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46 Dearborn Street
Built for
Pickering Dodge, Jr.
Gentleman
and his wife
Anna Storer Colman
c. 1837
Researched and written by
Sally McMurry
November 2023
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2023
�46 Dearborn Street
Salem City Assessor’s Office, Patriot Properties
�Note: The present Dearborn Street was laid out in 1810 and until about 1830 it was called
Liberal Street. For a long time this property did not have a house number. It was often
described as being “at the foot of Dearborn Street.” Around 1900 it was numbered 40.
After subdivision in 1953 it became # 46.
Summary:
The lot where the house now sits was part of an eleven acre parcel owned by Samuel
Silsbee and his heirs from c. 1803 to 1836. About three acres south of Dearborn Street
were hived off in 1818 and divided among Silsbee heirs into three separate lots. After a
brief time in other hands, in 1836 these lots were united under one owner, Pickering Dodge
Jr.. Though there has been speculation that part of the dwelling was built in the late 1700s,
there is no available documentary evidence for any dwelling before Pickering Dodge Jr.
acquired the land.
Pickering Dodge Jr., heir to his father’s trading fortune, likely built the house and
established elaborate gardens on the three acre lot. He and his family used the dwelling as
a summer residence. In 1850 he sold the property to John Bertram. Bertram (1796-1882),
born on Jersey, Channel Islands, made a large fortune in maritime trade. Bertram and his
family also used the dwelling as a summer residence and employed a “farmer,” Michael
McCue, on site. Bertram maintained Dodge’s ornamental plantings and landscape design.
After he died in 1882, his wife and children inherited the property. In 1897 the Bertram
heirs sold the three acres, including the house, to Everett Whipple (1860-1946). Whipple
did live full time at the property, along with various family members. As late as 1935 the
ornamental landscape and plantings were still intact. They were considered notable
enough to merit documentation by the US Historic American Buildings Survey. In 1953 the
parcel was subdivided, reserving the lot and dwelling at present # 46 for two surviving
Whipple siblings for their lifetime. As lots were sold off and new dwellings built, the
landscaping disappeared and only the dwelling at # 46 remained from Pickering Dodge Jr.’s
estate.
Construction History:
Accounts of the house’s construction history are inconsistent. Architectural
historian Bryant Tolles in his Architecture in Salem (268-9) suggested that there was some
evidence for a c. 1790 core. He cited “structural evidence” (with no details) and a date of
“1790” scratched somewhere on a wall (also giving no details). This is doubtful for several
reasons. Samuel Silsbee’s 1804 property inventory mentions buildings in central Salem, but
only describes his “North�ields” property as “land.” These inventories were important legal
documents and would very likely have mentioned buildings if present. As well, an 1820
map of Salem shows no buildings at the location.
In the end Tolles attributed the original dwelling to John C. Lee and assigned a date
of c. 1834. However the Property Ownership History clearly establishes that John C. Lee
did not purchase the present house lot until 1836. Moreover, he bought the lot for only
$120, a low price if it had a dwelling on it already, and just two months later turned it over
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�to Pickering Dodge Jr. with no appreciable price difference, from which it can be inferred
that Lee had not built on it. 1
Tolles thought that an original house was extensively altered by Pickering Dodge Jr.:
he wrote that “It is from the period of [Pickering Dodge Jr’s] ownership that the Greek
Revival features (end Doric porticos, closed pediment dormers, closed, pilastered side
entrance porch, etc.) almost certainly date.” In other words, Tolles thought that the
“original” portion of the house was built in two stages: a core in 1834 by John C. Lee and the
Greek Revival features after 1836 by Pickering Dodge Jr.
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) report (1935) declared, without
giving sources, that the original house was a story and a half and built in 1837 by David
Lord, a noted master builder of Salem. Lord was certainly known to the Dodge family
because he had worked on their house at 29 Chestnut Street. HABS also stated that the
house was later raised to its present two and a half stories, but was ambiguous as to the
date of this presumed alteration.
Both Tolles and the HABS report hint at a sequence in which a modest core was
severely altered. Since the deeds give no indication at all that any building stood here
before Pickering Dodge Jr. purchased the property in September 1836, it is a puzzle to
understand why such a wealthy man would trouble to build a small house in 1837 -employing a master builder known for �ine work-- and then radically enlarge it. Research in
the tax records and Phillips Library collections yields no clues at all. As far as structural
evidence goes, there does not appear to be extra support added in the basement for a full
extra story. Indeed, it appears that the opposite occurred. From the exterior, we can see
that the two-story southwest side entrance could well have been an addition, because it
awkwardly squeezes the window frames on either side (even accounting for shutters).
However, this alteration could have been independent of other changes; it was not
uncommon in Salem for people to extend their entryways in this manner. At any rate when
Dodge sold the property to John Bertram in 1850 the price was over $6,000, which (even
accounting for the garden with many valuable built features and special plants) strongly
suggests that by then the house was the grand two story porticoed structure we see from
the street today.
Based on available documentation at this time, we can be fairly con�ident that the
house was built around 1837, and we can state with less con�idence that the original
portion was two stories with front and rear porticos. The entry and dormers probably
would have appeared before 1851.
Sometime between 1877 and 1883 the eastern side received a two-story addition.
This addition is clearly visible in several 1885 photographs from the Salem Streets
collection. The 1897 Plan gives measurements and shows the house with this �irst eastern
Tolles, Architecture in Salem, 268-9; PDF �ilename: 1804 Samuel Silsbee probate inventory, Dearborn St 46,
obtained via Ancestry; PDF �ilename: 1820 Saunders map of Salem Dearborn St 46; Property Ownership
History.
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�addition, which extended only nine feet beyond the west portion. Therefore the current
eastern portion of the house must have been built in two phases. 2 By 1911 the footprint
had formed its current shape, so the portion beyond the nine foot mark was added early in
the 20th century. 3
One other alteration not mentioned by Tolles is con�irmed by the 1935 HABS photo,
and that is the disappearance of the rear porch and subsequent enclosure. The 1885
photos and the 1935 photo (#2) show an open lower level porch leading to extended
central stair down to the ground level. It seems that the original pocket doors (which
would have led out on a level to the porch) were reused. This enclosure occurred sometime
between 1935 and 1957.
The interior was altered too. In the rear ground �loor room of the original building
there appear to be remains of a partition spanning the room from the right side of the
�ireplace to the rear wall. Directly above this (i.e. on the second �loor) is a partition that
crowds the door framing and the �ireplace, suggesting that it was inserted at some point.
Possibly there was a partition earlier on the ground �loor too. It seems likely that these
changes took place when the �irst eastern addition went up, because only with that extra
space would it make sense to place the partition where it is located. In the basement it
looks as if a good portion of the east foundation wall was removed, presumably when the
eastern addition was put on. Brick piers and a large summer beam add support where this
wall was removed. On the two �loors above, parts of the exterior wall must have been
removed too, to create a larger room on the rear side. The attic also has signs of
recon�iguration but time did not permit investigation. There are rooms, closets, wallpaper,
outlets, etc. so it seems clear that these rooms were inhabited at some time, possibly by
servants.
Whatever the construction sequence or technique, it is worth noting that the
original building (though intended as a semi-rural retreat) conformed to a well established
type in urban Salem: the dwelling with gable end to the street and entrance in the long side,
facing a yard. As it appeared before the eastern wing add-ons and before the rear porch
was enclosed, the dwelling blended a common Salem vernacular form with a layer of
emphatic Greek Revival elements that expressed an up to date sensibility. Its later layers
were fanciful (the rear portico) and utilitarian (the eastern additions).
2 Another oddity is that the 1897 Plan shows four columns in the front. The present columns rest on a cement
base, so perhaps one was omitted at some point? It is also unclear where there would have been a stair to the
attic before the eastern wing was added.
3 Tolles says that the present eastern wing was added in 1929, but he doesn’t give evidence.
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�The Silsbee Family, 1804-1836
Ownership History:
The present property lot was carved from an eleven acre parcel in Salem’s “North
Fields” in a complicated process shown in the Property Ownership History for 46 Dearborn
Street. The farthest back it can be traced with con�idence is 1803, when Samuel Silsbee of
Salem died. His 1804 probate inventory included “A Lot of Land containing about eleven
acres situated in the North�ield so called,” valued at $1650. 4 This property came to his
widow Martha Silsbee during her lifetime. After Martha passed away in 1818, her three
children divided the property in a series of complex legal documents. 5 For our purposes
the key result was that the three heirs each acquired a small, long, narrow parcel with river
frontage on the south side of Dearborn Street, then called Liberal Street. The three lots sat
side by side and each had about an acre. The center parcel is where the present # 46
Dearborn house sits; in 1836 this parcel was consolidated with those on either side under
Pickering Dodge Jr.’s ownership. (See 46 Dearborn Parcel Map)
Pickering Dodge, 1836-1850
The three riverside parcels were bought in 1836 by Pickering Dodge, Jr. (18041863). He set about building a house, very likely at least starting, if not completing the
house in 1837, and developing gardens that eventually extended along the river, Dearborn
Street, and the western property line.
Pickering Dodge, Jr. was the son of a very prominent Salem trader, Pickering Dodge
Sr. Pickering Jr. grew up on the fabled Chestnut Street and attended a “fashionable boys’
school” there. He attended Harvard College, though he apparently did not complete a
course of study. In 1826 he married Anna Storer Colman, daughter of prominent minister
Henry Colman. The couple had �ive children and lived primarily on Chestnut Street, using
the North Salem property as a summer house. Anna is not a prominent �igure in the
conventional published record except for her obituary which praised her Christian
resignation in the face of fatal illness. Notably, she passed away at the family’s summer
retreat in North Salem. 6
As heir to a family fortune, Pickering Jr. was an aesthete who spent his time on
leisure pursuits. He took a keen interest in the �ine arts and traveled extensively in Europe
and beyond to collect art works. In 1859 the American Antiquarian Society declared that it
PDF �ilename: 1804 Samuel Silsbee probate inventory, Dearborn St 46, obtained via Ancestry
See Property Ownership History.
6 Re: Dodge’s Harvard degree: Salem Register September 1, 1845, Pickering Dodge listed among several who
received an M. A. from Harvard, “having left college without receiving the usual degree of A. B.”; Re: Pickering
Dodge’s youth, see Richard Hall Wiswall, “Notes on the building of Chestnut Street” Essex Institute Historical
Collections, volume 75 # 3, July 1939, p. 211, 219, 224; Re: Dodge’s family and residential patterns, the 1850
census shows Dodge and family residing in Ward 3 (Dearborn Street was in Ward 6); and the city directories
for 1837, 1842, 1843, and 1850 all show Dodge living on Chestnut Street. Census and directory information
obtained via Ancestry. Anna Storer Colman obituary, Salem Register September 17, 1849.
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�was “indebted to … Pickering Dodge, Esq., for a very �ine set of casts from medals
representing the designs on the Elgin Marbles, prepared with great nicety by his own hand.”
In 1848 Dodge published “Lives and Works of the Ancient and Modern Masters,” and in
1849 his work on Western sculpture was set to appear. These works appeared
anonymously. 7
Dodge also engaged in horticulture and agriculture, pastimes common among
wealthy New England elites. Historian Tamara Thornton has portrayed this group, which
she calls “Cultivating Gentlemen.” They collected botanical specimens, planted gardens,
shared information, and built costly structures like “graperies” and “peacheries” to house
their delicate plants. They considered that horticulture was a morally beneficial pursuit,
one that fostered appreciation both for beauty and for science. They founded organizations
like the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, an important early institution for
disseminating botanical and scientific knowledge. Pickering Dodge Jr. assumed a
leadership role. The “Cultivating Gentlemen” also promoted related ideas about so-called
“progressive” agriculture, that is farming practices that emphasized innovation, science,
technological advances, book learning (as opposed to practical experience), variety
improvement, and capital investment. Pickering Dodge Jr. regularly entered competitions
sponsored by the Essex Agricultural Society, which awarded him prizes for inventions and
animals. In 1837 he wrote about “beet root sugar, manufactured by Mr. G. A. Perkins and
myself, from roots grown at my cottage garden at North Salem.” He added that “I have
almost 1000 lbs. of the sugar beet in my cellar…” Dodge explained that he had consulted an
agricultural chemistry of Chaptal “which by the way should occupy a place on the shelves of
every Farmers’ Library.” 8 Here we see that the property at Dearborn Street was not only
ornamental and recreational, but also supported agricultural experimentation.
These ideas of the day clearly shaped Pickering Dodge Jr.’s approach to his property
in North Salem. As a well-traveled art lover, he would have known contemporary
architectural styles. Perhaps the niche in the spiral stair displayed a fine piece of artwork.
In his will Dodge mentioned two books that were clearly special to him. They were written
by the influential author John Claudius Loudon, a very important figure in 19th century
architecture and landscape design. These titles were Cottage Architecture and Suburban
Gardener. Dodge likely knew them well. They contained hundreds of designs and images
showing tasteful rural dwellings and landscapes. The books were published after 46
Dearborn was built, so they are more important as evidence that Dodge was deeply
engaged with the important Romantic-era ornamental landscape aesthetics of his day. His
“spacious and elegant garden” on Dearborn Street was well known throughout the city and
region. 9 The design (see HABS documentation) incorporated many popular features such
7 Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1959, 30-31; Salem Register, January 6, 1848; Salem
Gazette, December 8, 1849; John B. Montignani, “A Note on the Bibliography of Art: Some XIX Century
American Authors.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 36, no. 1 (1941): 12–16.
8 Tamara Thornton, Cultivating Gentlemen: the Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
(Yale University Press, 1989); Items about the beets were reprinted from the New England Farmer in
Newburyport Herald, November 21, 1837 and in the Salem Gazette, November 21, 1837.
9 Dodge will, PDF �ilename: 1863 Pickering Dodge Jr Will (3 pages); Reference to Dodge’s garden: Salem
Register August 7, 1843
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�as pools, formal paths, and gazebos. These pleasant vistas were intended to help people
transcend everyday experience through contemplation of beauty, proportion, order, and
the sublimity of nature.
In 1849 Dodge’s wife Anna passed away. Likely stricken by this untimely tragedy, in
1850 he sold the property at 46 Dearborn and went abroad. 10
John Bertram and heirs, 1850-1897
John Bertram (1796-1882), the next owner, had one thing in common with Pickering
Dodge, Jr.: he was immensely wealthy, among the richest men in all Salem. But Bertram had
created his own fortune and worked throughout his lifetime. He was born on the isle of
Jersey to “respectable parents of the middle class” and his early education was in French.
His father, a master mechanic, decided to emigrate with the family in 1807 and they ended
up in Salem. Bad economic times hit his family and Bertram took to the sea as a teenager.
He spent time as a War of 1812 prisoner, sailed the globe, and worked his way up to captain
and then to investor and owner of multiple ships. He built a trading fortune sending his
ships to Paraguay for hides, rubber, nuts, and the like. He got in on the California Gold Rush,
moving gold specie back from the west coast. He also helped start a packet trade to San
Francisco headed by the ship “Witch of the Wave” from Salem. His vessels called at
Zanzibar and the East Indies. At Zanzibar his ships collected ivory from the African
interior; in 1857 the Salem Observer reported that a vessel owned by Bertram had
delivered ivory worth $90,000 recently. “A large part of the ivory imported into this
country,” it said, “is brought to Salem.” He even collaborated with a man named Thomas
Crane, who “introduced rubber shoes into the United States,” and the two ventured to
pioneer in manufacturing and improving waterproof footwear. By the 1860s John Bertram
was among the very wealthiest taxpayers in Salem. 11
The 1851 McIntyre map of Salem shows “Capt. Bertram” at the site, with the house
and two other substantial buildings. Somehow Bertram found time to enjoy and maintain
the ornamental gardens on Dearborn Street that his predecessor had established; he too
won prizes from the agricultural and horticultural societies. He also shared an interest in
art with Dodge; he and his family traveled to Europe for months at a time and he is known
to have purchased “Marble works” to display in his residences. Like the Dodges, the
Bertrams used the property on Dearborn Street as a summertime retreat; they lived most of
the year on Essex Street. In his will, dated 1877, Bertram left to his widow the “farm and
appurtenances on Dearborn Street, North Salem, also my stock in the Albany Railroad
Anna Colman Dodge obituary, Salem Register September 17, 1849; Pickering Dodge Jr. returns from
Liverpool: Salem Observer, September 6, 1851; Pickering Dodge Jr. lectures about his “long residence abroad”:
Salem Register, April 20, 1854.
11 John Bertram of Salem, Massachusetts. His Own Account of Indicents in his Life. Privately Printed, 1964.
Phillips Library; Arrington, Municipal History of Essex County, volume 1, p. 340; Jim McAllister, online pro�ile of
John Bertram via Ancestry Public Members; shipping notes in Salem Register, April 13, 1846, March 7, 1850,
July 11, 1850, April 22, 1853 (Witch of the Wave); Salem Observer April 27, 1850, January 31, 1857 (the ivory
trade); “A Daily Lesson in History: Thomas Crane Wales, Who Introduced Rubber Shoes into the United
States,” Boston Globe, January 2, 1906 (the rubber trade); Salem Register September 6, 1866 (tax lists).
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�Bridge Company on the following trust, viz. to keep the farm in good order with the income
therefrom pay the taxes on both the farm and house on Essex Street, to allow (when not
needed for herself) either of my daughters to reside there, and of the product not needed
for her use to share it between those daughters, and if to spare to give it to other friends. As
Michael McCue has had charge of it for a long time I would recommend his continuance he
to have the house he occupies free of rent for at least three years after my decease, and
longer, if he is employed on the farm.” We can infer from these provisions that though the
Dearborn Street property may have been considered a farm, it did not generate much
revenue but instead depended on a subsidy from Bertram’s private means. (Bertram
owned a few more acres across Dearborn Street but in total the “farm” was only about 15
acres.) The other important point is that Michael McCue must have managed the property
on a day by day basis. The reference to the “house he occupies” suggests that McCue lived
separately from # 46. 12
The 1874 Atlas of Salem showed the property with the house, one very large
outbuilding, and four buildings whose symbolic representation denoted stables or barns.
As well, we get a glimpse of landscaping in the outlines of paths and a round cul-de-sac.
These paths formed the “bones” of the ornamental landscape. 13
John Bertram died in 1882. He left a notable legacy in Salem, which included
bequests to the Salem Public Library, the Salem Hospital, the John Bertram home for aged
men, the Women’s Friend Society, and the Plummer Home. Tolles writes that Jennie
Emmerton, Bertram’s daughter, used the property frequently, and indeed the �irst eastern
wing was added when she would have been active. She married a wealthy businessman
named George Emmerton, and on her death in 1912 was said to be “Salem’s Richest
Woman.” After the house and three acres were sold in 1897, Jennie Emmerton still occupied
parcels on either side, one on the southwest with a greenhouse and another beyond the
cove with a tenant house. 14
12 PDF �ilename: 1851 McIntyre Map of Salem Dearborn St 46; Bertram and family travel to Europe: Salem
Register April 23, 1857; Marble works: Salem Register August 25, 1855; ad mentioning Bertram’s “Summer
Residence” on the “southern side of Dearborn Street”: Salem Register. May 6, 1850; Bertrams’ residence at 370
Essex Street: Salem City directories 1857, 1861, 1866, 1869, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1879, 1881; John Bertram’s
will, PDF �ilename: 1882 Iowa probate for John Bertram 1. Biographical information on Michael McCue
obtained via Ancestry: 1860, 1870, and 1880 population census, 1860 agriculture census, 1861 city directory.
The 1886 city directory shows McCue’s widow living at # 44 Dearborn Street with his son William, a farmer.
It is likely that this was the house referred to in Bertram’s will. This is presently # 64 Dearborn Street.
13 PDF �ilename: 1874 Salem Atlas Plate Q, Dearborn St 46
14 Bertram’s bequests are described in T. F. Hunt, Visitor’s Guide to Salem, 1894, 38, 60, 102, 103. Biographical
information on Bertram and his family obtained via Ancestry: Birth and death data from Find a Grave:
Residential status from City Directories for 1851, 1853, 1857, 1861, 1882; Family and household makeup
from US Census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880. 1883 Birds-eye: PDF �ilename 1883 Burleigh Birds Eye of Salem, MA
state library, Dearborn St 46; Bertram’s move of the house across the river comes from uncatalogued
municipal records at the Phillips Library; 1897 plan: PDF �ilename 1897 Dearborn St 46 Plan, 1897, Book
.aspx.; 1897 Salem Atlas PDF �ilename: 1897 Salem Atlas Sheet 9 Dearborn St 46. Jennie Emmerton’s
connection to the gardens is mentioned in the MHC form for this property. PDF �ilename: Dearborn St 46
MACRIS form SAL.1868. Jennie’s property is labeled in the 1911 Salem Atlas, PDF �ilename: 1911 Atlas of
Salem Dearborn St 46; “Leaves $33,000 in Public Gifts,” Boston Daily Globe August 20, 1912, p.10
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�Everett Whipple and heirs, 1897-1953
In 1897 Mary Ann Bertram and her children sold the house and three acres to
Everett Whipple. During Whipple’s ownership the house at #46 Dearborn became a yearround residence. Everett Whipple (1860-1946) as a young man worked as a “druggist” or,
“clerk in drug store.” The Whipple household was atypical. In 1900 (just after the move to
Dearborn Street) it consisted of a widowed mother, Catherine Whipple (69) and seven
adult, single siblings aged 26 to 40: three brothers and four sisters, none of whom ever
married. At this time the four eldest were respectively a “Landscape Painter, “Clerk at State
House,” “Jewelry Business,” and “Druggist.” This last was Everett. By 1910 Everett and his
landscape painter brother had gone in with brother George, who ran the jewelry business.
From then on Everett continued as a jeweler and his brothers participated sporadically.
The store was on Essex Street. It is easy to see that the house on Dearborn Street might feel
crowded, so it is no surprise that the eastern wing was extended during this period. 15
The Whipple period re�lected changes in Salem’s economy. The maritime era had
fallen away. Industry and commerce replaced it as Salem’s economic drivers. Salem
struggled to compete with other cities that had stronger industrial and �inancial sectors.
The city’s population peaked sometime around 1910 and only regained that level (43,000+)
in 2020. Like the city, the Whipples were by no means indigent but their resources were
modest compared with those of their predecessors.
The Whipples must have taken an interest in the grounds, because the property
continued to attract notice. In 1946 the Salem Garden Club published a pamphlet about old
Salem gardens; in it the Whipples were mentioned. In 1935 the US Historic American
Buildings Survey (HABS) team did a thorough documentation of the plantings and design at
the property. In 1941 Everett Whipple conveyed the property to three of his sisters. In
1953 only two siblings (Lillian and Mary) were still living; they sold the property on
condition that they could have a rent-free life interest in the house. At that time it was
subdivided into twelve lots, one of which was the present # 46. The lots were gradually
sold off. The house at # 46 remained intact. After 1959 both sisters were gone and the
property passed to the Donaldsons. Since that time it has been a striking reminder of
Salem’s historic legacy. 16
A Note on the Sources:
15 Biographical information on the Whipple family obtained via Ancestry: Find a Grave; Salem Directory, 1879,
1882, 1897, 1930, 1936, 1939; US Census, 1870, 1880, 1900 (family resides at # 40 Dearborn), 1910, 1920,
1930, 1940. Date of addition: Tolles, Architecture in Salem, 269.
16 Salem Garden Club, “Old Salem Gardens,” 1946 pamphlet, p 18; Dingwall appears at # 44 Dearborn in the
1900 census. For property transfers see Property Ownership History.
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�This property has been inventoried three times. In 1935 the Historic American Buildings
Survey (HABS) conducted a documentation mostly of the grounds. In 1983 Bryant F. Tolles,
Jr., published Architecture in Salem, an Illustrated Guide and discussed the Dodge-BertramWhipple House on pp. 268-9. In 1986 the Massachusetts Historical Commission issued a
survey form # SAL.1868 for what it called the John C. Lee house. This form mainly
borrowed from Tolles.
Historic American Buildings Survey, 1935 report, online at Library of Congress
website, https://www.loc.gov/item/ma0690/ This report contains drawings, maps,
and photographs done in 1935.
Massachusetts Historical Commission, site SAL.1868, available through MACRIS, the
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, https://mhcmacris.net/details?mhcid=SAL.1868
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr., with Carolyn K. Tolles. Architecture in Salem, an Illustrated Guide.
Originally published by the Essex Institute in 1983, reissued in paperback by
University Press of New England in 2004.
Maps of Salem:
Jonathan Peele Saunders, Plan of the town of Salem in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. 1820. Online at Leventhal Maps Library, Boston Public Library.
Henry McIntyre, Map of the City of Salem, Mass. 1851. Online at Leventhal Maps
Library, Boston Public Library.
G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the City of Salem. 1874. Available online through the
Massachusetts State Library, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/206060
City of Salem Map, 1877, Heliotype Plan. Phillips Library, not available online.
L. R. Burleigh, Birds Eye View of Salem, Massachusetts, 1883. Online at Wikimedia
Commons.
Atlas of the City of Salem. 1897. Online through the Massachusetts State Library,
https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/205576
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. 1911. Online at Leventhal Maps Library,
Boston Public Library.
Deeds:
Sanborn Insurance Maps of Salem, Massachusetts, 1957. Sheet 70. Library of
Congress website, select Maps in search bar.
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�The Southern Essex Registry of Deeds, Salemdeeds.com, has digitized all deeds
executed in the county. https://salemdeeds.com/salemdeeds/Default2.aspx
Newspapers:
I used my Penn State library access to search Salem newspapers. Not all the major
Salem papers are included in the databases.
Biographical details:
Other:
Ancestry.com compiles digitized census, vital statistics, city directories, and other
sources.
Hathi Trust and Biodiversity Heritage Library give access to historical publications,
including John Claudius Loudon’s books, local histories etc.
Phillips Library Collections: Salem Tax records; John Bertram papers; John C. Lee
Papers; Salem Streets Collection
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�CHAIN OF DEEDS
�Ownership of the land on which # 46 Dearborn Street now sits:
1803-1836: Silsbee family and heirs
July 1836-September 1836: John C. Lee
September 1836-1850: Pickering Dodge
1850-1897: John Bertram and heirs (Mary Ann Bertram 1882-1897)
1897-1941: Everett Whipple
1941- Everett, Lillian, and Alice Whipple
1946-1953: Lillian and Mary Whipple
After 1953 the property was subdivided and all the historic buildings and landscapes were eliminated, except for the house.
PDF �iles of all these documents are included in the house history package.
For help understanding the early history, see the map inserted at the end of this document.
DATE
1804
GRANTOR
--
GRANTEE
--
1/31/1812
Haf�ield and
Sarah Reed
(heirs of
Samuel Silsbee,
d. 1803)
Daniel Sage
(married to
Sarah’s sister
Deborah)
8/12/1818
Samuel Silsbee
and others
Sarah wife of
Haf�ield W.
Reed
DB/PAGE #
Probate
Inventory of
Samuel Silsbee,
d. 1803
196/129
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
“A Lot of Land containing about eleven acres situated in the
North�ield so called,” valued at $1650. This property came
to his widow, Martha Silsbee during her lifetime.
219/56
“another lot of land in said North�ields next to the cove and
river on the southeasterly side of Liberal Street bounding
northwesterly on Liberal Street eleven poles sixteen links,
easterly on the Cove, southeasterly on the channel of the
North river and southwesterly on a lot this day quitclaimed
to said Samuel Silsbee…” Note: This transaction splits off
from the eleven acres a portion south of Dearborn Street
$2151. Sarah’s undivided third of her father’s (Samuel
Silsbee) estate. This transaction includes valuable property
on Daniels/Essex Streets, which accounts for the price. Also
“about eleven acres of land in North�ields in said Salem
bounded northerly on the road leading to Orne’s point,
easterly on Joseph Felt and westerly on heirs of Benjamin
Osgood dec. and southerly on the north river.” This
transaction is subject to the widow’s (Martha) dower.
12
�DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
His wife Sarah
Reed, residing
in Salem,
daughter of
Samuel Silsbee,
deceased
219/58
August 18,
1818
Haf�ield (sic) W.
Reed, Mariner,
“late of Salem
but now
residing in
Jonesborough
in the County of
Washington
and
Commonwealth
aforesaid”
Haf�ield Reed
and Sarah Reed
Samuel Silsbee,
d. 1822
219/58-59
August 18,
1818
Daniel Sage
heirs
Samuel Silsbee,
d. 1822
219/61
August 18,
1818
Samuel Silsbee,
d. 1822, Sarah
and Haf�ield
Reed
Deborah Sage
219/60-61
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
which lies immediately to the east of present # 46. For
convenience I call it the “cove and river lot”
Haf�ield/Huf�ield gives his wife complete power of attorney
to do his business. This document is not a deed.
“another lot of land in said North�ields next to the cove and
river on the southeasterly side of Liberal Street bounding
northwesterly on Liberal Street eleven poles sixteen links,
easterly on the Cove, southeasterly on the channel of the
North river and southwesterly on land of said Samuel…”
Note: This transaction conveys the “cove and river lot” back
to Samuel Silsbee.
“another lot of land next to the river on the southeasterly
side of Liberal Street bounding northwesterly on Liberal
Street seven poles and ten links, northeasterly on the lot
this day quitclaimed to the said Sarah, southeasterly on the
channel of the North river, and southwesterly on the lot this
day quitclaimed to said Deborah Sage.” Note: This
transaction splits off from the eleven acres a portion south
of Dearborn Street which eventually would include # 46.
For convenience I call this the “Middle Lot.”
“another lot of land next to the river on the southeasterly
side of Liberal Street bounding northwesterly on Liberal
Street six poles 20 links…northeasterly on the lot this day
quitclaimed to said Silsbee, southeasterly on the channel of
the North river, and southwesterly on �latts ground and
upland of Benjamin Osgood…”. Note: this transaction splits
off from the eleven acres a portion south of Dearborn Street
13
�DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
10/2/1823
Heirs of Samuel
Silsbee d. 1822:
Rebecca
Silsbee, widow;
Asa Hood,
Teamster and
Martha his wife,
all of Salem;
John Peck and
Thomas Peck,
hat dealers of
Boston and
their wives
Becky and
Sarah “in their
own right” and
Samuel Silsbee
of Boston,
mariner
Sarah Reed,
wife of Huf�ield
W. Reed,
mariner
232/268
10/24/1823
Huf�ield W.
Reed and wife
Sarah
Joshua Ward
junior, of Salem,
Merchant
232/269
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
immediately to the west of # 46. For convenience I call this
the “southwest lot.”
$100
The heirs of Samuel Silsbee d. 1822 grant the property.
Description is identical to the transaction on 232/269,
“being a part and parcel of the same real estate which the
said Sarah Reed conveyed to Samuel Silsbee now deceased
by deed of November 3, 1818, 219/58.”
Note: This is the “cove and river lot.” Now it is back with
Sarah Reed.
$100. Land is described as in the North�ields, “situated on
the southerly side of Liberal Street and next to the Cove,
beginning on said street at a stake by land of the heirs of
Samuel Silsbee deceased, then running northeasterly on
said street about 11 poles and 16 links to the Cove, then
bounding easterly on the Cove, and southeasterly on the
channel of the north river, and southwesterly on land of the
heirs of said Samuel.” “being the same premises which were
14
�DATE
GRANTOR
7/3/1836
Rebecca
John C. Lee
Silsbee, widow;
Asa Hood,
Truckman and
Martha his wife,
all of Salem;
John Peck and
Thomas Peck,
hat dealers of
Boston and
their wives
Becky and
Sarah “in their
own right” of
Medford (heirs
of Samuel
Silsbee, d.
1822)
Heirs of Daniel John C. Lee
Sage, i. e.: John
Sage, mariner,
William Sage,
gentleman,
Margaret Sage,
singlewoman,
Ephraim
7/27/1836
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
292/265
291/244
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
conveyed to said Sarah by Rebecca Silsbe and others, Sept
19 1823, and entered into record just before this…”
The deed reserves to the heirs of Samuel Silsbee and to
Deborah wife of Daniel Sage .. a privilege of passing over any
part of this lot with carts, teams or otherwise, doing as little
damage as possible”
Note: this is the “Cove and River Lot.”
The DB and page # were incorrectly entered in the 1836
document. Located through Grantee index.
$120: “lot of land situated in North �ields so called in said
Salem formerly owned by said Samuel Silsbee deceased,
containing one acre, more or less, bounded towards the
Northwest by Liberal Street, towards the northeast by land
of Joshua Ward, towards the southeast by the North River….
And towards the southwest by land of Daniel Sage, with the
�lats water privileges and other rights and privileges…”
Dated July 3, 1836, received Sept 16, 1836. Note: this is the
“Middle Lot,” where the house at present # 46 would be
built.
$650. Lot 1: A parcel of land in North �ields: north of Liberal
street, plus Lot 2: “the lot next to the River on the
southeasterly side of Liberal Street, bounding northwesterly
on Liberal Street, six poles 20 ¼ links, northeasterly on
other land of said Lee, southeasterly on the channel of the
North River and southwesterly on �lats ground and upland
of Benjamin Osgood.” Note: This is the “Southwest Lot.”
15
�DATE
GRANTOR
Emmerton,
merchant and
Mary Ann his
wife, Charles F.
Putnam, Trader
and. His wife
Sara
Joshua Ward of
Salem,
Merchant
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
Pickering
Dodge of Salem,
Gentleman
293/29
9/11/1836
John C. Lee
Pickering
Dodge
294/10
$400. Land is bounded by Liberal Street, the river, and land
“formerly of Samuel Silsbee,” no dimensions given, but
stated as the same parcel that Ward acquired from the
Silsbee heirs in 1823, DB 292/264. Note: This is the “cove/
river” lot.
$450. Described as “situated in the North Fields, so called, in
said Salem, bounded & described as follows northwesterly
on Liberal Street, Northeasterly by land which said Dodge
the grantee bought of Joshua Ward, southeasterly by the
channel of the North River, and southwesterly by land of
Rebecca Osgood, … it being the same land a part of which I
(Lee) bought of the heirs of Samuel Silsbee deceased by
deed dated July 3, 1836 and another part of which I bought
of the heirs of Daniel Sage by deed dated 1836.” Note: by this
transaction all three lots (southwest, middle, cove and river)
are brought together as one. Pickering Dodge would develop
his property with the house in the “middle lot” and gardens in
all three.
4/25/1850
Pickering
Dodge of Salem
John Bertram,
merchant of
Salem
427/105
1882
John Bertram
dies
Mary Ann
Bertram (his
wife, d. 1909)
His 1877 Will,
Ancestry.
9/1/1836
$6300. The land is described as in the “North Fields, so
called in said Salem.” Bounded on the nw by Dearborn,
formerly Liberal Street; southwest by land of John M. Ives;
southeasterly, easterly, and northeasterly by the North River
the river; and the “dwelling house and all other buildings
standing on the premises being the whole of the estate
conveyed to me (Dodge) by Joshua Ward and John C. Lee…”
On p. 248 he leaves Mary his “farm and appurtenances on
Dearborn Street, North Salem, also my stock in the Albany
Railroad Bridge Company on the following trust, viz. to keep
16
�DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
9/8/1897
Mary A.
Everett
Bertram, Jennie Whipple
M. Emmerton,
and Annie B.
Webb of Salem,
widows, and
David P. Kimball
and Clara B.
Kimball of
Boston,
husband and
wife et al
1524/314
10/23/1941
Everett
Whipple, single,
of Salem
3275/446
“see 6046/56-57”. (note in margin)
Consideration is “nominal”
4/14/1953
Lillian and
Mary Whipple,
unmarried, of
Salem
3970/360
The deed refers to a plan “herewith” but it is archived under
Plan Book/Page Search, same page and book number, or
1953 plan 250. See PDF �iles. The deed says that Everett
and Alice C. Whipple are now deceased, but the “above
mentioned grantors,” ie Lillian and Mary, will be allowed a
rent free life interest to live in the house. It goes on to
Lillian and
Everett
Whipple and
Alice C.
Whipple, all of
Salem
William H. K.
Donaldson of
Salem and John
Driscoll of
Peabody
DB/PAGE #
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
the farm in good order with the income therefrom pay the
taxes on both the farm and house on Essex Street, to allow
(when not needed for herself) either of my daughters to
reside there, and of the product not needed for her use to
share it between those daughters, and if to spare to give it to
other friends. As Michael McCue has had charge of it for a
long time I would recommend his continuance he to have
the house he occupies free of rent for at least three years
after my decease, and longer, if he is employed on the farm.”
Note: John Bertram signed with a mark
$1.00 was the stated amount, but Whipple on the following
pages borrows $5000 from Emmerton. (There are two
assignments noted in the margins: 2772/182 and
2799/460, and a discharge in 2840/225.)
Parcel size is 3.12 acres. Lot is described as 371.5 X along
the river, then 442 feet (same as the 1941 transaction)
The Plan of Ricker, 3/12/1897, Book 1524/314, shows the
new lines. See PDFs.
17
�DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
4/22/1959
John A. Driscoll,
single of
Peabody
William H. and
Miriam J.
Donaldson,
married
Claire M.
Donaldson and
Elizabeth M.
Schultz
4553/252
Claire M.
Donaldson,
single woman
of Salem and
Elizabeth M.
Schultz,
married, of
Swampscott
Robert S.
Clawson and
Marcia A.
Clawson
32818/219
8/5/2009
9/13/2013
Claire M.
Donaldson,
executrix of the
Estate of
William H. K.
Donaldson,
Docket number
05P1641EP1
28842/496
REMARKS (price, wording, etc.)
stipulate who pays taxes, does maintenance, or pays
insurance.
The premises conveyed include a parcel 366 X 606 X 367,
before subdivision created the present Lot 3. The plan
shows just the one house.
Lot “with the buildings thereon.” Driscoll relinquishes his
“right, title and interest”. On page 253-254 is recorded a
mortgage for $16,000 that the Donaldsons took with Salem
Savings Bank. 7886 SF. This is Lot # 3 on subdivision map.
“see also estate of Miriam J. Donaldson Docket #
98P2355EP1” and estate of William H. K. Donaldson,
05P1641EP1
7886 SF.
This is Lot # 3 on subdivision map.
.18 acres, Mass Interactive Property Map says 1789, 8
rooms. Price $395k. This transaction is for “Lot No. 3 on
plan recorded with Essex South Registry of deeds, book
3970 page 360.” The life interest mentioned in that
document is terminated.
7886 SF
18
��Jonathan Peele Saunders, Plan of the town of Salem in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1820.
Online at Leventhal Maps Library, Boston Public Library. Detail.
�Henry McIntyre, Map of the City of Salem, Mass. 1851. Online at Leventhal Maps Library, Boston Public Library.
Detail
�G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the City of Salem. 1874. Plate Q. Available online through the Massachusetts State Library.
Detail
�L. R. Burleigh, Birds Eye View of Salem, Massachusetts, 1883. Online at Wikimedia Commons. Detail.
��Atlas of the City of Salem. 1897. Online through the Massachusetts State Library, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/205576
�Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. 1911. Online at Leventhal Maps Library, Boston Public Library. Detail
��1957 SANBORN MAP OF SALEM
SHEET 70 DETAIL
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
�SOURCES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
�Inventory No:
SAL.1868
Historic Name:
Lee, John C. House
Common Name:
Address:
46 Dearborn St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
North Salem;
Local No:
27-624;
Year Constructed:
C 1834
Architectural Style(s):
Greek Revival;
Use(s):
Agricultural; Business Office; Secondary Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling House;
Significance:
Agriculture; Architecture; Recreation;
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials:
Roof: Asphalt Shingle;
Wall: Aluminum Siding; Wood;
Demolished
No
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�NS
FORM NO,
AREA
FORM B - BUILDING •
Cp2H
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
80 BOYLSTON STREET,
BOSTON, MA 02116
Salem
46 D e a r b c 'n S t r e e t
i c Name
Present
Residence/
iginal
Residence
Office
RIFTION':
c.
ce
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te nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features.
Indicate
a l l buildings between inventoried
property and nearest i n t e r s e c t i o n .
Indicate north.
Style
1834 o r b e f o r e
Architecture
Greek
i n Salt
Revival
Architect
N
1
L-AKUf/noNr
E s t s r i o r wall f a b r i c a l u m i n u m s i d i n g
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ST.
Major alterations (with dates)_
Ea&t M J g • n
r
Moved
Debra H i l b e r t
Organization
Salem P l a n n i n g
Date
A p r i l , 1986
Setting
Q
Date
Approx. acreage
Recorded by
1q ?
i e s s t h a n one a c r e
Residential
Department
(Staple a d d i t i o n a l sheets here)
�ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe iqaortant a r c h i t e c t u r a l features and
evaluate i n terms of other buildings w i t h i n the ccranunity.)
T h i s house i s a v e r y u n u s u a l Greek R e v i v a l d w e l l i n g .
I t i s the o n l y
known e x a m p l e o f i t s s t y l e i n S a l e m t o h a v e a t w o - s t o r y p e d i m e n t e d D o r i c
portico.
A s h o r t e r T u s c a n - c o l u m n e d p o r t i c o i s r e p e a t e d on t h e s o u t h
facade.
W h i l e t h e h o u s e i s a r r a n g e d g a b l e end t o t h e s t r e e t , t h e
e n t r a n c e ( s e t w i t h i n an e n c l o s e d , p i l a s t e r e d p o r c h ) i s l o c a t e d on t h e
west f a c a d e .
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played i n l o c a l or state
h i s t o r y and how the b u i l d i n g relates to the development of the community.)
A c c o r d i n g t o B r y a n t F. T o l l e s , J r . , t h e e a r l y h i s t o r y o f t h i s h o u s e has
m y s t i f i e d h i s t o r i a n s . The d a t e o f 1790 i s e t c h e d i n h o r s e h a i r p l a s t e r
on an i n t e r i o r w a l l b u t p r e s e n t l y t h e r e i s no f u r t h e r e v i d e n c e t o
substantiate that date.
C u r r e n t d o c u m e n t a t i o n i n d i c a t e s t h a t the house
was b u i l t a r o u n d 1834 f o r J o h n C. L e e , a r e s i d e n t o f 14 C h e s t n u t S t r e e t ,
on l a n d f o r m e r l y owned by James R o p e s .
I n 1836, P i c k e r i n g Dodge, J r . (whose f a t h e r b u i l t t h e b r i c k m a n s i o n a t
29 C h e s t n u t S t r e e t ) a c q u i r e d t h e p r o p e r t y f o r h o r t i c u l t u r a l p u r s u i t s and
i s b e l i e v e d t o h a v e a d d e d many G r e e k R e v i v a l f e a t u r e s s u c h as t h e end
porticos.
Dodge m a i n t a i n e d g a r d e n s h e r e r u n n i n g t o t h e N o r t h R i v e r
.,
u n t i l 1849 when he s o l d t h e p r o p e r t y t o C a p t a i n J o h n B e r t r a m ^
Bertram
s p e n t , t h e w i n t e r a t 370 E s s e x S t r e e t w h i c h now s e r v e s as t h e S a l e m
P u b l i c L i b r a r y . He d i e d i n 1882 l e a v i n g t h i s h o u s e t o h i s w i f e , b u t i n
t h e e n s u i n g y e a r s h i s d a u g h t e r , J e n n i e L- Emmerton, p l a y e d a l a r g e r o l e
here.
She and h e r f a m i l y u s e d t h e h o u s e as a summer r e s i d e n c e
and
expanded the gardens.
I n 1897, t h e B e r t r a m h e i r s s o l d t h e h o u s e t o t h e
W h i p p l e f a m i l y who l i v e d h e r e u n t i l a f t e r W o r l d War I I .
While
early
several wealthy Salemites b u i l t
i n t h e 1 9 t h c e n t u r y , few d i d so
s
BIBLIC^rT? an^/o¥$
T o l l e s , B r y a n t F.
summer r e s i d e n c e s i n S o u t h S a l e m
i n N o r t h Salem, making t h i s house
p u b l i c a t i o n , author, date and publisher)
Jr.
Architecture
i n S a l e m , pp.
268-269
*
O t h e r f e a t u r e s a r e t h e d e n t i l e d c o r n i c e , p e d i m e n t e d d o r m e r s , and
f i r s t s t o r y t r i p l e hung .windows w i t h p e a k e d l i n t e l s .
A second entrance
i s l o c a t e d on t h e D e a r b o r n S t r e e t f a c a d e n e a r t h e c. 1929 e a s t end
addition.
10.M -
7/82
������SALEM STREETS COLLECTION, PHILLIPS LIBRARY, PEM
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HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY, PICKERING DODGE PLACE, PHOTO 1
�HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY, PICKERING DODGE PLACE, PHOTO 2
��HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY, PICKERING DODGE PLACE, SHEET 4
�DEARBORN STREET
BASEMENT LEVEL SCHEMATIC PLAN, NOT TO SCALE
46 DEARBORN STREET, SALEM, MA
SALLY MCMURRY, OCTOBER 2023
25' 2 1/2"
4' 0"
5' 3 1/2"
28' 0"
11' 3 1/16"
3'
1/2
6' 7 9/16"
3' 9 3/8"
"
7' 10 7/16"
13' 6 1/2"
2' 10 5/16"
1' 5
7/8
"
7' 6 1/4"
7'
1
1/
3' 4 1/2"
16
"
6"
2 9/1
6' 7/16"
Brick and
Stone Wall
NORTH
stair from
kitchen
7' 5 1/8"
6' 6 3/8"
6' 6 3/8"
ramp down to newer section
8' 11 7/8"
31' 7/16"
33' 2 1/2"
Fireplace Relieving
Arch
5' 7 3/4"
40' 1"
40' 2 1/2"
6' 4"
likely original c.1837
foundation wall
Summer Beam supported
by two brick columns
sunken area
/utilities
???
well
2' 3/8"
7' 10 5/8"
6' 11 15/1
6"
1' 5
7/8"
8' 11 7/8"
1' 6 13/16"
Concrete block wall
24' 1/16"
38' 6 1/8"
Brick facing
5' 1/16"
52' 7 3/8"
�DEARBORN STREET
GROUND FLOOR SCHEMATIC PLAN, NOT TO SCALE
46 DEARBORN STREET, SALEM, MA
SALLY MCMURRY, OCTOBER 2023
23' 7 1/2"
4' 0"
1
1/
16
3 STEPS DOWN TO WALK
28' 0"
8' 3 5/16"
6' 1/8"
7' 7 1/4"
2' 9/16"
"
4' 3 3/4"
5' 3 1/2"
6"
2 9/1
6' 1 3/8"
7'
3' 5 1/8"
NORTH
11' 2 15/16"
3' 1 11/16"
13' 5 1/4"
3' 5 1/2"
stair
kitchen
1' 8"
3' 3 3/8"
7'2'98"5/8"
5' 4"
2' 0"
8' 0"
6' 4 7/16"
7' 8 1/2"
???
40' 11 11/16"
40' 2 1/2"
fireplace
2' 4"
3' 1 5/8"
17' 6 3/8"
8' 11 7/8"
china cabinet
book shelves
5' 3 11/16"
1' 6 13/16"
2' 0"
5' 6 11/16"
1' 0"
6' 8"
shelves
small
bath
room
37' 5 11/16"
3' 8"
3' 4 1/4"
6' 8"
8' 4 3/16"
3' 8 5/8"
3' 0"
9' 3/16"
3' 10 5/16"
8' 3 11/16"
6' 6 15/16"
28' 1/8"
4' 6"
3' 11 15/16"
51' 1 5/8"
5' 8"
steps down to ground level
6' 0"
3' 4 7/8"
4' 11 1/2"
15' 3 1/8"
4' 3 7/8"
pocket door
converted
to standard door
former pocket door
1' 5"
dining room
approximate
line of protruding framing
along wall and ceiling
approximate 1885 east exterior wall
approximate
c 1837 east exterior wall
3' 9 3/16"
8' 11 7/8"
�DEARBORN STREET
SECOND FLOOR SCHEMATIC PLAN, NOT TO SCALE
46 DEARBORN STREET, SALEM MA
SALLY MCMURRY, OCTOBER 2023
5' 6 3/8"
6' 10"
8'
5/
16
"
5' 1/8"
4' 7 1/2"
5' 3 7/16"
1' 4"
23' 1 9/16"
27' 8"
1' 8 7/16"
8' 4"
2' 3 13/16"
3' 7 13/16"
2' 11 3/8"
3' 7"
NORTH
7' 8 5/8"
4' 0"
2' 8"
stair
closet
2' 8"
17' 7 1/8"
13' 3 1/4"
2' 2"
9' 3 3/4"
13' 3 1/16"
partition added?
9' 7 3/4"
???
this portion added after 1885?
5' 7 1/8"
23' 2 1/4"
flat roof
3' 8 1/2"
7' 1 1/8"
27' 2 5/16"
2' 9 7/16"
1' 9 9/16"
6' 9 1/8"
2' 11"
3' 11 1/8"
approximate east wall c. 1837
5' 8"
27' 4 3/16"
5' 8"
4' 6"
15' 0"
7' 1 1/8"
6' 10 11/16"
18' 4 7/16"
12' 0"
14' 6 13/16"
3' 7"
37' 6 1/2"
10' 0"
5' 4 1/8"
3' 5/8"
6' 4 11/16"
4' 3 1/16"
2' 4 3/8"
6' 9 11/16"
3' 0"
BATH
SHELVES
3' 5 9/16"
2' 0"
CLOSETS
36' 11"
fireplace
2' 3 1/8"
6' 0"
2' 3 7/8"
7 3/4"
14' 8"
2' 3 7/8"
2' 3 13/16"
CLOSETS
4' 7"
2' 10 1/2"
BATH
approximate east wall c. 1885
2' 11 3/8"
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Dearborn Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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46 Dearborn Street, Salem, MA, 01970
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House History
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Built for
Pickering Dodge, Jr.
Gentleman
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Anna Storer Colman
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Historic Salem Inc.
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Historic Salem Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem Inc.
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Sally McMurry
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English
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2023
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Massachusetts
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Chestnut Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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31 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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31 Chestnut Street, built for Pickering Dodge, merchant circa 1828
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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House built circa 1828
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Researched by Joyce King, September 1986
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English
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Beckford Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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22 Beckford Street, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
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An account of the resource
Benjamin Punchard, 1765
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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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1765, 1971
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Sally Dee
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English
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1971
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Burley
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Washington Square North
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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45 Washington Square North, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built 1892 for Edwin H. Dodge, accountant
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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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1892, 2005
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Booth
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English
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2005
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Andover Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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4 Andover Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for John Dodge, Mason circa 1794
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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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circa 1794, 1988
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Joyce King
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English
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1988
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Dike
Dodge
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Lucius
Nathaniel
Priscilla
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