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1 Brown Street
Bray Homestead
c. 1766
Research Provided by
David E. Hayes
April 1973
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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Bray Homestead
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1 Essex Street
Built by
James Fanning
Carpenter
c. 1894
Research Provided by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
June 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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�Chain of Title, 1 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded Grantor(s)
William F. Chapple of
October 11, 1893 Salem
Grantee(s)
Conveyance of
"one dollar and
other valuable
consideration paid"
all that parcel of real estate situated in
said Salem and bounded south westerly
by Webb Street, southeasterly by land of
Nichols, now or late, north easterly by
the location of the Essex Rail Road, north
westerly by the line of Essex street as
extended across said Webb street to
said Railroad location by the fence as it
now stands one hundred twenty three
feet.
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
Notes
1390
206 No mention of any buildings.
Katie J. Fanning, widow, of
October 27, 1923 Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded
northwesterly by the continuation of
Richard H. G. Hichens and
Essex Street from Webb Street to the
Catherine Hichens, husband
location of the Boston and Maine
and wife, of Salem
"consideration paid" Railroad 41 feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2574
"Being a portion of the premises
conveyed to James Fanning by
William F. Chapple by deed
recorded with Essex, South
District, Deeds, Book 1390 Page
494 206, and by him devised to me."
Richard H. G. Hichens,
February 19, 1942 widower, of Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded
northwesterly by the continuation of
Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
Richard H. Hichens of Salem "consideration paid" Railroad 41 feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3286
300
Richard H. Hichens of
May 28, 1942 Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: Northwesterly by
the continuation of Essex Street from
Webb Street to the location of the
Boston and Main- Railroad Forty-one (41)
Joseph J. Cichocki of Salem "consideration paid" feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3295
80
Joseph J. Cichocki of
July 30, 1945 Salem
the land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: Northwesterly by
the continuation of Essex Street from
Webb Street to the location of the
Joseph & Alice Cichocki,
Boston and Maine Railroad Forty-one (41)
husband and wife, of Salem "consideration paid" feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3411
414
Harriet J. Robbins of
Wilmington, MA, Amelia
Borders of Gretna, LA,
Helen N. O'Donnell of
Salem, MA, and Pamela
June 7, 1983 Murphy of Haverhill, MA
Patricia A. Woolf and
Thomas J. O'Donnell, CoExecutors of the Estate of
July 23, 2004 Alfred Cichocki
James Fanning of Salem
Consideration
Alfred Cichocki
Alan R. Barth and Allison C.
Duff, husband and wife, of
Salem
The land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: by the continuation
of Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
"consideration paid" Railroad forty-one (41) feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
7128
The land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: by the continuation
of Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
$300,000.00 Railroad forty-one (41) feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
23163
"For title reference see Estate of
Alice Cichocki, Essex Probate
64 #357062"
408
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FABENS.
FARRELL.
[Salem.]
Fabens Benjamin F. h. 195 Lafayette
Farley Alice M. ]Hiss, b. 26 West ave.
Bessie H. widow of Charles E. h. 34
Annie Miss, servant at 114 Derby
Summe1·
Charles O. farmer, b. 26 West ave.
Caroline A. Miss, b. 33 Summer
Ernest, watchman, 3! Front, b. 26
Frank P. b. 195 Lafayette
West ave.
!Boardman
George H. painter, h. 40 Harbo1·
Henry, cooper, 225 Derby, b. 40
Margaret D. widow of Augustus J. h.
Herbert N. salesman, h. 40 Boardman
18 Chestnut
James A. driver, h. 13 Winthrop
Sarah, widow of J osepb, b. 5 Bott's ct.
James H. janitor, Bertram school
Fagan James E. machinist, b. Fort ave.
house, b. 26 West ave.
n. Willows
Joseph L. cooper, h. 1 Hazel
John J. died Oct. 19, 1894
Mary C. widow of Alfred M. h. 364
Moses M. E. fisherman, b. 6 Allen
Essex
Thomas, laborer, h. rear 22 Becket
Mary E. i\Iiss, b. 26 We.st ave.
Fahey Joseph, laborer, b. 72 Mason
Farmer Amelia, widow of James D.
Fairfield Charles E. clerk, 52 Central, h.
115 Webb
died Nov. 9, 1893
9 Forrester
Annie W. Miss, clerk, 188 Essex, b.
Charlotte W. Miss, bookkeeper (26
Elizabeth E. Miss, teacher, Oliver
Bedford, Bo•ton). b. 13 Pleasant
school, b. 109 North
AIRFIELD EDWARD W. stationer,
Elizabeth P. Miss, music teacher, 15
Webb, b. do.
20 Boston. h. do. See front cover.
AIRFIELD JAMES, dealer in lumber,
Joseph P. (Farmer & Egell), h. 15
lime, cement and coal, 52 to 60
Webb
[North
Central, and 283 Derby, h. 13
Lucy E. widow of Georite S. b. 109
Pleasant. See opp. page 97,
William S. tinsmith, h. 59 Highland
Jane S. widow of Samuel G. h. 4
AR'MER & EGELL (Joseph P. Farmer
Becket
and Edward M. Eitell), masons
and builders, 15 Webb and 10
Mary A. widow of James, b. 13 Pleas
Essex. See page 1132.
ant
Farnham Edwin A . clerk, 32 Front, h.
Falconer Allan, rem. to Portland, Me.
Jane J. Miss, nurse, h. 14 Margin
at Swampscott
Edwin P. pastor, First Baptist church,
Fall Howard M. fireman, b. 35 Washington
h. 15 Heckford
Fallis Sidney W. milkman at Cabot fa1·m
Thomas, currier, h. 26 Bow
Mary E. Miss, h. 8 Lynde
Fallon Bernard, tanner, b. 2 1-2 Grove
Orrin L. painter, B. & M. car shop, h.
21 Prescott
Bridget, widow of Malachi, h. 4 1-2
Phelps
[ave.
see Farnum
Edward F·. shoeworker. b. 71 Ocean Farnswol·th Albertus, confectioner, b. 3
Logan
[h. 3 Logan
Joanna C. widow of Thomas R. in
telligence office, 40 Norraan, h. po.
Frank P. foreman currier (Peabody),
Frederick J. morocco dresser, b. 24
. JohnH. ,iboe\vorker. b. 71 Ocean ave.
Ord
ALLON J. HOW ARD, supt. Danvers
Lucy A. widow of Francis R. nurse,
Bleachery (Peabody), h. 348
ll. 28 Beckford
Essex
Sarah E. Miss, nur�e, h. 28 Beckford
Malachi J. b. 83 Bow
Farnum Abby, widow of George W. A. h.
Patrick J. currier, h. 87 Mason
4 Friend
Patrick M. died March 18, 1894
A. Frank, currier, b. 4 Friend
P. Joseph, 56 Mason,died Dec. 21,1892
Eliza Miss, shoeworker, b. rear 78
Thomas, currier, h. 5 Flint
Washington
Thomas 13. laborer, h. 56 Mason
Elizabeth, widow of Nathan, seam
Thomas P. carpenter, h. 156 Federal
stress, h. 145 North
William H. shoelaster, b. 4 1-2 Phelps
see Farnham
Fanning Albert F. carpenter, b. 76 Webb
Fanar Benjamin P. shoelaster, h. 1 Essex
Amelia J. widow of Samuel, h. 22
Farrell Ann. widow of Hugh, h. 9½ Creek
Nichols
Hugh F . E. reporter, Salem Daily
Edward J. carpenter, h. 15 Becket
Gazette, b. 9 1-2 Creek
�'rancis, wood worker, h. 84.9 Bridge
James, currier, h. 19 Phelps
'1eorge T. rem. to Peabody
James J. shoewr,rker, b. 24 Phelps
Herbert J. st.ockfitter, b. 22 Nichols
John', currier.�- 24 Phelps
ANNING JAMES, carpenter, rear 11
Maria S. wi,fow of John, b. 7 Salem
St. Peter, h. 76 Webb. See page
Mary J. G. Miss, at 45 Federal
1126.
[Bridge
Michael.;;, delivery clerk, h. 7 Salem
Margaret, widow of William, b. 349
Patrick, 61 Harbor, rem. to Boston
Samuel, died Dec. 17, 1892
Sylvester, laborer, h. 32 Charter
Samuel, shoelaster, b. 22 Nichols
Sylve/jter J . removed to Lynn
Theresa Miss, b. 349 Bridge
Thooias, currier, h. 7 High
Thomas H. carpenter, h. 40 English
Tho·.nas F. hack driver, 4 Charter, h.
William F. clerk (Boston), b. 76 Webb
22 Perkins
Farley Abbie Miss, b. 364 Essex
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Essex Street
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1 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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Built by
James Fanning
Carpenter
c. 1894
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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English
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1894
2019
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Fanning
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Massachusetts
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1 Gedney Court
Built for the heirs of
George S. Arrington
Policeman
1886
Researched & written by
Robert Booth
March 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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Gedney Court
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1 Gedney Court, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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George S. Arrington
Policeman
1886
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1886, 2019
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Robert Booth
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English
1
1886
2019
Arrington
Court
Gedney
George
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Massachusetts
S.
Salem
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Lynn Street
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1 Lynn Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Jonathan Waldo by 1811
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1811, 1995
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Donna Vinson
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English
1
1811
1995
Donna Vinson
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Jonathan Waldo
Lynn Street
Massachusetts
Salem
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Mall Street
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1 Mall Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Circa 1800. Moved here from unknown location in 1906 by Francis Ann Perley
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1800, 1906, 2016
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Kimberly Whitworth
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1800
1906
2016
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Mall Street
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Salem
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Flint Street
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10 Flint Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Deed Tracing
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Built in 1915 for Charles Blunt, plumber, and wife Elizabeth. Replaced home burned in Great Salem Fire of 1914. On original foundation from 1839 house built for Joseph Wallis, cabinet maker
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Historic Salem
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Historic Salem House History
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Historic Salem
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1915, 2017
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Historic Salem
10
1914
Blunt
Charles
Elizabeth
Fire
Flint
History
House
Plumber
Salem
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Monroe Street
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10 Monroe Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Widow Gould & Son, 1782
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1782, 1967
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Joan Bailey
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1782
1967
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Monroe Street
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Oliver Street
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10 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Benjamin Cheever, Tanner by 1781; moved to this site in 1878
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1781, 1878, 1981
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10
1781
1878
1981
Benjamin Cheever
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House
Massachusetts
Oliver Street
Salem
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Pleasant Street
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10 Pleasant Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for John Rhodes, Mariner, 1809
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1809, 1978
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1809
1978
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John
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Rhodes
Salem
Street
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107 Bridge Street
Built for Benjamin Chever Jr.
Leather Dresser
by Andrew Merrill, Housewright
1799
Home of Capt. Thomas Dean, Shipmaster, 1825-1846
Home of Capt. Josiah P. Creesy &
Eleanor Prentiss Creesy
of Clipper Ship “Flying Cloud”
Researched & written by
Robert Booth
July 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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Bridge Street
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107 Bridge Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
Benjamin Chever Jr.
1799
Home of Capt. Josiah P. Creesy &
Eleanor Prentiss Creesy
of Clipper Ship “Flying Cloud”
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1799, 2019
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2019
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Creesy
Eleanor
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Josiah
Jr.
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P.
Prentiss
Salem
Street
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North Street
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109 North Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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William Batchelder, 1830
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1830, 1973
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Sally Dee
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1973
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Salem
Sally Dee
William Batchelder
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Barton Street
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11 Barton Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for Fenton Symonds, painter in 1845
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1845, 1986
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1845
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Greek
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Street
Symonds
wood
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Cambridge Street
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11 Cambridge Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Cambridge
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Thomas
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11 Daniels Street
Built for
the Grafton family
before 1806
Research provided by
Diana Dunlap
September 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�11 Daniels Street, Unit 1 was sold by Christopher M. Coates and Kimberley K. Coates to Paul
Byron Massari and Sara Massari on June 29, 2007. The quitclaim deed is registered in Book
26,984, page 478, and refers to the Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust
(see below).
11 Daniels Street, Unit 2 was sold by David Ring of Swampscott to Joseph and Robyn Landry
on September 30, 2004, registered in book 23,444, page 458. The quitclaim deed referenced
the Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust.
11 Daniels Street, Unit 1 was sold by David Ring to Christopher M. and Kimberley K. Coates on
September 1, 2004, registered in book 23,340, page 314. The quitclaim deed referenced the
Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust (see below).
David Ring, Declarant, submitted the property at 11 Daniels Street under Chapter 183A of the
General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to form the 11 Daniels Street
Condominium Trust on August 19, 2004, stipulating that the building will contain two condo
units, and registered in book 23,291, page 535. The land of said property is bounded as follows:
northerly by land of now or late of Uszynski, 98.22 feet; easterly by land of now or late of
Churchoski and Sandborn, 38.68 feet; by now or late of Pszeny, 100.67 feet; and by Daniels
Street, 37.11 feet.
Pamela A. Murphy and Erin A. Murphy sold 11 Daniels Street to David Ring on October 23,
2003, registered in book 10,376, page 394. The boundaries of the said property are the same
defined in the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust Master Deed. Helen Cichocki died August
20, 2002.
Helen Cichocki granted all right, title, and interest to 11 Daniels Street to Pamela A. Murphy and
Erin A. Murphy of Haverhill on March 6, 1990, “in consideration of $1 Love and Affection,” as
joint tenants with right of survivorship, but retaining full use of the property for her natural life.
The transfer was registered in book 10,376, page 394. The boundaries of the land are the same
sold by the Murphys to David Ring.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki, husband and wife, conveyed 11 Daniels Street to Joseph J. and
Helen Cichocki, husband and wife, on July 28, 1945, registered in book 3411, page 415. The
boundaries of the land are the same granted by Helen Cichocki to Pamela and Erin Murphy.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to the Salem Savings Bank for $300.00
for one year on May 4, 1926, registered in book 2680, page 227.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki mortgaged the land and buildings at 11 Daniels Street to the Salem
Savings Bank for $2500.00 for one year on August 15, 1925, registered in book 2649, page
249.
�Fremont Czerniawski and Julia Czerniawski granted 11 Daniels Street to Joseph and Alice
Cichocki on August 15, 1925, registered in book 2649, page 248. The dimensions of the land
are the same as that granted to Joseph and Helen Cichocki in 1945.
Fremont and Julia Czerniawski mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to Salem Savings Bank for
$600.00 for one year on February 21, 1921, registered in book 2477, page 248.
Fremont and Julia Czerniawski mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to the Salem Savings Bank for
$1000.00 for one year on February 21, 1921, recorded in book 2477, page 247.
Wladyslaw and Josephine Uszynski granted 11 Daniels Street to Julia Czerniawski on February
21, 1921, registered in book 2477, page 246. The dimensions of the land are the same granted
to Joseph and Alice Cichocki in 1925.
Frank F. Stanley of Swampscott, Trustee of the will of the late Nathaniel F. Goldsmith of Boston,
sold 11 Daniels Street to Wladsyslaw and Josephine Uszynski on November 30, 1920,
registered in book 2469, page 365. The land is defined as bound westerly by Daniels Street 97
feet; southerly by land of L.M. Wright and M.S. Frye, 102 feet; westerly by land of Sanborn and
Rideout, 106 feet; and northerly by land of Wiggin, 95 feet.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank sold part of the property that became 11 Daniels Street to
Nathaniel F. Goldsmith on July 9, 1885, for $675.00, after George H. Frye defaulted on his
mortgage (see below), registered in book 1154, page 79. The land is defined as bound westerly
by Daniels Street 33 feet, 6.5 inches; southerly by the land of L.M. Wright and M.S. Frye, 102
feet, 6 inches; easterly by land of Sanborn and Rideout, 34 feet, 6 inches; and by land late of
Wiggin, now Goldsmith, 102 feet. The land had been conveyed to Goldsmith by George H. Frye
and Ezra L. Woodbury, excepting the property Goldsmith sold to A, Frank Hitchings.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank foreclosed on George H. Frye’s mortgage on the property on
June 30, 1885, registered in book 1154, page 79.
Nathaniel F. Goldsmith sold part of the property he had purchased from Ezra L. Woodbury to A.
Frank Hitchings on June 6, 1883, for $750.00, registered in book 1110, page 31. This land was
bound southerly by Goldsmith’s own land; easterly by land of Rideout, northerly by Bentley
Street, and westerly by land of Smalley. This did not become part of the 11 Daniels Street lot.
George H. Frye mortgaged his property on Daniels Street to the Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank for $500.00 on October 19, 1882, registered in book 1093, page 260.
Ezra L. Woodbury, executor of the late Margaret Wiggin, sold the property at 9 Daniels Street,
including a “brick dwelling house and other buildings thereon,” to Nathaniel F. Goldsmith on
April 9, 1881, for $2800.00, registered in book 1055, page 172. The southerly portion of this
�land became part of the 11 Daniels Street lot, as shown above through Goldsmith’s sale of the
northerly portion to A. Frank Hitchings.
John N. Frye sold the same portion of land later mortgaged to the Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank to George Henry Frye, baker, on November 20, 1863, “with the buildings thereon,” for
$900.00, registered in book 658, page 286.
William Allen, mariner, and his wife Mary sold the property to John Nutton Frye, baker, on April
25, 1820, for $400.00, registered in book 223, page 247. The property was bound 33 feet, 6
inches by Daniels Street; 102 feet, 6 inches by the land formerly of Thomas Palfrey; 34 feet, 6
inches by Nathaniel Silsbee’s, formerly the orchard; and 58 feet, 2.5 inches by Peirce Wiggins’
property. As such, it is essentially the same land John N. Frye sold to George Henry Frye in
1863.
Susanna Richardson, widow, sold the property to William Allen on June 26, 1819, for $400.00,
registered in book 223, page 246. She signed the deed with her mark. Two months earlier,
Susanna Richardson conveyed another property on Hardy Street to William Allen “in
consideration of love affection and five dollars.” The property’s boundaries are the same that
William Allen sold to John N. Frye, and the deed states that the land was “assigned and set off
to Robert and Susanna Richardson under a warrant of partition” in 1807.
A committee of Richard Manning, John Harthorn [Hathorne] and John Osgood was appointed
upon the Court of Common Pleas’ determination in September 1806 that Susanna Richardson
should receive the right to “an undivided one-sixth of a dwelling house in said Salem commonly
called Graftons, and the garden and land thereunto belonging, including the northerly part of
what was formerly an orchard belonging to Warwick Palfrey.” The property was bound by
Daniels Street and land belonging to Joseph Waters, the late Samuel Silsbee, the late Rev.
James Deiman [Diman or Diamond], and the late Thomas Palfrey. The warrant was witnessed
by Timothy Pickering, Esq., on October 6, 1806. On December 24, 1806, the court divided
one-sixth of the “lands and tenements” to “said Richardson and Susanna his wife” and
described boundaries that match Susanna Richardson’s conveyance to William Allen. The
warrant is registered in book 181, page 235.
On March 31, 1789, an indenture was formed to create a “joint property with right of
survivorship” between Susanna, Mary, and Anne Grafton, singlewomen of Salem, and Jonathan
Gardner, merchant of Salem to act as Trustee. The property was left to Susanna, Mary, and
Anne by their deceased father, Joseph Grafton. The property described was large, with two
dwelling houses, and bordered Main [Essex] Street. Susanna Grafton may or may not be the
same person as Susanna Richardson. The creation of the trust was registered in book 149,
page 231.
On August 28, 1729, Joseph Grafton sold a parcel of land in Salem to “my brother William
Grafton sailmaker” for 130 pounds in Province Bills (Massachusetts currency), registered in
�book 52, page 82. The land was bound by “the lane of highway” and by land “formerly of Walter
Palfrey,” and included a house and barn. Without further research on the Grafton family and
their neighbors in the 18th century, it is not possible to know for sure whether part of this
property came down to Susanna Richardson and thus to the 11 Daniels Street plot.
�Inventory No:
SAL.2620
Historic Name:
Common Name:
Address:
11 Daniels St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Derby Street
Local No:
35-384
Year Constructed:
r 1775
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Georgian
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Industry
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Aluminum Siding; Wood
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut
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FORM B - BUILDING -
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION .
80 BOYLSTON STREET', • BOSTON, MA Q2116
Salem
1 Daniels Street
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection.
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1760-90
observation.
"Sty 1 e Georgian
Architect
Exterior wall fabric Aluminum Siding
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Salejn FJ^nnlag Department
Date
Mav. 1986
Residential
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate i n terms of other buildings within the community.)
I n form and l e v e l o f d e t a i l i n g , t h i s g a m b r e l - r o o f e d s t r u c t u r e i s s i m i l a r
t o many l a t e 1 8 t h / e a r l y 1 9 t h c e n t u r y r e s i d e n c e s i n t h e Derby S t r e e t
area.
The house i s o r i e n t e d s o u t h w i t h a 3-bay s y m m e t r i c a l l y a r r a n g e d
facade and a c e n t e r e n t r y s e t w i t h i n a 2 - s t o r y pedimented p r o j e c t i o n .
Other elements i n c l u d e t h e g r a n i t e f o u n d a t i o n , V i c t o r i a n doorhood, and
massive c e n t r a l • c h i m n e y . The f l u s h r o o f eaves & placement of the second
s t o r y windows c l o s e t o t h e r o o f l i n e a r e t y p i c a l f e a t u r e s f o r a house o f
this period.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played i n local or state.
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The e a r l y h i s t o r y o f t h i s house i s u n c l e a r .
I t may i n f a c t be a
•
d w e l l i n g r e f e r e d t o i n a 1796 deed when copper Stephen Smith s o l d t h i s
p r o p e r t y t o m a r i n e r Thomas W i l l i a m s .
A l a t e r deed, however, o f 1819
when Susannah R i c h a r d s o n s o l d the l o t t o m a r i n e r W i l l i a m A l i e n makes no
mention of a b u i l d i n g .
I n 1822, A l l e n and h i s w i f e s o l d t h e l a n d t o
baker John N . F r y e .
A mortgage deed of 1824 makes d e f i n i t e mention o f a
d w e l l i n g house, a bakehouse, and o t h e r b u i l d i n g s on t h i s s i t e .
George
• H . F r y e , a l s o a baker and perhaps J o h n ' s s o n , was l i v i n g here i n 1874.
W h i l e i t seems c e r t a i n t h a t t h i s b u i l d i n g was l o c a t e d i n i t s p r e s e n t
s i t e by .1824, i t i s unknown whether the house s t a n d s on i t s o r i g i n a l
location.
The l o t has e a r l y a s s o c i a t i o n s w i t h S a i e m ' s m a r i t i m e h i s t o r y ,
but f a r much of the 1 9 t h c e n t u r y , i t was connected w i t h the b a k i n g
trade.
L i k e many-Derby S t r e e t area' s t r u c t u r e s , 11 D a n i e l s S t r e e t s e r v e d
an elememt o f S a l e m ' s w o r k i n g - c l a s s p o p u l a t i o n .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher).
1837, 1851 Salem D i r e c t o r i e s
Essex County R e g i s t r y o f Deeds Book 1 6 3 / L e a f 6, Book 1 7 3 / L e a f 106, Book.
1 7 7 / L e a f 252, Book 1 8 1 / L e a f 234, Book "223/Leaf 2 4 6 - 7 , Book 2 3 4 / L e a f
1MQ-
7/82
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Daniels Street
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11 Daniels Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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the Grafton family
before 1806
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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before 1806, 2018
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Diana Dunlap
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English
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1806
2018
before
Daniels
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Massachusetts
Salem
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Oliver Street
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11 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built by Miles Searle, housewright circa 1810
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1810, 1987
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Joyce King
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English
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1810
1987
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Joyce King
Massachusetts
Miles Searle
Oliver Street
Salem
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HISTORIC
SALEM
INC
11 Pickman Street
Built by
John S. Edwards
Housewright
c. 1834
Research Provided by
David Moffat
February 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
Date
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
2016, Sep Ellen DuBois, Personal
29
Representative of the Estate of
Edward Wolkiewicz
Diane Cline
Hastings &
Michael Hastings
1969, Aug. Richard J. Iannitelli & Linda L.
27
Iannitelli
Edward
Wolkiewicz
1966, Jan Leo A. Campbell & Lucy
27
Campbell
Richard J.
Iannitelli & Linda
L. Iannitelli
1957, Oct
21
Leo A. Campbell &
Lucy Campbell
Harold G. Macomber, of
Marblehead
Amount
$300,000
Doc
Book
Deed
(RL) 575806
Considerati Deed
on paid
(RL)
($15,900?)
Consideration paid
Deed
($12,500?)
(RL)
132138
118495
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
84018
1955, Dec. Nathaniel W. Fernald, widower
27
Harold G.
Macomber
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
84017
1929, Nov. Henry H. Kimball, of Melrose
25
Nathaniel W.
Fernald & Cora M.
Fernald
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
22237
Page
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1921, Aug. Daniel Upton, by Attorney, etc:
21
Cushing Kimball and Henry H.
Kimball, Executors of the will of
Annie B. Webb, deceased
holders of a mortgage from
Daniel Upton to Salem Savings
Bank, Sep. 30, 1867
Henry H. Kimball
1867, Oct. Betsey C. Russell, widow
3
Daniel Upton
1864, June Samuel Webb, merchant
23
Betsey C. Russell
1847, Dec. Jonathan S. Edwards,
13
housewright
Samuel Webb
1834, May William B. Parker, merchant
9
Jonathan S.
Edwards
$1,000 Deed
2817
371
$3,000 Deed
731
240
$1,500 Deed
670
211
$1,400 Deed
391
55
$550 Deed
276
74
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
11 Pickman Street- Built by Jonathan S. Edwards, Housewright c. 1834
Edwards purchased the lot of William Parker in 1834 and was a housewright.
The same John S. Edwards, born 1808? (Salem Births, p. 237)
John S. Edwards married Charlotte Somes of Gloucester, 1832 (Salem Marriages, p. 327)
Deed 267:29, Joseph Swan, yeoman, sells Edwards & William Batchelder the half of a dwelling house and land in Salem
between St. Peter’s, Brown, and Howard Street on Sep. 22, 1832
Deed 267:30, Edwards conveys his share of the purchase to Batchelder Sep. 20, 1832
Deed 365:130, Henry Derby, tailor, sells John S. Edwards, Housewright, a lot of land bounded westerly by Summer Street on
March 22, 1846.
Thomas P. Honeycomb, home at 92 Essex Street, was the other half of Honeycomb & Edwards
- The property was on the 12-acre lot of Deliverance and Susanna Parkman in 1700, the so-called “Ship Tavern’s Pasture”
-Land of Benjamin Pickman in the early 19th century.
-Pickman Street was laid out May 17, 1824, as per Perley’s “Salem in 1700. No. 19.”
1837-1846 (per MACRIS): John S. Edwards, Honeycomb & Edwards, carpenters
1842 Directory: John Brooks, carpenter + John S. Edwards, 8 North St. (Honeycomb & E.), carpenter
1846 Directory: Samuel G. Danforth, carpenter + John S. Edwards, ditto
1850 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Mrs. Elizabeth Vanderford + Samuel Webb
1851 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Samuel Webb, clerk at Merchant’s Bank
1853 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Mrs. Elizabeth Vanderford + Samuel Webb
1855 Directory: Gardner Barton, apothecary, Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Samuel Webb
1857 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell, Benjamin W. Russell, clerk at Salem Bank boards
1859 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell, Benjamin W. Russell, clerk at Salem Bank boards
1861 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell
1864 Directory: Benj. W. Russell, bookkeeper, Salem Bank, Samuel Webb boards
1869 Directory: Daniel Upton (90 Milk Street, B.), house 11 Pickman
1874 Atlas: D. Upton
1881 Directory: Mrs. A.M. Upton, dressmaker, Daniel Upton, Francis Upton, music teacher
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1886 Directory: Daniel Upton, Miss Agnes A. Sheehan boards, dressmaker, Charles McCarthy boards,
1895/96 Directory: Mrs. Annie M. Upton
1899/1900 Directory: Mrs. Agnes A. Shehan boards, Francis Upton, a music teacher
1904 Directory: Francis Upton, music teacher, Miss Agnes A. Sheehan boards
1914 Directory: Agnes A. Sheehan boards, dressmaker, Francis Upton, musician
1929: Henry H. Kimball registered the land, Doc. 2821:163.
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River Street
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11 River Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1783, 1976
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Robert Booth
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1976
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Winter Street
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11 Winter Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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112 Bay View Avenue
Built for
Fidelia & Matthew Robson
Currier
c. 1885
Research Provided by
Ryan Conary
September 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Chain of Title, 112 Bayview Avenue, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded Grantor(s)
July 7, 1885 Seward N. Proctor of Lowell
Matthew Robson & Fidelia E.
Robson, husband & wife, of
May 4, 1909 Salem
T. Henry Gilbert & Benjamin
May 2, 1910 P. H. Gilbert
Grantee(s)
Consideration
Fidelia E. Robson, wife of
Matthew Robson of Salem
Document Book or Vol. Page
$1 Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Notes
1153
31 "lot of land" conveyed
T. Henry Gilbert & Benjamin
P. H. Gilbert of Salem
"one dollar and
other valuable
considerations paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1962
"a certain parcel of
land with the buildings
thereon situated"
342 conveyed
Mary A. Teague of Lowell
"one dollar and
other valuable
consideration paid"
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2015
188
$5,225 Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2297
373
Charles M. Williams & James
J. Kerwin of Lowell, executors
of the last will of Mary A.
June 7, 1915 Teague late of Lowell
George W. Teague of Lowell
May 29, 1919 George W. Teague
Source
Walter J. Bagshaw of Lowell
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2414
546
February 1, 1927 Walter J. Bagshaw
Francis I. Hardy of Salem
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2711
201
August 14, 1928 Francis I. Hardy
Margaret E. Coffey of Salem
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2775
229
Mary G. Coffey of Salem
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3159
405
Margaret F. Coffey & Mildred
A. Coffey of Salem
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4351
179
Edward A. Coffey of Salem
NA
1343
386 Docket #293,477
Edward A. Coffey & Margaret
H. Coffey, husband & wife, of
Salem
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5627
446
Carroll E. Haseltine Jr. &
Florence A. Haseltine,
husband & wife, of
Middletown, CT
"consideration paid" Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5635
288
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6049
751
$660,000 Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36075
213
July 1, 1930 Margaret E. Coffey, widow
March 5, 1957 Mary G. Coffey
Mildred J. Coffey a/k/a
August 22, 1967 Mildred A. Coffey
August 4, 1969 Edward A. Coffey
Edward A. Coffey & Margaret
September 5, 1969H. Coffey
Carroll E. Haseltine Jr. of
March 11, 1974 Salem
Essex Probate and Family Court Will
Carroll E. Haseltine Jr. &
Naoma H. Haseltine, husband
& wife
less than $100.00
Naoma H. Boylston & Paula L.
Howe of Salem, as devisees
under the will of Naoma
August 3, 2017 Haseltine
George H. Carey Jr.
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SAL.3487
Historic Name:
Robson House
Common Name:
Address:
112 Bay View Ave
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Salem Willows
Local No:
44-122
Year Constructed:
c 1885
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Queen Anne
Use(s):
Secondary Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Recreation
Area(s):
SAL.GZ: Salem Neck and Winter Island
SAL.HA: Salem Willows Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (03/25/1994)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood Shingle
Foundation: Brick; Granite
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wood
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Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Excellent
Date
Moved
Acreage
L e s s t h a n one
Setting
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NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT ( i f applicable)
L o c a t e d w i t h i n t h e recommended Salem W i l l o w s H i s t o r i c
e l i g i b l e u n d e r C r i t e r i a A and C.
District,
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
112 B a y V i e w A v e n u e i s o n e o f t h e b e t t e r d e t a i l e d a n d m o r e
s u b s t a n t i a l e x a m p l e s o f t h e Queen Anne s t y l e f o u n d i n t h e S a l e m
Willows area.
I t i s a 2 1/2 s t o r y , t w o - b a y h o u s e w i t h a f r o n t
gable.
At the f a c a d e i s a s e c o n d - s t o r y bay c o n t a i n e d b e n e a t h a
lower, bracketed gable with lunette.
The w r a p a r o u n d p o r c h
features
a c o n i c a l - r o o f e d s e c o n d - s t o r y tower (southeast c o r n e r ) , a fretwork
b a l u s t r a d e and s p i n d l e f r i e z e .
The s a s h t h r o u g h o u t t h e h o u s e
varies (20/2, 16/2, 15/1, 25/2).
Other f e a t u r e s i n c l u d e a window
w i t h a t r i a n g u l a r cap ( f a c a d e ) , a g a b l e d dormer w i t h b e v e l e d and
b r a c k e t e d c o r n e r s ( e a s t e l e v a t i o n ) , and two e y e l i d d o r m e r s
(west
elevation).
The f o u n d a t i o n i s r o u g h g r a n i t e .
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the r o l e owners played in local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
T h i s house i s c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of the development o f Salem
W i l l o w s w i t h summer c o t t a g e s d u r i n g t h e l a t e 1 9 t h a n d e a r l y 2 0 t h
centuries.
T h i s l o t was p u r c h a s e d b y F i d e l i a R o b s o n f o r $ 1 . 0 0 i n
J u l y of 1885.
I n O c t o b e r o f 1885 M a t t h e w R o b s o n r e q u e s t e d a
b u i l d i n g p e r m i t f o r a 1 1/2 s t o r y p i t c h r o o f e d d w e l l i n g o n t h i s
street.
The h o u s e was s t i l l o w n e d b y F i d e l i a R o b s o n i n 1 8 9 7 .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Essex County R e g i s t r y
H o p k i n s , G. M. A t l a s o f S a l e m . P h i l a d e l p h i a , 1874
R i c h a r d s , A t l a s o f S a l e m , 1897
Salem B u i l d i n g P e r m i t s
8/85
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Bay View Avenue
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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112 Bay View Avenue, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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Fidelia & Matthew Robson
Currier
c. 1885
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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c. 1885, 2018
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Ryan Conary
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English
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1885
2018
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Bay
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Massachusetts
Matthew
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Salem
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North Street
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115 North Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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John Dunckley, blacksmith, c. 1802
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1802, 1974
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David Gavenda
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English
115
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1974
David Gavenda
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John Dunckley
Massachusetts
North Street
Salem
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Lynn Street
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12 Lynn Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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1795, 1977
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Robert Booth
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English
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1977
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Joseph Ross
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Massachusetts
Robert Booth
Salem
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Northey Street
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12 Northey Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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1845, 1989
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Northfields Preservation
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1989
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Oliver Street
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12 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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1848, 1981
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Joyce King
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1981
George C. Clark
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Joyce King
Massachusetts
Oliver Street
Salem
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River Street
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12 River Street. Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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William Farrington, trader by 1823
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Joyce King
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123 North Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1851, 1985
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Joyce King
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HISTORIC
SALEM INC
126 Bayview Avenue
Built for
Alfred Peabody,
Merchant
c. 1876
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
May 2019
Historic Salem Inc,
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2019
�126 Bay View Avenue, January 1989 (MACRIS SAL.3484)
The Juniper Point neighborhood was conceived of by Salem grocer Daniel B. Gardner,
Jr., who purchased 45 acres of former farm land in September 1875, at the cost of $21,000. 1
The area had long been used as a summer retreat, with many Salemites and tourists camping
along the waterfront in tents. Gardner filed a plan with the City for cottage lots in October 1875
and in November submitted an updated plan which also included stable lots, two parks, and a
public hall. The proposal created over 50 residential lots, more than 20 of which were sold in a
single day, November 6, 1875. More lots were auctioned off in the summer of 1876 as the
neighborhood expanded. 2 The deed for each cottage stipulated that “no shop, store, public
house, boarding house, saloon or stable shall ever be erected on said lot nor any building
1
MACRIS SAL.HA – Gardner is incorrectly referred to as Danial B. Goodwin, Jr. on the neighborhood plans
submitted with the City of Salem in October and November of 1875.
2
The stable lots are now a strip of garages on Cheval Avenue.
Jen Ratliff | www.jenratliff.com| Page 2 of 10
�thereon used for any of said purposes.” The deeds continue to state, “that a strip thereof ten
feet wide next to the high-water mark shall forever be kept open free and unobstructed as a
public sidewalk or promenade.” These stipulations have been upheld in perpetuity. 3
The completion of this new summer community helped encourage the growth of the
adjacent Salem Willows, a city-owned park which quickly grew to include amusements,
restaurants, and entertainment. In 1875, the Naumkeag Street Railway Company began
offering horsecar service to the area from downtown, attracting visitors who could travel by
train to Salem and conveniently take a horsecar to the new neighborhood. Aside from Salem’s
elite business men, this summer resort community was especially popular with travelers from
Lawrence and Lowell.
The Gothic Revival cottage design of 126 Bay View Avenue is indicative of the 19th
century and features wood shingle siding and ornate cornice trim. The home has been greatly
altered in recent years to accommodate a basement level garage; the porch has been reduced
and is devoid of its decorative balustrade. New windows have been added with rounded
transoms on the front façade and the back of the home features a large atrium addition.
Furthermore, windows have been removed throughout the sides of the home. 4
3
4
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds, 941:166, 1875.
In comparison with the home’s 1989 MACRIS report (SAL.3484)
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�Detail of stereoview by Edwin N. Peabody, c. 1878
126 Bay View Avenue (54 Central Avenue) in the center
(Salem State University Archives and Special Collections)
The Peabody Family, 1875-1880
Alfred Peabody (1806-1879) and his son Henry W. Peabody (1838-1908) appear to be
the earliest adopters of the Juniper Point neighborhood, purchasing multiple cottage plots from
Daniel B. Gardner, Jr. on November 6, 1875. Henry W. Peabody purchased #25 and #26, present
day 136 Bay View Avenue, and together with his father Alfred, purchased #22. 5
The land in which 126 Bay View Avenue sits was Plot #22 in Gardener’s Plan of Cottage
Lots for Juniper Point. The original address for this home was 54 Central Street, later renamed
and renumbered as 126 Bay View Avenue, around 1915. There is no indication that the
5
Ibid.
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�Peabody family ever stayed in the home, it is likely that it was an investment property that they
leased to summering families from out-of-town. The family may have frequented 130 Bay View
Avenue, a larger home owned by Henry W. Peabody.
Alfred Peabody was born on February 3, 1806 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathan and
Hannah (Stickney) Peabody. He came from a well-established family, descended from
Lieutenant Francis Peabody, an early settler of the area who arrived on the ship Planter in
1635. 6 Alfred became a renowned merchant in Salem and Boston, participating in multiple
industries including dry goods and shoe manufacturing. He often lost large amounts of money
in his ventures but was remembered fondly for his adaptability to the economy and his integrity
in business. 7
On November 30, 1833, Alfred Peabody married Jerusha Tay (1808-1891) of Salem.
Together, the couple had children as follows: Alfred, Henry, Everett (died in infancy,) Everett,
Mary, Edwin, and Charles. Their family home was at 45 Summer Street.
Like his father, Henry W. Peabody become a well-known merchant, working for Williams
& Hall on Central Wharf in Boston. Henry later joined Samuel Stevens & Company but took a
break from maritime trade in 1866 due to decline in the industry and substantial loss of income.
Henry opened his own company, Henry W. Peabody & Company in Boston and New York City.
As his business grew, he became increasingly involved with politics, appearing in front of
Congress on multiple occasions to advocate for maritime industries. In 1864, Henry W. Peabody
purchased 17 Chestnut Street in Salem where he lived until 1907, before moving to Beverly.
6
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3
William Richard Cutter, 1908, pg. 1334-1335.
7
Ibid.
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�Peabody married three times, first to Lila Rea Mansfield in 1862. Together the couple
had six children, three of which died during childhood. Lila died in August 1890 and in
December 1892, Henry W. Peabody married Nannie Brayton Borden (1853-1905) of Fall River.
Nannie had previously been married to Norman E. Borden (1850-1880), second cousin, once
removed of Lizzie Borden. The murders of Lizzie’s father and stepmother had occurred in
August 1892, followed by a very public trial. It is likely that Nannie viewed this marriage as a
welcomed escape from Fall River.8 Nannie appears to have assumed a large amount of money
following her first husband, Norman’s death. This was chronicled in multiple letters held in the
archives at Harvard University, which contains the Henry W. Peabody Collection. Found in
Henry’s personal correspondence with his step children, Henry stated that he had no interest in
Nannie’s estate, writing: “…I married Nannie Brayton Borden for her love and companionship,
and not for money."9 Nannie died in 1905 and Henry married for a third time to Lucy W.
Waterbury.
Alfred Peabody’s younger son, Edwin N. Peabody was also well known in Salem. He was
an active photographer from 1876-1894 and photographed much of Salem, including the
Juniper Point neighborhood. His images of the neighborhood date to the late 1870s and were
likely inspired by his family’s properties there. 10 Edwin traveled often and in his obituary it was
said: “He traveled considerably over the United States and whenever he heard of a Salem
family in any city that he visited, he would be sure to hunt them up, even though they were
perfect strangers to him. He was always made to feel welcome and he was sure to bring home
8
Ibid.
Harvard University, Henry W. Peabody and Company Collection, MSS 766 1867-1957, Volumes HD-1 and HE-9
10
Stereoviews by Edwin N. Peabody can be seen at Salem State University Archives and Special Collections
9
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�pleasant messages to their Salem kindred.” 11
Alfred Peabody died of heart disease on June 13, 1879, he was 73 years old.12 In July
1880, Henry W. Peabody sold 126 Bay View Avenue (then 54 Central Avenue) to Joel A. Abbott
of Lowell, Massachusetts for $1,500. 13
The Abbott Family, 1880-1894
Joel A. Abbott (1820-1903) was born on October 3, 1820 to Joel Abbott and Hannah
(Bowman) Abbott of Charlestown, Massachusetts. 14 The family later relocated to North
Reading, where Joel A. Abbott worked as a shoe manufacturer. On November 26, 1847, Joel
married Sarah A. Parker (1826-1901), also of Reading. By 1865, the couple had relocated to
Lowell, along with their eight children. Joel became proprietor of “The Old Corner Store” at 174
Merrimack Street and become very involved in community politics, specifically the Democratic
party. In 1878, Joel was nominated for Mayor of Lowell by members of the Butler Club but lost
to John A. G. Richardson.
In 1880, Joel purchased 126 Bay View Avenue (then 54 Central Avenue) for use as his
family’s summer residence. During Joel’s first summer at Juniper Point, he suffered from a
debilitating kidney and liver disorder, becoming unable to walk. The following year, The Boston
Journal and The Boston Globe chronicled his recovery, which he credited to an herbal
supplement, Kidney-Wort. 15 Joel and his family owned the cottage at Juniper Point for 14 years.
11
Salem Evening News, March 20, 1920
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
13
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds: 1040:248, July 8, 1880.
14
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
15
“The City of Spindles,” The Boston Globe, June 22, 1881, pg. 3.
12
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�In 1894, Joel and his wife Sarah sold the home to Joseph F. Appleton.
The Appleton Family, 1894-1907
Joseph Frederic Appleton (1854-1929) was born in Beverly, Massachusetts on March 18,
1854 to Joseph B. Appleton and Rachel E. (Foster) Appleton. He attended school in Beverly and
later began working as a salesman in the shoe industry. On March 9, 1878, Joseph married
Mary B. Dunbar in Beverly, Massachusetts. 16 He later partnered with William McKean of Salem,
a manufacturer of shoes. In 1894, John and his wife Mary purchased 126 Bay View (then 54
Central Avenue) for $1.00 and other considerations from Joel and Sarah Abbott. 17
After leaving the shoe industry he became a manager and vice president of Underwriters
Salvage Company of the United States, where he traveled between offices in Boston and New
York before retiring in 1915. He then partnered with Fred A. Norton in selling insurance under
the name Appleton & Norton.
Appleton earned quite a bit of money in these businesses, splitting his time between a
Boston residence, 19 North Street, and Juniper Point. He purchased a 30-foot yacht which he
named Takitesy (take-it-easy) for use at Juniper Point. In June 1899, the Boston Globe reported
that Appleton’s yacht, valued at $1,000, had been stolen. It was recovered a month later at the
Hudson River Yacht Club in New York City and carpenter Frank Westin was arrested. 18 After
selling 126 Bay View (then 54 Central Avenue) in 1907; he purchased the larger adjacent home
16
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research
Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
17
Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds, 1862:473
18
“Yacht Takeiteasy Found at Last,” The Boston Globe, July 28, 1899, pg. 7.
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�at 130 Bay View Avenue (then 60 Central Avenue) which has also been previously owned by
Henry W. Peabody. When Joseph F. Appleton passed away at age 76 in 1929, he left an estate
worth over one million dollars. 19
The Cabeen Family, 1907-1939
John F. Cabeen (1866-1954) was born in Salem in 1866 to Lydia and John Cabeen, a
teamster. The couple also had three daughters Sarah, Julia, and Lila. Sarah attended the nearby
Salem Normal School, where she graduated in 1878. She then taught in Salem for sixteen years,
primarily at the Bentley Grammar School on lower Essex Street. John F. trained as a plumber
and opened his own shop on the corner of Essex and North streets.
On October 18, 1886, John married Sarah A. Merrick, originally of England. 20 The couple
lived at 18 Cabot Street and had two children, Charles and Helen. Charles would apprentice
under his father and join the family business.
John was incredibly involved in his community, serving on multiple committees and
boards, including the Salem Chamber of Commerce, Salem Savings Bank, Salem Rotary Club and
the Board of Trade. After purchasing the home at 126 Bay View (then 54 Central Avenue) in
1907, John F. Cabeen became very involved with the Juniper Point neighborhood. In 1912, he
helped organize the Juniper Point Realty Trust to assist in the purchase of the nearby Ocean
View Hotel. 21
Following the Great Salem Fire of 1914, Cabeen played an instrumental role in the
19
“Estate of $1,072,103.70 left by Joseph Appleton,” The Boston Globe, January 14, 1930, pg. 1.
New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915
21
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts)25 Aug 1912, Page 14
20
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�recovery effort by assisting in the organization of incoming funds and supplies for the city. In
the following months, he rallied for the importance of a fire department to protect Juniper
Point, becoming temporary President of the Juniper Point Volunteer Fire Association in
February 1915. This association received a hose carriage, ladders, and was granted the
installation of a fire alarm box at Columbus Square.22
In 1939, John and Sarah sold the Juniper Point home to Nora Harrington.
22
The Boston Daily Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 08 Feb 1915, Page 13.
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�Street Address
54 Central Avenue
126 Bay View Avenue
Buyer
Occupation
Alfred Peabody
Henry W. Peabody
Merchant
Joel A. Abbott
Sarah A. Abbott
John F. Appleton
Mary B. Appleton
1875-1915
1915-Present
Years of
Ownership
1875-1880
Number
of Years
5
Purchase Price
Deed
Notes
$250
941:166
Shoe Manufacturer
Grocer
Insurance and Real Estate
Park Commissioner
1880-1894
14
$1,500
1040:248
Purchased from Daniel B. Gardner Jr.
Plot #22 - Book 1, Plan 15
Henry also owned plot #25 and #26
54 Central Avenue
1894-1907
13
1408:86
54 Central Avenue
John F. Cabeen
Sarah A. Cabeen
Plumber
1907-1939
32
1862:473
54 Central Avenue
126 Bay View Avenue
Nora Harrington
Admin. Assistant
1939-1946
7
$1.00 and
other
considerations
$1.00 and
other
considerations
$3,000
3182:477
Leo F. Harrington
Marjorie R. Harrington
U.S. Navy
1946-1950
4
Considerations
paid
3479:301
John A. Conway
Helen M. Conway
Peter J. Fallon
Marilyn E. Fallon
Natalio F. Bettencourt
Deliea C. Bettencourt
Gabriel Demelo
Maria D. Demelo
Cheryl A. Vickery
Insurance and Real Estate
1950-1975
25
$9,000
3778:334
Unknown
1975-1996
21
$26,5000
6122:616
Nora assumed payment of the Cabeen’s $3,000
mortgage.
Widow of Leo F. Harrington
126 Bay View Avenue
Nora Harrington remained in the home until
1950
126 Bay View Avenue
Probate: (#281964 11/8/64)
126 Bay View Avenue
Unknown
1997-2011
14
$305,000
126 Bay View Avenue
Unknown
2011-2019
3
$400,000
13741:36
13974:487
28875:213
Unknown
20112019+
8+
$630,000
30543:266
126 Bay View Avenue
126 Bay View Avenue
�Resident
J.F. Appleton
Vacant
John F. Cabeen
Nora Harrington
Nora Harrington
Arthur F. Dooley
Nora Harrington
John A. Conway
Rodolph J. Pelletier
John A. Conway
John Flynn
Rodolph J. Pelletier
John A. Conway
John A. Conway
Robert Allen
Patrick Cyr
John A. Conway
Richard L. Coluppy
Patrick Cyr
John A. Conway
Richard L. Coluppy
Robert C. McCarthy
John A. Conway
Norman R. Brouilette
John A. Conway
Directory Year
1899-1905
1906
1906-1939
1940-1942
1943-1945
1946-1950
1952
1953
1954-1955
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961-1964
Notes
�1875 Plan of Cottages belonging to Daniel B Garder Jr. (Not Goodwin) Lot #22
(Book 1, Plan 15)
�1874 Salem Atlas (Plate B)
�1897 Salem Atlas (Plate 11)
�1890-1903 Salem Atlas (Plate 39)
�1911 Salem Atlas (Plate 6)
�1906-1938 Salem Atlas (Plate 73)
�Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
22 Feb 1876, Tue • Page 3
The Boston Globe, Saturday, July 15, 1876
�The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
12 Jul 1876, Wed • Page 5
�The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
15 Jul 1876, Sat • Page 8
�Trade card for Henry W. Peabody & Co., Australian Line, 114 State Street, Boston, Mass., May 26, 1884
Historic New England (GUSN-190920)
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44807197.pdf
�Biographical History of Massachusetts:
Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Volume 2, 1911
�Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3
William Richard Cutter, 1908
�Boston Globe
June 14, 1879, Page 4.
Boston Daily Globe
March 20, 1920, pg. 9
�Nannie and Abby Borden both served on the YMCA’s Woman’s Auxiliary Board
Fall River Daily Globe, May 20, 1891
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
�The Peabody Family Plot on Greenwood Avenue
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts
(Find a Grave: 25156113)
�The Boston Globe
July 28, 1899. pg, 7.
�Appleton & Norton Advertisement
Salem Directory, 1905
�The Boston Globe
23 Jul 1909, Fri
Page 12
�The Boston Globe
07 Apr 1910, Thu
Page 9
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
05 Oct 1929, Sat • Page 7
�The Boston Globe
January 14, 1930, pg. 1
The Boston Globe
November 11, 1923, pg. 52
�The Boston Globe
February 8, 1915, pg. 13
�The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts)
13 Jun 1931, Sat
Page 9
�John F. Cabeen’s Store
81 North Street, Salem
Salem State University Archives & Special Collections
�Sarah Lizzie Cabeen, c. 1878
Salem State University Archives and Special Collections
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, THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSA- )
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William D. Chapple
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Beverly National Bank (Corporate seal)
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iCBUSETTS Essex ss. June 5th)
By Ruel P. Pope
Vice-Pres.
11939. Then personally ap-)
Fred H. Porter
Asst. Cashier
jpeared the above-named Wil-)
Trustees u/w Laurence E. Pedrick
lliam D. Chapple, trustee as aforesaid, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed, before me
Mary B. Tudbury
Notary Public
My commission expires January 22 1944
I, Edward S. Webber, hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Board of
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Directors of the Beverly National Bank of Beverly, Massachusetts and thatl
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at a regular meeting of the Directors duly held on August 2, 1927, a quorum
being present, the following vote was unanimously adopted:
VOTED:
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That
the President, or any Vice President, together with the Cashier or any
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sistant Cashier of this Bank be, and they hereby are authorized and empowered
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in the name and on behalf of this Bank to sell, assign, transfer and de-
liver, shares of stock or of any interest in any corporation, association!
or trust, certificates of such shares of stock or of interest, registered
bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness and all other forms of intangi le
property now or hereafter owned by or standing in the name of this Banko¼
standing in the name of this Bank as collateral security or otherwise,
ant
for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and
transfer thereof, including the appointment of an attorney, with power of!
substitution, with like full power, to lawfully act by virtue hereof, and,
to assign, convey, discharge, in whole or in part, any mortgage of real
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estate or personal property standing in the name of this Bank, to fore-
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close any such mortgage and to execute and deliver any deed of transfer
and other instruments incidental thereto or desirable in connection there~
~ith. I further certify that said vote has not been amended or rescinded,:
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and is in full force and effect and that Ruel P. Pope is a Vice President
and that Fred H. Porter is an Assistant Cashier of this Bank. Attest:
Edward S. Webber Clerk of the Board of Directors.
(Corporate seal)
Essex ss. Received June 6, 1939. 34 m. past 4 P.M. Recorded and Examined.I'
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I, John F. Cabeen of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts for consideration' Cabeen
paid, grant to Nora I. Harrington of said Salem with WARRANTY COVENANTS I
to
a certain lot of land in said SALEM on Juniper Point being lot twenty-two!
Harrington
on a plan entitled ~Plan of Cottage Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, c.t. One $2. R. Stamp
Putnam, Surveyor, Oct. 1875~ recorded with Essex, So. Dist., Deeds, Book
~jary
:1 of Plans, Plan No. 15, with all buildings thereon; also a parcel ad- I
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joining said lot twenty-two and between it and high water mark bounded
beginning at the southeasterly corner of said lot twenty two and running
southeasterly in a line which is the extension in a straight line of the
line between lots twenty two and twenty three on said plan fifty feet mor•
or less to high water mark, thence running southwesterly on high water
mark to a point which an extension in a straight line of the line between
lots twenty one and twenty two would strike, thence running northwesterly
on said extended line twenty eight feet to the southwesterly corner of
lot twenty two, thence running northeasterly on said lot twenty two thirty feet to the point of beginning.
Said premises are conveyed subject to
the restrictions contained in a certain indenture between N. Augusta Gard1er
et al and said John F, Cabeen, dated February 28, 190? and recorded with
said Deeds, Book 1862, Page 478, so far as said restrictions are now in
!force and effect. Said premises are the same premises conveyed to the
granter herein by Joseph F. Appleton, by deed dated January 29, 190? and
recorded with said Deeds, Book 1862, Page 4?3. Said premises are conveyea
subject to a mortgage in the amount of $3,000.00 held by the Salem Savingtl
Bank, and the taxes for 1939, both of which the grantee herein, by the
acceptance of this deed, agrees to assume and pay.
I, Sarah A. Cabeen wi e
of said granter, John F. Cabeen release to said grantee all -rights of dowbr
and homestead and other interests therein. WITNESS our hands and seals
(seal)
John F. Cabeen
this fifth day of June 1939.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
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Sarah A. Cabeen
(seal)
Essex ss. June 5 1939 Then personally appeared the above named John F.
Cabeen and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and
deed, before me
Robert VI. Hill
Notary Public
My commission expires September? 1945
Essex ss. Received June 6, 1939. 34 m. past 4 P.M. Recorded and Examined.
------------------------------------------------------------------------I, Nora I. Harrington, widow, of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, for
Harrington
to
consideration paid, grant to John F. Cabeen of said Salem, with MORTGAGE
Cabeen
COVENANTS, to secure the payment of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars in
one year with five per cent interest per annum, payable quarterly as provided in a note of even date, a certain lot of land in said SALEM on Juni-
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per Point being lot twenty-two on a plan entitled "Plan of Cottage Lots
at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, C. A. Putnam, Surveyor, Oct. 18?5" recorded
with Essex, So. Dist., Deeds, Book 1 of Plans, Plan No. 15, with all buillings thereon; also a parcel adjoining said lot twenty two and between it
and high water mark bounded beginning at the southeasterly corner of said
lot twenty two and running southeasterly in a line which is the extension
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in a straight line of the line between lots twenty two and twenty three
on said plan fifty feet more or less to high water mark, thence running
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line of the line between lots twenty one and twenty two would strike,thence
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running northwesterly on said extended line twenty eight feet to the sout westerly corner of lot twenty two, thence running northeasterly on said·
lot twenty two thirty feet to the point of beginning. Said premises are
•conveyed subject to the restrictions contained in a certain indenture be-I
!tween N. Augusta Gardner et al and said John F. Cabeen, dated February 28l
1907 and recorded with said Deeds, Book 1862, Page 478, so far as said
restrictions are now in force and effect. Said premises are the same
premises conveyed to me by the said John F. Cabeen by deed of even date
and to be recorded herewith. Said premises are subject to a prior mort- .
•
gage in the amount of $3,000.00 held by the Salem Savings Bank. Th1s mortgage is upon the statutory condition, for any breach of which the mortgagee
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shall have the statutory power of sale. WITNESS my hand and seal this
I
lfifth day of June 1939
Nora I. Harrington
(seal)
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETI'S Essex ss. June 5th, 1939 Then personially appeared the above-named Nora I. Harrington and acknowledged the
!foregoing instrument to be her free act and deed,
before me,
Charles F•. Manning
Notary Public
Essex ss. Received June 6, 1939. 34 m. past 4 P.M. Recorded and Examined.
------------------------------------------------------------------------I~ John F. _Cabeen of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, holder of a mortL Assgt.
gage from Nora I. Harrington to me dated June 5, 1939 recorded on said
Cabeen
date with Essex South District Registry of Deeds and being instrument num•
bered-of that date, assign s~id mortgage and the note and claim secured
to
Beverly Nat'l
Bk. , et al Trs.
thereby to Beverly National Bank and William D, Chapple, Trustees under
the Will of Laurence E. Pedrick, late of said Salem, WITNESS my hand and
seal this fifth day of June 1939
John F. Cabeen
(seal)
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Essex as, June 5th 1939 Then personally
appeared the above-named John F, Cabeen and acknowledged the foregoing int
strument to be his free act and deed before me
Robert W. Hill
Notary Public
My commission expires Sept 7 1945
Essex ss, Received June 6, 1939. 34 m. past 4 P.M. Recorded and Examined,;
------------------------------------------------------------------------The Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank, holder of the foregoing mortgage, Discharge
Ihereby acknowledges satisfaction of the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
N'port. F.C.S,Bk.
'said Savings Bank has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed and 1
On back M.. deed
Rec. B. 2903
·P, 25
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�3Dis'tbarge of JMortgage:
3778
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The SALEM SA\'INGS BANK, the holder of the within molt~ge, ~ereby acknowledges satisfaction of ardt I.!"
discharges the same.
3 34
2
Jn WitntH Wbtrtof,
the said SALEM SAVINGS BANK has caused its corporate seal to be· hcnto affixed
and these presents to be Si1?11ed in its name and behalf by
Roland A. Stanley
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its Treasurer.
ben:unto duly authorized, this
nineteenth
day of
October,:-:'
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in the year nineteen hundred and
f if t y.
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By
C:ommonllltaltb of Jlas!Satbusttts
ss, On this nineteenth
day of
October
Roland A. Stanley
, to me personally known, who,
ESSEX,
19 50, before
appeared
being by me duly sworn,
uy that he is the Treasurer of said SALEM SAVINGS BANK, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is
corporate seal of said Corporation and that said instrument was signed and scaled in behalf of said Corpo · n
authority of its By-Laws, and acknowledged said instrument to be the free act a1><hll!rd:,o/ said Corpo
'-L_..:C......~,C-
me
did
the
by
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My commission expires ...
Esau ss. Recorded Oct. 20,
19so.
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JO m. past .1 P.M.
K!IO'{I ALL Lll~N DY TilliSB PRJ.;S.t<,!JTS Tr.i!.T I, Leo F. H;irr ington
of Salem,
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lfJ3
sex. County. Massachusetts
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t,-,::nme.; ri, for consideration paid, grant to Jo!'ln ;,. Con•·n-y "nd JIGlen·J:. Co!Wrny,
husband and.wife, as tenants by the entirety, both
of said Saler.i
with UlttmU1ty tOll1'ltlUttll
the land in said Salem with the buildinr,s thereon hounded and rlescri bed
as follows:
(Ocx:iptio:. a:.~ ev:enmh ances, if mcs)
· Nortl,v1esterly by Central Avenue, no" called Bay View Avenue,
thirty three and six-tenths (33.6) feet, northeaste·ly by lot 23
on plan hereinafter referred to fifty ei8ht (58) feet, southeasterly
by the parcel next hereinafter described thirty (30) feet and southwesterly by lot 21 on said plan sixty three (63) feet. ,,lso a narcel
adjoining said lot and between it and high water mark, bounded as
follows: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of said lot and
running southeasterly in a line which is ~he extension.in a straiP,ht
line of the line betr1een lots 22 and 23 on said plan about fifty (50)
feet to high water ma1·]!:, thence runi1inr, southv1esterly b·.· high Vlater
mark to a ;,>oint which is the extension of a str<1ic.ht line of the line
between lots 21 and 22 on said plan I thence running nortlr.vesterly by
said extended line twenty eight (2&J feet to the southwesterly corner
of said lot 22, 1thence running northeasterly on said lot 22 thirty
(30) feet to the point of b0r,i'nning. Being lot 22 and· rear of lot 22
on plan recorded in Book of Plans 1 Plan~,15.
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And __ I_,_ llar .jori~;larri ,!'.to
.
.
:\';:" of said grantor,
tenaa;r ~· the act=IH3•
.
,
homestead and other mterests therem.
release to said grantee all nghts of dowe;
and
,,_____ . ~ day
z_..a_ __,,,.,__
of_ ___,O~.t.ob.er
J950,
1;:t;;J:::L~
l!J(ir Qtommonurralt(i of dlassar(iusdts
__________..·.1s..~.ox.,_____ _ss.
Then personally appeared the above-natn~d ....... Le..Q ...F. .......l!.i:tr.ri.:.1~.t.Q.•••____________
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be ........: ... is ...
l:a::ier ,/. Liebsch
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.Es~ex ss. Recorded Oct. 20, 1950. 30 m. pest 1 P.M.
�3778
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT ..... He.~ .. J.ohn.a •... Conm,.;., ,:we. .. H.n.len. L: •
.Co.nway., .... hu.s.baod ....and ....,v.i.fe., ....bo.th ...................................................................... .
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:::saiem; :. :: : ::: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::::::::::
:£:SScx ........ County, Massachusetts,
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1t111::an ied, for consideration paid, grant to the SALEM FIVE CENTS SAVINGS BANK, a corporation
duly established by law and located in Salem in the County of Essex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of
.
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............................................
........ Nine ... Tho.usanc
............. Dollars
In .......................... t:w.e.nty ..........................years with....
.. .... .f.o.ur.
......... per cent interest, per annum, payable
as provided in a note of even date, the land in .... s.ai.cl.. ..S.n.le.r.i .....
with the buHdings thereon bounded as follows:
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Northwesterly by Central Avenue, now called n;...y View',,ve:1ue,
thirty three and six-tenths (33.6) feet, northeasterly by lot 23 on
plan hereinrfter referred to fifty eiRht (58) feet, southeaste1·ly by
the oar.eel next hereinafter described thirty (30) feet and soutJwmsterly by lot 21 on said plan sixty three (63) feet. ,,1so a parcel
adjoining said lot and between it and hir;h water r.1ark, bounded as
follcws: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of said lot and runni11g
southeasterly in a line which is the extension in a straight line of
the line between lots 22 and 23 on said plan about fifty ( 50) feet to
high water mark, thence running southwesterly by :1i,c:h wat, r mark to a
point which an extension in a straight line of the line bet\'ieen lots
21 and 22 on said ::,lan would strike thenr.e running northl'iesterly. on.
said extended line twenty eight (28) feet to the southwesterly corner"
of said lot 22, thence running ~ortheasterly on said lot 22 thirty (30)
feet to the point of beginning. BeinG lot 22 and the rear of lot 22
on plan reccrded in Book of Plans 1 Plan 15. Said premises are subject
to restrictions and stipulations contained in Indenture dated February
28, 1907 and recorded in Book 1862 Page 478. Being the same ~remises
conveyed to us by deed of Leo F, Harrington recorded herev1ith,
Including as a part of the realty all portable or sectional buildinge, heating apparatus, plumbing, mantels, storm doors and
window,, oil bumel"8, gas and oil and electric fixtures, screens, screen doors, awnings, air conditioning apparatus and other
fixtures of whatever kind or nature, on said premises, insofar as the same are, or can by agreement of the parties, be made
a part of the realty.
The mortgagor agreea and covenants to pay to the mortgagee, on the payment do.tee of the note secured by this mort•
gage, in addit:on to the payments of principal and interest therein required, a monthly apportionment of the sum estimated .
by the mortgagee to be sufficient to make payment of all municipal taxes, chargeu and assessments and insurance premiums,
upon the mortgaged property as they shall become due and any balance due for any of said payments shall be paid by the
mortgagor. The mortgagee is hereby specifically authorized to pay when due, or at any time thereafter, all of said payments
and to charge the same to the account of the mortgagor.
In the event of the ownership of the mortgaged premises, or any part thereof, becomes vested in a person or persons
other th&n the mortgagor, the mortgagee may, without notice to the mortgagor, deal with the successor or successors in
interest with reference to the mortgage and the debt hereby secured, and in the same manner as with the mortgagor without in
any way vitiating or discharging the mortgagor's liability hereunder or upon the debt hereby secured. No sale of the
premises hMeby mortgaged and no forbearance on the pa?'t of the mortgagee and no extension, whether oral or in writing,
of the time for the payment of the debt hereby secured given by the mortgagee shall operate .to release, discharge, modify,
change or affect the original liability of the mortgagor herein, either in whole or in part.
'
The mortgagor covenants and agrees to perform and observe RII of the term! and conditions of the mortgage note secured
by this mortgage, and further covenants and agrees to pay on demand to the mortgagee, or the mortgagee may at its option add to the principal balance then due, any sUms advanced or paid by the mortgagee on account of any defsuit, of whatever nature, by the mortgagor, or any sums edvanced or paid, whether before or after d~fault, for taxes, repairs, improvements, in!Utance on the mortgaged property or any other insurance pledged as collateral to secure the mortgage loan, or
any sums pe.id to the mortgagee, including reasonable attorney's fees, in prosecuting, defending or intervening in any legal
or equitable proceeding wherein any· of the rights cr~ated by this mortgage are, in the sole judgement of the Bank, jeopardized or in issue.
· '.
This mortgage ia upon the STATUTORY CONDlTION.; for any breach of which the mortgagee shall have the STATUTORY
POWER OF SALE.
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rel care ta the mcs:tjfugce all I ights of don ct
WITNESS.
our
...... Jn1ahrnd mjfo ef eeid nu,tgsxer
tcSJ ,ami hoamstead mid st112: inbc: c ,a iM tho mortQ'.aged..px.emi8@8.
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.hand.sand seals this. .. ......... /.,?.. .. d
.......... 0.ctob.er............ 19,50.•
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
...0c.toller... I 'l.,.
EsSF.X, SS.
Then personally appeared the above named ..... J oh.n A.
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be .......... his ..
Conw.iy
..... free act and deed. ·
Before me,
l',lrier ,i. Liebsch
D--111
19;i0.
cornwission expires,..
Essex ss. Recorded Cct. 20, 19~0. 30 m. past 1 P .M.
~
Justice of the Peace.
�MASSACHUSETTS OUl'fCLA.IM DIEl:D SHOJIT PO"M tlNDIVIDUALI lat
WE, Peter J. Fallon and Marilyn E. Fallon, husband and wife
as tenants by the entirety
of
county, M:uuchU&CtU,
Salem, Essex
Three Hundred Five
Thousand and 00/100 ($305,000.00) Dollars_
09/04196 0t:4~ Inst 3°l6
gr:mtto Natalio F. Bettenco~rt
'~ for consldcr:itlon paid, 211d In full coosklcratloo of
BK 13741 PG 36
of
with quttdatm anttllmll
126 Bayview Avenue, Salem, MA
UI.IXk the land in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
(Dacrlptlon lU>dencwnl,nnca, ll1ay)
FOR A COMPLETE LEGAL DESCRIPTION
SEE EXHIBIT "A" AT'l'ACHED HERETO
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DEEDS REG 10
ESSEX SOUTH
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TAX
CASH
1390,80
1390.80
3722A000 13:42
EXC!SE TAX
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thla ,
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mq>tember
dayof
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ss.
Then personally appeared the :lhovc named
DEED Pg 1/2
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19 96
Peter J. Fallon and
Marilyn E. Fallon
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be
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(' Individual - Joint Tenants- Ttt'.ts In Common.)
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CHAl'TEll 183 ~ - 6AS AME1
· Ej7.BYCkAPTl!ll ◄97 o<l969
··k chc:.tull name, -rc11dcnce and M office Mldn::11 of chc grantee
~ lb<un: olll>c ochercbnoldttalro!, 1hcrefoc. lf noc delivettdlou
spcclllc monet21)' sum. The run con&idcralloa wll mcsn ch<, 1oc11 price ot thc convcy:ana: without d<duc:t:IDa for 1ay liens or enc:umbnnces
Ulumcd by the aisntec <>< Rmlinll\l thetean. All 1111Ch endonemcnu ond·rec1ur. shall be rttordtd :u pan ol chc deed. Failure to con,ply
willl tbll s«tionlblll not affect Che Yalldlcy ohny deed. Norqbtcr of dccdl shall accq,ta deed for: n:conling unlcH Ir II la compll2Jlcc wllh
tl>e require-n11 of this ICCllon.
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EYery deed p,ctcntcd ror ra:ord lhall con<aln or h a v e ~ -
and a ffi:IUI of d>e amoonc ofchc full coaaldcntlon thereof In dollan
�BK 13741 PG 37
EXHIBIT A
126 Bayview Avenue
Salem, MA 01970
The land in aaid Salem, with the
described as follows:
building■
thereon, bounded and
NORTHWESTERLY
by Central Avenue, now called Bay View Avenue,
thirty-three and six tenths (33.6) feet1
NORTHEASTERLY
by Lot 23 on plan hereinafter referred to fiftyeight (58) feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY
by the parcel next hereinafter des~ribed thirty
(30) feet; and
.<
SOUTHWESTERLY
by Lot 21 on said plan sixty-three ·:.( 63) feet•
Alao a parcel adjoining said lot and between it •nd high water
mark, bounded aa followas
Beginning at the Southeasterly oorner of said lot and running
SOUTHEASTERLY
in a line which is the extension in a straight line
of the line between Lots 22 and 23 on said plan
about fifty (50) feet to high water mark1 thence
running
SOUTHWESTERLY by high water mark to a point which is the extension
in a straight line of the line between Lots 21 and
22 on said plan; thence running
NORTHWESTERLY by said extended line twenty-eight (28) feet to the
Southwesterly corner of said Lot 22; thence running
NORTHEASTERLY
on said Lot 22 thirty (30) feet to the point of
beginning
Being Lot 22 and rear of Lot 22 on plan recorded in Essex South
District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan 15.
Being the same premises conveyed to Peter J. Fallon and Marilyn E.
Pallon, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety, by deed of
John A. Conway dated January 10, 1975 and recorded with Essex South
District Registry of Deeds in Book 6122, Page 616.
�·et< s, 2 2 PG s , s·
I, John A. Conway
of. Beverly,
Essex
County, Massachusetts,
being llimarT"Ud, for the full _consideration of • - - - - - - - - -$2.6, 500. 00- - - - - - - - - - - - - • - - - - '7. paid
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grant to Peter J. Fallon and Marilyn E. Fallon, husband and wife, as tenants by
the entirety, both residing at 12.6 .Bay View Avenue in Salem in said Countr of Essex,
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The land in _said Salem, with the buildings thereon, bounded and described
as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY
by Central Avenue, now called Bay View Avenue,
thirty-three and six tenths (33. 6) feet;
NORTHEASTERLY
by Lot 23 on plan hereinafter referred to fifty- eight
{58) feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY
by the parcel next hereinafter described thirty (30)
feet; and
SOUTHWESTERLY
by Lot 21 on said plan sixty-three (63) feet.
Also a parcel adjoining said lot and between it and high water mark, bounded
as follows:
Beginning at the Southeasterly corner of said lot and running
SOUTHEASTERLY
in a line which is the extension in a straight line of
the line between Lots 2.2 and 23 on said plan about
fifty (50) feet to high water mark; thence running
SOUTHWESTERLY
by high water mark to a point which is the extension
in a straight line of the line between Lots 2.1 and 22.
on said plan; thence running
NORTHWESTERLY
by said extended line twenty-eight (2.8) feet to the·.
Southwesterly corner of said Lot 2.2; thence running
NORTHEASTERLY
on said Lot 2.2 thirty (30) feet to the point of beginnin •
Being Lot 22 and rear of Lot 22 on plan recorded in Essex South DistTict.
Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan 15.
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Being the same premises conveyed to John A. Conway and Helen M. 'Conway,
husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety, by deed of Leo F. Harrington, dated
October 20, 1950 and recorded with said Deeds, Book 3778, Page 334, the said
Helen M. Conway having deceased on November 81 1964 (EBsex County Probate No.
281964).
Executed
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a sealed instrument this
10th
19 75
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and. OMoellec! an baok ot this 1nstrurn
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Januafy.:10 •..::. .;;ig 75
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ss.
Then personally appeared the above named
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My commission e1plres
ESSll SS. RECORDED
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19
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�QUITCLAIM DEED
I, NATALIO F. BETl'ENCOURT of 126 Bayview Avenue, Salem, Eue1 Coanty,
Musachusett,
02114197 12:53 Inst 297
BK 13974 PG 487
for nominal consideration paid
grant to NATALIO F. BETIENCOURT and DELIELA C. BETTENCOURT, husband and
wife. as tenants by the entirety both of 126 Bayview Avenue, Salem, Essel County,
Massachusetts
The land In aaid Salem, with the buildl.np thereon, bounded and described as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY
by Central Avenue, now called Bay View Avenue, thirty-three
and six tentht (33.6) feet;
NORTHEASTERLY
by Lot 23 on plan hereinafter referred to fifty~lgbt (58) feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY
by the parcel nut hereinafter described thirty (30) rm; and
SOUTHWESTERLY
by Lot ll on said plan silty-three (63) feet.
Also a parcel adjoilllng ,aid Jot and between It and high water mark, bounded as follows:
Beginning at the Southeasterly corner of said lot and running
In a liae which b tbe exte1Uion in a straight liae of the line
between Lota 22 and 23 on said plan about fifty (SO) feet to
SOUTHEASTERLY
high water mark; thence running
SOUTHWESTERLY
by high water mark to a point which b the eltemlon In a
straight line of the line betwHD Lota ll and l2 on uld plan;
thence running
NORTHWESTERLY
by said extended line twenty-eight (18) feet to the
Southwesterly corner of said Lot 22; thence running;
NORTHEASTERLY
on aald Lot 22 thirty (30) feet to the point of beginning
Being Lot 22 and rear of Lot l2 on plan recorded In E.uex South District Registry of Deeds,
Book of Plans 1, Plan 15.
·
For title see deed of Peter J. Fallon and Marilyn E. F'allon dated September 3, 1996
recorded with aaid Regbtry of Deeds in Book 13741, Page 36.
~~E.:ml~l3•:,f:;;:,..,,..a::::.,.i:::::.:.---~~
'Natali.:F. Betteneourt
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Ease1,ss.
Febrauy 13, 1997
Then penoually appeared the above named NataUo F. Bettencourt and acknowledged
the foregoing inatrament to be bl!I free act and deed,
~i,km /.a :
Beforure,,_-:-)::;:;;=~~~~~~~O....:::_
NUCELES. HARMON a SONFANTI
27 Lowell Slreet
Peabody, MA 01880
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0B / 20/2009 02:26 DEED Pg 1/2
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Southern Essex District ROD
Date: 0B/20/2009 02:26 PM
QUITCLAIM DEED
10: 743388 Doc# 20090820003400
Fee : $1,824.00 Cons: $400,000.00
We, NATALIO· F. BETTENCOURT and DELIEIA C. BETTENCOURT, both of Salem, Essex
County, Massachusetts,
for consideration paid and in full consideration of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND AND 00/100
($400,000.00) Dollars
grant to GABRIEL DEMELO and MARIA D. DEMELO, husband and wife as tenants by the
entirety, both of 126 Bay View Avenue, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts 01970, with
@UlTCLAIM COVENANTS
The land with all buildings thereon in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, being known as and
numbered 126 Bay View Avenue, bounded and described as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY by Central Avenue, now called Bay View Avenue, thirty-three and six
tenths (33.6) feet;
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NORTHEASTERLY by Lot 23 on plan hereinafter referred to fifty-eight (58) feet;
0
SOUTHEASTERLY by the parcel next hereinafter described thirty (30) feet; and
SOUTHWESTERLY by Lot 21 on said plan sixty-three (63) feet.
Also a parcel adjoining said lot and between it and high water mark, bounded as follows:
Beginning at the Southeasterly corner of said lot and running
SOUTHEASTERLY in a line which is the extension in a straight line of the line bet\veen Lots
22 and 23 on said plan about fifty (50) feet to high water mark; thence running
SOUTHWESTERLY by high water mark to a point which is the extension in a straight line of
the line bet\veen Lots 21 and 22 on said plan; thence running
NORTHWESTERLY by said extended line twenty-eight (28) feet to the Southwesterly corner
of said Lot 22; thence running
NORTHEASTERLY on said Lot 22 thirty (30) feet to the point of beginning.
Being Lot 22 and rear of Lot 22 on plan recorded in Essex South District Registry of Deeds in
Plan Book 1 as Plan 15.
Being the same premises conveyed to the within granters by deed of Natalie F. Bettencourt,
dated February 13, 1997, recorded in said Deeds in Book 13974, Page 487.
�EXECUTEDas a scaled instrument this 20th day of August, 2009.
· Witness
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Essex, ss.
On this 20th day of August, 2009, before me, the undersigned notary public, personally appeared
NATAUO F. BETTENCOURT and DELIELA C. BETIEJiCOURT, and proved to me through
satisfactory evidence of identification, which was n,Pl'iotographic identification with signature
issued by a federal or state government agency, o oath or affirmation of a credible witness, ~
personal knowledge of the undersigned, to be the person whose name is signed on the preceding
or attached document(s), and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to e their free act and
deed.
DAVID LANl<ELES
·
Notary Public
Commonwealth or Massachuetts
My Commission Expires
October 5, 2012
�Inventory No:
SAL.3484
Historic Name:
Appleton, Joseph House
Common Name:
Address:
126 Bay View Ave
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Salem Willows
Local No:
44-118
Year Constructed:
r 1880
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Gothic Revival
Use(s):
Secondary Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Recreation
Area(s):
SAL.GZ: Salem Neck and Winter Island
SAL.HA: Salem Willows Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (03/25/1994)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood Shingle
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126 Bay View Ave.
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Name
Present
Residential
Original
Residential
IPTION
Between 1871 and 1897
Atlases, deeds
Gothic Revival
Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location
in relation to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate all buildings
between inventoried property and nearest
intersection(s).
Indicate north
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Exterior Wa 11 Fabric wood shingles
Outbuildings
Major Alterations (with dates)
Nt
Condition
Excellent
Moved ______ Date _ _ _ _ _ __
Acreage
Less than one
Setting
On shoreline in extremely
dense 19th c. residential resort
neighborhood
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REFERENCE
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Associates
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NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable)
Located within the recommended Salem Willows Historic District,
eligible under Criteria A and c.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
126 Bay View Avenue is a richly detailed example of the small
summer cottages constructed in the Salem Willows area in the late
19th century.
It is a 1 1/2-story, two bay cottage with Carpenter
Gothic details.
The complex roofline consists of a gabled front
section with central gable, and a two-story, gabled roof extending
to the rear.
The one-story porch extends across the facade and
east elevation, featuring a handsome jigsawn balustrade.
The main
entry is at the west end of the facade.
The entire front section
of the house is oranamented with jigsawn vergeboards and cornice
trim.
The window sash is varied including some replacement.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the co111n.1nity.
This house is characteristic of the development of Salem
Willows with summer cottages during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
It stands upon lot 22 of a plan of cottage lots dated
October 1875.
The house was standing by 1897, when it was owned as
a summer residence by Joseph Appleton, a manager for A.B. Russell &
Co., Boston.
Appleton's year-round residence in 1897 was at 19
North Street, Salem.
It is not known when the house was
constructed, but the lot had previously been purchased by Henry W.
Peabody (1875) and Joel Abbott (1880) before Appleton purchased it
in 1894.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Essex County Registry of Deeds
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Hopkins, G. M. Atlas of Salem. Philadelphia, 1874
Richards, Atlas of Salem, 1897
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130 Bridge Street
Built by
Moses Hale
Carpenter
in 1804
Research & writing by
Robert Booth
July 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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14 Beach Avenue
Built for
Abel Webster
Massachusetts State Representative
from Lawrence
Iron Founder
c. 1880
Research Provided by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Chain of Title, 14 Beach Avenue, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
July 17, 1878 Daniel B. Gardner of Salem, MA
December 17, 1884 Abel Webster of Lawrence, MA
October 15, 1900 Adelaide W. Thomas of Lawrence, MA
Marcella G. Moulton of Salem, MA,
executrix of the will of Abigail W. Moulton,
September 29, 1927 late of Salem, MA
August 15, 1942 Jessie E. Timson, widow of Tampa, FL
September 20, 1946 Fred E. Strout
February 2, 1948 Earle R. Knowlton & Lillian B. Knowlton
Russell M. MacDonald & Adrienne M.
September 2, 1960 MacDonald
Gerard A. Gaffney & Jane F. Gaffney of
July 7, 1995 Salem, MA
Grantee(s)
Conveyance of
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
Notes
Abel Webster of Lawrence, MA
"The real estate in said Salem bounded and described as
follows...Being the lot numbered thirty one (31) and thirty two (32)
on a plan of Cottage Lots on Juniper Point, Salem Neck, owned
by Daniel B. Gardner, recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds, South
$1,000 District, 1st Book of Plan, Plan No 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1001
Adelaide W. Thomas of
Lawrence, MA
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situate in
Salem in said County and bounded and described as follows...
Being lots numbered thirty one and thirty two on a plan of cottage
lots on Juniper Point, Salem Neck, formerly owned by Daniel B.
Gardner recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds South Dist. 1st Book
$3,000 of Plans Plan No. 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1142
First mention of "buildings"
88 on the lot.
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situate in said
Salem, bounded and described as follows...being lot numbered
thirty one (31) and part of lot numbered thirty two (32) on a plan of
Cottage lots on Juniper Point Salem Neck, owned by Daniel B.
Gardner, recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds, South District, 1st
Book of Plans, Plan No. 30"
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1623
66
"the land in said SALEM together with the buildings thereon being
all of lot numbered thirty-one (31) and part of lot numbered thirtytwo (32) on a Plan of Houselots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck,
Salem, recorded with Essex, South District, Deeds, Book of Plans 1
$5,000 Plan 30..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2740
179
Abigail W. Moulton, wife of
John S. Moulton, of Salem
Jessie E. Timson of Salem, MA
Fred E. Strout of Keene, NH
"one dollar and
other valuable
consideration paid"
"certain land in Salem, Massachusetts together with the buildings
thereon, being all of lot numbered thirty-one (31) and part of lot
numbered thirty-two (32) on a Plan of House lots at Juniper Point,
Salem Neck, Salem, recorded with Essex, South District, Deeds,
$10 Book of Plans 1 Plan 30..."
231
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3309
46
"the land in said Salem together with the buildings thereon
bounded and described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part
Earle R. Knowlton & Lillian B.
of lot 32 on a plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck,
Knowlton, husband and wife of
recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of
Salem, MA
"consideration paid" Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3480
146
Russell M. MacDonald &
Adrienne M. MacDonald,
husband and wife of Salem,
MA
"the land in said Salem together with the buildings thereon
bounded and described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part
of lot 32 on a plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck,
recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of
"consideration paid" Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3586
68
Gerard A. Gaffney & Jane F.
Gaffney, husband and wife of
Danvers, MA
"the land in said Salem together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part
of Lot 32 on a plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck,
recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of
"consideration paid" Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4699
568
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part of Lot 32 on a
plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, recorded with
$1 Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
13092
92
Gerard A. Gaffney, individually
Karen J. Beauregard of Claremore, OK;
Janet Casey of Dunbarton, NH; Ellen Chen
a/k/a Ellen Gaffney Chen of Stoneham,
MA; & Mary Elizabeth Broughton a/k/a
David Bowie & Jennifer Bowie,
November 21, 2000 Betsy Broughton of Woodbridge, VA
husband and wife of Salem
David Bowie & Jennifer Ingalls, f/k/a
November 1, 2016 Jennifer Bowie
Consideration
David W. Broughton & Mary
Elizabeth Broughton, married,
of Woodbridge, VA
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part of Lot 32 on a
plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, recorded with
$445,000 Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
16701
"The land in said Salem, with the buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows...Being all of Lot 31 and a part of Lot 32 on a
plan of House Lots at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, recorded with
$575,000 Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan 30."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
35407
"For title...see Certificate
Releasing Massachusetts
Estate Tax Lien and Death
Certificate of Jane Francis
Gaffney, and Death
Certificate of Gerard A.
293 Gaffney..."
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14 Beach Avenue, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Abel Webster
Massachusetts State Representative
from Lawrence
Iron Founder
c. 1880
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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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c. 1880, 2019
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Research by Alyssa G. A. Conary
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English
14
1880
2019
Abel
Avenue
Beach
circa
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Webster
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Forrester Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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14 Forrester Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built in 1846 by John Lovejoy, housewright
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1846, 2009
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Robert Booth
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English
1846
2009
Booth
Forrester
History
House
John
Lovejoy
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
Street
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14 Herbert Street
Built for
Antonina and John Boltrukiewicz
Machine Painter
1912
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
July 2018
Historic Salem Inc,
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�View of 14 Herbert Street, 1998 (MACRIS SAL.3865)
14 Herbert Street is a two-family, flat-roofed home built about 1912 by John S.
Boltrukiewicz and his family. The home replaced a circa 1874 single-family home that belonged
to Hannah Brick. The previous home was very similar to the adjacent 16 Herbert Street and was
likely built around the same time, possibly by the Brick family, who owned both plots of land.
In the early 20th century, the Historic Derby Street Neighborhood was predominantly
Polish. Attracted to job opportunities in the city’s mills and factories, Polish immigrants began
arriving in Salem around 1890 and by 1911, Poles comprised about 8% of the city’s overall
population. Religion played a strong role in the Polish community and as the number of Polish
Catholics in Salem grew, the need for a permanent house of worship became apparent. Herbert
Street and Union Street became the heart of the Polish Catholic presence in the city, housing St.
John the Baptist Church, a parochial school, convent, and rectory.
�View of the previous building at 14 Herbert Street and the Manning House at 10 ½ Herbert Street. c. 1890-1910.
(Phillips Library)
Reverend Joseph J. Czubek (1908-1910)
Joseph J. Czubek (1874-1940), was born on August 8, 1874 in Toledo, Ohio, one of five
children belonging to James and Mary (Nowak) Czubek. His parents immigrated to America from
the Province of Posen, an area of Prussia that became part of the German Empire in 1871.1 At
the age of 24, Joseph was ordained at a Polish Seminary in Detroit, Michigan.2
In 1901, Reverend Czubek was beckoned to Salem by Father Chmielewski of Boston, to
conduct mass in Polish. These services were given in the basement of an Irish parish, the Church
1
Year: 1920; Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_696; Page: 6A; Enumeration District:
259
Year: 1937; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 6006; Line: 1; Page
Number: 136
2
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978)
�of Immaculate Conception on Hawthorne Boulevard, (then Walnut Street.) Czubek was quickly
welcomed by Salem’s parishioners due to his support of the need to erect a Polish Catholic
church in the city. Reverend Czubek created and tasked a committee with raising over $2,000
needed to purchase and convert a dwelling into a new parish. Following the building’s
completion, Czubek was appointed the pastor of St. John the Baptist Polish Roman Catholic
Church, which held its first mass at 18-20 Herbert Street on July 3, 1903.3
Reverend Czubek continued expanding church, purchasing additional buildings on
Herbert Street and the surrounding area to house a school, rectory, and a convent.4 After only
three short years, the church building on Herbert Street had already become inadequate for the
growing number of parishioners. Czubek purchased a vacant, former Baptist Church on St. Peter
Street and assigned a committee to oversee the building’s restoration. The new church was
completed in 1909 and the former Herbert Street church was converted into additional
classrooms for the Polish parochial school, which had previously occupied the basement.
One of Czubek’s many purchases was 14 and 16 Herbert Street in 1908, at the cost of
$2,900. The two dwellings were sold to Czubek by Ellen Fitzgerald of Boston.5 The land and two
homes previously belonged to Hannah Brick, who likely built them.6 Czubek used the properties
to house the Felician Sisters, nuns who operated the church’s parochial school, until a convent
could be built on Union Street. 7
Reverend Czubek’s legacy was cemented on June 25, 1914 when the Great Salem Fire
destroyed 1,600 buildings over 250 acres. More than 14,000 Salemites were displaced from their
homes including many from the Derby Street area. After hours of devastation to the city, the fire
stopped at the foot of Herbert Street and Central Wharf. Many Poles have credited this to
Reverend Czubek. Local lore states that Czubek stood in the middle of Derby Street with holy
water and a crucifix, praying for the fire’s end. Another story credits Clara Kotarski, whose
3
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978) and
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, 1904.
4
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978)
5
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:393
6
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts." Map. 11. Philadelphia, PA: C.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874.
7
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
�husband owned a row of buildings at the head of Derby Wharf. It is said that she placed a crucifix
on their house to halt the blaze.
In the Heart of Polish Salem, National Park Service
The Boltrukiewicz Family (1910-1996)
John Stanislaw Boltrukiewicz (1886-1954) was born in Poland on June 24, 1886. In 1907
he immigrated to the United States along with his wife Antonina “Annie” (Sigyjy) Boltrukiewicz
(1886-1963) whom he married that same year. 8 The couple rented a home at 43 Union Street,
that they shared with John’s older brother Lucas, and multiple boarders. John worked at United
8
Year: 1910; Census Place: Salem Ward 1, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_587; Page: 13B; Enumeration District:
0455; FHL microfilm: 1374600
�Shoe Company in Beverly painting machines used in the manufacturing of shoes. In 1909 they
welcomed their daughter Bronislawa “Bertha” Boltrukiewicz. (1909-1967) The couple had three
more children, Wladislawa “Alice” (1910-1993), Stanislaw “Stanley” (1912-1965), and Jane
(1914-1996.) It appears that they also had multiple children die in infancy including John Jr. born
on May 4, 1908 and Wclaw, who was born in 1909 and died of pneumonia a few weeks later.9
In August 1910, John S. Boltrukiewicz purchased 14 and 16 Herbert Street from Joseph
Czubek for “one dollar and other considerations paid.”10 Their mortgage however reflects $2,400
which may have been used to construct a new dwelling at #14.11 The family moved into 16
Herbert Street and based on directories, around 1912, constructed a new two-family house at
#14 using the former single-family home’s foundation.12 The previous home looked very similar
to #16 but may have been replaced with a two-family as an investment property.13
During the Boltrukiewicz’s ownership, 14 Herbert Street had multiple tenants, primarily
Polish. The two-family home had a quick turn-over, with most tenants only listed living in the
home for a year. This however was not uncommon, as property ownership was a great source of
pride to the Polish, who would have rented only until they could have afforded a home.
Reverend Czubek was celebrated for assisting over 100 newly married couples purchase their
first homes.14
The Boltrukiewicz children continued to live at home at #16 into adulthood. Jane worked
in the mill of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company and Alice worked downtown as a
saleswoman at Amy, Bigelow & Washburn. Their brother Stanley worked as an auto mechanic at
Colonial Garage and Bertha Boltrukiewicz worked as a full-time stenographer. Around 1941,
Bertha began working at the Hygrade Sylvania Corporation in Salem, assembling lamps. 15 That
9
Wclaw is also listed as Wclaf and William, born September 28, 1909 and died October 11, 1909. John Jr. was born
May 4, 1908, no information on his death was found.
10
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:393
11
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:394
12
Both the Phillips Library (Peabody Essex Museum) and City of Salem were contacted to request the building
permits from 1912. Both organizations were not able to locate these records. The use of these records could better
substantiate the home’s construction date.
13
Foundation appears similar to previous foundation based on turn-of-the-century photograph from the Phillips
Library, included in this research.
14
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · 22 Aug 1910, Mon · Main Edition · Page 3
15
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, R.L Polk & Co., 1941
�same year she married Henry Panek, a machinist. By 1942 the couple had moved into 14 Herbert
Street and the following year they had a son, Henry Jr. The Paneks remained in the home for
over 20 years, the longest of any tenant.
Both homes remained in the Boltrukiewicz family for a total of 86 years. They passed
down from John and Antonina, in 1953, to their children and in 1996, following the death of
Jane, the homes were sold separately for the first time. Henry Panek Jr., Jane’s nephew, who by
that time was living in Pennsylvania, sold 16 Herbert Street to Lorinda and Michael Matter for
$121,000 and 14 Herbert Street to Aaron and Kenneth Dibello for $105,000 16
14 Herbert Street sold again, three years later, to James and Christina Ayube for
180,000.17 The two-family home was rezoned into condo units in 2004 when the Ayube’s sold
the home to Timothy J. Hallinan, III for $285,000.18 Since 2004, the two units have been owned
separately.
16
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 13886:526, 4008:247 and 12610:31
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 15774:382
18
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 20369:437 and Deed 22337:177
17
�Buyer
Ellen Fitzgerald
Years of
Ownership
1898-1908
Number
of Years
12
Purchase Price
$1,760
Document
Referenced
Deed 1538:550
Joseph J. Czubek
1908-1910
3
$2,900
Deed 1918:393
Deed 1918:394
John S. Boltrukiewicz
1910-1953
43
$2,900
Deed 2036:109
Jane D. Boltrukiewicz,
et al.
Aaron DiBella
Kenneth F. DiBella
1953-1996
43
1996-1999
3
> $100
$1.00
$105,000
Deed 4008:247
Deed 12610:31
Deed 13887:208
James A. Ayube
Christina M. Ayube
Timothy J. Hallinan, III
1999-2003
4
$180,000
Deed 15774:382
2003-2004
<1
$285,000
Deed 20369:437
Cynthia A. Clark
2004-2011
7
$180,000
Rebecca Mackenzie
2011-2017
6
$143,000
Deed 22349:39
Deed 22337:177
Deed 35543:378
Deed 35543:378
Nicholas L. Montefort
Allyson N. Chapman
2017Present
1+
$255,000
Deed 36196:360
Notes
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Authorized by William M. Hill, Probate Commissioner on
behalf of Daniel T. Brick, George J. Brick, Ellen Foley,
Johanna Madden.
Hannah Brick seems to be a maiden name or mother of
Hannah Fitzgerald, which Ellen Fitzgerald may be
relation of.
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Sold for “one dollar and valuable consideration paid”
Mortgaged from Ellen Fitzgerald and paid off in 1911
(Deed 2109:330)
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Sold for “one dollar and valuable consideration paid”
Mortgage states $2,400
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Inherited from her parents along with her siblings.
14 Herbert Street
1996 is the first year 14 & 16 Herbert Street are owned
by separate parties.
14 Herbert Street
14 Herbert Street
Condo association formed January 2004
(Deed 22337:177)
14 Herbert Street Unit 2
14 Herbert Street Unit 2
Rebecca married Jonathan Peros
(Deed 35543:378)
Unit 2
�Resident
F.W Preston
Directory Year
1907-1908
Vacant
1909
Felician Sisters
1910
F. Sentkowski
1911
John Krulski
1912
L. Ossolinska
A. Koscieniski
J. Filikiak
M. Darun
A. Kopuszcz
B. Napierski
H. Pouiz
P. Dombroski
J. Rhuber
I. Andros
A. Lardowski
J. Androskiewicz
1913-1914
R.S. Shaluk
R.S. Shaluk
H. Dragon
H. Dragon
N. Kaplon
1922
1924
1915
1916
1917
1918
1920
1921
1926
Notes
(Listed at 16 Herbert Street in 1909 and later
31 Union Street)
�Mrs. Mabel Fountaine
Michael Szymanski
1929- 1935
Michael switches from being listed at 14 and 15
Herbert. (When listed at #14, no #15 is listed)
Stanley Burba
(2 occupants)
Joseph Palamara Jr.
(4 occupants)
Henry Panek
(2-3 Occupants)
Joseph Palamara Jr.
(4 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Joseph Wojtowicz
(2 Occupants)
Maciej Burak
(2-3 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Sarah Griffin
(1 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Vernon H. Howard
(2 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
1936-1940/1
Joseph owns a car in 1936
1941 Directory was unavailable
1942-1947
Panek household has 3 occupants starting in 1944
Henry Panek is Jane D. Boltrukiewicz’s nephew.
1948-1952
Wojtowicz houshold listed as having a telephone in
1950
1953-1954
The Burak household has 3 occupants beginning in
1954
1955-1956/7
1957-1960
�Salem Atlas, 1874 (Plate A)
�Salem Atlas, 1890-1903
�Salem Atlas 1897 (Plate 3)
�Salem Atlas 1906-1938 (Plate 15)
�Salem Atlas, 1911 (Plate 5)
����(View of the previous building at 14 Herbert Street and the Manning House at 10 ½ Herbert Street. c. 1890-1910. Phillips Library)
��������(Polish American Liturgical Center)
������(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�Article celebrating Reverand Czubek.
��(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�(St. Mary’s Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 146951826)
146951826
���Death certificate for Wclaw Boltrukiewicz, who died in infancy in 1909 due to pneumonia.
(Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.)
�(St. Mary’s Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 181042919)
�(Boltrukiewicz Family Plot, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 180272170)
�(Boltrukiewicz Family Plot, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 180272170)
�����������������������������������������������������Inventory No:
SAL.3865
Historic Name:
Czubeck, John House
Common Name:
Address:
14 Herbert St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Derby Street
Local No:
35-295
Year Constructed:
1912
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
No style
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Ethnic Heritage
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Tar, Built-up
Wall: Vinyl Siding; Wood
Foundation: Concrete Unspecified
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�USGS Quad
Assessor's number
Area(s)
Form Number
Salem
35-295
Town
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Derby Street
Address 14 Herbert Street
Historic Name Czubeck Building
Uses: Present
Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1912
maps, directories
Style/Form
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation Concrete-faced
Wall/Trim
Vinyl Siding
Roof
Tar
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates) c. 1980 - vinyl siding
Condition
good
Moved [Xj no
Acreage
Setting
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
\Z\ yes
Date
1127SF
densely built-up 19th century residential
neighborhood between Essex Street and the waterfront
RECEIVED
Date (month/year) April 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commissioi^^^>ey^v^nt^i^^structions for completing this form.
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M A S S . HIST. C O M M
�BUILDING FORM (14 Herbert Street)
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
14 Herbert Street is a turn-of-the-century two-story,flat-roofed,two-family block which is sheathed in vinyl siding and rests
on a foundation which has been faced with concrete. The projecting eaves are encased in siding. The southeast comer of the
building is dominated by a recessed two-story porch which is three bays wide and supported by turned posts which are
spanned by an "x" railing. There are two bays of windows on the east side facing Herbert Street. Like most of the other
windows on the building they contain 2/2 sash with exterior storm windows and shutters; their surrounds are not visible due
to the siding. Centered on each level under the porch is a modem door. An additional entrance containing an original glassand-panel door is located on the west end of the south elevation. Fenestration on the north side consists of three irregularly
spaced bays of both small and large windows.
The building is set directly on the sidewalk. Opposite the building is a parking lot.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The present 14 Herbert Street replaced an earlier dwelling which was owned in 1874 by Hannah Brick. The heirs of Hannah
Fitzgerald owned this building and that to the south in 1897. By 1911 the property had been acquired by John Czubeck. It
appears that the present building was constructed shortly thereafter. The 1912 directory is the last to show the building as a
single-family residence; from 1913 on the property is a two-family dwelling. There is no listing for John Czubeck in the
Salem directories although Rev. Joseph Czubeck was appointed pastor of the St. John Baptist (Polish Catholic) Church in
1901 (the building was located at 18-20 Herbert Street) and lived at 31 Union Street.
The building has had a variety of tenants, many of Polish descent, over the years.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Arrington, Benjarnin F. Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts. Volumes I and II. New York: Lewis
Historical Publishing Company, 1922.
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts, 1897.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.
�
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Herbert Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
A name given to the resource
14 Herbert Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Antonina and John Boltrukiewicz
Machine Painter
1912
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912, 2018
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Jen Ratliff
Language
A language of the resource
English
14
1912
2018
Antonina
Boltrukiewicz
Herbert
History
House
John
Massachusetts
Salem
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14 Lynde Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1980
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Joyce King
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1981
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Northey Street
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14 Northey Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1984
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James Short
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141 North Street Rear, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1988
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144-146 Federal Street
Built for
Capt. Thomas Whittredge
Shipmaster
and his wife
Sarah Whittredge
c. 1802
Researched and written by
Michele Felski-Smith
January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�The house at 144-146 Federal Street in Salem, Massachusetts was built for shipmaster
Captain Thomas Whittredge and his wife Sarah, around 1802. It is located on the northeastern
corner of Federal Street and Flint Street (originally known as Dean Street). i
The Whittredge house was built in the Federal style, which was the prevailing American
architectural style between around 1780 and 1820, particularly popular along the eastern
seaboard in port cities. The lot on which it is situated is 8,825 square feet, and the house
measures 5 X 3 bays. ii The house is a three-story wood-frame building with clapboard siding and
has a brick chimney on both the east and west sides of the house. It has a low-pitch hipped roof,
which is the subtype of Federal houses most common to New England. iiiiv Three-story hippedroof Federal houses in particular have “an unusually important concentration in the town of
Salem, Massachusetts,” and are usually “of landmark quality.” v Originally, the house had outbuildings, including a shed, and a two-story stables on the northern end of the lot. vi It has a low
foundation made of granite with three granite front steps leading directly from the sidewalk to
the front door.vii viii While almost all of the characteristics of the house match typical Federal
style elements, the low foundation with no porch is one holdover from the preceding Georgian
style.ix
The front door has six panels and is surrounded by two Doric half-round and fluted
pilasters which support a triangular denticulated broken pediment. x Above the door is an
elliptical fanlight with five segments. xixii There is a similar six-panel door on the east side of the
house with pilasters supporting a less elaborate triangular pediment. This door also has three
granite steps extending down to the walkway.
On the front façade, the windows are singly-placed, five-ranked, and balanced
symmetrically with the front door in the center. xiii The third floor is a foreshortened story, and
�thus the windows are shorter than on the first and second floors. xiv Each window has a doublehung 6/6 sash, which is a window made up of six panes separated by muntins, or thin wooden
supports, above another set of six panes. xv By the late 1990s, the house was vacant, and the
windows were empty and boarded up. xvi Since then, they have been reinstalled and restored to
their original style.
During this architectural era, according to Virginia McAlester in A Field Guide to
American Houses, “the first true architects appeared on the American scene.” xvii One of the few
most notable in the country was an architect from Salem, named Samuel McIntire. He was a
master at the Georgian and Federal style of architecture, and several of his works remain in
Salem today. According to Bryant F. Tolles, in Architecture in Salem, An Illustrated Guide, his
greatest achievements came during this mid-Federal period between 1800 and 1815. xviii He was
particularly attracted to the Federal Street area, because of its “elegant streetscape” and was hired
by merchants to build their mansions there. xix The Whittredge House is part of the McIntire
Historic District. The McIntire-designed Samuel Cook/Henry Oliver House is next door at 142
Federal Street, and features some of his famous wood carving. xx Aspects of the Whittredge
House and original stable “show close relationship with McIntire’s work,” according to Fiske
Kimball, an architectural historian, though Kimball was not able to find specific evidence of a
connection.xxi The Whittredge House, and the Federal style in general, share similarities with the
earlier Georgian style, but are a refinement of the style. Houses of the mid-Federal period, are
described as “having a lightness and delicacy in comparison with their close Georgian relatives”
and “the exteriors… have few elaborations other than the fanlight and accentuated front door,”
which fits the Whittredge House perfectly.xxii This new refined architectural development
�borrowed from European styles of the time and was first used by wealthy merchants on the New
England coast, like Thomas Whittredge himself.
Thomas Whittredge was born on May 2, 1766 in Salem, Massachusetts. xxiii Sarah Waters
was born in 1766 in Danvers, Massachusetts to Abel Waters and Lydia (Trask) Waters. xxiv Sarah
married Thomas in Danvers on November 11, 1793 when they were both 28 years old. xxv The
two lived in Danvers in the early years of their marriage, and had three children before building
and moving to their mansion on Federal Street. Henry Trask Whittredge was the first, born
December 29, 1794, followed by Eliza, born November 25, 1796, Thomas Cook, born May 27,
1799, and Edward A., born December 15, 1801.
Thomas Whittredge was a Master Mariner, or Shipmaster, and traded in the mid-Atlantic
states.xxvi He was part of Salem’s proud and important history as a seaport, participating in it
during a time when the merchant culture and rich commerce were at their prime in the town.
According to the History of Essex County, Massachusetts published in 1888, “From the close of
the War of the Revolution until the embargo in 1808, Salem was at the height of her commercial
prosperity. The white sails of Salem’s ships were unfurled in every port of the known worlds and
carried the fame and name of Salem to the uttermost parts of the earth.” xxvii While Whittredge
perhaps was not quite as rich or well-known as some of the other merchants in town, he did a
good business and was quite wealthy, owning real estate not only at the Federal Street property,
but elsewhere in Salem, and in neighboring towns such as Peabody. xxviii
Whittredge was part owner of many ships that sailed from Salem. The 1906 Ship
Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900 lists him as an owner
of two vessels that served as privateers in the War of 1812; the Alexander carried twenty guns
and one hundred fifty-five men before being captured on May 19, 1813, and the Buckskin, a
�schooner, carried five guns and fifty men, and was captured by the British Frigate Statira on
August 7, 1812. He was also an owner of the Andrew Jackson, after its capture in the war,
registering it as a merchant ship when the war was over. Earlier in his career, Whittredge was
also an owner of the Clarissa, registered in 1794, and the Argo, registered in 1808. Whittredge’s
will and other documents reveal interest in ships not mentioned in this register as well. xxix The
ship register shows a chart of private signals from commercial houses, which includes an image
of Whittredge’s signal, shown below. xxx
In the mid-eighteenth century, Joseph Dean owned a large piece of land in Salem, just
south of the North River. The road to the west of this land was named for him for nearly a
century. When he died, he left it to his son John Dean, who in turn sold it to Joseph Sprague on
October 25, 1774.xxxi During that time, Federal Street was laid on the southern border of this
land, named in 1792, and a bustling community of merchant families was created. Sprague, also
a merchant, sold a piece of his land which would become 144-146 Federal Street, to Thomas
Whittredge on November 30, 1799 for six hundred and twenty-five dollars.xxxii This original deed
describes the boundaries of the land, which have remained unchanged to this day. It explains that
the western edge of the land was bounded by Dean Street (later Flint Street) and ran one hundred
and fifty-one feet. The north end was bounded by a school house’s land and ran forty-six feet,
eight inches. The east end was bounded by more land that still belonged to Sprague, and ran one
�hundred and fifty-one feet, equal to the western side. The southern border was a little longer than
the northern border, spanning sixty-one feet, one inch, and was, and still is, bounded by Federal
Street. Whittredge had the mansion built soon after purchasing the land, and it was completed
around 1802.xxxiii
The image below, from an 1890 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, shows the border of the
property, along with its original buildings, including the two-story stable on the northern border.
Behind the lot is the school house property mentioned in the deed, which had been turned into a
six-dwelling tenement house by 1859. xxxiv (The top of the image is East.)
xxxv
After moving into the new house, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s fourth child, Edward,
died on August 25, 1803 at only twenty months of age.xxxvi The next year, however, their
youngest, Sarah, was born on November 1, 1804. The children were all raised in the Federal
Street mansion, and Thomas Whittredge lived there with his wife until he died at age 63 on
September 16, 1829 of “mortification of toes and foot.” xxxvii
In his will, Whittredge stated, “I give and devise to my wife Sarah the mansion house,
buildings, and land under and adjoining the same where I now dwell.” Sarah Whittredge
continued to live in the house until 1841, when she transferred the deed of mortgage to her
�daughter Sarah W. Osborne, and son-in-law, George S. Osborne, a physician from Danvers. xxxviii
Sarah Whittredge then moved to Danvers, where she died on August 16, 1845 at age seventyeight after a “bowel complaint.” xxxix
Upon her death, she left the property equally to her daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her
granddaughter, Elizabeth Williams (the daughter of Thomas Cook Whittredge, and wife of
Henry S. Williams). xl The following year, Sarah Osborne paid her niece Elizabeth Williams two
thousand dollars to purchase her half of the property. As of March 25, 1846, the house belonged
entirely to Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her husband
George.xli
Though the house was in the family for four generations, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge
appear to be the only family members who actually lived in the house as adults. Beginning in the
1850s, the house was split up and rented out, first as a two-family dwelling, and later into
tenement rooms. Around this time, Salem’s booming commerce and shipping economy began to
decline a bit; fewer stately mansions were being built, those that were built were instead erected
further inland, and many existing mansions were being repurposed for other uses. In a 1914
book, Historic Homes of New England, Mary H. Northend laments the end of a romantic era of
young merchants and “jolly sailor lads… bound for Kit’s Dancing Hall,” and the long-closure of
local Inns. Further, she complains that “the large, square homes of yesterday are now
degenerated into tenement houses.” xlii
While this shift may have seemed like a negative one to some in Salem, it is likely a
major reason that some houses such as the Whittredge House remained standing for so long.
Additionally, although none so lucrative as the merchant career of Thomas Whittredge, many of
the house’s residents owned successful businesses in various trades.
�The first renters kept the merchant community alive, as they were both sea captains
themselves. By 1851, Sarah and George Osborne were renting out the house to Captain John Day
on the 144 Federal Street side, and Captain Richard Matthews at 146 Federal Street. xliii The 1851
survey map shows Day and Matthews’ names as owners of the property’s buildings (and the
existing MACRIS record cites Day as owner because of this), however the map must be referring
solely to the house’s residents at the time, as it was still owned by the Osbornes. xliv
In 1860, Xenophon Hector Shaw and his wife Eliza began renting the 144 Federal side of
the house. Xenophon was born on October 28, 1799 in Middlesex, Massachusetts, and Eliza was
born August 16, 1801 in Salem. xlv xlviThe two married on July 1, 1821. xlvii By the time they
moved to the Whittredge house, the couple was older and had three grown children, Mary Shaw,
Brown Emerson Shaw and Hannah Tappan,.xlviii Eliza died just seven years later on November
14, 1868. Eventually Xenophon’s daughter Mary Shaw moved into the house and is listed as a
boarder and housekeeper in the city directories between 1870 and 1886. xlix The two lived in the
house until Xenophon’s death on December 7, 1886. Xenophon owned a picture framing and
gilding business with his son Brown Emerson Shaw, called Xenophon H. and Son. The business
was established in 1820, when Xenophon himself was just twenty years old, so was likely
already a family business. Brown continued the family business with his sister Mary after their
father’s death until 1896, which is the last year it is listed in the directory. l They had large
advertisements placed in several of the Salem City Directories between the 1860s and 1890s.
Shown below is their ad from 1886. li
�By 1866, on the 146 Federal side, Daniel Frye Nichols had moved in with his family.
Daniel was born in 1805 and was married to Lydia F. Cheever (born 1806) on August 8, 1827 in
Salem.lii Similar to the Shaws, the couple moved into the Whittredge house as an older couple
with adult children. In this case, many of their adult children moved with them into the house,
including Randle, Lydia, Abbie, Benjamin, and Henry C. Nichols, all between the ages of twenty
and thirty-four. Daniel F. Nichols made his living as a tanner, working in the tanneries on the
North River near the house. liii In another similarity to the Shaw’s side of the building, Lydia died
only a few years after moving in, on September 1, 1872 at age sixty-six of unknown causes.
By 1880, though Daniel still lived in the house, his son Henry C. Nichols had taken over
as the head of household at 146 Federal Street, living there with his wife Mary, and young son
Edward.liv The Henry Nichols family lived in the house until 1889, following the death of Daniel
Nichols on October 8, 1888. Abby F. Nichols, Henry’s older sister, also continued to live in the
house as a boarder until 1889.
While the Nichols and Shaw families lived in the house, house owners Sarah Whittredge
Osborne died on February 17, 1883 and her husband George Osborne died on September 21,
1882. Upon their deaths, they left the property to their two children George S. Osborne, and
�Eliza D. Shepard. lv The two were “tenants in common” and continued to live elsewhere and rent
out the building until Eliza’s death in 1930.lvi
In 1890, James H. Fitzpatrick moved to 146 Federal, though only for a short time. lvii In
1895, William Sheehan, a physician, moved into the home. William married Katherine C. Anglin
in 1909. Beginning in the 1912 city directory, “K.C. Sheehan” is also listed with William, also as
a physician.lviii This is clearly referring to Katherine, who was also a doctor. In the 1924
directory, her name is listed with William’s in its entirety, both as physicians. lix In the
directories, William gives his office hours next to their address, so it seems he may have visited
patients at the home. lx The couple raised five children in the home and lived there until
William’s death in 1924. Katherine was there for two more years on her own, still practicing
medicine, before moving to another house. lxi
When she died in 1930, owner Eliza D. Shepard left the property to her two children,
Thomas O. Shepard, and Sarah W. Shepard. They never lived there, nor do they seem to have
rented it out, as during their brief ownership the city directory lists the house as vacant. lxii Neither
Thomas nor Sarah ever married or had children, living together until they died. Thus, this is
where ownership of the house left the Whittredge family line.
Thomas and Sarah sold the house to Francis J. Murphy and his wife Louise in 1931, not
long after inheriting it.lxiii Francis was a leatherworker, born July 16, 1899, who married Louise
M. Brophy in 1926.lxiv The two had a daughter, Mary, in 1929, and purchased the Federal Street
home on April 7, 1931.lxv They lived there with their daughter and a servant, eventually giving
birth to a son, Frances.lxvi It seems that they preferred to use the house for only their family
instead of renting it out to tenants, as Francis Murphy is listed as the only occupant of both 144
and 146 Federal Street on the city directories of this time. lxvii They lived in the house until about
�1945, before moving elsewhere in Salem. In 1945, the house was rented out as furnished
tenement rooms, advertised by Laura M. Smith in the city directory, who also lived in the house,
and must have managed the tenants for the owners. lxviii In 1945, there were many tenants,
including Nathan Tucker, Florence and Silvio Landry, Julia Symonds and her husband Frank, a
lathe hand, and widow Marie Maillet. lxix
The Murphys sold the house soon after turning it into tenements, on April 27, 1946 to
Joseph and Tekla Rostkowski, a couple from Poland.lxx They owned the house for just over a
year, and it doesn’t appear that they ever lived there themselves. Laura M. Smith continued to
advertise furnished rooms at the house during this time, until the next owner took over the job
herself. Esther M. and Thomas F. Henry purchased the house on June 25, 1947 and continued to
rent out furnished rooms, advertising them in the directory, while also living there themselves. lxxi
Thomas Henry was born June 5, 1920 in Peabody, and Esther Trabucco, known as Babe,
was born October 8, 1919 in Beverly. lxxii They were married in 1941 in Salem, and had four
children, Thomas, Michael, Barbara, and Patricia. Thomas was enlisted in the army as a private
on October 9, 1944 for the duration of the war; his cemetery marker shows him as a Technician
Fifth Grade. When not serving, Thomas was an engineer at New England Instruments, and
Esther started Henry Associates, a real estate business, in addition to managing tenants in her
home.lxxiii
Below is a picture of Esther and three of their children in 1944, and a picture of Thomas
in 1945.
�The Henry’s tenants listed between 1946 and 1950 are Frank and Julia Symonds;
Josephine Rostkowski, a payroll clerk at John Lynn and Sons, incorporated, and her husband
John; Clifford M. Smith, a machinist; Donald and Doris Haskell; Marie Henry; Mary McGrath;
George Angelico; Joseph Angelico; Mary Kelly; Albert and Ruth Thibodeau; Kenneth Shepard,
a cable splicer at NET&T Company; a nurse, Mrs. Ellen Linscomb; Constance “Connie” Clay, a
telephone operator at NET&T Company, and her husband Leo, a contractor; and several
employees of the Sylvania light bulb factory, Augusta V. Rostkowski, Alice M. Rostkowski,
Robert O. Westman, and Esther Crowell. lxxiv
Additionally, four members of the United States Coast Guard Air Station lived in rooms
in the house at the same time, three of them with their wives. Between 1935 and 1970, Winter
Island, off the coast of Salem, was the site of a United States Coast Guard Air Station, which
patrolled the northeastern shore by plane, “responding to emergency calls off the Atlantic Coast
�from as far south as Connecticut and as far north as Halifax… the men bravely saved dozens of
lives at sea, and risked their own,” according to Salem collector and history writer, Nelson
Dionne.lxxv The USCG Air Station aviators who lived in the Whittredge House beginning in 1949
are Wilbur Stanley, and his wife Eileen, Clarence W. Stanley, Cecil R. Furr, and his wife Jean,
and Paul H. Lavallee and his wife Beatrice. lxxvi
Owners Thomas and Esther Henry lived in the house until Thomas’ death on March 31,
1983, though it isn’t clear for how long its rooms were rented out, as the city directories stop
listing its residents in the 1950s. lxxvii By the 1990s, Esther was no longer living in the Whittredge
House, and it was no longer kept up. In 1997, when the MACRIS report was made, the house’s
windows were gone and had been boarded up.lxxviii
On March 26, 1998, current owners Michaeline D. La Roche and her husband Robert J.
Ouellette purchased the house and land from Esther Henry. Since then, its traditional windows
have been replaced, and the exterior restored, and the house at 144-146 Federal Street remains a
beautiful and historic example of Salem’s Federal architecture, a monument to the maritime
history of Salem.
�i
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
Essex South County Registry of Deeds (hereinafter ESCRD) Book 426, Page 1959.
iii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 762
iv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
v
Virginia & Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
vi
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
vii
Ibid.
viii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
ix
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 76
x
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
xiii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 745
xiv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xv
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 745
xvi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xvii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 799
xviii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. xviii
xix
“The McIntire Historic District Architectural Walking Trail,” National Park Service and the Salem Partnership,
https://www.nps.gov/sama/planyourvisit/upload/McTrail.pdf
xx
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 8-9
xxi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 784
xxiii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 423 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxiv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 398 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850., pg. 316 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxvi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxvii
Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketched of many of its pioneers
and prominent men., Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis an& Co., 1888, pg. 64
xxviii
Ancestry.com. Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
xxix
Ibid.
xxx
Hitchins, A. Frank, Stephen Willard Phillips, Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts,
1789-1900, Essex Institute, 1906. Pgs. 1-12
xxxi
ESCRD Book 134, Page 54
xxxii
ESCRD Book 166, Page 154
xxxiii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxxiv
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890 [Massachusetts State Library].
xxxv
Ibid.
xxxvi
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 331 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxxvii
Ibid.
xxxviii
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xxxix
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 331 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xl
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xli
ESCRD Book 381, Page 214
xlii
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 6-7
xliii
Salem City Directory, 1855
xliv
McIntyre, Henry, “Map of the city of Salem, Mass : from an actual survey,” Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection., https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9g54xk154
ii
�xlv
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlvi
Ibid.
xlvii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlviii
Ancestry.com. The Choates in America, 1643-1896, John Choat and his descendants, Chebacco, Ipswich,
Massachusetts., pg. 161 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlix
Salem City Directory, 1886
l
Salem City Directory, 1896
li
Salem City Directory, 1886
lii
Salem City Directory, 1866
liii
Salem City Directories, 1837-1866
liv
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: 532; Page: 690A;
Enumeration District: 235
lv
ESCRD Book 1150, Page 188
lvi
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lvii
Salem City Directory, 1890
lviii
Salem City Directory, 1912
lix
Salem City Directory, 1924
lx
Salem City Directory, 1895
lxi
Salem City Directory, 1926
lxii
Salem City Directory, 1931
lxiii
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lxiv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850., pg. 316 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.; Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013
lxvi
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01589; Page: 1A;
Enumeration District: 5-347
lxvii
Salem City Directory, 1933
lxviii
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxix
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxx
ESCRD Book 3459, Page 118
lxxi
ESCRD Book 3554, Page 565
lxxii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2013.
lxxiii
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts). October 16, 2005., pg. 10,
https://www.newspapers.com/image/443766729/?terms=esther%2Bhenry
lxxiv
City directories 1946-1950
lxxv
Smith, Bonnie Hurd, Nelson Dionne, U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Massachusetts: 1935-1970: a
Pictorial and Chronological History., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
lxxvi
Salem City Directories, 1949-1950
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
lxxviii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
lxxvii
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16 Pickman Street
Built as a
Double House by
David Lord
Housewright
1806
Research Provided by
David Moffat
May 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
16 Pickman Street, Salem, MA
Built by David Lord, Housewright, 1806.
The house was built as a double house.
Undivided (1967-Present):
Date
Conveyed by
1980,
Dec. 15
1978,
Dec. 15
1975,
Aug. 29
Amount Doc
Book
Page
Peter S. Godfrey and Nancy T. Lloyd G. Ternes
Godfrey, Trustees of the
and Kathleen J.
Pickman Realty Trust
Keefe Ternes
$112,600 Deed
6776
56
Louis A. and Jane M. Schmitz
Peter S. Godfrey
and Nancy T.
Godfrey
$65,900 Deed
6549
98
Transfermation Realty, Inc.
Louis A. and Jane
M. Schmitz
$56,300 Deed
6176
604
Transfermation
Realty, Inc.
$48,900 Deed
6068
3
1974, May Anthony G. and Cecilia R.
6
Rosati
Conveyed to
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1970, Jan. Robert Cook, Trustee of
2
Hampton Realty Trust
Anthony G. and
Cecilia R. Rosati
$28,500 Deed
5659
424
1968,
Dec. 5
Robert M. Cook
$18,950 Deed
5578
179
1968, Apr. Ida M. Maron, wife of Nathan
18
Maron
John L. Hyland
$6,318 Deed
5522
712
1968, Jan.
Joseph Donald Tahany
27
Ida M. Maron
Consideration Paid Deed
5507
799
1967, Jan.
Ida M. Maron
26
Joseph Donald
Tahany
Consideration Paid Deed
5426
191
Consideration Paid Deed
5298
686
John L. Hyland
Western Half (1807-1967):
1965,
Sep. 2
Ernest A. Sanborn, half-brother
Ida M. Maron
of Jennie M. Trow
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1945,
Dec. 5
Jennie M. Trow
Harry H. Bennett
1919,
Dec. 16
Sarah S. Kimball
Jennie M. Trow
1910, Jun.
Margaret A. Upton
22
Power of
Attorney
3434
366
Consideration Paid Deed
2432
592
Sarah S. Kimball
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Consideration Paid
2025
189
1903, Jul.
Edward C. Battis
20
Margaret A.
Upton, wife of
Sumner W. Upton
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Considerations Paid
1711
388
1898,
Aug. 8
James Kenney and Mary E.
Kenney
Edward C. Battis
$1,950 Deed
1554
72
1894,
Nov. 4
Margaret J. Shattuck, Charles
E.W. Clough, Mary A. Clough,
Hannah A. Dodge, Martha R.
Mary E. Kenney
Perkins (Executors of Martha E.
Barnes Estate)
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Considerations
1462
523
$200 Deed
797
289
1870, May
William Cabeen
26
Martha Barnes
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�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1865,
Sep. 28
Samuel Varney, mariner
William Cabeen
$1200 Deed
690
250
445
80
356
83
287
35
$1,000 Deed
286
112
$1400 Deed
286
111
?
1851, May
Joshua Cleaves
10
Nathaniel Cleaves
1845,
June 3
Nathaniel Cleaves
Joshua Cleaves
1835,
Dec. 5
Nathaniel Cleaves, ship
chandler; Joshua Cleaves,
gentleman; Teresa Cleaves,
widow
David Lord
1835 Oct. Henry Prince, Inspector of
1
Customs
Nathaniel
Cleaves, Joshua
Cleaves, Teresa
Cleaves
1835,
Oct.1
- Discharge
$500 Deed
Mortgage
Henry Prince
Nathaniel Cleaves, ship
chandler; Joshua Cleaves,
gentleman; Teresa Cleaves,
widow
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1821,
June 28
Benjamin Archer, mariner
Nathaniel Cleaves
$1,000 Deed
1807, Jan. David Lord, housewright
1
226
176
$775 Deed
181
5
Book
Page
Consideration Paid Deed
3898
204
Consideration Paid Deed
2851
303
$1 and Other
Deed
Consideration Paid
1479
505
$1800 Deed
1169
191
Benjamin Archer
Eastern Half (1807-1967):
Date
Conveyed by
1947, Nov.
William T. Walke & Sons, Inc.
21
Conveyed to
Ida M. Maron
John J. and Gertrude M.
1930, July
Fleming, Raymond P. and Lucy William T. Walke
9
D. Grant, and Florence E. Walke
1896, May Adelaide L. Osgood, widow
25
Carrie A. Osgood
1886, Mar. David Cabeen; Thomas J.
1
Cabeen
Adelaide L.
Osgood
Amount Doc
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1865, Sep. Samuel Varney, mariner
28
William Cabeen
1826, June Nathaniel Archer, mariner
14
Samuel Varney
1807, Sep. David Lord, housewright
8
Nathaniel Archer
$1200 Deed
240
277
$1600 Deed
Conveyed to
David Lord
250
$900 Deed
Undivided (1806):
Date
Conveyed by
1806,
Samuel Archer, 3rd, Esq., John Andrew,
Aug. 5
William Balch Parker, merchants
690
181
285
Amount
Doc
Book
$600
Deed 179
Page
57
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
16 Pickman Street- Built by David Lord, Housewright, 1806.
Built as a real estate venture in 1806 by David Lord on the lot he purchased from Samuel Archer, William B. Parker, and
Nathaniel Andrew, who had purchased the pasture of Benjamin Pickman in 1803.
Originally built as a double house- Benj. Archer, Jr., mariner, on the west half from 1807 to 1831
Nathaniel Archer, mariner, on the east half from 1807 to 1826
Benj. Archer moved to Wethersfield in 1821, selling his half to Nathaniel Cleaves. Nathaniel Archer sold his half to Samuel
Varney in 1826. Other owners included Henry Prince, inspector of Customs, George H. Ropes, master mariner, and William
Cabeen. Aug. 7th, 1806, Daniel lead from Samuel Archer 3rd et al. -179:57
Lord to Nath. Archer, 181:285 (Sept. 8th, 1807)
Lord to Benj. Archer, 181:5 (Jan. 1st, 1807)
There are a number of real-estate transactions between David Lord and the Cleaves regarding a lot on Pleasant Street between
1835 and 1845.
1851 Map: Eastern Side: C. Newcomb, Western Side: S.T. Kimball
1855 Directory: Samuel T. Kimball (Henderson & K.), 16 Pickman; Caleb H. Newcomb, h. 2 Milk Street,
1861: Samuel T. Kimball (Henderson & K.,) furniture, 16 Pickman; Penn T. Kimball, clerk, boards 16 Pickman, Elizabeth Flint,
widow, boards 16 Pickman, Caleb Newcomb, 2 Milk
1864: Elizabeth Flint, widow, board 16 Pickman; Caleb Newcomb, 2 Milk
1869 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, weigher at W.P. Phillips, h. 2 Milk, John Cabeen, teamster
18 Pickman
1872 Directory: Frank L. Clapp, 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, weigher at W.P. Phillips, h. 2 Milk
1874 Atlas: Eastern Side: (William Cabeen), Western Side: Mrs. M. Barnes
1876 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman. William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1878 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1879 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1895-96 Directory: Miss Edith M. Kenney, James Kenney, James A. Kenney, 16 Pickman; Adelaide L. Osgood, widow of Eben,
botanic physician, 12 Milk, Bertram Osgood, carriage painter, b. 2 Milk, Miss Carrie E. Osgood, boards 2 Milk
1897 Atlas: Eastern Side: (A.L. Osgood), Western Side: Mary E. Kenny
1899-1900 Directory: Mrs. A.L. Osgood-Harris, botanical physician, 2 Milk,
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1904 Directory: W. Sumner Upton, pharmacist, 16 Pickman, William A. Stark, machinist, 2 Milk
1911 Atlas: Eastern Side: (Carrie E. Walke) Western Side: Sarah S. Kimball?
1914 Directory: James H. Trow, plumber, h. 16 Pickman, Carolyn Proctor, masseuse, widow of Edwin L., 2 Milk, Dorothy D.
Proctor, student, boards 2 Milk, J. Worthen Proctor, student, 2 Milk,
Poll Listings:
1964: No Listing
1968: No Listing
1970: No Listing
1971: Just Anthony & Cecilia Rosati
1972: Rosatis + Louis T. Rosati, age 29, draftsman
1973: Rosatis, Cecilia is a housewife
1974: Cecilia R. Rosati, secretary, b. 11/14/44, Anthony G. Rosati, draftsman 6/5/41
1975: Marcia L. Spink, Teacher, b. 5/29/1951
1976: Jane M. Schmitz, Stewardess, b. 8/24/1948), Louis A. Schmitz, Computer Tech (b. 03/06/48), both RLY Lynn
1977: Bruce R. Marshall, Dir. Of Trilogy, Lucinda M. Simpkins, Counselor Simpkins RLY 8 Barton Sq.
1978: Bruce R. Marshall, Director of Trilogy (b. 11/13/46), Lucinda M. Simpkins, Counselor (b. 7/19/48)
1980: 16 Pickman Street Unlisted (1979 no book)
1981: Kathleen (b. 1952), veterinarian & Lloyd Ternes (b. 1949), business manager
1982-2006: Ibid.
2007: Judith E. Ternes, b. 3/29/1989, Catherine M. Ternes (b. 1992),
2008-2016: Ibid.
Both Varney to Cabeen to Barnes and Varney to Cabeen to Adelaide L. Osgood?
Missing Deeds: 1858-1870 western half
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1806
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Rice Street
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Joyce King
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'Leslie's
Retreat"'·
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most' pe~m~n~nt settlement
o:f Inflians
( th~ term
being· :relative)
wqs indeed
noTth of thP ri.--rer
rather·
than where they··English
l8ter
:rreferrea.
to be_n;in.
Rev. John Higginson
wrote:
"But- the Indian
tovm of Wi[';'1mms
was· on ye North side of the North River,
nnt far frnm ,'3j_rnnnr1es,
· and' ye bot~ ye North and south side of that: rjv<ci:-, w::is C81.l ea
Naumkeke".
Wi l l.i8rn Bent] ey• furthtcr
enfo:rr,ea
+,h:i" o,t;::a+,eme,,t:
· by- rer.ording
the nj_scovery
of Ind 1 an slrnl l.R ;,inn hm·i Hl mn,,.rn s
;;;,~t.-.:,,·_ i"·.,permanent·•
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With drasticreductions
in :popuJ.2.ti.on r111P t0 Pni.r1Pmi r.s Ann
·.-:; '
'
~ general
illness,
the Indians
WP-re never R t:hl"f'"+,
f"Rrly
[:~-:"'~'---·~··-white
RettJ ;,rs nnd their
form1,r viJ 1 afTe Rite" we-rp '""rly
":::C:,~-~
',.. ,,,,divided amoungst the commoners.
The Symondes,
Bnffnms·, W::ilters
.· · .... amoung- others- lived
in North FieJds
in the RPventP.1,nth CPntu,..y
.,;:;~;--. ':_ · strictly
as yeoman-f8.rmers
with North A.nd 0:rne streets,
toe;ether
,
. ,;,:,rtth bel:'.tY, Hill Ayenu, 7, being the _only ro?ds or r8t:hs.
,)4
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Buffum; School,· Dearborn
and few other
strPets
w;:, i.tea
• __ ..,.until
.,.,:
at least.
1800 .before
coming into exi st::.nce,
whi lr ·
· -additional
sir!P. streets
were not svRterna+..ir::.11,,
l.:oir! rmt
for the pufpose
of neighborhood
re~ i.rl enti AJ rle~rP.l omn<>n-t.
until
Rbout the 1840s· when a b1trRt of classir;,,.J-revi.v,:il.
(in some Jater
cases
"Victorianized
Greek Reviv;:,]'')
architecture
sprouted'. up.
·
With North Street
a.s the main road the e:o_.,..1
iest
tr;:,rl P.
.. · · or commercial
development
spread,
by abo1.1t 1ROO, -from the
:~ ..... ..~.waterfront
,
of the North River
(by th
bringe)
fur-t.her north
on both sides
of "the country
road". 4 It S"'erns +.½P+. the er>Tly
:f:::,;::..
dwellings
8.ncl buildings
were dive:sely
spre8ff '-'.Cross the full
;t• ...·..
_·
spectrum
of style
and function
an .. were sparP.d wj_-+:hlittle
.,..
.cons'j_deration
to aesthetics,
together
with fimc.ti (In Pl · r.m-t.•;!-/:i'buildings:
of all sorts.
Between the ri.ve-:r rnn M00i!y ,SriuFJre,
~;.:::i,•.:,. ,. , ... cobbJ.ers,
·,
ch,,_ise· ·and· harness-m;,_kers-,
c;:i.binet-makers,
bl'lck. · s_miths,
.all began t1:ad'es ._
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.Above Moody Square,
in 1800, the buildings
were sti]l
·· .. ·relatively
spa.rse. ·· Between the sq11are and B'I)hra.t1 Wood's
.house
(earlier
'Edmund Johnson's
cabinet
woi:-lrnho:p - l"!P. 1800)
1
.on 'the east side of the ro8.d once stood' Can+.,..i.n 1"1i.as G1"8.n+. s
house· (reinovedl hefore
1850).
On the west Ride of the roRd
.to Danvers·,
beginning·
at the square,
was "'· n.ine "'CrP. tr;:ict
, . of land· with a tiny. house located
in its northern-mo.sir
corner
(later
removed· to make .way for Symonds street
·. abouii: 1802) •
· · . ;. .
·
The· latter
large' parcel
was o;med' by Benjamin
Da18nd
S;,_lem, a yeoman, who sole'! his "certain
tr Pct of l .and" to
Isaac
Osgood', 6 a. trader
or investor,
on May 9, 1801, for
1800 dolla:::-.s.
Bounds:_
•
.
:\.
Easterly
Northerly
Westerly
Southerly
by.the
road leading
to Topsfield
by Elizabeth
Symonds
hy Jose:rh Symonds,
a.nr'l J;:,nr'I f'orrn<>rly of
Samuel Symonds,
now re:r11ted ·:to· be .John
Skerry's
by Dark Lane
(now School Street)
''as the fences
appurtenances
--~
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K definite
nineteenth
-
I
trend' took nlace
century
in regard
to
-.,
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with
the
-·· ._.;~ "!' .,; .•:,•_:,.
...,-;'
now stend
to~e-!:hAr
and privileges"
,
2 -
about the turn into the
development.
Thought was
of
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~
. "• '..: ;_J
· being
given to a new Beverly· - Salem bridge;
:the benefits
undoubtedly·
entered
into· the op1Jortunistic
minds
of many a $alemite
as well as many North Salem "pigeons".
It has b'eeii speculated
that. Dearborn
Street's
great
breadth
(finally
laid out in 1810) attested
to the serious
consideration given Or1fe 1 s Point for the purpose
of the proposed
·
... Esse~ Bridge.
Meanwhile
new dwelling
houses
began annearing
with increasing
regularity.
. ·
··
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c~·····...
·of'' which·
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tl.
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Isaac
Osgood therefore
became amoung the first
to set
:;;ft··~"·· ··--··-·/his: sights
northward·
- · aJ though his net nrofi t, after
all
''.'['.:.
. was- bought and sold,
came to only 323 dollars
on his initial
;~-.(:>
1800 dolla.rs·
invested;·
relatively
conservative.
Ten lots
were surveyed
and sold bordering
on North Street,
while
the
remaining
six acres
to the west (includingwhat
later
became
::~~:...
-;'
Buffum Streei\j north
oi S_chool Street)
was sold as a. unit
to
~~-~:-··
Nathan Wood.
The latter
developed
Buffum Street
into house
.. lots. to their
present
situation.
All of the transactions
.. .
,,... took place
:
in 1801 and consisted
of the· 1ots ·on .the· ·
>;"'/oli,owing
page.
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Lots· numbered two, three
and five thr01.1gh ten sola. for
dollars·
each, while ·number· one (a doub e J.ot- con<'dsti.np;
°'·
of'half
an ,a.ere) brought'
only-143
dollars.
1:1;-,yr,nt Street
:f;jj\;:;.,,.:;,,;:·
presurrra'ti:ly- was· laid' 01,t subseriuently
in the erea of lots
1
7 and' 8', while it could be assumed., as mentionedec,rlier,
.
. " ..
that
Naths.n Wood I s interest·
in ac'].ui ring lot numhPr ten wRs
_
Y"\. '·· .:·::.to J.ay out Symonds Street
as access
to hi.s oi:her l0ts
2nil
f)t''..":''":"
...,
...
:;r.:\Project~d'
new street
-:- aJ. though this
is not yet a. foregone
"::'."'>.
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Lot .nv_mb"r"a. four on Isaac
0s~r,;oil I s ):118'1 W':'s r.onvPyP.il
on M;i.y 23, 1801, for 100 dollars
to -Po1r;er -Po!'" of Sa]_P.m,
_ a sa.d•ler an/!_ ohais
Limaker, as "acert.ain
1
()f
not.,cahJy
1 For a rrofi t _of 15 il ot. Jp-,.13 l"nil." :revoid of buila ings.
ol
_-P0ne
conveyed.' his land about
a yRar lcite:r ( Au!'.;1rnt 1?, 1 An2) to
John D11nckley,
a Sc1lem Blci.cksmi th, 11:i. cRrt"' in 1 ot. of 1 r-iTiil
::.:....
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n~hered
f?11r in Pc division.
of lots
formerly
of Is,,.
11 0seoon ,i
,;:¥-_..,..,.-~-,.-,:
~--which._ c.onsisted
_of. 40, pole_s and bounded
as follows:
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John Dunckley I s· success
at his tr8~ e W"lll.il RPP.m ,cann,carent
· insofar·
as hi.s purchase
of the lPnd nnd s11_b"'""llent <>rP.r.+.i
of a substantiP.l
house W8S' aocomnJ.ishea
,-,+ +hP P/c"' of '32. ·
Li ttJ.e is known of his baok1n:011nd ,carnJ c:cirP,"r or ,;,ven whrre
....
,..
;/:
• he was born in 1770.
The first
recoril
of 'cis e-x-ist;,nr,e
[}}.;_,-,:;,· . :·,,-: a(p:pears ir the form.of
___
Dr • Wm.t'fl)_entley,
ohf thP. BPst chnrch
, _.-,..._,_;e_,,.
f~rmerly
on l0wer · Essex ,8 tree
, . no ti~€;
i·m c1mounr: 11
is
13
,. _ -_ ·-;•singers"
on at least
three
occasions
in 17R9 "nrl 1790 •
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, By the
mid-1790s
Dunc kl Py' s cerPP.r ste::>il i.1 y s,+,renc;thP.nP.il
he was known to ~ive done blacksmithing
fol:' P-1:i::i.s H:=is1'-et
Derby,- on his vessels
- presumabJy
j,n port.
With liJ" t::il e11tR
more advanced
th•m exclusively
shoejne; horF;es the
Commonwealt.h htrerl. him to work on gun "'"·rri:a~f'"
jn 1814 r'l.nri.ne;
thP. war-.
The following
excerJ:)t lists
"D11nckl ee" t.op:,d:her
with, A. Wndal~ ~ a neigl1bor- and whe~lwrie;ht,
amo11ne; thP.
expenditures·:
·
~t~~~-Y;~. .,and
.,.·
~
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THE ESSEX
. /4o;AL
GUARDS
251
.~June_ 9, 1814. Aftt:r dinner we were· alarmed about
'}.I!'~ the enemy, as two s~ip~ we:e off, a 74 & Frigate. . A
3&"'::C,Tender passed w1thm .Misery Island & boats without
had
:t,£!< pursued a schooner which put into Beverly shore &
·&
:there was burnt two miles below the town. The Inhab. /:~ jtants appeared & the cannon were brouo-ht upon the
.·~f/',Neck, but the enemy retired immediately. "
:,,l'':'.June 10. The late event has roused the Government
·f"'.mBoston.• The Governour has ordered two brass .field
.·
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By a Resolve
I am directed· to
>/t-mo~ed t.be
Hous~ Cannon,
cause to be re.
property of this
1
.__ Commonwealth, now in the Town of Salem, on Winter Island, so
-;~;
..:>...,-=:;.·,-.
: ···='t.--ca~!ed, t~ a n 1ore s afe an<l convenient place in said Town.
1 1
..i. ou w1 1 P e:is~ 1o contract
with some suitallle person or-persons,
:_::'_toremove the !.aid house to a spot that :Maj. Geul IIovev shall di·
..
'~:,~-, _'-:- ......
..·
~~;,rect. 1 think it would be coovenient to place it near yOar present
·
·.'-·:-'.-·.Gau
house.
You wmhave the Carriages & 'Waggons put in order without loss
;_~-:· time 1 & inform me ,vbat implemsnts, Harness, &c., remain, be.
of
_.., looging to them, that are tit for service; what is wanting shall be
,......
_ .sopplierl as soon as the house is in readiness to receive them.
·.~:--- Yon will be prudent in your expenditures, & your· ilills 1 if accore.
:
_--~_panied by proper vouchers, shall be paid at sigbtt by
... · '-·
Sir
.~:{
i • ·
'Yr Obt. Servt
-: .-;~.:
Amasa Davis, Quartr Yasr Genl
1,:. ·Joo Russell, Esq
·
·
·,;_.·:' ,, ·. -'"t~'.f.-.· Colo Commt .Arti1Iery 1 1st B, 2d Div.
.. Lt.
'.«r,\ ·-.,-1..~:~{::':'~·.·iCommonwealth of Massachusetts Dr. to John Russell.
The
_:-(:~.To
irnndry expenrlitnres, in the removal of the Cnmmonwealtb's
."';:· , Gun.House from Winter.Island to Washington-Square
;,...,_
in Salem,
.?·J.-: and in the titting for serYice a pair of Iron 12 pounders, agree•
:" '•'
_,._ ,-··ably
...
to the orders of Aruasa Davis, Esq., Quarter-Master Gen·
· ";-:';;,> of the Militia of said Commonwealth,
.! eral
-~
viz ..•.••...
~::.r.,-o Cash paid Honeycomb & Osborne, for the removal of the
·;.3~~;,:,:
Guo-Rouse, and puttiog the same in comp!ete repairs,
:---~:_-: as p€:- Bill ................•....
·
";...........
, . . . . . . . . 155••.
:'.}i.:,'~. pai.d John Todd_, for the removal ol the Gans, &
Cash
. ~~-.--: sundries, as per bill ..........
,. . . . . .•.. . . . . . . . . . ..
10.••
paid A. Wendell, :for repairing Wheels, &c., a.;;.per
-- . · bill........
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .
39, ..
--~-i:,~_Cash paid J. Duncklee, for blacksmith's
work on Gnu
:-~;:·- Carriages, as per bill..........................
.... ..
23.31
. ~::: ..
~·'.:Cash paid W. Lu~comb, for painting Carriages and~
=·-·A.¥,--;,
·Wagon, as per bill. ...............................
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Boston, June 15th, 1614.
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1814-1815.
CONDITIO~S IN
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.A:bie;;i.i_l -Porter and John Dunckley
WP.re m;,ry-i P.<t ,:r111.y1.;,
S;aJPm 'Rr,n.' subsP.cp1ently
h,i.d Rt lPRst
twn rlii.lr'lr,,n:
BlizR.bP.th
R.11dT,ouisa - R.J.though no reco,-.a of' t.hem hR,ri_nP.:
any: chiJdrP.n
i.s ayaila.ble.
,.
~Zit"?"~,,- _1794'";'·j_n
.,
.......
ThP. folJ.01.-rinc; is a Jist
of t;ax recnrr'ls
RR tli"Y :anr-p,ir
the J.edgerr1.
Their meanine; :=JRye.t is not tot:aJJy
cJ.eR,-.,
: ·since
houses
;are not· speci fical J.y irlenti.fie-1
- nor.- ,,,..P.
·shop J.ocatio:ns·.
FoJ.ger Po-pe'R a.bsence in 1802 wn11l.n fi.t
but whether
or when Duncklee
ha.a. 8 blacksrni. th' P. A hon w·i ti,
.....
.
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•· . Folger .. Pope. unlisted
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1807
1808
1809 1810.· .1811 -
.
.
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1812
- wa.rd
.
-
boo
ditto
WATd' 4 John
Duncley
.. :1816 ,..,;·ward-,4;Joh:n:':Duncley
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1812
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Duncley
4- John
1815
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130
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- Pt house &. Shnp (zone)
- 1200 ·
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1803
ditto
1803
ditto
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dead"
.· John Dunckley'
s· greatest
r,rohl em (r:roh8h1y
Reconn only
.t·o ·sorting
out the different
spelJ.ings
of hi.s TI-"'rne) was h:ls
·health
- spe~i fie ally
epilepsy
- an aff~. i ct:i on of wh~<'h he
eventually
died at the age of 5~ on April
29, 182~, in SPJern. 18
-The following
inventory
copy not onJ.y rAA.ffi:rrns the <"Yfsi::once
.. of a working
lmil11fng
on Dunckley'
s prr.:nerty
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'·of Probate for the County of Essct,
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(lii'c.
!named, having been first sworn, ha.e
,
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J/1,.!:tr...,
Esquire,
Judge
Pursunntto I\ ,varrantfrom your hon?r,we, the subscrihers,the committee therein.
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mode the following
·1,wentor1 aml appraisement of the estate of JJ?.>1.GJJ.,_,.,,/Ck
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late of.
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as shc1fn to us by the adrninistratun
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was par-tr of !he probate
rPr:,r:,rd (# R"i73) of
IIJ"ohn· Tomcklee,
S8.lem, blacksmi t.h.n ·.,,na t.hP Pnt.i rP.t.y wRs il "'tea
the fifth
o:f .July, 1825.
Abigc>i.l puncklee
W"l.8
list.Pr! ::1s the
widow·.
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Abie,gil, · 88 widow- of the aece?.i:,ed,
rPTJ'l"inNJ. i11. +.he hn,,se
until
her lleR.th at age 73 on ,Jun 7, · 1842, whP,..e1rNm she
20 an a:ffl i cti on of R1.1ch
was- taken il1 with "consunrption"
·.·. ·. diverse
and conflicting
a.efini tion it I s never bPPn known
· exactly
what the prob) ems \iere.
After her h11.sbrnd I R n eR.th,
.._.A15igail'rentf>n
to boarders.
An 1R31 mnn11scrin+. 8°1.em Direc+.orv
(kept for.reference
by Salem A.sseRsors)
lists
,Tohn 1=\ry:=mt, jr.",
. (a cordwainer
whose shop was further
~9wnNorth ::lt.reet) "'S
1 pant
an o_cc1.
of Wj.dow Dunkley's_
house.
'l'he ne
"n.i.rectory",.
1837, listed_Josep~/?ye,
jr.,
aR a tenc>.nt.·
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,'The. two Tlunckleit'aa:ughters',
Elii!oabeth. 8.nn T,oui.R8, tonk
>{j'i ·,
·
over both occupancy
and ownership
of the fRrni.J.y 11011.se after
,·,,,,.. :: --- ._-.their
mother's
death.·
"The Misses Diinkley"
wer.e milliners
~:"<r.:''-"~"'"·'.·,· ··. and 'kept
a sho-p at 21 St. Peter
Street
;13tn_ aho11t 18'i0 when
f.\.~-~-~-·'(.-",'._business JT\oved' to 295 Essex Street.
,:_,the
"RoArd.P.rs, me:rnwh5.le,
_
were maintained
a~ the·following
excerpt
from nn 1845 Assessors'
4 ·_ · ·
p·::·7/ : - .
. notebook
attests.-
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"~orth
St.".
· . "No .113
- Elizbeth.
on the
".ward 4
"E.
&.L.
- owners
Wm Moneys (mov'd)
'Allen
Peabody
(mov•a)
Daniel
Peaho0y
(~ov'd)
· Nathaniel
Goodh11e
· Occupants:
The taxes
and :i;,ouisa Dunkley
house _in 1845 -.,ere
as
folJows:
'
2':i
.
11
Dunkley
- house
(115
North)
""'. (value)
1000"
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By··August 27, 1847, Louisa
A. Dunkley il.ecided to sell
he 26
~_:t_:·_
_
half
of the house and pro11erty
to Elizabeth
for 500 dollars
•
.. .·
Both ladies.
were yet single
and the. moti vat.ion
behind the sale
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ex rpt,
from a Map of S2.lem
27
drawn ·by Henry McIntyre
in 1851,
more clearly
shows the
I s ci tuation
,·_.Vhouse
at that· time and is followed.
by an 1869
copy.
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•·Elizabeth
Dunckley died a singlewoman
on July 7, 1874, 28
1
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to her father's
house passed
to a widow, 1• a,,.y A.
· Hardy of Boston.
Mrs. Hardy in turn conveyed . the f.oJ l.owi n1;
_described
land "with the buildine;s'thereon
to Catherine
Do:J,an for 2500 dollars
on August .17, 1882:
29
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·Bounded:
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Northerly.
by North Street
Northwesterly
by Rogers;
59 feet,
137 feet,
8 inches
8 inches
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on,July
P. Sargent 3 6wife of Frederick
C. Sar.eent,
16, 1904.·.
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was described
. of Salem,
as follows:
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Easterly-by
North Street,
59 2/3 feet
Southerly
by Morse,
144 5/12 feet
Westerly
by Mooney, 60 9/12 feet
Northerly
by Handy, 137 2/3 feet
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Observations·
and Conclusions
PresentJ.y
somewhat- hidnen
· less-inspirint:r
neie;hbors,
the
stately
as originally
intended
undaunted'.
ft·\/
.,;_,
After
cJ.o·se scrutiny
of the interior
:i.t r..~ri jr1terest111r.,;ly
be concluded
thc1t the dwel.Jine
w1a.s or:ir,;i.nn1ly
r'l.e8i.r,;11r-,-,
tn
annear
somewhat more or rather
ahove its ar.t,1ril. rnorlest si :,;e •
- Having been built
to consist
of six rOOJTIS, the l:mi.1<1i.nr,'s
proportions
and positioning
?..chiev-;,d the 81"TIRrent ::iir of
·'", . .-·•-··pretension
- but in· a· desirable
manner of extreme
subtlety.
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appear· Georgi.an rRther
the.n federal_;
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utilized
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typical·'
to· Port'smou~rr,
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th,=m to S,i] Pm - th11s
making,· the rl.wel ling as a whole very contras tine to this
ar~"l Is
: •.IDC>;i;'.~
,_typical
trends;-..,iil, ~:i:-.chi
t.ecture.
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scheme, with spacious
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rooms,
large
wh:i.ch or ?"i fi.,.st
. fireplace·f i:t'epla ce s·. The kitchen, J.ocr->.ted on i. theT1::i.11y r. o-nt" j ,., Pi'!' a
c1hd · brick
oven, was
-f] oor
immediately
to the right
of the front
hFi.11 - T'P.rh:a.ns rmt of
financial
necessity
in lieu• of a more "f,:,shi onph1 e" :,nrl. 011t
:,:°::~,~h~ .~ay kitc.hen(::-;11
- as was· indeed
adderl. la.ter.
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certainly
contemporary
to 1802 - alJ. featm:-es
ann h 1 1iJn. i ne;· ·
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North Street
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161 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House History
Description
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John Dunckley, blacksmith, c. 1802
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Historic Salem
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Historic Salem House History
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Historic Salem
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1802, 1974
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David Gavenla
161
1802
Blacksmith
Dunckley
History
House
John
North
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166-168 Bridge Street
Built for
Ezra Woodbury
Carpenter
& his wife Mary Knight
1877
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Robert Booth
September 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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166-168 Bridge Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House at
17 Carlton Street, Sale111
Built c.1808 for Margaret Ellison Bray, widow
Enlarged c.1831 for Benjamin Bray, coach-maker & inventor
Francis P. Ashton, barber, in old age (from photo); he resided here from 1809-1821
(source: Hadley's llist01y of Essex Lodge)
�House at 17 Carlton Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built for Margaret (Ellison)
Bray, widow, c.1808. It was enlarged to the rear c.1831 for Benjamin Bray,
chaise- and coach-maker.
On 26 August 1808 Capt. Benjamin Crowninshield, a Danvers merchant who
was formerly a Salem East India shipmaster, for $600 sold to Margaret Bray of
Salem, a widow, a lot of land in Salem bounded southwesterly 38' on "Carlton's
Street", northwesterly 70' on land of Crowninshield, northeasterly 37' on land of
Crowninshield and ofBerry, southeasterly 70' on land of Ranson (ED 185:226).
The evidence indicates that she had a modest house built: it probably had a
central entrance and a room on either side, with chimneys running up the back
walls to provide heat in all four rooms, and perhaps with kitchen rooms attached
as ells. It was two stories high, likely with a pitch roof.
Margaret Hill Ellison was born in Salem and baptized in 1776 at St. Peter's
(Episcopal) Church, the daughter of John Ellison and his wife Elizabeth Ulmer.
John Ellison was an Englishman, born in London; he came as a young man to
Salem, and in 1762 married Elizabeth Ulmer, the granddaughter of Rev. Mr.
Ulmer, who had come as a preacher from Germany c. 1700 and settled in Maine.
The Ellisons had several children, of whom those surviving infancy were Mary,
Rebecca, George, Elizabeth, and Margaret, and John, Jr. John Ellison fought as a
rebel in the War of the Revolution (1775-1783), both as a soldier and later as a
sailor. By 1783 he was in business as a ship-rigger in the East Parish, and in
1798 became a town watchman (policeman). Mrs. Elizabeth (Ulmer) Ellison
would live until October, 1808 (died at age 69) and Capt. Ellison, a watchman in
his last years, lived until March, 1812. He would die at age 74, lamented by many
and characterized by Rev. William Bentley as "a man of great integrity and good
reputation."
In March, 1794, Margaret H. Ellison, 18, married Benjamin Bray, 19. Between
1795 and 1807 they would have seven children, mostly boys. The Brays resided
on Hardy Street, in the old Diman house.
In 1800, Salem was still a town, and a small one by our standards, with a total
population of about 9,500. Its politics were fierce, as the Federalists squared off
against the Democratic Republicans (led by the Crowninshields and comprised of
�the sailors and fishermen). The two factions attended separate churches, held
separate parades, and supported separate schools, military companies, and
newspapers (the Crowninshield-backed Impartial Register started in 1800).
Salem's merchants resided mainly on two streets: Washington (which ended in a
wharf on the Inner Harbor, and, above Essex, had the Town House in the middle)
and Essex (particularly between what are now Hawthorne Boulevard and North
Streets). The East Parish (Derby Street area) was for the seafaring families,
shipmasters, sailors, and fishermen. In the 1790s, Federal Street, known as New
Street, had more empty lots than fine houses. Chestnut Street did not exist: its
site was a meadow, backlands for the Pickerings on Broad Street and the old
estates of Essex Street. The Common, not yet Washington Square, had small
ponds and swamps, and was covered with hillocks and utility buildings and the
town alms-house. In the later 19th century, Salem's manufacturing-based
prosperity would sweep almost all of the great downtown houses away.
The town's merchants were among the wealthiest in the country, and, in Samuel
Mcintire, they had a local architect who could help them realize their desires for
large and beautiful homes in the latest style. While a few of the many new
houses built in the next ten years went up in the old Essex-Washington Street
axis, most were erected on or near Washington Square or in the Federalist "west
end" (Chestnut, Federal, and upper Essex Streets). The architectural style (called
"Federal" today) had been developed years before in the Adam brothers in
England and featured fanlight doorways, palladian windows, elongated pilasters
and columns, and large windows. It was introduced to New England by Charles
Bulfinch upon his return from England in 1790. The State House in Boston was
his first institutional composition; and soon Beacon Hill was being built up with
handsome residences in the Bulfinch manner.
Samuel Mcintire, carver and housewright, was quick to pick up on the style and
adapt it to Salem's larger lots. Mcintire's first local composition, the Jerathmeel
Peirce house (on Federal Street), contrasts greatly with his later Adamesque
compositions. The interiors of this Adam style differed from the "Georgian" and
Post-Colonial: in place of walls of wood paneling, there now appeared plastered
expanses painted in bright colors or covered in bold wallpapers. The Adam style
put a premium on handsome casings and carvings of central interior features such
door-caps and chimney-pieces (Mcintire's specialty). On the exterior, the Adam
style included elegant fences; and the houses were often built of brick, with
attenuated porticoes and, in the high style, string courses, swagged panels, and
even two-story pilasters. The best example of the new style was the Elias Hasket
�Derby house, co-designed by Bulfinch and Mcintire, and built on Essex Street in
1799 (demolished in 1815), on the site of today's Town House Square.
Salem's commerce created great wealth, which in tum attracted many newcomers
from outlying towns and even other states. A new bank, the Salem Bank, was
formed in 1803, and there were two insurance companies and several societies
and associations. The fierce politics and commercial rivalries continued. The
ferment of the times is captured in the diary of Rev. William Bentley, bachelor
minister of Salem's East Church (it stood on Essex Street, near Washington
Square), and editor of the Register newspaper. Mr. Bentley's diary is full of
references to the civic and commercial doings of the town, and to the lives and
behaviors of all classes of society. On Union Street, not far from Mr. Bentley's
church, on the fourth of July, 1804, was born a boy who would grow up to
eclipse all sons of Salem in the eyes of the world: Nathaniel Hawthorne, who~e
father would die of fever while on a voyage to the Caribbean in 1808. This kind
of untimely death was all too typical of Salem's young seafarers, who fell prey to
malaria and other diseases of the Caribbean and Pacific tropics.
In 1806 the Derbys extended their wharf far out into the harbor, tripling its
previous length. This they did to create more space for warehouses and shipberths in the deeper water, at just about the time that the Crowninshields had built
their great India Wharf at the foot of English Street. The other important
wharves were Forrester's (now Central, just west of Derby Wharf), and Union
Wharf (formerly Long Wharf), extending from the foot of Union Street, west of
Forrester's Wharf. To the west of Union Wharf, a number of smaller wharves
extended into the South River (filled in during the late 1800s), all the way to the
foot of Washington Street. Among the most important of these were Ward's,
Ome's, and Joseph Peabody's, which extended from the foot of what is now
Hawthorne Boulevard. Each of the smaller wharves had a warehouse or two,
shops for artisans (coopers, blockmakers, joiners, etc.). The waterfront between
Union Street and Washington Street also had lumber yards and several ship
chandleries and distilleries, with a Market House at the foot of Central Street,
below the Custom House. The wharves and streets were crowded with shoppers,
hawkers, sailors, artisans ("mechanics"), storekeepers, and teamsters; and just
across the way, on Stage Point along the south bank of the South River, wooden
barks and brigs and ships were being built in the shipyards. Perhaps Benjamin
Bray, a boatbuilder and shipwright, worked there, or perhaps he had his own
small shipyard, or worked at Becket's, off Becket Street.
�Salem's boom came to an end with a crash in January, 1808, when Jefferson and
the Congress imposed an embargo on all American shipping in hopes of
forestalling war with Britain. The Embargo, which was widely opposed in New
England, proved futile and nearly ruinous in Salem, where commerce ceased and
families began to wonder how they would survive. In the midst of this
uncertainty, Benjamin Bray, 33, fell ill; and on June 3, 1808, he died of
consumption (pneumonia or tuberculosis), "a worthy man" (per Rev. Wm.
Bentley), leaving Margaret with the care of several young children, including
infants. Joseph Lambert, gentleman, became guardian of some of the Bray
children.
In August, 1808, Mrs. Margaret Bray bought the house-lot on Carlton Street. In
the winter of 1808-9, Mrs. Bray, 30, was courted by a newcomer in Salem,
Francisco Paolo Astranan, 26, a barber from Sicily who had arrived in Salem in
September in the Salem ship Traveller, Capt. Richard Ward Jr. (see Ship
Registers ofDistrict ofSalem & Beverly). Mr. Astranan went by the "Englished"
name of Francis P. Ashton, and started a successful barbering business in Salem.
He and Margaret wed on 29 January 1809; and they would have at least two
children, Lucy Ann and Micalah (born 1817; Francisco's mother's name; it was
handed down in the family but was usually written Mickaler! ). (Info on Mr.
Ashton from 1 Dec. 1865 obituary, Salem Gazette, and from p. 106, H.P.
Hadley's 200 Years ofMasonry in Essex Lodge; photo).
Other Italians had settled in Salem at about this time. Peter Barras, a mariner and
shopkeeper, was here, as was Michele F. Come, a noted painter of seascapes,
who resided on Charter Street and taught painting, did decorative painting of
houses interiors and ship-cabins, and sold his artworks. Joseph Monarch, a
mariner, of Naples, also settled in Salem, and probably was a very close friend of
Francis Ashton. Mr. Monarch named one of his sons Francis Ashton in his
honor; that son later changed his name to Francis M. Ashton. In January, 1817,
Mr. Ashton loaned $200 to Joseph Monarch to help him buy a house (ED
212:206).
As a hotbed of Democratic-Republicanism, Salem's East Parish and its seafarers,
led by the Crowninshields, loyally supported the Embargo until it was lifted in
spring, 1809. Shunned by the other Salem merchants for his support of the
Embargo, the eminent merchant William "Billy" Gray took his large fleet of
ships-fully one-third of Salem's tonnage--and moved to Boston. Gray's move
to Boston permanently eliminated much of Salem's wealth, shipping, importexport cargoes, and local employment. Gray soon switched from the Federalist
�party and was elected Lt. Governor under Gov. Elbridge Gerry, a native of
Marblehead.
In this new house (assuming it was standing by 1809), the Bray children were
growing up, although it is possible that some were sent to live with relatives.
Margaret Hill Ellison (1776-1819), d/o Capt. John Ellison & Elizabeth Ulmer,
died "suddenly" 6July1819 and was buried at Charter Street Graveyard. She
m. 2March1794 Benjamin Bray (1775-1808), son of John Bray & Eunice
Becket, died of consumption on 3June1808. She m/2 29 Jan. 1809 Francisco
P. Astranan (Francis P. Ashton) (1783-1865) born 5 Feb. 1783 Palermo, Sicily,
s/o Thomas Astranan & Michela Campanella, died 26 Nov. 1865 in Salem. He
m/2 5 Dec. 1819 Rachel (Gwinn) Hall (1789-1850+), d/o Thaddeus Gwinn &
Mercy Beadle of Salem. Known issue ofMargaret, surnames Bray and
Ashton:
1. John Bray, 1795 (m. 1817 Margaret Roundy) Boston printer 1821.
2. Benjamin Bray, 1797, died of quinsy 20 Jan. 1799, aged 15 months
3. Margaret Bray, m. 1820 Jonathan C. Taylor, Salem boatbuilder 1821,
pump & block-maker later
4. Eliza Bray, m. David Robinson, Boston horse-letter
5. Benjamin Bray, 1801, m. 8 Sept.1825 Mary Lane
6. Daniel Bray, Salem mariner 1826 (m. 1828 Pheba Skidmore)
7. William Bray
8. Lucy Ann Ashton, m. William N. Nassau; issue
a. W.N. Nassau Jr.
b. Arethusa W. Nassau.
9. Mica/ah (Mickelar) Ashton, 1817, hp 1824, m. Mr. Snow; issue
a. Mickelar Ashton Snow (b.1836) m. Jonathan Davis
b. Margaret Ellison Snow
c. Francis P.A. Snow (b. 1846)
d. James F. Snow m. Sophia E.
The house was owned by Margaret alone, and not with her second husband Mr.
Ashton, who was noted for his uprightness and high standards and may have
refused to take an ownership interest in the house in order to ensure that his stepchildren received an inheritance. His barber shop was likely situated in this
house. The 1812 real estate valuations are the first to note Mr. Ashton's presence
in Salem (Mrs. Margaret Ashton, the owner, was not listed in the valuations of
�1809-1811 either). In 1812 (ward one) he was listed as "Francis F.A. Ashton,
barber," and paid taxes on "part house & shop" worth $300 and $100 in income.
In 1813 he was listed as Francis P. Ashton, with identical property and values.
Salem resumed its seafaring commerce for three years after the end of the
Embargo, but still the British preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812,
war was declared against Britain. Although Salem had opposed the war as being
potentially ruinous and primarily for the benefit of the southern and western warhawk states, yet when war came, Salem swiftly fitted out 40 privateers manned
by Marblehead and Salem crews, who also served on U.S. Navy vessels,
including the Constitution. Many more could have been sent against the British,
but some of the Federalist anti-war merchants held their vessels back. In
addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and artillery. Salem and
Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of British supply
vessels. While some were wounded in engagements, and some were killed, the
possible riches of privateering kept the men returning to sea as often as possible.
The first prizes were captured by a 30-ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame,
and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted with one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem
privateers, the Crowninshields' 350-ton ship America was the most successful.
She captured 30-plus prizes worth more than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. In June, 1813, off Marblehead Neck, the British frigate
Shannon defeated the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake. The Federalists would not
allow their churches to be used for the funeral of the Chesapeake's slain
commander, James Lawrence ("Don't give up the ship!"). Almost a year later, in
April, 1814, the people gathered along the shores of Salem Neck as three sails
appeared on the horizon and came sailing on for Salem Bay. These vessels
proved to be the mighty Constitution in the lead, pursued by the smaller British
frigates Tenedos and Endymion. The breeze was light, and the British vessels
gained, but Old Ironsides made it safely into Marblehead Harbor, to the cheers of
thousands.
On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. Along the
western frontier, U.S. forces were successful against the weak English forces;
and, as predicted by many, the western expansionists had their day. At sea, as
time wore on, Salem's vessels often were captured, and its men imprisoned or
killed. After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the
menfolk were disappearing. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British
�prison-ships and at Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in
1814, New England Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to
bring the war to a close and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy
Pickering of Salem led the extreme Federalists in proposing a series of demands
which, if not met by the federal government, could lead to New England's
seceding from the United States; but the Pickering faction was countered by
Harrison G. Otis of Boston and his moderates, who prevailed in sending a
conciliatory message to Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored.
Post-war, the Salem merchants rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide
trade, slowly at first, and then to great effect. The eldest Bray son, John, may
have fought, as a teenager, on privateers. After the war he became a printer, and
in 1817 married Margaret Roundy. They soon had a first child, a daughter; and
at just that time John's mother, Margaret Ashton, 42, had her last child, a
daughter named Micalah. Mr. Ashton had continued to prosper in his work as
barber and hair-dresser. In February, 1818, he joined Essex Lodge of Masons.
In July, 1819, at the age of 44, Mrs. Margaret H. (Ellison) Bray Ashton died,
probably at home. The effect on her children, some of them quite young, may be
imagined. Like most men of that time, Mr. Ashton sought a new wife to help him
raise the children; and on 5 December 1819 he married Rachel (Gwinn) Hall. In
1809 she had married Spence Hall, who had died in 1816. Evidently the Halls
had had no children. Rachel now became step-mother to the Bray and Ashton
children. In 1820 the house was occupied as a duplex, with families headed by
Francis Ashton and his step-son John Bray (1820 census, p. 40). Mr. Ashton's
family consisted of himself, his new wife, and two little girls, probably Lucy Ann
and Micalah. Mr. Bray's family consisted of himself, his wife, and a little girl.
The other Bray children were living elsewhere, perhaps as apprentices or in the
family of their sister, Margaret, who married Jonathan Taylor in 1820.
In March, 1821, the Probate Court set off to the little Ashton girls the north front
room and the north kitchen and a small piece of land at the northwest part of the
house lot, with certain rights to pass to and fro over the other land (ED 227:46).
This left the rest of the property in the ownership of the Bray siblings. It is likely
that Mr. Ashton and his new wife and his two daughters moved elsewhere in
1820-1. In November, 1820, he (through a trustee) purchased for $180 a plot of
land on Bridge Street, near Pleasant, and he moved a building onto there to serve
as his house and barber shop (ED 224:221). It seems likely that the two Ashton
�rooms were rented out to John Bullock (1781-1854), a laborer who lived here
with his wife Elizabeth (Cloutman) Bullock, and their daughters Elizabeth and
Mary Ann.
Into the 1820s the foreign trade continued prosperous; and new markets were
opened with Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar
(1825), whence came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and
lucrative trade in which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to
all of the east African ports. The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not
resumed post-war, as the middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more
powerful and brought about civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable
Mechanic Association (founded 1817). Salem's general maritime foreign
commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports, which were the cargoes in
Salem ships, were supplanted by American goods, now being produced in great
quantities. The interior of the country was being opened for settlement, and
many Salemites moved away to these new lands of opportunity. To the north, the
falls of the Merrimack River powered large new textile mills (Lowell was
founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their investors; and in general it
seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem. In an
ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its
potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
banded together in 1826 to raise the money to dam the North River for industrial
power. The project, which began with much promise, was suspended Gust before
construction began) in 1827, which demoralized the town even more, and caused
several Salemites to move to Boston, the hub of investment in the new economy.
Mr. Ashton was among them, as were John Bray and his sister Mrs. Eliza Bray
Robinson; but most of the Brays stayed in Salem.
On 1 Sept. 1821 Jonathan C. Taylor, Salem pump- and block-maker, paid $200 to
John Bray, printer, and David Robinson, horse-letter, and wife Eliza, all of
Boston, for their 2/6 interest in a half-house and its lot of land on Carlton Street
(ED 236:260). This gave the Taylors a half-interest in the homestead; they
probably resided here for a few years, in the southwest end of the house (which
seems to have been set off to them), and then purchased and moved into a house
on nearby Neptune Street (part of Charter Street nearest Derby Street). On 22
February 1825 the Taylors for $300 sold to Benjamin Bray, a Salem coach- and
chaise-body maker, their 3/6 undivided interest in the dwelling house and other
buildings on a lot in Carlton Street. The lot fronted 25' on the street and ran back
about 70' deep, where it made an ell. Certain parts of the house and land were
�still reserved to the Ashton girls (ED 236:259). The lot was bounded on the
northwest on the other half of the house and on the southeast by land of Ranson.
On 15 May 1826 Daniel Bray 3d, Salem mariner, for $100 sold his one-sixth of
the premises to Benjamin Bray, who also bought (on 8 July 1826 for $100) the
1/6 right of William Bray, Salem mariner (ED 240:232, 243: 93). Thus Benjamin
Bray, Salem coach and chaise-body maker, acquired the last outstanding shares
in the homestead (other than the Ashtons'), which he now owned.
The younger Brays, William and Daniel, who grew up here, had interesting
careers as sailors. Daniel, a mariner, married Pheba Skidmore in 1828 and
resided at 21 Becket Street in 1836 and 1841, and at 104 Essex Street in 1845.
His brother, William Bray, had been involved in one of the most notorious
episodes in Salem's long seafaring history. In May, 1830, William Bray, aged
about 25, sailed as ship's carpenter on board the Silsbee, Pickman & Stone ship
Friendship, Capt. Charles M. Endicott and a crew of 16, bound to Sumatra to
trade for pepper. Having arrived on the west coast of their destination, they kept
guard against the often-hostile Malays as the pepper (300,000 lbs. for William
Silsbee) was loaded on the ship, anchored about % mile off the port of Quallah
Battoo. One hot morning, while the captain and a few of the crew were on shore,
a boatload Malays came alongside with pepper and were allowed to come on
board the Friendship to help in loading. The mate did not heed his crewmen's
alarm at the number of natives on the decks. Suddenly they attacked, using their
razor-sharp "creese" swords to kill and wound several of the Salem men. Cut off
from guns and handspikes on board, four of the crew jumped overboard. William
Bray and his three companions swam two miles to a remote point, and hid,
naked, in the jungle. Traveling by night and enduring scorching sunburns as they
hid in low brush by day, they spent four days without food and with little drink,
and finally arrived at the house of a friendly rajah, Po Adam, who joyfully
informed them that the Friendship had been re-taken by Captain Endicott and a
group from two other American vessels. Four other crewmen had also escaped to
the shore, one of them badly hurt: Charles Converse, grievously wounded in the
initial assault, had pulled himself up the anchor chains at night and dragged
himself on board the vessel, where he was thought to be dead and left
undisturbed until the Americans re-took the Friendship. The others (five) had
been slain. In the next year, the frigate Potomac was dispatched to Quallah
Battoo, whose forts were taken and destroyed and many Malays killed. For more
information about this episode, see G.G. Putnam's article in EIHC 57, among
other sources.
�In 1830 (census, p. 374) the Benjamin Brays and John Bullocks resided here. In
that year a horrifying crime brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt. Joseph White,
a wealthy merchant, owned and resided in the house now called the GardnerPingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his mansion and
stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of murderous thugs;
but the killer was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed himself at the
Salem Jail), hired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt. Joseph
Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results of the
investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more of
the respectable families quit the notorious town.
15 March 1831 Benjamin Bray, Salem coach and chaisebody maker for $1500
mortgaged to Peter E. Webster, Salem trader, the dwelling house and land on
Carlton Street (excepting Lucy Ann & Merchaler Ashton's portion) (ED
259:106). With the mortgage money, Mr. Bray evidently enlarged the house by
raising the roofline in front and extending it as a two-story leanto toward the rear,
thus adding three or four new small rooms in back. It is likely that the chimneys
(as indicated by the brick foundation arches in the cellar), which had once run up
the end wall of the original house, remained in place and had fireplaces facing
back into the new rooms as well forward into the old rooms.
Benjamin Bray was thirty in 1831, and operated a coach-making business with a
workshop (by 1836) at 15 Union Street. In 1825 he had married Mary Lane; and
they had three daughters by 1835. Mary (Lane) Bray was born in Salem in 1801,
the daughter of shipmaster Capt. William Lane and his wife Elizabeth Brown of
Derby Street. Mary had two older sisters and four younger brothers. Her
grandfather, Nicholas Lane, a sailmaker, had come to Salem from Gloucester.
By 1836, the house was occupied by the Benjamin Brays and by the John
Bullocks (see 1837 Salem Directory). Artisans and laborers like Messrs. Bray
and Bullock looked on with concern as Salem's remaining merchants moved
quickly to take their equity out of wharves and warehouses and ships and put it
into manufacturing and transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals in the
1830s diverted both capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants did
not make the transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like ropemaking, sail-making, and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared.
Well into the 1830s, Salem slumped badly.
Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8
and the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
�farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more
Salem families to head west in search of fortune and a better future. Salem had
not prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages. The North
River served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many
tanneries (23 by 1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens,
many of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity,
ambition, and hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant
built in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue
vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whalefishery, active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the
manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils.
The candles proved very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and
grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were
retooled for making high-quality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to
Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings
burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave
the people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market.
The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel
under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840. Mr. Bray's coach-making business was hurt by the
railroad, for the stagcoach lines to Boston and other places were rendered all but
unnecessary. Mr. Bray could not repay the Webster mortgage; and Mr. Webster
foreclosed. In July, 1839, Mr. Webster agreed to convey the premises to Mrs.
Mary L. Bray for Mr. Bray's payment of unpaid balance, $450, in monthly $20
installments (ED 452:196). The Bullocks remained the tenants in the house, and
were joined there by Mrs. Bullock's sister, Sarah Cloutman, a tailoress.
In the 1840s, new companies in new lines of business arose in Salem. The
tanning and curing of leather was a very important industry by the mid-1800s. It
was conducted on and near Boston Street, along the upper North River. There
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The leather
business would continue to grow in importance throughout the 1800s. Iri 1846
�the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at Stage Point
of the largest factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was
an immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of
them living in industrial tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s, a new method
was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe production. In
Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the nation's leading
shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from
outlying towns and country areas. Even the population changed, as hundreds of
Irish families, fleeing the Famine, settled in Salem; and the-men went to work in
the factories and as laborers.
During the 1840s, with a family of six children to support, Benjamin Bray drew
on his considerable ingenuity to modernize his coach-building business. He was
a talented designer, and applied himself to improving the functioning of windows
and window curtains. Two of his creations were clever enough to earn him
patents. He participated in the first Exhibition of the Salem Charitable Mechanic
Association at the Mechanic Hall, on Essex Street at Crombie Street, in
September, 1849; and there was awarded a diploma in the category of New
Inventions. The diploma was accompanied by the following appraisal by the
judges:
"Car Window Spring and Curtain Fixtures, by Benjamin Bray of Salem.
This is an ingenious application of springs and rollers to window sashes, to
prevent the friction which sometimes occurs, and to allow them to be elevated
or depressed with ease, at the same time, by a simple contrivance, the
window remains suspended at any point of elevation. Something of this kind
would be of very obvious utility in the construction of our car windows,
which are often obstinately fixed at a point, in spite of the efforts of the
conductors and passengers to open or close them. The objection that the
rattling of the cars would continually tend to close the window is theoretically
removed by a contrivance which puts the window in equilibrium with the
spring, and thus produces the same condition as of the weights and pulleys in
the common house window.
"The arrangement of the curtain, though not altogether new in principle,
is, so far as the knowledge of the Committee extends, new in its application
to window curtains, and seems to possess decided advantages over those in
common use. By closing completely at the sides, it not only excludes the
sun, but also operates favorably as a double window to exclude the cold air,
thus contributing materially to comfort of our parlors."
�The talented Mr. Bray also exhibited "a machine for cutting tapered plugs of any
size." These inventions evidently raised the Bray family out of their financial
difficulties, and gave the family a good level of comfort.
Benjamin Bray (born 1801, son ofBenjamin Bray & Margaret Hill Ellison) m.
1825 Mary Lane (born 1801, dlo William Lane & Elizabeth Brown). Known
issue, surname Bray:
1. Mary E., 1826
2. Sarah E., 1831
3. Micalar, 1834
4. Edward L., 1837, mariner 1860
5. WilliamM., 1839, mariner 1860
6. George, 1844
In 1850, the house was occupied by the Benjamin Bray family in % of the rooms,
and by the Bullock sisters, Elizabeth, 38, and Mary Ann, 36, seamstresses, in one
unit, and, in another unit, by the Bullocks' aunt, Miss Sarah Cloutman, 59, a
tailoress (1850 census, ward one, house 192). In 1851, Mr. & Mrs. Bray paid off
the money owed ($375) to Mr. Webster, who had died (ED 452:197, 458:30).
Mr. Bray had made the transition from a coach-builder to a manufacturer of
curtain fixtures. He continued to prosper in the 1850s. In August, 1859, for $100
he purchased from Lucy Ann (Ashton) Nassau her right in the property, and the
right of one of the heirs of her sister, Merchalor (Ashton) Snow (ED 591 :299).
He evidently purchased the other three Ashton-Snow rights, and thus came into
ownership of the Ashton rooms and land, and so owned the whole house and its
lot. With this purchase and the Bray take-over of the Ashton rooms, the Misses
Bullock and their aunt Cloutman moved elsewhere. In 1860 the Benjamin Bray
family resided here, including the three sons, Edward, William, and George, of
whom the first two were sailors (1860 census, house 1247).
Mr. Francis P. Ashton, who had left for Boston about 1825 with his wife Rachel
and little daughters, had prospered in the metropolis, and had saved a good deal
of money. In September, 1834, he had sold his Bridge Street house and shop for
$1100 (ED 278:54). By 1845 he was ready to retire from hair-dressing in
Boston, and he looked to Salem. In March, 1845, he paid $1200 for a house and
land on Dearborn Street, North Salem, and moved back to the town where he had
first arrived from Sicily in 1808. By 1850 he and his wife Rachel were caring for
two of his grandchildren, Mickler Ashton Snow, 13, and Francis P. Ashton Snow,
�four, who lived in their home (1850 census, ward four, house 96). Mr. Ashton
had enough money at that time that he was loaning it out at interest (ED 437:266)
and was "dispensing great sums of money in acts of private charity" (per his
obituary).
Salem continued to change in the 1850s. Some members of Salem's waning
merchant class continued to pursue their sea-borne businesses; but even the
conditions of shipping changed, and Salem was left on the ebb tide. In the late
1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had sailed
around the world; and the clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were
usually too large for Salem and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of
little more than Zanzibar-trade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with
cargoes of fuel wood and building timber. By 1850 Salem was about finished as
a working port. A picture of Salem's sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in
his "introductory section" (really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter,
which he began while working in the Custom House.
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or
died of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered
wounds, or broken health. The people of Salem contributed greatly to efforts to
alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and their families; and there was
great celebration when the war finally ended in the spring of 1865.
During the war years, the Bray family moved to Boston. By 1865, the house was
occupied by one Parker Bray and by Charles Fillebrown, 29, a varnisher &
polisher, wife Mary E., 28, and son Charles H., seven (1865 census, Ward One,
house 469). Charles Fillebrown had been a brave soldier during the war, and had
served as a private, from Salem, in July, 1862, in Co. G, First Regiment, Mass.
Volunteer Heavy Artillery. The Regiment was assigned to ordinary duty in forts
near Washington, DC, for a year and more. The outfit saw its first action in the
spring of 1864. At the Battle of Harris Farm, in Virginia, on May 19, the
Regiment lost 54 men killed (Major Rolfe included) and 312 wounded, with 27
missing. The outfit remained in the campaign against Petersburg, and on June 16,
lost 25 killed and 132 wounded in an ill-fated assault on the entrenchments.
Charles Fillebrown was one of those wounded. His wounds were evidently
severe, and he was mustered out in July, 1864. (see Mass. Soldiers, Sailors,
Marines in Civil War, 5:610). He resided at One Carlton Street by 1870.
�Francis P. Ashton, 82, survived to see the end of the Civil War. He died in
November, 1865. In his obituary (1 Dec. 1865 Salem Gazette) it was satted that
he retired from business in the 1840s and lived in retirement on Dearborn Street,
making many charitable donations so that "many a poor family now sincerely
mourns his loss. He was guided through life by a strict, stem, unbending moral
principle, and for this he was honored and respected by all."
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing
course. The managers and capitalists tended to builp their new, grand houses
along Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street).
For the workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage
Point. A second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company would be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills
would employ 1200 people and produce annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth.
Shoe-manufacturing also continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40
shoe factories employing 600-plus operatives. More factories and more people
required more space for buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
In 1870 this was the residence of the Stickneys and Mearas. Charles Stickney,
21, a currier in the leather industry, and his new bride Minnie, 20, born in New
Brunswick. Sherman T. Meara, 35, born in Ireland, was a shoe-factory worker;
he lived here with his wife Eugenia E., 32 (born in Mass.), son Frank S., four,
and William Jones, 22, a boarder, born in Maine and working as a teamster (1870
census, ward one, house 139). Mr. Meara was a veteran of the Civil War. In
1862, a bootmaker residing at Tisbury, he had enlisted as a private in the 43d
Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, for nine months' service, which occurred in
and around Newbern, North Carolina. His regiment saw some skirmishing but
mainly did guard duty. He (a bootmaker of North Bridgewater) enlisted again, in
November, 1863, in the Second Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Heavy Artillery.
This regiment had some Salem officers: Major Samuel C. Oliver (later Lt. Col.)
and Surgeon, Dr. James A. Emmerton. Mr. Meara's Company H was posted to
Fort Monroe, North Carolina, in December, 1863, and in April, 1864, was
engaged in a battle with Gen. Hoke's rebels. After brave resistance, Co. G and
Co. H, 275 men, were captured by the Rebels, and the men sent off to
Confederate prisons, where most of the men died in sub-human conditions. Mr.
Meara escaped from prison on Feb. 22 and made his way back to his regiment,
where he was promoted to sergeant and served out the war at Newbern. He was
mustered out on 8 July 1865, and soon after came to Salem (see MSSMCW,
4:268, 5 :732).
�On 17 September 1874 Mrs. Mary Lane Bray, widow of Benjamin Bray, of
Boston, for $1825 sold to John Collins of Salem, the house and land here fronting
38' on Carlton Street (ED 912:226). Thus, after more than 60 years, the
homestead passed out of the family ownership.
The new owner, Mr. Collins, 44, was a laborer, born in Ireland. He and his wife
Catherine, 54, had a daughter, Mary Ann, 20. They made the house a duplex,
and rented out one unit to tenants. By 1880 the Collins family lived here in one
unit (Mary Ann, 26, was working as a cigar maker); while in the other lived a
widower, William Kane, 45, tinsmith, born in Ireland (he had come to Mass. by
1856), and his children William Jr., 23, a barber, daughter Nellie, 21, a
dressmaker, and sons John, 18, cigar maker, James, 11, and Thomas, 7 (1880
census). The Kanes were still here in 1884, when Mr. Kane had his tinsmith's
shop at 31 Central Street, on the inner harbor.
About 1882 Mary Ann Collins married Bartholomew N. Flynn, a laborer; but Mr.
Flynn died on 12 Aril 1885 leaving her a young widow. In 1885-6 the house was
occupied by the Collinses, Mrs. Flynn, and William Martin, who worked at the
gas works off Bridge Street (Salem Directory). John Collins, the owner, died in
the late 1880s; and by 1890 the residents here were his widow Catherine, his
widowed dughter Mary Ann Flynn, cigar maker, and Henry Randall, a
"yachtsman" probably meaning a crewman on a yacht (see Directory).
After withstanding the pressures of the new industrial city for about 50 years,
Salem's rivers began to disappear. The once-broad North River was filled from
both shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge.
The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area between the
present Jefferson A venue, Canal Street, and Loring A venue, finally vanished
beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots. The South
River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a Custom
House built there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement of Riley Plaza and
New Derby Street, and its old wharves (even the mighty Union Wharf, formerly
Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street) were joined together with much in-fill
and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was left, running in
from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street.
By 1893 William G. Dodge, shoemaker, and family, were the tenants, while Mrs.
Collins and Mrs. Flynn occupied the other unit. In March, 1895, Mrs. Ctaherine
Collins conveyed the premises to her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Flynn (ED
1437:294). Mrs. Collins evidently died in the next two years. Mrs Flynn would
�continue to live here for another 50 years, with various tenants moving in and
out. By 1897 the tenants were Michael E. Tivnan, a morocco dresser (leatherworker) and Miss Clara J. Tivnan, a shoe-stitcher, probably with their mother,
Marie, a nurse, widow of Michael Tivnan. Mrs. Tivnan lived here through 1906,
and by 1908 had moved to 4 Messervy Street with her children (Charles, Clara,
and Joseph, a police officer).
Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and established
businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists, carpenters,
millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. Starting in the 1870s, FrenchCanadian families began coming to work in Salem's mills and factories, and
more houses and tenements were built in what had been open areas of the city.
The Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by large numbers of Polish
and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood.
By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported
large department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were
lively, and its economy was strong.
The owner, Mrs. Flynn, lived here alone in 1907-8. By 1911 her tenant was Mrs.
Joanna Leahy, widow of James. In 1913-1914 Mrs. Mary Ann Collins Flynn was
alone here again. On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston
Street opposite Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden
tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the
west wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire,
and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous
front of flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street,
and upper Broad Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop,
Endicott, and other residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the
enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods
west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself,
and raged onward into the tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of
heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in
its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam
Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled
down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond
Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250
acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and thousands
homeless. Some people had insurance, some did not; all received much support
and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was one of
the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of
�Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the
former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects
(including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses and
widening old streets) were put into effect.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. Mrs. Mary Ann (Collins) Flynn lived here
through 1942, with various tenants (in 1920, Emma & Wladislaw Zawacki, a
shoeworker, & family; in 1942 Edward N. Tripp and wife Lillian, who ran the
Salem Recreation Craft Shop in the rear of the house). In 1943 the Salem
Savings Bank took possession of the premises; Mrs. Flynn moved out but the
Tripps stayed on.
Salem boomed right through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping
malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have
with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward
into the present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the
witch trials, but also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of
Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a
city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, barbers, and coachbuilders are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any
other place.
--Robert Booth, 13 Oct. 2002 for Historic Salem Inc.
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Joyce King
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17 ½ River Street
Built for
Ann McMahon
Widow
of County Clare Ireland
1884
August 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1858 Sept. 1 - The heirs of Susan Marston sold the dwelling house
and land to Thomas Perkins.
Mr. Perkins was a wealthy merchant
having his residence at 124 Federal St.
The real estate assessed
to_ Mr . Perkins was: 124 Federal St. valued at $3,000; Brick store
house $400; 7 Ash st. $2,000; 10 Lynn st. $1,000; 17 River St. $600;
21 North st. and a lot of land on Walter St. no value given.
1860 census
James Lawrence
II
Hannah
II
John
2nd family
James Shortell
II
Mary
II
Anna
II
Ellen
"
Thomas
age 25 currier
II
24
II
1
II
II
II
II
II
29 currier
28
5
4
2
1866 tax
Occupant
Michael Kenney
born Ire.
II
II
II
Mass.
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Owner
Thomas Perkins
house $350
land
35 0
1869 July 6 - Thomas Perkins sold the dwelline; house and land to
Ann McMahon.
"The same purchased by Perkins except a jog piece
15 1 X 25 1 sold to Mary Jackson et al."
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
h
'
(book 776 page 162)
1870 census
Michael McMahon
II
John
II
Bridget
II
Ann
2nd family
Henry McGee
Margaret II
II
William
Margaret II
Mary Ann 11
age 35 laborer
II
25 currier
'
II
20
II
66 keeps house
II
II
II
II
11
30 butcher
28
9 months
2
4
born Ire •. (County Clare:
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Mass.
11
II
II
II
1872 tax
Occupant
Michael McMahon
Patrick Sullivan
John Mct-iabo n
•
Owner
Ann McMahon
house $900
land
600
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1880 census
Michael Boyle
II
Anna
II
Bessie
II
Charles
II
Louisa
2nd family
John McCabe
II
Anne
William 11
1884 August 4 - John
age 40 currier
II
25 keeps house
II
4 daughter
II
3 son
II
1 daughter
II
II
II
11
24 plumber
22 keeps house
4 son
McMeahon" was
born Ire.
II
Nova Scotia
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
N.H.
Mass.
II
II
granted a building permit to
build an "addition" to the dwelling house at 17 River St.
This
then became 17t River St. (Building Permits at the Essex Institute)
1886 tax
Occupants
John McMaho:i
1887 tax
#17 John J. McMahon
Patrick Lynch
Owner
Ann McMahon
house 1tr ,100
land
400
addition
200
Ann McMahon
house $1,300
land
400
#17t James Landers
John Doyle
1890 tax
#17 John J. McMahon
#17t James Landers
Edward Morris
John J. O'Keefe
Ann McMahon
house $1,300
land
400
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1892 March 5
90 years.
·~Ann
McMahon, the widow of John, died at the age of
John J. McMahon and Mrs. Jarries Landers then became the
owners of 17-17~ River st.
1900 census
#17 Amos Sullivan
John Whiting
(illegible)
Delia Leahey
#17~ John McMahon
Katherine II
II
John
II
Patrick
II
Annie
II
Mary
Katherine II
ii
Margaret
2nd family
James Landers
II
Bridget
II
James
II
Ellen
Minnie
"
I
1905 tax
#17
#17~
age 77
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Occupant
Robert Carson
Thomas Carson
Charles Carson
John J. McMahon
James Landers
John J. McMahon Jr.
Patrick Landers
born Ire.
II
Eng.
25
17
43
52
42
15
14
11
8
10
6
grandson
grand daughter
laundress
city worker
44
48
20
17
13
currier
variety store
nephew, general labor
niece, shoemaker
niece, at school
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
II
II
II
Came to
1860
1884
1873
1864
1874.
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
11
II
II
II
II
1882
1868
1895
II
Qwner
Mrs. James Landers
John J. McMahon
house ~n ,300
land
500
u.s.,
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1910 census
#17 Edward Jacobs
age 28 teamster
II
II
Mary
27
II
II
Sara
2
daughter no name - new born
Kathleen Connelly 11 15 sister-in-law
2nd family
II
John- Robinson
42 blacksmith
II
II
Anna
30
II
II
Earl
7
II
#17t James Landers
55 grocer (own shop)
II
II
Bridget
53
II
John J. McMahon
66
II
II
John
26 city worker
II
II
Patrick
24 fireman shoe fact.
II
II
Annie
22
II
Katherine 11
20 stenographer
II
II
Mary
18 stenographer
II
Margaret II
16
1917 May 13 - James Landers died.
born Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Canada
II
II
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
II
II
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
This obituary notice appeared
in the local papers:
''J2mes Landers died at his home, 17t River St. this morning.
He
was the son of Patrick and Ellen (Donnelly) Landers, and for years
conducted a erocery store (10 River St.)."
He was born in Ireland and served, as a member of the constabalary
in his native land.
and its history.
He was a thorough student of the Emerald Isle
He leaves a widow , Bridget (McMahon) Landers.
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1972 July 26 - The property passed from the McMahon family when
Rita McMahon sold the land and buildings (12 Lynn st. and 17-17t
River St.) to Laurence
of $20,000.
c.
Post Jr. and Donald Koleman for the sum
(book 5880 page 170)
1975 Aug. 26 - Laurence c. Post Jr. and Donald Koleman sold the
land and buildings at 17-17t River St. to Nancy Witham.
(book 6175
page 624)
1976 August 12 - Nancy L. Witham trustee of 17-17t River St. Trust
sold the land and buildings to Robert
Trust.
c.
Bramble of Allyn Realty
(book 6268 page 557)
Reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry of Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court. Both offices are
located in the same building on Federal st. All maps in this report
are not meant to be exact, just for illustration purposes.
���Inventory No:
SAL.3834
Historic Name:
McMahon, John House
Common Name:
Address:
17 1/2 River St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-647
Year Constructed:
1882
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
No style
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HL: Chestnut Street Historic District Enlarged
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (10/04/1978); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Random Laid Rubble; Stone, Uncut
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�FORM B - BUILDING
NRDIS 1973; LHD 3/3/81
USGS Quad
Assessor's number
26-647
Town
Area(s)
Form Number
HD,HU,HR,HL
Salem
3834
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Central Salem
Address 17 1/2 River Street
Historic Name McMahon House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1882
Building Permit
Style/Form —
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation Stone
Wall/Trim
Wood Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition
good
Moved I ] no
X
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Setting
[J yes
Date
less than one acre
set on sidewalk on narrow street of late 18th and
early 19th century dwellings near water
Date (mpnth/yejirfjjJanuary 1997
AUG
0 5
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
MASS. HIST. COMM.
�BUILDING FORM
(
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
17 1/2 River Street is a narrow 2 1/2-story, gablefront building which is built right up to the sidewalk, adjacent to and to the
west of 17 River Street. The simple, clapboarded building rests on a high, mortared stone foundation. The gable roof is
covered with asphalt shingles; a brick chimney rises from just off the ridge. The recessed sidehall entry is framed by a plain
surround, rising from a masonry step and flight of wooden stairs. Adjacent to the entrance there are two somewhat higher 6/6
windows with molded surrounds. Two additional windows are in alignment on the second floor; there is no window on the
second floor over the entrance. A single three-light window punctuates the stone foundation. The 6/6 window in the attic is
framed by cornice returns.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
This building was constructed for John McMahon, who was granted a building permit in 1882 to build an addition to his
property at 17 River Street. The adjacent property at 17 River Street was acquired by his mother, Ami McMahon, in 1869
from wealthy merchant Thomas Perkins. Mrs. McMahon was born in County Clare, Ireland, as were her three children,
John, Michael and Bridget. The family apparently came to this country in the 1860s. After the construction of 17 1/2 River
Street, both John and Bridget's families moved into the building; the family continued to rent out 17 River Street to a variety
of tenants. After Ann McMahon's death in 1892 the property passed to her children, John McMahon and Mrs. James
(Bridget) Landers. James Landers (c. 1917) operated a grocery store at 10 River Street. The property remained in the
McMahon family until 1972 (King 1983).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
King, Joyce. "17 River Street, House Report". Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc., 1983.
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890, 1906, 1950, 1957, 1965, 1970. [Massachusetts State Library].
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
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Joyce King
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1983
2018
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John
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Salem
Street
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18 Chestnut Street
Built for
James B. Bott
c. 1800
Home of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846-1847
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
�Inventory No:
SAL.1035
Historic Name:
Bott, James B. House
Common Name:
Fabens, Augustus and Benjamin House
Address:
18 Chestnut St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
25-424
Year Constructed:
c 1800
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Federal
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling
House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
MA Archaeo/Historic Landmark (06/22/1970); Nat'l
Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Cobblestone; Coursed Ashlar; Granite; Stone,
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�FORM B - BUILDING
NRDIS 1973; L H D 3/3/81
U S G S Quad
Assessor's number
25-424
Salem
Town
Area(s)
F o r m Number
HU,HJ,HK
1035
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
18 Chestnut Street
Historic Name James B. Bott House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
by 1800
Tolles, Wiswall
Style/Form
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Granite, Cobblestone
Wall/Trim
Wood Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates)
late 19th c. - entrance
moved from west side to south end
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Setting
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good
no
yes
Date
less than one acre
set on sidewalk, comer lot, area of impressive
18th and 19th century residences
B K G E R Q P Q L « y 1997
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A R C H I T E C T U R A L DESCRIPTION
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community.
features.
Evaluate the characteristics
of the building in terms of other buildings within the
Located at the northeast corner of Botts Court, the house at 18 Chestnut Street is a three-story, hip-roofed, wood-frame
residence with a foreshortened third story. It is capped by an asphalt hip roof with two large brick chimneys. The house is
oriented with its narrow three-bay end to the street. Outlining the clapboarded house are simple wooden comerboards and a
plain watertable. It rests on a coursed granite foundation with cobblestone on the side elevation. In 1888 the principal
entrance was moved from the five-bay west side to the present sidehall entrance on the south side. The six-panel door is
capped by a delicate segmental fanlight with geometric tracery which also fills the sidelights. The Doric entrance porch
consists of a flat roof with a thin projecting cornice and triglyphs, lacking an entablature. Modillions decorate the underside.
Supporting the roof are reeded side timbers supported by round columns and square attached pilasters. Above the entrance is
a flat-roofed rectangular bay window containing 1/1 windows with recessed panels below. The remaining windows contain
6/6 sash with molded surrounds and blinds.
The wooden spindle fence in front of the house displays simple posts capped by balls..
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
According to Tplles, the Bott-Fabens House may be the oldest surviving residence on Chestnut Street and may predate 1800,
although this has not been firmly documented. The house may have been built before Chestnut Street was laid out in 1796.
The first owner was saddler, James B. Bott although it is not clear if he ever lived here. Bott emigrated from Tudbury,
England in 1768 and established a shop on Essex Street constructing fancy carriages. (About 1783 he constructed a house
nearby at 5 Botts Court for his own use). The Chestnut Street building seems to have served as a multi-family residence in its
early years. Mjss Mary Ome Pickering was bom in the house in 1805. The Prescott family lived here from about 1825 to
1JJB2 (Wiswall, p. 210). For about 16 months in 1846 and 1847, while serving as surveyor of the Port of Salem and Beverly,
Nathaniel Hawthorne occupied this house with his family (Cousins: 81). Dr. David Coggin lived in the house from 18811887. Augustus and Benjamin Fabens purchased the building in 1888 and converted it to a single-family house. They also
inoved the entrance from the west elevation to the south end. The Fabens family continued to own the property until 1905.
The Misses Lathrop occupied the house from 1924 until at least 1939 (Wiswall). Later residents included Oliver and Ann
Goodell, Mrs. Rebecca Bradley and Mrs. Lillian Phillips and Jacqueline Frederickson.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
Cousins, Frank and Phil M . Riley. The Colonial Architecture of Salem. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1919.
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
"House Report for 5 Botts Court, Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc. [no date].
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the City of Salem. Massachusetts.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890, 1906, 1950, 1957, 1965, 1970. [Massachusetts State Library].
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Wiswall, Richard Hall and Henry W. Belknap. "Notes on the Building of Chestnut Street", EIHC 75 (July 1939): 227.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
Natip&alJRegister
Criteria
Statement form.
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
SALEM
18 CHESTNUT ST
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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Title
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Chestnut Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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18 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
James B. Bott
c. 1800
Home of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846-1847
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c. 1800, 2018
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
MACRIS, Tolles
Language
A language of the resource
English
18
1800
2018
B.
Bott
Chestnut
circa
Hawthorne
History
House
James
Massachusetts
Nathaniel
Salem
Street
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Preservation at work
The following document is a collection of research on 18 Crombie Street. The document
package includes the nomination to Preservation Massachusetts' Most Endangered list, the
house mstory conducted by Rory Goff, the Holyoke Insurance house history (to deem the
house insignificant in hope of tearing it down), and other articles of interest. A larger
collection of documents concerning: tne preservat:ioo of this ho.mse Cafli be fowrrtd in1 HSI 's files.
Contact the office for more information.
9 North Street I P.O. Box 865 I Salem, MA 01970
V 978.745.0799
i F 978.744.4536
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�THE SALEM, MASS., EVENING NEWS -THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1990
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A News staff report
SALEM - The Historical Commission and the Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co. are locked in a battle over an old house on Crombie
Street which the company wants
to tear down for parking spaces
and the commission wants to preserve.
The Historical Commission
voted unanimously Wednesday
night after a three-hour hearing
to recommend against granting a
waiver of the delay ordinance for
demolition, requested by Holyoke. The commission can only
delay demolition of the house for
six months. The Salem Redevelopment Authority will make the
decision whether it can be torn
down.
Commission members and Holyoke representatives could agree
on little about the house including its age and its structural
soundness. Commission members
contended it was structurally fine
and maybe 220 years old while
the company said it was 160 years
old, falling down and ofno historical importance.
Most of the neighbors on Crombie Street also opposed the demolition of the house, which abuts
Joe's Auto Laundry, also owned
by the insurance company. Holyoke is located across Norman
Street from Joe's Auto Laundry.
Among the groups in favor of
preserving the single family gam-
This is a 'histo:ri'We intend. to press
c ally significant
ahead to tear the
building.'
house down.'
Anne Farnham,
William}. Lundregan,
Holyoke attorney
brel house are Historic Salem
Inc. and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Anne Farnham, on behalf of
the Essex Institute, said the
house is a "historically significant
building" which is important to
preserve. She noted it was part of
the historic register.
Attorney William J. Lundregan, representing Holyoke, said
the company originally wanted to
turn the building into a conference center but it was in such
poor shape that rehabilitation
costs were too high.
"We intend to press ahead to
tear the house down," Lundregan
said.
Essex Institute
Lundregan denied charges
from opponents that the company, which employes 200 people,
was threatening to leave the city
ifit didn't get its way.
The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company and the city's Hlstorlcal Commission disagree over the age and
significance of this old gambrel home on Crombie Street and neighbors say the company's plans to
demolish the structure for a parking lot will be one more damaging blow to this downtown residential
street which Is a National Reglste~ district. View Is looking north toward Essex Street. Out of view at left Is
former Joe's Auto Laundry property at corner of Crombie and Norman streets.
T"" Salem .~··,,,•lfi'• plu>•o
He said the company could let
the building decay to a point
where city official would be
forced to tear it down.
Holyoke.didn't have any immediate plans to develop it.
He detailed the company's 140
year commitment to downtown
Salem. He said the company looks
at nearby properties when they
come up for sale if it abuts their
property. Holyoke bought the
house for $169,000 four years ago.
Commission members and others tried to determine whether
the company had any more plans
for the house lot. Lundregan said
"We'd like to find out the company's strategic plans without
any of the threats to leave the
city," said David Pelletier, a
Crombie Street resident.
Board of Appeal member Jane
Stirgwolt suggested that since the
company had no immediate plans
for the lot that it lease the house
until it works out plans. Board
members agreed that it was an
option Holyoke should consider.
Lundregan said the company had
already considered it.
Frank Montesi of 15 Crombie
St. said it is another case of a corporation "bowling over" a Salem
neighborhood. He said only four
homes will be left on the street
which was once filled with homes.
Stephanie Montesi said Crombie Street was the last residential
street downtown, according to
the Historic Register.
"I'm really frustrated about
this back door apprpach," she
said.
Commission member Russell
Slam said the demolition of the
house would be a tragedy.
"The neighborhood has been
under seige for the past 10 years.
This neighborhood is being nickel
and dimed out of existence,"
Slam said.
Commission Chairwoman Annie C. Harris said tearing down
the house will only provide a few
parking. spaces. She mentioned
other city plans to increase parking nearby. She said the property
is listed under the Crombie
Street National Register District.
�Salem Historical Commission
ONE SALEM GREEN, SALEM, MASSACHUSEITS 01970
(617) 7 45-9595, EXT. 311
I 5 May 2001
Kathryn Coggeshall
Endangered Resource Program
Historic Massachusetts, Inc.
Old City Hall
45 School Street
Boston MA 02 I 08
'
RE: 2001 List of Most Endangered Historic Resources/ 18 Crombie Street, Salem
Dear Ms. Coggeshall:
The Salem Historical Commission would like to support the nomination submitted to you by
Historic Salem Incorporated, and urge that 1-1.M.I. list 18 Crombie Street in Salem among the
Commonwealth's I 0 most endangered historic resources in 200 I.
Built circa 1770 and moved to its pre.sent site in 1830, this building is a rare surv1v111g
example of a colonial period vernacular house in Salem's central business district. In contrast to
the grand scale and high style of Salem's famous Georgian and Federal mansions, the diminutive
size and setting of this properly is deceptive, causing it to be easily overlooked and
underestimated. In !'act, compact closely spact.:d womlen houses or this type dominated 18'11
century Salem and the historical significance of the City's now more numerous surviving
mansions cannot be fully understood without recognizing their common and traditional
counterparts, such as 18 Crombie Street. Today, only three other comparable houses remain in
Salem's central business district (See NR Nomination form, item 7, pp. 2-3).
In addition to its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is the oldest and smallest of 6
historic buildings which constitute a substantially intact early I 9th century urban streetscapc and
modern residential enclave. As a whole, this strcctscape creates a historical setting for the
prominent Crombie Street Church (1828), which is a focal point of the district and a notable early
example or the Greek revival architectural style in Essex County. The combined impacts of 19' 11
century commercial and industrial expansion, the Great Salem lire or 19 I 4, and urban renewal
clearance programs during the mid 20 111 century have all served lo isolate Crombie Street today as
an archaic and charming reminder or early selllement patterns in Sale111 's evolving central
business district.
In I 983, this property was listed on the National Register as part or a Downtown Salem
Mu ltiplc Resource Norn ination. In I 990, the owner app Iied to the Sa !cm I-I istorica I Commission
!'or a waiver from the City's demolition delay ordinance and lo the Salem Redevelopment
Authority for a permit to demolish the building. Both applications were denied and since that
time no permit has been issued !or demolition. Furlhcnnore, the Massachusetts 1-listorical
Commission and the Architectural Conservation Trust for Massachusetts included this property
on their respective lists of'"rnosl endangered" properties in 1990. /\s a result, 18 Crombie Street
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has been a subject or legal dispute and "demolition by neglect'' for over len years. During the
past year, however, there have been renewed efforts to re-open negotiations toward preservation
of this building. These efforts have been promoted by Crombie Street residents, Historic Salem
Incorporated, the City Council, the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation and the
Salem Evening News.
The Salem Historical Commission fully supports these efforts and the nomination submitted
by Historic Salem Incorporated. We urge H.M.I. to increase public awareness of this greatly
underestimated and critically endangered property by including it on the list of I 0 most
endangered historic resources in the Commonwealth this year.
Please feel free to call if you would like to discuss this matter further.
Sincerely,
Lance Kasparian
Salem Historical Commission, chair
cc:
Joe Walsh, planning department
.Jane Guy, SHC clerk
Joan Lovely, City Council
Tim Jenkins, H.S.l.
John Goff, H.S.I.
�The Wendt House at 18 Crombie Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Application for State's Most Endangered Listing
2001 MASSACHUSETTS' TEN MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC RESOURCES
NOMINATION FORM
Srrn INFORMATION:
Property Name: Wendt House a/k/a Ferguson-Pike-Cate-Jefferson-Dane House
Property Address: 18 Crombie Street,
City I State I Zip: Salem, MAO 1970
NOMINATOR INFORMATION:
Applicant Name: Historic Salem, Inc.
Affiliation I Relation to the Property: Historic Salem, Inc. (HSI) is Salem's 501 ( c) 3 community
preservation advocacy organization. HSI in 2000 commenced designating list(s) of Most Endangered Historic
Resources in Salem, following HMI and National Trust example. The Wendt House is tlte most critical(v
e11da11gered historic property on HSl's first "Most Endangered" historic resources list.
Applicant Address: Post Office Box 865,
City I State I Zip: Salem, MA 01970
Applicant Tclephone:[p/ease include both day and evening 1111111/JersJ (978) 745-0799 day and evening.
Applicant Fax: (978) 744-4536
PROPERTY OWNER INFORMATION:
Owner Name: Holyoke Mutual Square, Inc., or Holyoke Square, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Holyoke
Mutual Insurance Company, a/k/a Holyoke of Salem Insurance Agency, Inc.
Owner Address: I Iolyoke Sq.,
City I State I Zip: Salem, Mi\ 01970
Owner Telephone: (978) 745-6420
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Please provide additional information with al/achments. (fnecessmy.
I.. DESCRIPTION OF THE ENDANGERED RESOURCE
Briefly describe the resource's selling, structures, and/or major.features.
Setting: Crombie Street is the core street in the Crombie Street Historic District, Salem's smallest National
Register listed historic district. The Crombie Street District is composed of six remaining buildings in the last
surviving residential enclave in the heart of Salem's downtown. The street is a paved narrow lane, lined with
18 111 and 19 111 century timber, brick, and stone buildings from the Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, and
Italianate periods and styles. It is only one block long. The district includes a cross-section of residential
buildings from various periods of development, along with a church building originally built as a theatre. Wood
is the dominant material, although the Crombie Street Church and the Bowker House are brick. All the
buildings directly abut the sidewalk, suggesting high density, but placement on the lots is irregular, creating a
neighborhood atmosphere.
The street runs from the old Ruck's Creek waterfront area at its low end (now Norman Street), up to Essex
Street, which traditionally marked the high land, and "ye Main Street" forming the cast-west spine of the
peninsula upon which ! 7' 11 century Salem was settled. The Wendt House anchors the west side of the low end
of the street. It is widely exposed upon its south and west sides, due to the prior removals of other historic
houses.
Structures and Major Features: The Wendt House is a small, handsome I 811i century, Georgian Style, 2-1/2
story, gambrcl roofed timber framed house. It is clad in old wood shingles, painted brown, and has 6/6 double
hung windows, as well as a central brick chimney, impressive wood wainscot and interior details, and a small
two story kitchen addition added to the south side as an ell
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Additional architectural description and plans and Overview, sec Section L
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Photographs, sec Section B
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Slides, sec Section C
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Articles, sec Section H
2. SETflNG.
Does the immediate site retain its original character? Are there open space issues? fr there evidence of
early landscape features and/or design?
The immediate site retains much of its original character from at least the J 830s decade, when it is believed
that I 8 Crombie Street was assembled from older houses, moved to and joined on the old waterfront site.
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Additional site description and documentation, sec Additional Old Maps Section N and
Locator map, see Section D
National Register nomination forms, sec Section G
Historic Landscape analysis and study has been hindered and prevented by Holyoke's deliberate efforts to
demolish the building by neglect. Vestigial plantings remain, but are obscured by weeds, rubbish, and
encroaching pavement. No archaeological study.available.
3. CONTEXT
Whal does the s111To111uli11g area look like? Is ii similar to the original setting:' !Iow has it changed? J>lease
describe with details.
The Wendt House is located on the west side of Crombie Street in the old "Knocker's Hollow"
neighborhood of Salem. It anchors the lowest and southernmost end of Crombie Street where it intersects
Norman Street. Norman Street is part of Route J 14 and Salem's dominant urban entry corridor from Route
128 and the north.
18 Crombie Street's surrounding area is Salem's last surviving early residential neighborhood in the
western part of the central business district. It is part of a National Register district and former waterfront
area.
The principal change over the centuries has been the filling in of the old stream and Ruck's Creek working
waterfront, the demolition of many early buildings, including famed woodcarver and Salem architect
Samuel Mclntire's own home (to create the new Holyoke Building) located directly across Norman Street.
One block west is Summer Street, which forms the boarder between the CBD and the Mcintire local
historic district, where Norman Street continues as Chestnut Street, the site of Salem's finest collection of
Federal period homes-The Wendt House is now the "end" building in the eroded historic Crombie Street
neighborhood, pressure is now being exerted upon 18 Crombie Street to fall.
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4. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Briejly state the historical significance <~/'the resource and its relevance to the local co1111111111ity. ls the resource
listed 011, or eligiblejbr listing 011, the Stale or National Register ofl!istoric !'laces:'
Lance Kasparian, Chairman of the Salem Historical Commission characterized the Wendt House's historical
significance as follows:
"Built circa 1770 and moved to its present site in 1830, this building is a rare surviving example
ofa colonial period vernacular house in Salem's central business district. In contrast to the grand
scale and high style of Salem's famous Georgian and Federal mansions, the diminutive size and
setting of this property is deceptive, causing it to be easily overlooked and underestimated. In fact,
compact closely spaced wooden houses of this type dominated 18th century Salem and the historical
significance of the City's now more numerous surviving mansions cannot be fully understood
without recognizing their common and traditional counterparts, such as 18 Crombie Street. Today,
only three other comparable houses remain in Salem's central business district (Sec NR Nomination
form Section G)."
The decline of buildings in the Crombie Street Historic District from eight to six since the National Register
nomination was first prepared, further underscores the rarity and significance of the few buildings which
remain.
It is also important, historically, for many reasons including both its early occupation by William Pike (a U.S.
Customs House official and personal friend of both l JS President Franklin Pierce and Salem's N<tthaniel
Hawthorne) and the Jefferson and Farmer families, important members of Salem's early Afro-American and
maritime community. Circumstantial evidence suggests that 18 Crombie Street may possess additional
significance as a circa 1840 local center of Afro-American liberation-one of the "stops" on Salem's
Underground Railroad. It is an important core contributing element within a recognized National Register
district.
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Letter in the Salem Evening News, January :24, :200 !-"distinguished history", sec Section H
Beyond its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is particularly important <ts an <1nchor structure in an
intact historic neighborhood under redevelopment pressure. It supports and preserves Salem's only surviving
early downtown neighborhood within the bounds of the CBD. This area has felt intense pressures of urban
development and encroachment in the past. Older historic structures were formerly located up the hill, where
the parking lot is now located at the head of Crombie Street, across the street where the White Hen Pantry is
now located, immediately downhill on the asphalt parking surrounding Joe's Auto Laundry and also across
Norman Street on the site of the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company building
The Salem Historical Commission spoke to contextual associations as follows:
"In addition to its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is the oldest and snrnllest of 6
historic buildings which constitute a substantially intact early 19th century urban streetscape and
modern residential enclave. As a whole, this streetscape creates a historical setting for the prominent
Crombie Street Church (I 828), which is a focal point of the district and a notable early example of
the Greek revival architectural style in Essex County. The combined impacts of 19th century
commercial and industrial expansion, the Great Salem fire or 1914, and mban renewal clearance
programs during the mid :20th century have all served to isolate Crombie Street today as an archaic
and charming reminder of early settlement p<ttterns in Salem's evolving central business district."
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The Wendt House is a "bookend" building in a threatened historic neighborhood. It needs to be saved to
preserve the neighborhood as a whole. The Salem Evening News recognized this fact in December, 2000, when
it reversed a long held pro-development position to advocate preserving the house upon its ancient site, because
it illustrates the "cheek by jowl" density of urban downtown neighborhoods in centuries past.
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For additional documentation of 18 Crombie Street's importance as part of a small but
significant district, under development pressure, see "Most Endangered" materials from 1990
[SHC reference, sec Section E], also Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Commission, City
of Salem, Massachusetts Historical Commission, ACT for Massachusetts, Inc., National Trust
for Historic Preservation and Crombie Street Neighborhood Association support letters,
dating from 1990 through May, 200 I l Preservation Support Letters, Section M]
5. THREAT
What is the nature o.f the threat to the property? (Threats might include demolition, arson, neglect,
inappropriate rehabilitation, over-development, vandalism, and/or pending sale or.forc/osure without
restrictions in place.) Please be specific about the threat over the next month, six months, one year and beyond.
The Wendt House suffers from a great number of threats.
The principal active threats to the Wendt House are: demolition, demolition by neglect, risk of arson, risk of
accidental loss by fire, and risk of vandalism, all accelerated in recent months both by new damage to the
building's weather envelope evidenced by broken and unboarded window(s), second floor level; also stepped up
effo1is on Holyoke's part to eliminate all problems by eliminating the building.
The Wendt House's chief threat derives from its current ownership. Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company, the
current owner, seeks to remove the historic house by demolition. The building stands across Norman Street
from the Company's main office building. It was erected in the late 20 111 century on the site of Salem architect
and woodcarver Samuel Mclntire's residence. Mclntire's residence was destroyed by Holyoke to create a new
site for a commercial office building in an essentially residential neighborhood, and now Holyoke wishes to
remove the Wendt House to create a small number of downtown parking spaces.
In addition to all the factors listed above, the Wendt House is additionally physically threatened by its proximity
lo Salem's "dry" homeless sheller on Crombie Street which, when ti.ill, exacerbates homeless persons and
vagrancy problems on Crombie Street most heavily, and to a lesser degree in the whole western part of
downtown.
Architecturally, the Wendt House is further physically threatened by its proximity to Holyoke's ever-expanding
asphalt parking lots, and Holyoke's policy of attempting lo promote intense rental parking on land near the
house. The close proximity of the new asphalt parking lots (combined with Holyoke's long standing desire to
remove the historic building) allows now for large piles of snow to be piled against and near the house in the
winter, providing more water damage and pollution run-off on the property, and opens the possibility for plows
and heavy vehicles to collide with the long abandoned, timber framed house.
For the record, it should be noted that since the Wendt House preservation crisis was first started by Holyoke in
the late 1980s, Holyoke, while being thwarted in obtaining a demolition permit for the house, has been
successful in
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Destroying and removing wood picket fences and constructing additional parking spaces in
the side and rear yards in 1993
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Demolishing the rear porch about 1995.
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The abandoned nature of the house, as well as its sun dried exterior and occasional use as a teenage "hang out"
area, due to its being an attractive nuisance, further increases fire risks, particularly in summer and warm
weather months. There arc no known fire alarms or smoke detectors in the building. and the building receives.
Due to the variety of threats and conditions associated with this property, the Wendt House is at active risk for
loss year round, due to three primary factors:
I)
Changing threat risks associated with changes in the season (e.g. highest vagrancy problems
in winter; highest teenage hangout problems in summer), as well as
2)
The constant desire of the owner to lose the building by any means, and
3) The slow but steady erosion which is occurring, due to the aging of the wood frame house,
with complete non-provision of Owner-supplied maintenance.
Prior to becoming Executive Director of Historic Salem, Inc., HSI spokesman and preservation architect John
Goff served for many years as Historic Massachusetts, Inc. 's Preservation Advocate for the Souther Tide Mills
in Quincy, one of the first properties ever nominated to HMI's Most Endangered List. Mr. Goff has noted for
our record that
"The Wendt House in Salem has many of the same architectural preservation problems
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associated with the Souther Tide Mills-typical of abandoned I 8 " centlllJ' timber frame
buildings left exposed to the elements/or many years. Yet with the Wendt House, the
problems are more shocking lo perceive, because the building is located in the heart of an
historic !vlas.rnchusell.1· city, which prides itself upon its historic districts, and its heritage
to11ris111 attractions. "
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There is additional reason to believe that the Wendt House at I 8 Crombie Street is now Eligible for Listing as
Most Endangered at State Level in 2001, because, according to records on file with both Historic Salem, Inc.
and the Salem Historical Commission,
"the !vlassachusetls f-hl·torical Commission and the Architectural Conservation Trust for
!1/assad111sl'lts i11c/11clecl this 11ro11ert_\' 011 their re.1·11<•cfil•e lists of '111ost e11cla11gerecl' properties
fat State levelJ in 1990. see SJ JC letter Section E"
NOTE: The status of the 18 Crombie Street House thus begs the question "What happened to the State's Most
Endangered Properties between 1990 and 1993 ifthe Wendt House was first listed upon both MHC's and
ACT's lists in 1990-but NOT listed upon the first list created by HM! after it merged with ;\CT for
Massachusetts, Inc. by 1993?"
Shouldn't the Wendt House NOW BE ON the list of State's Most Endangered-not only because of the current
crisis and condition of the property-but also due to the fact that no preservation dangers were remediated or
removed between 1990 and 200 I?
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A comparison of photographs of the Wendt House from the late 1980s-compared with those taken in 2001demonstrate very real deterioration in the fabric of the building, due to its abandonment, deferred maintenance,
and prolonged preservation problems over many years: Sec and compare photograph I (200 I), Section B
with 1989 photograph Section H
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The paint on the wood shingles has all but washed away completely on the upper portion of
the front far;ade.
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The wood shutters have been lost in their entirety.
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A number of the window panes (with early, wavy glass) have been broken out. Many of the
early window sash arc rotted and decayed.
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The foundation has been deteriorated by the roots of 5 inch diameter sumac trees near the
building which have grown 20 feet tall.
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Landscape and yard has been removed to create new rental parking spaces adjacent to the
house.
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The rear porch was allowed to collapse, and was removed.
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The conditions of the roof, downspouts, gutters, sills and timber framing is unknown.
The Wendt House's deteriorations would not be so disturbing, were they not intentionally inflicted, as
byproducts of a Demolition by Neglect land use strategy promoted by one of Salem's largest taxpayers,
employers, and properly casualty insurance company.
The Demolition By Neglect nature of the Wendt House situation is evidenced both by Holyoke's repeated
efforts to tear the building down by legal means, combined with the prolonged abandonment, as well as by a
1990 admission by William .I. Lundregan, the company's attorney, that:
"Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company ... wants to tear down ... an old house on Crombie
Street .. .for parking spaces .... {and should this request.for a demolition permit he denied] the
company could [still choose to} let the building decay to a point where city oj}icials would be
forced to tear it down" jscc November 8, 1990 newspaper article, Section HI
In order to fully comprehend the multi-faceted, complex, challenging, and prolonged nature of the preservation
problems associated with the Wendt House, it is necessary to look beyond and beneath all the physical
manifestations and problems described above to attempt a better and more accurate understanding of the
corporate mentality, and core "mindset" of Holyoke Insurance, which owns the house-as well as the nearby
parking lots and the large office building.
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Holyoke's demolition of Salem architect Samuel Mclntire's own house (formerly located on
the site of the new office building) attests to a past disinterest in preservation.
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The company has rebuffed and/or ignored at least four proposed alternate preservation re-use
options for the Wendt House over the last 12 years, sec Reuse proposals, Section K:
1.
In December, 1990 (shortly after the Wendt House first became endangered by
Holyoke) Pioneer Village in 1630--one of Salem's oldest outdoor educational and
heritage tourism sites-proposed that the Wendt House be restored where it wasand used both for new "classroom facility and residence" by Pioneer Village-and
"valuable reception, meeting and training space for the Holyoke Insurance
Company."
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2.
In March, I 991 (about two years after the Wendt House was first endangered) the
newly formed non-profit organization The Society for the Study of War and
Culture, Inc. proposed purchasing 18 Crombie Strccl ror USC as its new
headquarters. The Society proposed that "This headquarters building will contain
our Offices and Library and provide storage space for the equipment used in our
planned living history program, the Lewisburg Grenadiers Interpretive History
Project." The Society's proposal was rebuffed.
3.
In March, 200 I, (shortly after the property became publicized on HSI 's first Most
Endangered List in December, 2000) Historic Salem, Inc. proposed that Holyoke
either a) transfer the property to Salem Harbor CDC for ultimate renovation as a
first-time homebuyer house; orb) transfer the property to HSI to arrange its
transfer, after restoration, to "an appropriate family." J-ISl's March, 200 I proposal
was rebuffed.
4.
In March and May, 200 I, the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation
proposed having "Holyoke ... work ... with the Salem Harbor CDC on renovating
this property so that it could be re-sold to a first-time homebuyer." To date, Salem
Harbor CDC's offer has been completely rebuffed.
In addition to rebuffing a number of appropriate preservation re-uses for the property, Holyoke has
repeatedly pressured the City to issue it a demolition permit for razing the Wendt House, lost all attempts to
secure a permit, appealed the denial in Court, lost the legal appeal-and yet still persisted in maintaining
that it seeks no other options than to demolish the property--either outright, or through demolition by
neglect.
All of this contextual history relating to the ongoing preservation battles over the last dozen ycarsindicates a tenacity and corporate stubbornness, which highlights and magnifies all the other threats listed
above.
Because Holyoke is a large company, with significant financial resources, it can bring more "firepower" to
the battle than can the neighbors, Ward Councilors, Historic Salem, Inc., even the City orsalcm working
without outside support. We seek active help now, to keep the Wendt House from following the example
of the lost Salem Armory (Most Endangered at State Level), which was similarly neglected for many years,
before becoming ultimately lost forever after a contrived preservation "emergency" last year.
Under the contrived "emergency" pattern, it is typical for maintenance and repairs to be
suspended upon historic buildings, indefinitely, until (finally) city o.flicials would be forced to
tear it down. "
On the subject of contrived Salem "emergencys" it is important to note that increased public visibility of
the Wendt House since it was listed on HSI's Most Endangered list last year may have actually served to
increase the "emergency" situation with respect to I 8 Crombie Street now.
Faced with the fact that 18 Crombie Street is now being called "Holyoke's House of Shame" in Salem
Evening News Editorials-and that the neighbors have just organized a new Crombie Street Neighborhood
Association (and cleaned up the property without obtaining permission) reports are coming in that Holyoke
is exploring other options, including legal challenges on other fronts-as well as seeking to obtain
permission from the Salem fire Department to raze the house, citing hazardous situation.
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6.
COMMUNITY COMMITMENT
Is there community support for the preservation a/the nominated resource'! Has the local preservation
commission taken a position on the is.1·11e:J Are there any suggestions or plans/iH· the reuse of'the resource.
if appropriate?
There is very strong Salem community support for the preservation of the Wendt House. At the
neighborhood level, a Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association was just formed, on May I,
200 I, to "talk about the plight of the small historic house on our street" and lo brainstorm new means and
methods to repair and to preserve it. The Crombie Street Neighborhood Association's first publication
(sec Section I) concludes with the sentences:
"As a small neighborhood, we can not afford to lose one sixth o/011r critical mass to min and the
eventual expansion q/parking. We want our house back, with a yard and garden. We want people
living in and appreciating the charm of this di111i11111ive house. Holyoke has had the chance to use
and preserve the properly. They insult all (?/Salem and make 111ocke1y (?(their own tenets through
their neglect. Please help us to save this small house with a large historic sign(ficance. "
The Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association, (HCSNA) has been intensely active during its first
month of May, 200 I. Following organization on May I'', it conducted a first CLEAN-UP of the Wendt
House property on Sunday, May 61h, and is planning a "Peaceful Protest and Meditation in the Buddhist
tradition" at both 18 Crombie Street and the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company's headquarters on
Sunday May 20 1h. The neighborhood association is also planning a Crombie Street Block Party for Friday,
June 81h-and has begun a media campaign to get the preservation side of the story out to the public-to
force Holyoke to take responsible and appropriate actions. "Hot off the press" in the Salem Evening News
dated May 17, 2001, Robert Wall ofthe HCSNA fired off the group's first public salvo in a letter to the
Editor, which was titled "Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On" (sec Section H).
Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On
!edited from Salem Evening News May 17, 2001]
"Holyoke must be forced lo take even the basic steps needed to maintain the house and the
small piece of surrounding property th al hasn't already been paved. They ignore their own
advice to homeowners and their assurances or community support nng with hypocrisy.
Holyoke Mutual's neighbors arc disgusted and taking matters into their own hands. They arc
actively responding lo Holyoke's practice of demolition by neglect and applying the golden
rule: They arc banding together lo clean up and repair the historic rroperty. I lomclcss
neighbors arc pitching in lo help. Everyone is working side-by-side and having fun gelling lo
know each other.
It is all about building real community in the heart of one of America's oldest downtowns.
Robert Wall
NOTE: Upon May 17111 , we also learned that William J. Lundregan, attorney for Holyoke Square, Inc., served
legal papers on May 161" against the Walls, Pelletiers, and Lawrences of HCSNA for theft of vegetation,
defacement of plywood covers with white paint, and trespass at 18 Crombie Street on May 61". Holyoke,
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through Lundregan, promises to arrest members of HCSNA if further trespass occurs on June 8 ". sec Section P
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At City level, the preservation of the Wendt House is also a high priority of City Council President Joan
Loveley, as well as the City's Building and Legal departments, Historical Commission, as well as the
Salem Evening News.
City Council President Joan B. Lovely has been working to keep the preservation of 18 Crombie Street in
community awareness since, as a Ward Councillor, she heard her constituents complaining about the
situation years ago-and since HSI nominated it to its Most Endangered List last year. The City of Salem
has fought for the preservation of the Wendt House in court-and won.
The Salem Historical Commission has repeatedly written in favor of preserving the 18 Crombie Street
house-and a number of its letters are attached.
In and outside or Salem, preservation organizations have advocated preserving the Wendt House over the
last 12 years, sec Section M, including:
Local:
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The Crombie Street Neighborhood Association
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The Essex Institute
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Historic Salem, Inc .
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The Salem Historical Commission
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The Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation
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The Salem Redevelopment Authority
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The Society for the Study of War and Culture, Inc .
State and National:
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ACT (Architectural Conservation Trust) for Massachusetts, Inc.
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The Massachusetts Historical Commission
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Historic Massachusetts, Inc.'s recognition and support is now needed, both to
consolidate preservation support from all organizations listed above, as well as to
help tip the ultimate fate of 18 Crombie Street towards preservation, rather than
demolition.
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Regarding current re-use proposals (see Section K) for the 18 Crombie Street property,
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Historic Salem, Inc. and its preservation advocates who live adjacent to, and across Crombie
Street from the Wendt House would like lo sec the house either: I) restored and retained as
historic district quality housing; and/or 2) used for educational purposes as an historic site
attraction, community education center, or other positive and productive purpose.
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The Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation (CDC) recently made an offer to
Holyoke to work proactively and positively with Holyoke to have Holyoke donate the house to
the CDC for restoration, renovation, and re-sale as a new first time homebuyer affordable
housing project.
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These two proposed re-uses (1-ISl's and Salem Harbor CDC's) appear to be the major re-use
proposals currently "on the table" although as recently as 1997, the City also harbored plans for
historic house restoration and re-use. In footnote 4 of Holyoke's I997 legal challenge (filed
while Neil J. Harrington was Mayor), the Judge, after dismissing Holyoke's case, observed
"The City seeks to preserve the building for historical purposes, but has declined to take it by
eminent domain or even establish the area as an historic district under G.L. c. 40C. The City
seems to hope that it can-unfairly in the Court's view-force Holyoke Square to do the public's
work, at Holyoke Square's private expense, and repair and restore the building."
The property ranks highest on HSJ's first Most Endangered Historic Resources List. The only listed
property of equal or higher standing on I-ISi 's Most Endangered List has been the Salem Jail and Jailer's
House complex, which through being recognized also at State Level as Most Endangered, is now making a
good recovery.
For additional information on the Wendt House, sec the attachments, which include the following
newspaper and newsletter mticles, sec Section H:
Eveni!J~gws.
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"Neighbors Pledge to Block Razing of Crombie Street I-louse" in fuilem
1989?
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"Preservationists, Firm Feud Over Old Downtown I-louse" in Salem Evening News, Nov. 8, 1990;
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"Crombie Street House has its Day in Court" HSI Newsletter, Autumn I Winter 1997;
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"Group Lists Most Endangered Properties in Salem" in Salem Evening News Dec. 12, 2000;
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"Preservationists Fight to Save Old House" in Salem Evening News, Dec. 18, 2000;
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Editorial "Preserving the Character of Downtown Salem" in Salem Evening News Dec. 19, 2000;
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"Neighbors Hope to Save Neglected Historic Home" and "Neighbors want to Save old Home" in
Salem Evening News January 19, 2001;
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"Holyoke's Action Threatens Company's Place in Salem 's History" in Salem Evening News
January 23, 200 I;
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"Crombie Street Dwelling has Distinguished History"in Salem Evening News January 24, 200 I;
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"Nonprofits Want to Save House" in Salem Evening News March 27, 200 I;
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"Neighbors Rally Around an Abandoned Historic House" in Salem Evening News, May 8, 200 I;
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"Holyoke's House of Shame" Editorial in Salem Evening News, May IO, 2001;
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"Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On" in Salem Evening News, May 17, 200 I;
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7.
FUTURE PLANS
If the resource were selected as one of klassachuselfs' Ten !vlost
Endangered, how would the listing he
used?
Should 18 Crombie Street be listed as a Most Endangered Historic resource at State level, HSI would
likely use that development:
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To promote public support of the Crombie Street Neighborhood Association's efforts to have
their area become recognized as a Local Historic District;
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To begin to forward a proposal to effect a local Demolition By Neglect Ordinance;
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To engineer more public discussion about 18 Crombie Street options at its Fall, 200 I
conference upon local Most Endangered properties;
In addition,
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Holyoke might re-visit the latest re-use proposal offered by the Salem Harbor CDC;
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The Salem Redevelopment Authority might be encouraged to exercise its significant authority
and play a more influential role;
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A property transfer and house restoration project might be commenced, enabling the Wendt
House to be transformed from a 12 year eyesore and perennial problem, to a restored
landmark and new urban asset.
A successful ''reversal of fortune" for this house could also potentially be used by Historic Salem, Inc. to
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Demonstrate the compatibility of historic preservation with affordable housing and open
space restoration re the new Community Preservation Act;
Increase preservation interest and awareness;
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Is there anything else you want us to know about the resource?
We hope HMI will respond positively to our application. Please call if you have any questions. For reference
and further reading, we provide a number of attachments:
Sections:
A.
Nomination Form
B.
Color Photographs
C.
Color Slides
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locator !v/ap
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Salem Historical Co111111ission Lelfer.1·
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local "Most Endangered"
G.
National Register Doc11J11entati1111
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Nell'spaper Articles
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Crombie Street Neighhorhood Association l'ublications
Prepared by Historic Salem, Inc.
May 18, 2001
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�The Wendt I louse at 18 Crombie Street
Salem. Massachusetts
Application for State's Most Endangered Listing
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Historic Salem, Inc. Position Statements
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Re-Use l'ropo.rnl.1·
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Holyoke's "Overview Study"
M. Preservation Support letters with legal Findings
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Additional Old Maps
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Pike - Hawthorne Connection
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latest Legal Challenges
To Be Considered for Selection, Please Include:
Three to jive color snapshots
Three to jive color slides
Documentation, if available, i.e. National Register o/Historic Places inventOJyform or other study.
8-112 x I I inch copy of a map (.1·treet or USGS) showing the location (){the resource.
All application materials become the property of Historic /vlassachusetts. The nominator grants Historic
Massachusetts unlimited use of all photographs and slides. Please provide the name of the photographer
to he credited in all puhlications.
Authorization: ----------------'-/\-'-1=a'-'rg"''r.=n~·e-'-t~K='·=S~.~T~1~110~/~1e""i_1~P~r=e.~1·i=d~e~n~t,~H~i.1~·1c~J1~·1~·c~S~c~1/~e~11~1.~l~n~c.
Signature
Print or ()!pe name and title
Authori::.ation:
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Print or type name and title
PLEASE RETURN Tl/IS FOR!IJ NO LATER THAN MA!' IS, 200 I TO:
Endangered Resource Program, 1listoric Massachusel/s, Old City l la!l, 45 School Street, Boston, MA (}2 f ()8
{[you have a11y q11eslio11s, please co/l/ac/ KalillJ'll Coggeshall al 617 723-3383.
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May 18, 2001
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�Salem in 1700
Starting from the Essex street end, the corner lot was
owned by Colonel John Hathorne end by him conveyed to BenjaNo.2
Crombie Street, min Marston in 1699. Possibly part of the Crombie street
east side
Church is on the southern edge of Marston's land. No 9 is
Nos.9-17
certainly on the western side of the Jonathan Corwin propersee also 26 Mill ty whose grandson George owned'. the eastern side on the pres& 31 Charter Sts. ent Washington street. There was a house on the southern cor
ner of the George Corwin land and his tomb was in the s·outh
eastern corner of Jonathan's land. George was the Sheriff ir
the witchcraft trial and they did not dare to put his body in
the tomb until the furor had abated. Jonathan had no house
on his land but Benjamin Marston probably built one about
1708. ~enjamin, born in 1651 was the son of John and Mary
(Chisholm) Marston and. he married Abigail, baptized in 1655,
daughter of Hilliard Veren who died after 1692. He married
again _
Patience, ••• and he died in Ireland in 1726. In 1837
and certainly earlier Joel Bowker jr, born in 1806, son of
Joel, born in 1775, died in 1830, married in 1802, Eunice
Pearson, born in 1780, died in 1808, was living here. His
father had married in 1808 Margaret Rogers of Ipswich, born
in 1780; died in 1'818 and he died in 1830. Joel jr married
in 1828 Leafy Curyis of Scituate, daughter of Joseph and Poll~
Bowker. Joel jr was there until 1859 or 1860 when he died
and the widow and his sons George and Charles, the former
born in 1824, the latter~s birth not recorded, lived here witl
their mother who seems to have died before 1861 and Charles
at that time had removed to 44 Essex street. George, who
does not appear to have married, probably died about 1903/4
and Charles in 1913, umLarried. The family is numerous in
Scituate. The map of 1874 shows George as the owner of No.
9 with a large plot of land to the east and south of the
house, still standing.
In the south west corner on Crombie street are two narrow
No.13 & 15
lots, the northerw:one owned by the heirs of Joel Bowker, the
southern one by P(emberton) Hale of Newburyport, who l~ied
at. .lill Cmnbridge street. He was born in 1805, married in 1830
Martha Ford, parents unknown. She died in 1842 ae 31 and be
marr&ed in 1845 Lydia Toppani Hale, born in 1811, daughter
of Moses and Susanna {Toppan.). : Hale ·:- of - ~ewburyport ~ · ·;1n 1881
Samuel Pearce Richardson, born in 1827, son of Rev. Phineas
and Sarah (Pratt) Richardson of Methuen (and as a Baptist
minister, of many other places) married in 1858 Susan Rogers,
daughter of John and Leafy (Curtis) Bowker, was living with
Mrs George Bowker. Richardson died in 1906 and the family
still live there,1939).
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No.17
T(imothy) Bryajt • .He, however, lived in his house at 31 Charter street until his death about 1869 (q.v.), and the house
here was occupied by brief tenants.
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HOLYOKE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. OF SALEM
Holyoke Square
Salem, MA
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Architects ·and Pla~ners
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Repair Potential
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Relocc..te
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Reuse as Business
Existing Dwelling CPresent Conditions)
Existing Conditions
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Chart <Appendix)
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Historic Report
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Home Appraisal
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DeMarco/Jarek Partnerhsip has been enlisted by Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co., Inc. to review the condition of their property
at 18 Crombie Street, Salem, MA.
In particular, DJP has been
charged with determining the disposition cf the dwelling at
said locati~n with respect to historic relevance, present
physical =haracteristics and "ultimate valueu.
In order to accomplish our gcals, various techniques have been
employed including intensiv~ sit2 inspection work, historic
~esearcn,
cost estimating, mapoing and ap~r3~sal / assessment
evaluation.
The following summary details DJP~s findings along w1Tn
overall conclusic~s and recommendations.
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In order to ascertain what "ultimate value~ the dwelling at !8
Crombie Street has, DJP conducted a multi-prong investigation,
comprehensively covering each of the factors which contribute
to "value".
Historic perspective - the enclosed report (See
Attachment nA"> chronologizes the dwellings history from
original parceling of the land, initial construction
through to present day ownership.
bi story nf 18 Cr omb i _g__
has not been a major
hisforically sianificant tenanc~
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Before and after
that tenancy the occupants, often including a
boarding tenant, were simply residents of the
community. Except for the fact that the dwelling ~~
old, no aspect of the house (fireplace, moulding,
doors or finishes> is of historic significance. As a
result, there is no redeeming historic value
assoc1 ated w1 t:r; tne Tt=nanchJ or the res.i dence perse.
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The original neighborhood at the time of construction tended to relate to the activities of the
adjacent church .=md/or fraterna.l / alliances in the
one of the
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pPriohPral homes within the bloc k of land that
~ ostered these activiti~s.
The value of the building as a b l oc k ing element
against ccmmercial development, pr ior to or since
zoning has been established is non-e x istent • . The
~b i lity for this re~idPnre +a ~ p a w n residential
' activitu in thi~ are~ is net likPlU as the present
zoning ordinance indicates that area as B-3
<Business Central> making 18 Crombie a nonof the fact that it is in a
conformin
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The following estimate <Attachment D> of repair
established by DJP's office is a projection of
present costs to bring the existing facility into
a habital condition but does establish any addi tional cost expenditures that would be necessary
to make the dwelling suitable fo r a specific
p urpose, i.e. apartments, offices, or retail stores.
The enclosed home inspection report <Attachment B>
establishes in very specific terms, al l of the
positive and negative aspects of the present
condition at 18 Crombie Street, but does not focus
on ' t h P s p ~cifir circumstanrP~ lPadinn tn its pre~ent
Eondition.
However, while researching the pr~sen t
construction evolution~ it was noted that t he
prese n t dwelling was originally built on or directly
adjacent to a stream bed.
Apparently it was built
i n t h e location of a former wor k shed but there is
n o visable evidence that either the original shed
f oundation or timbers were incorporated in t h e
presen~ structure.
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placed on soil of questionable bearing capacity,
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coupled with the fact that limited to no engineering
was used to establish footing sizes in those days,
has ultimately lead to the present footing/bearing
wall settlement problems.
In addition, the original
builder chose brick as the below grade foundation
wall material.
Subsequently, the freeze thaw cycle
along with a wet basement from construction onset to
present has contributed to the crumbling brick
condition that we see today. (See Attachment E
Photographs).
These aspects of the present condition, if left
unchecked (i.e. without launching an underpinning
operation) would result in ~Qil~§IDil§!iQil_Qf_!h§
The gambrel frame portion of the
building <with the exception of limit~d sill
deterioration due to wood boering insects) is in
reasonable structural condition.
Unfortunately, the
additions (porch and corner rooms) are failing due
to insect and wet rot problems.
However, if it were
not for the existance of these additions acting as
buttresses against the main house~ the degree cf
settlement encountered at the worst two corners of
the foundation coupled with the pulling away of the
notched first floor frame could have caused the
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Article 22 of the Massachusetts State Code controls
the degree to which a dwelling shall comply with
present code requirements.
As evidenced by the
enclosed floor plans (See Attachment F) the layout,
stairway, fireplace and framing _are all subject to
va~ying degrees of noncompliance.
In order to use
18 Crombie Street for somethinq oth"er tnan c<. si1rcTle
familu residence~ would cause thi: full effect of the
codP requiremPnts tn be impo~ed.
A~ a re~idence,
thi=>ri=> is still significant repair work necesc:;arw to
be completed in order to achieve a negotiated (with
Sali=>m Buildina Department) complidnce with Article
~ 1 he stairs are substa. ndard~
ba.throoms are in
need of code related updating, layout is counter to
present standards and roofing/rbot construction
could use maintenance help.
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The repair costs must be judged inevitably from
a cost benefit view point.
If the repair cost is
out of sync with the value of the house on the
market, the cost for repair becomes a " labor of
love rather than an investment.
It is not li k ely
that this neighborhood would draw such a
bene f .:i. ctor.
If the house is nnt s ~ ab i l-i,..~ d i t s
value will co inue to dimin i sh 1mtj l a cr pss over
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p oint ic:. reachPd whi=>Y'p cnndemna+ion nr failure
;;-rrurc:. at which point t he .... ~si dence ha.s no va.lu~e. ,
Prudent invP~tme nt nnw to stahili?e t he foundatin Q
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The primary method of establishing the absolute market
value of the residence located at 1 8 Crombie Street is to
be establish what dollar a mount t he market will bear at
the given time of sale by offering the residence for
sale.
Two other me t hods of establishing market value are
available~
A.) being an appraisal, and B.) being an
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accurate, they certainly give a general indication of
value.
In the case of 18 Crombie Street~ the assessed
value is approximately $30,000 more than the appraised
value of the property.
Presently the city has assessed
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LAND AREA:
LAND VALUE:
?.UILDING VALUE:
101 Single Family House
1 z; 80(Z; SF
$ 865000.00
$ 68,600.00
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Fast and present day City Zoning has established the
area in which the residence is located as nBusiness
Central District " .
1n1s s1T u aT1on has not necessar11y
made the house more valuable~ only t h e land.
As of this
writing, the prese nt depressed economic conditions have
further lead to the decline of the property.
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Just as important as economic considerations are the
social implications of the area.
Indioent and homeless
p:::irsnns :11ho frequent the a i=>a da.i lw ar:::i p:::ir re i ved c?.<=. a
neaative inf lu~nce which has contributeu LO oriving the
assessed value of the propertu dawn.
1T is likely that
the same property at another location would attain a
higher appraisal and/ or market value.
There are four broad range "use" strategies or
possibilities for the 18 Crombie Street dwelling as it
presently exists.
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Based on the poor condition of portions of the
dwelling, c~~ing the structure ~s logical and
economical as it enables the land to be used far
commercial development.
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Repairing the structure to serve as a ~g§i~§n~g
is possible, but unlikely as the costs to repair
surpass its potential value.
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B~lQ£~iiQil to another site is a reasonable alternative for the building as it allows the land to
rise to its "highest and best use" while saving the
dwelling which is repairable and of interest as
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is possible~ but unlikely as the cost to
repair it surpasses its potential value.
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furthe~ explains the ramifications of choosing any one of
the foJr alternative uses described above.
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A home inspection report documents our observations during several site visits to 18 Crombie
Street, Salem, MA, from July 1990 through
August 1990.
The entire report and its supplements have been included as "Attachment B".
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Photographs have been taken as part of the home
inspection process.
Forty-five of the most
significant areas of deterioration and/or
structural difficulty, along with existing
condition shots have been included.
B.
An independent appraisal has been completed by
Longval Associates which is included as a tool for
comparison of value against assessmenT, estimated
repairs and alternative use considerations.
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definition of Central Business permitted uses. See
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This plan
Heritage Plaza West Urban Renewal Plan.
encourages preservation and adaptive reuse which serves
the best interest of the city and the owner/developer of
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By following the included CSee Attachment A) report
tracing 18 Crombie Street from initial parceling
to present day, it is obvious tbat the residence
provided a home for some 15 families aver the course
of time but, none of the residents or the building
pla!Jed a role in historhJ to the po-int of being
18 Crombie Street can be
considered significant.
characterized succinctly as having 1.l non-noteworthy owner/tenant residents and 2.) rion-noteworth~
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The enclosed map/locus plan is included for
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After reviewing the condition of the residence at 18 Crombie
Street, delving into its history, establishing its market
value, and estimating the construction costs and code
deficiencies associated with its repair, alternative us~ uc",
relocation of the core building to a remote site is a
practical and sympathetic approach to the present and/or
future disposition of the residence.
If a consensus can not
be achieved to relocate the original Gambrel Frame residence,
leaving the land to obtain its highest and best use, then, the
present structure, which has out lived its economic value
should be razed <Alternative Use A> in order to allow the land
to achieve its highest and b~st use.
The remaining
alternatives (housing or business> would be better served by
creating a better core building specifically suited to
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contemporary s~anaaros for each of the uses desired.
Fu~thermore,
we recommend that the Building Department from
the City of Salem be invited in to review the condition of the
premises.
In addition, we recommend that a definitive step be
taken related to the condition of the home in order to staive
off concerns for safety in the vicinity of the residence.
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18 CROMBIE STREET:
THE WILLIAM B. PIKE HOUSE
BUILT BY 1831 FOR SAMUEL FERGUSON, PAINTER
Researched by Rory Goff
Salem. Massachusetts
July, 1990
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BUILT BY 1831 FORSAMUEL FERGUSON, PAINTER
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July 1, 1659
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CONSIDERATION-
£30
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GRANTOR-
Charles Gott of Wenham, attorney for Hugh Peters,
"sometymes pastor of the Church of Christ" [First
Church], Salem
GRANTEE-
George Corwin of Salem, merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... four acres of pasturage, be it more or less, lying
and being situate in Salem aforesaid, adjoining to
the land of Mr. Raulph Fogge on the north side, and
of Mr. George Emery on the south, and being
bounded on the east with the river [South River,
now Washington Street] and on the west with the
highway [now Summer Street]"
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Hugh Peter or Peters, Salem's second pastor, came
to Salem in 1636 and was probably allotted this
four-acre pasturage by the town shortly thereafter.
Peters was instrumental in promoting Salem's
economic prosperity, but returned to England in
1641, became Chaplain of Oliver Cromwell's
Parliamentary Ar my, and was executed as a
regicide after the Stuart Restoration of 1660, soon
after conveying this property by attorney to Capt.
George Corwin [or Curwen].
After Corwin's death on January 3, 1684-5, the
pasture was divided between his son Jonathan
(western portion. underlying No. 18 Crombie St.)
and the heirs of his son John (eastern portion).
Hon. Jonathan Corwin ( 1610-1718 ), merchant and
judge at the witchcraft trials, married Elizabeth
Sheafe and had daughter Elizabeth ( 1678-1706,
married Deacon James Lindall, merchant), and son
Rev. George Corwin (1683-1717, married
Mehitabel Parkman). The western pasturage was
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the land beneath No. 18 Crombie St. fell to the two
surviving sons of Rev. George: Samuel (1715-1802)
and George (1717- 1802, married Sarah Pickman).
(Essex Antiquarian, "Part of Salem in 1700," Vol. 3,
p. 68; Perley, History of Salem. Vol. 2, p. 299 n.)
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£57, and "other Lands released to me by my
Brother George Curwen of Salem aforesaid
Gentleman"
GRANTOR-
Samuel Curwen of Salem, gentleman
GRANTEE-
George Curwen of Salem, gentleman
DESCRIPTION-
"The second lot butts Westerly on a Highway
[Summer St.1 & there measures four pole, Northerly
on land set out to Elizabeth & Mary Lindall,
Easterly on land of Mr. Saml. Browne there
measuring four pole, & Southerly partly on land
formerly Rucks & partly on land of James Lindall
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December 22, 1746
CONSiDERATION-
£257, old tenor
GRANTOR-
Sarah Curwin of Salem, widow, ad ministratriI of
the estate of her late husband George Curwin, late
of Salem, gentleman, dec'd intestate
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John Dampney of Salem, butcher
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DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain piec-e of land in Salem afsd. Containing
about one hundred & five poles butting Westerly
on the street leading to the Almshouse [Summer
St.} sixty-six feet & an half, Northerly on land of
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DESCRIPTION (Cont'd)- Mary Lindall & Eliza. Gray a minor about twentyfive poles, Easterly on land of the heirs of Saml.
Browne late of Salem Gent. deceased sixty-six feet
& an half, & Southerly partly on land of Francis
Smith & partly on land of James Lindall Esqrs.
about twenty-five poles ... "
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Street, and sold some of his backyard (including
frontage of No. 18 Crombie Street) to Samuel
Gardner in the following deed.
Gardner had bought an estate including the house
on Essex Street (at what would become the east
corner of Crombie Street) built by Benjamin
Marston, Esq, High Sheriff of Essex, who sold it to
Capt. Timothy Orne, who conveyed it in 17 48 to
Gardner [Book 95, Page 40].
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along what would become Crombie Street: This
field had belonged to the children of Hon. Jonathan
Corwin's daughter, Elizabeth Lindall: viz., Elizabeth
(Lindall) Gray and Mary Lindall, and was partitioned to Elizabeth (Lindall) Gray's daughter,
Elizabeth (Gray) Cheever in 1755 (Book 102, Page
90) and sold to William Pynchon (Book 110, Page
132}, who resold it 11 days later to Samuel
Gardner on April 26, 1762 (Book 110, Page 148 ).
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property next south, the portion of John Dampney's
backyard which included (at its west end) what
would become the east frontage of No. 18 Crombie
Street, to a depth of twelve - fifteen feet back from
the street:
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£29.6.8
GRANTOR-
John Dampney of Salem, slaughterer [and Penelope,
his wife]
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Samuel Gardner of Salem, Esq.
DESCRIPTION-
"A piece of land in said Salem containing twentyseven poles & an half bounded Easterly on land by
me this day ... sold to Elizabeth Higginson four
poles and three links ... , Southerly on lands of
Nichols, Luscomb & Dodge six poles & twenty-two
links ..., Westerly by my own land four poles and
two links ... , & Northerly on said Gardner's land
formerly Lindall's six poles & fourteen links ... "
NOTE-
In the following deed, Dampney sold the remainder
of the Crombie Street lot to Abigail Ives:
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DATE-
June 7, 1766
CONSIDERATION-
£213.6.8
GRANTOR-
John Dampney of Salem, slaughterer
GRANTEE-
Abigail Ives of Salem, spinster
DESCRIPTION-
"... my Mansion House with the land under &
adjoining to the same in said Salem, bounded
Westerly on the highway leading from the
Main-street to the Alms-House so called [Summer
Street] si1ty-si1 feet, Northerly on land of William
Pynchon Esquire as the fence stands where it is
fenced, Easterly on land of Samuel Gardner Esqr.
sixty-six feet, and Southerly on land of George
Dodge as the fence stands so far as it is fenced ... "
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- None
BOOK 12 3 PAGE 161
DATE-
August 22
CONSIDERATION-
£253.6.8
GRANT ORS-
john Foster of Salem, mariner, and Abigail (Ives),
his wife
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Matthew Mansfield of Salem, shopkeeper
DESCRIPTION-
"AU that Mansion House [then same boundaries as
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PREVIOUS REFERENCE- John Dampney to Abigail Ives, June 24, 1766; Book
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CONSIDERATION-
$4,665
GRANTOR-
Daniel H. Mansfield of Salem, merchant [and Mercy,
his wife, for $1]
GRANTEE-
Joseph Baker of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
"... a dwelling house & brick store with the land
under & adjoining the same, situated in Summer
street & bounded as follows, vizt. westerly on said
Summer street and there measures si1ty-si1 feet,
northerly on land of James King as the fence there
stands where it is fenced, easterly on land of
Benjamin Crombie, formerly the late Weld
Gardner's, and there measures sixty-six feet, &
southerly on land of Capt. William Orne's as the
fence there stands where it is fenced ... "
NOTE-
Joseph Baker neit bought the Crombie St. frontage,
in the following deed:
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May 23, 1806
CONSIDERATION-
$462
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Benjamin Crombie of Salem, innholder [and his
wife Elizabeth, for $1 ]
GRANTEE-
Joseph Baker of Salem, merchant
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"... a certain piece or parcel of land bounded as
follows, to wit northerly by a line beginning on
land of said Baker running twelve feet & eight
inches to a way hereinafter described (Crombie St.]
thence running southerly on said way sixty-six
feet, one inch & three-quarters of an inch to land
of Joseph Wiggins, bounding northerly on land of
James King & easterly by said way, southerly by a
line running westerly on said Wiggins' land to land
of said Baker fifteen feet ten inches, thence westerly by a line running northerly sixty-siI feet, siI
inches and one quarter on said Baker's land to the
first-mentioned bound, together with a right &
privelege of a way ... for the said Baker, his heirs,
assigns & servants ... for themselves on foot or in
cariages & for their cattle carts & otherwise, in as
full & ample a manner as the Inhabitants of said
Salem use the streets of said town, into & out of &
over a certain court way (Crombie St., bounded)
easterly by a line running southerly from Essex
street along the westerly end of said Crombie's
house about three hundred & seventy- two feet to
land of M. Larrack, then southerly by a line
running westerly on land of Mr. Wiggins twenty
feet, westerly by a line running northerly at the
distance of twenty feet from the first-mentioned
line and parallel therewith about three hundred &
seventy-two feet to Essex street, thence by a line
on Essex street running easterly to the first bound."
NOTE-
This was a small portion of the old Samuel Gardner
estate that Benjamin Crombie had purchased from
the heirs of George and Weld Gardner in 1802
(Book 172, Pages 34-36}; Crombie converted the
old Marston-Gardner house (on the east corner of
Essex and Crombie Sts.) into a tavern, and it
remained an inn for many years thereafter (it is
labelled the "City Hotel" on the 18 S1 Map of
Salem). Crombie then sold plots along his
newly-established private way, which at this time
enended south only through No. 18 Crombie St.
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"Mansfield" property east to Crombie Street, which
he then subdivided to form two house lots fronting
on Crombie Street. He sold the southern lot in the
following deed:
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March 13, 1807
CONSIDERATION-
s1100
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Joseph Baker of Salem, merchant [and Nancy, his
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Francis Quarles of Salem, trader
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DESCRIPTION-
..... a certain piece or lot of land situate in said
Salem, bounding Easterly on a private way
[Crombie St.], which runs Southerly from Esse1
street along the western side of Crombie's house
about three hundred and seventy-two feet to land
of Larrack & Wiggins, measuring on said way
thirty-three feet, Southerly partly on land of
Wiggins and partly on land of Orne there measuring ninety-six feet and six inches, Westerly on my
own land there measuring thirty-two feet, Northerly on land of James Bott, Jr. ninety-three feet six
inches .....
NOTE-
The deed includes a right to use the private way
[Crombie St.1. but is also subject to an encumbrance
of a ten-foot private way along James Bott's lot to
the north (Agreement between James Bott, Jr. of
Salem, saddler and chase maker, and Joseph Baker
of Salem, merchant, September 10, 1806; Book 179,
Page 222).
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DATE-
January 26, 1808
CONSIDERATION-
$1200
GRANTOR-
Francis Quarles of Salem, merchant
GRANTEE
Thorndike Deland of Salem, merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain lot of land situate in Salem ... bounding
easterly on a private way [Crombie St.], measuring
on said way thirty-three feet, southerly partly on
land of Wiggins & partly on land late of Orne now
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inches, westerly on land of Jospeh Baker thirty-two
feet, northerly on land of James Bott, Jr. ninetythree feet six inches ... "
NOTE-
Included is the right to use the private way
!Crombie St.). The deed is also subject to the same
encumbrance as in the previous deed, but which
was discharged on April 13, 1808 (Book 182, Page
286). Deland subdivided the property into east
and west lots, conveying the east lot in the
following deed:
BOOK 182 PAGE 286
DATE-
April 14, 1808
CONSIDERATION-
$500
GRANTOR-
Thorndike Deland of Salem, merchant land
Mehitable Deland, his wife, for $0.10]
GRANTEE-
James Bott, junr. of Salem, saddler
DESCRIPTION-
"... a parcel of land situated in said Salem and
bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof on a private way commonly
called Crombie's Court and thence running Southerly bounding Easterly by said Court thirty-two
feet ten inches. thence running Westerly bounding
Southerly on land of Joseph Wiggins thirty-one feet
ten inches. thence running Northerly bounding
Westerly on other land of me the said Deland
thirty-two feet nine inches, thence running Easterly bounding Northerly on land of said Bott
twenty-eight feet seven inches to the first bound
in Crombie's Court aforesaid, together with the
right and privelege to use said private way ... "
NOTE-
James Bott, Jr. erected a workshop on the land,
presumably for use in his trade as saddler and
chaise maker. He sold the land and shop to his
father, and died at his residence on Sewall Street,
of "intemperance," on May 4, 1822, aged 40. He
was survived by his widow, Priscilla, and several
children.
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DATE-
February 14, 1811
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$142
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James Bott, junior of Salem, saddler & chaise maker
[and Priscilla, his wife, for S0.10]
GRANTEE-
James Bott, senior of Salem (late saddler) now
merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... a parcel of land situated in said Salem and
bounded as follows: to wit beginning at the
northeasterly corner thereof on a private way now
called Crombie street [and then same bounds as
above], together with the right ... to use said way or
street ... , together with the work shop thereon
standing .....
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Deland ... Book 182 Leaf 286"
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James Bott, Sr. died December 31, 1829. The
Salem Gazette (Jan. 1, 1830) lists "IJeaths. In this
town, last evening, Mr. James Bott, aged 84, a
native of Tudbury, England, but has been a
resident of this town more than sixty years. He
was an honest and worthy man in every relation of
life, and his loss will be severely felt by his
numerous descendants and connexions ... "
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the .nine dwelling houses and other properties he
owned at his death: the children of James Bott, Jr . .
received the house on Sewall street and the "West
Estate;" the children of Hanna (Bott) Ferguson )
received the "Pickering House" and a brick
dwelling_in_Charlestown, and "all my land and
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The children of Hannah (Bott) Ferguson and her
husband John Ferguson included Thomas B.
Ferguson, Margaret (Ferguson) Saunders, Dolly
(Ferguson) Potter, and Samuel Ferguson.
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GRANT ORS-
Thomas B. Ferguson, cordwainer land Mehitabel D.,
his wife]. Eben. S. Saunders, farmer. and Margaret
his wife in her right, Daniel Potter, blacksmith, and
Dolly his wife in her right, all of Salem, "the said
Thomas B., James, Margaret and Dolly being
Grandchildren of James Bott, deceased, and
devisees named in his last Will and Testament.....
GRANTEE-
Samuel Ferguson of Salem, painter, "another
Grandchild of said James, and also devisee named
in said Will"
DESCRIPTION-
"... the following lot of Land on Crombie Street in
said Salem, with the Building thereon and
priveleges & appurtenances, bounded Easterly on
said Street thirty-two feet and ten inches,
Southerly on Farmer and Colman thirty-one feet
and ten inches, Westerly on George Osborn thirtytwo feet and nine inches, and Northerly on other
land of the grantees twenty-eight feet and seven
inches ... "
NOTE-
Samuel Ferguson was born in Salem, baptised April
6, 1800. He married Mercy Lawrence and later
died of consumption on April 29, 1856, aged 56.
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in 1830 or in 1831; the Tax Valuation !'Qr_l8_3J1.ha
pencilled in for Sam!. Ferguson: "new house in
Crombie St., 1000" and his Tax Valuation for
1831 lists ·2 hou~ -_ r mbie - S1800 [raised to
i2500 in 18331;" these are No. 16 and No. 18
Crombie Street. We cannot tell which was built
first. though No.18 certainly looks older, and may
~ven incorporate James Bott, Jr.'s old workshop
within its rather unusual structure.
In 1836 Samuel Ferguson lived at No. 41 Summer
Street., and his painting business occupied No.
340 Essex Street.
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No. 18 Crombie Street successively housed Wm.
Kimbal, Jr. ( 18'43 ); Israel Shepard, grocer on Front
St. (1844); Reuben Floyd (1845-46); George
Blinn (1847- 48); "No Man" (1849); Mrs. Floyd and
_Cook (1850); and "No Man" (1851). 1852 again
shows "No Man," but is amended to list William B.
Pike and Conner-5-wasey-;--- - -.
Prince Farmer, a Black dealer in oysters at Derby
Square, was also shown at No. 18 Crombie St. in
Street Books 1844-45, but at No. 20 Crombie St. in
1846; the 1842 Directory lists him at No. 18 1/2
Crombie Street.
BOOK 484
PAGE 140
DATE-
October 1, 1853
CONSIDERATION-
$1300
GRANTOR-
Samuel Ferguson of Salem, painter [and Mercy, his
wife]
GRANTEE-
William B. Pike of Salem, weigher & gauger
DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain parcel of land in said Salem with the
buildinW hereon, bounded and described as
follows, viz. easterly on Crombie street, thirty-two
feet & ten inches; southerly on land of the late
Prince Farmer, thirty-one feet & ten inches;
westerly on the other lot herein described,
thirty-two feet & nine inches or thereabouts; and
northerly on land of Oliver Fellows, _
twenty-eight
feet & seven inches ... also a certain other parcel
of land in the rear of the above described lot &
bounded and described as follows viz. Commencing ·
at the northeast bound, & runhlng southerly by the
above described lot, thirty-three feet & five inches;
thence westerly by land of late Prince Farmer, five
feet & si1 inches; thence northerly by land of said
Farmer three feet & si1 inches, thence westerly by
said Farmer twenty-four feet & sil inches, thence
northerly by land now or late of Osborn & Archer
thirty feet & si1 inches; thence easterly by land of
Fellows thirty feet to the point begun at, containing
nine hundred and thirty feet."
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�PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Front lot: Deed of Thomas B. Ferguson and others,
recorded in Book 276-148.
NOTE-
William B. Pike's portrait is included in Portraits in
the Essex Institute. which also provides a
biography (pp. 76-77): "William Baker Pike was a
native of Salem, born in 1811, the son of Jacob and
Mary (Floyd) Pike [and nephew of the Misses
Floyd, living at 18 Crombie St. since 1845]. His
education was obtained in Salem's public schools
and he chose the carpener's trade for his means of
livelihood. He was, however, a deep thinker and a
strong Democrat,writing and speaking on party
politics with great vigor. In 1838 he occupied for
six weeks the editorial chair of the Commerci/ll
Advertiser, a newspaper published in Salem, but
did not continue in this calling. He received an
appointment at the Boston Custom House and later,
in 1857. accepted a position as Collector of the port
of Salem and Beverly. This position he held
throughout President Buchanan 's administration.
Among his friends was Nathaniel Hawthorne, with
whom he was on terms of great intimacy. In his
later years when he had retired to his farm in
South Groveland, he began his Afemories of
HaJvt.horne, which. however, he destroyed before
publication. possibly feeling he had dealt too
intimately with his subject. While living at his
farm which was on the borders of Johnson's pond,
he often entertained many of his Salem friends .
Among this coterie were Dr . George B. Loring,
/ Zachariah Burchmore, and on several occasions
~Jex-President] Franklin Pierce. These gatherings
were delightfully informal and politics were freely
discussed and national affairs criticised. Mr. Pike's
home in Salem was successively on Lafayette, Pond
and Broad Streets, but his residence was longest at
18 Crombie Street. Here he died, unmarried, on ~
April 26 , 1876." At his death, he was attended by~
physician Shadrach M. Cate, who had bought No. 18
Crombie St. but two months previously.
Connor B. Swasey, listed in the Street Book as living
with Pike at 18 Crombie Street from 1852 (aged
22 ) through 1855, also worked at the Custom
House, as Public Storekeeper.
�BOOK 601 PAGE 77
DATE-
February 2, 1860
CONSIDERATION-
$900
GRANT OR-
William B. Pike of Salem
GRANTEE-
Benjamin B. Neal of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Both said lots were conveyed to me by Sa ml.
Ferguson by his Deed of Oct. 1, 1853, ... B[ook] 484,
L[eaf] 140 ... "
NOTE-
In this deed, William Pike stipulates that the
"above bargained premises are conveyed to said
Neal, subject to the right of my aunts Sally, Hannah
and Abigail Floyd or of either of them to hire and
occupy the same during their lifetime ... , paying
therefor the annual rent of Seventy-Five Dollars
($75 )." While Pike sold the house in 1860, he
himself continued to live here until his death in
1876.
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Benjamin B. Neal, mariner, was born in Salem on
April 14, 1807, of David Neal and Mary (Elliott)
Neal. He is listed as "captain" in the 1861
Directory, and as "fire brick maker" in 1864. He
resided at No. 9 Cambridge Street through 1866;
but was living at 13 School Street at the time of his
death, on November 18, 1868.
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DATE-
February 9, 1863
CONSIDERATION-
$900
GRANTOR-
Benjamin B. Neal of Salem
GRANTEE-
Abby H. Burnett, wife of William Burnett of San
Francisco
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Same as above, except "northerly by land of said
Farmer three feel & six inches" has been copied
erroneously as "southerly ... three feet & six inches"
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Both said lots were conveyed to me by William B.
Pike by his deed of Feb. 2d. 1860, ... B[ook] 601
L[eaf] 77"
NOTE-
Abby Burnett donated the portrait of William B.
Pike to the Essex Institute in 1900.
BOOK 948 PAGE 276
DATE-
February 19, 1876
CONSIDERATION-
$1878
GRANTORS-
William Burnett. and Abby H. Burnett, wife in her
right, of Washington, D.C.
GRANTEE-
Shadrach M. Cate of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
"... the messuage in said Salem which is bounded
beginning at the northeast corner on Crombie
street and thence running southerly by said street
thirty-two feet and ten inches; thence westerly by
land late of Prince Farmer thirty-one feet ten
inches; thence southerly by land late of Farmer
nine inches; thence westerly by land late of Farmer
five feet six inches; thence southerly [sic; should be
"northerly"] three feet. six inches; thence westerly
by land late of Farmer twenty-four feet; thence
northerly by land of Osborn thirty feet six inches;
and thence easterly by land now or late of 0.
Fellows fifty-eight feet seven inches to Crombie
street and the point begun at."
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Being the same premises conveyed to said Abby
H. by deed from Benjamin B. Neal, ... Book 647 leaf
59"
NOTE-
The Salem Directory of 1881 lists "Shadrach M.
Cate, physician, 65 Washington St, house ditto."
The Salem Evening News (April 23, 1898) provides
the following obituary: "Danvers, April 23 -- Dr.
Shadrach M. Cate died very suddenly at his home,
�corner of Holton street and Peabody avenue, at S
o'clock last evening, from apoplexy ....
"Dr. Cate was born in London, N.H., October 2, 1823.
He studied medicine when quite young and was
one of the pioneers of homeopathic theory. He
attended the Western Reserve college in Oeveland,
Ohio;ancT-~r~~~!J.ted in 1854 from the Western
Homeopathic medical colle e. He practised in
Akron and Columbus, Ohio, in Augusta, Me., and
Salem, Mass., where he had an extensive business,
covering a period of 25 years. He was an
occasional contributor to the medical journals and
was a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic
society and was its president in 186 7.
"In 1849 he married Miss Martha]. Messer, who
survives him, together with two sons and a
daughter ...
"He has always been a prominent member of the
Swedenborgian church in Salem and was one of the
founders of that society. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity of Salem. He has lived in
Danvers for about two years, and was esteemed by
all who knew him here as elsewhere .... "
On February 24, 1879, Dr. Cate made an agreement
with the Farmers to smooth out the south
boundary line of No. 18 Crombie Street, "whereas
the parties are about to remove the fence between
their respective lots. Now it is agreed that the
dividing line between said estates is and shall be
as follows, beginning at a point on Crombie Street,
nine inches Northerly from the water table of said
Farmer's house and thence running Westerly
thirty-four feet and ten inches to a point three
inches from the water table of said house, then
_ turning and running Northerly three feet and six
inches and thence Westerly twenty-four feet and
six inches to a point distant South thirty feet and
four inches from the Northwest corner of said
Cates' land and twenty-eight feet and four inches
from the Southwest corner of said Farmer's land ... ",
with both parties paying each other $1 for any
land taken from the other (Book 1018, Page 11; see
enclosed Plan).
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DATE-
May 13, 1880
CONSIDERATION-
$1500
GRANTOR-
Shadrach M. Cate of Salem [and Martha j. Cate, his
wife]
GRANTEE-
Leonard j. Jefferson of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
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NOTE! 'Leonard ]. Jeffer son was Black, born in South
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the First Church for many years before buying No.
18 Crombie Street. He died October 8 that same
year, of Bright's Disease, while living at No. 7
Cambridge Street.
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Verde Istands, inherited No. 18 Crombie St. and
lived there for the next forty years, working in her
house as a seamstress and taking in boarders:
Thomas F. Williams, laborer ( 1882-83); William A.
Smith. clerk at D. B. Gardner & Co., Grocers, 127
Washington St. ( 1884-89); Mrs. Lucinda Fennimore. widow and Christian Scientist, and Addie
Fennimore. clerk at Frank Cousin's Dry Goods Store
( 1890-98 ); Alexander McCabe, coachman ( 190108 ); Frederick C. Larrabee, machinist ( 1909 );
Joseph F. Dechene, insurance collector ( 1910-13 );
Emil E. Deschene, carpenter (1914-16); and Thomas
F. and Elizabeth Nolan ( 1918-50). Rufina M.Jeffers ~ died hei:e-aged-?-r,-on-Novemb-~t-fi4~
he had no children, and willed her property first
to the Home for Colored Women. but changed her
will with a codicil, leaving it instead to Joseph A.
ane and Abbie A. Dane.
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DATE-
May 17, 1924
CONSIDERATION-
Uns ecified
DESCRIPTION-
"... the land in Salem, ... together with the buildings
thereon, bounded and described as follows:
northerly by land formerly of Fellows, now or late
of Stevens, 54 feet, 7 inches; easterly by Crombie
Street, 32 feet, 1O inches; southerly by land
formerly of Farmer, now or late of Freedman, 34
feet, 1O inches; westerly by the same land, 3 feet, 6
inches; southerly by the same land, 24 feet, 6
inches; and westerly by land now or late of Osborn,
30 feet, 4 inches."
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1880; Book 1037, Page 115, and wills of Leonard
Jefferson and his wife Rufina M. Jefferson
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living here through 19 31, and his widow, Elizabeth
Nolan, remained through 1950.
Sarah [or Sally] W. Shepard resided at No. 23
Summer Street through 1937, but lived at No. 18
Crombie Street from 1939 until 1951, when she
sold the property and moved to No. 384 Esse1
Street. At the time of her death, November 2,
1953, she was 92 years, 5 months, 18 days of age.
The Salem Evening News (Nov. 2, 1953) gives the
following obituary: "Miss Sally W. Shepard, who
made her home at 384 Essex street., died toda in
Salem hospital.
"Mrs. Shepard was born in Salem, the d ghter of
the late Michael W. and Eliza D. (Osborne) Shepard.
She was a member of the Busy Bees and attended
Grace Episcopal church . ... "
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Norman Sts. (Nos. 26-30 Norman St.) are demolished to make a parking lot.
BOOK 3806 PAGE 586
DATE-
March 22, 1951
CONSIDERATION-
Unspecified
GRANTOR-
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GRANTEE-
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DESCRIPTION-
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PREVIOUS REFEREN - Deed from Joseph A. Dane and Abbie A Dane, dated
May 17, 1924; Book 2600, Page 276
NOTE-
Maude Stap e
a e ephone answering
service from No. 18 Crombie St., where she lived
from 1951 until 1957.
In 1957, No. 20 Crombie Street is destroyed, and
the buildings at the west corner of Norman and
Crombie Sts. are razed, including No. 34 Norman
St. (Bridal Shoppe), No. 36 Norman St. (North Shore
Babies' Hospital Thrift Shop and Auxiliary), and No.
38 Norman St. (Thomas J. Cadorette, general
merchandise, and John Reagan, used furniture,
through 1953; Mallard & Pappalardo, plumbing &
heating, 1954-56 ). In the 1958 Directory, No. 38
Norman St. is Eddie Hefferman's Texaco Station.
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Maude C. Staples of Lynn, unmarried
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Frances H. Wendt of Wenham
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PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Deed from Sarah W. Shepard, March 22, 1951; Book
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was manager of the Girls' Club of Lynn. She lived
here from 1957 to 1986.
In 1969, the parking lot at the east corner of
Crombie and Norman Sts., No. 24 1/2 Norman St.
(Crombie St. Parking}, becomes No. 28 Norman St.
(Paul's 66 Gas Station in 1969; North Shore
Towing, 1970-1973; Vacant, 1974-1983; White
Hen Pantry, Domino's izza, Video Village, and
Uniglobe Travel by 986 ). ·
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August 29, 1986
CONSIDERATION-
Paid, and in full consideration of S1
GRANTORGRANTEE-
Frances H. Wendt of Salem
Nau mkeag Trust Company, Trustee of the Frances
H. Wendt Realty Trust, u/d/t dated Aug. 29, 1986,
recorded herewith, of 18 Crombie Street, Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
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DATE-
February 16, 1988
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s169,000
GRANTOR-
Naumkeag Trust Company [Trustee -- see above)
GRANTEE-
Holyoke Square, Inc.
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Deed dated August 29, 1986; Book 8487, Page 1.
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Book 9430, Page 327, contains a confirmatory
deed, dated March 9, 1988, reflecting the change in
name of the Naumkeag Trust Co. to Eastern Bank
and Trust Co.
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The inspection was conducted from on top of the roof.
The
roof style on the main part of the house is a gambrel style
and the addition is a gable style.
The pitch is steep on the
main house and of medium pitch on the addition.
The exposed
roof consists of one layer of asphalt shingles.
The
approximate age of the roof is 18+ years.
Flashing material
is a combination of copper and lead. (Pictures 17-20)
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absence of an attic ventilation system in either roof
requires the installation of a continuous soffit and ridge
vent system, which will reduce excessive attic humidity.
There is also evidence of a pre-existing ice damming
problem.
The lower left gabel roof valleys should have been
lined with metal.
The lower rear roof was incorrectly
flashed ta the a~utting wall of the house.
The rear plumbing
vent has been installed on the outside wall which does not
meet building codes.
The vent should ru~ internally and
protrude above the roof a minimum of twelve
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The inspection was conducted from the ground.
There are two
chimneys in the house.
Chimney #1 is located in the center
of the house.
The exterior, flue lini~g and chimney are all
brick and in marginal condition <Pictures 9-12).
The ch irTiney
cap is in need of rebuilding and the flues need to be lined.
All chimney flashings are deteriorating.
Chimney #2 is located on the left side of the house.
The
exterior flue lining and chimney cap are all brick.
While
the exterior is in marginal condition, the flue lining and
chimney cap are in satisfactory condition.
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T he exterior walls, fascias, soffits and trim are all wood.
The cEdar shingle siding is in marginal condition and is
cupping and splitting on most sides cf the house (Pictures 2328).
There is also a layer of clapboard siding under the
shingles.
The trim is in marginal condition.
Paint has been
peeling from all wood surfaces.
Facias and soffits are
rotten as well as all corner boards.
The electrical entrance
cables are in poor condition.
Service cables entering the
house, which are buried on the exterior, show evidence of
rot-ting.
The basement presently does not have vents for
This w6uld have prevented some of the
cross ventilation=
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Of notable significance is the
collapsing of the brick and block foundations on the front
and left side of the house <Pictures 21-28).
QBel~8§~-----------------------------------------------------
Th e gutters are of two types: wood and copper.
They are in
poor condition.
The wooden gutters are rotting and the
copper gutters should have been spaced away from all fascias.
The galvanized downspouts are in marginal condition
exhibiting evidence of splitting.
Grading around the
foundation does not slope away from the house, consequently
allowing water to pond.
To avoid drywell back up proper
drainage is recommended.
Sloping grade away from the
foundation a minimum of 1 inch per foot for 5 feet where ever
possible is necessar~.
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The walks are brick and in marginal condition.
Steps are
stone at the front of house and the rear steps leading up to
the porch are made of wood. The front stair was not flashed
against the sill and as a result the sill has rotted.
The
rear wooden stairs are rotting. The rear patio is brick and
is in marginal condition as well.
Of major concern is the
wood porch structure including~ but not limited to the roof
rafters, the corner post and porch decking (Pictures 25-28).
Floor joists and decking have been severely damaged by wood
rot and wood boring insects <the wood boring insects were
identified as carpenter ants).
In addition~ many slats on
the fence need to be replaced.
QQQB§_~~Q-~I~QQ~§--------------------------------------------
T he exterior window style is double hung, and all are in poor
condition.
Entry doors are not square and window threshholds
are rotting. There are no storm doors located on all exterior
doors.
Some windows are fitted with aluminum combination
storms/screens.
The window sashes are loose in their
casings.
All flashing around windows and door heads are in
poor condition, and the bulkhead is unsafe and should be
rebuilt.
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T he existing full basement structure consists of brick walls,
a concrete floor, wood timber beams~ and a Merrimack brick
chimney arch as a central support.
A crawl space exists
under the addition section of the house.
The brick walls are
in poor condition~ note that the right and rear foundation
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walls are collapsing.
The existing first floor is in
satisfactory condition with the exception of a moisture
barrier which should be added to the crawl space floor.
On
the front and right side, the sills are in poor condition;
evidenced by rot and wood boring insect damage.
The floor
joists are in satisfactory condition with the exception of
the ~ight side, which has been damaged by wood boring
insects.
The left side of the merrimack chimney arch has
settled approximately 6-Sa and the foundation has settled 46• <Pictures 38-45).
The brick support posts are in poor
shape showing signs of deterioration.
There are also signs
of basement flooding. It is interesting to note that the
original house was built on a creek bed which the City filled
and later became known as Crombie Street.
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The entire house is heated by a 15+ year old Waltham oil
burner.
The hydronic <hot water) system is a gravity system
with galvanized and copper piping.· The estimated rated
capacity is 90,000 BTU/HR output.
At the time of inspection
the boiler was not operational.
The pipes, which are covered
with asbestos, have been cut.
The boiler shows a heavy soot
buildup and appears to have frozen over the winter months
which may have damaged the unit beyond repair.
A qualified
heating technician would be required to evaluate the damage.
In general, the heat exchanger test result was marginal, the
flue pipe is in such poor condition, evidenced by rotting,
that all the e x posed pipes should be replaced.
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Th e water source and waste disposal are provided by the City
of Salem.
The water supply pipes are copper and the waste
and vent pipes are a combination of copper, brass and cast
iron.
At the • time of inspection, the plumbing system was
inoperative due to the water being shut off at the main.
Visual inspection provided the following information: all
visible supply, waste and vent pipes are in poor condition.
Th~ water meter has been removed and the main line from the
street is also deteriorating.
Several fittings have blown
due to freezing.
The cast iron waste lines are not correctly
vented and the vent line in the attic has split.
The waste
lines and traps under the sink are also not properly vented.
H~I~B-~~~I~B-------------------------------------------------
T he water heater is a Walthem Everhot tankless system.
The
approximate age of the unit is 15+ years and the tank
capacity is 25 gallons.
At the time of the inspection the
water heater was inoperative.
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T he house is set up with 60 AMP service and the fuse box is
located on the left side of the basement.
The main service
wire is tin coated copper and branch wiring is copper and tin
coated copper.
Fuses provide overload protection and branch
protection.
Branch wiring is a combination of romex cable
and knob and tube.
The system is grounded at water pipes. At
the time of inspection the service was shut off.
It should
be noted that the service is antiquated and should be
upgraded, in particular, the knob and tube wiring should be
replaced with romex.
The service entrance cable is also
deteriorated and should be upgraded and replaced.
Additional
receptacles are needed throughout the house to serve todays
needs.
In general~ wiring at the main box and throughout the
house is in marginal condition.
Grounding, bushings, knock
out plugs, and fuses are in satisfacotry condition <Picture
40).
l~IgB1QB_BQQ~§~_§g~gB~h-1~E2B~eil2~-------------------------wa 11 s and ceilings in the house are dry wall and plaster. The
floors are either hardwood or vinyl.
Hydronic radiators heat
the house and there is no cooling system.
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The general structure of the kitchen is not squared and the
floor is not level.
At the time of the inspection there was
no running water or electricity.
Electrical circuits are
very limited.
The sink basin is in satisfactory condition,
as are the cabinets and countertops with the exception that
they were not fitted properly when they were installated.
The walls, ceiling! floor, and electrical switches, outlets
and fixtures are all in marginal condition.
A room heater is
located on the inside wall. <Picture 29)
ti~bb~~y§_~~Q-~~IBl~§-----------------------------------------
T he house has two stair wells: one runs off the kitchen up to
the second floor bathroom and is meant for secondary use, the
front stair starts at the front door and runs up to the third
floor with three winders at the top.
The front stair well is
in satisfactory condition and the rear stair well is
considered marginal because cf the steepness of the risers.
Walls and ceilings are in satisfactory condition, but the
plaster finish was loosened in the front stair well due to
water damage.
Electrical switches, outlets and fixtures were
inoperative at the time of inspection.
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The walls and ceiling are satisfactory, although the ceiling
does sag due to the settlement in the foundation.
The
hardwood floor is in satisfactory condition, but it is also
not level.
Electrical outlets are in poor to marginal
condition and are limited.
The windows are marginal with
excessive peeling of paint.
The doors are also marginal and
are not square.
The fireplace is in marginal condition and
in need of flue lining.
The room is heated with a radiator
located on the inside wall. <Picture 30)
Ql~l~§_BQQ~--------------------------------------------------
The walls, ceiling and floor are in marginal condition.
The
ceiling sags and the structure has settled to the left.
Electrical outlets and fixtures are in poor condition and
receptacles are limited.
All windows stick and need
adjusting.
The fireplace is in marginal condition and the
chimney flue is in need of lining.
The room is heated by a
radiator located on the inside wall.
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The floor, walls and ceiling are in satisfactory condition
but the floor and ceiling sag.
The windows stick and need
adjusting.
Receptacles are inoperative and limited.
The
room heat is heated by a radiator located on an inside wall.
(Picture 32)
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The walls and ceiling are in marginal condition.
The plaster
is cracking and the ceiling is sagging.
The floor is in
marginal condition and not level.
There are no electrical
outlets! fixtures or switches.
The door is not square and
the windows need to be adjusted.
The fireplace is also in
marginal condition and the flue is not lined.
The room is
heated by a radiator located on an inside wall.
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The walls and the ceiling are in marginal condition.
The
plaster has cracked in various places.
Electrical outlets
and fixtures are inoperative and the ones that exist are
limited.
The windows and doors are also in marginal
conu1~1on.
The room is heated by a radiator located on the
inside wall.
The fireplace is in marginal to poor
condition.
The hearth needs rebuilding and the flue needs to
be lined.
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Ba th rooms are located on the second and third floor.
Neither
was operative at the time of inspection since the water and
electricity has been shut off at their respective mains.
All
bathroom fixtures are in marginal condition.
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T he attic was observed through the hatch.
It is insulated
with batt fiberglass, 3 1/2 thick, with an approximate •R•
value of 11.
The framing and sheathing are considered to be
in satisfactory condition. The insulation and ventilation
systems are in poor condition.
There is no side wall
insulation and what insulation exists was installed upside
down.
The chimneys and flues are in marginal condition.
The
left chimney is in need of repair and there is evidence of
leakage at the chimney flashings.
The roof is in need of
soffit and ridge venting.
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ESTIMATE OF REPAIR
1st Floor
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
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608 SF
608 SF
512 SF
Roof Flashing
Gutter
Ventilation
Plumbing Vents & Built-in
Chimney Flue Linings
Chimney Caps
Replace Fascia & Soffits
Trim Boards
Windows
Trim Boards - Doors
Trim Boards - Corners
Basement Vents
Service Entrance
Wet Rot Wood Sills
Grading Around House
Repair Brick Patio
Repair Brick Walks
Rebuild Porch <include foundation)
Insect Extermination
Fense Repair/Reelace
Window Replacement/Repair
Door Replacement/Repair
Bulk-head Replacement
Wall and Roof Insulation
Repair and Stabilize Foundation
Replace Brick Support Posts
Replace Boiler
Repair Plumbing <Heat)
Repair Water Piping
Replace Vent Piping
Replace Water Heater and Piping
Upgrade Electical Service
Additional Outlets/Code
Review per Code
Kitchen Fi>:tures
Repair Walls/Ceiling-Kitchen
Stairs/Halls-Patch and Plaster
Living Room-Repair Walls/Ceiling
Replace Wood Trim
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800
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2,400
1,800
600
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800
3'!'800
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Repair Brick Walks
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Insect Extermination
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Window Replacement/Repair
Door Replacement/Repair
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Additional Outlets/Code
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Kitchen Fi >:tures
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Stairs/Halls-Patch and Plaster
Living Room-Repair Walls/Ceiling
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1,600
81210
1,500
1, 200
4,000
71210
2,400
1,81210
60121
1! 01210
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800
3!800
3,01210
1,81210
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16,500
500
500
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2,40121
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2,00121
3,500
2,500
3,01210
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1,600
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All Bedrooms-Repair Walls/Ceilings
All Floor Sanding
Repair Fireplace
Floor Sanding and Refinish
All Bathrooms-Reapir Walls/Ceilings
Fixture Replacement
Tile Work - Floor
Lead Paint/Asbestos Removal
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800
2,000
500
300
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1, 20121
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to block razing of
Croinhie St. house
By ANDREW BRENGLE
Neighbors are worried about the future of this. 18th-century house on Crombie Street in
Salem. ·
The Salem Ne.rs/Jonathon M. Whitmore
News Staff
SALEM - Concern for the future of a small, 18th
century house on Crombie Street, next door to Joe's
Auto Laundry, has neighbors pledging to fight any
effort to knock it down.
The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Co., located
nearby on Norman Street, bought the house six
months ago. Crombie Street residents, sensitive to
rumors that the company will ra'ze the house, say the
three-story dark-brown, shingled structure should
be preserved for its historic value.
The house was built in 1783, according to city records, and was moved from Chestnut Street to its
present location in 1830. Frances H. Wendt, its former long-till)e owner, now lives in :Manchester:
The house is not an official historic monument ·
and the street has no standing as part of the city's
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Historic District. However, the
street has been recognized by the
National Register of Historic
Places because of its status as one
of the last primarily residential
streets in downtown Salem.
"I'm worried about the house"
said Ruth Wall of 13 Crombie s't.
"We want to keep what's left of
the neighborhood. Everybody
knows each other here."
Replying to a rumor that the insurance company will replace the
building with parking spaces,
Hoiyoke Vice President Patrick
Grieco said, "At this stage of the
game, I'd say it's not true. We are
just starting to investigate our
different options."
Grieco said it was premature to
say what the company will do
with the house, but added "at this
point we can't rule anything out."
Other options include using the
house as office space or remodeling it and selling it, he said.
Grieco said the company does
not need more parking space because it already owns the auto
laundry parking lot across the
street and has a two-level garage
underneath its own building.
But 15 Crombie St. resident
Frank Montesi disagreed.
"This is just another little block
for them," Montesi said. "They
get enough land, and they can
build another building. It
wouldn't surprise me if they put a
parking garage in its place."
Montesi, a contractor who lives
across the street, said he put a
$75,000 bid do\>;n on the six-room
house.-He wanted to refutbish it.
Holyoke, he said, paid $168,000.
The house has structural rot,
needs a new heating system and
new windows, Montesi said.
The city's opinion is that the
house should stay.
"I'd hate to see anything torn
down," said Mayor Anthony V.
Salvo. "This street was full of historic· homes, but many of therrl.
were torn down during the days
of urban renewal."
City Planner Gerard Kavanaugh said his department was
researching the history of the
house to determine its significance. If the house is to be demolished, Holyoke must go before
the Historical Commission for a
review.
The commission, under the demolition delay ordinance, has six
months to make a ruling. However, it cannot prevent demolition ifit cannot prove the house is
historically significant.
Historical Commission chair·woman Annie Harris said the
house has significance despite its
size.
"It's important in its location,"
she said. "It is in the only really
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residential portion of the street.
One of Salem's most important
assets is its old houses. And that
includes its smaller houses, not
just the large ones on Chestnut
Street."
The owner of Joe's Auto Laundry did not share the sentiment.
"It's not a historic building,"
said Joseph Palamara. "It's a
barn from Chestnut Street. Mrs.
Wendt triE:d to get a plaque for it
and couldn't."
He said residents should tend
to their own homes and stop prying into others' business. Palamara said the insurance company
did well to keep the Crombie
street area clean and well-maintained.
"You look at some of these
other places and they're a mess,"
he said. "I've been in this city 53
years and it's the same people
squawking about the same
things."
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SALEM - The Historical Commission and the Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co. are locked in a battle over an old house on Crombie
Street which the company wants
to tear down for parking spaces
and the commission wants to preserve.
The Historical Commission
voted unanimously Wednesday
night an.er a three-hour hearing
to recommend against granting a
waiver of the delay ordinance for
demolition. requested by Holyoke. The commission can only
delay demolition of the house for
six months. The Salem Redevelopment Authority will make the
decision whether it can be torn
down.
Commission members and Holyoke representatives could agree
on Ii ttle about the house including its age and its ·structural
soundness. Commission members
contended it was structurally fine
and maybe 220 years old while
the company said it was 160 years
old, falling down and of no historical importance.
Most of the neighbors on Crombie Street also opposed the demolition of the house, which abuts
Joe's Auto Laundry, also owned
by the insurance company. Holyoke is located across Norman
Street from Joe's Auto Laundry.
Among the groups in favor of
preserving the single family gam-
This is a 'histori'We intend to press
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Anne Farnham,
William J. Lundregan,
Essex Institute
Holyoke attorney
brel house are Historic Salem
Inc. and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Anne Farnham, on behalf of
the Essex Institute, said the
house is a "historically significant
building" which is important to
preserve. She noted it was part of
the historic register.
Attorney William J. Lundregan, representing Holyoke, said
the company originally wanted to
turn the building into a conference center but it was in such
poor shape that rehabilitation
costs were too high.
"We intend to press ahead to
tear the house down," Lundregan
said.
Lundregan denied charges
from opponents that the company, which employes 200 people,
was threatening to leave the city
if it didn't get its way.
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The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company and the city's Hlatorlcal Commlulon disagree over the age and
significance of this old gambrel home on Crombie Str&et and neighbors say the company's plans to
demolish the structure for a parking lot will ~ one more damaging blow to this downtown residential
strHI which la a National Reglste~ district. View la looking north toward Essex Stret1l Out of view at Jen Is
former Joe's Auto Laundry property at comer of Crombie and Norman streets.
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th~""b:lidi~~" d~~;:;.a•~~ '~u•;'o;~~) ate plans to develop it.
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He detailed the company's 140
year commitment to downtown
Salem. He said the company looks
at nearby properties when they
come up for sale if it abuts their
property. Holyoke bought the
house for $169,000 four years ago.
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Commission members and others tried to determine whether
the company had any more plans
for the house Jot. Lundregan said
"We"d like to find out the company's strategic plans without
any of the threats to leave the
ity," said David Pelletier, a
rombie Street resident.
already considered it.
Frank Montesi of 15 Crombie
SL said it is another case of a corporation "bowling over" a Salem
neighborhood. He said only four
homes will be Jen on the street
which was once filled with homes.
Stephanie Montesi said CromBoard of Appeal member Jane bie Street was the last residential
Stirgwolt suggested that since the street downtown, according to
company had no immediate plans the Historic Register.
for the lot that it lease the house
'Tm really frustrated about
until it works out plans. Board
this
members agreed that it was an said. back door appr_oach." she
option Holyoke should consider.
Lundregan said the company had
Commission member Russell
Slam said the demolition of the
house would be a tragedy.
"The neighborhood has been
under seige for the past 10 years.
This neighborhood is being nickel
and dimed out of existence,"
Slam said.
Commission Chairwoman Annie C. Harris said tearing down
the house will only provide a few
parking. spaces. She mentioned
other city plans to increase parking nearby. She said the property
is listed under the Crombie
Street National Register District.
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abandoned jail and a condemned
factory all made the first Most ·Endangered· Historic Resource List
selected by Historic Salem Inc.
The eight historic sites in bad
shape and ill need of private or
public assi~tance were jointly announced by HSI, a local preservation group, and by Mayor Stanley
Usovicz.
. The Salem Jail complex topped
the list of endangered properties.
It also was first on a list published by Historic Massachusetts
·Inc.
There were a few surprises,
most notably a cluster of old city
cemeteries.
HSI said it assembled this list
in the hope people would stop and
think before demolishing old
buildings, or act now to save
property that is deteriorating.
"Our objective is to ensure that
Salem's heritage is not lost, while
helping.with the economic revitalization of Salem," Meg
Twohey, president of Historic
Salem Inc., said in a prepared
statement.
"What puts (Salem) on the map
is the incredible collection of historic structures and the history of
the city, ... " said Tim Jenkins, cochairman of HSI's preservation
committee. "We cannot allow
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Although HSI has been discussing this project for years, it
was the loss of a city landmark,
the Salem Armory wall, that
helped spur the preservation
group into action: HSI went to
court last spring in an unsuccessful attempt to block the
Peabody Essex Museum from
taking down the remainilig facade
of the 1908 Armory.
"It delinite)y inspired us," said
Jenkins.
The Most Endangered Historic
Resom·ce List includes several
buildings the city or others m·c
working to save. A few properties
were the focus of public attention
in recent weeks. HSI applauded
those efforts.
For example, HSI put the downtown retail district on its list, and
cited the Daniel Low building, 227·
231 Essex St., as the "poster child
for the decline of Salem's retail
shopping district." Since the list ,
was selected, a buyer has been
found for the 1826 building, which
is Urn former meetinghouse of U1e
First Church.
The old police station on
Chm·ter Street, which has been vacant for seven years, also made
the list. Just days ago, the Salem
Redevelopment Authority desig·
nated a developer for the 1913
building.
The state also has come to the
city's aid on qne of these endangered sites. Jn)·esponse .to a re·
quest from the Usovicz administration, U1e Massachusetts Historical Commission awarded a
$76,000 grant to stabilize the jail
lceeper's house at Salem Jail,
which was badly damaged in a
fire last year. Usovicz also has set
up a committee to look into the fu·
tm·e use of the jail site.
· Its aim in creating this list, HSI
said, is not "to point an ac·
cusatory finger," but to encourage
city officials, residents, bush.iesses
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HSI put together its list after
seeking nominations from the ·
public.
John Goff, HSI's director, said
the list is both a warning and a
call for help.
"It's kind oflike a traffic light
blinking yellow," he said. "The.
time is running out."
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turn a phone call.
Hoping to resume discussion of
the issue, Ward 3 Councilor Joan
SALEM - To some, it's just a Lovely has submitted a council
small house at the end of a small order to hold a meeting sometime
downtown street. But to others, this winter. Neighbors are anxious
the brown clapboard home at 18 to see something positive happen
Crombie St. is the center of a at the house, she said.
"HSI feels it has value, as do the
decade-long controversy. .
The home, built in the mid-18th neighbors," Lovely said. "It's a ·
century, has an impressive !in· house that is boarded up and sitting vacant. It certainly doesn't
eage.
"There is a very rich history to add any value to the homes. It
the house," said John Goff, execu- takes away value."
tive director of Historic Salem Inc.
Jenkins can show off a thick
Many residents were happy folder full of his research on the
when Holyoke Square Inc., a sub· house. It was actually built somesidiary of Holyoke Mutual Insur- where near Chestnut Street,.then
nce Co., bought it for less than moved to its current location a
'00,000 in 1988. But then Hoiyoke hundred years later, fn the mid-<ltennined that renovating the va- 1700s. The area was one of the origcant house for another use would inal neighborhoods of Salem, and
the house miraculously survived
be too expensive.
The company asked the city for the great fire in 1914.
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pennission to demolish it to make
early Salem - first period Salem,"
way for eight parking spaces.
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Preservationists rallied to pro- Jenkins said.
Historic Salem Inc. hopes to save this house at 18 Crombie St.
One owner of the English Geor·
tect the house, which was built in
the mid-18th century. The city gian-style house, William Pike, was from being demolished.
found Holyoke did not have sum- a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"I think (Hawthorne) used to
cient grounds to demolish it,
sending the dispute into court, visit there almost daily," Jenkins
where the city prevailed.
said.
Then, in 1845, a blac]{ man from
But some fear the little house
has won only a stay of execution. South Carolina, Leonard Jefferson,
Four years, it has been boarded who may have been a freed slave,
tip. Neighbors and preservation- bought the house. He became a
ists complain it has become sexton at the First Church, but died
shabby. They believe ·Holyoke is within a year. The house passed to
trying fo demolish the building by his wife, Rufina, who lived there
neglect.
and rented out rooms for 40 years.
"It's a lot of money to spend on a
"A whole interesting cast of
property to let it go to waste in characters rented out rooms from
order to get permission to de- ·her," Jenkins said.
molish it," said Tim Jenkins, who
Holyoke bought the house from
has researched the house for His- a subsequent owner. ,Jenkins wontoric Salem.
ders whether Holyoke can reno·
Yet, when a building inspector vate the house or sell it to some·
~ecently entered the home, he
body who will. Perhaps the house
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~tural shape. That means the
he added.
standoff could go on for some time.
"Maybe now is the perfect time A large vacant building on Goodhue Street.
A Holyoke representative re- for them to cut their losses,"
ferred comment, this week, to the Jenkins said. "I think it's been
company's lawyer, who did not re- going on for too long."
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
�86 Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The Evening News, Salem, Mass. ·
Preserving the
character of
downtown Salem
Two recent developments threaten to alter the character of
downtown Salem, and not for the better. Fortunately, neither will
take place without a fight.
• The Licensing Board last week turned down an Essex Street
businessman's request to keep five arcade-style games in his store.
He's threatened to take the issue to court, and may have precede,nt
on his side given the fact there all manner of arcade games at the
Salem Willows and the board had previously authorized a smaller
number downtown when a movie chain made that a condition of
its opening a theater at the Museum Place mall.
The theater has since learned to survive without the games,
however, and most would agree it has helped improve the atmosphere but within and outside the mall. In fact, a video arcade is
probably the last thing U1C downtown area needs right now as it
struggles to attract new visitors.
"I don't think this is ... the direction we want to go in," Ward 3
Cow1cilor Joan Lovely told the board, and she's right. While the
honky-ton~< element asserts itself every Halloween, one would just
as soon limit it to that one month. For the city's central business
district needs to reestablish itself as a year 'round destination, not
only for tourists, but for residents of the North Shore who might
be lured by its restaurants, cultural institutions and other activi~
ties.
So long as the Licensing Board retains the legal authority over
the placement of video games, it ought to exercise that power to
keep them away from downtown.
• Just around the corner, on Crombie Street, there's concern
about the deteriorating stq.te of a 150~year-old dwelling owned by
the Holyoke Mutual Instu-ance Co.
The insurance company, located across the street, purchased the
home in 1988 and planned to a parking lot. When Urnt plan en·
countered opposition (our position then was that demolition
should only be allowed if Holyoke planned to put another structme on the site), they simply boarded up the building and let it sit
there.
Now neighbors and Historic Salem Inc. fear there's a purpose
behind Holyoke's allowing the place to deteriorate: At some point
there might not be any choice but to take it down. But there are a
bunch of people, including the ward councilor, who arc determined they arc not going to let that happen.
A short, unassuming little lane, Crombie Street offers a glimpse
of what downtown Salem looked like back in the 19th century
when residents live cheek by jowl with churches and businesses.
The house at 18 Crombie Street is an. important part of this
streetscape which ought to be preserved.
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SALEM - The city is looking at
ways to save a historic, 18th century home from the clutches of
what neighbors say is a neglectful
owner before the house has to be
demolished for safety reasons.
It's a scenario that has played
out several times in Salem's colorful history, yet perhaps never
has it involved one o~ the city's
18 Crombie St. In Salem
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Yesterday, members ofa City-''.crombie St., which has been vaCouncil committee met with a· }:ant for some 12 years.
dozen historic preservationists> ?//'They're such hypocrites," said
and neighbors who want Holyoke ·. R'Uih Wall of 13 Crombie St., alMutual Insurance Co. to sell the· · luding to the company's efforts to
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Jenkins said the company's acpromote itself as a good T)eighbor wrangling took several years. The
in Salem. "It's a sham.''. · .·,: ·
company's appeal was only dis- tions contradict its mission. It sells
home insurance, but is letting a
.. The home has had intriguing mi.Ssed this summer.
history. Its owners iii.cIUded a
Meanwhile, neighbors complain historic home fall apart until it befriend of Nathaniel HaWthorne and. the home gets shabbier and shab- comes unsafe.
a freed slave who.becaine. a'sexton bier while the company has no David Pelletier of 12 Crombie St.
said the home has deteriorated
at the First Church and whose wife plans for it
later ran it as a rooming house.
"Day by day, week by week, and since Holyoke bought it. Its loss
· It also is one of only a few homes Holyoke doesn't really want to do would be a blow. "We are not a city
tosurvi.veinoneofthecity'soldest anything," City Solicitor John that ma.i:es postcards out of parking
residential neighborhoods.
Keenan said.
lots," Pelletier said.
The meeting was held at the
.A.side from its historic value, the
Despite its looks, said Building
vacant house could be filled with a Inspector Peter Strout, the home is urging of Council President Joan
new family and brighten ,lip~ a. ~. \3.Ctuajly in goqd st:pictural condi- Lovely, who heard neighbors' comtion of Crombie Street: The"lfom~ tion.'!t"lh1ot dangerous~ Holyoke plaints about the situation when
is located across from-th~ City's requesfs the. city inspect it twice a she campaigned for her seat three
homeless shelter. For years ifnas ye&,;;·~·, , . · ·
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been boarded up.
' .' ' .. ' "It'$)l0 mote dangerous than a
At the end of the night, the Com·
· "These neighbors are being held hm.ise· thit's)eft empty during the mittee on Government Services
lie::cage to a large corporation," Said day,'' Strout Sa.id."' .. ; At this PQint, voted to recommend city staff to exMeg 'I\vohey of Historic Salem Inc. I se'e.it being in this same struc- plore three suggestions: Ward 5
. Right now, Holyoke and the city tural condition for the next 5-to-10 Councilor Kim Driscoll said a nuiare locked into a stalemate. The years."
sance ordinance could be used to
company can't knock the house
However, many say the house is prompt repairs; Jenkins said the
do1m. But city officials believe the an eyesore. The paint is peeling and Salem Redevelopment Authority
company has a long-term plan to the yard is overgrovm. And in the could order restoration of the
demolish it by neglect, meaning pa.st, neighbors have complained of home; and Ward 2 Councilor Scott
the house will be allowed to fall people sleeping in the yard.
Lacava asked for a cost-benefit
apart until the city has to step in
News the stalemate could go on analysis of the city acquiring the
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and order it made safe or knocked for a decade left some city coun- property.
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1'11988, the company bought the Jenkins of HSI said the historic mendation, but Lacava wanted to
home with the intention of turning preservation group wants to work talk about taking the property by
it Llto a conference center. Its of- with Holyoke to find a solution for eminent domain, and then selling it
fices are a block away. But the price the home, but has so far been re- to a family.
of renovations turned out to be too buffed.
Keenan agreed to look into the
high, so the company pitched a
"For the sake of four parking matters, but he did not give the
pla.11 to knock it down and replace spaces, we'll lose a significant part councilor$ much hope.
it l'.ith parking spaces.
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of this city's history," Jenkins said.
"We can't force someone to spend
··But the building inspector and " ... Everyone who has contacted money on their property if they
Salem Redeve~opment Authority Holyoke has seemingly gotten don't want to," he said. And
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- rd, who leaptto his
feet and said I\\
..vlutely right, but
perhaps he could rephrase my explanation
in a way that was easier to understand. So
Andy went to a microphone and outlined
the whole thing, while I nodded in agreement, or whatever, all the while thinking,
n0110r rny 08bt by just wrni11g this admiring colwnn.
Thanks, Andy, for the support 20 years
ago, and for helping run the country now.
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still executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation.
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Holyoke action threatens company's place in Salem's history
part of a chain gas station that can be found
Since 1843, the Holyoke Insurance Comanywhere.
Why is Salem's historic
pany has been led by only nine visionaries in·
It is my opinion that this corner could do
eluding its current president. They include
well with five more houses like the one at 18
fabric under siege b;·
John Williams, Augustus Story, Thomas
Crombie and one less generic g(!S station, esinstitutions that should
.. petially-siflce it is located directly across from
Johnson, Alfred Abbot, Charles Price, Walter
Harris, Carlos Faunce, Nelson Knowlton, Ray·
Salem's most historic residential street.
·
know better?
mond Morrison, and now, Douglas Ryder of
It is .indeed unfortunate that the 10th and
Marblehead.
current president of Holyoke is trying to
Holyoke has been a strong builder in Salem.
create a situation where the 11th and 12th and
First of office buildings for itself and then of
Even the former Essex Institute director, future Holyoke presidents will never see Ulis
homes and businesses to replace those de- the late Anne Farnham, spoke on behalf of authentic complement to their company's
stroyed in the 1914 fire.
saving this house, acknowledging that it is long and distinguished history. That is, if the
Recently, we have had to meet with mem- "historically significant" apd has been part of company actually remains here and doesn't
bers of the Salem City Council, not to discuss the historic register since 1983, long before disappear like Sylvania and Parker Brothers
something that Holyoke wants to add to . Holyoke purchased it.
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did once they came under external influence,
Salem; but something it wants to take away.
Why is Salem's historic fabric under siege as Holyoke has recently.
I have observed this neighborhood busi- by institutions that should know better?
Salem's leadership should do whatever is
ness' attempts to let a 230-year-old, little, Holyoke wants to sacrifice this irreplaceable within its means, including using the power of
brown house at 18 Crombie Street deteriorate piece of Salem's historical context so it can eminent domain, to encourage Holyoke to befor the past 14 years. It did not look the way it create four more rental parking spaces. ·It will come a better citizen in regards to this matter.
does today when Holyoke bought it for speak volmnes about our paucicy of character We can forgive them for tearing down Samuel
: $169,000 to allegedly turn into a "conference as a historic city if our leaders allow this to Mcintyre's historic residence at 31 Summer
center." It was in "move-in" condition back happen. It will be one more step in the \\Tang Street in order to build their addition in the
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direction.
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1970s; but now that we all should know better,
}nfact its attomey,(and until recently, City
Will our heritage eventually consist of post- there is no excuse for their current behavior.
solicitor) was reported to have said at a His- cards of parking lots?
. · And if they eventually follow the path of
toric Commission meeting in the Nov. 8, 1990
Holyoke can make history, instead of de· · Pa,rker Brothers and Sylvania out of town;
Salem News that "the company would let the stroying it, by doing the right thing and selling · then at least we will still have that little,
building decay to a point where city official(s) this property to someone who will preserve it brown house at 18 Crombie Street to serve as
would be forced to tear it down." And that is and return it to its rightful place as a witness to a reminder of the positive things that Holyoke
exactly what our neighbor has done for the Salem's and Holyoke's long history together.
once stood for in Salem.
pa.st 11 years.
It is a shame that we never got :;krio\v numDavld Pelletier
·· If you did that to your house and_ Holyoke bers 20 and 22 Crombie Street, as well as.numSalem
supplied your homeowrier's policy, they. bers 30, 32, 34 and 36 Norman Street. They
(Editor's note: David Pelletier is a longtime
would probably cancel it.
were all demolished and their lots are now resident of Crombie Street.)
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historic home" (Salem Evening ~>_;"';x. \O'J'.'<.
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that you concluded "the house at .
for 18 Crombie Street is an important
m- part of this streetscape which
ought to be preserved" (Editorial,
Dec. 19, 2000).
When the local building inspector says he sees no reason to
destroy a perfectly good antique
house - and common sense also
suggests it can be repaired and relevs to red - one wonders why
Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company of Salem believes this "Most
Endangered Historic Resource"
new must be demolished.
I believe there is a simple expla:8
nation for Holyoke's stance. They
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were seriously misled by a local
y
"consultant" who proposed that
"there is no redeeming historic 18 Crombie Street, Salem
.·ovi- value associated with the tenancy
or the residence per se" in an Salem. He was a personal friend of
1ts."
overview study prepared in 1990. U.S. President Franklin Pierce and
1 not This "consultant" further proposed of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Salem's
of
that "during the entire 160-year most famous author.
history of 18 Crombie Street's exisDr. Cate was a distinguished,
mitence, there has not been a major 19th-century Salem physician, and
an
historically significant tenancy."
a founder of the Swedenborgian
Through a simple matter of bad Church in Salem.
y
scholarship, Holyoke Insurance
Prince Farmer and the Jcfferabout
was led over 10 years ago to cate- sons arc particularly important to
gorically dismiss a number of his- remember while we celebrate JanJistorical associations which poten- uary as Black History Month here
oring·
tially make this properly individu- in America.
ally eligible for listing on the NaPrince Farmer was one of
JUSing tional Register of Historic Places.
Salem's early Blacks who was re.thigh
I refer of course to the property's cently recognized in the Salem Afroearly ownership by foe First Amcr ican Heritage 'l'rail booklet
jects
Church of Salem; its early owner- published by the National Park Sercan
ship by Samuel Curwen, the famed vice. A cook aboard the ship George,
te inSalem Loyalist who built the and an oyster retailer at Old 'I'own
by veBowditch House; its early associa- Hall, Mr. Farmer was on the
nter in
tions with Benjamin Crombie who building committee of Salem's first
ran the Sign of the Ship· tavern at chtU·ch erected for blacks, and was
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the head of Crombie Street; as well a close associate of many 19th-cene.
.-edingly as its important early occupancies tury abolitionists, including the
and associations with Prince famed Remands of Salem.
tonomy Farmer, William B. Pike, Dr.
The Jelfcrsons were also strong
ve
Shadrach M. Cate, and Leonard J. advocates for civil rights and blacl<
ould be and Rufina M. Jefferson.
equality in Salem's fo1111ative years.
William Pike's portrait hangs in They were probably "conductors"
the Peabody-Essex Museum; he is or associates on the "shoreline"
. comes
best remembered as a U.S. customs branch of the Underground Rail~
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these facts, I refer you to the Essex
County Regish-y of Deeds, and to a
20-pagc report which I prepared on
18 Crombie Street in July 1990,.
which was reproduced as "Attachment A" in U1c 19W overview. This
document has been public record
since Holyoke applied to the city
for permission to raze the house.
Additional supporting material on
Salem's black history was compiled
by the National Park Service, and
information on the Salem Underground Railroad was compiled by
the late Miss Eleanor Broadhead.
The facts speak very well for
themselves. This lovely little
building is a unique and most important Salem historic landmark,
which should be repaired and restored immediately upon its ancient site to improve its blighted
neighborhood and downtown
Salem. Thank you for supporting
us in these recognitions.
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Nonprofits want tO save house.
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
SALEM - The historic but
crumbling home at 18 Crombie St.
could have a new savior.
Historic Salem Inc. and Salem
Harbor CDC are talking of teaming
up to buy the house and renovate
it for a family. But as with other
chapters in the house's saga, the
plans may never get off the ground.
The company that owns the
house, Holyoke Square Inc., may ·
have no intention of selling it.
. "Al this stage, I understand
there's been no change in Holyoke's
position," said Tim Jenkins, a
member or HSI who h:1s researched
U1e home's past.
The Wendt House \Vas built in
1783 and moved to its Crombie
Street location in 1830. The small,
brown clapboard house is part of
one of the smallest, but oldest, 18 Crombie Street
neighborhoods in Salem. It mirac'
ulously survived the fire of 1914.
knock it down to make eight under the right terms it could be .
Several months ago, neighbors parking spaces, but the city has restored, and reused, ideally as ·a
residential property. But there;~
and members of HSI brought U1eir blocked the company.
concerns to the City Council. The
Now, neighbors and HSI fear the might be some other alternatives,'."·
home has lx!en vacant since Holyoke company is waiting tmtil the home
Jim Haskell, executive director,,
bought it in 1008, and its appearance crumbles to such an extent that of Salem Harbor CDC, said he has!",
has become shabbier and shabbier.
the city has no choice but to allow met with HSI and neighbors. Th~-.
Holyoke initially wanted to ren- its demolition for safely reasons.
nonprofit is the city's biggest lanr.I::;
"We think it's an important his- lord, and has renovated simila,r:•
ovate the home as a conference
center, but balked when the price torical house, wiU1 a great history prope'rties for first-time home;
tag rose too high. Then it sought to . to it," Jenkins said. "We hope that buyers.
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Neighbors rally around· an abandoned historic house
h,__ ...man of Salem. Grandpar~s
are Robert MacDonald of DaiWers
and Mildred Kaalman of Ij'aisy
Hill, Bolton, England.
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Peterson - Born at Salenl Hospital April 26, a daughter, ~asey
El lzabeth, to Keith Peterson and
Michelle Perrv of Salem. <hand·
parents are ?i.1axine Phili\ps of
Lady Lake, Fla., Edwin Pet'erson
1II of Nahant, and l\1r. anCi Mrs.
Garland Perry of Salem. Greatgrandparents are Mr. and :tv1rs.
Edwin Peterson jr. of Nahant.
Klein - Born ?.t La\vTence Gi:n·
eral Hospital AFU 27, a daughter,
Janel Faith, to :folly and Chris
Klein of Lawre:~.ce. Janel is wel·
corned home by r.er sister, Alexis
Leigh. Grandpar~nts are Sharon
Hoyt of Lawrence, Sheree Klein
and Steve Dohm::. both of Salem.
Meimeteas - Born at Salem
Hospital April 2i, a daughter,
Marla, to Angelo a:-td Amy ~·1eime
teas of Salem. G~andparents are
Christos and ?vl:;~ia n-1eimeteas,
and Esther ~e\\'tC ::, all of Salem.
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
SALEM - Here's what's going on
in Salem neighborhoods this week:
Crombie Street
Big things are happening on
Crombie Street.
A group of neighbors at~e orga·
nizing because of their frustration
with Holyoke Mutual Insurance,
the company that owns the aban:
doned house at 18 Crombie St.
A dozen neighbors went to the
property on Sunday - in honor of
the citywide cleanup - and filled 30
trash bags of weeds, litter and
leaves. They also painted the boards
that cover the windows and doors.
The property, known as the
Wendt House, was built in 1783 and
was moved to Crombie Street in
1830, mirac.ulously surviving the
fire ofl914. In 19>1...3, Holyoke bought
the house to renovate it into a con·
ference center, then changed its
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Topics include the recent change
fused to comment on what hap·
pened next, but one neighbor claims in street lighting by Massachusetts
Ryder called the group "vandals."
Electric, the number of cars stored
"For whatever reason he's not at the auto sales companies on
happy getting free labor for re· Bridge Street, and planning for the
pairing a property he O\Vns," said neighborhoodwide yard sale set
Tim Jenkins, a resident who is in· for Saturday, May 19. All neigh·
terested in preserving the house.
bors are asked to help out.
Outside the house, neighbors
In addition, Ray Shea of the
found bottles and evidence that Salem Citizens Alliance will spt>..a.'\.:
homeless people were on the about the group's effort to gather
property. While they are critical enough signatures to put a quesof the company, they still want to tion asking if residents want to
work with it.
fonn a Charter Review Committee
"We wanted everybody, in· on l\ovember's ballot.
eluding Holyoke, to be proud of
Ultimately, the committee can
our neighborhood that we all live recommend any number of changes
in," said neighbor David Pelletier. to the City Charter, though the
mind. Then it sought to demolish it "And the only people that seemed group only wants one: the elimina·
for parking spaces, but was blocked to appreciate (the house) were the tion of the elected mayor in favor of
by the city. Since then, a standoff dogs who were using it on a reg· a city manager appointed by the
has endured.
ular basis. It was getting unsani- City Council.
:.;eighbors want to save the tary even for dogs."
South Salem
house and fear the company is
Sick of looking at an eyesore,
The South Salem Neighborhood
waiting for it to deteriorate until Jenkins said, neighbors had to Association meets tonight at 7 p.m.
the city allows it to be razed for take matters into their own hands. at the Saltonstall School. Salem
safety reasons.
"This is not how you treat your State College President Nancy Har·
"We have no active olan under neighbors," Jenkins said of the rington will discuss the college's
way for the moment,'i said Dou· company." ... I wouldn't want to be plans for a 450-student dorm, and
glas Ryder, president of Holyoke a property casualty insurance Superintendent Herb Levine and
Mutual Insurance, yesterday. "Ob- company insuring people's homes Mayor Stanley Usovicz will talk
viously, they can't do anything that doesn't know how to take care about nlans for a new Horace
with it unless we're interested in of its own property." .
Mann s·chool.
selling it. At the present time,
Federal Street
Both projects would be built at
we're showing no interest."
The Federal Street Neighbor· the same site, the 37-acre former
Ryder happened to be driving by hood Association meets Tuesday, Sylvania plant on Loring Avenue,
the house on Sunday when he saw May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cotting- which is O\rned by the college.
the neighbors in the yard without
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Boxford ..................~........._............................. A6 Comlcs .............................................................C5
Danvers .............................................A12, A13 Dear Abby ......................................................C4
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way >Moi
,;to tax the poor
Will a 50-cent increase in the cigarette tax cause people to give
up smoking? Senate President Thomas Birmingham better hope
'~ not, and Uie same goes for U1e 35,000 Bay State residents whose ac:. cess to health care will depend on the revenues it generates.
:·1 As the number of people using tobacco decreases - and it
· should;, as people go out of state to avoid what will be fue highest' in-the nation tax - and they will; Uie revenues generated by this
' "sin" tax will disappear. And fuen what?
' Do we stop the subsidization of health insurance costs for those
in need and aid to hospitals that this particular tax increase is
, supposed to fund?
., Both a.re worthwhile endeavors U1at ought to be supported by
·~ more progressive taxes like those based on income and purchases.
, Should this increase pass over the objections of acting Gov. Jane
~.. Swift and 0U1ers, Massachusetts can probably Jay claim to be a na.. tiona.l leader in taxing to the max those who, as a class, can afford
it U1e least - people who play the lottery and people who smoke.
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,: Holyol(e's l1ouse of shame
.' The Holyoke l'vlut11a1 Insmance Co. has a long and proud his·, tory. In fact, the company's president, Douglas Ryder, even com. missioned a book about it several years ago.
As is typical with such works, ;iut.hor .John .J. ff'ox of Danvers ;1c'. lrnowJcdgcd in Uw forcworcl his intention "to insure that no one
: would be hurt or embarrassed by anything that is included within
the pages of U1is book."
Fortunately for him, his story ended in 1993 - Holyoke's 150th
birthday - for he would have had considerable difficulty dealing
· with recent events on Crombie Street. There, a 218·year-old house
.' which Holyoke wants to demolish for parking, has been allowed to
· deteriorate so that it has become both an eyesore and safety
.. hazard.
Frustrated neighbors took it upon themselves last weel<encl to
; spruce up the yard and exterior. We understand Ryder dropped
. . by; but, sadly, it was neiUier to help nor make a record of the
, cleanup for posterity.
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the firemen who lost their lives. The fire was apparc:I
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Holyoke Mutual bought the property 13 years ago.
While it said originally that it wanted to convert the
house into a small conference center and to lodging
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for visiting executives, Holyoke later applied to the
city for permission to demolish and expand an adjacent parking lot. It is a small home and only a few
more spaces would result. ·
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The home is located in a st>ven-building National their assurances of community support ring with
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Register district, the last historic residential district hypocrisy.
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Holyoke Mutual's neighbors are disgusted and rt
pns in the heart of Salem's downtown. One of Natllaniel
Hawthorne's closest friends, William Pike, once lived taking matters into their own hands .. They are acin the home. He was also a close friend of President tively responding to Holyoke's practice of demolition
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Franklin Pierce.
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by neglect and applying the golden rule: They are
in
. The house was probably a stop on the Under- banding together to clean up and repair the historic ji
ground railroad and was owned by a former slave properly. Homeless neighbors arc pitching in to help. s
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and his widow for 40 years. It is a handsome, 13th-cen- Everyone is working side-by-side and having fun get- 11
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tury, gambrel-roofed home with a history far richer ting to know each other.
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than its diminutive size would indicate.
It is all abput ~µilding real community in the heart v
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City officials have refused to condemn the entire of one of America's oldest downtowns.
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property as it is structurally sound. The seemingly
Robert Wall s
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endless odyssey moved to the courts and Holyoke has
For the Historic Crombie Street r"'i
lost all legal challenges to date.
Neighborhood Assoc.
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Recently, the City ·council and local preservationSalem ~
ists have stmied to rally behind the neighbors who
(Editor's note: Residents of Crombie Street and their
are mad as hell. Historic Salem Inc. included the supporters will gather this Sunday, May 20, from S to 6
property on its inaugural Most Endangered Historic p.m. for what's being described as a "peace/ul protest
and meditation in tlze Buddhist tradition," at tlze propbm- Resource list.
Holyoke must be forced to take even Uie basic steps erty Holyoke ow/IS at 18 Crombie Street and the compa- s
eneeded to maintain the house and the small
ny's headquarters
tlze street. Tlze nei,glzborlzood r
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Keeping house
Salem residents step up efforts to save the
historic Wendt House- nonviolently, of course
.The battle over Salem's Wendt House took a funky
:urn last Sunday, when the newly founded National
Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association
;taged a nonviolent action in the Buddhist tradition.
Their target? The perceived intransigence of Holyoke
\1utual Ins~rance Company, which owns the home in
~uestion.
The Wendt House, which is located at 18 Crombie
St., has· long been a source of acrimony between
Holyoke Mutual and the broader Salem community.
Holyoke Mutual, whose headquarters arc just across
:he street, bought the Wendt House 13 years ago.
The company wants to tear.down the house to exJand an adjacent parking lot. Salem officials have refused to condemn the property as strncturally un)ff
'towever, and demolition plans remµin on
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Up_,tci this: point, HMI's legal challenges have been
Jnsticcessful. But Rob Wall of the Crombie Street as-·
;ociation, and John Goff of Historic Salem Incorpo:ated, charge the company with practicing demoli:ion by neglect- allowing the Wendt House to
5radually deteriorate, since they can't actually tear it
fown.·
"Holyoke has systematically and intentionally
5one aboufletting it fall down, fall into ruin," Wall
;ays. "[Holyoke) remains really intransigent. They
1von't come when summoned to meetings that the
;ity councilors have asked them to come to, [but] the
:ieighborhood comes. Theyjust show a real arro5ance and disrespect - I think believing, narrowly,
:hat they're homeowners and they can do whatever
:hey want with their house."
The stakes are fairly high. The Wendt House,
1vhich was built around 1770 and was moved to its
:::rombie Street location circa 1830, is Iisted on the
~ational Register of Historic Places as a contributing
Juilding in the Crombie Street National Historic Dis:rict. William B. Pike, a close friend of Nathaniel
~awthome and Franklin Pierce, lived there; so did
.eonard and Ruffina Jefferson, an African-American
:oui
:)Ught to have been conductors on the Unlcrg1vu11d Railroad.
Then there's the fact that the Wendt House be)ngs to an almost-vanished architectural catcgo1y
~at's indigenous to Salem. As if all that weren't
nough, the Wendt House is a stone's throw from the
:rombie.Street homeless shelter. Crombie Street res-
STAFF PHOTO BY MIKE MERGEN
Tim Jenkins sits with a giant sumo banner at last
Sunday's protest at the Wendt House in Salem. The
sumo is a symbol of 'power and controlled aggression,' says Jenkins.
idents contend that abandoned buildings and homeless persons arc a risky combination, and cite the
1999 Worcester fire to support their argument.
On May 6, Wall and several other activists cleared
overgrown vegetation from around the Wendt House
and covered the first floor window coverings with
bright white paint. Subsequently, in a letter dated
May 16, Salem attorney William Lundregan, who
represents Holyoke Mutual, accused the group of
trespassing, malicious destruction of property, and
then (of !he aforementioned VCl'.l'l:ilion ). l .1111dc1!r:m
· warned the recipients to stay away from the W<
House and other Holyoke property, and suggcs
that legal action would be taken if they didn't.
That's the context in which the Buddhist non
lent action took place. Before the event, Wall p:
vided a written explanation of its rationale. "Th
purpose is to increase mindfulness and bring :m
riess to the larger process of what preserving thi
house and our neighborhood is all about," Wall
wrote. "It is dedicated to and on behalf of our a<
sarics. They arc our greatest teachers and becau:
they are often unaware, suffer greatly by their sl
sighted, destructive choices."
Under the watchful eye ofa Salem police offi
who said he was doing detail work for Holyoke,
about 14 people showed up. They started with S<
sitting meditation, stayed in the zone for a slow·
around Holyoke's hcadqumtcrs and the rest oft!·
block, and closed \Vith a bit more stationary med
ing. Despite periodic exhortations and gong-ban:
from Wall, not everyone in the group seemed fo.
cuscd. While some pmiicipants looked mindful
throughout, others sipped coffee and smoked clo
cigarettes, or lounged casually with their arms fo
behind their head.
The reaction of passers-by was mixed. One m;
who drove down Crombie Street looked irritated
another appeared curious. At one point, a disheveled man wearing an Orlando Magic bascba
hnt, a cut-off green T-shirt stating that "There's 1
and then there's all you losers," and paint-splatte
pants walked up, watched for a while, and read ti
posted explanation of what was going on. "You
guys oughta have me restore it," he said as he
walked away. "I'm good at stuff like th'at! God
bless."
It's hard to say if the nonviolent action actually
creased the mindfulness of their adversaries at
Holyoke Mutual (whose Web site, www.holyokcn
tual.com, plays up a hometown feel and touts the
company's promise to fulfill its "corporate respon~
bility to the community"). Last Monday, Holyoke
CEO Doug Ryder declined comment on the Wendt
House, stating only thal all inquiries should be directed to attorney Lundrcgan.
Lundrcgan, like Ryder, had nothing to say on th1
sul~jcct.
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�Letters to the editor
Effort to preserve 18 Crombie St. continues
'le Editor:
1 Saturday, May 5, Mayor Usovicz' annual cleanup took place.
Many individuals and groups took
part to show their pride in our city
and to ensure that it was a cleaner
and healthier place to live. Wherever there was debris and decay,
you could find T-shirted team
members attending to the improve. ment of those areas.
One of these locations was 18
.. Crombie St., which, until that day
··the owner had allowed to become.
. surrounded by an ·overgrown,
: poorly maintained lot. It had. be-·
come hazardous to the health and
wellbeing of the neighborhood.
On thaf Saturday morning, to my ·
surprise; I found a team of YMCA
volunteers removing bags of debris, vegetation, broken bottles, etc.
They worked very hard, and when
I asked them who had instructed
·them to clean up this area, they responded that they were doing so at
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.w.$_. ·v!)ovicz' reglJ!).St..
When they were done they had i~ ,~ro~ble St, owned by the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company.
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· ; .. ;filled almost 10 bags; which were ~;~~~~,~.: •. !:~· ~~::;~:.:
later picked up by city trucks. On
bPhqlf of the Crombie Street HisWhen it was all done you could sat unused and allowed to deterioNeighborhood Association, I see the pride on everyone's face. It rate for 14 years across the street
\h.. ..ud like to offer them our thanks
is true that a police officer had to from the city's homeless shelter.
. ! . for performing a thankless job.
·warn us that we were technically
In the past they have stated,
..., .·' The next day many of the resi- . trespassing, but he declined to in- through their attorney, that they
,:. · dents were thrilled to see what the tervene further as he could see we would "allow the110use to fall into
mayor's wife and her team had ac- were doing a good thing.
disrepair until the city demanded
complished. But there was still so
Our dilemma is this: When a that it be torn down." But recent
much more to be done. It was too property owner systematically and inspections by the city engineer
big of a job for one small team on· · intentionally creates a safety and have found the structure to be
one day.
health hazard increasing the likeli- sound and it can be restored.
Weeds, broken glass and com- hood of.fire and crime, decreasing
Lastly, I would like the citizens
-p.a"i~ted leaves were still every- property:values and the quality of of Salem to visit 18 Crombie Street
where. It smelled. It was unsani- · life, and furthermore flaunts and and bear witness to the "vantary and it was becoming a neigh- disrespects calls by the city and his- dalism" caused by members of our
bor hood fire hazard due to the toric interests to repair the prop- neighborhood. You will find a
owner's neglect.
erty; can .thoughtful persons decide, cleaned-up lot, a brick driveway
Not wanting to have the efforts • without any vandalism nor that we found buried under debris,
of the mayor's cleanup team go to breaking and. entering, to take it and newly painted boarded-up
waste, our entire neighborhood re- upon themselves to improve the se- windows on a little brown house
sponded to finish the job. It be- curity and safety of the neighbor- that witnessed the bhih of our nacame a point of community pride hood by cleaning up the exterior? tion, 218 years ago.
to be involved in this effort.
There are times when the effort to
You be the judge. Will Salem be
. For two hours the next day, all reduce crime and hazard in a neigh- better off with four·more rental
of the residents and children of borhood come into conflict with a parking places or worse, perhaps a
larger edifice; or should this hisCrombie Street, as well as others property owner's intransigence.
disgusted by the long-lasting dereEveryone was delighted that toric survivor be allowed to be reliction of this property, supplied this blight on our neighborhood built and reach its fourth century'!
J tools, paint and muscle power to had been transformed: Everyone We have a plan by which this can
,
d finish the job.
that is, except for one.
happen and all of us, including the
1
1 · Twenty-five more bags of debris
Just as we finished, a representa- present owner, can come out
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• were removed; including a dis- tive of the owner happened upon ahead. Tell the mayor and City
J gusting collection of flammable un- the scene and threatened to have us Council how you feel. Let 18
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derbrush, garbage, leaves and dirt arrested for trespassing, describing Crombie Street become your point
, saturated with bodily fluids as well the activities of the past two days of civic pride, as it is ours.
Robert B. Wall
H as potentially dangerous sumac as "vandalism." We were made to
Salem
~ .weeds whicli had grown to the size feel like criminals because of our
(Editor's note: A "Save 18
~ .-: o~ tre~s. despoiling :the brick side- efforts.fo improve the slum-like
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walk and foundat10n. The bare, conditions created and endorsed by Crombie St. block party," featuring
,.,,~'nr1 r.ln1PrH~rl ),r..,••r1~nn nn th0
hi(' f'nrnn'111v Ffnh.rnk0 Tn~nr~rnrr 11111sir. (nnr!. nnr! hnv rides, will he
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�wellbeing of the neighborhood.
On that Saturday morning, to my
surprise; I found a team of YMCA
volunteers removing bags of de·
bris, vegetation, broken bottles, etc.
They worked very hard, and when
I asked them who had instructed
them to clean up this area, they responded that they were doing so at
MJ~.· ·v~ovicz' regJJ~.st.
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When ,they were- done they had !.:Z-"-"·"'r,Crombie ,St., owned by the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company.
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later picked up by city trucks. On
bPhlllf of the Crombie Street His·
When it was all done you could sat unused and allowed to deterioNeighborhood Association, I see the pride on everyone's face. It rate for 14 years across the street
....,,,..<1d like to offer them our thanks is true that a police officer had to from the city's homeless shelter.
.·.for performing a thankless job.
·warn us that we were technically
In the past they have stated,
· ... : ... The next day many of the resi· . trespassing, but he declined to in· through their attorney, that they
'" ·dents were thrilled to see what the tervene further as he could see we would "allow thel1ouse to fall into
mayor's wife and her team had ac- were doing a good thing.
disrepair until the city demanded
complished. But there was still so
Our dilemma is this: When a that it be torn down." But recent
much more to be done. It was too property owner systematically and inspections by the city engineer
big of a job for one small team on· · intentionally creates a safety and have found the structure to be
one day.
health hazard increasing the likeli- sound and it can be restored .
. . W.~eds, broken glass and com- hood offire and crime, decreasing
Lastly, I would like the citizens
pacted leaves were still every- property'.values and the quality of of Salem to visit 18 Crombie Street
where. It smelled. It was unsani· · life, and furthermore flaunts and and bear witness to the "vantary and it was becoming a neigh- disrespects calls by the city and his- dalism" caused by members of our
borhood fire hazard due to the toric interests to repair the prop- neighborhood. You will find a
owner's neglect.
erty; can.thoughtful persons decide, cleaned-up lot, a brick driveway
Not wanting to have the efforts• without any vandalism nor that we found buried under debris,
of the mayor's cleanup team go to breaking and entering, to take it and newly painted boarded-up
waste, our entire neighborhood re- upon themselves to improve the se- windows on a little brown house
sponded to finish the job. It be- curity and safety of the neighbor- that witnessed tl1e birth of our nacame a point of community pricle hood by cleaning up the exterior? tion, 211l years ago.
to be involved in this effort.
There are times when the effort to
You be the judge. Will Salem be
. For two hours the next day, all reduce crime and hazard in a neigh- better off with founnore rcn tal
of the residents and children of borhood come into conflict with a parking places or worse, perhaps a
Crombie Street, as well as others property owner's intransigence.
larger edifice; or should this his·
disgusted by the long-lasting dereEveryone was delighted that toric survivor be allowed to be reliction of this property, supplied this blight on our neighborhood built and reach its fourth century?
•.i . ;tools, paint and muscle power to
had been transformed. Everyone We have a plan by which this can
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finish the job.
that is, except for one.
happen and all of us, including the
I! · Twenty-five more bags of debris
Just as we finished, a representa- present owner, can come out
j were removed; including a dis- tive of the owner happened upon ahead. Tell the mayor and City
ij gusting collection of flammable un- the scene and threatened to have us Council how you feel. Let 18
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derbrush, garbage, leaves and dirt arrested for trespassing, describing Crombie Street become your point
saturated with bodily fluids as well the activities of the past two days of civic pride, as it is ours.
Robert B. Wall
Ii as potentially dangerous sumac as "vandalism." We were made to
Salem
~ weeds which had grown to the size feel like criminals because of our
a of trees despoiling the. brick side- efforts.to improve the slum-like
(Editor's note: A "Save 18
lb · w'alk 'and foundation. The bare, conditions created and endorsed by Crombie St. block party," featuring
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rotted plywood boarding up the his company; Holyoke Insurance music, food, and hay rides, will be
held from 4 to 8 p.m. today, spon1 windows was touched up with Company, in our neighborhood.
' · ..,.. white·paint;a·new downspoutwas · It is ironic that the company sored by the Crombie Street Nainstalled to prevent dangerous 'ice that owns the property keeps it in tional Historic District Association.
darril>; and' a new "18" was put on a condition: that would never be in- Attendees are requested to bring a
the 'front door so the Fire Depart- · sured by one of its competitors.
pot luck contribution. More informent would know where to go if
To make matters worse, what mation can be obtained by calling
ever they were needed.
·was a perfectly good structure has 978-745-3806 or .978·744·2654.)
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SUNDAY
GLOBE
JULY22, 2001
Noteworthy
LISA CAPONE
GL08£ STAFF PH·:i70S/ EVAN
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Neighbors (above) protest an insurance company's plan to raze the \Venclt house, 18 Crombie
St. in Salem. At left, a detail of the building, v.ith local sentiments e:\.lJressed on a banner.
had also ordered a larger recycling District. According to William J.
container for glass and paper that
Lundregan, Holyoke's lawyer, the
will be inst<>Jled at Mount Hood. ··. company bad originally planned
the city-owned golf course, w~cb . to renrrb~b
home. -which
includes a restaurant.
·. /:. residents Sa.yplayed host to Na-
the
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··~ ~h~ni~I ~·aWthonie·:.: as
work·
Holyoke's offic-=.s, a gas station,
and a small strip mall. Residents
point out that the vacant house is
also across the street from a
homeless sheltff.
The Salem City Council president, Joan Lo»ely, whose district
includes Crom'bie Street, said that
Building Commissioner Peter
Strout told her recently that he
didn't believe tile city would have .
reason to condemn the house for ..
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small gambrel-roofed house was
built around 1780 and was moYed
to its cunent location about 150
years ago. Past ov.ners have included William Pike, a friend of
both Ha\\thorne and President
Franklin Pierce, and fonner
slaves who may have u.5ed it as a
stop on the Underground Railroad, they said. Historic Salem,
Inc. placed the house on its "most
. ei;idangered" historic properties
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rehabilitating it for iow-income
first-time home buyers, but Ryder· ..
wasn't interested in seeing the · ,,
home refurbished in its current lo-> ;
cation.
Lundregan said the public de- ~:.·~
bate over 18 Crombie St. often : :·,·~
overlooks ''hovi important a cog ~·; .•
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of . ., ._ .... r·-.
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Wendt House future
is still in dispute
longstanding dispute
between a Salem insurance company and a group
of Salem residents is headed for a
new chapter. City officials are considering a range oflegislative, regulatory, and perhaps legal avenues
for compelling the company to
maintain an 18th-century home
that it \van ts to raze.
In 1988, Holyoke 1'.IutuaJ Insurance Co. boug.'1t the so-c<llled
Wendt HQuse at 18 Crombie St.,
m-;e of six buildings that comp1ise
the Crombie National Histo'ric
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residents say played host to Nathaniel Hawthorne - as work
space for visiting salesmen.
When the firm found renovation costs "economically unfeasible," Lundregan said, it moved to
demolish the house, but was
blocked by the Salem Redevelopment Authority. The company appealed, but lost in Essex Superior
Court.
Crombie Street residents fear
that the company is neglecting the
empty, boarded-up property until
the city is forced to condemn it
and to allow its demolition, paving the way for more commercial
development in a residential enclave alre.ady invaded by asphaJ t.
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didn't believe the city would have
reason to condemn th
·1se for
another dozen years. L ...emed
that the house shouldn't just rot in
the meantime, Lovely said the
council has asked City Solicitor
John Keenan to "look into" drafting an ordinance prohibiting owners from neglecting their property. She said proponents would
"start pushing the issue" at the
end of the summer.
"We're still looking at that and,
actually, we are also looking at
some other options regarding that
property on Crombie Street, including Board of Health enforcement and other issues through the
buildinginspec~'Jr," said Keenan,
adding that the city might again
"end up in litiga~ion" v.ith Holyo'...;e Mutual. "Ifs a priority of the
city. We are WU:-ig a look at it and
hopefully within the next couple
of months we'il be able to ta..1.;e
some action on i:."
That could b:-ing relief to the
newly formed Crombie Street Nation2J Histoiic District Neighborhood Associatio2, which manned
a cleanup of the property in May
that netted 40 b?.gs of weeds and
trash. Lundrega;1 subsequently
slapped the residents \\ith a notrespass order that threatened legal action if they entered tbe property again. Association members
also held a June '·block part)"' to
clra·,v attention tc> the issue, and
have gc.thered on Sunday evenings for sever?J weeks for "silent
vigil protests."
According to ~~veral Crombie
Street residents, including Ruth
and Robert Wall and David Pelletier, and John Goff and Tim Jenkins of Historic Salem, Inc., the
uiey saia. Historic Salem,
Inc. placed the house on its "most
endangered" historic properties
list last year, said Goff, the group's
executive director, and the Salem
HistoriCal Commission petitioned
Hi.St.Orie Massachusetts, Inc. in
May to place the home on its most
endangered historic resources list,
aswe1l.
Holyoke Mutual disputes the
home's historical significance,
Lundregan said, but has nonetheless offered to move it for free for a
nonprofit group willing to put it
elsewhere. That "perfect compromise," he said, would preserve the
house and allow Holyoke to retain
the lot- part of\vhich already is
paved for parking.
"Holyoke has no plans" to expand, ''but if they did it would be
nice to have a square lot," he sPJd,
noting that Holyoke mms an adjacent lot.
Residents say that moving the
house, like tearing it clov.i1, \vould
sap the integrity oftlie neighborhood.
"It's the den•Juing and the igi10ring of history for something
that's commercial. Expansion
could put a building in that spot
that's the same size as the one
across the street," Viall said. "I
don't see moving the house in order to square the lot to put in a sLxor seven-story building to be a
compromise."
Lundrcgan al.so suggested that
neighborhood residents "couJd
get together and make an offer·' to
buy the house. Salem Harbor's
Community Development Corp.
executive director, Jim Haskell,
said he had spoken \vith the company president, Douglas Ryder,
about acquiring the property and
i101yo.Ke is in the life of the com~ . _;. :.
munity."Thecompanfs 15<' -··.:.ar_·-:~,;.
history in Salem haS 'been n
.!d :~ .
by contributions to severii.l com- c ;',:~ ·.
munity organizations, including · ··- ·
Salem Hospital and the YM:CA. he .r':
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st?.te agency apprc;;ed the library's proposal foz ?. $2.4 million
grant that \VOuld c;:;·;er about 40 ·
percent of the proj;;o:t's cost.
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Middleton resic=:.nts are expected to vote on f-:.:::ding the
$6.88 mi1lion p::ojfc'.·': at a specia1
Town Meeting in K:,-;ember, according to library c:::ector Aclele
Ccirter. The stz,~e's :;'.-,2.re, approved June 7 by fr.=:. j\fassachusetts Board ofLi':irc._-:,· Commissioners, is clepe;:d~~-: on the
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lion bond propooal '.:·r library projects a.nd subseque~.: appropri·
a ti on of MiddletrJn'::- ::'\mds, Carter
said. She said p::i\·2.:': fund-raising
v;ouJd offset tll-2 2.1:,~.·.:;it funded
by Joc;:iJ ta,:pay<::::s.
The constrncti•)r. ·.rn\;)d b·2 the
lib:·2.ry's first exv.;;:s: :.:1 since a
1980 renovatio;: foe.: co1fferted
the ouilcling's bzcser::·::1t into a
community/clli!drc~:s room. ·n1e
building, which still c-:cupies the
same 5,000 squ<:.~e L-:·t footprint
a.s when it was b·.1Ut i:-, 1891,
would grow to just o-:::r 20,000
square feet, she s2Jd. Librnry officials hope to have a f..::-,al design in
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n-umber of alleged victims of the Vasquez's lawyer, Jeremiah Joyce
dog.
of Salem.
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The lawsuit, which alleges negli·
SLx days later, on June 11, the
gence and assault by Gonyea, said suit alleges, Gonyea went to
the dog was allowed to ·roam Vasquez's home with Floyd and
"freely:and unleashed" when it at· "verbally threatened to unleash
t?-4\~:Y§lSqlJ.e~ ~Jl June 5, leaving his dog on the plaintiff as the dog
hih1 witnperrnariently disfiguring barked, growled and pulled on its
inj udes~ Vasquez was visiting leash in the direction of the plain·
GDnyea at the time. .
tiff," putting Vasquez (and two
·o.i.0111t:f·(0
at a
pre}lo.te ·a-1awsu1t
'l'he cruise.r vias moving
"very low" rate of speed, possibly 2
to 3 mph, when the elderly man
"came in contact" with the cruiser,
Carney said.
Many officers routinely park
their cruisers and visit businesses
located in the plaza in the course
of patrolling their beat, police said.
There are numerous shops in the
plaza, including Dunkin' Donuts,
against him, according to the com·
plaint and Vasquez's attorney.
Joyce said Vasquez will require
ongoing medical care, including
more surgery to try to repair the
damage to his lip.
The lawsuit seeks compensation
for Vasquez's medical costs as well as
damages for the emotional distress.
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Marblehead police called in spe·
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help investiga:::. Keating said the
call was made l::.rgely because the
accident invc,:·_-ed.a local police
cruiser and s~~ious injuries to a
pedestrian.
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ofn6n·objecth·::::." she said.
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keep his pledge to reconsider his
redistricting plan, allowing both
Democratic incumbents to keen
the cores of their districts.
.
'Tm hoping that (Meehan's deci·
sion) provides an opportunity to
revisit the issue and craft a dis·
trict for each of the in cum bent
congressmen and, more impor·
tantly, recognize the commo:1 in·
terests that exist in the 6th (Con·
51essional District) now and have
~xis.ted for 200 years," Tierney, of
Salem, said in an interview yes·
:erday.
"I think we should take (Fin·
:-:::ran) at his word."
Finneran's redistricting plan
.c-ked many on the North Shore by
:?.king Lynn from Tierney in the
~:hand replacing the city with
·Jur Merrimack Valley communi·
ies from Meehan's 5th, including
.reehan's hometown of Lowell.
Critics say the plan, which
irmeran released July 11, would
TIERNEY, page /.UO
By DAVE GERSHMAN
Ne·, ,s staff
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SALE!vI - Saying they're sick
of watching an abandoned, 18thcentury home rot away, city coun·
cilors are turning up the heat dra·
m2,tically on its po Nerful owner.
City Council President Joan
Lo\·ely has asked he.r colleagues
to formally request the Salem Re·
de\'elopment Authority to take
the property by eminent domain.
Holyoke lvlutual Insurance Co.
bought the home at 18 Crombie
St. about 12 years ago. It has been
empty ever since.
"They're just going to let it rot
into the ground," Lovely said.
"And we're not going to let them
do it."
The home's historical signifi·
cance is in dispute. But neighbors
want it saved, brought back to life
and sold to someone who v,:m
maintain it.
They want the company to
abandon its previous plan to
knock do\rn the house and put in
a parking lot. The city has suc·
cessfully blocked that plan in
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court, but the :::sult has bee;: a
stalemate.
Critics say,::-_:: company has
switched to rr.::·e a long-term
strategy of den:: :it ion by neglect
- letting the L·J.se deteriorate
until the citv h:::; no choice but lD
allow it to be ds:-:·.::ilishecl
Lovely wants : J send the com·
pany a message: ::·s tim2 to listen
to the neighbor~
"It's a Yen· ur.::ue little nei£:h·
borhood, it's. a v=:·y strong neigh·
borhood," Lovel:: said. ''They cl02serve the s::me r'.;::1ts as the other
historic neighb:~:hoods, or any
neighborhood, fo~ :hat matter."
Lowly's requ~s: was welcomed
by neighbors, w~.o have staged
peaceful demons::ations outside
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"We're thrilled," said Ruth Wall,
who lives next door. "But I kno°I:.·
it's just the beginning of a long
fight."
Lovely's request came in the
form of an order sh:: sponsored c. t
Thursday's City Co'. mcU meeting,
and it received some support from
her colleagues.
The order was sent to the Com·
inittee on Community and Economic Development. Privately,
some acknowledge that taking 2.
building. by eminent domain
would be a drastic st::n and should
be used in the event that all other
remedies have failed.
Citv Solicitor Johi: Keenan is review-ing some of those options.
Some cities have passed laws prohibiting owners from neglecting
maintenance of their buildings, for
examule.
'·There's actually a lot of options
out there that we're trying to take
a look at," Keenan sa'.d.
Keenan expects to share infor·
in?..tion \\'ith city cou:~.::Uors by the
time they take up discussion of
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tionist and member of Historic
Salem Inc., has researcned the ·
"There's actually
issue and believes the SRA does
a lot of options oui there have the power to \\Test control of
the Crombie Street property away
that we're trying to take from Holyoke Insurance. The
SRA's mission is to preserve and
a look at."
enhance the viability of the city's
-City Solicitor John Keenan
downtown, Jenkins notes, and it
can step in when a property is not
being kept up.
Lovely's request this September,
"it had the power," Jenkins said.
after their summer recess is over.
"It's actuallv exercised that nower
"Certainly, I \Vould expect that as well in the past. And it's ail cod·
in the early fall we'd be ta'king ified in the enabling legislation. If
some addition2J action," Keenan the city chooses to do t'.lat, it has
said.
the ontion."
Lovely's request hinges on the
What the city eventus.lly ·does
inclusion of Crombie Street in one may depend on Holyoke. So far,
of two city zones that fall under the company has not responded to
the jurisdiction of the Rede\'elop- requ~sts by neighbors and city of.
ment Authority. ,':('_hough the ficials to discuss the status of the
agency lacks the J'.iudgef and proixrty.
muscle it had in the 1970s,'it has
This week, the silence conbeen growil1g in importance in re-~ tinued. Douglas Ryder; .the comcent years.
' ..... .-·' ·,:,~&'.~~", pa'nf president, referred. aii com·
Mayor Stanley Usovicz, for in-·· irientt6 the company's attorney,
stance, sought to revive the SRA to William Llindregan, who did not
recle\·e]op the long-dom1ant former return phone call.
nolice station. The SRA is now
:,vorking with a iocal de\'eloper on
plans for a hotel at the site.
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boat. According to his report, he
could not determine which, if any
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the harbor.
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two pieces of conventional wisclom: that he got in too late, allCl
that he will get a boost from the
notorietyofthcGrcincdcrca.sc.
The Essex County clerk of
courts, Thomas H. Driscoll Jr.,
said it would be a challeni;e for
Grundy to catch up to Ulodgett,
who has been campaigning since
pmt of Suffolk County Distrir:t Altorncy Ralph L. Martin Jr.
Grundy is only now putting his
team in place ancl making a serious quest for fonds and support.
"There is still time" for Grundy
to become competitive, Driscoll
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til September, the Salem City move to square a lot for possible
Council la.st month re- future development.
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tee on Community
meet ag<1in until Sept. 13. L1.Point
and Economic Development an
said. According to City Solicitor
order requesting the S;tlem RedeJohn Keenan, his office is considvelopment Authority take by emiering a range of options regarding
nent domain an 18th-century
the so-called Wendt House, inhome owned by Holyoke lviutua.l
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hibiting owners from neglecting
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their properties. Crombie Street
by its owner," was offered by City
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said Assistant City Clerk Cheryl
forced to condemn it and allow its
La.Point. Lovely's ward includes 18
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" ····It would be an unfortunate turn or events incleecl if Salem offi'cials Imel to resort to eminent domain proceedings in orcler to prevent demolition of the house at 18 C:·ombie Street.
While historians can argue about the true signific:mce or the
18th century structure itself, there's no questioning the fact that it
is an important part of what is the last residential neighborhood
within the city's central business district.
Certainly there's been a revival of residenti~1l uses downtown in
recent years which has brought new energy to the area. But these
dwelling units are located primarily in renovated or newly constructed edifices. or traditional streetscapes with a church and
., .·homes intended for a family or two, there's but one left within the
,, :area roughly bounded by Ht. 114, New Derby Street, Hawthorne
:. . :.·Boulevard and Bridge Street - Crombie Street.
... ~· .. It's an anachronism to be sure, with a White Hen Pantry at one
:.; 'end a parking lot at the other. But that part of it's ch;:mn, and the
<''minute or so it takes to wall\ it's length is a journey back into an_,, other era.
.,. Yet the Holyoke Insurance Co., which is seemingly oblivious to
the black eye this dispute has given it. seems determined to allow
the vacant 18 Crombie St. house: to drtcrioratc to thc point it nrnsf
be lali.en down. 1\11d Ii.Jr what purpose':' ~o it can inslatl a parking
.., lot capable of accommodating a !Cw more cars across from Its
., ::.'headquarters in Holyoke Square.
. ·: Hesidents of Crombie Street have been ordered o!Hhe property
: when they have tried to remove some of the debris or otherwise
.. improve the exterior of the place. But 1hev have been ~;ratified by
.:·:;oj_c:support they've received in other qua;·tcrs or lhe city rn lheir
"".e[ort to force Holyoke to do something other than tear the place
·.:"down.
' .. '·Now the City Council has a chance to take this fight to another
:..:)cvcl as a rcsu.lt or Ward :1 Councilor ,Joan Lovely's .proposal last
· · week that it request the Salem Redevelopment Authoritv to take
the property by eminent clomain.
~·'"" Grantee!, this is a rather extreme 111e0sure which will be subject
•·to· further review by the council's Committee of Community and
Economic Development before coming to the floor for a vote. But
in our mind, the preservation of a unique neighborhood such a~;
this is worthy of this radical move.
Holyoke. despite the i11fr;111si1~c11cc and i11clill{:n~11n· if h;1s dis·
played to this point, can still emerge a hero by doing the right
thing. Tf company officials choose not to. the council and Sl~i\
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representing so many different
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Domelly, left, and Jonathan Reardon are helplng to raise money for
the Sf>eclal Olympics by auctioning off tickets to see Jimmy Buffett
A dozen people marched in the
Heritage Days Parade on Sunday,
holding banners and accompanying a float, to call attention to
the abandoned house at 18
Crombie St. And they hit on a
novel idea to raise support among
the spectators. They gave out
"Save No. ta•; fans.
"Everybody wanted a fan because it was so hot," said Miranda
Wall, 17, who marched. "You
turned back and you could see all
these fans."
Many of the participants are
members of the newly formed
Crombie Street Historic Neighborhood Association. Others live elsewhere but are supporters of the
cause.
The float fit in well with the
theme of the parade, which was
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." It featured a replica of
the small 18th century house, surrounded by flowers.
Multi-colored flags hung on either side. Three children, Amore
Dotiglas; 3, Alexander Pelletier, 7,
and::Da:iliel Wall, 15, marched in
frol}t of the float holding a banner.
The house was bought by Holyoke
MutQal Insurance Co., more than a
NEIGHBORIIOOD
WATCH
dozen years ago. Initially, the company wanted to restore it for use as
a conference center but switched
gears and sought to knock it down
for parking: The city successfully
blocked those plans, leading to a
stand-oft
The neighbors fear the house
will deteriorate to such an extent
that the city will have no choice
but to allow it to be demolished.
Salem Common
The Salem Common Neighborhood Association wants to hear
from members and non-members
about issues or concerns that are
important to the neighborhood.
Contact the group by 8ept. 15 by
writing to SCNA at P.O. Box 8608,
Salem, Mass. 01970, or e-mailing
the group at SCNA@nl.ailcom.
Today marks the beginning of a'.).
new city effort, dubbed "Clean if.
or lien it."
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A group of inmates from the'.;;~
Essex County Sheritf s Depart4J~
ment, supervised by city staff, will!;.~
remove litter, debris and ovei;-~~
grown v~tion froi;n severu. va;~
cant properties on Bridge Street. .; ~~
Last week, Mayor Stanley Usci-f~;
vicz announced the n:ew effort;·~·
which is designed to improve tb.e~J~~
appearanee of vacant lots. The to-~ f.
operation of the Essex County:
Sheriffs Department mak~ it eCo-';1~
nomical, he said.
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Right now, private landowne#~
are receiVing letters making then1'~1f
aware they are ~nsible for tli~ ~t'.>
appearance oftheir lots. They haWl"'.'.<'
30 days to clean up their proper-"~:i,;
ties, or the city will have the in- . ·
mates do it for them anCl attach~:'f,
any costs as a lien on th~ deedS 'tot;<
the properties.
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Today's work focuses on pub-;/;,
licly-0wned properties because the~:··
city obtained permissiqn to do the,, •
work rnore quickly. The MBTA~~-'.
and state owns severatpa:rcels :?,:
along Bridge Street
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The mayor's top aide, Tbril:
Philbin, said about 30 inmates Will .·.:
be working today with two. la'wn .:;,;
mowers, 4 weed whackers; 16'j}
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Crombie Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983, this small district
includes the following properties: 7 - 15 Crombie Street, 16-18 Crombie Street,
and 13 Barton Street. It is on the nation's official list of cultural resources
worthy of preservation.
The Street was laid out by Benjamin Crombie in 1805 and this district is what
remains of the extensive residential areas that surrounded downtown, after the urban
renewal programs of the 1960's and '70's. This residential district sits between
Essex Street and Norman Street, in the heart of downtown Salem, and it is
home to a church and a number of families.
The Wendt House, 18 Crombie Street, c. 1783, is currently vacant and threatened with
demolition by neglect. Once the home of a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, this little brown
house has been called "home" by many different people for two centuries. This house has a
very interesting history. Last year, the house was nominated to Historic Salem, Inc.'s Most
Endangered Historic Resources List.
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The residents and neighbors of the district are working hard to save the little brown
house. It has been the topic of discussion on the SalemWeb Message Board in the
Community Issues/Holyoke Mutual section. Here's what you can do to help!
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�for HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"
May 16, 2003
John Goff
Historic Salem, Inc.
P.O. Box 865
Salem, MA 01970
Dear John Goff:
On :\12y 29, t!::e Nati· mal Trust for Hi s~ori c Pr~serv<Jtiori ·~'ill r~J e;i se its 2003 fa;t of
:
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. As always, the selection is very difficult
because every site is well deserving and in need of attention. I am sorry to inform you that we
were unable to put Wendt House on the list this year.
We appreciate your efforts in submitting an entry and keeping us abreast of developments
throughout the selection process. We encourage you to explore other avenues to resolve the threat
or bring some assistance to your site. Please refer to the National Trust's Web site at
www.nationaltrust.org/help for information regarding the National Trust's grant and loan
programs, which have assisted thousands of innovative preservation projects that protect the
continuity, diversity, and beauty of our communities.
We also encourage you to contact our regional offices, also listed on the National
Trust Web site, to keep them apprised of your situation. They can put you in contact with the
appropriate statewide organization if you haven't done so already. You may also want to visit
the Web site of the National Council of State Historical Preservation Organizations (SHPO) at
www.sso.org/ncshpo. A complete and up-to-date list of SHPOs is readily available from that
site.
While we hope that each and every site is saved, we also know the reality of preservation
efforts. If your site is still endangered next year, we encourage you to re-nominate it. Nomination
fonns for 2004 will be available this fall and the deadline will be in early January 2004.
Thank you for your interest and support. Please feel free to contact our Communications
Office at 202-588-6141 if you have any questions.
·
Sincerely,
Beth Newburger
Director of Communications
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�street in America. Mcintire designed two buildings here, Hamilton Hall (9 Chestnut Street,
1805-1807) and the Hodges House (12 Chestnut St., 1805), but the fine detailing
and consistency of excellent design in the remaining Federal houses on the street leaves little
doubt that they are the work of master builders, as well. The district also contains significant
structures of the later 19th century, for instance the First Unitarian Church (316 Essex Street,
1833-36), the Salem Public Library (370 Essex St., 1850), and Greymoor (329 Essex St., 1871/72),
Salem's most elaborate example and high Victorian Italianate domestic architecture.
Crombie Street Historic District
The Crombie Street District is composed of the eight remaining buildings of this downtown
residential enclave. The district includes a cross-section of residential buildings from various
periods of development, along with a church building originally built as a theater. The
boundaries include the six buildings that face Crombie Street and the two buildings at the west
end of Barton Square, adjacent to Crombie Street on the west.
Crombie Street was laid out in 1805 by Benjamin Crombie, proprietor of a tavern called the
Sign of the Ship, that stood on Essex Street east of his new street. Between 1805 and 1815,
Crombie sold four house lots behind his tavern, as weU as narrow strips of frontage on the
street to three other landholders to the west. Only two of the houses standing today were built
before Crombie sold the remaining property in 1319, but the district is shown intact on the 1851
map of the city.
As the only surviving downtown residential group f.rom the early 19th century, the houses on
Crombie Street provide important information about the character of the city at that time. All
the buildings directly abut the sidewall<, suggesting high density, but placement on the lots is
irregular, creating a rural atmosphere. Wood is the dominant material, although the Crombie
Street Church and the Bowker House (9 Crombie Street) are brick, as is the Prince house (26727.3 Essex St., not in the district), which predates Crombie's acitivity.
While architectural quality within the district is variable, three buildings clustered at its north
end are all individually noteworthy. The Crombie Street Church built as a theater in 1828, is
: the architectural highlight of the district. The monumental relieving arches of the facade
define its composition and suggest the Federal style, but the panelled detailing of the broad
piers separating these arches, introduce a newer Greek Revival influence.
Neighboring the church stands the substantial Bowker House, built in the Federal style around
1810, and modernized by overlaid brownstone trimmings in 1860. The hybrid design is very
successful, reinforcing the central importance of this house to the district. The Pierson House
(13 Barton Square) is an unusuaHy graceful vernacular Italianate residence, typical of the houses
that lined Barton Square in the mid-19th century.
Derby Waterfront Historic District
The Derby Waterfront Historic District is located in Salem's Waterfront area and includes both
sides of Derby Street between Herbert Street to Block House Square,and the streets to the
south of Derby Street from the Salem Maritime National Historic Site to Blaney Street.
Buildings of the Federal period predominate in this densely settled area; although a number of
structures are of the eighteenth, late nineteenth and eariy twentieth centuries, and three
properties date as far back as the seventeenth century. Whereas most of the buildings are
clapboard, there are also some outstadning examples of brick construction.
The development of the area is closely tied to the history of the nearby wharves which began in
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January 22, 2001
Editor
Salem Evening News
155 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
CROMBIE STREET HOUSE HAS REMARKABLE HISTORY
To the Editor:
I was pleased to read that "Neighbors Hope to Save Neglected Historic Home"
[Salem Evening News, January 19, 2001, page 1] and that you concluded "The
house at 18 Crombie Street is an impo11ant pai1 of this street scape which
ought to be preserved." [Editorial, December 19, 2000]. When the local
building inspector says he sees no reason to destroy a perfectly good
antique house -- and common sense also suggests it can be repaired and
restored -- one wonders why Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company of Salem
believes this "Most Endangered Historic Resource" must be demolished.
I believe there is a simple explanation for Holyoke's stance. They were
seriously misled by a local "consultant" who proposed that "There is no
redeeming historic value associated with the tenancy or the residence per
se" in an Overview Study prepared in 1990. This "consultant" farther
proposed that "During the entire 160 year history of 18 Crombie Street's
existence, there has not been a major historically significant tenancy."
Through a simple matter of bad scholarship, Holyoke Insurance was led over
10 years ago to categorically dismiss a number of historical associations
which potentially make this property Individually Eligible for Listing on
the National Register of Historic Places.
I refer of course to the property's early ownership by the First Church of
Salem; its early ownership by Samuel Curwen, the famed Salem Loyalist who
built the Bowditch House; its early associations with Benjamin Crombie who
ran the Sign of the Ship tavern at the head of Crombie Street; as well as
its important early occupancies and associations with Prince Farmer, William
B. Pike, Dr. Shadrach M. Cate, and Leonard J. & Rufina M. Jefferson.
William Pike's portrait hangs in the Peabody-Essex Museum; he is best
remembered as a U.S. Customs Collector both for Boston and for Salem. He
was a personal friend of U.S. President Franklin Pierce and ofNathaniel
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Hawthorne -- Salem's most famous author. Dr. Cate was a distinguished
19th-century Salem physician, and a founder of the Swedenborgian Church in
Salem.
Prince Farmer and the Jeffersons are particularly important to remember
while we celebrate January as Black History Month here in America. Prince
Farmer was one of Salem's early Blacks who was recently recognized in the
Salem Afro-American Heritage Trail booklet published by the National Park
Service. A cook aboard the ship GEORGE, and an oyster retailer by Old Town
Hall, Mr. Farmer was on the building committee of Salem's first church
erected for Blacks, and was a close associate of many 19th-century
Abolitionists, including the famed Remonds of Salem. The Jeffersons were
also strong advocates for civil rights and Black equality in Salem's
formative years. They were probably "conductors" or associates on the
"shoreline" branch of the Underground Railroad which carried Southern slaves
to Freedom in the North.
For further documentation of all these facts, I refer you to the Essex
County Registry of Deeds, and to a 20-page report which I prepared on 18
Crombie Street in July 1990, which was reproduced as "Attachment A" in the
1990 Overview Study. This document has been public record since Holyoke
applied to the City for permission to raze the house. Additional supporting
material on Salem's Black History was compiled by the National Park Service,
and information on the Salem Underground Railroad was compiled by the late
Miss Eleanor Broadhead.
The facts speak very well for themselves. This lovely little building is a
unique and most-imp01iant Salem historic landmark, which should be repaired
and restored immediately upon its ancient site to improve its blighted
neighborhood and downtown Salem. Thank you for supporting us in these
recognitions.
Sincerely,
Rory Goff
Merrymeeting Archives
Saco, Maine
(1990 historic house researcher for Historic Salem, Inc.)
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�Underground Railroad Initiative
Meeting Notes
January 17, 2001
Attendance: Deb Benvie, Dr. Gloria Bowens, Barbara Brown,
Anne Check, Peter deGrandpre, Ellen DiGeronimo, Jennifer Gaudio,
Meridy Giles, Merrill Kohlhofer, Peter Laraba, Frank Luz,
Joe Makkers, Solange Marchand, Mr.& Mrs. Roger Parker,
Pam Peterson, Dori Phillips, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ruggles,
Bonnie Smith, Louise Sandberg, Glenn Steen-Johnson,
Nancy TenBroeck,
Rae Emerson, Tina Cross, Bruce Jones
The public response was incredible, as a record twenty- three people attended
the meeting! Rae welcomed the group, gave an overview of the project, and
turned the proceedings over to Bruce and Tina.
Bruce apologized for not having enough info folders for everyone and went over
the contents. He gave a short description of how the Underground Railroad
Initiative was organized within the National Park Service, and stated we didn't
yet know what our final product will be (a brochure, a map, bibliography,
presentation, etc.) and welcomed everyone's input.
Tina asked the gathering to offer any information they might have about the
Underground Railroad, or ask questions concerning the topic.
The attached listing covers much of what was discussed during the next hour.
Note that several research sources were identified and listed. Thanks to Pat
Durkee, Bruce and Tina will contact Salem resident Margaret Hill to arrange for
an interview concerning her families' 4 generations in Salem and her Grandfather
who was a slave.
Also attached for your information is a copy of an October 8, 1999, New York
Times article concerning Nova Scotia Blacks with historical connections to
the American Revolution and the Underground Railroad. This article was
provided courtesy of Bonnie Smith.
There was also enthusiastic support by group members to contribute towards an
exhibit on Essex National Heritage Area Underground Railroad/Abolitionist
activity in the Visitor Center for Black History Month.
�An open house will be announced once the exhibit is installed and all attendees
to the UGRR meetings, along with the public, will be invited.
Next meeting: March 14, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. in the Salem Regional Visitor Center.
�January 17, 2001 UGRR Meeting Notes
Locations identified by attendees to be researched for documentation of UGRR activity:
26 or 27 Beckford St., Salem - way station
House of the Seven Gables, Salem - hidden Staircase
Chestnut St., Salem - two houses, address unknown
Rockaway St., Marblehead - tunnel to harbor
Old North Church, Stacy St., Marblehead - attic hiding place
Training Field Ground, off of Washington St., Marblehead - grave sites of runaway
slaves
11 Hewitt St., Marblehead - hidden staircase
Hearth and Eagle house, Franklin St., Marblehead - way station
Asa Orne House, Orne St., Marblehead - hidden staircase
Research sources identified:
Margaret Hill, Salem - African American Octogenarian; 4 generations in Salem
William Bowditch records - abolitionist
"The Liberator"
Free Baptist Church records, Lawrence
Essex County Anti Slave Society minutes
WEB: Dred Scott
Marblehead Historic Society: "History of Where I Live school project Story describes hidden cupboard
Park Service of Canada: Nova Scotia
Levy Coffin diary
Ship hopping records
North side Stories: Book of interviews with freed slaves in Canada
Quilts
Local newspapers throughout ENHA
Haverhill Historic Society: Archives and Collections
FebruaryVisitor Center Exhibit Contributors:
· Lynn Museum: Abolitionists in Lynn
Dr. Bowens: Quilts
H?G: Excerpt of abolitionist/slave experience
Greater Lawrence UGRR Committee: Greater Lawrence UGRR Exhibit
Marblehead Historic Society: photographs of Dodge family
Pat Durkee, 2 Andover St., Salem: copy of family will showing slave ownership
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walking down a trail. She nearly c?J;:!
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ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
Karch 18,1991
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Submitted to:
Salem Planning Department
One Salem Green
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
INTRODUCTION
Thia report is confined to the present structural
condition of the above-referenced building1
gana~~l
daaoriptiona of repairs and construction are listed with
associated
approximate
costs.
Observations
and
recommendations are drawn from the following:
*
site visit and visual inspection
of the existing building interior.
*
review of
the OVERVIEW
STUDY
prepared by Demarco/Jarek Partnership,
Architects
and
Planners,
dated
September 1990.
*
prior experience
with
similar
building types and typical construction
procedures for
structural rehabilitation.
While we generally agree with the Demarco/Jarek report,
we have addressed only the structural aspects of the
building: foundation,
framing, and related components.
Remedies to structural problems are discussed later;
included in our repair estimate
is a line item which
covers the cost of cutting and patching required for the
structural improvements only.
Anticipated renovation
costs which
are not
warranted by the structural
condition of the referenced building are considered
and presented - by others.
EXISTING CONDITIONS
\.
We find that the condition of the superstructure of the
original building and the addition is acceptable to good
with the exception of the sills and various aspects of
the first
floor framing
<as
discussed in the
Architects~ report>.
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'745·6596
ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEM, XASSACUSETTS
:March 18,1991
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
The condition of the back porch is such that it should
be be torn down entirely.
The original building has a very severe lean to one side
which we partly attribute to the way it was built and
added to, but mostly to problems with the foundation.
The condition of the foundation is fair to poor and
likely to further deteriorate due to disintegration of
its brick
masonry components.
In addition,
sevev~
settlement at two corners and at the chimney supports
has occurred while lateral movement of some of the walls
is evident (consistent with the description in the
Architect~~
report),
RECOMMENDATIONS
Pursuant to
the above
structural problems,
we
corrective measures:
*
description
recommend
Shore superstructure
sills entirely.
budget
and
observed
following
of
the
replace
$
building
6,280.00
*
Jack-up the superstructure where required to
level position to properly facilitate resting
sills on a new foundation. Some improvement in
the presently excessive leaning of the building
may result from this operation.
budget
$
4,860.00
*
Provide miscellaneous first floor framing
Repair
and supports.
reinforcing, connections,
chimney foundation.
budget
$
970.00
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745-6596
ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEM, XASSACUSETTS
Karch 18,1991
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
*
Remove porch completely ~nd repl~ce re~r
access with new stairs from exterior grade to
first floor.
budget
$
710.00
*
Remove existing concrete floor and replace
with a new reinforced slab on vapor barrier with
construction joints on suitable, compacted g-ravel
base. Install sump pit with pump to prevent
damage from possible future flooding condition~,
budget
$
3,230.00
*
Remove the existing foundation and excav~te
p1=ff·i:mi:ita1-· to al low installation of new castin-place concrete foundation walls and footings;
dampproof foundation
exterior.
Include coderequired vents or windows.
t~I'=!
$
budget
7,130.00
*
Provide
improved
interior
access
to
basement: install new stairs and rails. Provide
new exterior
bulkhead,
bulkhead stairs,
and
weatherproof doors for exterior access.
·,.";""
budget
$
1,670.00
*
Remove all unused piping, wiring, conduits,
miscellaneous obstructions,
etc.,
in basement.
Clean and treat areas exposed to moisture or
adjacent rot.
budget
$
480.00
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I
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RoBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
](arch 18,1991
AssoclATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
*
Cut and patch as necessary for disturbed
areas,
caused
by these specified structural
impi--ovi:uuente,
to
match original or adjacent
exposed construction: interior and exterior.
budget
Also, although
i~~oollllllc:ind
$
960.00
not absolutely required structurally, we
ttoit the addition be tarn down in its entirety
and properly rebuilt. In doing so, this structure would
contribute to the stability of the original building
while following an improved architectural design.
CONCLUSION
The above-listed observations and subsequently devised
recommendations are rendered to show the reasonable
minimum requirements to adequately rehabilitate the
structure and allow architectural and related utility
improvements to follow. While the superstructure needs
work as specified to be restored to level and near-plumb
condition, the general intent of the Engineer is to
require a new, structurally sound foundation and in
doing so,
achieve the additional benefit of a clean,
dry, and usable basement.
�7.45-6596
RosERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
Xarch 18,1991
Assoc1ATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
Mr. William Luster
Salem Planning Dep~~truent
One Salem Green
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Dear Mr. Luster:
Enclosed herewith please find our report on the structural
condition of the above-referenced building per your request.
f:J~lne r-epor·t
outlines the remedial construction necessary to
prevent further deterioration of the structure and aseu~e
greater safety to its occupants.
If you require additional information relevant to this
matter - or our services in another project - please advise.
Respectfully submi~t~,
fl~r~ H-f?.,
\
_,.,
Robert M. Rumpf, P. ·. 'B.
.:
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Crombie Street
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18 Crombie Street, Salem, MA 01970
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The William Pike House. Built for Samuel Ferguson, painter, by 1831
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Rory Goff
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English
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1831
1990
by
Crombie
Ferguson
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Samuel
Street
William Pike
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Laurel Street
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18 Laurel Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1840s
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1987
Ebenezer Morse
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Salem
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Northey Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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18 Northey Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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George Brown, Jr. housewright and stairbuilder, 1839
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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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1839, 1979
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Joyce King
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English
18
1839
1979
George Brown Jr
History
House
Joyce King
Massachusetts
Northey Street
Salem
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Orne Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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18 Orne Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Joshua Upham, chemist, 1835
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1835, 1976
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Robert Booth
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English
18
1835
1976
History
House
Joshua
Massachusetts
Orne
Salem
Street
Upham
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Webb Street
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18 Webb Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Henry P. Hood, trader, by 1840
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1840, 1980
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King
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English
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1840
1980
by
Henry
History
Hood
House
Massachusetts
P.
Salem
Street
Webb
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Williams Street
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18 Williams Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built by Benjamin Crombie, housewright by 1800
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1800, 1983
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King
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1800
1983
Benjamin
by
Crombie
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House
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Williams
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Winter Street
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18 Winter Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Reverend James Conway, 1848 (pastor, st. Mary’s Church)
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1848, 1978
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19 Flint Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1871 for Leonard
Harrington, leather dealer.
On 18 March 1871 Leonard B. Harrington Jr. for $3000 purchased from Samuel P.
Andrews a parcel of land, 8058 square feet, fronting easterly 60' on Flint Street
(ED 818: 145). At about the same time, Mr. Hanington exchanged small gores of
land, which helped to square off the house-lot (ED 819:89). Mr. Harrington, thiliy,
then proceeded to build the present house on the lot, probably in the spring of
1871. (Salem valuations for 1871 have the penciled notation that Leonard
Harrington had a new house at 7 Flint Street, house worth $7000, lot worth $2000).
Leonard B. Harrington Jr. was born in Salem on 8 September 1841, the son of
Leonard B. Harrington, a currier, and his wife Margaret C. Hersey. Leonard was
the last of their four children. An infant, also named Leonard, had died in 1834,
while Henry and Mary Elizabeth had survived.
Leonard grew up in a house on upper Federal Street. His father, born in 1803, was
a native of Salem, the son of Charles Harrington, who had come to Salem from
Watertown after the end of the war for independence. L.B. Harrington Sr. went to
sea at thirteen, but soon gave up that life and was apprenticed to a currier in
Roxbury. In 1824 he began as a journeyman currier, curing leather to be used to
make various items such as shoes, saddles, etc. In 1829 he went into business for
himself; and in January, 1831 he married Margaret Hersey of Roxbury. In the
1830s he formed a partnership with Henry Turner as Harrington & Turner,
curriers, with their leather operation situated at 35 Boston Street, Salem. At first
the Harringtons resided on upper Essex Street, but by 1841, when Leonard Jr. was
born, they had a house on Federal Street (evidently #153, where they certainly
resided in the 1850s).
In the decade before Leonard's birth, Salem's maritime commerce had waned.
The merchants had taken their equity out of wharves and warehouses and ships and
put it into manufacturing and transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals
in the 1830s diverted both capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants
did not make the transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like ropemaking, sail-making, and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared.
Well into the 1830s, Salem slumped badly.
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�Despite its woes, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built in
1837-8 on Washington Street and the city seal was adopted with an alreadyanachronistic Latin motto of "to the farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from
"Go West, young man!" The Panic of 1837, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic
depression, caused even more Salem families to head west in search of fortune and
a better future. Salem had not prepared for the industrial economy, and had few
natural advantages. The North River served not to power factories but mainly to
carry the waste from the many tanneries (23 by 1832), like L.B. Harrington's, that
had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the leaders of Salem scrambled
to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many of whom were mariners
without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and hard work would have to
carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, which was Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise. At the plant built in 1817 on the North River, the
production of alum and blue vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful
business. Salem's whale-fishery, active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in
the 183 Os, to the manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with
machine oils. The candles proved very popular. Some of the whale-blubber was
perhaps processed on Boston Street, at "Blubber Hollow." Lead-manufacturing
began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the
Forest River were retooled for making high-quality white lead and sheet lead (the
approach to Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill, although the empty mill
buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8 the
Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave the
people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market. The
tam1ing and curing of leather was a very important industry by the mid- l 800s. It
was conducted on and near Boston Street, along the upper North River. There
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The leather
business would continue to grow in importance throughout the 1800s.
In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at
Stage Point of the largest factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400'
long. It was an immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment
there, many of them living in industrial tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s,
a new method was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe
production. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the
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�nation's leading shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe
workers from outlying towns and country areas. Even the population changed, as
hundreds of Irish families, fleeing the Famine, settled in Salem; and the men went
to work in the factories and as laborers. At that time the Catholics worshipped at
St. Mary's Church, which stood nearby at the corner of Bridge and Mall Streets.
In the face of all this change, some members of Salem's waning merchant class
continued to pursue their sea-borne businesses; but even the conditions of shipping
changed, and Salem was left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships
replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had sailed around the world; and the
clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too large for Salem
and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of little more than Zanzibartrade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and
building timber. By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port. A picture
of Salem's sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in his "introductory section"
(really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter, which he began while working in
the Custom House.
The symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large twin-towered granite
train station, built in 1848-9 on filled-in land at the foot of Washington Street,
where before had been the merchants' wharves. The 1850s brought continued
growth: new churches, schools, streets, stores, etc. More Catholic churches were
built, and new housing was constructed in North Salem and the Gallows Hill areas
to accommodate the workers. A spur railroad line came in from Peabody (South
Danvers), past the end of Northey Street, and turned down Saunders Street, where
it crossed Bridge Street and ran on to Phillips Wharf, where the trains freighted
coal and catTied it all the way to the factories of Lowell.
In 1860, Leonard Hmrington (Jr.), 19, was listed as residing at his father's house,
153 Federal Street, and working in Boston as a clerk at 91 Milk Street (1861 Salem
Directory). At home lived his parents, his brother Henry, 27, a clerk, his sister
Mary, 21, and a servant, Eliza Derrell, 25. Mr. L.B. Harrington then owned real
estate worth $10, 000 and had $100, 000 in personal estate ( 18 60 census, ward four,
house 1942).
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or died
of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. In mid-September, 1862,
Leonard Harrington, 21, enlisted for nine months in the U.S. Army, as a private in
the 50th regiment of Mass. Volunteer Infantry, which had many Salem men. He
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�was assigned to Company A (the Salem Light Infantry), under Capt. George D.
Putnam. After encamping in New York for some weeks, Company A embarked on
Dec. 13 on the transport Jersey Blue, bound for the Gulf of Mexico; however, once
at sea, the vessel proved unseaworthy and made an emergency landing in a storm
at Hilton Head, SC. On another vessel they made their way to New Orleans,
arriving Jan. 20, 1863 and proceeding upriver to Baton Rouge, where they camped
and prepared for combat. After some skirmishing and many long marches,
Leonard Harrington and the other men of Company A were engaged in May and
June in the bloody attacks on Port Hudson, which finally surrendered after a siege.
In August the men were sent home, and arrived by train in Salem on August 11th,
"thus completing an exceedingly arduous term of service, which left its marks
deeply upon all of the command." (see George D. Putnam's article in Hurd's
History ofEssex County).
The war continued, and Leonard Harrington resumed his job in Boston and his
place in his father's house on Federal Street. The people of Salem contributed
greatly to efforts to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and their
families; and there was great celebration when the war finally ended in the spring
of 1865.
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Holly Street). For the
workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company would
be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing also
continued to expand, and by 1879 Salem would have 40 shoe factories employing
600-plus operatives. More factories and more people required 1nore space for
buildings, more roads, and more storage areas. Salem kept building infrastructure;
and new businesses arose, and established businesses expanded. Retail stores
prospered, and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived.
In the 1870s, French-Canadian families began moving to Salem to work in the
mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were built in what had been
open areas of the city.
During this period of industrial expansion, Leonard's father, Leonard B.
Harrington Sr., was one of the leaders of the city's profitable leather industry.
Leonard Jr. continued to work in Boston (at 93 Pearl Street by 1871) and to board
at his father's at 153 Federal Street (see 1872 Salem Director).
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�In 1871 Mr. Harrington, who was engaged to marry Ellen P. Langmaid, had this
house built in the then-popular French Empire style, four-square with mansard roof
and some Italianate trim. They married on December 4 111 • That year, 1871, was
uneventful in Salem, which, in 1870, had received its last cargo from Zanzibar,
thus ending a once-impmiant trade. President U.S. Grant passed through Salem in
October, 1871; and a new Salem & New York freight steamboat line was in
operation. In 1872, a fire destroyed a tam1ery on Franklin Street in North Salem,
near the site of a similar fire in 1870. Leonard Harrington kept commuting to his
job; and on Nov. 9th the financial and manufacturing district of the city of Boston
was destroyed in a terrible fire. It is likely that Mr. Harrington's office was among
the many consumed in that infe1no, one of worst urban fires in American history.
Boston rebuilt, and Mr. Harrington carried on his business in downtown Boston.
In 1873, the Harringtons had a child, a girl whom they named Mabel.
Salem continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leather-making
business. In 1874 the city was visited by a tornado and shaken by a minor
earthquake. In the following year, the large Pennsylvania Pier (site of the present
coal-fired harborside electrical generating plant) was completed to begin receiving
large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new owner began
subdividing the old Allen farmlands into a new development called Salem Willows
and Juniper Point. In the Centennial Year, 1876, Prof. A.G. Bell of Salem
announced that he had discovered a way to transmit voices over telegraph wires;
and in 1877, with the arrival of a vessel from Cayenne, Salem's foreign trade came
to an end. On Boston Street in 1879, the Arnold tannery caught fire and burned
down.
Through this period, the Harringtons appear to have lived in comfort in their nice
house. In 1880 the family resided here (Leonard Harrington, 39, leather dealer, his
wife Ellen, 34, their daughter Mabel C., six), along with two servants, Sophia
Baudrot, originally of Nova Scotia, and Nellie Cobane, 17 (1880 census, ED 234 p.
42).
By 1881 this house was re-numbered 6 Flint Street. The Harringtons lived here;
Mr. Harrington worked in Boston at 161 Summer Street, as a leather dealer in his
partnership, Harrington & Cummings. Mr. Harrington's father, Mr. L.B.
Harrington Sr., continued operating his very successful leather factory on Highland
Avenue, Salem. In the fall of 1886 the leather workers went on strike, and there
was a riot on Boston Street on Nov. 25, followed three days later by a settlement.
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�In 1887 the John Bertram house, nearby on Essex Street, was donated to the city
for a public library; and there was a great parade of temperance clubs.
Leonard Harrington kept commuting to Boston through the very cold winter of
1887-1888. On January 26, 1888, occurred a total eclipse of the moon, which Mr.
Harrington probably observed. He fell ill in February; and on the morning of 4
March 1888, a Sunday, he died here at home, aged 47 years. His obituary noted
that he was a member of the firm of Harrington & Cummings, leather dealers, in
Boston, and that he belonged to Post 34 of the Grand Army of the Republic. His
death was "quite sudden." He left his widow Ellen and daughter, Mabel, as well as
his father, who would die in 1889.
In the years that followed, Mrs. Ellen P. Harrington resided here. Her daughter
Mabel married a Mr. Buck.minster, and moved to Burlington, Mass.
After withstanding the pressures of the new industrial city for about 50 years,
Salem's rivers began to disappear. The once-broad North River was filled from
both shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the N01ih Bridge. The
cove adjoining Northey Street was filled in from Bridge Street all the way to the
railroad tracks. The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area
between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street, and Loring Avenue, finally
vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots.
The South River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a
Custom House built there in 1805), disappeared under the pavement of Riley Plaza
and New Derby Street, and its old wharves (even the mighty Union Wharf,
formerly Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street) were joined together with much
in-fill and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was left, running
in from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street.
In the early 20th century large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families came to
Salem and settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By the eve of
World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
depaiiment stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were lively,
and its economy was strong.
In 1911 Mrs. HaITington 1noved to Burlington, probably to live with her daughter;
and the house was then occupied by Walter C. HaITis, who worked in Boston as a
private secretary at 50 State Street (see 1912 Directory). Mr. Harris, who had
grown up on Bridge Street, had resided at 15 Winter Street in 1911. Mrs.
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�Harrington returned to Salem by August, 1913, when her daughter Mrs.
Buckminster granted her a life estate in the homestead here (ED 2227:291).
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke
(passing by not far from the back yard of this house), wiping out the houses of
lower Boston Street, upper Essex Street, Warren Street, and upper Broad Street,
and then sweeping tlu·ough Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential
streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into
South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then
devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the
tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many
towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the
large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress
Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and
across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour
rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41
factories, and leaving tlu·ee dead and thousands homeless. Some people had
insurance, some did not; all received much suppmi and generous donations from
all over the country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the
history of the United States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover
from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were
rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard,
which involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
Mrs. Ellen Harrington left town again, never to return. She was dead by March,
1918, when the homestead here was sold by her daughter Mrs. Mabel (Harrington)
Henderson, of Burlington, to John H. Sullivan of Salem, who immediately
conveyed the premises to his wife, Margaret P. Sullivan (ED 2387:470, 471). The
Sullivans would reside here for many years. Mr. Sullivan was president of his own
company (the J.H. Sullivan Co., formerly the P.J. Smith Co.), with a facility at 30
Foster Street for manufacturing cement counters for the shoe industry. He was
born in 1875 in Massachusetts of parents born in Ireland. He married, by 1907,
Margaret, who was a year older and of similar background. They had a son
William T., born c.1906, and a daughter Mary born c.1917 (per 1920 census, ED
265, SD5).
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�By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s. Eventually, the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the
relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many
other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present
with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also
from its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley,
Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the oldtime mariners, mill-operatives, and leather-dealers are all honored as a large part of
what makes Salem different from any other place.
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 20 Dec. 2002
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�Glossary & Sources
A figure like (ED 123:45) refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South registry of Deeds,
Federal Street, Salem.
A figure like (#12345) refers to Essex Probate case 12345, on file at the Essex Probate
Court, Federal Street, Salem, or on microfilm at Mass. Archives, Boston, or at the Peabody
Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem.
MSSRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
MSSCRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers, Sailors, & Afarines in
the Civil War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
EIHC refers to the Essex Institute Historical Collections (discontinued), a multi-volume set
(first volume published in 1859) of data and articles about Essex County. The indices of
the EIHC have been consulted regarding many of the people associated with this house.
The six-volume published Salem Vital records (marriages, births, and deaths through
1849) have been consulted, as have the Salem Directory and later Naumkeag Directory,
which have information about residents and their addresses, etc.
Sidney Perley's three-volume Hist01y ofSalem, 1626-1716 has been consulted, as has the
four-volume William Bentley's Diary, J. Duncan Phillips' books, some newspaper
obituaries, and other sources.
Salem real estate valuations, and, where applicable, Salem Street Books, have also been
consulted, as bave genealogies.
Tbere is mucb more material available about Salem and its history; and the reader is
encouraged to make bis or her own discoveries.
--Robert Bootb
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4-10 Central Street & 193-195 Essex Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this building was built in 1805 for the merchants
B. Herbert Hathorne and W. Shepard Gray, as a brick block that housed stores
and a residence.
Before 1805 ...
Sidney Perley, in the article "A Part of Salem in 1700" (pp.109-110, Essex
Antiquarian, vol. 11 ), writes that on the site of this building was the lot, with house,
that William Browne sold to Thomas Cromwell, tailor, in 1664. After Cromwell's
death (17 March 1686/7), in 1690 his widow, Ann, and two daughters, Mrs.
Jonathan (Jane) Pickering and Mrs. David (Ann) Phippen, sold the house and land to
Benjamin Browne, merchant (ED 8: 170), who had a stable and warehouse farther
down the street, and his shipping wharf at its foot. By 1693 he had sold the house
and its land to David Phippen, shipwright, son-in-law of the earlier owner Mr.
Cromwell. M~. Phippen died in 1703, leaving his widow Ann, son Thomas Phippen,
and daughters Abigail Fumeux, Anne Ropes, and Elizabeth Webb. In May, 1714,
John Brown, merchant, bought the house and land; and by the time of his death in
1719 the house was evidently gone.
This property was owned by Hon. Benjamin Browne at his death in 1750.
In the 1760s a Scotch sailor, Robert Rantoul, came to Salem and settled here. He
prospered as a shipmaster, and sailed against the British in the Revolution, and made
money as a privateer; and, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, Capt. Rantoul,
on 5 December 1782 for 850 Ii purchased from the heirs of Hon. Benjamin Browne
(John & Martha Browne and Timothy & Eunice Fitch) a lot and buildings at the
westerly corner of the "main street" (Essex) and "the lane leading to the water"
(Central), about 20 poles of land fronting 50' northerly on the street, and 120'
easterly on the lane. There was "a warehouse or small building standing on the
northeast comer thereof." Capt. Rantoul intended to build his residence thereon, and
on Dec. 20th contracted with Eleazer Lindsey to supply the rocks for a cellar 40'
square and 6.5' deep. Unfortunately, Capt. Rantoul was lost at sea on his next
voyage (see EIHC 5:147).
At that time, Central Street--"the lane leading to the water," also known as "the
street leading from the Sun tavern to the South River"-terminated in a public
�landing on the inner harbor (South River), at a point just south of its present
intersection with Charter and Front Streets. The "lane" became Market Street as of
1794, when, at the foot of the street, a new market building was erected for the sale
of fish, shellfish, meat, and produce from the countryside. Later it would be renamed Central Street, probably c.1816, when a new Market Building was built at
Derby Square.
The comer property remained in the ownership of the Rantoul family for many
years; and on the land stood at least one house and three shops, one of them being
the small warehouse mentioned in the 1782 deed to Capt. Rantoul. The Rantoul
family resided on Essex Street, opposite Union. Robert Rantoul (1778-1858), in a
memoir of his life and family, mentions his father's ownership of this property and
notes that it was sold in November, 1804, to W.S. Gray and B.H. Hathorne for
$8500, and that "Gray and Hathorne build a brick block of stores and houses upon
it" (EIHC 5:149). This statement is corroborated by Benjamin F. Browne, in his
Youthfitl Recollections of Salem, published in 1869 (EIHC 49:204), in which he
wrote that a house had been "removed (to Andrew Street) from Central Street to
make room for the Central building, erected by W.S. Gray and Benj. H. Hathorne, in
1805. This house belonged to "Joseph Young, hatter, and organist of St Peter's
Church, who died April 21, 1803, aged 46." In another piece, B.F. Browne wrote,
"Previous to the erection of the Central Building in 1805, there were several old
wooden buildings on this lot of land ... The western shop I principally remember as
being kept by a Mrs. Baldwin. Nathaniel Weston had a shoemaker's shop in one of
them. It (Mrs. Baldwin's) was much resorted to by the boys of that time for the
purchase of marbles and other knickknacks. The old lady came to an untimely end
(March, 1808) from eating bread in the meal of which some arsenic had been
incautiously used in the bread. Joseph Young had a hatter's shop and dwelling
house on Central Street. It was moved to Andrew Street ... " (EIHC 5: 197).
There are other records of the buildings that stood here before 1805. Samuel Webb,
silversmith, had a shop here on Central Street, pre-1805 (see B.F. Browne, 1869
Youthful Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:204). And in his 1793 Account ofHouses
in Salem (EIHC 6:94), Benjamin Pickman mentions that, on land owned by the
widow "Rentall" (Rantoul), stood, on Essex Street, a shop owned by Mr. William
King. To the west of that shop had stood two small houses that had burned down in
1792. To the west of those houses, on Essex Street, stood the house of Dr. Edward
Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829). East of the King shop, also on land ofMrs.
Rantoul, stood a "hatter's shop, owned by Mr. Breck the hatter." Col. Pickman
identified the comer property as "formerly owned by the Brownes."
�In July, 1792, Edward Breck, Salem hatter, purchased for 15 Ii the east end of a
house that was "standing on the land ofRentall's heirs" (ED 154:265). The house
was the one that was owned by Joseph Young, hatter, who may have resided in its
westerly end, and who had mortgage the easterly end in 1787 and lost it on
foreclosure. Mr. Breck mortgaged his new homestead to Mrs. Mary Rantoul for 3 0
li, and paid off the loan by April, 1795 (ED 154:266).
Rev. William Bentley, in his diary, gives an account of the 1792 fire, on August 30th.
The fire broke out at 1 PM in Young's hatter's shop, which stood opposite the Sun
Tavern (on north side of Essex Street). Next to the shop were the small dwellings of
the widows Beckford and Manning. The season had been dry, and the firefighters
were disorganized: the fire spread westerly from the shop to the "small house" next
door, which could not be saved; and the firefighters quicldy demolished the house
next westerly, to keep the fire from spreading. Mrs. Manning in particular suffered
greatly from her losses in this fire. Mr. Bentley was one of the fire-fighters, and, in
order to get the water up to the fire, stood waist-deep in "the dock mud below the
Sun Tavern," meaning next to the wharf at the foot of Market Street.
From this, it would appear that, in the years before the present Hathorne-Gray block
was built, there was a hatter's shop at or near the comer of Essex and Market
(Central) in 1793, conducted by both Breck and Young, and that the Breck-Young
house on Market Street was removed to Andrew Street in 1805 to make way for the
building of this large new business block. Also on or near the comer was the shop
of the ill-fated Mrs. Baldwin. On Essex Street, west of the corner, also on the site of
this building, was the shop of William King; and to the south, on Market Street, was
Samuel Webb's silversmith shop, along with the shoemaker's shop ofNathaniel
Weston. Too, Samuel Rantoul, son of the deceased owner, kept an apothecary shop
here. Samuel died in June, 1802, while away from Salem. Bentley noted in his
diary, 13 June 1802, "The father of S. Rantoul sustained an excellent character and
died just before I came to Salem. His widow lived in the same house in which I first
dwelt. The father left a good interest and to his heirs belongs the western comer of
Market Street in Essex Street, at which Samuel kept an apothecary's shop. Robert
keeps an apothecary's shop in Beverly." Robert, after whom Rantoul Street in
Beverly is named, became a leading man of Essex County.
Before April, 1800, the store at the comer of the two streets was operated by john
Dabney, stationer, as a post office and a book store-one of the earliest attempts at a
private lending library, which was renowned for the excellence of its volumes. On 29
April 1800 for $400 Mr. Dabney sold his building, on the Rantouls' land, to Robe1i
Rantoul (ED 168 :69).
�1805 and Afterward ...
On 3 November 1804 the Rantoul heirs sold the premises here for $8,500 to William
Shepard Gray and Benjamin Herbe1i Hathorne, Salem merchants (ED 175: 108). The
property was described as a piece of land containing about 20 poles, bounded northerly
on Essex Street, easterly on market Street, and southerly and westerly on land of Dr.
Edward A. Holyoke; and it was stipulated that the Rantouls "and others who have
placed and have buildings standing on said piece of land," had "the right to move the
same buildings and each of them from the same place of land upon paying the ground
rent ... within four months from this day." Presumably the Rantouls and the others did
clear their buildings off the land by February, 1805; certainly the Young house was
moved to Andrew Street and perhaps the shops and other buildings also found new
sites.
The new owners, Messrs. Gray & Hathorne, on the day of the purchase, took out
mortgages from Miss Polly Rantoul of Salem for $2,833.33 and from her brother,
Robert Rantoul, Beverly apothecary, for $4,666.66 (ED 175:108,109). Thus the
merchants had but $1,000 in equity invested in the property at the time of purchase.
There is little doubt that Messrs. Gray & Hathorne had big plans for the site at the time
that they bought it. Perhaps they had gone to Samuel Mcintire, the noted Salem
architect, for a design for their intended brick business block, which also included at
least one residential unit. In his study of the works of Mcintire, Fiske Kimball was
unable to uncover proof ofMcintire's involvement in the project, but, due to the
carving of the eagle for one of the new tenants, the U.S. Custom House, and due to the
building's similarity to a known Mcintire composition (the Steams & Waldo block,
now gone, once at the n01iheast coiner of Essex & Washington), he felt that Samuel
Mcintire was likely the designer (see Kimball's Mr. Samuel Mcintire, Carver, The
Architect of Salem). Kimball also traces the whereabouts of some of the building's
interior fittings, which were dispersed to various houses over the years.
For Mr. Gray, the building was evidently an investment and an income-producer; for
Mr. Hathorne, it was also the new home of his import dry-goods business. Benjamin H.
Hathorne (1773-1824) dealt in British textiles-blankets and cloths-in the days when
there were virtually no textiles manufactured in America. On Oct. 2, 1805, he
submitted an adve1iisement to the Salem Register newspaper. The notice began, "Benj.
H. Hathorne Has Removed to the New Brick STORE, corner of Essex and Market
Street, near the Banks, and has ready for sale, a great variety of Fall and Winter
Goods," which are enumerated. The building was completed and occupied, then, by
�September of 1805. It was not at first called the Central Building, but was given that
name by 1808.
Another early tenant was the firm of Derby & Cross, tailors, whose store was here by
Nov. 28, 1805. Their advertisement (sample: Salem Register, 6 Jan. 1806) ran "Derby
& Cross, Tailors, respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have
removed from their former stand to the chamber fronting Market and Essex Streets, of
the new brick building, where they will be happy to receive orders in their line, and
every favor gratefully acknowledged. Wanted: Two Journeymen at the above."
A major tenant of the new brick building was the U.S. Custom House, for which
Samuel Mcintire carved the eagle with the date 1805. At that time, Market Street was
the major thoroughfare to the waterside of the inner harbor (South River), which ran
past the market place; and the area was thick with the masts of vessels tied up alongside
wharves and warehouses. Froin the foot of Market Street, Front Street ran westerly
along the waterfront, while Fish Street and Water Streets ran past the buildings whose
yards backed against the wall of the Burying Point graveyard. These salty streets had
houses, wharves, stores, lofts, shops, and distilleries. Market Street made the transition
from the hurly-burly of the waterfront to the residences and stores of Essex Street. On
the lower part of Market Street, between the new Hathorne-Gray building and Front
Street, were houses; and across the street were fine houses (including some marching up
Charter Street), a tavern, and a bank building and insurance office. At the moment that
the new building was built, one of the houses across the street was the double residence
of Nathaniel Bowditch, the navigator and author (and new president of an insurance
company) and Col. William Raymond Lee, formerly of Marblehead, whom Jefferson
had in 1802 appointed Collector of the Port of Salem & Beverly, and at whose direction
the U.S. Custom House was moved to the new brick building of Hathorne & Gray.
Bowditch moved in the year 1805 to Summer Street, but Col. Lee remained a resident
of Market Street.
The colonial (royal) Custom House in Salem had been situated in a house on Gedney
Court, off High Street, and later on Essex Street in a building that was demolished to
prevent the spread of the great fire of October, 1774. In 1776 Warwick Palfrey was
appointed the first Collector of U.S. Customs in Salem; and his office was located at or
near the Curwen house (now called the "Witch House"), corner of Essex and North
Streets. lvir. Palfrey was succeeded in 1784 by Maj. Joseph Hiller. Major Hiller served
ably for 18 years, during the last 13 of which the Custom House offices were kept in a
building across the street from the site of this one. How many rooms here were devoted
to the federal Customs operations in 1805 is not known; certainly not the whole
building. In those days, Salem was one of the leading ports of the nation, and the value
�of Salem cargoes accounted for about one-twentieth of all federal revenues, which were
largely derived from tariffs on foreign imports. At that time, Salem's merchants owned
a total of 54 ships, 18 barks, and 72 brigs (there were 86 schooners as well, probably
engaged in fishing and coasting for wood).
In 1807, per D.M. Little's article, the Custom House offices were moved to the house of
Mr. Bentley's great friend Dr. Moses Little at 131 Essex Street, and in 1811 to the
Archer Building (site of Hawthorne Hotel); however, I believe this could not be
completely true, for in May, 1809, just after the Embargo was lifted, the Custom House
offices were evidently on the second or third floor of the Central (Hathorne-Gray)
Building (see 1809 Peter Lander advertisement below). In 1813, per the article, the
Custom House offices were moved back into the Central Building here; and evidently
Col. William R. Lee, the Collector, also had his residence here. The Central Building
here remained the home of the Custom House until the opening of the new building at
the head of Derby Wharf, the handsome brick U.S. Custom House, now part of the
federal maritime park. (For information about the Custom House and Collectors, see
R.S. Rantoul's article, The Port of Salem, EIHC 10:62; see also EIHC 67:11, David M.
Little's article, History of the Salem Custom House)).
Of the owners of the building, their careers were in full swing as of 1805.
Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (1773-1824) was born on 9 Sept 1773, the son of Col. John
Hathorne and his wife Susannah Herbert, the daughter of Capt. Benjamin Herbert, after
whom Herbert Street was named. His father was a prominent merchant in Salem, with
a large brick house built in 1774-1775 in Essex Street west of Washington Street, which
is where Benjamin grew up, the eldest of 14 children. In the house was Col. Hathome's
dry-goods store (EIHC 6:108). By early manhood, Benjamin H. was known as Herbert
Hathorne. His brothers John and William were merchants as well, and his eccentric
younger brother Ebenezer (1789-1858) would become a mariner and adventurer who
went west but finally settled down in Salem as a farmer and nurseryman. The Colonel,
a prominent local Jeffersonian politician, had his town house and a farmhouse on Salem
Neck, around where the power plant complex now is. In 1809 he moved permanently
to the farmhouse (where he would die in 1835), and sold the town house to his son
William, who rented it to Joshua Dodge in 1809. Like all Salem Hathornes of that time,
Benjamin's father was descended from Col. John Hathorne, one of the justices of the
witchcraft trials in 1692. The Hathorne family had been prominent in early Salem
history, but by 1800 they were of varying fortunes. Col. John's branch was foremost.
One of Benjamin Herbert Hathorne's first cousins was Capt. Nathaniel Hathorne (17751808), of Union Street, whose son, Nathaniel Jr., born in 1804, would grow up to
�become Hawthorne, the writer. Hawthorne changed the spelling of the name because
he did not like the way that "Hathorne" was pronounced, especially in Salem, where it
was invariably pronounced "Har-thorne."
On 31 July 1799, "Herbert Harthorne married Miss Hall", per the diary of Miss Susann
Holyoke (1779-1860) (see Holyoke Diaries, p.175). This is the only record of this
marriage. Miss Hall was Rebecca Hall, evidently from Boston. The couple would not
have children, but would adopt a daughter, Rebecca Hathorne Hall, born in 1813,
evidently a daughter of Mrs. Hall's brother James. As has been noted, B. Herbert
Hathorne went into business as a dry goods merchant, importing English textiles and
selling them here in his shop, which faced on Essex Street. In March, 1808, for $5,000
he mortgaged his half-interest in the land and the "large brick tenement thereon ...
known by the name of Central building" (ED 182:233).
Wm. Shepard Gray (1773-1824), the other owner of the building, was born in Salem on
30 July 1773, the son of a house-painter, William Gray, and his wife Susannah Shepard.
His father owned a house on the north side of Charter Street, not far from Central
Street. The son changed his name by an act of the legislature in 1798, from William to
William Shepard Gray, because there were five other William Grays in Salem at the
time, including William "Billy" Gray, the eminent merchant, to whom this Gray was
not related. Wm. Shepard Gray married Ann Knight Morland in Newburyport in 1798.
In August, 1800, he was described as "a scribe" when he purchased a piece of land and
a house on upper Federal Street. In 1805 it seems that he worked for the Essex Bank,
preparing loan documents and other instruments. He would later become a ship-owner
and merchant while maintaining his position with the Essex Bank.
In 1805 a bridge was built across the South River, extending Market Street across the
water and connecting it with a new roadway (now known as Lafayette Street) through
the South Fields. The new bridge, which was proposed by the Derby family as a
convenience and in order to help develop their South Salem holdings, was opposed by
the Crowninshields and by William Orne, Joshua Ward, and others who owned wharves
west of it on the South River. At the time of the building of the bridge, evidently, the
market house was moved away.
On 3 November 1807 William Bentley made his first visit to the Hathorne-Gray
building, which now housed the Essex Lodge of Masons. The Lodge, he noted, "has a
new hall in the new brick building, comer of Essex & Market Streets, on the west side
entering Market Street. It was handsomely decorated, the officers enthroned and the
floors spread with carpets and the officers supplied with badges and the apartment with
furniture far above the ancient style. I had never seen the place before. We had a full
�company, an initiation lecture, and a good supper, and parted apparently well pleased
with each other."
On 12 December 1808, Rev. William Bentley composed a letter to William Logan of
Charleston, in which he wrote, "Were you to visit Salem, you would discover great
changes in this town, since your last tarry with us. The encouragement given to brick
buildings has added much to the appearance of Salem. A large block of buildings forms
the comer of1'farket Street, and the market house is removed, and a bridge passes over
South River ... " (EIHC 82:381). This was the period of the Embargo, in which all
foreign commerce was prohibited by the federal government, in an effort to cut off
England from needed supplies, and force the English to stop preying on American
shipping. The Embargo, which was a policy failure and which was disastrous in
bringing all of Salem's commerce to a halt, and throwing all of the mariners out of
work, was removed early in 1809; and foreign commerce resumed.
In May, 1809, Peter Lander, a financial broker, moved into the building, which was
then known as the Central Building. On 10 May 1809 (in the Essex Register
newspaper), a notice ran as follows:
"Insurance, Stock & Exchange Office. Peter Lander informs his friends and the
public that he has taken an office in Central Building, under the Custom House,
and offers his services in the Insurance Stock & Exchange business, where
insurance may be made against all risks, a premium always named proportioned
to the nature of the risk, and the terms and conditions of insurance known upon
application. Likewise, (he) advances money on goods deposited for sale,
purchases and sells public stocks, bills of exchange, shares of any bank and
insurance companies, and negotiable notes, and transacts any other business in
the broker's line."
He also noted "8,000 or 10,000 weight heft green Martinique coffee in casks, for sale
by said Lander."
In the same issue William Hathorne, Jr., ran advertisements offering his father's former
brick house and two stores for sale, and hawking
"Cotton Yam, cheap as can be had at the Manufactory. American, water-spun,
cotton warp & filling, directly from the Smithfield Cotton Manufactory, for sale
at the sign of the subscriber, William Hathorne, Jr., also a small quantity of first
quality knitting yam."
From this, it is apparent that William dealt (sometimes, anyway) in the new Americanmade cotton yams manufactured in Rhode Island; and he had a store here. In 1810,
�another tenant was the Salem Athenaeum, whose library of books and reading rooms
were located here.
In June, 1810, Mr. W. Shepard Gray was owner of the 113-ton brig Mary, Capt.
William Scallon, engaged in foreign trade; and in October, 1810, .Nir. Gray and Robert
.Nforland (his brother-in-law perhaps) were owners of the same vessel, now commanded
by Capt. William Lander (EIHC 41 :144). In December, 1810, he and two others owned
the 133-ton schooner Eliza, registered for foreign trade under Capt. Nathaniel Archer
(EIHC 40:72). In February, 1811, Mr. Gray was one of five owners of the 128-ton
schooner Rising States, Capt. Samuel Lamson, engaged in foreign trade (EIHC 41 :329).
In March, 1812, he was sole owner of the Rising States, Capt. Peter Lander, registered
for overseas trade (EIHC 41 :329). And in September, 1812, he was owner of the brig
Mary, registered for trade under Capt. Benjamin Archer (EIHC 41: 144).
Messrs. Hathorne and Gray owned the building jointly until 16 January 1811, when
they made a division of the property, with Gray receiving the largest portion (ED
192:198). To Hathorne went $500 and the northern end of the lot, with the buildings on
and cellar under, fronting 33' on Market Street, the running 40' westerly through the
northerly partition wall, then running another 10' on a piece of land left in common,
then running northerly 29' by land of Edward A. Holyoke Esq., then running easterly
50' on Essex Street, together with a right of the eaves droppings at the south side of the
southwesterly comer of the buildings (probably for a supply of fresh water). The
partition wall separated the two parts of the building, but did not extend through the
roof; if it were to be so extended, the two parties agreed to bear equal expense. To Gray
went $10 and the southern part of the premises, on which stood the "dwelling house,
stores, and other buildings, and the cellars under the same," and the land fronting
easterly 87' on Market Street, southerly 50' and westerly 82' on land of Edward A.
Holyoke Esq., then running easterly 1O' on the land left in common, then running
northerly 9' to the northerly partition wall, then easterly through the wall to Market
Street. From this, it would seem that part of the southerly part of the building was used
as a residence. Mr. Gray evidently did not live there, but resided in a new house that he
had built on Federal Street. As the son of a house-painter, he had made an
extraordinary leap upward in socio-economic rank.
Salem had resumed its seafaring commerce for three years, but still the British
preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812, war was declared against Britain.
Although Salem had opposed the war as being potentially ruinous and primarily
for the benefit of the southern and western war-hawk states, yet when it came,
Salem swiftly fitted out 40 privateers manned by Marblehead and Salem crews,
who also served on U.S. Navy vessels, including the Constitution. Many more
�could have been sent against the British, but some of the Federalist merchants held
their vessels back. In addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and artillery.
Salem and Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of
British supply vessels. While many of the town's men were wounded in
engagements, and some were killed, the possible riches of privateering kept the
men returning to sea as often as possible. The first prizes were captured by a 30ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame, and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted with
one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem privateers, the Crowninshields' 350-ton ship
America was the most successful. She would capture 30-plus prizes worth more
than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. In June, 1813, off Marblehead Neck, the British frigate
Shannon defeated the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake. Salem's Federalists, some
of whom continued to oppose ..the war bitterly, would not allow their churches to be
used for the funeral of the Chesapeake's slain commander, James Lawrence
("Don't give up the ship!").
In the fall of 1813, Cushing & Appleton evidently had a bookstore in the comer
store in Mr. Hathome's part of the building. On 12 October 1813 in the Salem
Gazette, Cushing & Appleton advertised the sale of Spanish cigars and of Oliver
vVelch's new book, American Arithmetic, "adapted to the currency of the U.S.,
to which is added a concise treatise on the mensuration of planes and solids ... "
At the same store was a subscription list for those who wished to sign up for Mr.
Vincent Masi's new "school for dancing." John Fermo, broker, probably with
offices in the Central Building at the time, placed this ad (Gazette, 12 Oct. 1813):
"For Sale. Shares in Mercantile Bank. Shares in Salem Bank. Shares in
Beverly Bank. Apply to John W. Fermo, Broker, who buys and sells bills of
all incorporated banks in the Union. U.S. Treasury Notes negotiated. Also,
approved endorsed Notes, at Bank discount. Wanted: shares in Salem
Turnpike, and a Mass. State Note for $1000 or $1200. Exchange on
Baltimore for sale as above."
In April, 1814, the people gathered along the shores of Salem Neck as three sails
appeared on the horizon and came sailing on for Salem Bay. These vessels proved
to be the mighty Constitution in the lead, pursued by the smaller British frigates
Tenedos and Endymion. The breeze was light, and the British vessels gained, but
Old Ironsides made it safely into Marblehead Harbor, to the cheers of thousands.
�In June, 1814, at the meeting of the Essex Guards militia company, W. Shepard
Gray was elected lieutenant, but he declined to serve (EIHC 57:257). On 4 July
1814 the Essex Guards paraded through Salem, and Mr. Gray served as one of
the four Marshals of the Day, with an oration delivered by Leverett Saltonstall
(EIHC 57:268).
On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. At sea, as time
wore on, Salem's vessels often were captured, and its men imprisoned or killed.
After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the menfolk were
disappearing. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British prison-ships and at
Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in 1814, New England
Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to bring the war to a. close
and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy Pickering of Salem led the
extreme Federalists in proposing an ultimatum threatening New England's
seceding from the United States; but the Pickering faction was countered by
Harrison G. Otis of Boston and the moderate Federalists, who prevailed in sending
a more reasonable message to Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored. Post-war, the Salem merchants
rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide trade, slowly at first, and then to
great effect. A new U.S. Custom House would be built in 1819, on the site of the
George Crowninshield mansion, at the head of Derby Wharf.
In the spring of 1815, Jonathan P. Saunders, auctioneer, town clerk (later if not then),
and map-maker, had his office at the Central Building. On 19 April 1815 in the Essex
Register he advertised for sale "at J.P. Saunders' Store, Central Building, Market Street,
the sale of the library of the late Rev. Thomas Barnard (appended to this report). In
1820 he would publish his "Plan of the Town of Salem," an excellent chart of the city,
its streets, and landmarks.
In the fall of 1815, one of the major tenants of the building was R. F. Cloutman,
who dealt in glass, crockery, and hard-ware (see appended advertisement, 25 Oct.
1815, Essex Register). His stock consisted of everything from fish-hooks to
spectacles to shovels to elegant tea-trays, decanters, tumblers, dinner-ware. He
was still running his ads in November, 1816: "at his old stand, Central Building,"
he offered "a full assortment of crockery, china, glass, and hardware," including
tea sets, Canton and London dining sets, sickles, cutlery, pins, viol strings, Dutch
brushes, coffee mills, English shovels, etc. (appended to this report).
�The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not resumed post-war, as the
middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more powerful. and brought about
civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
(founded 1817). Salem men continued to hold high places in the federal
government: Benjamin W. Crowninshield was formerly Secretary of the Navy,
among other things. It was he who arranged for Rev. William Bentley to have his
portrait painted by James Frothingham, who was then residing in Salem. In his
diary, Bentley noted that on 20 Nov. 1818 Mr. Crowninshield escorted him to "the
apartments of a painter named Frothingham, from Charlestown," where they saw
several fine portraits and some paper profiles. Bentley, evidently impressed,
agreed to sit for Frothingham. On Nov. 23 he recorded that he went "to Mr.
Frothingham' s at the Central buildings ... and had my first sitting" that evening.
The result was a famous portrait (now displayed in East India Marine Hall at the
Peabody Essex Museum) of Mr. Bentley, one of the most extraordinary men of his
time. Later, James Frothingham had his studio on Essex Street; and in 1825 or so
he moved to Boston, and then to New York City.
In 1818 there was still good money to be made in Salem's maritime trade, but it
required a higher level of skill and perspicacity than it had in 1805. As Bentley
wrote in his diary in 1811, "While we (in Salem) went before the wind, credit was
boundless and success followed every adventurer. Since the wind has changed,
few have skill enough to navigate the troubled seas." Evidently Mr. Hathorne had
the right stuff; but Mr. Gray's skills were of a different sort.
W. Shepard Gray, as cashier of the Essex Bank for many years, was in a position
of high trust in Salem: he was, in effect, the manager of the Bank, and had access
to all of its assets, some of which were in the form of coins and specie put on
deposit by merchants and shipmasters. One depositor was Maj. Israel Foster of
Marblehead, a prominent merchant and relative of Col. W.R. Lee, the Collector of
Customs in Salem (and possibly the inhabitant of the residential part of the central
Building). Maj. Foster had deposited a large barrel of specie with the Essex Bank.
In the summer of 1818, W. Shepard Gray took an extended vacation away from
Salem. Eventually, the Bank directors became suspicious. Early in September,
1818, they concluded that the Bank had been robbed. At the time, Bentley wrote
in his diary (Sept. 5), "every inquiry detects the most fraudulent practices. A
deposit of doubloons by Foster of Marblehead has been violated, false contracts
made, and fraud practiced not only in its most artful but most shameful forms. Yet
not one word has appeared as yet, but Gust) a notice that the Cashier, who has long
�been away, has been removed. Suspicions rise in every form, and Salem lays
under the worst imputations."
In fact, Shepard Gray, the Bank's Cashier, and James King, the Bank's Clerk, had
embezzled a great deal of money from the Bank. Gray, who had left Salem, and
King, who had resigned but stayed in town, had offered the Bank's directors
$20,000, when the losses evidently amounted to about $200,000 (see Bentley,
Sept. 11 ). It would appear that Gray, King, and their partner Capt. Joseph
Moseley, a Virginian who had settled in Salem (see B.F. Browne, 1869 Youthful
Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:200), had invested in highly speculative ventures,
and had lost much of their money, which they replaced with money deposited at
the bank. In Foster's barrel of specie, they had placed ballast stones, leaving an
inch or two of coins at the top. All the rest of the Foster money, $40,000 allegedly,
was gone (the matter would later go to court, in a famous case about the liability of
banks).
In November, 1818, the Grand Jury found against Gray and King "for a conspiracy
to defraud the Bank and for violation of trust and the depredations made on the
deposits and bank interest" (per Bentley, Nov. 6). The Essex Bank directors had
handled most of the matters in secrecy, including a negotiation with Gray and
King, in which terms were given and accepted. The whole matter caused much
alarm and discontent in Salem, many of whose people had money deposited there.
Some were distraught, and one died of the shock (Bentley, ibid): "the widow of
Edward Pulling, Esq., was buried this day, an undoubted victim to her feelings
upon the loss of her property in the Essex Bank. Most of the stock-holders are
widows and orphans."
In June, 1819, Mr. Bentley reflected on the dissension among the shareholders of
the Essex Bank, which was, in fact, about to fold. "The subscribers are disposed to
make their richer members pay the loss. The President declined his office
repeatedly and undertook not to be obliged to issue any money in his signature.
But the offenders had kindred and associates in the board. To whomsoever it may
extend, it was one of the most deliberate, persevering, and complete frauds that
ever was in any country accomplished--and among a people distinguished by their
close attention, we might almost say avarice, in money matters. The business,
when it becomes a public investigation, threatens great divisions and warm
contentions."
Mr. W.S. Gray evidently never returned to Salem, but would die in Cambridge, on 27
May 1824, aged about 51 years.
�At the time ( 1819) that Mr. Gray disappeared and the Custom House offices were
moved to their new quarters, B.H. Hathorne resided in the brick Hathorne house on
Essex Street (evidently 243-5, south side, just west of Washington), probably with a
tenant, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody, and family (1820 census, p. 71). Earlier, Dr. Peabody
had lived in the house ofB.H.H. 's brother William, on Essex Street at the south comer
of Cambridge (see EIHC 21 :219). Dr. Peabody was then the father of 7 children, of
whom one, Sophia, an artist, would grow up and become the wife of Nathaniel
Hawthorne (BHH's first cousin, once removed), while another, Elizabeth P. Peabody, a
teacher, became one of the most important education theorists and reformers in
America. In the household of Mr. B.H. Hathorne in 1820 were himself, a boy, his wife,
two girls, and one young woman.
Augustus J. Archer, a dry goods merchant, wrote a series of articles for the Salem
Gazette in the early months of 1890, on the subject of Essex Street in 1820. In this
series, he related the history of "the brick building built by Benjamin H. Hathorne and
vVilliam Gray, extending into Central Street, and there occupied by the custom house
until 1819, when the U.S. Custom House was built. On the comer of Essex Street,
Cushing & Appleton, succeeded by James R. Buffum, as a book store, were located.
vVm. Hathorne had the western one; he was an Importer of broadcloths and dry goods.
The Salem Register was then established in its present quarters, Warwick Palfrey, Jr.,
the sole editor. From this, it would seem that in 1820 the comer store ofHathome's
paii of the building was occupied by Cushing & Appleton, the store next westerly was
occupied as a dry goods store by William Hathorne, and the upstairs rooms were used
as the office of the Salem Register newspaper (as they would be for decades).
In 1820 the part of the building that fronted on Central Street, and had belonged to Mr.
Gray, was sold to Samuel Tucker, a Salem merchant, for $5825.75, by John Morland,
Roxbury merchant ($800 in May), who was probably W.S. Gray's brother-in-law and
may have held a mortgage on the property, and by Joseph S. Cabot, Salem gentleman
($5025.75 in September), who had foreclosed a mortgage on W.S. Gray on 2 July 1819
(ED 222:266, 225:114). In Mr. Cabot's deed, it is specified that the property consisted
of "the dwelling house in which Samuel Tucker now resides and of the other apartments
in Central Building, so-called;" and in Mr. Morland's deed it mentions the "dwelling
house, stores, other buildings, and cellar under". So there is little doubt but that Mr.
Gray's part of the building contained a portion that had been reserved (perhaps since
1805) as a residence. Samuel Tucker, the new owner, resided here in 1820.
Of this same time (c.1820) Mr. A.J. Archer reminisced as follows. "On Central Street,
Dana & Fenno had an office for the sale of lottery tickets and a general brokerage
�business, having a Boston connection. E H. Payson had charge of this office and tells
me he was the person who built the first coal fire in Salem. Mr. Dana had seen them ir
Boston and employed John Chamberlain, mason, to set a grate in his office; Mr. Pays(
built the fire, and says people used to come in by the dozens to see it. One evening he
went to bed leaving the blower up, having forgot to remove it; of course it became red
hot, and so alarmed the passers-by that they rushed in hot haste to tell him his office
was on fire. The Insurance offices next adopted the grate, and it spread rapidly into
general use. The first furnace in the city was put in by Mr. Chamberlain at his brother'2:.
B. Porter Chamberlain, who owned and occupied the old assembly house on Federal
street. The chambers and offices on Central Street were occupied by the Salem Saving
Bank, incorporated 1818; when first organized, Willard Peele was president, and Danie
Bray treasurer. Capt. Peter Lander and his son, Peter Jr., had a private insurance office
for underwriters. Henry Pickering Esq. had a law office. The Salem Courier, Charles
A. Andrew, was started here Sept. 7, 1828; it was short lived. In 1830 the Salem Light
Infantry had two rooms in the second story for their armory."
In The Salem Gazette of 1 Feb. 1820, Cushing & Appleton advertised "Gold Leaf' and
"Almanacks for 1820," and the Salem Brewery announced that "strong and table beer,
porter, ale, yeast, porter bottles, corks, hops, malt, bottled cider, and a complete
assortment of cordials" were available at the Salem Brewery, and at the store, comer of
Essex and Cambridge Streets, also from 11 to half past 1 at the Central Building."
In 1824, B. Herbert Hathorne died (as did W.S. Gray). Mr. Hathorne owned his part of
the building outright, and owned a very large stock of dry goods, which were
enumerated in the inventory of his estate (appended to this report). By his 1823 last
will, he devised to his wife Rebecca cash, personal effects, and lifetime use of some real
estate which was to devolve to his nephew B.H. Hathorne (Jr.) after the deaths of his
wife and adopted daughter. His "land at the comer of Central Street and Essex Street
with the buildings thereon, called the Central building," he devised in trust to his
brother William Hathorne for the benefit of his sons; and upon his death it was to go the
same nephew, B.H. Hathorne (Jr.). He devised $1000 in trust for his adopted daughter,
and left generous cash bequests to other relatives. The property here would remain in
the ownership of Hathomes throughout the rest of the 19th century.
The 1820s was a decade of challenges for Salem. It struggled successfully to
maintain its overseas commerce and to open new markets for its shipping, in
Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar (1825), whence
came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and lucrative trade in
which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to all of the east
African ports. From 1827 to 1870, there were 189 arrivals in Salem from
�Zanzibar, carrying ivory, gum copal, and coffee. But in the 1820s Salem's national
influence slipped, and it was unable to develop a manufacturing base. Salem's
general maritime foreign commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports,
which were the cargoes in Salem ships, were supplanted by American goods, now
being produced in great quantities. The interior of the country was being opened
for settlement, and many Salemites moved away to these new lands of opportunity.
To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered large new textile mills
(Lowell was founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their investors; and
in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem.
In an ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its
potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
focused on damming the North River. The project, which began with much
promise, was suspended (before construction began) in 1827, which demoralized
the town even more, and caused several leading citizens to move to Boston, the
hub of investment in the new economy. In November, 1826, Joseph H. Prince,
counselor at law, advertised in the Salem Gazette his "removal" from "from his
late office, in Central Building, to the office formerly occupied by Hon. John
Pickering, in Court Street." This event, seemingly so obscure, points to a sad
fact: John Pickering VI, the ultimate Salem citizen, had decided to take his family
and his talents to Boston, where they were settled by the spring of 1827.
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt.
Joseph White, a wealthy merchant, owned and resided in the house now called the
Gardner-Pingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his
mansion and stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of
murderous thugs; but the killer was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed
himself at the Salem Jail), hired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt.
Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results
of the investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more
of the respectable families quit the notorious town.
Salem's remaining merchants had to move quickly to take their equity out of
wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into manufacturing and
transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals in the 183 Os diverted both
capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants did not make the
transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making,
and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared. Well into the 1830s,
Salem slumped badly.
�Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8 and
the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more Salem
families to head west in search of fortune and a better future. Salem had not
prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages. The North River
served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many
tanneries (23 by 1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many
of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and
hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant built
in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue vitriol
was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whale-fishery,
active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the manufacturing of
high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils. The candles proved
very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830,
when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were retooled for making highquality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to Marblehead is still called Lead
Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave
the people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market.
The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel
under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840.
The occupants of this building in the 183 Os were the Salem Light Infantry
(armory here in 1830), newspapers, banks, etc.
Rev. Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (Jr.), a Lynn bachelor clergyman (nephew of the first
BHH), the owner of the Hathorne part of the property (worth $6,000 in 1837), died in
1837, having willed all of his property to his father, William, two sisters, and three
brothers, with the survivor to inherit the full ownership.
�In 1836 (per the Essex Memorial, published in that year), the "Central Building" tenants
included two newspaper offices: that of the Essex Register and that of the Commercial
Advertiser. The Register in 1836 was published by Palfray and Chapman twice a week
and was Whig in politics; the Advertiser, founded in 1832 and edited by Palfray &
Cook, was published weekly and was Democrat in politics. In those days, the Whigs
and the Democrats maintained their own reading rooms: the former was in Holyoke
Place, off Essex Street, while the latter was located here at the "Central Building."
Also here in 183 6 (per the 183 7 Salem Directory) were the offices of the Bank of
General Interest, 4 Central Street, $400,000 in capital, William H. Russell, cashier;
directors John Russell (President), Putnam I. Farnham, Caleb Foote, John W. Fenno,
Jonathan Holman. (p.118). Also headquartered here was the Institution for Savings in
the City of Salem and Its Vicinity, 4 Central, Joseph Peabody, President; Daniel Bray,
Treasurer; Francis H. Silsbee, Secretary (p.119). The bankers who actually came to
work here each day were Daniel Bray (Institution for Savings), of 104 Essex Street, and
John Russell (Bank of General Interest), of 22 Lafayette St., and his son Wm. H.
Russell (ditto) of 2 Lafayette Street. No doubt there were clerks and tellers too.
In the 1830s, James R. Buffum "kept a book and stationery store for himself on the
western comer of Essex and Central Street ... (and) then kept a tavern at Ome's Point,
North Salem. He married Susan Mansfield ... and died 14 Feb. 1863, aged 68 years."
(see EIHC 6:212, Benja. F. Browne, Memorials of the Washington Rangers).
In the 1840s, Mr. Buffum moved out of the comer store, and Stephen Osborne took it
over. He ran a retail business in hats, caps, and furs; and Henry Osborne worked there
as a hatter (hat-maker). Stephen resided in 1841-1845 at 17 Oliver Street, while Henry
resided on "Mechanic Street" (near the Laboratory in North Salem) in 1841 and in 1845
on Federal (Marlborough) Street, near Washington. In the Salem Directory for 1850
was an advertisement for "Osborne's Fashionable Hat, Cap & Fur Establishment, 183
Essex Street, comer of Central Street" (p. 221 ). This store would be operated
throughout the 1860s (see ad, p. 88, 1864 Salem Directory).
The Essex Register newspaper, which was founded by the Crowninshield-HathomeWhite families to represent the Jeffersonian point of view c.1800, and which had been
edited at one point by Rev. William Bentley (a major contributor for years), would be
published from this location throughout the rest of its history. In 1842, the co-editor,
Charles vV. Palfray, resided at 47 Federal Street, while co-editor John Chapman resided
at 33 Federal and served on the Board of Advisers of the Salem Children's Friend
Society. In addition, Edward Palfray, of 2 Hamilton Street, was a printer at 4 Central
Street in 1842. (info from 1842 Salem Directory).
�Samuel Dudley Tucker (1782-1857), the owner of the Central Street part of the Central
Building as of 1820, was a merchant. He was born in Salem on 25 January 1782, one c
the sons of John and Lydia Tucker. Among his older brothers were Andrew Tucker
(born 1773) and Gideon Tucker (b. 1778, married 1804 Martha Goodhue). l\llr. Andre\
Tucker ( 1773-1820), who married l\lfartha Mansfield, had several children, including
Jonathan, Samuel (2d) and Gideon (2d); he was subject to melancholy, and took his
own life in February, 1820, aged 47 years.
In 1830, Samuel D. Tucker added to his holdings hereabouts by purchasing for $1950
from the heirs of Dr. Holyoke some shops on Central Street, with land, just south of the
dwelling house part of the Central Building (ED 258:215). At the same time, the
Holyoke heirs sold him, for $4500, the land to the west of the Hathorne parcel, with a
printing office thereon (ED 258:215). By 1836 Mr. Tucker had moved to 293 Essex
Street, and later he resided at the Essex House hotel. He died in the 1857 (#55777),
having devised the premises by will to Gideon Tucker, who was the president of the
Exchange Bank. Gideon Tucker died in or before 1862, leaving many heirs. In July,
1862, some of the Tucker heirs, having purchased the interests of other of the heirs, sold
the premises for $4572.46 to one of their own, Edward Tucker, of Saco, Maine (ED
642:145, also 639:22,24, 638:126, etc.). In September, 1862, Edward Tucker sold half
of the property to Jonathan Tucker and half of it to Jonathan's son, James T. Tucker. In
September, 1865, Jonathan Tucker for $3,000 sold his half-interest to his son, James T.
Tucker, who granted his father a life estate in the property (ED 688:281,287).
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street). For the
workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company would
be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually 14, 700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing also
continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40 shoe factories employing
600-plus operatives. More factories and more people required more space for
buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
Maj. Jam es T. Tucker predeceased his father, whose life estate would come to an
end with his death in 1877. Jonathan Tucker ( 1799-1877) had been a merchant for
most of his career. He left business in 1849, became a City Assessor for awhile, and
by 1860 he was working as a Measurer at the Custom House. In 1872 he was still at
the Custom House, residing at 29 Andrew Street. He purchased 82 Washington
�Square East in 1874, and moved in. To the Salem Gazette in 1875-6 he contributed
an interesting series called "Our Old Houses," in which he jotted down his memories
of who had inhabited the buildings of Essex Street 1807-1810. By 1876 he was
again working as an assessor at City Hall. On the last day of July, 1877, Mr. Tucker
took his own life.
The obituary of Mr. Tucker ran in the Gazette on 3 August 1877. "The death of
Jonathan Tucker, which took place very suddenly on Tuesday morning last, takes
from amongst us one of our most respected citizens ... His character was as sturdy as
his frame. Upright, conscientious, clear-headed, and intelligent, his services on the
board of our City Assessors were never surpassed in value by any who have been
called to the office. His independence and plainness of speech undoubtedly made
him enemies; but, as an honest man, a good citizen, exemplary in purity of morals
and in every relation of life, he will be held in respectful remembrance by all who
knew him. Mr. Tucker retired-from active mercantile business in 1849, when he was
elected one of the Assessors of the City. This office he continued to hold until
March 28, 1853. He was again elected Assessor in 1869, and held the office until
January 11, 1875, when he retired to private life. During most of his term of service,
he was chairman of the board; and there never was a man who paid more strict,
scrupulous, and faithful attention to the duties of his office. A native of Salem, and
blessed with powers of keen observation and a retentive memory, his knowledge of
our local history of the present century-of persons, events, metes and bounds-was
unequalled, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to impart from his
inexhaustible stores. He leaves a widow (a sister of Prof. Alpheus Packard of
Bowdoin College), three sons-Joseph F. and Horace, both holding responsible
positions in the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and Rev. William P., who has
recently accepted a call to a rectorship in Pawtucket, R.I.; and two daughters, Mrs. J.
M. Hagar of Salem, and Mrs. Hanson of Chicago. Two sons, Alpheus Packard and
Col. James T., died before their father."
Joseph F. Tucker, the railroad man, became the new owner of the property. As early as
1881, and perhaps before, much of his part of the Central Building was occupied by
John J. Perkins' notable furniture and upholstering store (some photographs show the
building at that time, with the Perkins signs out front). Mr. Perkins, a resident of Bridge
Street, ran the business for many years. The dwelling part of the building, numbered 10
central, was evidently occupied Mrs. Sarah B. Safford, who had a store at 16-18 central.
She died before 1900, in which year the premises at 4-6 Central Street were occupied
by the Salem Press Company, which had its presses and other machinery there, and by
A.N. Webb & Co., printers. At 8-10 were E.F. McClellan, hairdresser, and the offices
�of Cawley & Trow, plumbers. Alphonse Bouin and family resided in the end unit. (info
from Salem Directory, 1899/1900)
Regarding the Hathorne part of the building, by then known as The Hathorne Building:
in 1878 Henry G. Hathorne, of Lynn, sold his interest in the Central Building to
\iVilliam W. Hathorne, of Lynn, his brother (ED 1000:189). On 2 January 1886 William
W. Hathorne leased the first floor and cellar of his part of the building to Herebert D.
Rice of Boston, who opened The Shawmut Hat Store here. The lease was to run for ten
years at $1500 rent per annum. At the same time, Mr. Rice was to pay the cost of a
major remodeling of this part of the building, and agreed not to sell any liquor here.
The remodeling involved removing the stone front, removing brick piers and windows,
and putting in a new front on Essex Street and part of the building on Central Street.
Large new plate glass windows were to be installed, along with iron girders to support
the upper stories.
Mr. Wm. W. Hathorne died in 1893, whereupon the property was conveyed to his
brothers Henry G. and Charles F. Hathorne (ED1401:109). They continued to lease out
the property as commercial space to Herbert D. Rice, who was the proprietor of the
Shawmut Hat Store at 191-193 Essex Street (see adv. p.1194 Salem Directory 1897-8;
ED 1991:66, etc.).
In 1900, the occupants of "the Hathorne Building" were The Shawmut Hat Store (hats,
furs, etc.) at 191-193 Essex Street, and, at 195 Essex Street, J.M. O'Connell and Mrs.
Kate F. Dean, hairdressers, dentist John W. Patch, A.C. Mackintire, photographer, and
B.L. Pervier, jobber.
Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and established
businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists, carpenters,
millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. In the 1870s, French-Canadian
families began coming to work in Salem's mills and factories, and more houses
and tenements filled were built in what had been open areas of the city. The
Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by large numbers of Polish and
Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By
the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were lively,
and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
�and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke,
wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and
then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets.
Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South
Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured
the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the
fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings
of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an
inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street.
There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having
consumed 25 0 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and
thousands homeless. Some people· had insurance, some did not; all received much
support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was
one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the
people of Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and
many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal
projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses
and widening old streets) were put into effect.
Mr. Herbert D. Rice, owner of The Shawmut Hat Store here, and lessee since
1886, purchased the Hathorne Building from the Hathornes on 1 Nov. 1920 (ED
2469:90). The premises had been in Hathorne ownership for more than 115
years.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation
of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many other cities.
More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present with
success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also from
its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley,
Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the oldtime merchants, mariners, and mill-operatives-and the commercial buildings that
Salem's prosperity produced and sustained--are all honored as a large part of what
makes Salem different from any other place.
--10 Feb. 2002, Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc.
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Soon after Dabney established his book shop, Thomas C.
Cushing and \'Villiam Carlton, the latter a young man just
reaching his majority, were associated in the 'Bible and Heart'
book shop. Carlton's advertisement in 1791 reYeals the location of his business as 'opposite Rev. :Mr. Prince's meeting
house,' where he had for sale all the principal books and pamphlets, as v.-ell as mariner's compasses, log books, scales and
dividers, backgammon and Hadley's quadrants, and 'Harry
VIII and HighlancJs Playing Cards.' 67 In 1793 he added a
circulating library. J\1r. Streeter says: 'The Bible and Heart
book-store was in the lo·wer story of the building oecupied by ·
the printing office, the same ·which is now (1856) kept by
D. B. Brooks and Brother. There were formerly wooden figures of a Bible ancl a heart suspended over the door, which
during .the last war were torn down in the night by some
mischievous persons and thrown into the harbor. It was upon
the occasion of a list of privateers in our harbor being published in the Gazette by the foreman of the office.' In 1794
Carlton's 'new book store' was 'a few doors west of the Sun
Tavern, Essex st.Teet.' 08 In 1797 Carlton's connection with
Cushing ceased, and in 1801 John S. Appleton associated
himself with this book shop, the firm of Cushing and Appleton
being a well-known and successful Salem concern, at the 'Sign
of the Bible,' until the death of both in 1824.
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streets, 'lately occupied as an insurance office.'c 9 In 1808 they
removed to the store under the Gazette office, lately occupied
by John Russell, one door west of the Central Building, 70
having purchased Russell's stock of several thousand volumes,
which were sold at auction by Jacob Peabody. A side-light
oil the importance to trade of court business and attendance
at the sittings is manifest in an advertisement which appeared
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198 North Street
Built for
Henry Chew
A free man of color
Mariner
c. 1834
Research & Writing Provided by
Amy E. Kellett
October 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street | Salem, Mass.
www.historicsalem.org
House History Report for
198 North Street
c.1967 Photograph — 198 North Street
Report completed by
Amy E. Kellett
October 2018
www.amykellett.com
1
�198 North Street
Built for
Henry Chew
A free man of color
Mariner
c.1834
1867-1925 | Part of the Cressey Estate
1949-1983 | Property of Salem Housing
Authority — Veteran’s Housing
2
�1833 — Henry Chew, mariner, purchases land from the Town of Salem
Amidst the rapidly expanding neighborhoods of the prosperous seaport town of Salem, Massachusetts a
mariner named Henry Chew purchased a plot of land in ‘Northfields’ (what is now North Street) from the
Town of Salem for one-hundred dollars on the 2nd of August, 1833. As there is no buildings noted on the
deed as being part of the property, it can be assumed that shortly after the land purchase, the Greek
Revival dwelling house was built on the land where it stands to this day.
2nd August 1833 — Northfields Property sold from Town of Salem to Henry Chew
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 273 | Page 15
This home remains one of the best examples of vernacular Greek Revival architecture in the City of
Salem, and has remained largely unchanged on its exterior through the decades of history that have
passed by its front door. Indeed, this house is one that is passed by millions of cars every year, as North
Street is one of the main thoroughfares in and out of the ‘Witch City’, and its unassuming appearance
belies its fascinating and extensive history. The architectural history standard text, A Field Guide to
American Houses, by Virginia & Lee McAlester notes the historical significance of Greek Revival
architecture, which is often associated with government buildings and the like, but the vernacular
examples hearken to the same historic influences:
Greek revival was the dominant style of American domestic
architecture during the interval from about 1830 to 1850 […] during
which its popularity led it to be called the National Style. [It]
especially flourished in those regions that were being rapidly
settled in the decades of the 1830s, ‘40s, and ‘50s.
3
�… archaeological investigation in the early 19th century emphasized
Greece as the Mother of Rome which, in turn, shifted interest to
Grecian models. Two additional factors enhanced Greek influence
in this country. Greece’s involvement in a war for independence
(1821-30) aroused much sympathy in the newly independent United
States; at the same time, the war of 1812 diminished American
affection for British influence, including the still dominant Adam
style in domestic architecture.
An important and enduring legacy of the Greek Revival to American
domestic architecture is the front-gabled house. Popularized during
the ascendance of the Greek Revival style in the early 19th century,
this became the predominant form for detached urban houses in cities
of the Northeast…1
The purchase of this property and the subsequent building is especially significant as the home’s builder,
Henry Chew, listed in the 1833 City Directory as a mariner living on North Street, was a free black man.
Records indicate that he lived at the Greek Revival home on North Street for a number of years with his
family, including his wife Venus (married in 1801) and several children. Although the Chew family were of
a higher social status than many of their enslaved counterparts in the South, life was not easy for them, as
the couple buried several children in the time that they lived at the home on North Street, including a son
born the year that the home was built. Just fourteen months later the little boy died of an unnamed illness
in 1834. Prior to the family’s residence on North Street, they had also buried a daughter, Hannah, who
had died in 1822 from consumption, what is today called tuberculosis, at only eight years old.
Unfortunately, not much more is known about the Chew family, as records available from the time are
scarce. As a free black family, they were likely involved in the Abolitionist movement that had taken hold
in the greater Boston and North Shore region. Furthermore, this property may have been involved in the
Underground Railroad, as there is evidence that escaped slaves on the Railroad went through Essex
County, including Salem, on their route North to freedom. Maybe it is appropriate to note the
coincidence here — that Henry Chew and his family purchased land and built their home along a
farmland path that would eventually be named ‘North Street’ before the house was sold to the next
generation of owner in 1842.
1 McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses, Romantic Houses, Greek Revival. Pages 179-84
4
�1842 Salem City Directory — Henry Chew, Mariner, North [Street]
Following the alphabetical list of names of Salem’s white residents, the City Directory included a
separate section entitled “People of Color” — the 1842 publication of the directory notes Henry Chew as
living on North Street, and lists the places of work for the other Chew family members.
5
�1842 — Elisha Odlin purchases property from Henry Chew
According to the records found through the Essex County Registry of Deeds, Elisha Odlin purchased the
property on North Street from Henry Chew, including “a dwelling house and out buildings thereon” for
$100, plus interest. The deed also importantly notes about the North Street property, as “being the same
I (Henry Chew) purchased of the City or Town of Salem,” which refers to the earlier cited 1833 deed.
26th August 1842 —North Street Property sold from Henry Chew to Elisha Odlin
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 333 | Page 65
Elisha Odlin’s occupation is noted as ‘trader’ on the deed (above), which likely refers to the maritime
trade that supported Salem’s booming economy. Although there are several generations of men named
‘Elisha Odlin’ throughout the decades of the 18th and 19th centuries in Salem, the generation that aligns
with this deed suggests it was owned by Elisha Odlin, Jr. son of Samuel Odlin. Unfortunately, just five
years after Elisha Odlin Jr.’s purchase of the property on North Street, he died from consumption at only
twenty-seven years of age on November 19, 1848. Subsequently, his estate was divided among multiple
owners, until the property was procured by Pierce L. W. Gardner, and shortly thereafter sold to Caleb A.
Smith in 1855.
6
�1874 Salem City Atlas
(Top) North Salem was a rapidly-developing neighborhood from the 1830s through the early 20th
century, and these Atlas images show the great swaths of land owned by Wm A. Creesy, as well as other
prominent Salem families. The arrow indicates the property that is now 198 North Street.
(Bottom) Close-up view of the 1874 Salem City atlas that notes 148 and 146 North Street as being the
property of William A. Creesy, and contemporaneous Federal censuses city directories list David
Sinclair, carpenter, as the resident of 148 North Street.
7
�1855 — North Street property becomes part of the Estate of Caleb A. Smith
The Essex County Registry of Deeds records records multiple purchases of property by Caleb Smith in
the mid-18th century, including a “parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated on North Street in
Salem” described as “the premises to me (Caleb A. Smith) conveyed by the heirs of Elisha Odlin, by
various deeds on record.” Mr. Smith also appears on Historic Salem, Inc. historic house report records
as being the builder in 1861 of what is now 3-5 Ridgeway Street, less than a tenth of a mile from the North
Street property. For the next twelve years the Smith family would own the property and dwelling house
across the street from their own home on North Street, during which time the home would likely have
been used as a residence for the Smith family staff, or as an income property that they could rent out.
14th March 1867 — North Street Property sold from Caleb A. Smith to Wm. A. Creesy
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 719 | Page 242
8
�1867 — Smith sells Estate, including North Street property, to William A. & Emily F. Creesy
Documentation shows that William A. Creesy, along with his wife Emily, purchased the estate from
Caleb A. Smith in 1867. Creesy had made his fortune, along with so many others, in Salem’s booming
maritime trade industry. According to the text entitled ‘Old Marblehead Sea Captains and Ships in
Which they Sailed” published by the Marblehead Historical Society in 1916, William Andrew Cressy
(whose name spelling seems to have varied depending on who recorded the documentation) was the
brother of Josiah P. Cressy, and was the captain for a number of Salem’s ships, including the Oneida,
Mary Whittredge, and Cohota.
1874 Salem City Directory
Captain William A. Creesy and his son and namesake, William A. Creesy Jr. are both noted as living at 145
North Street — their former home is now 3-5 Ridgeway Street, and the property at 198 North Street
belonged to part of the same Creesy Estate.
The 1867 Deed, dated March 14th, notes and references the premises as being the same that were
purchased by Smith in 1855 from Pierce L. W. Gardner:
…the real estate in said Salem which is bounded commencing at the
Southwest corner and running Northwesterly by North Street about one
hundred and forty eight feet to the land of Dearborn about four hundred
and twenty feet to land of Cross, then turning and running Southerly by
land of Cross about one hundred and thirty feet to the land of Newhall,
then turning and running Southwesterly by said Newhall’s land to North
Street and the said point begun at. […] Being the same premises conveyed
to Caleb A. Smith by Pierce L. W. Gardner by deed dated May 5, 1855,
recorded in the Registry of Deeds for Essex County in Book 513 Leaf 13.
9
�1886-1889 Massachusetts State and Federal Naturalization Records
Petition for Naturalization — David Sinclair
Volume 3 | No. 4692-ixv3
10
�Upon William A. Creesy’s passing in 1874, the Creesy Estate became the property of Mrs. Emily F.
Cressey (whose name spelling yet again changed on subsequent documentation). This is also around the
same time frame that the earliest map and atlas images appear showing the property at what is now 198
North Street. By 1872 a carpenter named David E. Sinclair and his family are listed in the City Directories
as living at 148 North Street (now 198).
1872 Salem City Map
This clip from an 1872 publication that included a map of Salem, Massachusetts Ward 6 area of North
Salem, while the arrow indicates the North Street property that is the subject of this report.
The larger historic context is important to note before recording the Sinclair’s history at 198 North
Street: as noted earlier, the neighborhood of North Salem was rapidly becoming more densely populated
throughout the 19th century, including a major renovation completed by the city around 1871 near what is
now the North Street Bridge (adjacent to the MBTA Commuter Rail station). As a result, land parcels
were subdivided as well as the numbering of the dwelling houses throughout the neighborhood,
including on North Street, where in the time period between 1870 and 1880 the address for the North
Street house that is the subject of this report changed from 148 to 198 North Street. For this reason,
11
�earlier historic records of this property proposed a feasible theory that the building had been moved from
another parcel of land to its current current location, but further research confirms that the dwelling
house at 198 North Street has been on its current foundation since the area was called ‘Northfields’ and
the path that now bears the name North Street was little more than a passageway for merchants, goods,
and travelers to and from Danvers.
1870-c.1887 — David E. Sinclair & Family live at North Street property dwelling house
Prior to living at the home that would become 198 North Street for nearly two decades, David Sinclair,
housewright, and his family lived at a number of addresses throughout Salem. Naturalization records
note David Sinclair’s immigration to Salem on the 9th of November, 1849. He and his young wife
Margaret are listed on the 1850 Federal Census as living in Ward 1 along with Catherine Humber, Ann
Garret, Rebecca Phillips, and James A. Humber. The couple soon had a family of their own, and by 1853
are listed as living at 14 Turner Street (in Ward I of Salem, Mass.), and then at 15 Mall Street by 1855.
The 1860 US Federal Census provides more detail about the Sinclair family ten years after the couple
first appeared on Federal records. The family is listed as living in Ward 3, confirmed by the 1861 Salem
City Directory which notes the family’s address as 57 Broad Street. In 1860 the family included Mr. David
Sinclair, a 35 year-old carpenter, his wife Margaret, now 27 years old attended to the house and the
children: David A., age 9; Charles H., age 6, and 2-year-old Frank.
The family of five did not remain in the Broad Street neighborhood of Ward 3 very long, however, as the
American Civil War called Mr. Sinclair to join the Union Army, the family moved once again, this time to
15 Essex Street in Salem’s Derby Street neighborhood, during the absence of David. Mr. Sinclair’s
naturalization records note his voluntary enlistment into the Army of the United States on October 3rd,
1861 until he was honorably discharged in January of 1866. This is confirmed through Salem City
directories that list David Sinclair as serving with Company B of the 24th Army Regiment. Upon the
ending of the war, David Sinclair returned to his family at 15 Essex Street where they remained until 1870,
when the US Federal Census lists the Sinclair family as living in the 6th Ward of the City: North Salem.
12
�By the 1870 recording of the US Federal Census, the Sinclair family had changed in the preceding
decade; the two oldest Sinclair boys, David and Charles Sinclair, now 19 and 16 years old, no longer are
listed as living with the family (for reasons yet discovered). David Sinclair, now 44 years old, is again
listed as a carpenter, his wife Margaret, now 37, continued to maintain the family home and raise the
younger Sinclair children: Joseph F. Sinclair, 12 (most likely the ‘F’ meaning ‘Frank’ or ‘Francis’ — the
youngest Sinclair child from the 1860 Census), a 3-year-old daughter, Annie F. Sinclair, and 7-month-old
Stephen H. Sinclair. In all, David and Margaret Sinclair would raise four boys and one girl during their
lives and time lived at 198 North Street.
1870 US Federal Census — Salem, Mass. — Ward 6
The Sinclair family, including David Sinclair with his occupation listed as ‘carpenter, Margaret E.
Sinclair as keeping house, and their 3 children, Joseph (12), Annie (3), and Stephen (7 months).
Salem City Directories during the Sinclair tenure at the North Street property show the change in
address for the home from 148 to 198 North Street between 1876 and 1878, just a few years after the
family’s first appearance at the address. Throughout their time at the residence David Sinclair is listed as
a carpenter by trade through the 1886 City Directory, after which he and his family moved to 29 Osborne
Street by 1888.
13
�1888-1925 — 198 North Street remains part of the Cressey Estate while rented by several tenants
While the estate was owned and managed by the widow of William Creesy, Emily F. Cressey, the
property at 198 North Street was home to several tenants, whose names and occupations are traceable
though the Salem City Directories:
1888-c1896 : John E. Scanlan — Morocco Dresser
“Morocco Dresser” is a specialization in leather finishing; specifically, ‘morocco’ referred to a
type of goat skin leather that is much lighter than other 19th and 20th century finished leathers,
and a ‘dresser’ tanned the leather. This type of leather work was most often used in shoe leather
applications, so Mr. Scanlan likely worked with of one of the many shoe factories in Salem and
the greater North Shore region of Boston.
1897 : Walter A. Tarr — Shoe Trimmer
1899 : Ernest A. Oliver — Electrician
1901 : George M. Sinclair — Clerk
1903-1904 : Arthur W. Stevens — Shoemaker
1905-1910 : Frank J. Verry — Brakeman for the Boston & Maine Railroad
1911-1912 : Oliver Collette — Driver
1913 : Otis H. Pickard — Plumber
1914 : Albert Dyer — Teamster
In the early 20th century, ‘teamster’ referred to a person whose occupation it was to manage and
be in charge of a team of horses, which could be used for anything from transportation to fire
brigades.
1915 : Albert Nolet — Carpenter
1916-1920 — Charles W. Chapman — Machinist
(& Martha A. Chapman)
1921-1922 — John F. Farnsworth — Bricklayer
(& Sadie J. Farnsworth)
1924-1926 — William A Walsh — Leatherworker
(& Blanche Walsh)
14
�1925 — The Heirs of Emily F. Cressy sell the property at 198 North Street to Arthur W. & Bessie M.
Dorman
The property at 198 North Street remained the property of the Cressy Family until 1925, at which time
the Essex County Registry of Deeds records indicate the land belonging to the Estate of Emily F. Cressey
on the even-numbered side of North Street was sold to Arthur W. & Bessie M. Doorman. Importantly,
this deed references an official survey plan recorded by Civil Engineer Thomas A. Appleton of the
property entitled “Land of Estate of Emily F. Cressy, Salem, Mass.” which clearly depicts the properties
at both 198 and 196 North Street.
30th March 1925 — 198 North Street sold from Cressy Estate to Arthur W. & Bessie M. Dorman
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 2634 | Page 201
15
�After being in the Cressy family for nearly six
decades since 1867, Arthur & Bessie Dorman
purchased the property at 198 North Street and
maintained its ownership until 1949. The City
Directories give insight to the tenants of the Greek
Revival house at 198 North Street:
January 1925
Land of Emily F. Cressy — Salem, Mass.
Book of Plans 42, Plan No. 30b
With deed Josiah P. Cressy to Arthur W. Dorman
et ux. Rec.B.2634 P.201
1929 - 1935 — Charles E. Millner —Leatherworker
(& Lillian B. Millner)
1936-1939 — Robert J. Preston — Salesman
(& Rose M. Preston)
1940-1949 — John J. O’Shea — Post Office Clerk
(& Mary A. O’Shea)
16
�1949 — Salem Housing Authority issues an ‘Order of Taking’ for 198 North Street
Following the second World War, the nation’s burgeoning population, known as the ‘Baby Boom’
created a need for veteran’s housing throughout the country, including in Salem, Massachusetts. As a
result, the property that had been purchased by Arthur and Bessie Dorman in 1925 was the subject of an
official ‘Order of Taking’ by the Salem Housing Authority, by order of an official State-Aided Housing
Project. Two documents record this transaction: the Essex County Registry of Deeds Book 3662 Page
213, and the Plan of Land for the ‘State-Aided Housing Project, Salem #200-1’, which included the
dwelling houses at 198 and 196 North Street, as well as two additional parcels of land:
17
�1949-1983 — 198 North Street owned by the Salem Housing Authority
Following the government seizure of the property at 198 North Street, the property is listed as ‘Vacant’ in
the 1950 Salem City Directory. Available City Directories only give insight to tenants through 1963; the
recorded residents of 198 North Street through the early 1960s create a more detailed look into this
property’s extensive history:
1951-1953 — Ernest P. Snow — Leatherworker
(& Anna P. Snow)
1954-1962 — Emerson E. Pollock — Masonic Temple Superintendent
(& Lucy C. Pollock)
1964— Leo W. Dragon —- Leatherworker at A. C. Lawrence
The final document of this report correlates to the 1983 Deed regarding the property at 198 North Street,
by which time the property had been in the ownership and management of a trustee of Allyn Realty Trust.
Recorded in October of 1983, the deed and plan record the sale of the property from being managed as
State-Aided housing project to a private home, which it remains to this day.
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Two Daniels Street
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1906 for Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevenson as the home of her son-in-law, Charles F. Brown, grocer,
and his family.
Around 1895 Charles Franklin Brown, 20, came to Salem from his home town of
Charlestown and went to work in the large grocery store of Cobb, Bates, and
Yerxa, at 176 Essex Street. He would eventually become a buyer for the store.
In 1898 or son he married Alice Stevenson of Salem, whose family owned houses
and a variety store (62 Essex) in this neighborhood. Her mother was Elizabeth
Stevenson, widow of David Stevenson, who resided at 60 Essex Street. Mrs.
Stevenson had purchased the house at 59 Essex Street in 188l(ED 1164:220), and
its lot included the land that would later become the lot for this #2 Daniels Street.
At that time ( 1881) a carriage house stood on the site of the present house.
By 1904, the C.F. Browns (with son Chester, four) resided at 58 Essex Street (at
that time, Mr. Brown was known as C. Frank Brown and was listed as grocery
clerk). The same was true in 1905 (see Salem Directory listings). In 1906, C.
Frank Brown and family were listed at Two Daniels Street (see Salem Directory),
as they would be for years to come. The Salem Real Estate Assessments show
Charles F. Brown first paying taxes on Two Daniels Street in 1907 (Ward One,
precinct Two). From this, it is possible to say that the house was built in 1906 for
the C.F. Brown family and that it stood on the land of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevenson, who evidently paid for the construction of the house, while
Mr. Brown paid the taxes on it.
In 1907 a daughter, Dorothy, was born to the Browns. At about that time, Mr.
Brown was promoted from clerk to buyer at the grocery business where he had
been working for 12 years (see advertisement from 1905 Salem Directory,
appended).
In 1910 (per census, 2 Daniels St., house 66, ward one) the residents here were
Charles Brown, 35, buyer, grocery, married 12 years, Alice 35, son Chester, ten,
daughter Dorothy, three. At that time the house at 59 Essex Street was a three-
1
�family tenement. Four and Six Daniels Street were occupied by Canadian
carpenters and their families.
Salem was vibrant in 1910. Retail stores-like the grocery where Mr. Brown
worked--prospered, and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists
all thrived. In the late 1800s, French-Canadian families began coming to town to
work in Salem's mills and factories, and more houses and tenements filled in what
had been open areas of the city. They were followed in the early 20th century by
large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby
Street neighborhood. By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling,
polyglot city that supported large department stores and large factories of every
description. Its politics were lively, and its economy was strong.
In 1914, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson died. That was the year of the Great Salem
Fire. On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's tanneries, as happened from time to time.
This fire soon raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had
been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow
the fire advanced easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke, wiping out the
houses of Boston and Essex Streets and upper Broad Street and sweeping through
Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets, then attacking South
Salem and destroying the homes on and near Lafayette Street before raging
through the tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews
from many towns and cities, the fire could not be turned: it smashed into the large
factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), ·
which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the
water to Derby Street, where the fire was finally halted, just beyond Union Street,
after a 13-hour rampage. The conflagration had consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses,
and 41 factories, leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some had insurance,
some did not; all received much support and generous donations from all over the
country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of
the United States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover from it.
Eventually, they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt;
and several urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which
involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
With the Fire and the death of Mrs. Stevenson, the Browns decided to move. In
1914 this house and the house at 59 Essex Street were sold together to Wojciech &
Mary Piekos (ED 2260:492). The Browns moved to One Buffum Street in North
Salem. There they would live together for seven years, until the death of Mr.
2
�Brown on 9 May 1921, aged just 45 years. The Salem Evening News ran the
following obituary: "Charles Franklin Brown died at home, One Buffum Street,
yesterday after a long illness, in his 46th year. Born in Charlestown, he was the son
of Charles W. Brown & Lucy F. Mitchell. For 25 years he was employed by
Cobb, Bates, Y erxa. He was a member of Starr King Lodge, AF & AM, the Now
and Then Association, and the Washington Associates. He leaves his widow Alice
P. (Stevenson) Brown, son Chester, daughter Dorothy, mother & father."
In 1914, this house was listed as vacant, but in 1915 it was a two-family, occupied
by two widows, Mrs. Hannah Goucher and Mrs James H. (Margaret F. J.)
Redmond. In 1917 Mrs. Goucher resided here. (see Salem Directory listings).
In 1920 (per census, 2 Daniels St., house 51, ward one) the house was occupied by
the extended Freeman family: Thomas J. Freeman, 57, was a janitor at a cotton
mill (no doubt at the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills, off Congress Street) and had
come to the U.S. in 1887 from his native Ireland. He resided here with his wife
Bridget, 55, born Ireland, their three daughters (born in Mass.) Frances, 28, a
housekeeper, Mary, 25, a dressmaker, and Elizabeth, 23, a payroll clerk at shoe
factory; Mrs. Freeman's brother, Luke Durkin, 49, a brass polisher in a foundry;
and little boarders Darce Deanio, 7, and Margaret Quinlan, 7. By the 1920s, Salem
was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926 was a time of great
celebration.
The property here was subdivided in 1950, and since that time this house and its
lot, fronting 34.40' on Daniels Street, have been a separate homestead.
Salem boomed right through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping
malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have
with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into
the present with success, trading on its share of fame arising from the
commercialization of the witchcraft delusion, but also from its great history as an
unrivalled seaport and as the home of Hawthorne and Mcintire. Most of all, it
remains a city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, and milloperatives are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any
other place.
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 16 May 2001; initial research by Sean P.
Maher, reported on 15 July 2000.
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�Historic Salem, Inc.
House History and Plaque Program
For Owner
Anne Golden
2 Daniels St.,
Salem Massachusetts
Built Circa 1906-1910
July 15, 2000
Prepared by Sean Patrick Maher
�2 Daniels St. is located in one of the oldest areas in Salem. Much of the
settlements early growth was in the area between Essex St. (then Main St.) to the
waterfront, and from the beginning of Salem Neck to where New Derby St. meets
Washington St.. As the area surrounding Salem was wilderness, full of animals, and still
occupied by the Indians, the heart of the town was in this area.
The street itself is one of the first in the city, and has been referred to by several
names over the course of its history. It is first called Ye Highway or Lane in 1661,
Highway by the Waterside in 1669, Ye Street or Lane in 1672, Lane or Highway in 1699,
Ingersoll's Lane in 1679, Daniel's Lane in 1742, and Daniels St. by 1769. Later in 186470, it is sometimes referred to as Wharf St. 1
The Ingersoll family was granted most of the land on the westerly side of Daniels
St. early on by the town, and by 1700 many homes had been erected on the street. Sidney
Perley has documented 12 houses on the easterly and 5 on the westerly side of Daniels
2
St.. In those days, Daniels St. ended where present day Derby St. is, which was then
waterfront. Where Daniels St. extension now is, on the southerly side of Derby St., was
located a point of land that extended out into the harbor. Several housed had been built
on this point during the colony's early days, but a storm in 1690 washed away the point
3
and the houses. As the wharves were extended, and the need for waterfront land
increased, the areas in between the old wharves was filled, creating the land that is there
now.
1
Perley, Salem in 1700, Essex Antiquarian, Sec. 24, p. 114
Ibid
3
Phillips, Salem in the 1t11 Century, p. 313
2
�Nathaniel Ingersoll, a very active and respected member of Salem colony, owned
the land that 59 Essex St. and 2 Daniels St. now occupy. In the 1670's, Nathaniel owned
one of several unlicensed alehouses that were active in Salem at this time. Nathaniel was
one of the few to be granted a legal license by the town selectmen, which he retained
until 1691. 4 When the witch hysteria erupted in 1692, Nathaniel Ingersoll's former
alehouse was intended to be the site of the examinations of the accused, but it was later
decided to hold them at the meeting house. 5
During the 18th Century, Salem increased in both size and importance as a
seaport. More homes and wharves were erected in the area as the old planter's estates
were broken up. A division began to develop in the town between the wealthy and the
poor. The wealthy began building their fine homes along the part of Essex St. west of
Hawthorne Blvd., on what is now called Upper Essex. East of Hawthorne Blvd., or
Lower Essex, became the home of the sailors and poorer residents of the town. 6
Scant information is available for the 59 Essex-2 Daniels St. property during the
18th Century. James Duncan Phillips' map of Salem in 1760, which is based on the
research of Sidney Perley, shows the property as encompassing roughly the same
dimensions as it did in 1950, but gives no information of who owned it at that time. It is
likely the property changed hands frequently once it left the Ingersolls due to the influx
of people and the development of the area.
In 1881, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson acquired the 59 Essex St. lot at a public
auction for $3 ,200 from Charles A. Putnam, who was acting in the interests of Anna M.
4
Perley, History of Salem, vol. 3, p. 82
Ibid, p. 258
6
Phillips, Salem in the 18th Century, p. 173
5
�Upton, who had gone insane.7 Mrs. Stevenson owned several properties along Essex St.,
including a house and cent shop located at 60 Essex St. Mary Northend refers to Mrs.
Stevenson's cent shop in her book, Memories of Old Salem. Pictures 2 and 4 show the
cent shop in the late 19th Century.
The iot of 59 Essex St. included the area 2 Daniels St. now occupies. The exact
date of construction for the house on 2 Daniels St. is not clear. An 1874 map of the city
shows a carriage house to the rear of 59 Essex which fronted on Daniels St. The carriage
house is visible in a circa 1890's picture of the Daniels House, labeled 3. An 1897 map
of the city shows 59 Essex, but lacks both the carriage house and 2 Daniels. The city
directory for 1900 lists a 2 Daniels, but the tax records for Mrs. Stevenson in 1900 list
only one dwelling house at the 59 Essex St. lot, and none for 2 Daniels. It is possible that
the 2 Daniels address refers at this time to the rear portion of 59 Essex, which had been
broken up into tenements. 2 Daniels is also absent from both the 1905 taxes for Mrs.
Stevenson and the 1906 city map. The present dwelling first makes a visible appearance
on the 1910 taxes and the 1911 map of the city, under the ownership of.Mrs. Stevenson.
It is probable that Ivirs. Stevenson built the house between 1906 and 1910.
In 1914, upon the death of Mrs. Stevenson, the executor of her estate, William D.
Chapple, sold the lot with both houses to Wojciech and Mary Piek-0s for $1. 8 Mary
Piekos inherited the land upon her husband's death and sold it to Dorothy Clark, of
Marblehead in June of 1950 for $2,000. 9 Dorothy Clark broke the property into two
separate lots, as shown on the surveyor's report for 1950, which is enclosed. Lot A, or 2
Daniels, was sold back to Mary and Genevieve Piekos in July of 1950 for less than
1
8
South Essex Registry of Deeds, B. 1164, p. 220
Ibid, b. 2260, p. 492
�$100. 10 In March of 1958, for an undisclosed amount, Mary and Genevieve Piekos sold 2
Daniels to Peter S. and Marion S. Whitaker ofMarblehead. 11 Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker
sold the land in June of 1961 to Andrziej T. and Rita C. Malionik. 12 In April of 1966,
J\.1r. and Mrs. Malionik sold the lot to George E. and Joyce E. Merrit.
13
Ellsworth P. and
Carol B. Landry ofDanvers bought the property from the Merrits in 1968. 14 TheLandrys
held the property until 1977, when it was sold to Duane M. and Doris Eagen of
Marblehead for $21,000. 15 In September of 1984, it was sold to Duane M. Eagen, of
Norman, Oklahoma for nominal consideration.
16
In September of 1987, Mr. Eagen sold
the lot to Constantinos Georgakis of Beverly for $129,250. 17 Mary A. Corona bought the
land for $155,000 in February of 1988. 18 In November of 1992, Mark W. Bowen
purchased the lot for $90,000 from Ms. Corona. 19 And in May of 1996, Anne Golden,
the requester of this history, purchased the lot and house for $139, 000.
9
Ibid, b. 3753, p. 64
Ibid, b. 3753, p. 66
11
Ibid, b. 4447, p. 199
12
Ibid, b. 4782, p. 386
13
Ibid, b. 5352, p. 550
14
Ibid, b. 5577, p. 43
15
Ibid, b. 6005, p. 284
16
.
. - Ibid, b. 7560, p. 356
11
Ibid, b. 9222, p. 293
18
Ibid, b. 9411, p. 539
19
Ibid, b. 11608, p. 582
20
Ibid, b. 13593, p. 403
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20
�South Essex _District Registry of Deeds
Book i3593, p. 403
Grantor-Mark W. Bowen
Grantee- Anne Golden
Consideration--$13 9,900
Book 11608, p. 582
Grantor~ Mary A Corona
Grantee- Mark W. Bt>Wn
Consideration~
$90,000
Northeasterly by Danieis St.~ 34AO ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll, 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding, 33.24 ft,
Northwesterly by lot B., 48.46 ft.
Book 9411, p. 539
Grantor- Constantinos Georgakis
Grantee~ Mary A. Corona
Consideration.. $155,000
Northeasterly by Daniels St 34.40 fl:,
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft
Book 9222, p. 293
Grantor~ Duane M. Eagen
Grantee- Constantinos Georgakis
Consideration-- $65,000
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 7560, p. 356
Grantor.. Duane M. Eagen and Doris Eagen
Grantee~ Duane M. Eagen
Consideration- nominal
Northeastely by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
�Book 6005, p. 284
Granter~ Elisworth P. Landry and Carol B. Landry
Grantee- Duane M. Eagen and Doris Eagen
Consideration" $21,500
Northeasteriy by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 5577, p. 43
Granter- George E. Merritt and Joyce E. Merritt
Grantee~ Ellsworth P. Landry and Carol B. Landry
Northeasterly by Danieis St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carron 48.33
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 5352, p. 550
Granter~ Andrziej T. Malionik and Rita C. Malionik
Grantee- George E. Merritt and Joyce E. Merritt
Northeasterly by Danieis St. 34.40
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 4782, p. 386
Grantor- Peter S. Whitaker and Marion S. Whitaker
Grantee~ Andrziej T. Malionik and Rita C. Malionik
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 4447, p. 199
Grantor~ Mary Pinkos and Genevieve H. Pinkos
Grantee- Peter S. Wllitaker _and Marion S. Whitaker
Northeasteriy by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48,33 ft,
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 3753, p. 66
Grantor~ Dorothy Clark
Grantee- Mary Pinkos and Genevieve H Pinkos
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeastely by Land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
�Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 3753, p. 64
Grantor- Mary Pinkos
Grantee= Dorothy Clark
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofMannin,_g and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
Book 2260, p. 492
Grant or-William D. Chapple
Grantee- Wojcieck Piekos AndMary Piekos
Consideration-$ I
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Manning and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
Book 1164, p. 220
G-rantor- Charles A Putnam
Grantee- Elizabeth Stevenson
Consideration- $3,500
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Manning and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
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I, Mark w. Bowen, of Salem, Massachusetts, for consideration of One
Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred Dollars ($139,900.00)
paid, grant to Anne Golden of Salem, Massachusetts, with quitclaim
covenants, a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon "
situated in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, bounded and
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land now or late of Carroll, 48. 33 feet;
land now or late of Harding, 33. 24 feet;
Lot B on plan hereinafter mentioned, 48, 46 feet.
Being Lot A on a plan dated May, 1950 by Edwin T, Brudzynski, Surveyor,
recorded in Book 3753, Page 68.
Being the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Ellsworth P. Landry,
and Carol B. Landry dated August 20, 1973 and recorded in Essex South
District Registry of Deeds in Book 6005, Page 284.
Subject to a prior mortgage with the Salem Co-operative Bank (now
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land now or late of Carroll, 48.33 feet:
land now or late of Hardf nq, 33.24 feet;
Lot Bon plan hereinafter mentioned, 48.46 feet.
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recorded In Book 3753, Page .68.
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Reing the same premises conveyed to the Qranto1·s by deed of George E.· Merri
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Registry of Deeds In Rook 5577 et Paqe 043.
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(Description and encumbrances, if any)
.Maes, May 1950, Scale 1in.•10 tt., Edwin T. Brudzynski, Reg. Surveyor."
Northeasterly by Daniels Street, thirty-tour and forty hundrvdths (34.40) teat;
Southeasterly by lend or Carroll as shown on said plan, tortyeight and thirty-three hundredths·(4S.JJ) teat;
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Southwesterly by land ot Harding as shown on said plan, thirtythree and twenty-tour hundredths (JJ.24) teet; and
· Northwesterly by Lot B on said pla~, torty-eit}lt and tortysix hundredths (48.46) teet.
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ot the Bstate ot Wojciech Pinkos, and Mary Pinkos, widow, to be recorded herewith in the Essex South District Registry ot Deeds.
Excepting so much as may have been taken by the City or Salem
tor the widening ot Essex Street.
Consid~rati~n does not exceed one hundred .dollars.
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Northwesterly by Essex Street, forty-eight and sixty-seven hun1
feet;
Northeasterly by Daniels Street, fifty-two and sixty hun·": dredths (52.60) feet;
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Southeasterly by Lot A on plan herein before referred to;-::_
torty-eight and forty-six hundredths (48.46) feet;
Southwesterly by land now or formerly of Harding, fiftytbree and seventy-seven hundredths (53.77) feet.
For title see deeds to me from Mary Pinkos, Administratrix
or the Estate of Wojciech Pinkos, end Mary Pinkos, widow, to be recorded herewith ln the Essex South District Registry or Deeds.
Excepting so much as may have been taken by the City of
Salem for the widening of Essex Street.
not exceed one hundred dollars.
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by pow'r conf,rr'd by-11.c.ens.e_. o.r.....t,he_. P.r.o.b.ate. ... C.o.ur.t...-ror_._the._..Caunt.y_..o.L..Essex.,..
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and thence running Southerly by Daniels Street about 87
now or late ot Manning; thence Westerly by land now
partly by the fence, and thence on a continuance or
fence JO teet· to land now or late or Manning; thence Nort
land now or late or Manning and
by
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Pr~ston
partly by the tence
thence
parallel with and I+ inches distant Westerly trom the'
Westerly side or the rear portion or the dwelling house on the granted
premises and thence upon a continuation or the last line to Essex
Street about 87 teet; thence Easterly by Essex Street JO feet I+ inches
to Daniels Street and point or beginning.
Su~Ject
to mortgage or $1+,500. held by Salem live Cents
Savings Bank.
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Beginning at corner of Essex and Daniels Street and thence
running Southerly by Daniels Street about 87 feet to land now or late
of Manning; thence Westerly by land ·now or late of Manning partly by
the fence, and thence on a continuance of the line of said fence 30
teet to land now or late of Manning; thence Northerly by land now or late
ot Manning and Preston partly by the fence and thence by a line parallel
witb and 4 inches distant Westerly from the Westerly side of the rear
portion of the dwelling house on the granted premises and thence upon
a continuation of the last line to Essex Street about 87 feet; thence.
Easterly by Essex Street 30 feet 4 inches to Daniels Street and point
of beginning. Subject to mortgage of $4,500. held by Salem ri,,e Uents
savings Bank. For title see.Book 2260, Page 492 at the Essex South
District Registry of Deeds. '.
with the buildings thereon
Also another parcel of land situated in Salem~bounded and
described as follows:
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Northerly by Essex Street eighteen (18) feet, four (4)
inches; Easterly by land now or late of Edmund Whitlemore eighty-nine
(89) feet; Southerly by land now or rate of Elizabeth Valpey eighteen
(18) feet, four (4) inches; Westerly by land now or late of Joseph
Searle eighty-nine (89) feet. Together with the privilege of all
·passageways thereto belonging. For title see deed to Wojciech Piekos
and Mary Piekos, and to the survivor of them, from Salem Savings Bank
4ated January 11, 1941 and recorded in said Registry of Deeds in Book
3244, Page 464. Said Wojciec~ having deceased.
Excepting so much of the above two parcels as may have
been taken by the City of Salem for the widening of Essex Street.
Consideration does not exceed one hundred dollars.
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James Sullivan
James Sullivan. Jr.
James W. Ski111wr
James E. Smith
Joanna Shepard
John J. Sau111lt·rs
John F. Staniford
(ohn T. Street
John J. Sullivan
John E. Sullivan
House, ~1000: land, ~?:-:70 ft., MOO.;
House :jO-iiK Essex, $4800; land,i
7:117 ft., $1700; house 51) Esse~.\
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land. 2il40 ft., $000: ·
house and shop 60 Essex, $1800: i
land, 1800 ft., ~liOO.
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Marcus Shea
Man· E. Sinclair
Natimn P. Symouds
Est. Nancy M. Safford
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Stephen ,\. Simon
Mrs. Stephen,\, Simon
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llonsc, ~ii:!OO; barn, $300; lnnd,f
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etc., sr,oo.
Patrick Sullivan
Peter Swanson
Robert T. Smith
Sarah 11. Silvc1·
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2:lfl Bridge
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21 Williams
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'jiili Washington
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Ellery J. Sinclair
l'rnnds F. Slwpard
l•'rnncis J. Shaw
Frank Stillnmn
Frank Stnrcloff
Frederick '\·I. Scott
Frederick I'. Simonds
George .\.Shaw
Est. Ilannah 11. Silsh'""
II cnry Solie
Henry L. Shute
Herbert L. Strkkland
lsahl'i 11. Stn1.J,·s
Description and Value of Personal
antl l<eal Estate.
hnrst:s, carriag,·s.I
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:ll!ll\ ft., $2200.
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Description and Value of Personal
and Real Estate.
LOCATION.
Edward A. Stocker
Edward O. Sinclair
Eliza C. Stevenson
Elizabeth Ste\'cnson
10 Federal
10 Oliver
106 Esssx
00 Essex
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Frank Stilhnan
Frank Stillman, Jr.
Frank Sullirnn
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House ljtJ.58 Essex, $4800; land,
7317 ft., $2300; house 59 1':sscx
$1ti00; land, 2040 ft., $800;
house and shop, OO-tl2 Essex,
$1800; land, 1800 It., f;700;
street watering, $2.4U.
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F. Sanborn
r:eorge IL Shepard
<:eorge W. Smith
<:corge S. Snelling
llcnry L. Shute
IIerlicrt L. Strickland
I I orace J. Sm·dcn
J. Franklin Sumes
facuh Sneden
ilcirs James U. Safford
<;eorgc
James S. Smart
James E, Smith
James II. Skinner
fames N. Skinner
)amcs Sullivan, Jr.
Joanna Sht•pard
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John J. Saunders
John R. Shaughnessy
John A. Shepard
John F. Staniford
°John T. Street
'John E. Sullimn
'[ohn T. Swccncv
)oscph A. Stick;iey
Lawrence R Shallcr
Lemuel W. Symonds
Lillian S. Staniford
Ileirs Mary
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Mary E. Sinclair
Martha M. Smith
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1 18 Howard
I 7 Church
1 29 Boardman
1 14 Federal
1 9 Williams
1 :35 Washington
1 I 04- Bridge
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1 29 Federal
1 29 Federal
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] 4U Forrester
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1 26 Federal
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1 40 Boardman
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:!100
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House 16 Oliver, .1~ exempt, $500;1
land, 1584 It., $100.
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Description and Value o( Personal
and Real Estate.
NAME.
Heirs George Creamer........ 12() to 120 Essex. Block, $5500; land,
5733 ft., $8500.
Salem lllarine Society.. . . . . . . 110 to 118 Essex. Store taxed on Washington square.
James Drain ...... ·......... 114 Essex. Ilouse, $2100; land, 2515 ft.,
$lli00.
George L. Upton. . . . . . . . . . . . 112)~ to 110 Essex. House, $1500; land,
2275 ft., $1300.
Mary Flynn, one-half... . . . . . . 108 Essex. House, $1000; lantl, 14G!J ft,,
$1JOU; stock, $100.
I lcirs Anna F. Andrews, one-half 100 Essex. House, $1100; land, 1047 ft., 1
$700.
Charles S. Rea, et al, trustee heirs 10·1 Essex. !louse, $2000; land, 7145 ft.,
!Janie( C. Manning.
$8200.
Lucretia 0. S. Johnson ...... . 100 Essex. House, $4700; land, 2880 ft.,
$1100; personal, $1800.
Nathaniel G. Symonds, executor 98 Essex. Houst>, $2500; land, 3225 ft.,
estate of Laura Lambert.
$1100.
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I leirs Willard A. Ashby ..... . !J6 Essex. llouse, $1GOO; land, 21!JO ft.,
$800.
Mary E. Duignan •........... !J4 tu !J2t{, Essex. llouse, $5000; land,
u:Hu
fl.,
0000
31100
2800
11'00
r.200
1800
li800
31100
2400
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irnoo.
Samuel Knight.. . . . . . . . . . . . . !J2 .Essex. llousc, $1000; land, 4720 ft.,
$1300; eight horses, $700; per·
sonal, $500.
Eliza C. Stevenson........... 90 Essex. House, $1400; land, 8854 ft.,
$1200.
City of Salem... • . . . . . . . . . . . Essex. School, $88,000; land, 18,000 ft.,
$7200.
EclwardT.Dalrymple,two·thirds. 82 Essex. House, $1200; land, 1840 ft.,
$600; one horse, $100.
Mary A. Kimhall, one-third... 82 Essex. !louse, $GOO; land, 920 ft.,
$300.
John II. Holt............... 78 to 70 Essex. House, $2600; land,
8850 It., $1000.
S. C. Morse and A. W. Moulton, 74 Essex. House, $1500; land, 1400 ft.,
$500.
George F. Getchell ....•...... 72 Essex. House, $1100; land, 144!J ft.,
$000.
Heirs Thomas F. Burbank..... 70 Essex. House, $2300; land, 2050 ft.,
moo
100
1200
:woo
2000
40,200
100
1800
000
8600
2000
1700
3100
~00.
Zina Goodell.... . . . . . • . . • . . . 08 lo 04 Essex. House, $0000; land,
5480 ft., $2200.
Elizabeth Stevenson ....•.•..• 60 Essex. House, $1800; land, 1800 ft,,
$700.
59 Essex. House, $1600; land, 2d40 ft.,
$800.
56 !tr 58 Essex. House, $4800; land,
7317 ft., $2800.
Marietta B. Wilkins ....•••... 54 Essex. House, $700; land, 720 ft.,
$200.
52 Essex. House, $3000; land, 10,IGO
ft., $2800.
City of Salem............... Essex. School, $84,500; land, 19,450 ft.,
$5600.
Charles Bowker. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Essex. llouse, $1400; land, 2000 ft.,
$000.
44 Essex. House, ,£2000; land, 10,511
ft., $2500.
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2400
42
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7100
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713 78
2000
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LOCATION.
Description and Value of Real E.state.
NAME
Total Tax.
r·. •
CUSTOM HOUSE PLACE.
1:-
Herman Tyburc .... , ....
io &
12. House, $6200.
14 & 16. Honse, $1600.
6200
1600
114 70
20 GO
2800
Ill 80
1700
31
64
·12
20
46
42
48
DANIELS STREET.
Elizabeth Stephenson ...
2.
Hot1Sl', $2800; land tal(P.d on Essex
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Joseph Kowalski, et al. ..
Michael l\:obrullm
Sarah B. Iloo<l, et al. . .. .
Dom Ilm·witz ......... .
Wludyslaws Soboczinski ..
Michael Aronson, et al. . .
Mamie Colliet', et al. . ...
Louis Collier ....•.......
Stanislaus Pszenny, et al.
Bernard Grodski ....... .
Bolslaw J. Soboczinski ..
4. House, $1000; Jund, 2635 ft., $700.
6 & 8. llousp, $2500; land, 5940 ft., $1000.
10. Honi<t>, $1500; Jund, 3420 ft., $800.
.12. Houxt>, $500; land, 2620 ft. $600.
1
121/,i. Houst', $2500.
14. Honse. $1500; land, 3290 ft., $800.
16. House, $2000; laud, 1920 ft., $600.
22. Va<'nnt t>orner, taxed on Derby St.
24. Houst', $1500 ; lnncl, 670 ft., $300.
26. Homw. $5700; Jund, 1729 ft., $300.
28. Roust', $1500; Jund, 2100 ft., $300,
30. House. $400; land, 945 ft., $200.
36. llonst>, $1200; land, 2610 ft., $500.
40. Honse, $1300; land, 4815 ft., $800.
8600
2300
1100
2500
2800
2600
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75
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11 I 00
1800
6000
1800
600
.1700
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11 10
:n .ir,
2100
38 85
18400
247 !10
9600
177 uo
DERBY STREcT.
Frnnk Langmaid, et al. ..
313.
Lmnht•r Tiuilcling, $800; sand shed,
$::00.
311 & :ion.
Oflil'l' mul lmnber bldg., $1200.
Wharf, 16.::rno ft., $4200.
305. fa1111ht•r building·nnd stable, $800,
301 & 29i. LmnbPr hnilding, $300,
293. L11111lii•r building, $800; Jund llntl
Heirs Il. C. ~fanning, et al.
The
New England Investment Co. . ..
wharf, 20,650 ft., $5000.
Building. $1200; <'ottl :,;heels and stahh'. $2400; land, 24000 ft., $6000.
279. -·-nuilding, $2500. -·
277. Building in rear, $200; building in
289.
$2500.
1·1•111·.
275.
277.
277.
Almy, Bigelow & Washburn ........... .
Pitman & Brown Co., Inc.
i;Jwds, $500.
xllt•rl, $100. llnilding in rear,
$:100.
Hldg. in l'l'lll'. $200; laud. 23,350 ft.,
81alil"
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261.
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$1i000,
271.
269.
12300
TI11ililing.
Building
500 ft..
Bnil<ling
$Ci00.
on wharf, $1700; land, 18,$-1600.
and Htabh',
22.!IOO ft., $5600.
$800;
land,
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6400
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NAME
al Tax.
De•cription and Value of Real Estate.
.Tnhn Il. Harding ....... .
!)(12 00
G3.
Thomas Chroniak , ••....
Elizaheth Stephenson ••..
(12\l 00
65.
Christn.bcl Swn.sey , , •... .
38B 50
61.
5!l.
House, $1-100. House in rear, $700;
Janel, 37!l5 ft .. :·uooo.
Hornm, $1200; house in rear, $400;
land, 2075 ft .. $600.
IIbuse, $1000: land, 1584 ft., $500.
H;9n&c, _,~2000; .land, . 2640 ft., $1000.
Cli!'i 25
12\l 50
FRONT STREET.
203 50
Charles A. Krtchum ...•.
2-4.
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folen S. Collins ..•.... . .
111 00
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Al\le11 B. Gardner ••• , ....
Mi<'huel J,, Sullivan, et al.
00
!)(\ 20
13B 75
land,
9900
183 Hi
Il11ihli11g, $6000; land, 4620 ft..,
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Daniels Street
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2 Daniels Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built 1906 for Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson (plaque has more wording than this)
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1906, 2001
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Robert Booth
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1906
2
2001
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Charles
Daniels
Elizabeth
F.
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Massachusetts
Salem
Stevenson
Street
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Messervy Street
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2 Messervy Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Joyce King
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1986
2
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Messervy Street
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2 Sutton Avenue
Built for
Frances Tabour
Wife of
William Tabour
Cigar Manufacturer
c. 1880
Research Provided by
Brian Hennessey & Alyssa G. A. Conary
March 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Chain of Title, 2 Sutton Avenue, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
May 31, 1877 Daniel B. Gardner of Salem
September 17, 1900 William Tabour of Lynn
June 19, 1940 Gertrude M. Graves of Salem, widow
June 19, 1940 Herbert W. Levesque of Salem
Gertrude M. Graves of Salem & Clifton H.
November 12, 1947 Graves of Dorchester
Grantee(s)
Frances Tabour, wife of William
Tabour, of Salem
February 5, 1999 Albina C. Nestor of Salem
Conveyance of
Source
"The real estate in said Salem bounded and described as
follows, viz: A lot of land, situated on Juniper Point so called, &
lying in said Salem...Being the lot numbered seven on a plan
of cottage lots on Juniper Point, Salem Neck, owned by Daniel
B. Gardner recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds South District Essex County Registry of
$325 1st Book of Plans Plan No. 30."
Deeeds
Document Book or Vol. Page Notes
Deed
977
85
"a certain parcel of land with all buildings thereon in Salem in
"one dollar and
that part called Juniper Point being lot seven on a plan
other valuable
recorded with Essex South District Deeds, Book 1 number 30,
considerations paid" bounded..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1620
"being the same conveyed by deed of Daniel B.
Gardner to Frances Tabour, wife of the grantor,
dated May 15, 1877, recorded B. 977 L. 85, and
devised to the grantor by her will duly proved and
allowed in Essex County, Probate Court, August 1,
1898, subject to the restrictions contained in said
521 deed."
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in
that part of SALEM called Juniper Point, and being lot seven
on a plan recorded with Essex, South District Registry of
Herbert W. Levesque of Salem "consideration paid" Deeds, Book 1 number 30, and bounded..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3221
463
Gertrude M. Graves of
Dorchester
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon in that part
of SALEM, called Juniper Point, being lot seven on a Plan
recorded with Essex, South District Registry of Deeds, Book 1,
"consideration paid" number 30, bounded..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3221
463
Joseph B. Harrington & Mary
Louise Harrington, husband
and wife of Salem
"A certain parcel of land buildings in that part of Salem called
Juniper Point, being Lot #7 on a plan recorded in Essex South
"consideration paid" District Registry of Deeds, Book 1, Plan 30 and bounded..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3575
550
"a certain parcel of land buildings in that part of Salem called
Juniper Point, being Lot #7 on a plan recorded in Essex South
"consideration paid" District Registry of Deeds, Book 1, Plan 30, and bounded..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4142
355
Paul Nestor & Albina Nestor,
husband and wife of Salem
"the land with the buildings thereon situated on Sutton
Avenue in said Salem, being lot #7 on a plan recorded in
Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan
"consideration paid" 30, bounded and described as follows..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4630
404
Paul Nestor of Salem
"The land with the buildings thereon situated on Sutton
Avenue in said Salem, being Lot #7 on a plan recorded in
Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan
"consideration paid" 30, bounded and described as follows..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
15455
446
"The land with the buildings thereon situated on Sutton
Avenue in said Salem, being Lot #7 on a plan recorded in
Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans 1, Plan
$347,000 30, bounded as follows..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
29368
361
Gertrude M. Graves, wife of
Edgar C. Graves, of Waltham
Rene P. LeBlanc & Myrtle S.
Joseph B. Harrington & Mary L. Harrington, LeBlanc, husband and wife of
February 21, 1955 husband and wife of Salem
Salem
Rene P. LeBlanc & Myrtle S. LeBlanc,
December 21, 1959 husband and wife of Salem
Consideration
Suzanne C. Melin & Claudia M. Hennessey,
Executrixes under the Will of the Estate of
Brian P. Hennessey of Salem
March 31, 2010 Paul Nestor, of Lynn & Marblehead
���1897 Salem Atlas
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Sutton Avenue
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Title
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2 Sutton Avenue, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Frances Tabour
Wife of
William Tabour
Cigar Manufacturer
c. 1880
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c. 1880, 2019
Contributor
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Researched by Brian Hennessey & Alyssa G. A. Conary
Language
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English
1880
2
2019
Avenue
circa
Frances
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Sutton
Tabour
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2 - 4 Emerton Street
Built for
James A. Gillis
Counsellor
by 1894
Research Provided by
Diana Dunlap
June 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�2-4 Emerton Street, Salem, MA
Built for James A. Gillis, Counsellor, by 1894
1. The lot of 2-4 Emerton Street was originally part of the estate of Elizabeth Emerton of Salem,
who died intestate March 28, 1837. Her eldest heir, her son William, requested that his brother
Ephraim be appointed to administer the estate. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers,
1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13765/9033-co2/30163294
2. An 1851 map of Salem shows two buildings on Forrester Street (then called East Street)
marked “J. Emerton;” this is likely Elizabeth Emerton’s son James, who is described in deeds for
other properties as an apothecary or druggist (his brother William was a tailor and his brother
Ephraim a merchant; Registry of Deeds Book 421, Page 83). However, the building is too far
west on Forrester Street to be the same house; the eastern end of Forrester Street is still
marked as a creek emptying into Collins Cove and was not yet developed. McIntyre, H. (Henry),
and H. E. B. Taylor. "Map of the city of Salem, Mass." Map. Philada., Pa: Henry Mc. Intyre,
1851. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g54xk154
(accessed June 25, 2019). https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g54xk154
3. On April 13, 1871, William, Ephraim, and James Emerton of Salem sold a portion of the
“Emerton Estate” to James A. Gillis of Salem for $5,000.00. This was a lot bordering 283 feet on
Forrester Street, 213 feet 6 inches on the land of Eunice P. Richardson, 461 feet on land of
“Silsbee and others,” and 309 feel on other land of “Silsbee and others.” The deed specifies that
the land was sold “with buildings theron standing,” Registry of Deeds Book 819, Page 277. On
an 1872 map of Salem, the buildings marked on Forrester Street are the same as on the 1851
map, and the far end of the street has not yet been filled in. This indicates that the current house
is not one of the buildings reference in the above deed.
https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/maps_salem/1/
4. On October 19, 1894, James A. Gillis sold part of the land he had purchased from the
Emerton brothers over twenty years earlier to Ellen M. Hartshorne, widow, “in consideration of
one dollar paid me...a certain lot or parcel of land with buildings theron standing...on the
northerly side of Forrester Street, being a portion of the Emmerton Estate formerly so-called.”
This deed outlines a rectangular lot, running 47.5 feet along Emerton Street but running 108 feet
to Forrester Street, and also includes a rectangular piece of land to the west of the property
“upon which stand the steps of one of the tenements above conveyed,” plus the interest in and
right of way to the “strip of land...sometimes known as Emerton Street.” Registry of Deeds Book
1426, Page 380. One of the buildings referenced in this deed is likely the current house.
�5. On October 25, 1894, Ellen M. Hartshorne mortgaged the property to Elizabeth H. Osgood for
$2,000. This mortgaged was discharged “with full payment and satisfaction” on April 30, 1908.
Registry of Deeds Book 1426, Page 382, and Book 1916, Page 481.
6. On April 30, 1908, Ellen M. Hartshorne sold the property to Joanna A. Fitzgerald “for one
dollar and other valuable considerations.” Registry of Deeds Book 1916, Page 481.
7. On January 12, 1909, Joanna A. Fitzgerald, wife of Joseph A. Fitzgerald, sold the property to
John J. Caplice. The lot is defined as 53 feet 3 inches x 47 feet 6 inches x 53 feet 5 inches,
bordered by Fitzgerald’s property, Emerton Street, the land of John Casey, and Fitzgerald’s,
“running westerly as the fence now stands.” These are more or less the modern boundaries of
the property. This deed does not reference buildings on the property, but the mortgage Caplice
took out two days later does; see below. Registry of Deeds Book 1951, Page 233.
8. On January 14, 1909, John J. Caplice mortgaged the property, including buildings, to the
Salem Savings Bank for $2,200.00; the Bank acknowledged this mortgage fully paid on
September 8, 1916. Registry of Deeds Book 1951, Page 234.
9. John J. Caplice sold the property to William A. Clapp on September 16, 1911. Registry of
Deeds Book 2106, Page 118.
10. Roger F. Clapp, administering the estate of William A. Clapp, sold the property to John J.
and Nellie J. Foley, husband and wife, on March 12, 1924. Registry of Deeds Book 2590, Page
96.
11. John J. and Nellie J. Foley mortgaged the house to the Salem Savings Bank for $3,000.00
on March 12, 1924, for one year at 5.5% interest. Registry of Deeds Book 2590, Page 97.
12. The Salem Savings Bank foreclosed the Foleys’ mortgage on May 28, 1927. Registry of
Deeds 2722, Page 392.
13. On June 9, 1927, the Salem Savings Bank sold the house to Philippe Belanger for
$6600.00.
14. Also on June 9, 1927, Philippe Belanger and his wife, Malvina E.D. Belanger, mortgaged the
property to the Salem Savings Bank for $4500.00 for one year at 5.5% interest. On December
29, 1927, the Belangers took out another one-year mortgage of $1500.00. The bank
acknowledged this was fully satisfied on April 4, 1960. Registry of Deeds Book 2725, Page 432;
Book 2746, Page 562; and Book 4655, Page 249.
15. On June 11, 1938, Philippe Belanger sold the property to Lilian Gordon of Salem. Registry
of Deeds Book 3147, Page 131.
�16. The same day, June 11, 1938, Lilian Gordon sold the property back to Philippe Belanger “for
a consideration of under $100.00.” Registry of Deeds 3147, Page 131.
17. On November 15, 1941, Philippe and Malvina Belanger purchased one tankless hot water
heater from the Harvard Oil Burner Company for $129.23. Registry of Deeds 3301, Page 87.
18. On May 16, 1955, Georges Paul Belanger of Salem, executor of the estate of Malvina E.D.
Belanger of Salem, granted the property to Philippe Belanger of Paris, France, for $3000.00.
Registry of Deeds 4174, Page 365; Probate Docket 246, Page 223.
19. On May 27, 1955, Phillipe J. Belanger of Paris, France, granted the property to George Paul
Belanger, “reserving to myself for the duration of my natural life, the right to use and occupy two
rooms on the second floor...Being the same premises conveyed to me by a deed of Georges
Paul Belanger, executor of the will of Malvina E.D. Belanger...the consideration is less than one
hundred dollars.” The deed was signed by Philippe’s wife, Charlotte Eugenie Belanger. Registry
of Deeds 4174, Page 366.
19. On April 4, 1960, Georges Paul Belanger and his wife Vivian sold the property to Jean R.
and Eva O. L’Italien. Registry of Deeds Book 4655, Page 250.
20. On January 12, 1962, Jean R. L’Italien of Beverly and Leonard P. L’Italien of Peabody
formed the “Len and Jean Real Estate Trust.” Jean and Eva L’Italien transferred ownership of
the property to the trust on March 8, 1962. Registry of Deeds Book 4870, Page 118; Book 4889,
Page 198.
21. Jean R. and Leonard P. L’Italien, as the Len and Jean Real Estate Trust, sold the property
to Barbara A. and Roger N. L’Heureux for $12800.00. Registry of Deeds 5594, Page 473.
22. Barbara A. and Roger N. L’Heureux mortgaged the property to the Salem Co-Operative
Bank for $19,500.00 on February 25. 1972. Registry of Deeds Book 5747, Page 436.
23. On June 12, 1980, Barbara A. L’Heureux of Danvers granted the property to Roger N.
L’Heureux of Lafayette Street, Salem. Registry of Deeds Book 6716, Page 406.
24. Roger N. L’Heureux of Oakland Park, Florida, created the Emerton Street trust on July 27,
1992, and transferred the property to said trust on October 1, 1992. Registry of Deeds Book
11512, Page 560.
25. On March 29, 1994, Sharon L’Heureux of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Michael L’Heureux of
Salem, were appointed trustees of the Emerton Street Trust due to the death of Roger N.
L’Heureux on February 2, 1994. The Massachusetts Real Estate Tax lien M-792 was released
on February 22, 1994. Registry of Deeds Book 12512, Page 210; Book 13417, Page 215.
�26. On November 20, 1996, Sharon L’Heureux of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Michael L’Heureux of
Boston, Trustees of the Emerton Street Trust, sold the property to John T. Kilroy for
$125,000.00. Registry of Deeds Book 13898, Page 310.
27. John T. Kilroy sold the property to Philip J. Malonson for $127,000.00 on March 16, 2001.
Registry of Deeds Book 16972, Page 374.
28. On March 16, 2001, Philip Malsonson established the Step Four Realty Trust with himself as
Trustee. Registry of Deeds Book 16972, Page 370.
29. On July 22, 2016, Philip J. Malonson, of the Step Four Realty Trust, Burlington, sold the
property to the Gregory Investment Group for $299,000.00. Registry of Deeds 35109, Page 130.
30. A master deed of August 22, 2017, established the Emerton Estates Condominium, and
submitted a site plan by the Gregory Investment Group. Registry of Deeds Book 36118, Pages
49-67.
31. On October 12, 2017, David Cole and Bradley Epps, a married couple, purchased 2-4
Emerton Street Unit 2 from the Gregory Investment Group for $560,000.0, with a 60% interest in
the Common Area of Emerton Estates Condominium. Registry of Deeds 36247, Page 029-032.
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Gilbert John, laborer, house 23 Phelps court
Gilbert John T. shoemaker, house 10 Woodbury court
Giles Lydia G. Mrs. house 28 Lynde
Gill Catharine,
widow,
house
26 Congress
Gill Harriet P. Mrs. boards 4 Harbor square
Gill Michael, laborer, boards 9 Flint
Gilligan Daniel, laborer, boards rear 36 Charter
Gilligan John, laborer, house rear 36 Charter
Gilligan Matthew J. machinist, house 32 Turner
Gilligan Owen, laborer, house 36 Charter
Gillie James A. counsellor, 243% Essex, house 333 do.
Gillis Lydia D. Mrs. house 333 Essex
Gillis Randall, mariner, house 6 Webb
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Emerton Street
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House history
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Built for
James A. Gillis
Counsellor
by 1894
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by 1894, 2019
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Diana Dunlap
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English
2-4
2019
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Emerton
Gillis
History
House
James
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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Northey Street
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Oliver Street
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20 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Edmund Needham, by 1819
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Sally Dee
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Oliver Street
Salem
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Winter Street
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20 Winter Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Capt. Oliver P. Ricker, shipmaster, 1878
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King
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Orne Street
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20-22 Orne Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Lemon Street
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21 Lemon Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Pickman Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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21 Pickman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Moses Marshall, housewright, 1809
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house history
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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1978
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Williams Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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21 Williams Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Benjamin Stone, Mason, 1857
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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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Bonin
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Forrester Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Forrester Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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Ocean Avenue
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Ocean Avenue, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem., Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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Oliver Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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Pickman Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Pickman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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Williams Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Williams Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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MacInnis
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23 Briggs Street
Built for
John Goodhue
Fisherman
and his wife
Anna Preston
c. 1740
Researched & written by
Robert Booth
October 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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c. 1740, 2019
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Robert Booth
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Lemon 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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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Robert Booth
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Linden 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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23 Linden Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House histories
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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Joyce King
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Oliver 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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23 Oliver Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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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.
1
�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
4
�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
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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
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form, into another book. (See Essex Inst. Hist. Collections, vol. vii,
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25 Beach Avenue
Built for
Harriet F. Perkins
Widow of
Salem City Alderman
Fitz W. Perkins
1896
Researched & written by
Amy Kellett
May 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�House History Report
25 Beach Avenue
Salem, Massachusetts
The Perkins Family Summer Cottage
1896-1937
The Poulter Home
1938-1953
Research & Report by
Amy E. Kellett
2019
Researcher’s Note:
The contents of this report are based on research done
through the Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, the
Salem City Directory archives, Salem Street Books, Tax
Assessment Records, and other primary sources. (Where
secondary sources have been quoted or otherwise referred
to, there are corresponding citation footnotes.) This report is
completed to the best of my knowledge at the time of its
publication. However, I reserve the right to update, revise,
and otherwise edit this report if and/or when new
information is discovered.
This report is published and copyrighted by Historic Salem,
Inc., Feb. 2019.
Amy E. Kellett
Researcher & Author
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Part I: A History of the Land before 1896
The earliest official records regarding the land at Salem Neck, including Winter Island and
Juniper Point, date to November 1792 when the Supreme Judicial Court held at Salem granted
the peninsula of Salem Neck to Edward Allen, Sr. as an estate including the wharves and
warehouses thereupon. In 1801 Allen divided his estate with his son and namesake, Edward Allen
Jr., recorded in the Southern Essex Co. Registry of Deeds, Book 176 Leaf 196.
1801 Land Deed | Edward Allen, Sr. to Edward Allen, Jr.
Nine years later, in 1810 Edward Allen, Jr. sold a portion of the estate left to him by his father to
Salem merchant Josiah Orne, the deed for which describes the ‘parcel of land’:
…called Allen’s farm with all the buildings thereon standing being situated
partly on the Neck so called, and partly on Winter Island so called and
containing about forty five acres more or less, being bounded by the stone wall
as the same now stands, together with all the walls adjoining…
Orne was in possession of the property at Winter Island for only a half dozen years, after which
the property once again transferred hands in 1816 to Danvers native, Jonathan Dustin.
According to the 1816 Deed from Josiah Orne, Jonathan Dustin’s profession is noted as
‘Victualler’, meaning the Dustin’s family fortune was made in the licensed trade of alcoholic
liquor (and other provisions). The property would remain in the Dustin family for the next halfcentury and in subsequent records, including the 1874 Salem City Atlas, the portion of land
known as ‘Juniper Point’ of the Salem Neck is recorded as belonging to the ‘Heirs of Dustin’,
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which included Dustin’s two adult daughters, Eliza Sutton and Serena Ayers. Just one year after
the publication of the 1874 Salem Atlas, the entire forty-five acres of the Dustin estate was sold to
Daniel B. Gardner for $21,000:
…we, Eliza Sutton and Serena Ayer of Peabody in the County of Essex… in
consideration of twenty one thousand dollars to us paid by Daniel B. Gardner,
Jr. of Salem… a parcel of land formerly called Allen’s Farm situated in Said
Salem partly on the Neck so called and partly on Winter Island so called and
containing about forty five acres more or less… Easterly by the sea shore and
Northerly North Westerly, Southwesterly and Southerly by land of the City of
Salem as the same to now enclosed by the stone walls and boundaries being
more particularly shown on a plan entitled “Plan of the Dustin Farm on Salem
Neck, 1854… Being the same premises that Josiah Orne conveyed to Jonathan
Dustin the father of said Eliza and Serena… [who] inherited the same.
1874 Salem City Atlas | Salem Neck & Winter Island
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Immediately after purchasing the property from the Heirs of Dustin, in October of 1875 Gardner
commissioned the land to be officially surveyed and divided by local surveyor, Charles A.
Putnam, the result of which was a plan to subdivide the Juniper Point peninsula, entitled ‘Plan of
Cottage Lots at Juniper Point Salem Neck’. Gardner, one of the wealthiest land owners in Salem
during the 19th century, planned to subsequently sell the individual parcels for others to build
summer homes along the Juniper Cove waterfront (see images on page 4).
The following Spring, in April of 1876, Daniel B. Gardner, Jr. sold two parcels (numbered 32 and
33 on the Putnam plan) to Horatio D. Allen for $500. The deed between Gardner and Allen
includes a specific condition that further confirms Gardner’s vision for the Juniper Point
development:
This conveyance is made on condition that no shop, public house, boarding
house, saloon or stable shall ever be erected on said lot, nor any building
thereon used for any of said purposes… and further that a strip of land ten feet
wide next to high water mark shall forever be kept open free and unobstructed
as a public ride walk and promenade.
1876 Land Deed | Daniel B. Gardner to Horatio B. Allen
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1875 Plan of Cottage Lots at Juniper Point Salem Neck
(top) Overview of Cottage Lots at Juniper Point as subdivided and surveyed by Charles A. Putnam,
surveyor, who divided Gardner’s land into 73 individual lots to be sold.
(Bottom) Denoted by the bold line on the top picture, a closer view of the neighborhood of Juniper
point, including Beach, Central, and Cheval Avenues, lots 23-37.
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Salem in the 1870s was in flux; the maritime industry that had held up Salem’s economy for
decades had crumbled in the 1820s and 30s, and by the middle of the 19th century the entire
industry had changed from seafaring to an international capitol of cloth and shoe manufacturing.
Salem continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leather-making business. In
1874 the city was visited by a tornado and shaken by a minor earthquake. In the following year,
the large Pennsylvania Pier (site of the present harbor-side electrical plant) was completed to
begin receiving large shipments of coal.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating his telephone invention at the Lyceum in Salem, Mass.
In the U.S. centennial year, 1876, A.G. Bell of Salem announced that he had discovered a way to
transmit voices over telegraph wires. In this decade, French-Canadian families began coming to
work in Salem’s mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were built. The better-off
workers bought portions of older houses or built small homes for their families in the outlying
sections of the city; and by 1879 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton mills would employ 1200 people
and annually produce nearly 15 million yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing businesses expanded
in the 1870s, and 40 shoe factories were employing 600-plus operatives. Tanning, in both Salem
and Peabody, remained a very important industry, and employed hundreds of breadwinners.
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1883 Salem, Mass. Lithograph | The Willows
On Juniper point, the Allen family continued to use the land for farming and working purposes.
In 1883 Horatio D. Allen sold the property to his son, Joseph P. Allen (whose name again appears
in this report on the 1897 Salem Atlas as the neighboring house to 25 Beach Avenue) — Allen in
turn decided to sell half of the property, the lot numbered 33 on the Plan of Cottage Lots at
Juniper Point.
1897 Salem Atlas | Juniper Point at Salem Neck
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The 1891 Deed details the sale between Joseph P. Allen and Frank A. Wendell who purchased the
lot for $800, and includes the stipulation that a “strip of land thirty two (32) feet in width
extending from Central Avenue to the Sea shall be kept open and used in common by the owners
of said adjoining Estates.” Wendell then sold the land at Lot 33 in March 1896 to Samuel Shaw
from Newton, Mass. for “one dollar and other valuable considerations” (a common price for land
exchanges in 19th and early 20th century Essex County). One year prior in 1895, two brand new
streets were approved to be developed on Juniper Point: Central and Beach Avenues. Shaw
commenced work immediately on building the Queen Anne home at the intersection of Beach,
Central, and Cheval Avenues. By the end of the Spring 1896 the waterfront home was completed,
and Shaw sold the new home to the widow Harriet F. Perkins for $4,100. Just one year later, a
new official Atlas was published (presumably surveyed in 1896-7), the page showing Juniper
Point notes Mrs. Perkins at the new home, next door to J. P. Allen.
1896 Land Deed | Frank A. Wendell to Samuel Shaw
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Part II: The Perkins Family
Mrs. Harriet F. Perkins was given the name Mary Elizabeth at birth, but someone in the Bingham
family decided better of it shortly after she was born on February 26th of 1845, and changed her
name to Harriet F. Bingham.
1845 Mass. Birth Records
Harriet F Bingham born
Feb. 26 on Central
Street in Manchester.
She was born to Mary Jane and Henry Tuck Bingham, a cabinetmaker, on Central Street in
Manchester, Massachusetts. Harriet was the third born of four Bingham children born to Mary
Jane and Henry, and their only daughter.
1850 US Federal Census | Essex Co. Massachusetts | Manchester | The Bingham Family
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22 February 1868 Massachusetts Marriage Record of Fitz W. Perkins & Harriet F. Bingham
At the age of 22 Harriet was married to 23 year-old Fitz W. Perkins, a grocer and Gloucester,
Mass. native on the 22nd of February, 1868. Eighteen months later Harriet gave birth to the one
and only child born to the couple; Fitz and Harriet welcomed their son, Charles F. Perkins on
July 15th of 1869. The family spent the first few years of their marriage living in Gloucester while
Fitz worked as a grocer, as neighbors to Mr. Perkins’ parents, Jacob and Margaret, until 1874
when they relocated to Central Street in Salem, Mass.
1870 US Federal Census | Manchester, Essex Co. | Fitz & Harriet (Hattie) Perkins, et al.
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During this decade in Salem, hordes of French-Canadian families began coming to work in
Salem’s mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were built. The better-off workers
bought portions of older houses or built small homes for their families in the outlying sections of
the city; and by 1879 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton mills would employ 1200 people and produce
annually nearly 15 million yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing businesses expanded in the 1870s,
and 40 shoe factories were employing 600-plus operatives.
1883 Salem, Mass. Lithograph | The Point & the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. neighborhood
Fitz W. Perkins established a successful business with a Mr. Leroy Philbrick soon after he and his
family arrived in Salem. The partners created L. B. Philbrick & Perkins and dealt in ‘oils, paints,
and papers.’ Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, along with their son Charles, lived at several addresses
throughout the City, according to concurrent directories: in 1874 the family lived at 7 Central
Street, while Mr. Perkins’ business was located at 16 Central; then, by 1878 the business of
Philbrick & Perkins is at 229 Derby Street, and the Perkins’ home at 23 Pickman; in 1880 the
business had relocated to 36-38 Central Street, and the Perkins family to 91 Essex, in 1888 they
are at 13 Orne Sq, after which the family moved to 2 Pickman Street by 1890, and then 19 Winter
Street by 1893. Evidently, Fitz was also deeply involved in the politics of Salem, and by the age of
fifty he had gotten himself elected to the City Board of Alderman. It was 1894 when Mr. and Mrs.
Perkins took a trip to Washington, D. C. Fitz W. Perkins became gravely ill and died at the Hotel
Oxford. His obituary, published in the Salem Evening News on October 1st, details the
extraordinary man’s life (and a bit of 1894 Salem politics):
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Alderman Perkins Dies at Washington
cords of the neck. The G. A. R. Post of
Washington had in the meantime been
communicated with by the local post, and they
visited the sick man at about that time. The
attending physician stated the seriousness of the
case, and the post immediately ordered the
department physician to attend. That gentleman
was one of Garfield’s physicians.
A consultation was held, and the
doctors decided that in order to combat with the
disease it was absolutely necessary to open the
growth at the back of the neck. That operation
was successfully performed, and a large amount
of poisonous matter removed.
The poison accumulated so rapidly,
however, that the skill of the best physicians in
the country was of no avail and Mr. Perkins soon
after passed away.
The disease so rapidly enveloped his
system that his mind was unbalanced on several
occasions during the first three weeks of his
sickness. Sunday morning it was evident that the
end was near. He lapsed into unconsciousness
and remained in that state until death ensued.
He was unconscious some little time
before his final attack, and failed to recognize his
brothers, who had gone on to see him.
The attending physicians stated
yesterday that they had Mr. Perkins started for
home upon the first attack of illness, it was
exceedingly doubtful if he would have made the
journey alive. During his unconscious spells his
mind continually preyed upon city affairs, and
repeatedly he would rise and ask to be taken
home, as he must get there and vote on the
Longham meadow matter. The doctors were of
the opinion aided materially in the progress of
the disease, as it was impossible to keep him,
while suffering so frightfully from these
deliriums.
Mrs. Perkins, accompanied by her two
brothers, left Washington last evening, arriving
home this forenoon. The son, Charles F., will
leave Washington today with the body. It was the
intention of the Washington post, to send a
member with the son.
Second Death in Board This Year.
Has a Very Important Political Aspect.
Leaves Longham Supporters a Clear Majority.
Opponents Will Petition to Have Both Seats
Filled.
Fitz W Perkins died at Hotel Oxford,
Washington, at 1.08 Sunday afternoon, after an
illness dating from the national encampment of
the G. A. R. At Pittsburg, a month ago.
Three weeks ago the deceased was
taken to the hotel ad Washington, upon the
advice of physicians, he having developed
alarming symptoms for typhoid fever. Mrs.
Perkins, his wife, was with him and remained by
his side until death ensued.
Soon after his admittance to the hotel ,
typhoid fever set in. The attuning physicians did
everything within their power to allay the ravages
of the disease, and were successful in
counteracting its influence on the system. He
rallied slightly, only to be attached by erysipelas.
A growth was soon noticeable upon the
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condition was such that he was unable to
withstand the ravages of the disease.
Its Political Significance.
If VacancyIs Not Filled Longham Meadow Basin
Is Assured.
The death of Alderman Perkins is the
sole topic of conversation in political circles. It
means considerable to the citizens. If his
successor is not elected Messrs. Knight, Gove
and Stickney would form a majority of the board
and the Longham meadow scheme would go
through with a rush.
That movement will be checkmated by
the opponents to the measure, however, by a
petition for an election to fill the vacancies in the
board. That means two new aldermen.
The canvass for the offices would be
bitterly contested by the men favoring Longham
meadow, as, unless they win a victory their
scheme for furnishing water to the citizens can
never pass.
The opponents will not work so hard,
but will endeavor to induce gentlemen to run for
offices that the citizens can rely upon, the men
who will thoroughly investigate matters before
rushing a scheme of any description through the
board.
The Dead Alderman.
It Was His First Political Office — A Good
Record as a Soldier, Extending Over 26 Years.
Fitz W. Perkins was born in
Gloucester, Aug. 20, 1844. He was educated in
the public schools, and after finishing his
education entered the grocery business. After
concluding his career as a groceryman he entered
the paint and oil business. He associated himself
with L. B. Philbrick & Perkins, dealers in oils,
paints and paper, with headquarters in this city.
The firm has enjoyed prosperity and run teams to
all portions of the county and this section of the
state.
Mr. Perkins has a long military record
with some 26 years continuous service. When the
war broke out he enlisted as a private in Co. G,
Eighth Regiment, and after serving nine months
was discharged. He re-enlisted June 4, 1863, as
sergeant in the Second Massachusetts Heavy
artillery and refined in service until June 27, 1865.
In August, 1863, he enlisted as a
member of Co. . Eighth Regiment. M. V. M. He
served time as a corporal and sergeant, and on
May 15, 1868, was elected second lieutenant.
April 20, 1869, he was promoted to the first
lieutenancy, and August 18, 1869, was
discharged.
He again mustered into service March
15, 1875, as quartermaster sergeant of the Eight
Regiment, Aug. 11, 1879, he was appointed
quartermaster, and held that office for a number
of years.
He was a member of the G. A. R. Royal
Arcanum and one of the leaders in the Pilgrim
Fathers, having occupied many offices in that
order.
Mr. Perkins was originally a member of
Allen post 45, G. A. R., of Gloucester, and was a
past commander of that organization. He was a
past president of the Eighth Regiment Veteran
association. He was a deputy supreme governor
of several Pilgrim Father lodges. When the Salem
Board of Trade was formed he became a member
and has since taken great interest in its work.
He was elected to the board of
aldermen last December, that being the first
Was on a Pleasure Trip.
Succumbed to Illness In Washington About Two
Weeks Ago
The death of Alderman Perkins is the
second to be recorded among the members of the
board of aldermen of this city for the year of 1894,
Alderman Fabens having been the first to pass
away.
Death was the result of an attack of
erysipelas, with other complications.
Alderman Perkins left Salem a few
weeks ago to attend the national G. A. R.
Encampment at Pittsburg. He was not feeling
very well at the time, but insisted upon making
the trip.
At Pittsburg he partially succumbed to
an attack of illness, but rallied an insisted on
starting for the battle field of Newburn, N. C.
With a large party. He got as far as Washington,
where he was forced to take to his bed. Here he
remained ever since, attended by the best
physicians in the Capitol city. His physical
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political office he had ever held. He was an
opponent to the Longham meadow scheme, and
it was his illness that brought about the present
condition of affairs.
He was married and leaves a widow, and
one son, Charles F., of the firm of Odell &
Perkins.
through him that in 1882 I severed my connection
with the Cadets and joined the Eighth Regiment.
Our social relations were pleasant and friendly.
We visited at each other’s homes, and the
friendship extended to the other members of our
families.”
The day before he started for Pittsburg
he came into my shop and in talking over the
matter he expresses the wish that I would
accompany him. I said it would be a pleasure but
business would not permit. That evening he and
Mrs. Perkins came to my house and bid Mrs.
Stickney and myself good bye. His death removes
a friend that I shall ever deplore.”
Alderman Flynn— “My relations with
Mr. Perkins began at the Columbus Day parade,
Oct. 21, 1892, we serving together on the staff of
Wm. G. Webber, marshal of the trades’ division.
Then I found him a perfect gentleman and a
pleasant companion. Since his coming into the
board of aldermen I found he displayed the same
gentlemanly qualities. He was earnest and sincere
in all his actions, and although sometimes we
differed on the wisest courses to follow in
municipal matters, any such difference never
interfered with our personal relations. His death
is a loss to the city, which in common with all
citizens I regret, and also regard his death as a
personal loss, it being the removal of one whom I
regarded as a dear friend. By his death I am left
the only member of the committee on elections
which was originally Messrs. Fabens, Perkins and
myself.”
Alderman Sawyer— “My acquaintance
with Alderman Perkins dates back 25 years,
having first met him on the road before either of
us moved to Salem.
“The death of Mr. Perkins comes home
to me as though he was a member of the family.
He was the only member of the bard that I was
personally acquainted with, before the recent
election.
“He was as good a friend as a man could
have and if he ever gave his word you could rely
on it. He was faithful to all trusts and everything
placed in his care was always looked alert. He was
an earnest, honest and fearless worker, attending
to his duties in a thoroughly impartial manner.
“In politics, he was a Republican.
While in office, he never cared for the future,
desiring only accomplish what, in his mind was
the true solution of the problem which
confronted him.”
His Associates.
Mayor Turner and the Five Remaining Aldermen
Speak in High Terms of His Worth as a Man and
as a Public Servant.
The news of Alderman Perkins’ death,
though somewhat expected by his fellow
members, as well as by the public, was
nevertheless a great shock to them, more
especially as it was the second time within the
year that death has entered the chamber.
Regardless of political differences, Alderman
Perkins was highly regarded by all his associates.
They ever found him considerate and courteous
man, a man f honor, high minded and having the
interest of the city at heart, doing what he saw to
be his duty, and holding steadfastly to his course.
The mayor and the five remaining
aldermen each had a warm tribute to offered
when the news of his death was brought to them.
Mayor Turner expressed sorrow and
spoke in feeling terms of Mr. Perkins’ many
excellent qualities. Especially he did refer to the
genial companionship of the deceased member in
the executive sessions of the board, where they
were more manifest than at the open sessions; at
the latter, he was dignified and earnest in debate
and conscientious in action.
Alderman Knight — “I regret sincerely
the death of Mr. Perkins. My acquaintance with
him was not so lang as other members of the
board, it having begun at the city election last
year. Since meeting him in the board of aldermen
I learned to respect and esteem him highly. Our
reactions were always pleasant, differences of
opinion as to public matters not marine in the
least our personal relations. He was a pleasant
companion and conscientious public official.
Alderman Stickney— “I knew Mr.
Perkins better than any other member of the
board. Our relations began many years ago in the
militia, I being a member of the Second Corps
and he a member of the Eighth Regiment. It was
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“His death is to be regretted by all classes.”
Alderman Gove— “It is indeed very sad
to lose another member of our board. I
considered Alderman Perkins as a most valuable
member of the board and we shall feel his loss
very much. We seem to have been singularly
unfortunate this year. Two deaths and the serious
injury to Alderman Sawyer, which compelled him
to be absent from the meetings for some time, is a
remarkable state of affairs. I trust that no other
calamity will befall us for the remainder of our
term of office.”
Mayor Turner, Aldermen Knight and
Gove were appointed a committee to draw up
resolutions on the death of Alderman Perkins.
The mayor, with full board, was
appointed a committee to make arrangements for
the funeral.
The city messenger was requested to
drape the late alderman’s chair in mourning.
It was voted not to hold any other
meeting until after the funeral. On the day of the
funeral the City hall will be closed and all the
departments of the city will be closed.
The only business done was the
drawing of jurors. Frank W. Benson, Charles W.
Read and William Sutton drawn.
Alderman Knight and Flynn will
probably go to Boston to accompany the remains
to Salem.
Second Death on Board
Alderman Fabens Passed Away Early in the Year.
It is a little singular that there should be
two deaths in the board of aldermen within eight
months, yet such is the case. Alderman Fabens
died suddenly at Bridgeport, Conn., early in the
year while on his way home from Europe whither
he had been in search of health. This death left
the board a tie on the water question, and now
that tie is broken by the second death.
Funeral Tuesday.
It Will Be Held from His Late Home on Winter
Street at 2.30.
Alderman Perkins’ brothers arrived in Salem this
morning. They announced that the funeral would
be h eld from his late home on Winter street,
Tuesday afternoon at 2,30 o’clock, and that it was
the wish of the widow to have it as private as
possible. The body will arrive in Boston about
8.30 this evening.
The G. A. R. Notified.
Local Post Has Followed the Sickness of Its
Comrade — Adjutant Goes to Meet the Remains.
The local post of the G. A. R. Has kept
constantly informed of the condition of its sick
comrade, and I. W. Stone, assistant adjutant
general of the department of the district, has
acted as the agent of the post. A message was
received from him Sunday, conveying the
intelligence of Mr. Perkins’ death, and Dr. A. M.
Dudley, the adjutant, immediately started for
New York, to meet the remains. A committee
from the post will meet the remains in Salem.
Board of Trade Meeting.
The board of trade will meet this
evening at 8 o’clock to take action on the death of
Alderman Perkins, who was a member of the
executive committee.
Aldermen Meet.
Appropriate Action Taken On the Death of Their
Fellow Member.
The board of aldermen held a special
meeting at 9 o’clock this morning. Mayor Turner
presided and all members were present.
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After twenty-five years of marriage, Harriet F. Perkins found herself widowed at the age of 49.
She continued to live at the couple’s last address, 19 Winter Street (until 1899), and presumably
she and her son Charles were the beneficiaries of her late husband’s Estate. Two years after Fitz
W. Perkins passing, Harriet purchased the house on Juniper Point from Samuel Shaw in June of
1896:
…in consideration of forty-one hundred dollars paid by Harriet F. Perkins,
widow, of Salem … do hereby give, grant, bargain sell and convey unto the said
Harriet F. Perkins a certain lot of land situate on Juniper Point, so called, in
said Salem being lot numbered thirty three (33) on a “Plan of Cottage Lots at
Juniper Point Salem Neck, C. A. Putnam, Surveyor Oct. 1875”…
1896 Property Deed | Samuel Shaw to Harriet F. Perkins
The design and layout of the neighborhood at Juniper Point was entirely intentional; the vision of
Daniel B. Gardner, who had bought, surveyed, and subdivided, and sold the property in the
mid-1870s was clearly intended in some of the earliest deeds granted to the residents of Juniper
Point (and Salem Neck), which included explicit language as to what the premises could (or more
accurately, could not) be used for:
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“… no building nor any part thereof on said land shall be used as a hotel,
boarding-house, saloon, shop, livery or boarding stable, or for manufacturing
purposes, or for any purposes than for a private dwelling house, with the usual
out-buildings, including a private stable; no stable, however, to be rested within
50’ of any street, and with the further agreement that no swine shall be kept on
said land…”
1911 Salem Atlas | Mrs. Perkins at 43 Central Avenue (now 25 Beach Avenue)
By the time of Mrs. Perkins’ purchase of the home in the early Summer of 1896, much of the land
that had once been owned and parceled out by Daniel B. Gardner had been purchased and
developed into a retreat of sorts for well-to-do Salemites looking to escape the heat of Downtown
Salem in the humid New England summers. At the turn of the 20th century, Salem Willows was
being developed with amusement rides and restaurants just around the corner from the Juniper
Point summer homes along the waterfront. Apparently Mrs. Perkins enjoyed living on Salem
Neck enough that she decided to make it her permanent residence (though she retained
ownership of 19 Winter Street) and by 1900 she is listed living on Central Avenue. (The address
of the Perkins’ waterfront home changed once more in the time between 1911 and 1915, when the
current address of 25 Beach Avenue became the permanent identity of the Queen Anne home.)
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On the morning of June 25, 1914 in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite Federal), a fire
started in one of Salem’s fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and
raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building
caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of
flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street,
and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets. Men
and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed
the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street
itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
25th June 1914 | The Great Salem Fire consumes a third of the City
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire
overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag
Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down
Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a
13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed some 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41
factories, and leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some people had insurance, some did
not; all received much support and generous donations from all over the country and the world.
It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of
Salem would take years to recover from it; fortunately, the Perkins family did not lose anything.
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1900 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Central Avenue, Juniper Point
Harriet ‘Hattie’ F. Perkins remained living at the home until she disappears from the local
records in 1916, as she presumably passed away in 1915 at the age of 70. Documents show that
Mrs. Perkins left her estate (including both homes on Winter Street and Beach Avenue) to her
only son, Charles F. Perkins, now a married man with a career as an accountant, who is listed in
the Salem Directory as living at 25 Beach Avenue in 1916 through 1918, after which he retained
ownership but did not live at the home on Juniper Point full-time; rather it was used by the family
as a summer retreat from the sweltering heat of downtown Salem in the summertime.
1916 Salem City Directory | Charles F. & Elizabeth B. Perkins at 25 Beach Avenue
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1926 Survey of Salem Neck| Waterfront Homes at Juniper Point
Charles F. Perkins continued to own the home at 25 Beach Avenue and the Perkins family and
friends undoubtedly spent many a long summer evening on the shores at Juniper Point.
Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s the home is listed on the Salem Street Directories as
being the summer residence of C. F. Perkins until 1938. From the time that Charles’ widowed
mother purchased the brand new home on the waterfront of Juniper Point in 1896 until the
property was sold in 1938, the home at 25 Beach Avenue and the Perkins family were witness to a
rapidly changing city just across the Salem Sound.
After the Great Salem Fire of 1914, one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United
States, the people of Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of
the former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects (including
Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put
into effect.
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1926 Salem Mass. City Hall | Salem’s Tercentenary Celebration
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926 was a time of
great celebration. The Depression hit in 1929, and continued through the 1930s. Salem, the
county seat and regional retail center, gradually rebounded, and prospered after World War II
through the 1950s and into the 1960s. General Electric, Sylvania, Parker Brothers, Pequot Mills
(formerly Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.), Almy’s department store, various other large-scale
retailers, and Beverly’s United Shoe Machinery Company were all major local employers.
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Early 20th Century Postcard | Salem, Mass. | The Willows
In May of 1938 Charles F. Perkins sold the property at 25 Beach Avenue to Alfred T. Poulter and
his wife, Marion E. Poulter. (Charles Perkins relocated to Los Angeles, California in the late
1930s where he would spend the rest of his life until his passing in 1943.) Evidently, according to
contemporary directories the Poulter family made 25 Beach Avenue their year-round residence.
(Researcher’s note: 25 Beach Avenue is sometimes labelled 136 Bay View Avenue in contemporary
City directories.)
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Part III: The Poulter Family
Alfred Thomas Poulter was born in Plaistow, in Essex, England in the County Borough of West
Ham, the second youngest of the four children of Samuel James and Charlotte Poulter (née
Raisbeck): James, born in 1894, Joy Hilda born in 1895, Alfred Thomas Poulter born in 1899, and
finally Herbert born in 1901. The Poulter family emigrated through Boston, Mass. in May of 1906
from London, England when Alfred Thomas was just turning seven years old, and settled in
Connecticut. Samuel James Poulter earned a living as a painter to support his family, while the
Poulter children were educated in local schools.
Alfred Thomas Poulter remained in East Windsor, Connecticut where he lived and worked in the
Warehouse Point Village neighborhood of the city. According to the 1920 Federal Census ,
Alfred was living with his family as a single 20-year old, working as a foreman at a local cotton
mill. He had been naturalized as an American citizen just one year before in 1919.
In 1922 Alfred T. Poulter relocated to Salem, Mass. which sustained on its own booming cotton
mill industry, where he found work as a bookkeeper and a place to board at 75 Hathorne. By 1924
Alfred had found a new place to board at 116 Columbus Avenue on Juniper Point, while working
as a cashier (i.e. bookkeeper) at Swift & Co., a local beef wholesale provision market, located at
274 Bridge Street. During his time boarding on Columbus Avenue, Alfred Poulter would meet
the young woman who would eventually become his wife: Marion Elizabeth Spencer; the two
were wed in 1926.
Marion E. Spencer was born in Salem on the 22nd of September, 1899, the only child of Alfred
and Margaret E. Spencer (née Hamilton). Alfred Spencer came to Salem from England to apply
his trade as a shoemaker. Margaret E. Hamilton was born in the burgeoning industrial town of
Northbridge, Massachusetts in a neighborhood village called Whitinsville; it is no coincidence
that her family made their way to Salem in the second half of the 19th century, as Salem’s
booming industrial economy drew thousands from all over the world, especially those involved
with steam power manufacturing.
The Spencer family including Alfred, Margaret, and Marion Elizabeth lived at 12 Margin Street
with Marion’s paternal grandmother, Martha Spencer (née Crabtree). At just seven years old,
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Marion’s father Alfred passed away after a week-long bout of peritonitis 1 in March of 1908.
Marion and her mother continued to live at 12 Margin Street, along with Margaret Spencer’s
mother (Marion’s maternal grandmother), Isabella Hamilton, and a 66 year-old boarder from
Maine named Sarah Leighton.
Marion lived on Margin Street until she finished with her primary school education, after which
she moved (along with her mother) to a boarding house on Brown Street in 1919-20. According
to the 1920 US Federal census, Marion was one of seven ladies living at 18 Brown Street; she was
the youngest of the seven at age 20 (Marion’s mother, Margaret, worked as a housekeeper for the
boarding house.) Helen A. Sutton, the homeowner, worked for the ‘gentlemen’s home’ as a
social worker, sisters Mary and Christine Sutherland came from Canada and both worked in a
local lamp factory, Amelia MacArtie, the daughter of an Italian woman and an Irish man worked
as a bookkeeper at a general furnishing store, and Hannah Shepherd who worked as an
‘attendant’ to a private family.
1921 Salem Normal School Yearbook | Marion E. Spencer
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
By 1921 Marion and her mother moved once again, this time to 15 Messervy Street while Marion
attended the Salem Normal School (now North Campus at Salem State University), where she
studied to become a teacher. She remained living on Messervy Street while working as a teacher
until she met and married Alfred Thomas Poulter in 1926.
1 peritonitis — (noun) inflammation of the peritoneum, typically caused by bacterial infection either via the
blood or after rupture of an abdominal organ
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After the wedding, the new Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Poulter resided at 16 Leach Street for a short
time, just long enough to apply for naturalization as a United States citizen in 1927. In February
of 1928 the couple welcomed their first child, Marylyn Margaret Poulter. Later in the same year
the couple had relocated to Gardner, Massachusetts, and in 1931 the second Poulter child was
born: Hamilton Thomas Poulter (named for his maternal grandmother’s surname and father’s
middle name). The young Poulter family lived in several different places within Gardner, where
they remained until 1936, when the Gardner, Mass. Directory notes that the Poulter family had
relocated back to Salem.
The 1936 and 1937 Directories indicate that the Poulter family lived at 2A Willow Avenue in
Salem, and Alfred returned to working for Swift & Co. as a cashier/bookkeeper. In May of 1938
Alfred T. Poulter purchased the home at 25 Beach Avenue from Charles F. Perkins for $3,500
and the cost of back-taxes to the City of Salem. The Poulter family moved in to their newly
procured home and made the seaside home their year-round residence until 1953, when the
property was sold to the Dumas Family.
1938 Deed | Sale of 25 Beach Ave. from Charles F. Perkins to
Alfred T. & Marion E. Poulter
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At the end of the summer in 1953 Alfred T. Poulter sold the property to Leo H. Dumas, whose
heirs still reside at the property on Juniper Point. According to the family, the deal to sell the
home was struck during a friendly night out in Salem’s Derby Street neighborhood.
1953 Deed for 25 Beach Ave. from Alfred T. & Marion E. Poulter to Leo H. & Anastasia Dumas
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds — Book 4006 Page 410
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25 Warren Street
Built for
Dennis Brady
Currier
c. 1870
Researched by
Diana Dunlap
March 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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�25 Warren Street
Built for Dennis Brady, currier, c. 1870
1. The land that now forms 25 Warren Street was sold as a larger lot, with no buildings or
improvements mentioned in the deed, by Joseph Wallis, cabinetmaker of Salem, to
James Stone, bricklayer of Salem, on October 18, 1838, for $150.00. The property is
described as bordering northwards on Green Street 44’6”, eastwards on land of Henry
Reed’s 91’, southwards on Wallis’s own land 33’, and westwards 84’6” on land Wallis
had already sold to Stone. Wallis was involved in two different land sales around the
area then called Green Street in the 1830s. Registry of Deeds Book 309, Page 23.
2. On May 20, 1870, James Stone sold a parcel of this land to Sarah Saul, wife of John F.
Saul of Salem, carpenter. Registry of Deeds Book 798, Page 219.
3. Only a few weeks later, on June 2, 1870, Sarah Saul sold the land to Dennis Brady of
Salem, currier, for $387.50. The lot is described as running northwards on Warren Street
40’, eastwards on land of Henry Reed 42’, southerly on land of James Stone 35’, and
westerly on Stone’s land 38’. The deeds does not reference any buildings on the lot, so
the house must have been built after this. Registry of Deeds Book 800, Page 299.
4. On November 5, 1870, James Stone, mason of Salem, sold a small, 7’ wide strip
bordering the south side of Brady’s property to Dennis Brady for $100.00. This second
purchase of Dennis Brady’s created the modern lot. Registry of Deeds Book 809, Page
273.
5. On October 15, 1907, Dennis Brady and his wife Emma T. Brady mortgaged the land
and buildings to the Federal Trust Company for $1000.00, with the condition that they
provide fire insurance on the property. Registry of Deeds Book 1899, Page 39.
6. On December 12, 1907, Emma T. Brady and her husband Dennis sold the land and
buildings to Florence J. Mahoney “for one dollar and other valuable considerations
thereof.” Registry of Deeds Book 1905, Page 388.
7. Florence J. Mahoney sold the house and land to Catherine B. Whelton on September
30, 1914. Registry of Deeds Book 2276, Page 26.
8. Catherine B. Whelton sold the property to Andrew Mossett on September 8, 1920.
Registry of Deeds Book 2463, Page 83.
9. Andrew Mossett and his wife Angie mortgaged the house, also on September 8, 1920,
for $650.000 with a term of one year and 6% interest. Registry of Deeds Book 2463,
Pages 84-85.
10. On October 6, 1922, the mortgagee (the Helburn-Thompson Leather Company of
Salem) foreclosed on the the Mosetts’s mortgage. The mortgage listed here is larger
than that referenced in the previous record. Registry of Deeds Book 2530, Page 120.
11. That same day, the Helburn-Thompson Leather Company sold the property at auction to
Harris S. Knight of Salem for $240.00. Registry of Deeds 2530, Page 120-121.
12. Harris S. Knight, “being unmarried,” sold the property to Charles Johnson on October 27,
1922. Registry of Deeds Book 2531, Page 575.
�13. On February 14, 1923, Charles S. Johnston of Salem sold the property to Louis K. Arth
of Salem, subject to a mortgage of $3000.00 with the Roger Conant Cooperative Bank.
Registry of Deeds Book 2541, Page 377.
14. Louis K. Arth, now of Boston, sold the house to Patrick J. and Catherine Landers on
November 25, 1924, subject to taxes and water rates for the ear 1924. Registry of Deeds
Book 2620, Page 566.
15. Katherine E. Riordan and Martin E. Landers granted the property to Martha E. Collins
and Jerome T. Riordan, Jr., Trustees of the Landers Realty Trust (see Page 91), for
$1.00. The deed refers to the estate of Patrick J. Landers, Essex Probate Docket
299384. Registry of Deeds 10286, Page 94.
16. Martha E. Collins and Jerome T. Riordan, Jr., Trustees of the Landers Realty Trust, sold
the property for $125,000.00 to Francis E. Chafe, Jr., and Elizabeth A. Chafe. Regsitry of
Deeds Book 13403, Page 557.
17. Francis E. Chafe and Elizabeth A. Chafe sold the house for $325,000.00 to Bennyi
Moreno on November 30, 2001. Registry of Deeds Book 17967, Page 196.
18. Bennyi Moreno sold the property to Lauren Fortner for “$1 and other valuable
considerations” on January 15, 2003. Registry of Deeds Book 20114, Page 77.
19. Lauren Fortner, married to Eric Donald Munson of Salem, sold the property to Megan M.
Millar and Joel Nentwich as joint tenants for $525,000.00 on October 29, 2018. Registry
of Deeds 37114, Page 131.
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Brackley Rose, sugar-baker, 1792
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1792, 1971
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Fulton/Dee
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English
1792
1971
25
Brackley
History
House
Massachusetts
Rose
Salem
Street
Williams
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Lynde Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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26 Lynde Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Eben Upton, musician in 1876
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1876, 1982
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Joyce King
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English
1876
1982
26
Eben Upton
History
House
Joyce King
Lynde Street
Massachusetts
Salem
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Lemon Street
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27 Lemon Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Joseph Goodhue, laborer c. 1852
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1852, 1991
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Donna Vinson
Language
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English
1852
1991
27
Donna Vinson
History
House
Joseph Goodhue
Lemon Street
Massachusetts
Salem
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28 Arbella Street
Built for
Sarah H. Plummer and William H. Plummer
Shoemaker
c. 1873
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
July 2019
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2019
�This house was known as 12 Arbella Street (also called Arabella Street) until it was moved in 1906,
then 10 ½ until the street was renumbered in 1917.
This house was moved on same lot from street frontage to current rear location in 1906,
likely to allow for sale of land and construction
of #30-32 (12 and 12 ½)
Date of Purchase
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
Amount
Document
Notes
April 19, 1872
Robert Hill
Abraham Edwards
Martha P. Edwards
$950
851:85
Only references land
September 6,1872 (#12)
September 1, 1873 (#10)
Abraham Edwards
Martha P. Edwards
William H. Plummer
Sarah H. Plummer
$3,110
$1,000
862:199
887:283
November 1, 1905
George D. Edwards
William H. Edwards
$1 and other valuable
considerations
1800:352
Purchased #10 and
#12 Arbella Street
Abraham died September 29, 1891
(Did not die in this home)
House used as a rental property
Martha died on April 20, 1905
(Did not die in this home)
Son George then sold the home.
Probate #96531
June 24, 1910
William H. Edwards
Alice R. Meek
$1 and other valuable
considerations
2028:570
December 10, 1948
Annie (Meek) Hutchins
Mabelle F. (Warner)
Adlard
Mary Etta Callahan
Mary Elizabeth
Callahan
Arthur G. Spark
Martin Callahan
Mary Etta Callahan
$4,200
3637:205
Arthur G. Spanks
Marilyn P. Spanks
$15,900
5355:534
Christine Makary
Stephanie L. Bailey
$295,000
24950:421
April 25 1961
October 14, 2005
Jen Ratliff | www.jenratliff.com
3 parcels on Arbella Street
purchased
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������������������������������������������������Inventory No:
SAL.3135
Historic Name:
Plummer, William H. House
Common Name:
Edward, William H. - Meek, Alice R. House
Address:
28 Arbella St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Bridge Street
Local No:
36-0393
Year Constructed:
c 1870
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Italianate
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.ER: Arbella Street Area
SAL.IV: Bridge Street Neck Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (07/19/2002)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Asbestos Shingle; Wood
Foundation: Brick
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�NRDIS 7/19/2002
FORM B BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad
36-0393
Area(s)
IV,
ER
Salem
Town/City:
Form Number
SAL.3135
Salem
Place: (neighborhood or village):
Bridge Street Neck
Photograph
Address: 28 Arbella Street
Historic Name: William H. Plummer House
Uses: Present:
single family dwelling house
Original: single family dwelling house
Date of Construction: ca. 1870
Source:
visual inspection
Style/Form:
Italianate
Architect/Builder:
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim:
asbestos shingle
Roof:
Locus Map
asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
Major Alterations (with dates):
Date unknown – asbestos shingles, front dormer, new
window sash
Condition:
Moved: no
fair (due to siding)
yes
Date:
ca.1900
Acreage:
0.09 acre
Setting:
mixed residential neighborhood
RECEIVED
Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
SEPT 01 2011
Organization: City of Salem
MASS. HIST. COMM.
Date (month / year): March 2011
3/10
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
�INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET
SALEM
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
28 ARBELLA STREET
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
IV,ER
SAL.3135
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The house at 28 Arbella Street is set on the back lot between 26 and 30-32 Arbella Street. The 1 ½-story, side-gabled dwelling
is set on a brick foundation and is sheathed in asbestos shingles. The gable roof is sheathed in asphalt shingles with
overhanging eaves ending in returns. Centered on the three-bay facade, the main entrance is sheltered by a well-preserved,
flat-roofed denticulated door hood with the two brackets adorned by large beads, rondels and pendants. The door itself is a
modern multi-light replacement but it is capped by two original transom lights. The adjacent window openings have modern 2/2
vinyl sash but retain molded surrounds and entablature lintels set on brackets that are smaller versions of those on the entrance.
The shed dormer spanning the front roof slope is a later addition. Aligned with the east wall of the house is a single-story ell and
a rear deck.
This house is a contributing property in the Bridge Street Neck Historic District, listed on the National Register on July 19, 2002.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the
owners/occupants played within the community.
It appears that this house may have been originally located on the present site of 30-32 Arbella Street. The 1874 map shows a
house with roughly this shape on that site, owned by William H. Plummer. Plummer was a shoemaker who lived at 16 Saunders
Street and apparently rented this house out.
The 1897 map shows the land was still vacant at that time but was owned by William H. Edwards a contractor and building
mover. The house appears to have been moved to its present site about 1906. The 1911 map shows a house believed to be 28
Arbella Street (?) in place, but without the rear ell and aligned directly behind #26. This house along with 22, 24, 26, and 30 , is
shown as being owned by William H. Edwards although deeds suggest he sold the property in 1910 (see below).
From 1907 to about 1910 the house (then 10 ½ Arbella Street) was rented to George S. Norton who worked as a traveling
salesman for an oil company. He lived here with his wife May, two daughters, his mother Emeline and his father George. In
1917 the house number was changed from 10 ½ to 28.
Deeds indicate that in 1910 the entire Arbella Street property was sold by William H. Edwards to Alice R. Meek (Book 2028,
Page 570). Miss Meek apparently purchased them as income-producing properties. She lived on Essex Street and was the
head of the Henry M. Meek Publishing Company, makers of directories. The property was sold by Annie (Meek) Hutchins and
Mabel Adlard to Martin and Mary Callahan in 1948 (Book 3637/205). Census records indicate that in 1920 the house was rented
to Louis Benway, a French Canadian wagon driver for a coal company. He lived here with his wife Hattie, two daughters, two
sons and a son-in-law.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
City of Salem, Building Permits, 1871-1889. [Salem City Hall].
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Salem Directories, various dates.
U.S. Census, 1880-1930.
Continuation sheet 1
�Inventory No:
SAL.3134
Historic Name:
Edwards, William G. Double House
Common Name:
Address:
30-32 Arbella St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Bridge Street
Local No:
36-412
Year Constructed:
1911
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Colonial Revival
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.ER: Arbella Street Area
SAL.IV: Bridge Street Neck Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (07/19/2002)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
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BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS
BOYLSTON
AREA
HISTORICAL
STREET",
FORM NO.
3(P
COMMISSION
BOSTON,
MA
02116
Salem
30-32
Arbella
St.
Name
esent
residential
inal
"
"
PTION':
1911
City
'SKETCH MAP
Show property's l o c a t i o n i a r e l a t i o n
to 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
Directories
Colonial
Revival,
Two-Family
Architect
Exterior wall fabric
Outbuildings
clapboards
n o n e
Major a l t e r a t i o n s (with dates)_
Date
Moved
Approx. acreage
Recorded
by
Organization
' Date
M
-
Malaguti/K.
Salem P l a n n i n g
August.
Murphy
Setting
Dept.
1985
(Staple a d d i t i o n a l sheets here)
about
residential
4,300
s.f.
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ARCHITECTURAL S I G N I F I C A N C E d e s c r i b e i m p o r t a n t a r c M t e c t u r a l f e a t u r e s - a n d
e v a l u a t e i n terms o f o t h e r b u i l d i n g s w i t h i n the community.)
30-32
St.
Arbella St.
area.
including
Built
is
in
one
Doric porch
paneled bays
on
the
of
1911, i t
several
s t i l l
columns,
a
examples
features
full
n o r t h and west
of- t w o - f a m i l y
much o r i g i n a l
pediment,
a
dentiled
facades.
residences
material
cornice,
in
and
and
the
Bridge
detail,
two-story
' .
HISTORICAL S I G N I F I C A N C E ( E x o l a i n t h e r o l e o w n e r s p l a y e d i n l o c a l o r s t a t e
h i s t o r y a n d how t h e b u i l d i n g r e l a t e s t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . )
T h i s h o u s e was b u i l t f o r W i l l i a m G. E d w a r d s , a b u i l d i n g mover a n d c o n t r a c t o r
who w o r k e d a t 64 B r i d g e S t r e e t .
The t w o - f a m i l y r e s i d e n c e was a s e n s i b l e
s o l u t i o n to the B r i d g e S t r e e t a r e a ' s n e e d f o r i n e x p e n s i v e and r e n t a l h o u s i n g .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY a n d / o r REFERENCES (name o f p u b l i c a t i o n , a u t h o r , d a t e a n d p u b l i s h e r )
S a l e m Maps
& Directories
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Arbella Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
28 Arbella Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Sarah H. Plummer &
William H. Plummer
Shoemaker
c. 1873
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c. 1873, 2019
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Jen Ratliff
Language
A language of the resource
English
1873
2019
28
Arbella
circa
H.
History
House
Massachusetts
Plummer
Salem
Sarah
Street
William