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388-390 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970
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House History
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& James F. Hale, grocer
c. 1897
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1897
2017
388-390 Essex Street
grocer
Hale
lawyer
Massachusetts
Salem
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92 Bay View Avenue
Built for
Edward W. Clark
Conductor
Built 1897
Researched and written by Amelia Zurcher
2021
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2021
�House first appears on the atlas map in 1897 and is first listed in the City Directory in 1899.?
Date Purchased
Homeowner
Years of Ownership
Number of Years
Purchase Price
Documents
Referenced
December 1,
1875
Clark E. Caswell
Lizzie S. Caswell
1875-1891
16
$255
March 8, 1891
Edward W. Clark
1891-1906
15
$2,400.00
October 15,
1906
Andrew Fitz
1906-1908
2
1843:291
December 6,
1908
Joseph E. Bush
Ellen M. Bush
1908-1916
8
$1.00 “and other
valuable
considerations paid”
2339:490
Inherited from father,
Andrew Fitz.
August 21, 1916
Susie J. Fitz
Daniel C. Fitz
1916-1923
7
“Consideration paid”
2339:490
May 7, 1923
Mary Ethel Hinkley
Harry W. Hinkley
1923-1925
2
“Consideration paid”
2550:288
The street, formerly known
as Central Avenue, is
renamed to Bay View
Avenue.
February 24,
1925
Alberta W. Allen
Harvey G. Allen
1925-1965
40
“Consideration paid”
August 3, 1966
Gloria A. Wallis
Linzee Wallis
1966-2018
52
“Consideration paid”
March 21, 2018
Susan Eisenhaur
2018
1
“Less than 100
dollars”
2631:365
4477:317
3429:529
18607:115
5382:384
10100:60
36594:164
June 29, 2018
Jeffrey MacBurnie
Dawn MacBurnie
2018-2019
2
$627,500.00
36831:316
July 10, 2019
Nicholas V. Burwell
2019-2020
2
$820,000.00
37653:147
947:14
947.15
1208:190
1371:117
1843:290
Notes
Originally purchased plot
called “Lot 9” in 1875 and a
portion of “Lot 10” added.
Originally 30 Central
Avenue.
A plot of land called “Lot
11” was added to the
property in 1958.
Inherited from father
Harvey G. Allen
Inherited from mother
Gloria Wallis
�March 20, 2020
Alan Lempereur
Michele PekarLempereur
2020+
1+
$785,000.00
38353:013
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House History
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Built for Edward W. Clark
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Built 1897
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1897
2021
92 Bay View Avenue
Clark
conductor
Massachusetts
Salem
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27 Liberty Hill Avenue
Abbie Stowers
and her husband,
John B. Wallace, Blacksmith
Built in 1897
Researched and written by Amanda Eddy
December 2021
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2021
�Table of Deeds
Date
Purchased
Home Owner
Years of
Ownership
Number of
Years
Purchase
Price
Deed
Referenced
Notes
October 31,
1896
Abbie Wallace
John B. Wallace
1896 1907
11
$500
1494-81
Lot 19
purchased
by Abbie
Wallace in
1896**; the
home was
built in 1897.
Abbie
Wallace
passed away
in 1907,
leaving her
husband,
John B.
Wallace, to
execute her
will and
potential sale
of the estate.
November
21, 1907
Catherine T.
Brennan
1907 1953
46
$1
1898-144
$2,400
mortgage.
December
29, 1953
Dorothy A.
Brennan
1953 1956
3
Nominal
consideration
paid, less than
$100
4038-302
Lot 19 (land
with the
house on it
that
Catherine
Brennan
owns) and
Lot B (just
land that
Dorothy
Brennan
owns) are
combined.
December
29, 1953
Thomas F.
Brennan
Catherine T.
Brennan
Dorothy A.
Brennan
1953 1956
3
“For
consideration
paid”
4038-302
Subject to
associated
mortgage
from
November
21, 1907,
Book 1898,
Page 145
August 27,
Joseph R.
1956 -
36
“For
4300-545
Mortgage at
�1956
Dylengoski
Barbara E.
Dylengoski
1992
consideration
paid”
Salem
Savings
Bank records
a mortgage
of $8,800.
(Document
4300-546)
October 21,
1992
William P.
Dylengoski
1992 2019
27
“Nominal
consideration”
11549-17
December
10, 2019
Jordan Ryan
2019 2020
1
$330,000
38100-289
June 26,
2020
Douglas Kuzniar
Joshua Keith
Childs
2020+
1+
$542,500
38654-200
*See note
below table.
*In 1992, Joseph R. and Barbara E. Dylengoski made their son, William P. Dylengoski, a trustee
of their estate, 27 Liberty Hill Avenue. Joseph passed away March 9, 2009, but Barbara E.
(Bowden) Dylengoski didn’t pass away until October 4, 2018. (See document 37362-577 for
2019 transfer of William P. Dylengoski as trustee to owner).
Barbara E. (Bowden) Dylengoski
Courtesy of O’Donnell Funeral Home
Joseph R. Dylengoski
Courtesy of U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
**Lot 19 is a part of the Plan entitled “Land of J.M. Parsons, J.C. Foster, Sur., June 1896.” This document
could not be located.
�SOURCES
�1874 Atlas Plate R
Southeastern Registry of Deeds
�1897 Atlas Plate 009
Southeastern Registry of Deeds
�1906-1938 Atlas Plate 0067
Southeastern Registry of Deeds
�1911 Atlas Plate 0010
Southeastern Registry of Deeds
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labeled “Lot B” is the parcel of land that was
combined with Lot 19 (27 Liberty Hill Avenue.)
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SAL.1752
Historic Name:
Wallace, John B. House
Common Name:
Address:
27 Liberty Hill Ave
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
North Salem
Local No:
27-202
Year Constructed:
c 1897
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Queen Anne
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood Clapboard; Wood Shingle
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
27 L i b e r t y H i l l Avenue i s an u n u s u a l l y w e l l - d e t a i l e d Queen
Anne house f o r t h e a r e a .
I t s t a n d s two s t o r i e s h i g h , w i t h a g a b l e
r o o f , end t o t h e s t r e e t .
The e n t r y i s l o c a t e d t o t h e s o u t h o f t h e
f a c a d e , u n d e r an o r n a t e p e d i m e n t e d p o r t i c o w i t h a t u r n e d b a l u s t r a d e
and t u r n e d s u p p o r t s , and a s p i n d l e f r i e z e s u p p o r t e d by open s t r u t s .
W i t h i n t h e p e d i m e n t i s diamond s h i n g l e w o r k .
A 2 1/2 s t o r y t o w e r
s i t s a t t h e n o r t h e a s t c o r n e r , w i t h a c o n i c a l r o o f and f l a r e a t t h e
base o f t h e s e c o n d s t o r y . The g a b l e end f e a t u r e s a r e c e s s e d
window.
The n o r t h e l e v a t i o n has a w a l l dormer and a o n e - s t o r y
screened porch.
The w a l l s a r e c l a d i n a v a r i e t y o f c l a p b o a r d and
shingle patterns.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
L i k e most o f N o r t h S a l e m , t h i s a r e a was f a r m l a n d u n t i l t h e
mid-19th century.
L i b e r t y H i l l Avenue was n o t l a i d o u t u n t i l t h e
e a r l y 1890s; t h e s t r e e t f i r s t a p p e a r e d i n d i r e c t o r i e s i n 1895-6.
The house was d e p i c t e d on t h e 1897 a t l a s a s t h e p r o p e r t y o f A b b i e
W a l l a c e , and was f i r s t l i s t e d i n t h e s t r e e t d i r e c t o r y o f t h a t y e a r
as v a c a n t .
J o h n B. W a l l a c e , a r e t i r e d b l a c k s m i t h , was l i s t e d i n
t h e 1899 d i r e c t o r y a s t h e h o u s e ' s r e s i d e n t .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
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27 Liberty Hill Avenue, Salem, Ma, 01970
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House History
Description
An account of the resource
Abbie Stowers
and her husband,
John B. Wallace, Blacksmith
Built in 1897
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Built in 1897
House history completed 2021
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Amanda Eddy
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English
1897
2021
27 Liberty Hill Avenue
Blacksmith
Massachusetts
Salem
Stowers
Wallace
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24 Buffum Street
Built for
Ernest F. Symonds
Book-keeper
Descendant of James Symonds
Renowned 17th-century furniture maker
Built in 1897 on land granted to John Symonds,
a master joiner from Norfolk, England
Researched & written by
David Moffat
November 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�I.
The Property, 1665-1736
Throughout Salem’s early history, North Salem was primarily an agricultural area known
as the North Fields (or Northfields) which was largely undeveloped. Development arrived here in
the mid- to late 1800s as the population of Salem grew, but the area did not reach the density it
has today until the 1930s, later than many other parts of the city.
In A Storm of Witchcraft, historian Emerson W. Baker explains how the common division
of land in medieval England, with small villages surrounded by fields for farming divided into
private ownership, was brought in Salem:
Farming was a cooperative activity; the villagers agreed what to plant and when to harvest.
This tradition continued in Salem, where most early settlers lived on the neck on a one- or
two-acre house lot. North Fields lay, logically enough, across the North River, to the north
of the Neck, and South Fields sat to the south of the South River. Residents of the Neck
made a daily trek to farm the ten-acre strips or lots they owned in one of the fields.”1
In the early twentieth century, the antiquarian Sidney Perley studied the deeds of early
Salem in order to construct a map of Salem as it would have appeared in 1700, which was
assembled and edited by the historian James Duncan Phillips in 1937. This map and Perley’s study
of the area provide a sense of how it may have appeared at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Perley states that “when the North field was laid out is unknown, but it must have been
before the town records were begun. Apparently most of the original lots consisted of ten acres
each.”2
A road, roughly following the path of School Street today, went from the horse pasture in
northeast Salem to Trask’s mill in what is today Peabody. The “highway leading into ye North
Field” was roughly equivalent to North Street. Surrounding both sides of this highway was the
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014.
2 Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. I: 1626-1637. Salem, Sidney Perley, 1924. Print, p. 315.
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�land of a joiner named James Symonds. It was on Symonds’ land that Symonds’ descendant built
24 Buffum Street two centuries later.
Symonds land was bordered to the west by a strip of farmland owned by Caleb Buffum, a
carpenter. Farther west was the vast tract of Jonathan Corwin, a merchant and magistrate, and
beyond that, the land of Robert Buffum, where Mack Park is today. To the east, Symonds’ tract
was bordered by John Bliven, a husbandman. When John Bliven died in 1704, his inventory listed
a ten-acre lot “joyning to James Symonds Land” worth £55, and an additional ten-acre lot adjoining
the horse pasture worth £35. His inventory also lists 3 cows, a calf, 8 sheep, and a “breeding sow,”
giving a sense of the livestock which may have been grazing in the area. 3 Like the Buffums, Bliven
was a Quaker.
Farther east, smaller tracts of farmland belonged to brothers Joseph and Jeremiah Neale
and their sister, Lydia Hart, widow of the mariner Jonathan Hart. 4 Another lot farther away
belonged to Joshua Buffum, a carpenter. According to Perley’s research, James Symonds had the
only house in the North Fields, built in 1665 roughly where the Shell Gas Station is on North Street
today, at number 111.
The Symonds family were master joiners who “dominate[d] the furniture-making trade in
Salem.”5 Art historian Benno Forman first attributed several prominent examples of seventeenthcentury furniture to the Symonds in the 1960s, using evidence from the family’s probates. 6 John
Symonds, James’ father, was a joiner who emigrated from Norfolk, England to Salem in the 1630s,
3
Essex County Probates, Probate #2646, 1705. p .5.
Perley, Sidney. “Part of Salem in 1700: #34” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 13. 1909. p. 37.
5
Willoughby, Martha H. “Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shop and Their Customers.” American
Furniture, 2000. pp. 169-84. Chipstone.org.
6
Forman, Benno M. 1968 "The Seventeenth-Century Case Furniture of Essex County". M.A. University of
Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
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�and trained his sons and other apprentices in the trade.7 John died in 1671, but his sons, James and
Samuel, continued the trade into the early eighteenth century.
The pieces attributed to the Symonds workshop are among the finest and most desired
furniture pieces which survive from the seventeenth century. Their signature item is a type of
intricately carved valuables chests, usually measuring around 17 inches tall and 17 inches wide
and 9 inches deep. These pieces tend to be constructed of red or white oak and white pine, with
decorative moldings in red cedar, black walnut, and maple.
Many prominent museums with collections of Early American decorative arts have pieces
attributed to the Symonds workshop. The Wintherthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware has a
valuables chest monogramed for T.B. & S.B. from 1676.8 The Massachusetts Historical Society
in Boston has a chest of drawers from the late seventeenth-century.9 The Metropolitan Museum in
New York City has two valuables chests, one made in 1679, likely for Ephraim and Mary Herrick,
and another made in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. 1011 The Peabody-Essex Museum
in Salem has a valuables cabinet belonging to Joseph and Bathsheba Pope from 1679, painted a
reddish black color. 1213 The museum purchased the chest at auction at Christie’s in 2000 for
$2,422,500.14 The Pope cabinet is directly attributed to James Symonds. The Peabody-Essex
7
“Salem Witch Bureau” Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Online,
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=2309&pid=15
8
“Chest of Drawers (Spice Box or Chest)” Winterthur Museum Collections,
http://museumcollection.winterthur.org/print-record.php?srchfld=irn&name=7688&port=40138
9
Massachusetts Historical Society.
10
“Cabinet” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/1076
11
“Chest of Drawers” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/2005
12
“Valuables Cabinet, 1679” Peabody-Essex Museum Collection Online http://explore-art.pem.org/object/americandecorative-arts/138011/detail
13
“Valuables Cabinet, 1679” Peabody-Essex Museum educator’s guide.
http://teh.salemstate.edu/educatorsguide/pages/pre-contact-pdfs/Pope%20Chest.pdf
14
“The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet,” 21 January 2000. Christie’s,
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/the-joseph-and-bathsheba-pope-carved-and-1729638-details.aspx
�Museum also owns and displays the Putnam Family Cupboard from 1680, also attributed to
James.15 A chest which descended in the Trask family, from around 1690, also attributed to James,
sold at Southeby’s in 2011 for $37,500. 16
When Symonds died in 1714, his executors determined that his real estate “will be spoiled
to devide it there being nine Children to have shears in it.”17 Subsequently, Thomas, Joseph, and
Benjamin Symonds relinquished their shares of the real estate to their brother John. 18
The dwelling house was valued at £40, the barn and the shop were valued at £11. The
“westerly lott with ye highway,” where 24 Buffum stands today, was valued at £45. The easterly
lot and some adjoining marsh were valued at £52. Symonds owned another 30 acres of land, split
evenly between lots described a pond, an orchard, and a hill. These were valued respectively at
£43, £43, and £50. Along with some other small lots, Symonds’ total real estate added up to £323,
a sizeable sum. 19 His moveable goods offer a picture of his work: a level, wedges, two small old
saws, an old auger, a glue pot, and a mortise chisel. His other possessions of value were silver, a
“small peice of Gold,” two old skillets, and a silver spoon. In total, the rest of his estate came to
£29..1.20 A second, more detailed inventory placed the value of “his dwelling house part of a barn
an old shop and ten akres land” at £137.
The second inventory gives a clue as to the appearance of Symonds’ early house. The first
floor consisted of the “Great Lower Room,” with a feather bed. The second floor featured the “Best
15
“Putnam Family Cupboard, 1680”, Peabody-Essex Museum Collection Online http://exploreart.pem.org/object/american-decorative-arts/108889/detail
16
“The Important Trask Family Pilgrim Century Oak, Maple and Walnut Chest with Drawer, attributed to the
Symonds Shop, Salem, Massachusetts, probably James Symonds, circa 1690” Sotheby’s.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/important-americana-including-american-stonewareassembled-by-mr-and-mrs-edwin-hochberg-n08710/lot.225.html
17
Essex County Probates, Probate #27083, 1714. p .4.
18
Ibid. p. 6.
19
Ibid. p. 5.
20
Ibid. p. 7.
�Chamber,” with a mix of feather and straw beds, a great deal of furniture (4 chests of drawers, 2
cupboards, 13 chairs, 3 tables, a joined stool, a box, and a trunk), 2 hourglasses, and some books.
For animals, Symonds owned 30 “old sheep,” 15 lambs, an “old hors,” 3 pigs, and 5 1/3 cows.
This second inventory left the valuation of real estate at £323..10, but raised the value of his other
property to £94..14. 21
II.
The Property, 1736-1836
John Symonds died in 1729, “the principal part” of the estate laying “in lands in the North
feild in Salem”22 His real estate came to £315..13..4. 23 In apportioning John’s widow, Sarah Foster
Symonds, her customary third of the estate, some clues are given to the appearance of the Symonds
house in 1729. Sarah is to have “the easterly lower room in the Dwelling house, the Leantoo
Chamber, [and] the westerly third part of the Sellar.” Clearly either the house that James Symonds
built in 1665 had been improved upon or a new house had been built in the interim. A new barn is
mentioned, which Samuel Symonds built. 24
In 1736, James Symonds, aged 19, and Anna Symonds, aged 15, both the children of John,
chose Joseph Pickering to be their legal guardian, as they were minors. 25 Sarah Foster Symonds
died in 1743.26
Phillips’ speculative map of Salem in 1780 shows only Robert Foster’s blacksmith shop
and an empty space in the area called “Buffum’s Hill.” 27 James Symonds was a mariner who
21
Ibid pp. 10-12.
Essex County Probates, Probate #27092, 1729. p. 8.
23 Ibid., p. 19.
24 Ibid., p. 23.
25
Essex County Probates, Probate #27084, 1736. p. .2.
26 Perley (1924), p. 393.
27
Phillips (1937), supplemental map, “Map of Salem, About 1780.”
22
�attended Rev. Barnard’s meetinghouse, where he owned 1/3 of a pew. James Symonds died in
1790. He may be the James Symonds, a ship’s cooper, who died on a ship returning from Aux
Cayes, Haiti, under Capt. Jonathan Tucker. 28 His estate was left to his widow, Mary, John Symonds
III, a shoreman, and John Symonds V, a yeoman. 29 James Symonds’ house, barn, well, along with
a half an acre “situated in the North Fields” were valued at £80. An adjoining 3 ½ acres was valued
at £29:15, a half acre opposite at £6, and two acres of pasture on the main road in the recentlyindependent town of Danvers, £9. His land totaled 6 ½ acres worth £124. His personal estate
included 6 silver tea spoons, a silver spoon, nine earthenware plates, two teapots with cups and
saucers, a cross-cut saw, two flat irons, a hand saw, an ax, two small arms, and a number of small
articles and clothing, totaling £30:2. 30
John Symonds’ nephew, Nathaniel Symonds, became a potter and married Jane Phipps.
Nathaniel’s oldest son, William was born around 1749. William Symonds, a cordwainer and potter,
married Eunice Gardner in 1772. His oldest son, William Phipps Symonds I, was born in 1773. 31
III.
The Property, 1836-1897
Benjamin Ropes Symonds I was born in 1801 to William Phipps Symonds I, a merchant,
and Margaret Ropes, who were married in 1798. Benjamin’s older brother, William Phipps
Symonds II, was born in 1799 and became a cordwainer and a shoemaker. William married Nancy
Phelps in 1825, they had five children, only two of whom survived to adulthood. William died in
28
Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1916. Deaths, p.
262.
29
Essex County Probates, Probate #27085, 1790. pp. 4-5.
30
31
Ibid.
Perley (1924), p.395.
�1850 and Nancy died in 1887. 32 His younger brother, Ephraim G., became a cordwainer, and
married Priscilla Ellen Quiner of Beverly in 1834. He died in 1885 and she lived until 1906. 33
Benjamin R. Symonds I married Elisabeth R. Shatswell April 11, 1829 and they had six
children together. Benjamin Ropes Symonds II, the oldest, was born in Nov. 22, 1829, followed
by Thomas Shatswell, Joseph, George C., who died in infancy, and Elisa S. 34 In 1842, the couple
were living at 101 North Street and Benjamin R. Symonds I was working as a cordwainer. 35
Buffum Street was developed in 1836, when the estate of Jonathan Buffum, who owned
the left side of Buffum Street from what is today number 13 to number 41. 36 Buffum, a tailor and
yeoman, built the Federal mansion at 25-27 Buffum Street around 1818.37 Buffum died aged 81 in
1835.38 His children inherited various houselots, which they sold off. The left side of Buffum Street
developed quickly. Buffum’s daughter, Anna Frye, sold a lot to Mark Sanborn, a tanner, teamster,
and hair dealer, around 1836.39 In 1844, Jonathan’s son Edward Buffum built a house at 21 Buffum
Street.40 17 Buffum Street, the house directly across from number 24, was built in 1849 by Joseph
Towne, a bookkeeper on land that had passed rapidly from Israel Buffum to Mark Sanborn to
Nathaniel Horton. 41
An 1851 map of Salem by Henry McIntyre, shows only two houses on the right side of
Buffum Street between Randall and Mason, that of N. Horton at 22 Buffum and C. Buffum at 16
Perley (1924), p. 398.
Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 1842 Salem Directory, p. 101.
36 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1424, “16 Buffum St.- The Caleb Buffum-Nathaniel Very House.”
37 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1397, “25-27 Buffum St.- The Jonathan Buffum House.”
38 Vital Records, Deaths, p. 123.
39 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1391, “15 Buffum St.- The Mark Sanborn House.”
40 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1394, “21 Buffum St.- The Edward Buffum House.”
41 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1392, “17 Buffum St.- The Joseph Towne House.”
32
33
�Buffum.42 Nathaniel Horton, a currier, built 22 Buffum in a late-period Greek Revival style in
1850.43 Caleb Buffum, a shoe-maker, built 16 Buffum street as a Federal-style house with
Italianate trim around 1845. 44
In 1855, Benjamin R. Symonds I worked as a grocer at 109 North Street and lived at 107
North Street, where Benjamin R. Symonds, Jr., boarded.45 In 1869, Symonds I was working as a
grocer at 79 Federal Street and living at 14 Barr Street. 46 Benjamin R. Symonds II was boarding
at 1 Holly Street, along with Mrs. Lucy W. Holt and dressmaker Lucy Jane Holly in the home of
Mrs. Nathan Poole. 47
In September of that year, Benjamin R. Symonds II purchased a plot of land on the corner
of Buffum and Randall Streets from Nathaniel Horton for $2,200. The parcel measured 150 feet
by 99 feet square. 48
The Atlas of the City of Salem in 1874 shows the property at the southeast corner of Buffum
and Randall streets as belonging to B.R. Symonds, with a house and another structure at the back
of the property. Nathaniel Horton still owns the lot to the south. 49
Benjamin R. Symonds II was also a grocer. There were roughly nine grocers in Salem in
1855, and 73 in 1886.50 Benjamin had retired by that later year, but three Symonds, cousins Joseph
and Thomas, and Benjamin’s brother, Thomas Shatswell, who all ran their own grocery stores on
42
McIntyre, Henry. “Map of the City of Salem, Mass. From an actual survey By H. Mc. Intyre. Cl. Engr.” Map,
1851. Henry McIntyre, Salem, MA. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/15108
43MHC MACRIS, SAL.1422, “22 Buffum St.- The Nathaniel Horton House.”
44 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1424, “16 Buffum St.- The Caleb Buffum-Nathaniel Very House.”
45 1855 Salem Directory, p. 145.
46 1869 Salem Directory, pp. 88, 135, 144, 161, 187.
47 Ibid.
48 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 782:13. 16 Sep 1869.
49 Busch, Edward. Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. From actual Survey & Official records. G.M. Hopkins
& Co. Philadelphia, 1874.
50 Salem Directory, 1886, p. 395.
�North Street. With the exception of two grocers on Mason Street and Edmund F. Night at 86 North
Street, all of North Salem was served primarily by the Symonds. 51
He married Sarah Cox Fillebrown on July 13, 1856. They had four children, Benjamin R.
Symonds III, born 1857, became a physician and married Ida E. Shapleigh in December of 1885.
He died in October of 1912 and she was still living in 1924. They had four children, Walter
Shapleigh, Bertrand Ropes, Helene, and Benjamin Shapleigh. 52 James F. was born in 1860 but
lived only until 1867. Apphia Chesler was born 1868 and married married Arthur L. Pattee of
Peabody in October of 1898. 53 The youngest child, Ernest F. Symonds, was born Oct. 3, 1872.
In the late nineteenth century, the foot of Buffum Street by the North River was an
industrial area, with three curriers and a tanner occupying the area south of Mason Street in 1886. 54
Benjamin’s cousin, Jonathan Shove Symonds, a city assessor, lived at the other end of the street
at 67 Buffum Street with his son, George Gardiner Symonds, a paperhanger. 55
Benjamin R. Symonds II died April 22, 1890. The 1895-1896 Directory of Salem shows
that 26 Buffum Street belonged to Mrs. S.C. Symonds.56 Ernest F. Symonds, then 23, was a clerk
at Salem National Bank, and lived at home. Sarah Cox Symonds died May 22, 1903, and the 1914
Directory lists 26 Buffum Street as vacant. 57 In 1915, John T. Street, a clerk, was living in the
house.58
IV.
Ernest F. Symonds, 1897-1914
Ibid.,
Perley (1924) p. 401.
53 Perley (1924) p. 400.
54 Salem Directory, 1886, p. 32.
55 Ibid., pp. 351-352.
56 Salem Directory, 1895-6, p. 109.
57 Salem Directory, 1914, p. 417.
58 Salem Directory, 1915, p. 391.
51
52
�Ernest F. Symonds, the youngest child Benjamin R. Symonds II purchased the land on
which he built his house from the estate of his late father for one dollar and other valuable
consideration paid on June 5, 1897. His mother, Sarah C. Symonds, and siblings Benjamin R.
Symonds III and Apphia C. Symonds, and Ida E. Symonds, Benjamin’s wife.59
The house at 24 Buffum Street first appears in the 1897 Atlas of Salem, as part of the estate
of B.R. Symonds.60 It is an eclectic and handsome Colonial Revival house, with a porch supported
by six Tuscan columns and a Federal-style urn finial on the post at the top of the entrance stairs.
Above the porch is a dentilled cornice. A half-turret runs up the left side of the façade to the second
story. A bay window sits above the roof of the porch on the right side of the second story. The
fenestration on the North side of the house is very interesting, with an oriel window looking onto
26 Buffum Street and a square diamond-paned window set into the exposed chimney. The eave
has a modillioned cornice and the hipped roof featured two dormers.
Ernest F. Symonds was a bank clerk. The 1897-98 Directory lists him as the bookkeeper
at the Salem National Bank, which was at 114 Washington Street. 61 A 1900 ad in the Salem
Directory lists Symonds fourth among the personnel at the bank, after the president, the cashier,
and the assistant cashier. 62
Ernest F. Symonds married Jessie M. Hatch on June 16, 1897 and they had three children,
Sarah Cox, born June 2, 1901, Helen, born July 8, 1905, and an unnamed son, who was stillborn
on Nov. 4, 1907.63 By 1906, Symonds was working as a bookkeeper in Revere. 64
59
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1515:443. 14 Jun 1897.
1897 Atlas of Salem.
61 Salem Directory, 1897-98, p. 333.
62 Salem Directory, 1900, p. 1263.
63 Ibid. p. 401.
64 Salem Directory, 1906, p 293.
60
�In 1901, Ernest took out a $3,500 mortgage against the property from Aroline C. Gove, a
noted philanthropist and daughter of famous nineteenth-century marketer of medical conconctions
Lydia Pinkham.65 The document for the mortgage describes the property:
“Beginning at the southern corner thereof and running northeasterly by land now or
formerly of Horton one hundred and eight (108) feet more or less to land of the estate of
Benjamin R. Symonds; then turning and running northwesterly by said land of the estate
of Benj. R. Symonds thirty seven (37) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by
land of the estate of Benj. R. Symonds one hundred and eight (108) feet more or less to
Buffum Street, there turning and running south easterly by said Buffum Street thirty seven
(37) feet to the point begun at.”66
A 1911 Atlas shows 24 Buffum as belonging to E.F. Symonds, 67 and the 1914 Salem
Directory shows Ernest F. Symonds as the owner. 68 In January of 1913, Ernest transferred the
property to his wife, Jessie. 69
Bessie C.I. Hussey, 1914-1928
Jessie Hatch Symonds, wife of Ernest F., sold the property to Love B. Ingalls, in September
of 1914.70 Ten days later, Aroline Gove transferred the mortgage to Ingalls’ daughter, Bessie C.I.
Hussey.71 On December 1 st, Bessie C.I. Hussey made “an open, peaceable, and unopposed entry
on the premises described in said mortgage, for the purpose, by her declared, of foreclosing on
Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern
Massachusetts, Vol. III. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908. p. 1386.
66 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1648:462. 7 Aug 1901.
67 1911 Atlas.
68 1914 Salem Directory, p. 317.
69 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2193:176. 20 Jan 1913.
70 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2274:220. 10 Sep 1914.
71 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2271:100. 14 Sep 1914.
65
�said mortgage for breach of condition thereof.” 72 The 1915 shows 24 Buffum Street as vacant and
states that Ernest F. Symonds had removed to Boston. 73 Love B. Ingalls, also referred to as Sarah
L. Ingalls, was the widow of Seth H. Ingalls, and had previously lived at 129 North Street. 74
VI.
Lucy B. Jones, 1928-1935.
In July of 1928, Bessie and Fred Hussey conveyed the property to Lucy B. Jones, wife of
Ralph E. Jones, for consideration paid. The couple received a mortgage of $7,990 from Salem
Savings Bank at the time they purchased the house. 75 Ralph and Lucy Jones received a further
mortgage of $1500 from David V. Nason in September of that year. 76 Ralph moved between a
number of jobs during his residency, beginning as an accountant in 1929, 77 then as a advertising
manager 1930-1932.78 In 1933, 1934, and 1935 he was a salesman in Boston. 79 In 1935, Salem
Savings Bank took possession of the house. 80 Roland Stanley, treasurer of the Salem Savings Bank,
attested that “default has been made in payment of interest and taxes.” An auction was held to sell
the house, subject to “all unpaid taxes, assessments or other multiple liens.” 81 The following year,
Ralph returned to being an accountant and the couple moved to 77 Linden Street. 82
VII.
72
Frank T. McDonald and Rachel G. Barry, 1935-1941
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2280:477. 1 Dec 1914.
Salem Directory, 1915, p. 395.
74 Salem Directory, 1916, p. 300.
75 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2772:448. 16 Jul 1928.
76 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2781:473. 25 Sep 1928.
77 Salem Directory, 1929, p. 181.
78 Salem Directory, 1930, p. 336.
79 Salem Directory, 1933-34, p. 213.
80 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 3043:005. 23 Jul 1935.
81 Ibid.
82 Salem Directory, 1936, p. 212.
73
�In 1936, 24 Buffum Street stood vacant. 83 The following year, a leather worker, Frank T.
McDonald, and his wife, Florence E. moved in and remained until 1940. In that year, Mrs. Rachel
G. Barry, a nurse at the Lamp Division of Hygrade Sylvania, moved in and lived there until 1942.84
VIII. The Constantines, 1942-2004
Lawrence H. Constantine purchased the foreclosed property from the Salem Savings Bank
in August of 1942, and secured a mortgage of $5,200 from Harris S. Knight. 85 Lawrence H.
Constantine, a car salesman, married Katherine L. Donovan between 1926 and 192986. Katherine
had been born January 28, 1900. In 1926, Constantine was at Broad Street market and lived at 46
Broad Street.87 By 1929, he had gotten a job as a salesman at McKenzie Moto Company at 65a
Bridge Street, where he worked until 1936. 8889 In that year, he became the president of Naumkeag
Chevrolet, which as at 17 Canal Street. 90 By 1952, he had become the President and General
Manager of Naumkeag Chevrolet, a role he continued in until his death in September of 1960. 9192
Harris Knight, from whom Constantine received a mortgage was the treasurer of Naumkeag
Chevrolet and chairman of the board of directors of the Merchants National Bank of Salem. 93
The Constantines had three daughters, Muriel, born in 1922, Rosamund, born in 1924, and
Anne, born in 1933.
1936 Salem Directory, p. 412.
Salem Directory, 1940, p. 31.
85 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 3308:145, 15 Aug 1942.
86 Salem Directory, 1926, p. 260; Salem Directory, 1929, p. 216.
87 Salem Directory, 1926, p. 260.
88 Salem Directory, 1929, p. 216.
89 Salem Directory, 1930, p. 56.
90 Salem Directory, 1937, p. 89.
91 Salem Directory, 1959, p. 162.
92 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 16697:170, 20 Mar 2001.
93 Salem Directory, 1959, p. 305.
83
84
�Muriel received a teaching degree from Salem State College in 1944 and began teaching
at the John Brown Elementary School in Manchester, Massachusetts. In 1946, Muriel married
Capt. Raymond H. Bates, who was in the United States Navy. 94 Raymond’s father, George J. Bates,
served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1918 to 1924, and then served 13 years
as the mayor of Salem, from 1924 until 1937. From 1937 until his untimely death in an airplane
crash in 1949, Bates was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. 95 Bates’ son, William
H. Bates, took Bates’ office and occupied it until his untimely death in 1966. 96 Raymond,
subsequently, was the son and the brother of a Representative in Congress for almost thirty years.
Raymond and Muriel Bates purchased a house on Trinity Road in Marblehead for $36,000
on June 3, 1968.97 She lived there until she passed away in 2013.
Rosamund Constantine also received a teaching degree from Salem State College and
taught elementary school. She married Henry J. Rodden, who was a salesman for Armour & Co.,
a meat wholesaler at 260 Bridge Street.98 She lived much of her life in Beverly but moved to
Colorado, where she passed away in Castle Rock in 2009.99
Like her two sisters, Anne L. Constantine also became a school teacher. She married
Harold Sabean, a salesman. She passed away in 1966 at age 33.100
Katherine deeded the land to her daughters, Rosamund Rodden and Muriel Bates, as joint
tenants in 2001. Katherine L. Constantine passed away in April of 2004, at the age of 104.101
Obituary, “Muriel Constantine Bates, Nov. 11, 1922- April 19, 2013,” Murphy Funeral Home, Salem.
“BATES, George Joseph (1891-1949).” Biographical Directory of United States Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000232
96 “BATES, William Henry (1917-1966).” Biographical Directory of United States Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000239
97 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 5532:755. 3 Jun 1968.
98 Salem Directory, 1949, p. 244.
99 Obituary, “Rosamund A. Rodden, September 16, 1924-October 2, 2009”, The Salem News.
100 “Anne Constantine Sabean” Findagrave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47024221
101 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 28914:11. 8 Sep 2009.
94
95
�IX.
2004 to the Present
Aaron A. Sasseville, a construction worker, and Tara, his wife, purchased the home from
Rosamund Rodden and Muriel Bates in 2005.102 After 2009, the property was owned for short
periods of time by various well-to-do professionals as the houses’ property value rose. Katherine
Curley, a journalist, and Matthew Kazman, a software specialist, purchased the property in 2009
and sold it three years later to Paul Helms, an editor, and Jane Helms, a publisher. 103 Paul and Jane
Helms moved to Roslindale and sold the property in 2014 to Sarah N.K. Teasdale, a physician,
and Pedro Poitevin, a mathematics professor at Salem State University. 104 Teasdale and Poitevin
moved to Marblehead and sold the property to Danielle K. Capalbo in December of 2017. 105
X.
Summary
24 Buffum Street is a fine Colonial Revival house built in 1897 by Ernest F. Symonds, a
middle-class bank clerk and book-keeper, on land that had belonged to his family over two
centuries before. After Symonds’ mortgage was foreclosed, the mortgage holder’s mother, a
widow, purchased the house and lived there for 13 years. In 1928, an aspirational accountant and
his wife moved in, but as he shuffled between jobs they were unable to keep up with their mortgage
payments and taxes, so the house was repossessed in 1935. The bank rented the property to a series
of two working-class tenants, a leather worker and then a nurse at the Sylvania plant in the years
leading up to World War II. Lawrence Constantine, the president of Salem’s Chevrolet dealership
for over twenty years, purchased the house and raised three daughters who became teachers.
102
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 23393:406. 24 Feb 2005.
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 28914:11. 8 Sep 2009.
104 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 33461:345. 1 Aug 2014.
105 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 36424:435. 17 Dec 2017.
103
�Constantine’s widow, Katherine, lived in the house until 2004, when she died at age 104. She lived
at 24 Buffum Street for over 60 years and experienced the whole twentieth century in Salem. After
the Constantines, a construction worker owned the property for a short period, followed by short
residences by upper-middle-class and upper-class professionals.
TABLE 1- Ownership History of 24 Buffum Street
Date
17 Dec
2017
1 Aug
2014
14 Dec
2012
8 Sep
2009
24 Feb
2005
26 Mar
2001
15 Aug
1942
15 Aug
1942
23 Jul
1935
25 Sep
1928
16 Jul
1928
14 Sep
1914
10 Sep
1914
20 Jan
1913
Conveyed to
Danielle K.
Capalbo
Sarah N.K.
Teasdale and
Pedro Poitevin
Paul C. Helms and
Jane Helms
Matthew Kazman
and Katherine M.
Curley
Aaron K.
Sasseville and
Tara C. Sasseville
Rosamund A.
Rodden and
Muriel C. Bates
Harris S. Knight
(Mtg.)
Lawrence H.
Constantine
The Salem Savings
Bank
David V. Nason
(Mtg)
Lucy B. Jones,
wife of Ralph E.
Jones
Bessie C.I. Hussey
(Mtg)
Love B. Ingalls
Jessie Hatch
Symonds
Conveyed by
Sarah N.K. Teasdale
and Pedro Poitevin
Paul C. Helms and
Jane Helms
Amount
$593,000
Book Page
36424 435
$512,000
33461 345
Matthew Kazman and
Katherine M. Curley
Aaron K. Sasseville
and Tara C.
Sasseville
Rosamund A.
Rodden and Muriel
C. Bates
Katherine L.
Constantine
$462,500
32019 61
$430,000
28914 11
$365,000
23993 406
-
16997 170
Lawrence H.
Constantine
The Salem Savings
Bank
Ralph E. Jones and
Lucy B. Jones
Ralph E. Jones and
Lucy B. Jones
Fred Hussey and
Bessie C.I. Hussey
$5,200
3308
145
-
3308
144
-
3043
5
$1500
2772
448
Consideration
Paid
2772
448
Aroline C. Gove
-
2271
100
Jessie Hatch
Symonds
Ernest F. Symonds
Consideration 2274
Paid
Other
2193
considerations
220
176
�7 Aug
1901
5 Jun
1897
Aroline C. Gove,
wife of William H.
Gove (Mtg.)
Ernest F. Symonds
Ernest F. Symonds
$3,500
1648
462
Estate of Benjamin R. $1 and other
1515
Symonds
considerations
443
�TOWN RECORDS
OF
SALE
M^,
MASSACHUSE
VOLUME I
1634-1659
SALEM, MASS.
THE ESSEX INSTITUTE
1868
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own towns,
not repugnant to the laws and orders here
established by the General Court ; as also to lay mulcts
and penalties for the breach of these orders, and to levy
and distrain the same, not exceeding the sum of xx s ;
also to choose their own particular officers, as constables,
surveyors for the highways, and the like
and because
much business is like to ensue to the constables of several
towns, by reason they are to make distresses, and gather
fines, therefore that every town shall have two constables,
where there is need, that so their office may not be a
burthen unto them, and they may attend more carefully
upon the discharge of their office, for which they shalbe
liable to give their accompts to this Court when they
shalbe called thereunto."
;
The following copy of the first records of Salem is
from the original. The spelling, punctuation, &c, will
be strictly preserved, and passages erased or interlined in
the original will be retained, and indicated by being enclosed, the former between brackets and stars, and the
latter between double parallels.
The missing portion of the Book of Records from Oct.
1, 1634 to Dec. 26, 1636, is supplied from the Book of
Grants.
Extract
[The
taken,
first
is
part of the
the 4
[is to]
Book
in the handwriting of
The
One
from
th
first
the
Booh of
Grants.
of Grants, from which this extract
is
Emanuel Downing.]
of the 8 th moneth 1634
day seaventhmght next the Market
at
Salem
begyn, and to continew from 9 a Clock in the
morning
[until] 4 of the
Clock
19. of the 11 th
after noone.
moneth 1634
After discourse about deviding of 10 acre
lotts, Its or-
dered that the least family shall haue 10 acres, but greater
familyes
may
[haue] more according to y r nombers
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out
&
sett
vp togeather
five shillings for
shall
pay a fyne or penaltye of
every such trespas, soe
except such trees as grow in their
own
left as
aforesaid
qpp lott or growncle,
any fell any trees w th in the said limits and lett
them lye vnoccupied for the space of one moneth, that yt
shalbe lawfull for any other man observing the order
And
if
aforesaid to take the said tree to his
The Informer
to
owne
<pp vse
haue one halfe of the fyne, the other
to the towne.
By
towne representative the 20 th of the tenth
moneth 1636
r
Its ordered that m Hathorne shall haue one howse lott
of an acre on this side the Rocks towards the Millf being
the sixt lott from the Marshalls howse and to be laid out
by the former layers out
the
Original Record, Dec. 26,
[This,
which
is
1636
to
July 12, 1637.
the earliest of the original records
now
in existence,
Ralph Fogg, and is called by him the "Waste
Book." The frequency with which erasures and interlineations, and
short-hand minutes occur in it, show that it was intended to be more
fairly and correctly copied out into another book, but if such a book
was used, it is now lost. Ralph Fogg at this same time kept the records of the Quarter Court for Salem, then just established; and there
he first used a waste-book and then copied out the record in a corrected
form, into another book. (See Essex Inst. Hist. Collections, vol. vii,
The short-hand minutes have, with some difficulty,
p. 238, Note.)
been deciphered, and their meaniug, though as it happens of no special
importance, will be given as they occur. There may be seen in a letter from Edward Howes to John Winthrop, jr., Nov. 23, 1632 (Mass.
Hist. Collections, 4th ser., vol. vi, p. 481) an alphabet of short-hand
characters, very similar to that used by Ralph Eogg, described as invented by Mr. (Rev. Thomas) Archisden. The writer of the letter
remarks that "they are approved of in Cambridge to be the best as yet
is
in the handwriting of
jThis was a corn mill owned by Capt. Trask, and was near where the Essex Depot is in South Danvers. Capt. Trask, in 1(340 built another mill about half a mile
lower down the river, and soon after removed it to a place (uoav Frye's Mills) a mile
below the first mill. See Essex Registry, book 20, leaf 124.
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invented and they are not yet printed nor common." The system of
short-hand used by John Hull in his Diary, and ascribed to Theophilus
Metcalfe as the inventor (Am. Antiq. Soc. Col. Ill, p. 279), is evidently
founded on that of Mr. Archisden and this, with some variations con;
;
tinued to be used by ministers and others for more than a century.
Though of course
inferior to the
modern system,
it
was, in
its original
form, remarkably simple and ingenious.]
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John Pikworth
John Pride
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James Standish
James Smith
John Stone
John Shepley
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John Symonds
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Abram Temple
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Buffum Street
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24 Buffum Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built for
Ernest F. Symonds
Book-keeper
Descendant of James Symonds
Renowned 17th-century furniture maker
Built in 1897 on land granted to John Symonds,
a master joiner from Norfolk, England
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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1897, 2018
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David Moffat
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English
1897
2018
24
Buffum
ernest
History
House
James
John
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Symonds
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Bott's Court
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6 Bott's Court, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built in 1897 for Daniel Low & Company
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1897
6
6 Bott's
Bott's
Colonial Revival
Daniel
Daniel Low
jeweler
Low
wood