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                    <text>Notes on 57-59 Harbor Street, Salem

According to Patricia Kelleher at the Salem Historical Commission, all of the buildings at the point
were destroyed in the Great Fire, which happened on June 25, 1914.

In reviewing both the current assessor’s map and the 1911 Walker Lithograph and Publishing
Company Map, it would appear that the lot area that was 55 to 65 Harbor Street on the 1911 map is
the area that is now 57-59 Harbor Street on the current assessor’s map. 

Prior to the ﬁre, the area that is now known as 57-59 Harbor Street was owned by the Naumkeag
Steam Cotton Company. The pamphlet “1914 Data on Burned District at Salem, MA”, published by
F.W. Dodge Co. lists the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company as owning three wooden apartment
houses at the location then known as 55-65 Harbor Street and now known as 57-59 Harbor Street.

According to the pamphlet “1914 Data on Burned District at Salem, MA”, published by F.W. Dodge
Co., the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company lost a number of housing units in the 1914 ﬁre, along with
most of their factory buildings. The Phillips Library Manuscript Finding Aids state that: 

“On June 25, 1914, the Great Salem Fire, which spread through the city of Salem, destroyed all but a
few of the Company's buildings. It was decided to rebuild the company immediately, and by February
1916, the Company was up and running . . .” 

http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/3278 (accessed February 6,
2017). 

The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company retained ownership of the land area that is now 57-59 Harbor
Street after the ﬁre and, based on records from the City of Salem Building Inspection Department held
by the Salem Historical Commission, it appears that the building that now stands at 57-59 Harbor
Street was built in 1914-1915 and it approved for habitation on April 26, 1915. From the record, it
appears the building now standing was built and owned in 1915 by the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company and it was named the “Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mill Tenement House.”

The Naumkeag Stream Cotton Company sold the land and building at 57-59 Harbor Street on July 28,
1941 to Edmond J. Richard of Wenham.

The following evidence indicates that Naumkeag Stream Cotton Company was the likely builder of the
property that is now 57-59 Harbor Street and that the building was built c. 1915:

Deed descriptions from the Essex South County Registry of Deeds (1941 reference only)

Plans on record at the Essex South County Registry of Deeds

Building Inspection records from the Salem Historical Commission; no record card is speciﬁc to this
property as to 57-59 Harbor Street, but it seems that the one card listing “Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Mill Tenement House” on Harbor Street is locus.

MACRIS On-Line Database

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Plaque to read: Built by Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company 1915. Replaced three apartment buildings
burned in Great Salem Fire of 1914


�Owners

Date of Conveyance Registry Reference

Naumkeag Stream Cotton Company

After 1845

Numerous entries in
grantor/grantee
indexes

1845-1914

Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company to Edmond J. Richard of July 28, 1941
Wenham

Book 3263, Page 287

Edmond J. Richard of Wenham to William Kingston of Salem

June 11, 1943

Book 3331, Page 583

Heir of Kingston to Cecil H. Weinstein of Swampscott and
Israel Frisch of Beverly

March 9, 1964

Essex County Probate
Docket No.

255029 and 

Book 5154, Page 354

Israel Frisch of Beverly to Cecil H. Weinstein of Swampscott

December 28, 1967

Book 5575, Page 771

Cecil H. Weinstein of Swampscott to Donald J. Clarke,
Edward J. Clarke and Jacob S. Segal, Trustees of Clarke
Jacobs Realty Trust

April 26, 1979

Book 6584, Page 515

Donald J. Clarke and Jacob S. Segal, Trustees Of the Clarke March 30, 1985
Jacobs Realty Trust to Frederick D. Small and Karen J. Small
of Topsﬁeld

Book 7703, Page 159

Frederick D. Small and Karen J. Small to Bank of New
England, NA

Book 8614, Page 63

November 6, 1986

Mortgage foreclosed by Bank of New England and conveyed September 1, 1989
to Small Frye Properties, Inc.

Book 10199, Page 66

Small Frye Properties, Inc. to Salem Point, LP

December 27, 1991

Book 11080, Page 465

Salem Point, LP to Salem Point II LP

July 16, 2014

Book 33413, Page 603

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