street, and
Israel P. Harris at 6 St. Peter Street.26 Firewood and coal came from Lemuel B. Hatch, at 113
Derby Street. Towle also subscribed to the Salem Gazette and the Boston Traveller. He bought
boots & shoes at Eben. Buswell & Co. on Essex Street.
He used the services of Nathaniel Pulsifer, a painter who lived at 11 Spring Street,
perhaps to paint the interiors or exteriors of the house. He owed money to Frothingham &
Fitfield, sellers of stoves and tinware, John Cabeen, a teamster, and T.J. Gifford, another
carpenter, who lived on Mason Street in North Salem.
In the probate are small debts to Henry Hale, a seller of cutlery, hardware, and
agricultural tools, R. Skinner & Co., makers of doors, sashes, and blinds, Richardson & Waters,
sellers of hardware, and John C. McLaughlin, a plumber and gas fitter. Perhaps some of these
purchases of hardware and other household fixtures were used at 15 Pleasant Street, though it
would be hard to determine at which property the pieces were used.
23
MACRIS: SAL.3168
24
Essex County Probate Records
25
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MZH2-MCX : 30 December 2015), Abraham Towle, 1860.
26
Essex County Probate Records
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�Towle and his wife, Mary, had two children, Albert and Sarah. Albert L. Towle, lived in
Niobara, Nebraska by the time of his father’s death.27 Towle became a 32 degree Mason. 28
Sarah A. Towle, born in August 1834, married Stephen S. W. Upton, a farmer and miller,
and moved to Townsend, Massachusetts in northwestern Middlesex County.29 There they had a
son, William, and three daughters, Persis, Laura W., and Sarah J. In the 1880 census, Sarah J.
Towle, Sarah’s elderly aunt, and an unrelated 16-year girl named Lillian A. Blood are listed as
living with the family as well.30 By 1900, Stephen Upton had become a lumber dealer, and Laura
W. Upton still lived at home and taught music at the age of 29.31
Abraham Towle died September 29th, 1876.32 He had $75 worth of carpentry tools and
$50 worth of furniture. In 1878, Albert L. Towle sold his father’s real estate to cover the
aforementioned debts and advertised 15 Pleasant Street and his two other properties for sale. The
house featured 11 finished rooms and 2 unfinished with a furnace, gas, and water from Wenham
Lake, and Towle’s shop, advertised as suitable for a carpenter or a mason. The proximity of the
Common is noted, with the property touted as “a residence in a pleasant locality and in a first
class neighborhood.” 33 Also for sale were the house at 19 Harbor Street and a 2 ½-story house at
31 Hazel Street with 16 rooms.
House
O u t s t a n d i n g Sale-1878
Mortgage
27
Essex County Probate Records. As Albert L. Towle is listed at home in 1861, 1866, and 1869, it seems unlikely
that he is the Albert Towle mentioned in Johnson’s History of Nebraska as a survivor of the wreck of the Hannibal
in 1857, or the longest-serving postmaster in the state in 1869. This other Towle makes identifying very much about
his western life quite difficult.
28
Transactions of the Supreme Council, 33o, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, October,
1897.Charleston: Gr. Orient of Charleston, 1897, p. 130.
29
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MH6T-SH4 : 11 August 2016), Stephen S W Upton, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States;
citing enumeration district ED 379, sheet 523D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0539; FHL microfilm 1,254,539.
30
Ibid.
31
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:M9T5-7JS : accessed 25 May 2017), Stephen W Upton, Townsend Town Townsend town,
Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 967, sheet 10A, family 252, NARA
microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL
microfilm 1,240,666.
32
Essex County Probate Records
33
Essex County Probate Records,
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�15 Pleasant Street
$350
$3,870.00
19 Harbor Street
$1000
$2,325.50
William Mack bought the property at Pleasant Street and owned the property for a
Hazel Street
$2,500
$1,950.00
decade, from 1878 to 1888.34
Mack was a physician whose personal papers at the Phillips Library include 6 volumes of
notes on medicine and his patients. His primary residence was at 21 Chestnut Street, in the
eastern end of the Federal brick double house purchased by his father, Judge Elisha Mack in
1837. Mack travelled to Europe in the 1830s and in 1841 was the secretary of the Essex Southern
District of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 35 Mack’s reputation was enough that in 1889,
Colcord Upton, a steamboat manager, and Lillian S. Towne, named their firstborn child William
Mack Upton. 36 A large parcel of land in North Salem given to Mack by his sister, Esther, was
given to the city on his death in 1895 to become Mack Park.
Mack was a treasurer and directory of the Salem Street Railway Company and the
Pleasant Street property was rented to company employees.37 He likely bought the property
because of its proximity to the company’s building, which was directly abutting on the east along
Webster Street.
In 1880 and 1881, the inhabitants were Willard B. Ferguson, the superintendent of the
“Horse Rail Road” at 233 Essex Street, and Charles A. Murch, the assistant superintendent.38
Both Ferguson and Murch were in their late thirties and originally from Maine. Murch lived with
34
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 0995, Page 23. 4 March 1878.
35
Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, with an Appendix containing the Proceedings of
the Society. Vol. 6. Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society, 1841. p. 122.
36
Perley, Sidney. A History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. II 1638-1670. Salem: Sidney Perley, 1926. p. 382.
37
Public Documents of Massachusetts, Being the Annual Reports of Various Public Officers and Institutions for the
Year 1885. Vol. III, nos. 10-15. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1886. p. 401.
38
The Salem Directory, 1881 Containing in the City Record, Business Directory, and Street Directory, No. XIX.
Sampson, Davenport, & Co. Salem: A.A. Smith & Co. p. 78 and p. 157.
Page 7 of 10
�wife, Rosa, who was ten years his junior.39 Ferguson and his wife, Etta, had a similar age gap,
and in 1879 they had a son, Berton G. Ferguson.40
Ferguson and his wife continued to live at 15 Pleasant Street until at least 1886. From
1882 to 1884, they shared the property with Frank A. Shepherd, a horse car conductor.41 In 1886,
they lived with Peter W. Whitney, another driver.42
Next, Charles Odell owned the property for a short time, from 1888 to 1890.43 Odell ran
an auction, real estate, and insurance business from Washington Street and lived in the 1880s at
20 Pleasant Street.44 By the time he purchased the land on Pleasant Street, he had moved to 24 ½
Winter Street. Odell did not live at the house but rented it out as Mack had done. In 1890, the
tenant was a man named Nathaniel Morton who has no profession listed.45
Charlotte Fairfield, a bookkeeper and coal-dealer, purchased the property in 1890 and
owned it until 1929. 46 The Fairfields lived next door in the Italianate house built in 1869 by her
father, James Fairfield. James Fairfield was a dealer in lumber, lime, cement, and coal, with
39
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MH6F-8TJ : 11 August 2016), Charles Murch, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing
enumeration district ED 231, sheet 620A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives
and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0532; FHL microfilm 1,254,532.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MH6F-8TX : 11 August 2016), Willard G Ferguson, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing
enumeration district ED 231, sheet 620A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives
and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0532; FHL microfilm 1,254,532.
40
41
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, containing a list
of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the Districts and other Matters of General and Local Interest. No. 1 –
1882-83. Salem: Henry M. Meek & Francis A. Fieldler. p. 79.
42
The Salem Directory 1886 Containing a Directory of Citizens, Street Directory, The City Record, and Business
Directory with Map. Also Directories for the Towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. No. XXII.
Sampson, Murdoch, & Co. Salem: Mackintire and Henry P. Ives.
43
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 1216, Page 437. 20 February 1888.
44
The Salem Directory, 1879. No. XVIII. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Co. p. 171.
45
The Salem Directory 1890-91 Containing a Directory of Citizens, Street Directory, The City Record, and Business
Directory with Map. Also Directories for the Towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. Sampson,
Murdoch, & Co. Salem: Mackintire and Henry P. Ives. p. 265.
46
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 01290, Page 63. 9 September, 1890.
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�businesses at 52-60 Central Street and a coal yard at 7 Water Street in Beverly.47 Her mother, was
Lucy W. Fairfield, who was widowed by 1912. Her brother, Charles E. Fairfield, was a clerk who
died young in 1897.
Charlotte, called Lottie by her family, was born in 1856.48 From 1880 until the early
1900s she worked as a bookkeeper, but after her father’s death she took over the family business.
She faced resistance from the coal dealers of the Salem Coal Club because she was a woman, so
she acted independent of the association.49 The story became national news, as evidenced by the
headline of The Leavenworth Times in Kansas: “Girl Coal Dealer Fights the Trust.” 50 Fairfield
prevailed and was a successful coal dealer for two decades. In 1912, she is listed as a coal dealer
with businesses at 78 Washington and 52 Central and 127 Cabot and 15 Water in Beverly.51
In the 1890s, the house at 15 Pleasant was rented to John G. Page, the assistant
superintendent of streets and his brother, Fred M. Page, who ran a shoe and paper box findings
company on Washington Street.52 The Pages continued living at the property until 1906. In the
early 1910s, the house was rented to Charles A. Southworth. Charles and Fred were the
Southworth Brothers, landscape architects and nurserymen.53 From 1914 until 1922, the house
was rented by Robert B. Chalmers and his wife, Sarah E. Chalmers worked at the United Shoe
Machinery Corporation in Beverly and the couple rented a summer cottage at 71 Bay View
Avenue in the Juniper Point neighborhood of Salem.
47
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and
Manchester. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General
and Local Interest. 9. 1899-1900. pp. 225-226.
48
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MH6F-8TL : 11 August 2016), Lottie Fairfield in household of James Fairfield, Salem, Essex,
Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 231, sheet 620A, NARA microfilm publication T9
(Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0532; FHL microfilm 1,254,532.
49
“Coal Dealers Disagree” The Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH. 11 Feb 1903, p. 5.
50
“Girl Coal Dealer Fights the Trust” The Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth, KS. 14 Feb. 1903. p. 5.
51
The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and Ipswich Containing a
list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General and Local Interest. No. 20,
1912. Salem: The Henry M. Meek Publishing Company, 1912. p. 156.
52
The Salem Directory 1893-94 Containing a Directory of Citizens, Street Directory, The City Record, and Business
Directory with Map. Also Directories for the Towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. Salem:
Mackintire and Henry P. Ives. p. 132.
53
Salem Directory, 1912.
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�In 1924, John E. Heffernan, a druggist, and his wife Mary E. had moved into 13 Pleasant
Street, and Lester S. Durkee and his wife Marion E. lived at 15 Pleasant Street. By 1926, the
house was rented to Edward L. Kanze, his wife Ruth S. Kanze, and Oscar Kanze, a boarder.
Edward Kanze was a cook at The Hawthorne Hotel.54
John W. and Emma Szczepucha purchased the house from Marion Durkee in 1929 after
the Durkees moved to Beverly. 55 John Szczepucha was a shoe worker in 1929, a clerk at The
Bunghole liquor store in 1933, a clerk at the restaurant of Charles Szczepucha at 124 Derby
Street in 1935, and a shoeworker again in 1945. Emma was a homemaker. A family of
Szczepuchas, likely relatives, lived at 105 Derby Street. In 1939, Bronislaw and his wife Stella,
Edward, Helen, Ignatz, and Stanley lived at 105 Derby.56 Bronislaw was the proprietor of a
liquor store, Edward was a forester, Helen a lamp worker, and Ignacy a laborer and a tanner.
Ignacy or Ignatz was the first Szczepucha to appear in the records in Salem as a tanner living
with his wife Anastacia at 17 Bentley Street in 1926. 57
1949, the Szczepuchas sold the property to John Goodwin.5859 In 1949, John W. Goodwin
was a clerk, Emma D. Goodwin, was a housekeeper, and John Jr. was living at home at age 24.
By 1953, John Jr. had become involved in real estate. In 1954, Marjorie Goodwin, a clerk aged
25, appears for the first time. In 1954, John sold the property for less than $100 to Marjorie
Lorraine Goodwin.60 Emma and John Jr. continued to live at 15 Pleasant Street until 1985.
From the pasture of the Ship’s Tavern to the shop of a carpenter, a lodging for railroad
employees to a plant nursery, and a first American home for recent immigrants, the land and
house at 15 Pleasant Street have had a long and fascinating existence which testifies to the
changing nature of Salem over several centuries.
54
Directory for Salem and Beverly containing an Alphabetical list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the
District, Street and Householders’ Directories and other Miscellaneous Matter for each City. No. 27- 1926. Salem:
The Henry M. Meek Publishing Company, 1926. p. 133.
55Deed,
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 2812, Page 291. 2 July 1929.
56
1939 Salem Poll Listing.
57
1926 Salem Directory.
58
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 3704, Page 490. 16 November 1949.
59
The similarities between the Szczepucha and Goodwin families- both are named John W. and Emma, both are
about the same age, and the lack of address chance in the 1949 poll listing when the Goodwins appear make me
suspect that the Szczepuchas and the Goodwins are the same family and that the Szczepuchas changed their name to
assimilate better into American culture. However, John’s signatures are considerably different in the deeds of 1949
and 1954 and the very presence of the 1949 deed raises questions that perhaps this is just empty speculation.
60
Deed, Essex County Registry of Deeds. Book 0438, Page 296. 4 January, 1954.
Page 10 of 10
�����������Ownership History of 15 Pleasant Street, Salem MA 01970
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
1995, Sep
14
Marjorie Kerwin (Estate of John
Goodwin aka John Sepuha)
John Goodwin
Marjorie Lorraine
Goodwin
1949, Nov
16
John W. Szczepucha and Emma
Szczepucha
Doc
22
Deed
Less than
$100.00
41
Consideration
paid
Amount
Book
Page
Deed
4038
296
5
Deed
3704
490
Marion held
mortgage for
$2,600.00
20
Deed
2812
291
$3,425.00
39
Deed
1290
63
$1.00
2
Deed
1216
437
$3,870.00
1
Deed
995
23
18
Deed
606
163
Kristin W. Amos
1954, Jan
4
Years
Owned
$139.000.00
Date
John Goodwin
1929, Jul 2 Lester S. Durkee and Marion F.
Durkee (related to Fairfield?)
John W.
Szczepucha and
Emma Szczepucha
1890, Sep
9
Charles Odell
Charlotte Fairfield
1888, Feb
17
William Mack
Charles Odell
1878, Mar
4
Deed of Albert L. Towle, Executor
(Estate of Abraham Towle) by
Public Auction
William Mack
1860, May
17
Seabury F. Rogers, being part of an Abraham Towle
estate conveyed to me
$987.00
�Ownership History of 15 Pleasant Street, Salem MA 01970
1858, Jul
26
William Pickman
“We, George B. Loring of Salem,
John W. Rogers of Boston, J.
Ingersoll Bowditch and John H.
Loring both of Boston, trustees of
Mary F. Loring, under the will of
William Pickman, late of Salem,
and Mary F. Loring, wife of said
George B. Loring, who joins in this
deed to release all her interest in
said premises a “parcel of land”…
Seabury F. Rogers
$2,074.00
Deed
2
574
228
�Ownership History of 15 Pleasant Street, Salem MA 01970
1860, Oct 9
Abraham Towle (Master Carpenter) to Charles Henry Allen “36” Pleasant and Webster Streets
1865, Jan 11
Anna K. Kimball for Charles H. Allen (deceased) -- to John Carroll b 992/p101
Charles H. Allen, Jr. and Margaret E. Allen, wife of Charles H. Allen, (he being now absent at sea) all buildings on said “Web
Street” see (previous deed) b.992/p.101
1870, Nov 17
to John Carroll
deed b.964/p195 Salem Webb Street
1878, April 5
Abraham Towel’s estate sold to William Mack
b. 995/p23???
Pleasant and Webster
Courthouse downtown built by Towle: The courts Friday, Oct. 3, 1862. Enoch Fuller was the architect and Simeon Flint and
Abraham Towle the contractors. Authority was obtained from the legislature to expend $25,000 in its erection. The
expenditure was within the appropriation, as noteworthy a fact as anything connected with its history. The outside of this building
when built was covered with mastic but it proved most unsatisfactory and in the fall of 1891, after the building of the extension in
the rear, the coat of mastic was removed and a new covering of brick was laid and a tower added in front, thus bringing the
outside into harmony with the new annex.
Visitor’s Guide to Salem, The Essex Institute, 1897
https://archive.org/details/visitorsguideto00massgoog
Towle born in Omaha Nebraska about 1808, married Mary…?
�
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Pleasant Street
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House History
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Built by Abraham Towle, carpenter c. 1864
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1864, 2017
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David Moffat
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Salem
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Mall Street
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15 Mall Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1810, 1993
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Mark Nystedt
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Oliver Street
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15 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built by John Lefavour, housewright in 1831
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1831, 1988
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Joyce King
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English
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1988
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John LeFavour
Joyce King
Massachusetts
Oliver Street
Salem
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Juniper Avenue
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15 Juniper Avenue, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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George and Lucy Frost, 1882
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1882, 1976
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Robert Booth
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Robert
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Holly Street
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13-15 Holly Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Plaque was granted after research was presented by homeowner; no formal house history on record.
13 Holly Street:
Built in 1915 for Hattie and Frank Brennan, dairy merchant
15 Holly Street:
Built in 1915 for Annie & Harry Fitch, dairy merchant
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1915, 2014
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Emily Udy
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English
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15
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2014
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Harry
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Holly
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Salem
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Hathorne Street
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15 Hathorne Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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1840, 2000
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Robert Booth
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English
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Dearborn Street
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15 Dearborn Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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The House of Devereux Dennis a Salem "house carpenter" 1843
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House built 1843
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David T. Gavenda July 1973
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River Street
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15 River Street. Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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House of John and Rebeckah Beckford by 1757
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1757, 1988
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Joyce King
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English
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Cousins Street
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15 Cousins Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Current plaque stated as incorrect and incomplete - Jute Mill Nevins Burlap Bagging Mill, built in 1879, Polish Falcons Club 1940, Renovated as Townhouses 2004,
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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 built 1867
Research completed by owner, Greg Watts,
March 10, 2014.
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Owner Greg Watts, March 10, 2014
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English
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Summer Street
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15 Summer Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for John P. Peabody, purveyor of ladies furnishings 1874
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1874, 1996
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MacInnis
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English
15
15 Summer
1874
Colonial Revival
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John P. Peabody
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Chestnut Street
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15 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Amos and Solomon Towne, 1804
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1804, 1969
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Cedar Street
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15 Cedar Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Post 1914 probably built by Thomas Fenno
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Post 1914, 1979
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Joyce King
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English
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15 Cedar
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cedar
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Thomas
Thomas Fenno
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Carlton Street
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15 Carlton Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Benjamin Crowninshield, Mariner by 1815
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1815, 1985
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Joyce King
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15 Carlton
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Turner Street
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15 Turner Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House History
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Nathaniel Very, blacksmith, 1841
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Dee
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Boardman Street
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15 Boardman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built in 1882 for John Kinsman
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1882, 2016
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Kimberly Whitworth
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15 Boardman
1882
2016
Boardman
Buxton
Empire
Frank
John
John Kinsman
Kinsman
Porter
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15 Beckford Street
Built by
Bartholomew Brown
Housewright
1795
Research and Writing Provided by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
February 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
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15 Beckford Street lies within the National Register’s Chestnut Street Historic District
and the City of Salem’s McIntire Historic District, an area traditionally associated with maritime
wealth and fine architecture. Although the streets of Salem west of Washington Street tend to be
newer than those east of Washington Street, Beckford Street is ancient, and in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries provided a route between the “high street” (modern-day Essex Street)
and the North River. According to Sidney Perley, “Beckford street was called a lane in 1657;
street or lane, 1677; street or highway, 1679; lane or highway that leads from ye main street to ye
north river, 1696; Beckford’s lane, 1773; Kitchen’s lane, 1783; Turner’s lane, 1793; and
Beckford street in 1797.”1
The ownership of the land upon which the house at 15 Beckford Street stands can be
traced back to the mid-seventeenth century. According to Perley, the land was owned by Thomas
Trusler in 1654; by Edward Phelps in 1655; by Thomas Robbins in 1657; and by Rebecca Pinson
in the 1690s. On January 11, 1699, Rebecca Pinson and her second husband, Joseph Boobier of
Marblehead, conveyed the land with a house and a barn (neither of which are extant today) for
thirty pounds to Rebecca’s daughter, Rebecca Beckford, wife of John Beckford of Marblehead.
On July 23, 1739, Rebecca and John conveyed the estate to their son, John Beckford Jr. of
Salem, shoreman. Perley’s map of Salem in 1780 shows the land belonging to Joseph Gavet
Sexton.2
1
National Register of Historic Places, Chestnut Street Historic District, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; City of Salem
Local Historic Districts, McIntire District; Bryant F. Tolles Jr., Architecture in Salem (Hanover: University Press of
New England, 2004), 127; Sidney Perley, “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 12,” The Essex Antiquarian Vol. 7, No. 1
(January 1903): 116, 119.
2
Perley, “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 12,” 123, 124; “Map of Salem about 1780,” Sidney Perley, James Duncan
Phillips, and Henry Noyes Otis, 1937.
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In April of 1793, William Pickman, Esq. of Salem conveyed to Bartholomew Brown,
housewright, of Salem “a certain piece or lot of land situate in Salem aforesaid.” No buildings
are mentioned in the deed. Salem tax records indicate that in 1795, Brown was assessed for a
complete house valued at 600 pounds. This house was the original iteration of the one that stands
at 15 Beckford Street today.3
Built in the 1790s, the house is representative of the Federal style of American
architecture, and more specifically the “vernacular” Federal style. This style is typified by gabled
roofs and wooden frames, as opposed to the hipped roof, brick-construction mansions of the
same period lining Chestnut Street and surrounding Salem Common. According to the house’s
MACRIS inventory, the ell projecting to the south was added in 1878, and this is corroborated by
Salem street maps. In her original report on 15 Beckford Street produced for Historic Salem, Inc.
in 1973, researcher Sally Dee noted that the interior of the house indicates “that the original
south side was the front, with the familiar Federal Style symmetry of a central entrance and just
inside, a triple-run stair.”4
The house’s first owner, Bartholomew Brown, was born in Salem in July of 1721. His
son, Bartholomew Brown Jr., was baptised in Salem on January 27, 1751, and married Polly
Smith in 1798. On April 20, 1805, Bartholomew Brown Jr. purchased the Beckford Street estate
3
Essex County Registry of Deeds (ECRD) Book 156, page 123, April 17, 1793; Sally Dee, “Documentation #15
Beckford St.,” prepared for Historic Salem, Inc., 1973.
Historic Salem, Inc. & Anderson Notter Associates, Inc., The Salem Handbook (Historic Salem, Inc., 1977), 14;
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS): SAL.1547; G.M. Hopkins & Co., Atlas of the
City of Salem, Massachusetts, Philadelphia: 1874; Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, March 1890; Dee, “Documentation #15 Beckford St.”
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from his father. Unfortunately, he died on November 10th of the same year, aged fifty-four.
Bartholomew Brown Sr. passed away on February 14, 1812.5
On October 11, 1813, Edward Brown of Candia, New Hampshire, administrator of the
estate of Bartholomew Brown Sr., conveyed the house at 15 Beckford Street to William Dean,
merchant, of Salem. Less than two years later, Dean sold it to Joseph Gardner Jr., hairdresser, of
Salem. Gardner sold the house to Thomas Perkins, chairmaker, of Salem on October 1, 1823.
Twenty-three years later, Perkins conveyed it to clergyman Benjamin Brierly of Salem.6
Reverend Benjamin Brierly was ordained minister of the Second Baptist Church of Salem
in September of 1846. One can assume that the house he purchased in October of 1846 at 15
Beckford Street was a new home to accompany this new job. The Vital Records of Salem
indicate that Reverend Brierly welcomed a son in January of 1848. On August 25th of that year,
Brierly left his position as pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Massachusetts records reflect the
death of an infant named Benjamin A. Brierly, son of Benjamin Brierly and Frances M. Brierly,
on December 14, 1848. Three years later, Brierly sold his house, but he would not be the last
Baptist minister to live there.7
On April 1, 1851, Charles W. Farrington bought the house at 15 Beckford Street from
Reverend Brierly. Farrington was born to William & Mary Ward Farrington in Salem on April 8,
Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (VRS) Vol. 1 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916),
121; VRS Vol. 3 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1924), 143; ECRD Book 176, page 62, April 20, 1805; VRS Vol. 5 (Salem:
Essex Institute, 1925), 111.
5
6
ECRD Book 201, page 112, October 11, 1813; ECRD Book 205, page 181, March 10, 1815; ECRD Book 232,
page 266, October 1, 1823; ECRD Book 373, page 18, October 20, 1846.
Rev. George Batchelor, “Salem,” in History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many
of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, ed. D. Hamilton Hurd (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1888), 59; VRS Vol. 1,
113; "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZJ-QLC : 10 February 2018), Benjamin A Brierly, 14 Dec 1848; citing ,
reference v 6 p 87; FHL microfilm 855,364; ECRD Book 443, page 65, April 1, 1851.
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1810. Like many Salem natives in the years following the American Revolution, his life revolved
around the sea. In 1825, at the age of fifteen, he was a crew member aboard the brig Java of
Salem, bound for India. His height was listed as four feet, ten inches, and his complexion and
hair were both described as “light.” Farrington also appears on the following crew manifests8:
YEAR
VESSEL
DESTINATION
RANK
AGE
1825-1826
Ship Caroline of Salem
Europe & India
Not Listed
16
1827-1828
Brig Abby M of Salem
Cape Verde Islands
Not Listed
18
1829-1830
Ship Lotos of Salem
East Indies
Seaman
20
1833-1834
Ship Shepherdess of Salem
East Indies
2nd Officer
23
1835-1836
Ship Shepherdess of Salem
East Indies
Not Listed
24
ECRD Book 443, page 65, April 1, 1851; VRS Vol. 1, 290; "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with
images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWZJ-YVM : 10 December 2014), Charles W.
Farrington, 11 Aug 1869; citing Salem, Massachusetts, v 220 p 250, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm
960,194; "Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934," database with images,
FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-RJN4 : 6 October 2015), Charles W Farrington, ;
citing Immigration, Massachusetts, United States, Ship Java, NARA microfilm publication NAID 1600758,
1600870, and 1600759 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Roll 23,; FHL
microfilm 100,744,008; "Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934,"
database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-RGVJ : 6 October 2015),
Charles W Farrington, ; citing Immigration, Massachusetts, United States, Ship Caroline, NARA microfilm
publication NAID 1600758, 1600870, and 1600759 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records
Administration), Roll 24,; FHL microfilm 100,744,009; "Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and
Shipping Articles, 1797-1934," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-TSP4 : 6 October 2015), Charles Farrington, ; citing Immigration,
Massachusetts, United States, Ship Abby M, NARA microfilm publication NAID 1600758, 1600870, and 1600759
(Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Roll 26,; FHL microfilm 100,744,011;
"Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934," database with images,
FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-TX5D : 6 October 2015), Charles W Farrington, ;
citing Immigration, Massachusetts, United States, Ship Sotos, NARA microfilm publication NAID 1600758,
1600870, and 1600759 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Roll 28,; FHL
microfilm 100,760,028; "Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934,"
database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-YQTP : 6 October 2015),
Charles W Farrington, ; citing Immigration, Massachusetts, United States, Ship Shepherdess, NARA microfilm
publication NAID 1600758, 1600870, and 1600759 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records
Administration), Roll 32,; FHL microfilm 100,760,032; "Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and
Shipping Articles, 1797-1934," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKFK-Y826 : 6 October 2015), Charles W Farrington, ; citing
Immigration, Massachusetts, United States, Ship Shepherdess, NARA microfilm publication NAID 1600758,
1600870, and 1600759 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Roll 34,; FHL
microfilm 100,760,034.
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On June 3, 1841, Charles Farrington married Mary Jane Jelly, a Salem native born on
October 18, 1818 to William and Hannah Jelly. By the 1840s, Farrington was well established in
his maritime career, and on February 24, 1843, he joined the venerable Salem Marine Society,
established in 1766 and still in existence today. He served as the society’s clerk in 1868 and
1869.9
Mary Jane gave birth to a daughter named Annah McDonald Farrington on November 20,
1843. In 1850, Charles, aged 40, Mary Jane, aged 31, and Annah, aged 6, lived at 2 Ash Street in
Salem. That year’s United States Census lists Charles’s profession as “Master Mariner.” On
April 1, 1851, Charles Farrington purchased the house at 15 Beckford Street. The Farringtons
lived there until the last year of the American Civil War. For the remainder of their lives, Charles
and Mary Jane lived at 346 Essex Street. He died of “anemia” on August 11, 1869 and she died
of diabetes on September 22, 1887.10
William Wallis purchased 15 Beckford Street from the Farringtons on June 12, 1865.
Wallis was born in Salem on March 5, 1801 to Moses and Hannah Wallis of Ipswich. He married
Priscilla Blanchard on November 8, 1827. In 1850, Wallis lived at 11 North Street and his
profession was listed as secretary of the “Savings Bank” in that year’s Salem Directory. The
1855 directory lists him in the same profession, but living at 23 Summer Street. Wallis lived at
15 Beckford Street from 1865 until his death from “Chronic Bronchitis” on November 8, 1877.
VRS Vol. 3, 349; VRS Vol. 1, 472; Laws of the Salem Marine Society, with the Several Acts of General Court
Relating to the Society, &c., and a List of Members (Salem: Observer Steam Book and Job Printing Rooms, 1873),
122, 137.
9
VRS Vol. 1, 290; "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD92-KV7 : 12 April 2016), Chas W Farrington, Salem, Essex,
Massachusetts, United States; citing family 710, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); ECRD Book 443, page 65, April 1, 1851; ECRD Book 685, page 62,
June 12, 1865; Salem Directories, 1850, 1866, 1869, 1872, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1881, 1882-83, 1884, 1886.
10
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He and his wife Priscilla, who died exactly six months before her husband on May 8, 1887, are
buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem.11
In his will, William Wallis bequeathed “the Estate wherein I now live, situate in said
Salem, consisting of the land and house and other buildings thereon, being numbered Fifteen on
Beckford Street” to the First Baptist Church of Salem “to be held in trust for a parsonage.”
Wallis left five hundred dollars to the pastor of First Baptist Church, Reverend George E.
Merrill, who would become the first resident of the church’s new parsonage at 15 Beckford
Street.12
Over three-quarters of a century, the house at 15 Beckford Street provided a home for a
succession of Baptist ministers, including George Merrill, Edwin P. Farnham, A. Blackburn,
Frederick W. Buis, and Ralph A. Sherwood. The house was only a short walk from the First
Baptist Church’s location at 56 Federal Street. Although the congregation relocated to Lafayette
Street in 2007, this nineteenth-century brick building still exists today, albeit 180 feet from its
original location; it was moved in 2009 to accommodate the J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center.
The structure, with portions dating to 1806, is Salem’s “earliest extant ecclesiastical building.”
Today it houses the Essex County Law Library.13
ECRD Book 685, page 62, June 12, 1865; VRS Vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1918), 386; "Massachusetts Deaths,
1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWS1-WT5 : 10
December 2014), William Wallis, 08 Nov 1877; citing Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, v 292 p 274, State Archives,
Boston; FHL microfilm 960,212; VRS Vol. 4 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1924), 430; Salem Directories, 1850, 1855,
1866, 1869, 1872, 1874, 1876; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120969139/william-wallis.
11
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.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/14217/56264-co1/260025238.
12
All Salem Directories available, beginning in 1881 and ending in 1936;
http://www.salemnews.com/archives/first-baptist-church-will-celebrate-christ-s-birth-in-its/article_02857a04-548354ae-ba15-1ace91c32601.html; Steven Rosenberg, "A Piece of Salem History Relocates," Boston Globe, Jan 08,
2009. https://corvette.salemstate.edu:5208/docview/405147133?accountid=13661;
13
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The Board of Directors of the First Baptist Church voted at their annual meeting in
January of 1952 to sell the parsonage at 15 Beckford Street. On June 11th of that year, the house
was conveyed to Clarence and Ada Hamilton. Ada Hamilton, now a widow, sold it to Peter and
Helena Copelas on May 14, 1959. Peter and Helena sold it to their son Peter Copelas Jr. and his
wife Barbara on March 12, 1962.14
https://www.salem.com/sites/salemma/files/uploads/courthouse30.pdf;
http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20120301/NEWS/303019225; Tolles, Architecture in Salem, 120.
14
ECRD Book 3901, pages 383-384, June 11, 1952; ECRD Book 4560, page 356; ECRD Book 4890, page 128.
�Chain of Title, 15 Beckford Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Consideration
Conveyance of
Bartholomew Brown,
housewright
"thirty two pounds
twelve shillings"
"a certain piece or lot of land Essex County Registry of
situate in Salem aforesaid..." Deeds
Deed
156
123
Bartholomew Brown Jr.,
housewright
"a certain piece or lot of land
situate in Salem aforesaid...
with all the building thereon Essex County Registry of
$2,200.00 standing..."
Deeds
Deed
176
62
Edward Brown, Administrator
of the Estate of Bartholomew
October 11, 1813 Brown Sr.
William Dean, merchant
"all that piece or lot of land
situate in Salem aforesaid...
with all and singular the
Essex County Registry of
$659.28 buildings thereon standing..." Deeds
Deed
201
112
"a certain piece or lot of land
situate in Salem aforesaid...
with all the buildings thereon Essex County Registry of
$715.95 standing..."
Deeds
Deed
205
181
Thomas Perkins, chairmaker
"a certain messuage situated
on Beckford Street in Salem Essex County Registry of
$2,000.00 aforesaid..."
Deeds
Deed
232
266
Benjamin Brierly, clergyman
"a certain messuage situate
on Beckford Street in
$2,500.00 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
373
18
Charles W. Farrington
"a certain messuage situate
on Beckford Street in said
$2,500.00 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
443
65
William Jelly, merchant
"a certain messuage situate
on Beckford Street in said
$1.00 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
482
121
Mary Jane Farrington
"a certain messuage situate
on Beckford Street in said
$2.00 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
482
20
"a certain messuage situated Essex County Registry of
$2,500.00 on Beckford Street #15..."
Deeds
Deed
685
62
April 17, 1793 William Pickman, esquire
Bartholomew Brown,
April 20, 1805 housewright
March 10, 1815 William Dean, merchant
Joseph Gardner Jr., hair
October 1, 1823 dresser
October 20, 1846 Thomas Perkins, merchant
April 1, 1851 Benjamin Brierly
Charles W. Farrington,
August 15, 1853 master mariner
August 17, 1853 William Jelly
Joseph Gardner Jr.,
hairdresser
Charles W. Farrington,
master mariner, & Mary Jane
June 12, 1865 Farrington, his wife
William Wallis
December 3, 1877 William Wallis
Document
Book
Page
Essex County, MA: Probate
File Papers, 1638-1881
Will
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
3901
383
"the land in said Salem, with
the buildings thereon,
Peter E. Copelas & Helena M.
bounded and described as
Copelas
"consideration paid" follows..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
4560
356
"the land in said Salem, with
the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as
"consideration paid" follows..."
Essex County Registry of
Deeds
Deed
4890
128
First Baptist Church in Salem NA
Clarence F. Hamilton & Ada
June 11, 1952 First Baptist Church in Salem F. Hamilton
May 14, 1959 Ada F. Hamilton, widow
"the Estate whereon I now
live situate in said Salem...
being numbered Fifteen on
Beckford Street..."
Source
Peter E. Copelas & Helena M. Peter Copelas Jr. & Barbara
March 12, 1962 Copelas
H. Copelas
"A certain parcel of land,
together with the buildings
thereon, situated on
"consideration paid" Beckford Street in Salem..."
NA
NA
�Inventory No:
SAL.1547
Historic Name:
Browne, Bartholomew House
Common Name:
Gardner, Joseph - Perkins, Thomas House
Address:
15 Beckford St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-528
Year Constructed:
1795
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Federal
Use(s):
Parsonage; Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Religion
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: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Brick; Granite; Stone, Cut
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Assessor's number
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Salem
Town
F o r m Number
Area(s)
1547
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
15 Beckford Street
Historic Name Bartholomew Browne House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1795
H S I Report
Style/Form
Architect/Builder
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Granite, B r i c k
Wall/Trim
W o o d Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates)
1878 - addition to
south
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Setting
good
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Date
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community.
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15 Beckford Street is a 2 1/2-story, clapboarded gablefront dwelling with a two story, low-pitched gable ell dating to 1878
projecting to the south. The front walls o f the foundations are constructed of granite with brick underlying the other walls
and the ell. The gablefront facing the street measures two bays wide and is outlined by a plain wooden watertable,
comerboards and projecting eaves which end in returns. The main entrance is located on the front o f the ell, adjacent to the
main house. The H S I Report indicates that the original entrance was centered on the south side. Fronted by granite steps, the
c. 1860 entry consists o f double doors with upper rectangular glass panes and are capped by a two-light transom. The flat
door hood is supported by a single decorative console with pendant; the other side abuts the house. Windows on the main
house consist o f 6/6 sash with molded surrounds. The fenestration pattern on the ell is irregular with a pair o f 6/6 windows
adjacent to the entrance and a single window centered above. There are two brick chimneys on the north slope in addition to
a gable dormer. Extending behind is a slightly shorter wing, resting on a granite foundation.
The house sits directly on the sidewalk with the area in front o f the ell paved with brick.
HISTORICAL
NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
and
According to research by Historic Salem, Inc., this house was constructed in 1795 for Bartholomew Browne, housewright.
Browne^purchased the land in 1793 from W i l l i a m Pickman. T a x records indicate that Browne was first assessed for a
complete house i n 1795. In 1805 Browne sold the house to his son, Bartholomew B r o w n Jr., also a housewright, for $2200.
| The property was acquired by Joseph Gardner, hairdresser, in 1815, who sold it to Thomas Perkins, chairmaker, in 1823. In
> 1846 Thomas Perkins sold the property for $2500 to Benjamin Brierly, clergyman. Charles Farrington, master mariner,
J purchased the house i n 1853 and sold it to W i l l i a m Wallis in 1865. Upon W a l l i s ' death in 1877, the house was bequeathed to
the First Baptist Church which used the house as a parsonage until 1952. Salem Street Books indicate that the building was
extended and improved in 1878. Later owners included A d a Hamilton (1952-1959) and the Copelas family (1959-?) (Dee
1974). :
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
City of Salem Street Books, 1878.
Dee, Sally. "House Report for 15 Beckford Street", Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc., 1973.
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas o f Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C . E . M a p o f the C i t y o f Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L . J . Atlas o f the C i t v o f Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem C i t y Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance M a p s , 1890, 1906, 1950, 1957, 1965, 1970. [Massachusetts State Library].
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas o f the City o f Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.
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����Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem. Photo: findagrave.com
��First Baptist Church, Salem, Massachusetts on its original foundation
Photo by Frank Cousins
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