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101 Derby
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David Ropes
Derby
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124 FEDERAL STREET
Built for Jonathan Ropes, Merchant
1784
Rear ell erected f()r Joanthan Waldo, Merchant
c. 1807
124 1/2 Federal Street built for Benjamin Shreve, Purveyor of !"inc Goods
c. 1877
Research by: Donna Vinson
October, 1995
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�124 Federal street
built in 1784 for Jonathan Ropes, Merchant
(rear ell erected for Jonathan Waldo, Merchant, circa 1807)
124 1/2 Federal Street
built for Benjamin Shreve,
Purveyor of Fine Goods,
circa 1877
One Lynn Street
built for Jonathan Waldo,
Merchant,
by 1811
History of the structures:
The early Federal house presently bearing the address 124
Federal Street was built in 1784 for Salem merchant Jonathan Ropes
on or near the
11
100 poles" of land bequeathed to him by his father,
John Ropes, Jr., in 1754 along with "a mansion house, shop and
barn''·
The younger Ropes made few changes to his estate until
after 1780 when he tore down the "ancient" homestead and began
aguiring adjoining northerly properties along the
11
new road" (Lynn
Street) lately laid out by his neighbor Benjamin Goodhue.
By 1783,
he had consolidated the property on which he would construct his
new house in the following year. 1
Jonathan Ropes bequeathed his entire estate to his only
grandchild, Jonathan Waldo, in 1799.
Waldo's professional
occupation was that of an apothecary, but he referred to and
conducted himself primarily as a "merchant" and also had many parttime public pursuits.
In the 1790s he served successively as a
i
Essex (South) County Registry of Deeds, Book 139, leaf 229
(October 15, 1782), and Book 141, leaf 35 (May 30, 1783); Salem Tax
Valuations, 1784-85; James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
�town official, major of the militia, and overseer of the repairs of
Fort Pickering.
Several years after receiving his inheritance,
Waldo increased the assessed value of the Federal Street house by
either erecting or extending the rear ell along Lynn Street in
order to open a shop.
In their valuations of 1807-1810, Salem's
tax assessors indicate quite clearly that Waldo's new shop is
located in his house, not adjacent to it.
In 1810-1811, Waldo was
assessed for an additional store, referred to as "a brick store" in
mortgage deeds of 1811, 1813, and 1818.
Presumably this structure
is the present-day One Lynn Street, possibly built by Waldo's
neighbor Nathaniel Chamberlain, a noted Salem bricklayer. 2
After the death of Jonathan Waldo in 1817, his heirs
bequeathed the entire estate, referred to as "a certain messuage
consisting of a dwelling house and the land under and adjoining and
the brick store and all other buildings thereon, bounding southerly
on Federal street seventy-eight feet more or less, easterly on Lynn
Street one hundred and four feet more or less, northerly by land
late of David Bancroft deceased about one hundred thirty-five feet,
westerly partly by land of Ebenezer Shillaber deceased and partly
by land of Nathaniel Chamberlain about one hundred and eighty feet
or however otherwise bounded or reputed to be bounded" to John
Holman of Salem, a mariner, who occupied the house until 1830 and
owned the property until 1832.
In the early 1830s, Holman appears
Essex County Probate File #24175; Salem Tax Valuations,
1799-1813; ECRD Book 199, leaf 173 (April 15, 1811); ECRD Book 200,
leaf 215 (April 5, 1813) ECRD Book 216, leaf 298 (September 19,
2
1818).
�to have removed both himself and his business from Salem to New
York, and consequently he conveyed "a certain messuage consisting
of a wooden dwelling house and Brick House and barn and land under
and adjoining the same .... situated at the corner of Federal Street
and Lynn Street" to the Reverend John Brazer, pastor of the North
Church, in 1832. 3
John Brazer and his large family owned and occupied 124
Federal Street, then designated alternatively 50 or 52 Federal
Street, until the Reverend's death in 1845.
Based on the tax
assessments, there were no changes made to the existing structures
of the estate during this time.
The following year, Brazer's heirs
transferred the property to Thomas Perkins of Salem, a relatively
wealthy shipmaster and merchant. 4
It is during Thomas Perkins' possession of 124 Federal Street
(1846-1876) that the·present-day One Lynn Street, the brick house
adjoined to the wooden rear ell of the dwelling house on Federal
street, is officially listed as a separate structure in the Salem
Tax Valuations.
There is no evidence, however, that the brick
building (with no address) was used as residence but rather as a
warehouse or store for storage and/or display of Perkins'
substantial goods in stock.
The structure was certainly
embellished during this period, as its assessed value increases
considerably, as does that of the main house.
Perkins likely added
Essex County (South) Registry of Deeds, Book 216, leaf
299 (September 19, 1818); ECRD Book 263, leaf 230 (May 7, 1832).
3
Salem Tax Valuations, 1820-1848; ECRD Book 373, leaves
122-124 (October 24, 1846).
�the Greek Revival entrances and bay windows to both structures at
different periods in his thirty-year occupation. 5
The west wing of 124 Federal Street, or 124 1/2 Federal
Street, was built after the Perkins heirs conveyed the property to
Benjamin Shreve in 1876.
Shreve, "importer of French goods,
watches, and jewelry" and founder of Shreve, Crump & Low in Boston,
purchased the Perkins estate as an addition to his many rental
properties in Salem.
The first tenant of 124 1/2 Federal Street,
Samuel Pitman, a currier, appears in the 1878 Salem Directory.
In
that same year, Franklin Tyler, a "morocco dresser" is listed as
living in the house on "Lynn near Federal" and William H. Carter,
an importer of wines in Boston, takes up residence in 124 Federal
Street shortly thereafter. 6
124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street were occupied by a succession
of tenants, both short-term and long-term, during the Shreve
family's ownership (1876-1929).
The main house's occupant of
longest duration was Frederick Broadhead, an insurance broker
(1901-1917), while Frank A. Laws, a professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, lived in the addition from 1907 until
1920.
In 1929, the trustees of Benjamin Shreve's estate conveyed
"the property now numbered 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street and
Number One Lynn Street" to Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem, a mortgage
broker and real estate agent who partitioned the estate and
5
6
Salem Tax Valuations, 1848-1855.
ECRD Book 2802,
Directories, 1876-1884.
pages
557-558
(May
30,
1876);
Salem
�promptly sold off its component parts in the following year. 7
The Cooke sisters, purchasers of 124 and 124 1/2 Federal
Street in 1930, lived at the latter address and leased out the main
house.
David Limauro, a physician, lived and practiced at 124
Federal Street in the early forties and this use continued after
Dr. Melvin Goodman and his wife Alyce purchased the property from
Florence and Lilla Cooke in 1945.
The Goodmans owned, occupied,
and practiced in 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street for nearly fifty
years, after which its present owners purchased the house from the
executor of Alyce Goodman's estate in 1995. 8
History of the property:
The land on which 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street and One Lynn
Street were eventually built was part of the original seventeenthcentury land grant of Richard Bishop (d. 1674-75), which was
conveyed successively to his son Thomas and grandson Richard
Bishop.
Robert Kitchen purchased the Bishop property in the early
1690s, and quickly turned it over to Joseph Neal, one of the
largest landowners in the neighborhood.
Neal possessed the
property, which adjoined his "mansion house" on the main street
(Essex Street) for several years, after which it was transferred to
7
ECRD Book 2826, page 427 (November 1, 1929); ECRD Book
2845, page 508 (May 17, 1930); ECRD Book 2843, page 518 (May 3,
1930); Salem Directories, 1884-1930.
ECRD Book 3415, pp. 457-460
13053, page 179 (June 6, 1995).
8
(June 15,
1945);
ECRD Book
�the Ropes Family. 9
The Ropes brothers, John Jr. and Samuel, built and possessed
half-interests in a house and outlying buildings on their property,
all of which was conveyed to Jonathan Ropes in 1754.
After the
laying out of Federal Street (after 1766) and Lynn Street (after
1780), Ropes greatly enlarged the property, probably with the aim
of increasing its access to the North River.
A representative
purchase came in 1782, when Nathaniel Lang of Salem, a silversmith,
conveyed to Jonathan "a certain piece of land adjoining a new road
lately laid out by Benjamin Goodhue junior from the new street in
said Salem so called down to the water side".
Additional parcels
of land (on the western side) were added to the property after the
construction of the new Federal house in 1784 and its additions by
both Ropes and his heir, Jonathan Waldo.
There were few or no
changes made to the property for most of the nineteenth century,
until Benjamin Shreve added the circa 1877 addition to the main
house.
The division of the Ropes/Shreve estate came in 1930, when
124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street became legally separated from One
Lynn Street. 10
Transfers of title:
Essex (South District) Registry of Deeds, Book 216, leaf 299
ECRD Book 9, leaf 69 (December 22, 1691, February 7, 169293); ECRD Book 17, leaf 33 (June 4, 1695); ECRD Book 21, leaf 164
(November 7, 1709).
9
ECRD Book 139, leaves 228-229; see enclosed plan of "Land
of Rebecca Dembofsky, Salem, Mass., Jan. 1930 11 , ECRD Book 2838,
pages 25-30).
10
�Grantors: Charles F. Waldo of Charleston in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, Edw~rd w. Waldo of Salem in the County
of Essex, Merchant, Mary R. Waldo of said Salem, Spinster, and
Henry s. Waldo of Boston in the County of Suffolk, Gentleman
Grantee: John Holman of Salem, Mariner
Consideration: $4030
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage situated in Salem aforesaid
consisting of a dwelling house and the land under and
adjoining and all the buildings thereon, bounded .... on Federal
Street and Lynn Streets .... "
Date recorded: September 19, 1818
ECRD Book 263, leaf 230
Grantor: John Holman of Ithaca, New York, Trader
Grantee: John Brazer of Salem, Clerk
Consideration: $3800
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage consisting of a wooden
dwelling house and Brick House or barn and land under and
adjoining with all the buildings thereon, the forementioned
is situated at the corner of Federal Street and Lynn Street
in Salem aforesaid .... 11
Date recorded: May 7, 1832
ECRD Book 373, leaves 122-124
Grantors: James W. Cheever of Salem, Merchant, Guardian of
John Brazer, William Brazer, Anne Brazer, and Edward Brazer,
minor children of th€ Reverend John Brazer, late of Salem, and
Mary Brazer of Salem
Grantee: Thomas Perkins of Salem, Master and Merchant
Consideration: $3750
Conveyance of: "a certain messuage situated in Salem .... on the
corner of Federal and Lynn Streets .... "
Date recorded: October 24, 1846
ECRD Book 2802, pages 557-558
Grantor: Thomas Perkins, Executor of the will of Thomas
Perkins, late of Salem
Grantee: Benjamin Shreve of Salem
Consideration: $9105
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street; One Lynn Street
Date recorded: May 30, 1876
ECRD Book 2826, page 427
Grantors: Octavius B. Shreve of Salem and the First National
Bank of Boston, Trustees under the will of Benjamin Shreve,
late of Salem
�Grantee: Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem
Consideration: $16,000
Conveyance of: "the property now numbered 124 and 124 1/2
Federal Street and Number One Lynn Street in Salem"
Date recorded: November 1, 1929
ECRD Book 2843, page 518
Granter: Rebecca Dembofsky of Salem
Grantees: Susie J. and Lilla Cooke of Lowell and Florence
G. Cooke of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal street
Date recorded: May 30, 1930
ECRD Book 3415, pages 457-460
Granters: Lilla Cooke and Florence G. Cooke of Salem
Grantee: Melvin Goodman of Boston
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: "the land with the buildings thereon situated
on 124 - 124 1/2 Federal Street in Salem"
Date recorded: June 15, 1945
ECRD Book 13053, page 179
(Fiduciary Deed)
Grantor: Louis Kolow of Newton, temporary executor of the
will of Alyce Goodman, late of Salem
Grantees: Kevin and Deborah A. Guinee
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 124 and 124 1/2 Federal Street
Date recorded: June 9, 1995
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Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Guinee
124 Federal Street
Salem, MA 01970
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Guinee:
As you are aware, WGBH had retained Historic Salem to do a house history of your property which is a
regular service we provide. At the time the history was completed, no plaque was requested.
We typically charge an additional $75.00 for the painting and installation of house plaques.
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In appreciation of the wonderful restoration which you have undertaken and the fine example of quality
restoration which was represented to the national viewing public, we would like to extend to you a plaque as
a gift. Please give Alice Clarke a call at our office (745-0799) to arrange for it's installation.
Sincerely,
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Mr. Bruce Irving
Producer. This Old House
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Dear Bruce:
At long las!, the house report you've been waiting for on 124 Federal St. Tiiank you for
your patience. Fortunately the turn-around time for painting the plaque is «:1uut (\\ll
weeks. Please remit the $75.00 balance and we will get our painter going.
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124
124 Federal
1784
Federal
Jonathan
Jonathan Ropes
Ropes
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18 Felt Street
Built for
Reuben W. Ropes
and wife
Grace Tuttle
1895
Researched by Sally McMurry, February 2024
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | historicsalem.org
© 2024
�Undated photo, 18 Felt Street, Red�in
Note: this house was once part of a Ropes family “compound” that once consisted of three large
houses plus land in North Salem: the Charles A. Ropes house (1856, later the North Shore Babies
Hospital, no longer extant), the Reuben W. Ropes house (1895, now 18 Felt Street), and the Charles
F. Ropes house, (c. 1900, now 67-69 Dearborn Street). Reuben W. Ropes and Charles F. Ropes were
brothers, sons of Charles A. Ropes and his wife Lucinda Whipple Ropes. For additional information
please refer to the house history for 67-69 Dearborn Street.
Footnotes appear only for items that are not in the Property Ownership History or in Ancestry
sources.
1
�Over time this house has had two numbers: Between the 1900 (US Census) and 1914 (World War I
tax assessments), Reuben W. Ropes’s address was listed at # 6 Felt Street. By 1920 it was # 18 Felt
Street.
The house at # 18 Felt Street was built in 1895 for Reuben W. Ropes and his bride Grace
Austin Ropes. The house remained in the Ropes family until 2012 when their grandson Austin T.
Ropes Jr. passed away.
Reuben Wilkins Ropes was born into a well-off North Salem family in 1861. His grandfather
Benjamin Ropes (1772-1845) had been a cooper and shipping merchant. Reuben’s parents were
Charles Augustus Ropes, a merchant, and Lucinda Whipple Ropes. Reuben was named for his uncle
Reuben Wilkins Ropes, who had relocated from Salem to New York and become quite wealthy there.
In 1860 the manuscript census recorded that Charles A. Ropes’s household included �ive Ropes
children, two of whom were Lucinda’s stepchildren born to Charles’s �irst wife, Mary Ann Barker
Ropes. 1 Lucinda’s widowed mother Mary Whipple had joined her daughter’s household. A live-in
servant named Ann Bryan worked for the family. Charles A. and Lucinda Ropes held substantial
property; Charles claimed $12,000 in real estate and $75,000 in personal property, and Lucinda had
$4,000 worth in her own personal property. In 1865 Charles A. Ropes was reported to possess the
fourth largest income among Salem residents. 2 His obituary noted that he “came from a sterling
family, the members of which all achieved success in mercantile life.” It explained that he had
“established a regular line of coasting vessels between Salem and New York, which for some years
did a large freighting business.” Charles’s company evidently worked with other family connections
to bring hides from South America as well as corn and grain from the Midwest. As well, he worked
in partnership with a wax leather manufacturer for a time. He and two brothers were partners in
Ropes Brothers, a �lour and grain business in central Salem. 3
A year after his marriage to Lucinda Whipple, Charles A. Ropes purchased property at what
was called the foot of Dearborn Street (from a James Ropes, an uncle) for $4100. 4 In 1856 he
contracted with Harris & Hutchins, Carpenters, to “build a Dwelling house and outbuildings in
conformity with the plans prepared by Emmerton & Foster, Architects” for a total price of $8995.00.
The designers and carpenters were both located in Salem. 5 This house is no longer extant, but it is
discussed in this history for two reasons. First, it gives an idea about the Ropes brothers’ early lives
1Mary
Ann Barker Ropes died in 1853. In addition two other boys named Enrique and Alberto Ropes lived with
Lucinda and Charles in 1860; they were born in Brazil. They were nephews of Charles A. Ropes, sons of his brother
Henry Ropes.
2 1860 US Census; 1865 Massachusetts state census; New York Evening Post, August 22, 1865
3 Quotes are from two Charles A. Ropes obituaries: Boston Daily Journal, March 20, 1890, and New York Tribune, March
21, 1890; Ropes Brothers ad, Salem Directory, 1857, p. 154
4 Essex County Deed Book 512, page 7, April 26, 1855 (James Ropes to Charles A. Ropes); 1851 McIntyre Map of Salem
showing a J (?) Ropes beyond the end of Dearborn Street
5 “Speci�ications of a Dwelling House for Chas. A. Ropes.” Ropes Family Papers, 1826-1899, Box 1, Phillips Library
collection. The 1855 Salem business directory, shows Emmerton and Foster, Architects, with an of�ice at 6 Central
Street in Salem, very near the Ropes grain business. (p. 161) In the regular directory, William H. Emmerton is listed as
a partner in Emmerton and Foster with a house at 13 Summer Street. (p. 68). Joseph C. Foster is listed as an engineer
with Emmerton & Foster, with a house at 357 Essex Street. (p.73) On page 163 of the business directory there is a
carpenter, D. M. Harris, at 36 North Street, but no Hutchins. Harris is listed in the regular directory as Daniel M. Harris,
36 North Street, with a house at 12 Upham. (p. 83). Augustus Hutchings, carpenter, has a house at 66 North Street (p.
90).
2
�and surroundings. Second, the Charles A. Ropes Estate later became the North Shore Babies’
Hospital, which for a time owned the Charles Fischer Ropes house at 67-69 Dearborn Street and
operated it as a nurses’ residence.
Reuben grew up with his numerous siblings (including Charles Fischer Ropes) and
stepsiblings here. Other relatives came and went, as did “domestics” – usually young immigrant
women -- who would have cooked, cleaned, and provided child care. The house speci�ications and
later images make clear that this was a grand mansion, consisting of a main block and large ell, a
piazza, a cellar, up to date plumbing (bath room and water closet), central heating, fully equipped
kitchen, and expensive materials like black Italian marble in the parlor. Ground �loor rooms included
“Drawing Room, Library, Hall, Parlor, and Dining Room,” the ceilings of which were to have a “marble
�inish.” The servant Ann Bryan and her successors likely used a system of bells: a bell in the kitchen
connected to the front door, and there were bells “from each of the Southern chambers with the
kitchen, all to be hung in the best manner.” 6
Charles A. Ropes house, later North Shore Babies Hospital, c. 1856, no longer extant. 1927 image, Salem State University
Archives. The long ell at right was a c. 1926 addition; the �lanking shed roof wings on either side of the main house were
added c. 1909, as “fresh-air wards” for the young patients.
6“Speci�ications
collection.
of a Dwelling House for Chas. A. Ropes.” Ropes Family Papers, 1826-1899, Box 1, Phillips Library
3
�At this time North Salem was still quite rural, and in fact the property was farmed. Much
later it still had nine acres planted with shade trees and fruit trees. 7 Indeed, Charles A. Ropes joined
in the North Salem horticultural activity by exhibiting more than twenty varieties of apples and
pears at the Essex Institute Horticulture Exhibition in 1876. 8 Barns and other agricultural
outbuildings were added over the years. In 1870 the agricultural census reported that the 10-acre
farm produced potatoes and tree fruit, probably to supply the household. Three cows produced
milk. This operation was run by wage workers who performed the actual labor. Here the children
would have been surrounded by “horses, cows, livestock, carriages, tools, and machines.” 9 In this
environment Reuben Ropes and his brothers must have acquired a good preparation for the grain
business.
1875 US Geodetic and Coast Survey Map, Salem Harbor, detail. The Charles A. Ropes Estate shows cultivated �ields and
probably gardens closer to the house.
By the early 1880s Charles A. Ropes headed the family business, now called Charles A. Ropes
and Son. Reuben and his brother Charles F. were employed there as clerks while their older brother
Willis occupied a more senior role of “Son.” The �irm carried on a wholesale and retail trade in grain,
hay, and animal feed, as well as household staples like �lour, lard, dried apples, and beans. 10 This
enterprise was a prosaic relative to the Far Eastern trade that had enriched Salem in the eighteenth
century. The �irm’s ads suggest that Charles A. Ropes and Son’s major market must have been farm
households and agricultural retailers in the rural hinterland. 11 The New England farming economy
relied increasingly on dairying and poultry, and farmland was mostly put into pasture and hay rather
than grains. Farming households purchased their grain and �lour from local distributors like the
North Shore Babies Hospital Society Annual Report, 1911. Phillips Library.
Salem Register Sept 14, 1876
9 1870 US Agricultural census; Charles A. Ropes will, 1889, Essex Probate Records 1889-90, p 401-402.
10 Ad for Charles A. Ropes and Son, 1888 Salem Directory, page 898; 1880 US Census for the Charles A. Ropes
household; 1882 Salem directory; 1888 Salem Directory, entries for Reuben W. and Charles F. Ropes
11 Ad for Ropes Brothers, Salem Directory, 1905, no page number
7
8
4
�Ropes family, who in turn likely obtained most of their goods from sources in the Midwest or South.
For example, later on among the ingredients in Reuben Ropes’s advertised “poultry hash” were
wheat meal, cottonseed, and alfalfa meal. 12 Another market would have been urban. As long as
horses supplied motive power for transport and industry, horse owners would buy feed and hay.
Salem and other nearby towns had livery stables as well as plenty of family equines. The �irm’s
goods were transported by water and rail. Charles A. Ropes used wharves for his substantial �leet,
including one just off Derby Street. His sons continued to use it into the 1890s. 13
Salem Atlas of 1897, Plate 3. Reuben W. Ropes wharf in the South River off Derby street, center of image. To the west,
on Central Street, see Ropes Brothers Feed and Grain. The 1890 Salem Sanborn map, Sheet 8, also shows a Ropes’ Wharf
off 125 Derby Street.
Although young Reuben worked in the family business he also followed his own interests.
Salem directories in the late 19th century list him as a “poulterer,” “Dealer in Fancy Fowls and Eggs,”
or “Fowl Fancier.” 14 In 1888 he earned a mention in the Salem Register for winning prizes for several
birds he had raised at his “poultry yard at Orne Point.” 15 This yard must have been on his parents’
place since at the time he still lived there; he probably used the barns and outbuildings.
12 Philip H. Smith, “Inspection of Commercial Feedstuffs,” Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station Control
Series Bulletin No. 55, December 1930, p. 36.
13 Charles A. Ropes extended the wharf in 1874 (DB 901/222)
14 Salem Directory, 1886, 1888, 1893, entries for Reuben W. Ropes
15 Salem Register, December 10, 1888
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�Young Reuben’s apparent passion for poultry had strong regional precedents. Around 1850 a socalled “hen fever” had broken out in New England, and Boston was its epicenter. A mania took off
for breeds like the Cochin-China and Shanghai, which were hyped to the skies. Both the birds and
their eggs sold for absurdly high prices. One satirical writer wrote that the “Boston people have no
equals in the way of amusing themselves. We hope…that they will succeed beyond measure in
selling eggs at $3 per dozen and hens at $10 a pair – to each other.” 16 The poultry mania was
essentially a speculative bubble. People were seized with the hope of breeding a fowl that would
become a new standard in egg or meat production and make them a fortune. Of course, the notion
was just as illusory as most other agricultural crazes like Osage 17 orange fences; the “hen fever”
broke almost as quickly as it had risen. However, poultry fanciers did not disappear; they settled
into more conventional grooves. One branch developed as a recreational pastime with organized
clubs and societies. In the agricultural world poultry breeding and management became serious
scienti�ic endeavors, especially after the land-grant university research system was established.
Reuben Ropes’ abiding interest in poultry combined both the hobbyist and practical paths. As
Reuben became more involved in the business, poultry feed became a specialty. At some point the
�irm must have sold birds too, because there was a substantial hen house at the Danvers location. 18
George P. Burnham, The History of the Hen Fever, a Humorous Record. Boston, 1852, p 19
16 Arthur H. Cole, “Agricultural Crazes: A Neglected Chapter in American Economic History,” The American Economic
Review, December 1926, 636.
17 Paul Wallace Gates, The Farmer’s Age, 1815-1860 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1960), 187, notes that the Osage orange
had limited success as fencing material in the pre-barbed wire era because winter kill left gaps, thorns hindered draft
animals, the hedges were big water consumers, and the “land for a distance of ten or twelve on each side of the hedge
was useless for crops.”
18 Sanborn Map of Danvers, Massachusetts, 1927, plate 2. Library of Congress
6
�Salem Register, December 10, 1888
7
�Ad, Salem Directory, 1888
8
�Ad, 1905 Salem Directory, for Ropes Brothers
9
�In 1890 Charles A. Ropes died. He left the house and land to Lucinda, plus $30,000 “in
money.” His sons Willis H., Charles F., and Reuben W. took over the �irm and renamed it Ropes
Brothers. In 1895 Reuben married Grace Austin Tuttle of Salem. Brother Charles F. served as best
man. Grace’s wedding album includes a handwritten account of the couple’s honeymoon; at the very
end, she described their return to Salem, and concluded by recording that “[we] began housekeeping
in our new home, Saturday, the twenty-ninth of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-�ive.” 19 In 1897
Lucinda Ropes formalized Reuben’s legal claim to the property by selling him the lot at present #18
Felt Street for $600.
The dwelling built for the newlyweds was executed in the “Queen Anne” style. As Bryant Tolles
writes in his Architecture in Salem, “Salem’s half dozen outstanding Queen Anne houses share in
common irregularity in plan and mass, and variety in building materials, wall textures, and color.
Windows and doors are of many forms, with either flat or round-arched headings. Often present
are tall, modeled brick chimneys, bays, corner towers, turrets, intersecting pitched roofs with
pronounced gables, large porches, and projecting upper stories.” 20 As the 1895 photo shows, the
new Ropes house displayed all these features nicely.
Reuben W. and Grace Tuttle Ropes house, 18 Felt Street, 1895 photograph. Reuben and Grace Ropes Wedding Album,
Benjamin Ropes Family Papers, 1804-1919, Box 1, Phillips Library
Charles A. Ropes will, 1889, Essex probate records 1889-90 p 401-2; Reuben and Grace Ropes Wedding Album,
Benjamin Ropes Family Papers, 1804-1919, Box 1, Phillips Library
20 Bryant Tolles, Architecture in Salem (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983), xxi.
19
10
�By choosing this style Reuben and Grace situated themselves solidly within the local middle
class among Salem’s lawyers, bankers, and businessmen. Several had recently erected Queen Anne
houses on Lafayette Street. There were also models closer by for the Ropeses to study; Reuben’s
own sister, Mary Cates, lived with her husband Frederick in a Queen Anne house at # 34 Dearborn,
built 1888. 21 Frederick and Mary lent money to family members and served as executors of their
estates, so they must have been close.
In the North Salem context these houses helped reshape the neighborhood’s character. They
made an emphatically high style and suburban presentation that contrasted to the surrounding
older estates which still possessed a rural ambience with a strong flavoring of country gentlemen’s
retreats. For example, Robert Manning was a widely known nurseryman who had an estate very
nearby at # 33. It had an 1824 “rural Federal” vernacular farmhouse as its headquarters. Pickering
Dodge, a member of a prominent Salem merchant family, chose Dearborn Street for a c. 1838 Greek
Revival summer residence and turned the grounds into a noted horticultural showcase and model
farm. The Reuben W. Ropes house stood out from these older homesteads because it was built on
a grander scale and adopted a popular late 19th century architectural style and form. However,
there is some evidence that the grounds at # 18 Felt made a gesture to North Salem’s genteel rural
ambience. According to a 2012 news article about the house, “the property was once a horticultural
showcase with vegetable and flower gardens, a beehive, chickens, and an old barn.” This is plausible
since by the 1930s maps show a barn, and a long narrow outbuilding on the lot which could have
been a hen house, as well as a small square structure on the lot edge. Reuben Ropes at one time had
served as judge for bees and honey, and of course he knew about chickens, so these buildings could
well have served rural pastimes. 22
The house’s �loor plan was drawn in 2012 for a building permit. It is not known whether or
how it has changed over time, but the current layout is similar to many �loor plans of the 19th century
and so we can speculate a bit about how it might re�lect evolving social dynamics in the late 19th
century. On the ground �loor three substantial rooms �low from one to another. The room closest
to the entrance (labeled parlor on 2012 plan) probably would have served as a semi formal space
where visitors would be received. Its mid 19th century predecessors would have been grander, more
heavily furnished and more spatially isolated. This parlor is integrated with the outdoors (via the
porch) and open to the neighboring living room. The space labeled “living room” is emphasized with
a large, rounded bow window and �ireplace evoking light and comfort. By this time many homes for
the well-off would have incorporated central heating, so the �ireplace was probably more about
coziness than practicality. A dining room provided specialized space for meals. A small front room
with window seat might have functioned as a place to read or play. All of these spaces re�lected a
rising trend in American domestic life toward greater informality and increasing focus on children.
By contrast the square and utilitarian kitchen was pointedly isolated via a separate, subordinate
21 The Manning house is documented as MHC site SAL.1829. Queen Anne houses on Lafayette Street mentioned by
Tolles include the Nichols House, 1889 (p. 243) and the Mary Devine house, 1892 (p. 241).
22 1888 Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society: p 46, Reuben W. Ropes is awarded premiums for White Leghorn
fowl; In 1889, p 43 he gets prizes for White Leghorn chicks and fowl, Pekin Duck ditto, and Plymouth Rock ditto; and
he served on the committee to judge bees, hives and honey, p 60.
11
�entrance from outdoors, from the other ground �loor rooms by doors, and even from the main stair
by a separate stair to the second �loor. A single window lighted the interior. This layout segregated
work from leisure and display spaces. It also materially realized the class and ethnic gap between
the Ropeses and their Irish servant women. Upstairs �ive bedrooms and bath accommodated the
parents and children. The one with an adjoining room was probably for parents and an infant.
2012 Building Permit, 18 Felt Street, second �loor plan. City of Salem
2012 Building Permit, 18 Felt Street, �irst �loor plan. City of Salem
Available sources show some exterior changes to the footprint, mainly involving the porch.
In 1897 the porch extended only across the Felt Street façade; by 1911 it wrapped all the way around
12
�to include façade and southeast (con�irm) elevation, and a small rear ell appeared; later the porch
retreated a bit. 23
1897 Atlas of Salem, Sheet 12 (inset)
1897 Atlas of Salem, Sheet 12; 1907 Plan, Essex Plan Book 19, No. 2, entered 1909. (dated 1907); Sanborn Map of
Salem, “New Sheet 1932,” Sheet 70. Library of Congress.
23
13
�1911 Atlas of Salem, Sheet 9. Note the long narrow building at the rear of the R. W. Ropes lot. Given Reuben’s interest
in poultry it is possible that this could have been a hen house.
Sanborn Map of Salem, 1906-1950 (Library of Congress), Sheet 70: “New Sheet, September 1932”, detail. Now there is
a garage (marked “A”), to its left a stable and behind the stable another building that could be a hen house. It is unclear
what purpose the rear building might have served. Tax records were inaccessible for this history, but they supposedly
are held at the City Hall in Salem. They could shed more light on the outbuildings.
14
�Reuben and Grace had �ive children, four of whom survived to adulthood. The household ran
with the help of Irish domestic servants. Both parents actively engaged in Salem’s civic life through
charity work, school board service, and church organizations. 24 As the years passed Reuben
continued with the grain business and the children grew up. All four children attended college, an
unusual achievement for the time. None chose to carry on the family business: son Lawrence
became a building superintendent; daughter Marian was a physician at Massachusetts General
Hospital; son Austin was a credit manager for a major local employer, Sylvania; and daughter Esther
worked in a law of�ice as a secretary. 25
Grace Ropes passed away in 1923. For most of the next two decades several of the adult
children continued to live with their father at # 18 Felt. It would be interesting to know how they
managed the cooking and housework when they all had full-time jobs. They no longer employed
live-in servants, but perhaps they hired domestic help to come in from nearby. The house itself
probably still served the family well.
Meanwhile Ropes Brothers seems to have dwindled down to just Reuben. Sometime in the
1920s Charles F. Ropes apparently left the �irm to become a nurseryman, and Willis H. Ropes, the
eldest, had retired by 1929. 26 In 1936 calamity struck. Reuben W. Ropes was declared a bankrupt
and his entire property was seized by a court-appointed of�icial. Charles and Willis got caught up in
the proceedings too; they defaulted on their mother’s loan for the Central Street business premises
and ironically Reuben, as trustee, had to enter the grounds to formally repossess the property. 27
Available research to date has not �irmly established how such a wealthy family ended up bankrupt,
but it is indisputable that local businesses like the Ropes Brothers faced an increasingly daunting
competitive climate in early 20th century. The shift from sail to steam power disadvantaged
businesses (like the Ropes’s) that had been founded on large sail �leets. Moreover, the grain and
�lour business was also undergoing dramatic changes related to agriculture and food retailing. A
deep agricultural depression had preceded the Wall Street crash by a decade. Global competition
intensi�ied with European recovery from war. In the US farming became more specialized,
mechanized, and capital intensive. As farm output rose, prices dropped steeply, plunging farmers
into an escalating “cost-price squeeze” (higher costs, lower prices for their products). The number
of farms steadily declined. In New England these forces were ampli�ied by urbanization and high
land costs. To add to the stress, urbanites were trading horses for automobiles, and farmers were
swapping out draft horses for tractors; dairymen found that growing their own silage for winter
feed was a better strategy than purchasing grain. In sum, both rural and town markets for grain and
hay were contracting. Competition from newer, large nationwide companies like Ralston-Purina
also disadvantaged local distributors. Meanwhile the food retail sector was undergoing a major shift
to chain stores; consumers who formerly might have patronized Ropes Brothers for household
staples could now buy them at a chain store, probably more cheaply. Thus, the household market
for Ropes Brothers goods was probably dwindling too. These circumstances help to explain how a
formerly pro�itable grain business like Ropes Brothers could be forced out of business.
Reuben W. Ropes obituary, Salem Evening News, February 25, 1942, p. 2
US Census for 1940, Reuben W. Ropes and family; 1934 Salem directory for Lawrence Ropes; 1937, 1942 directories
26 Salem directories for 1929 (Willis Ropes); 1930 US Census and Salem directories for 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937,
1939 (Charles F. Ropes)
27 These legal processes are captured in the Property Ownership History. The record showing Reuben Ropes
foreclosing on his brothers is in DB 3078 page 248, July 9, 1936.
24
25
15
�Reuben’s children were able to purchase the home property and thereby save it for a family
residence. Marian, Esther, and Austin T. Ropes continued to live at # 18 Felt with their father. 28
In 1942 Reuben W. Ropes died, and that same year his son Austin married. The reconstituted
household at # 18 Felt consisted of Austin and his wife Margaret, Esther, and Marian. Marian
remained there until she married in 1948. That same year Austin and Margaret had a son, Austin T.
Ropes Jr. The three of them lived at 18 Felt along with Esther Ropes. 29 After his parents’ generation
passed away the house belonged to Austin T. Ropes, Jr., who became an attorney. An only child, he
never married and continued to live at # 18 until his own death in 2012. 30 The Ropes tenure at # 18
Felt Street now came to an end.
A period of uncertainty followed. According to the Salem News, “an aging family member”
(Austin Tuttle Jr.) had been unable to keep up the house interior or exterior and the house was
decaying quickly. A developer bought the property in 2011 with plans to demolish the house and
eliminate the century old trees. The Salem Historical Commission and other parties worked with
the developer to promote preservation. The current owners purchased the house and restored it to
its present condition, making it a preservation success story in Salem. 31
28 John C. McCarthy, Trustee in Bankruptcy, to Austin T., Marian, and Esther Ropes, DB 3077 p. 143, March 1936; 1940
US Census, 1942 Salem directory (showing them all living together at 18 Felt)
29 Ancestry data for births and deaths; US census for 1950, Salem directory for 1964
30 Austin T. Ropes Jr. obituary, currentobituary.com, on or about February 24, 2012
31 Tom Dalton, “New Life for Old House,” Salem News Dec 14, 2012; Donna Seger, “Streets of Salem” blog, January 2012
16
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If not explicitly footnoted, primary source material comes from Salemdeeds.com or Ancestry.
Secondary work:
Massachusetts Historical Commission, site SAL.1865, available through MACRIS, the
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, https://mhcmacris.net/details?mhcid=SAL.1865
Baker, John Milnes. A Concise Guide to American House Styles (New York: Countryman Press,
2018)
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses revised edition. (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2023)
Tolles, Bryant. Architecture in Salem. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983.
Maps of Salem: (I include a hotlink only when the site is tricky to navigate or �ind)
Henry McIntyre, Map of the City of Salem, Mass. 1851. Online at Leventhal Maps Library,
Boston Public Library.
G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the City of Salem. 1874. Available online through the Massachusetts
State Library, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/206060
1875 US Geodetic and Coast Survey Map, Salem Harbor
Atlas of the City of Salem. 1897. Online through the Massachusetts State Library,
https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/205576
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. 1911. Online at Leventhal Maps Library, Boston
Public Library.
Deeds:
Sanborn Insurance Maps of Salem, Massachusetts, 1906-1950. Sheet 70. Library of
Congress website, select Maps in search bar
The Southern Essex Registry of Deeds, Salemdeeds.com, has digitized all deeds executed in
the county. https://salemdeeds.com/salemdeeds/Default2.aspx
Newspapers:
17
�The author uses Penn State library access to search Salem newspapers. Not all the major
Salem papers are included in the databases and they only go up to about 1900.
Biographical details:
Other:
Ancestry.com compiles digitized census, vital statistics, city directories, and other sources.
Hathi Trust gives access to historical publications, for example agricultural society activity
by Reuben Ropes.
Phillips Library Collections: Benjamin Ropes Family Papers, 1804-1919, Box 1. Reuben and
Grace Ropes wedding album
Salem State University Archives, digitized photos and post cards collection.
City of Salem Public Records (digital collection available via the city website)
Tom Dalton, “New Life for Old House.” Salem News December 14, 2012
Donna Seger, “The Other Ropes Mansion.” “Streets of Salem” blog, January 2012
Austin T. Ropes Jr. obituary, currentobituary.com, on or about February 24, 2012
Burnham, George P. The History of the Hen Fever, a Humorous Record. Boston, 1852.
Cole, Arthur H. “Agricultural Crazes: A Neglected Chapter in American Economic History.
The American Economic Review, December 1926.
18
�18 Felt Street, Salem, MA, Property Ownership History (in reverse chronological order)
DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
September 14,
Kinee for
Michael John
34369/561-2
Parcel A, a portion of the
2015
Treadwell
and Linda M.
Parcel A on the 2012 map. A
Blier
new map accompanies this
transaction. The lot
dimensions are now 137.3
feet by 172 feet.
October 17,
ICECAT, LLC
Michael John
31825/353
Lot 3 (16,608 SF) and Parcel B
2012
East Boston,
and Linda M.
(2311 SF) on a plan dated
MA
Blier, husband
June 18, 2012 and shown in
and wife of 18
Plan Book 434 Plan 17, being
Felt Street
a portion of the premises
deeded from Austin T. Ropes
Jr. to ICECAT in November
2011. This document creates
a new lot from Austin T.
Ropes’s property as described
in the 2011 deed. The new lot
is a rectangle 110 feet on the
Felt Street side and 172 feet
on the longer side.
November 18,
Austin T. Ropes, ICECAT, LLC
30847/465
$420K. Property described as
2011
Jr., unmarried,
bounded by Felt Street, 185
surviving
feet; on NW by land of
tenant in
Treadwell, 292 feet and North
common
Shore Babies Hospital, 138.8
feet; SE by land formerly of
Plante, 120 feet; NE by land
of Plante, 46.2 feet; SE by
Meegan and Morneau, 172
feet. Refers back to Lucinda
W. Ropes’s will. The present
lot at # 18 lies within these
bounds.
19
�18 Felt Street, Salem, MA, Property Ownership History (in reverse chronological order)
DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
1936-1948
John McCarthy, various
various
Reuben W. Ropes’s estate is
Trustee
sold off to various parties but
he and/or his children
continue to live at # 18
March 1936
John McCarthy, Austin T.,
3077/143
$50.00. The parcel in
trustee in
Marian, and
question is the 150 by 160
Bankruptcy
Esther Ropes
foot “original” 1897 lot with
(Reuben W.
the house at # 18 Felt Street.
Ropes’s
children)
November 18,
Ropes siblings
North Shore
1994/287 and
$1.00 transaction. See plan
1909
(Willis H., Mary Babies Hospital Plan Book 19
for the area conveyed to the
and Frederick
Plan # 2
hospital.
Cate, Lucinda
W. Ropes,
Reuben W.
Ropes, Charles
F. Ropes, and
trustees for
Edwin C. Ropes
March 20, 1906 Lucinda W.
Her will goes into effect
Ropes death
1903, 1905
Lucinda W.
Lucinda Ropes sets aside
Ropes will
certain funds, and all the
remainder of her property
(including land) she leaves to
her seven children to be
divided equally, with the
provision that Edwin C’s
portion is to be held in trust
for him.
February 4,
Lucinda W.
Reuben W.
1503/237
$600. Lucinda parcels off the
1897
Ropes
Ropes
present lot of present # 18
Felt Street to her son Reuben
W. Ropes. It is a rectangle 150
by 160 feet, bounded on the
southwest by Felt Street.
March 19, 1890 Death of
His widow,
Charles A.
Lucinda W.
Ropes
Ropes, and
children inherit
his property
20
�18 Felt Street, Salem, MA, Property Ownership History (in reverse chronological order)
DATE
GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
November 1,
Alfred Peabody Lucinda W.
596/236
$2800. This is the land from
1859
Ropes
the previous transaction of
1854.
May 15, 1854
James Upton
Alfred Peabody 495/216
$2700. This is the land from
the previous three
transactions, with a small
right of way added.
December 16,
John Bertram
James Upton
493/263
$800. This is the same
1853
property as in the previous
two transactions.
December 14,
John C. Lee
John Bertram
493/262
$2800. The same as DB
1853
344/33.
April 3, 1844
Abraham
John C. Lee
344/33
$1600. The property as
Kimball
described extended from the
intersection of Dearborn and
Felt Streets, to the present
Larch Avenue, and included
present # 40 Felt and 0 Felt
Street Way.
18 Felt Street, Salem, MA Property Ownership History Summary in chronological order
?-1844: Abraham Kimball
1844-1853: John C. Lee
Two days in 1853: John Bertram
December 1853-May 1854: James Upton
1854-1859: Alfred Peabody
1859-1890: Lucinda W. Ropes and her husband Charles A. Ropes (assumed)
1890-1897: Heirs of Charles A. Ropes (his widow Lucinda and their seven children one of whom
was Reuben W. Ropes)
1897-1936: Reuben W. Ropes
1936-1977: Austin T., Marian, and Esther Ropes (Reuben W. Ropes’s children) via bankruptcy
proceedings
1977: Austin T. Ropes death.
1979: Marian Ropes [married name unknown] death
1983: Esther Ropes death
1983-2011: Austin T. Ropes Jr. (son of Austin T. Ropes) is sole surviving tenant. In the early 2000s
there was threatened action by the city for nonpayment of taxes, but the city’s petition was
eventually withdrawn.
21
�2011-2012: ICECAT
2012-present: Michael and Linda Blier
Note: the house lot was # 6 Felt Street until around 1920 when it became # 18.
The house lot that currently makes up # 18 Felt Street is part of Ropes family lands that have been
recon�igured several times. Charles A. Ropes, merchant, and his wife Lucinda W. Ropes acquired
adjoining parcels in North Salem in 1854 and 1859 respectively. The 1874 landownership map
shows the two in a single unit under ownership of Charles A. Ropes. In 1890 Charles Ropes died,
willing his property to his widow and children. In 1897 Lucinda Ropes sold a parcel to her son
Reuben W. Ropes. It was a rectangle with the short side along Felt Street (150 feet) and long sides
of 160 feet. This must be the parcel that is shown on the 1897 Atlas of Salem, with the present
house on it. Directories show that Reuben W. Ropes “boarded” at the foot of Dearborn Street with
his mother at least until 1895, when he married. The house footprint appears in 1897 so we can
be fairly con�ident that it was built between 1895 and 1897.
In subsequent years the lot con�iguration changed until it assumed its present boundaries in 2012.
The recon�igurations followed upon two key events. The �irst was Lucinda Ropes’s death in 1906,
following which her seven children divided the estate, swapping parcels among themselves and
selling off lots to nonfamily parties, most notably a large plot to the North Shore Babies Hospital.
The 1932 Sanborn map showed a rectangular lot at # 18 Felt that included the house and several
outbuildings. This lot ran 185 feet along Felt Street. The second key event was that in 1936
Reuben W. Ropes was declared a bankrupt. This set off a complicated round of selloffs and intrafamily trades. In 1936 three of Ropes’s children (Austin T., Marian, and Esther Ropes) purchased
the “original” 1897 lot for $50.00. They and their father lived at # 18 at that point, so they were
purchasing their family home. Maps and deeds from intervening years show that the lot for # 18
changed shape and was swapped back and forth again. 32 This happened because original lands
had been subdivided among the Ropes siblings but also sold off to other buyers. The 2011
transaction between Austin T. Ropes Jr. and ICECAT concerned a larger parcel from which the 2012
lot was created.
See: 1948 Ropes to Brotherton and back, DB 3607 pp 516-518; 1972 Lewandowski to Ropes siblings DB 5838 p
587; 1972 Ropes siblings to Lewandowski DB 5838 p 586; 1974 Ropes siblings to themselves DB 6652 p 683.
32
22
�DB 344, p 33, Kimball to Lee, 1844
23
�24
�Lee to John Bertram, Bertram to Upton, 1853
DB 493, pp 262-264, J. C.
25
�DB 495 p 216, Upton to Peabody, 1854
26
�to Lucinda Ropes, 1859
DB 596 p 236, Peabody
27
�28
�DB 1503, p 238-9, Lucinda Ropes to Reuben W. Ropes, 1897
29
�DB 3077 p 143, McCarthy to Ropes siblings, 1936
30
�31
�DB 30847 p 465, Austin T. Ropes to ICECAT, 2011
32
�33
�DB 31825 p 353-4, ICECAT to Blier, 2012
34
�35
�DB 34369 p 562-3, Kinee to Blier, 2015
36
�2012 Plan of 18 Felt Street, Plan Book 434 Plan 17.
37
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Grace Tuttle
1895
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18 Felt Street
1895
2024
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Salem
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21.5 Broad Street, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970
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1886
21 1/2 Broad
21.5
Broad
gentleman
Italianate
Nathaniel
Nathaniel Ropes
Ropes
wood
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scy:istoric
OFFICE AT HAMILTON HALL
i\!~~orporated
POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (617) 745-0799
23 - 25 1/2 BROAD STREET
Built for
NATHANIEL ROPES, gentleman
in 1885
Research by,
Joyce King
H~1hl-~ ~'~'~Bn~,~11~'~11HI
"to prcoc·rvt·
ohitTto,
and to work fut the educ;uion of the con1n1unity
in tht' true v~1luc of the sarnc."
�23 - 25 1/2 BROAD STREET
BOOK 6275 PAGE 195
June 11, 1976
DA'l'E GRANTOR
(seller) -
GRAN'I'EE (buyer)
DESCRIP'rION
Ralph H. Doering Jr.
Trustee of Doering Trust
Raymond W. Thibault
4 Parcels of real estate
One parcel being 23 - 25 1/2 Bro2d
As shown on Plan
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For title see deed as recorded i-:
book 6109 page 203.
BOOK 6109 PAGE 203
October 31, 1974
DATE -
GRANTOR
(seller) -
Ralph H. Doering Jr. release to
Doering trust
BOOK 5622 PAGE 449
DATE -
July 14, 1969
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
Fred E. and Adeline E. Winter
GRANTEE (buyer)
Ralph H. Doering Jr.
DESCRIP'l'ION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
us by deed of Kenneth E. Winter as
recorded in book 5331 page 762.
�BOOK 5331 PAGE 762
DATE -
January 6, 1966
CONSIDERATION
None list
GRANTOR (seller} -
Kenneth E. Barbara Winter
GRANTEE
r )
Fred E. and Adeline E. Winter
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
ing the
third parcel conveyed
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same conveyed as recorded in
book 5000 page 348.
BOOK 5000 PAGE 348
DATE -
October 19, 1962
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
Fred E. Winter also known as
Wilfred E. Winter and Adeline
GRANTEE (buyer)
Kenneth E. and Barbara E. Winter
DESCRIPTION
Two parcels of land and buildings
(The second being 23-25 1/2 Broad)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same conveyed by Joseph ~. Loo
as recorded in book 4613 page 315.
�HOOK
13 PAGE 315
DATE -
October 26, 1959
CONS DERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (s ller) -
Josephine E. Looney
Fred E. and Adeline Winter
Land and buildings
DESCRIPTI
REV
REFERENCE -
Being a portion of the premises
conveyed to the Trustees of
s
Memorial on Nov. 27, 1914 and
recorded in book 2282 page 386.
BOOK 2282 PAGE 386
DATE -
November 27, 1914
CONSIDERATION
"For consideration paid"
GRANTOR
(seller) -
Trustees of the Ropes Memorial
GRANTEE (buyer)
Josephine E. Looney
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The granted premises are shown
upon a plan entitled, "Plan of
land in Salem, Mass., belonging to
the Trustees of the Ropes Memorial"
�386,
/
Whalen
I, lLary A. Whalen, of llewburyport, Essex county, Y.assachusetta, bein,g urunar-
to
r1e0., rof consideration paid, grant to Hewburyport co-operative Ba:hk, Situ,/,
:Jewburyport
Co-op.Bk.
1
\
ated in Ne~buryport, .Ea sex County, llassachu.set ta, w1 tb mortgag~/covenants,
\
/
to secure the payment or seven hundred dollars a.ru1 interest .and fines as pro/
vided in a note or even date, the land 1n NEWllURYPORT atot~sa1d with the
,/'
buildings thereon, bourul.ed
aru1
described as follows; vxz:
Commencing at the
/
east~rl.y
corner thereof on Charles street by land or the Peabody llanutactu.r-
~~~~
ct-~~o 0 ~ 4 ~y. ing company, thence
rods, ten links to
~ng
ia.rlil
about south 350 wast ,llY said street about two
or Kiley (formerly City or •ewburyport); thence a-
bout North 40° West by said larul or Kiley tour rods, one quarter link, and
about North 530 west by land of or formerly or Nathan Poor two rod.a, eighteen links to land or Isaac ?oor; thenc.e about North 321'<> Ea.St by said land
of Isaac Poor two rods, ten links to /iand of the Peabody lla.nutacturing Compan,v; aml thence aoout South 490
)!:~t
by land or said company six rods, nine-
/
teen links, more or less, to th,/point of
~eg1nn1ng.
Being the same prem1s-.
es conveyed to me by the Newoyryport\Co-operat1ve Bank aforesaid by deed dated November 2, 1914, to be,iecorded harew1th.
I
I
I hereby tra.n.eter and pledge
-
to the said mortgagee fo\l.l' aha.res in the f>4th series or its capital stock
I
as collateral security ;1or the performance of the conditions of this mortgage, and rey said no;/ upon which shares said sum of seven hund.roo dollars
-·
been advanced
tp
me by the mortgagee. The monthly pa.ynients uru1er th18
I
.
mortgage are sevj1i a.rul 70/100 dollars. In the event of an assigrunant or
ha.a
this mortgage, interest on the unpaid balance of the principal shall be at
tne rate of
/
1}1X
per cent. per annum.
TW. s mortgage is upon the Statutory
\
Co-opera ti ~l Bank Yortgage C ond1t1 on, for any breach of which the mortgagee
shall !laV}l the Statutory Co-operative Bank Power of Sale.
and
sea~
WITNESS
Iey
hand
this eighteenth day or November 1914.
COMllO!f\VEALTH OF JLABBACHUSETTS
Easel, ss.
Nov. 23, 1914.
(seal)
Yary A. Whalen
Then personally appeared the above named lL8rY At
Whalen and acknowledge<1 the foregoing instrument to be her free act and dt-4
before me
Nathanlel N. Jones
Justice of the Peace
Essex es. Received Nov. 27, 1914. 25 m. past 3 P.~. Recorded and EXam.1~ad.
-----~~~----------~------
The Trustees of the Ropes Memorial, a corporation established by law s.n4 lO-
Trs. of The
\
Ropes Memorial
to
cated at Salem, Essex county, lla.Saachusetts, for consideration paid, gr&nt• !
Looney
&
vote
____&_P_l_a.n_
s~ <?-"- -" ~ ""'-
at ~ u~.
to Josephine E. Looney wl th qu1 tclaim covenants the land and bu1ld1DgS cm
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the southerly side or Broad a;reet in said SALEM bounded as follows:
;I
n1ng on.Broad street at the llortheasterly corner or the granted premUd
or 1'ortlet t thane• runn1 ng n s ter lY by Broad • tre et one ""'""... ~
two and thirty three ln.l.ndradtllB teet ( 172.33 1 ) to land or .Han11t'i.i4J
J.aru1
tY
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_.._
~...st.-'"
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thence running southerly by land or Mansfield seventy aru1 seventy tive hun•
dre<1thB reet (70. 75•); thence turning and running easterly by other land or'
grantor seventy eight and .tive hundredths reet
called Orne
square~
(7~.o&)
to a street or way
thence continuing in a straight line across said Orne
square atout twenty four and thirty seven hundredths feet (24.37') and
0-
thence st.111 continuing in a straight line forty five
(45.2');
thence turning and running southerly five
aru1
aru1
two tenthS feet
one tenth feet (5.1);;
B
thence easterly sixteen and eighty five hurulredths feet (16.85 1
)
to land of
Bartlett; thence turning and running northerly by larul of Bartlett seventy
seven feet (77•) to the point oegun at.
Together with rights of foot pas-
sage t1 ve reet ( 5 • ) wide over land of the grantar running rorty t1 ve aru:l two
tenths reet (45.2') to the east rrom Orne Square and fifty eight and tour
tenths reet (58.4•) to the west from Orne Square, as shown upon the plan
hereinafter referred to, and leading to the re'ar or the dwelling houses upon the granted premises to be used in oornrnon with the grantor and its assigns;
reserving to the granter and its successors and assigns a right or way tor
all purposes and in both directions between the grantorts remaining land on
3.-
ge
Broad street over that part or said Orne square which is included in the
\.
gra..'1.ted premises, and reserving also unto the granter ar:d its successors and
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l
assigns a right to lay, maintain, repair and to relay
to relocate in
said granted portion or the way known as Orne Square pipes and conduits tor
-
water, sewage, gas ana wires tor the transmission or electric power; heat,
light ana telephonic or other torm ot electrical or magnetic communication
and a right at all times to enter into
aru1
upon the said way and to excavate
the same for any or all or the foregoing purposes.
:9
aru1
The granted premises are
sJ1own upon a plan entitled, •p1a.n or land in Salem, :ILass., belonging to the
:ru.stees of the Ropes Yemoria1• by Charles A. Yetcalt, surveyor, elated August, 1914, to be recorded herewith.
~ias
IN
WIT.NESS 11ll!:REOl' the said corporation
caused this instrument to be executed by Wlll1am R. Colby, its vice pres-
li!ant, hereunto duly authorized, on th1s twenty seventh day or November A.D.
1914.
Trustees of the Ropes Yemorial
C' l.Ol!ONVEAI.Tll OF YASS.ACRUSETTS.
1
Essex, ss.
Nov. 28 A. D. 1914.
~)
(seal)
by William R. Colby
its vice President.
Personally appeared the above named William R. Colby, Vice Presiaent aa aroresaid, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the tree act and
de9<l or the Trustees o! the Ropes Yemorial
Robert Y. Ma.homey
Cert1t1cata ot Vote.
be!' ore me,
JUatice or the Peace.
At a meeting ot the Tru,stees o! Kopas Yemorial held
at Salem on November twenty A. D. 1914, a quorum. being present, the rorego1:it: lna tnunen t was read and 1 t was duly voted that the ea.me be adopted as
Vote
��The Ropes Memorial was established under.the wills of Mary
Pickman Ropes and Eliza Orne
s,
i s conducted by a
of trustees incorporated in 1912.
r
was
rd
thed to the Ropes sisters by their
athaniel
t
niel
s a
ired the
operty from his aunt, Sarah Fisk
Orne,
in
rch of l 6. Mr. Ropes built many houses
i
Salem, with the pur
e of providing modern, single family
housing at a
rate rent for the working class. He died on
Feb uar
, 1893 at 60
rs of age.
Reference to book and
e are deed books at the
istry of
Deeds,
Probate n
rs are cases at Probate Court.
All maps
in thi report are for illustrative purposes
are not meant
to
xact,
�N01'ES:
The land on which this house stands was once part of the
land" which was laid out in the first settlement
the
so call
as early as 1799, It was one of
; and
id out very wi , the southern
with the southern side of the burying
to the adjoining owners a strip
of the
r ng gr
at that e
and running
int, so that the houses at the corner
Broad streets stand in what was formerly Broad
(Esse
, Vol. 4 pg. 98)
the construction of 21-25 Broad Street, t
the shoe shop
a
the heirs of Jos
1
F. Orne,
s
th.
rmit
s issued to Na
iel
to
house for four f
lies, 77 1 X 32 1/2 1 f
l
i
owned
F.
ild
2
st.
h at 25 Br
ts
ry age 3
e
age
shoe salesman, born Mas
born Maine
ke
r in a
nk,
rn Mass.
rodery de ler, born
ss.
leswoman,
rn
ss.
s rvant,
rn Ire.
cler furnitur
tore, born Mas
born Mass.
tel
r
born
�-..
-·:
\-
r~~ ~A_[~n1'1l
NEvVS
Amassed a Fortune in j
Eastern R. R. Stock.
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TUE.e>DAY FELlRliAltY 7, 18()3,
f
1~::::".~~~B~O~R~N~.~~::::".~
Peculiar Cba1·acteristics Which
l'Iarked His Later Years.
lsE~£0NR.-In
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Salem, Feb. 7, to Edmund
and Beruace Semons, a daughter.
,
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1
'49'ers
Twq.
\
OBITC •
.\R\'",
Join the JSilent llla.jority.
I
most prominent mercharlts, died on
Monday, aged 68. He had/ been in the
produce business in Lynn, since 1850,
and· was the last of the' well-known
firm of Lampel' Bl'others./
; Capt. John Biatchford, ~former well: known master mariner aiid a California
. pioneer ot '491 died in GJoucester, Sun·
day, 11t the age of 63 years, He went to
· California In the eprlngJit 1849 with a
party1 In the schooner Pf1?1\fi'OU 1 rernalnmg tnere two years, and after bis r<!•
turn commanded seved1l of the crack
vessels of the Gloucester fishing tleet •.
Inlelligence bas be'an received at
Bodor.ct,. announcmg the · deu.th qt
Hiram Towne. a nativje of that v11lage 1
in Lawrence, Kansas., Mr. Towne \yas
one oi the original f<jirty-niners, goml?
to California at the pime of the golu
lever. He made llis 'fpile" and made a.
short visit to his native place, t.hen
going· to Kans s, \~here Ile has smce
resided.
· I
· -"
Hon. Joseph Hobs.on, for many years
a leading dealer and· manufacturer ?f
lumber died Sundnb·· He was born Ill
Buxton', Me., March 20, 1816. On Sa~
becoming a city jhe ~·as, elec.ted its
mayor in 1867. In Marne s legislature
he bad represented Saco for several
terms.
I.
Death of :\lrsl A.
Beckwith.
Mrs. Ann Wass ~eck\Vith die? at the
residence of her dflughter, Mrs. rhoma~
E Wilson Lowell street, about o
o'~lock ye~terday afternoon at the
advanced a"e /of 91
years
9
months and "3 days. The deceased was
a very estimable:woman and was held
i in the highest ·esteem by all ~vho·
1 knew her even iµ her old age her bright
! and chee~ful manner nud her wat?h.fulof
others
and
willmg·
\ ness
ness to help · them being not the.
, least of the kindly traits of charac~er
'which endeared her to so many. She
\ possessed her faculties t!ll the ! last;_
: and
carried,
sunshine
~vher.e·
: ever she went it being her practice till
; within a short time to take long walks
and make frequent calls on her. nume·}i
ous acquaintances. Her funeral wi :
take place T~<!!1Lait!l.r!!o9n.
---~.
,V.
i'H(Ji,JE NAfHANlEl R,OPES~\
•'.. .
.
.
Nathaniel Rope's who died at his
Essex street shortly
' before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, as
stat.id in the late edition of THE NEWS, '
was the son of Natbaniel R-0pes and
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. z:r,
1833.
Mr. Ropes, Sr. bad gone to that
city when it was in its infancy, and had
amassed considerable property.
'
Deceased attended Harvard college,
and was graduated in the class of 1855. I
1 Amon<>'
his classmate" were the late ·
•Phillips Brooks 1pr. James f\· E1;i:imerton and H.F. \vaters, Dunn~ his stay
in t'be east, at that time, he resided with
his
aunt,
Mrs.
S.
F. 1
· Orne · in the old
Hopes ·man- I
sion ~n Elssex street, which bouse he I
subsequently occupied, and in which
bis death occurred.
Returning to Cmcinnati, he .engage_d
in business with his father, which business was the management of a large
candle and oil manufactory. Not fan·
cy!ng that business, or for some other
good reason, he
·
·
I home number 318
I William A. Lamper, on~ ot Lynn's
:.·•':·.'1: •,·, ', '
I
Returned to Salem About 1862,
and devoted himself to the manage.
: ment of what· property he possess~d.
He resided witli his aunt, and contm' ued to occupy the house after her
death, which occurred some 12 or 15,
years ago.
·
. He became a large holder and buyer
.of Eastern railroad stock when that
corporation· \Vas anything but a paying
: institution .. Despite th_e adyice of
'friends he continued buy mg this stock,
: beginning by paying ~100, and never
ceasing to invest until the bottom
· notch
of
$2
was
reached
and the, upward ·slide had ~one on
i for:some' time. It was on this stock
that most of bis wealth was made. He
· was not a speculator, as commonly so
' called, paying bis certificates out
right for cash, and locking them up in
· his stronfl' box.
: He also was an . extensive dealer in
' real est.ate, and had built and owned 29
tenements on Orne square, besides sev·
: eral other houses in various parts of the
'city. He also had a large interest in
property left by
his father in
Cincinnati, and Mrs. Orne had left him.
considerable property.
! ·Mr. Ropes had never been West but
·twice during his latter, li.fet-0 attend the
•funerals of his parents: He never mar:riedt ,, and · the- , three
sisters
'resluing
in
Cincinnati'.
are
;
Htli. Only Surviving Relatives.
The old~o : of these sist_ers Miss
J !,Samb. aoy:1.has been wi.th him nearly ...
•";:~~ri1r Lire;~ in.· Cincin~a~iJ
1
. a!l tb.J!l JV. n,ter,
·
.
.;
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1~1~~~i.{1l1~?~!~~!~fc.~.~!,1Ji~~. ~t
belteved that· he is director only or the
Boston Water Power company, of which
he is, the largest owner. He was a
. member of the Essex Institute. He
i was not a church-going man, but had
; contributed more or less towRrds the
support of the New Jerusalem church,
out or respect to the belief ol his
, mother, who was a Swedenburghen.
His father had been an attendant at the
First Unitarian chmch.
, Simple funeral services will be con·
' ducted by'Rev. John A. Hayes ol the
church of the .New Jerusalem, at bis
late residence, Thursday afternoon? at
5 o'clock:. The remains will be taRen
to Cincinnati for interment, un·
der the charge of his sister. ·
A l\larked Personality.
With the death of Nathaniel Ropes
one of the most prominent characters ol
Salem passes into history.
.His was a. personality so mark.ed, an
individuality so peculiar, that his pro·
totype may safely be said not to exist,
nor will it, in the social atn;ioRphere of
today and the future, be likely to be
duplicated.
As a youth and college man, he was a
well-known character, hil;l'h in the social world, one of a coterrn of as lively
youths as ever furnished the life of his
particular set.
As a man, he became altogether diff, erent. He became more and more re·
tired in his habits, continui·ng how.ever, In his friendly and cordial relations with his former associates, enteri taining them with rare ho~pitality at
i his own house, but rarely, 1f ever, re·
r turning their friendly visits.
~
Perhaps nu::t to his unobstrusive
philanthrophy, peculiarity and eccen·
tricity, were his most marked characteristics,' As a philanthropist he let
not bis rlght band know what his left
did. Charitable objects were certain of
his support, but not a cent would he
.give except under the solemn promise
tl:iat his name would never appear in
connection· therewith.
Among other evidences of his geuer·
osity, tin11:ed a bit perhaps with his ec·
centricity, and the reverence he always
'bel<l for the memory and wishes of his
(leparted· aunt, Mrs. S. F. Orne, was the
fact that he kept upou ·his bounty roll
all tlle old servants and retainers of that
lady/and to .their second and third gen·
eration. . .
\ f' ·~~.n•,. Ropes was one of the original
. mejribers of the Observatory club wheu
i a·yoi.tng man, which had headquarters
lover. .·Wallace &
Young's
music
1 store;
· and
after
that
.or:
1 ganization
disbanded
be
kept
the_ apartments as a private clubroom
or· office for several years. 'fbere he
.met with his kindred spirits and did
_hjs talking and smoking.
'r.Re,used to be a
'' · ' h~lllar :figure on the Street
· ithin two years or so.
At that
.
~'-.he .
had an
attack of
.·grip,
from
which
ha
.!lr,· fully reco\'ered. His man·
npon the street were often, as
ways in companyJ misinter.
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n'~teady.. stare''
df1emed offemi "I ·y;senrntive persons;
was but the outward. evidence of deep
thought and business cogitatfon.
His gifts in charity were innumera.
ble, and many a family in the city will
deeply feel the loss of a friend, who
was indeed a friend in need, and who
was so circumspect in his giving tbat
almost none suspected it. Instead of
seeking c;ompan10nship with people of
liis station, he went about doing goodi
and for the good he did hundreds wil
revere him.
His end came peacefully. Up to 11
o'clock yesterday forenoon he was perfectly comfortable and talked rationally
with several friends, all of whom he
recognized wHh a cheerful salutation.
, There was no suffering-; but as ·the geu; eral breaking uo ol tlie whole system
I approached, be sank into unconscious·
' ness, and, as a weary child, peacefully
I fell asleep.
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Jtr1,;bJU f!ntUIJtfi~t
TUEBDA.Y, FEBRUARY 7, 1893,
MARRIAGES;
i: PIERCE-MOSELY-In .this .city, .6th inst.,
ibY RGY. Dr. Halo\ Mr. Franclv A. P10rce and
Caroline E. Mose y.
RUSS-SOGLE-In this city, ·!th inst.. by Ro.-.
Eber Butler, Charles E. Russ and Edla M. Soule,
both of Bo.<ton.
SAMUELS-LYNCK-In this citvt 5th inst.,
by Rev. Caleb D. Bmdlee, D. D.~ ~ r. John S.
Samuels of New York city and ,,11ss Mary 1£.
Lynch of Boston.
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'eysl
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ter
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Dr.
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' PRESSEY-NYE-At New London, N. H.,5th
imt .. by Rev. Geor;i:e W. Giudner. D. D., Mr.
Frnnk W. Pres~ey and hlfas Maude E. Nye, both
,of New London.
,DEATHS.
i
CHAMPNEY-At Bri!{hton. 5th insh., CharlP~
:If. Champney, 58 yrs. 5 mos. 19 dys.
SA WIN-John B. Sawin of Lincoln, Mass., e6
:yrs. 9 mos..
··
~
: WARE-In this city, 6th Inst .. 1£rs. ~usan W.
··ware formerly of 'Worcester, 87 vrs. o mos.
' r;T Funeral front residence of her dau11hter.
.Mrs. Hattie N. Whlto, Wildwood street. Dor' chester at 1 o'clock, W odnesday:, 8th mst.
1
Fnrest-~venue station, N. Y. & N . .!'>. Railroad.
: BARNES-At Lincoln, 5th inst., of. apoplexy,
1 Annis E. wife of Eda B. Barnes, 70 yrs. 3 mos.
, CHILD-At West Newton,. Olive Turner
1 Th~y..r, widow of the late David W. Child.
, i1:r Notice of funeral later.
: CHURCH-At Fa.lrhav~n. M'.ass., 5th ins~..
suddenly. Sarah ,Johnson. widow of Captam
'John Church, 77 yrs.
,
! FOSTER-:--At College Hill, 5th inst.. Charles
'A. Foster, 72 yrs.
·
: KINSLEY-At t.:anton, 4th lnat., Mrs. SarA.h
, Anu Kinsley, wtd9w of Alfred Kinsley, 86 yrs.
, 6 mos. 9 dys. . ·
' LAl\1PER-=-At Lynn, Sth inst., William A
i Lamper, 68 yrs ..10 mos. 27 dys,
i PARKES-At Reading, 4th inat., Mrs. Lucy B.
: Pfltkes, DO yrs, 10 mos,
!
PHINNEY-At llfoaument Heach, i\h~< .. 4th
inst .. Lucy E .. diiughtet· or Ro8woll ll. and ~lin·.
'uie L. Phinnoy, 5 mos .
! VINTON-At l\Ielrosr>, fith inst.. Florence l!l.
Vinton; youngest dan;:-hter of Aaron aud Abbie
:S. Vinton, 15 yrs •. 9 mos.
E
·v
�r
..;~~:k.~~::·rl ..
.
,\,ii.Jin ··ha · [Alt \vns dislluuurahle anir untrust-J
wc1th .v. Hi~ ~en;e ul hnuor . was very high;
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a11d thiN wad hb raith, oue 111ight nliuos t sa.v
his 1·.,Jigion. Living 111 the wav lw <li<I, retiri11g
trum tha ~oci~tv whir.h 11~ f'nj.1yP.d a.-' a. yonn~
I
Mr. Erl
tary of tl
:dea.th at
W!\9 for
·Hawalia1
in 1 8 34
jiu COlln
tho Uni!:
/took the
I I"lantls t
tin some
Honolul •
characte
tv, and,
•the hri
11(~ bad Jiltle tu tlu "il11 rliP- a :..; tivrl world
l1ln1u11d him, a thin~ tub~ r .....,uett ~ d. 1J qth fur
\ h i:; own lo:;s aud fo t what .l 111 ,,11 ,,f :10 :--tt·ong a ·
· 1 ma11,
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Nu.I Jirtnlc J Ropes.
1
t;h;.na1·1 e r, u11 ce r'.t\'Plnpin ·2
i11 11.is direc tiou,
Mr, ~fath~uiel Rur;es who died at his resi·
1111i .. ht hav•.• <lt•ue iu a ub1ce Iii< - S tl ~ m .
1 J\Ir. 1~1. ·lms will bt- 1uL.;.s,~d, a.1111 ht:i Jo..;s will
Ce nce 011 E:-i::;e x: St. un i\Iour] ,1y of tlii~ w eek, 1
com c rn o:;t h eadly upou tll o!"'e who ca 11 h~a!'!t
was . bCJrn in Cincinnati, Jan . 7, lt;33.
His. "rlfonl lu '' ort. witb lnm . l:iis rl eath 1v.1" t•a1i.ed
h ,\ ge nci·nl c:h· in~ out uf hi~ :--y:-; te~u.
,y
exhnu ~ t..-d .
~ orutt •\\~ o yea~~ ;
a11 1 rrum \\.,. l11ch l.1ri 11 eVP I' n•_ ;1111°.J 111:3 ,
l
!.:,
lronuer :-;tren~th . He lea,·e~ thrf' A :-i 1:>tt-: r~. th e
1
: ~ld1"t o[ who111 wa" witli l:i111 Jt1rit•g 111" l11s t 1
!"hort illucs~. Fune ra l M,n•icPs at th~ hou 'e ;
I 1~c re c1n11l11ctctl 011 Tb11r, (] ..y h.v R PV. t\(r. j
/Has e• ,, f th_e New J;rn ; <1 le m Cuurch auu th e~
iutermcnt will ue :it C1ucl1luat1.
·
tattier bearing the same naine, reruu\·eL] fr<>m
SaJem, antl ltaviu!? settl ed tli ere about 1820,
..
I
a se v·ere atta<.:k o f. la f! =
·ipµc,
:-< i11CP,
eoga~ed irr
l>u:1i11 e.:-is,
aud
Ur. Rope~, the sul•ject
of ou1· notice, waa edu cated at Cinciunati and
. he
'
ji,y
beca. 1ne
j ever a!ter _remaiu ed.
Iat
Harvard College, being a member o f the
class of 1855, as meu•.io111·tl in our notice oi
I Bishop Brook ~ , who was o f the sami! cla,s,
. t ogether with Dr. Jas. A. Eir.rnerton, and ~Ir. ' ~
H. F Waters of Salem. Mr. Ropes was mueh
~
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i in Salem dnrin¥; hi~ colloge lif9. •taying with
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~~:i::!bi~,t~:~:~\nll:~:ioo~a~:~ !~~rutcha:h~
Jceutury the home ol that brnnch of the R~pes
fll.mily. H.~re too, he cam~, ab1
>ut 181;3 . . to
ruake a short visit. Bnt, o.t the earnest so.
I1
citatiou of his aunt, who was at the time a ,
sufferer fro m a dioea:<e ur the eyes, which suon
·
It d ·
t I •·1· d
'1 o
, resu e m to a u "' aess, l• r. nope•, alw~y8
! her favorite nephew, was persuaded to remaiu
indefinitely, and ~ince Mrs. Orn e's death
'h
e has continued to 1i1·e in the sn me old-rash
) ioo~tl. quiet, but klu<liy way, which ha s di•.
tinguished so ull\ay Salem families of the olct
' school. Never engaged in active business
since leaving Cinciunatl, where be was connect' '
with his father iu the manufacture or oils
: aud -' candles, he has by per.-Jsteotly adherin2
; to oue undeviating method or in•estm e ntnever ·~peculation-amassed a handsome pro~
r~rt~,nnd by his \Ju1kling 'operations coutribuled
~ much to the ecnploymeut i;f first class mechnu. . ! iq~a nd to the comfort of many fami!iea desiring
- • i', c'Q1\ldern .' homes at a fair rental. The dweli;..;,•;; '(n~(I •on · Orne Sq Lia re were evolved rrom his
., ·~ . .A\vn b~11.lo, and were built-with the mech~ni
, , 1 1 ·1 lcnl.tiss1stance o[ Mr. Johu H. Bell-aud und er
f~T''> ; ~ti~lci~ru of ma1~y real estate owuer~,-for the
. . '.; ' ' p~rp9~e of showrng the possibility of furuishiu)l',
., .1 :j ~~a, modemt~ rent, siugle houses, for uue ten ,':- ~. _anq · ~ac_h 1 - pr~vided with ail n.oclern coure~ ·_;/If u)ence~ rncludmg ga~ . furnace, hot wat«r Rud
tr:'f,'1;.' s.~ nitary appliau ce~. Til e duccess of the scheme·
~- t if- .r!I uu.doubteJ, and a fair return on the inve,t; ec I 'pent hllS also been U8Snred. To those who ditl
· -:; i ~!>t'Jrnow him beneatll t hH • urrace, Mr. Rop<H
!
6r~ap.8 .nppe.ared " ltttlti ronizh, but this
:~ ,. i~~ co,• er. of I\ g"llfJ intent, and a lnrge,
)ii.d : l;i~art•. · as th" diil1lreu uf Orne Squnre,
~ were h.1" bt1>t frt~nd•, will testify. To I\
b_<?
W~11onJ. lo <J r•tr~ >• Mr. lfope.- r•ever Appeared oa
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rod
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it
en~ day, ~nd ruauy 1H1·111l•t-r1t of the fnmilif!s
· ,of. ~1s-auµl, • old emp1u.1· e1·• will be a:uo 11 g bi~
c.E!.r~~J mnnruer~ .
H., ha:l >trong attac b~0E',- an,~,1'i'•'" a trne fn ·••lll ' o those wbom ht>
t-0, hf! lp.~e to ht.m, lJ11t with •qually stroni:
J:lll;!(~e ,naver heM1t:i ted t • d_~uounc_e anyone
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through
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1893,
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BOWMAN - BROWN -At Dorchester, 8th
j Corwin Watkins. Abner H.Church, byand Kath·
inst., at 8tanton-,w enue
Rev. T.
Bowman
arlno Ellen Brown, daughiorot J ob.n 1.-L Brown,
1all of Dorchester.
.
EDGi\R-BRAASTAD-In thls city, nth Inst.,
· by Re.-: Loren B. Mac donald. William Edgar
.
1 and Minna 13raagtad, both o! Boston.
. WING-CHRlSTIAN-At Dorchester, 25th
lilt.. Ill' Rev. Mr. Smith, Dr. John F. Wing a•d
; Marv .Jane Chri•tian.
,
I MURDOCK-WADE-At East Bridgewater,
19th imt.. 'by Rev. Jo~ W. O.ulnby, .Mr. Ge9rg&
IF . Murdo!\k of Stowe and Mtss Abbie · B. Wade ·
: of E:ut Brldgowater.
·
~
1nlti oe.
Mr. l
Lost P
popul'
N. J .,
days.
and w
8quar
Lycou
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·s=.==========:::!:
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to recog
. official
\ !{overnr
ha was
speot, b
. to retur
For y1
\ Ha wall
! former
; bts int
, tho lat
La11ren
' Boston
, at the 1
MARRIAGES.
i BOND-Iu this city, 10th inst.. l."ward P;.
' Bond or West Newlon, Mass .• 68 yrs.
I fT' l!'uneral at the Unita.riJLn Church. West
Newton, Monday afternoon, at 2.15. Bnrial,
private. ' .
·
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DELAJ\'D--At P..Oxbury, 9th \inst.. at hi8 lat"
residtmce, 12 GreenTille street•.Tltomaa W .. Deland. .
· -;.
. ·
.,
~Funeral :from bis late reSidence, at 2.30
·i
P . !If., Sanday; Burial private,_ r.
FULLERr-At.. CharlestoWD.'.·91;h iut., Esther
Hall Fuller, 3 yrs. 11.xp.os., - c!L
. ,
H :\.LL-In thia citi; lOth lnst,,Rich:i.rd Hiteli··
cock Hall, 4 m oa. 6 dys. t •
' t
' ,
I J :\RVIS-lOth inst., Dt, .Tohti Furne1s Jarvis,'·
• W" Funeral servlceR at his late residence, 56·
' Chambers street, Monda.y, 13th inst., at 3 P. M•.
1 Friends reriuested to send no flowers. Burial .
i at Concord, N. H.
\ LOVELAND:._10th inst. , Isaiah T. Loveland,
I 58 yrs.
· l\10RV1LLE-·At Jamaica. Plain, 11th inllt:,
Eunn .. A. 111orville.
' IJT Fun e ~al service~ f.rom her late residence,
. 221 Clrn~tnut avenue, Tuesday, 14th Inst.. at a ·
1 P. M. Burial private.
·
l TUTTLE-At Dorcbeste:r, 11th inst:, Miss
l\I:.ry Austin Tuttle, 8 l yrs_ 4 mos .
, WARD-In this city, nth inst.. S91rah, wife of
·.Thomas Ward, 23 yrs. 5 mos: 27 dys.
k WILLIAMS-At Rox bury. 10th Inst:, Mu, .
Emllv Wlllia.ms, 85 Y'" · o mos. .
"J
, v:ir- Funeral from her late residence•. 81_RQX· . .
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. Mit
:Thurc
iKy.,I
.duad,
crat,
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yesr ~
smal
portt
La.w
play
and
' sea,s.
M1
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ser~
and
Asb
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�SARAH FISK ORNB
Sal
Fisk Orne, widow of Joseph Orne, Esq., and daughter of
the late Nathaniel and Sarah (Putnam) Ropes, born in Salem May
11, 1795, died at her residence on Essex street on Tuesday
morning, March 28, 1876, after a long and painful illness which
s
bore with Christian patience and subn1ission. During the
last
rs of her life the trials of her situation were
rendered doubly severe by total blindness; to her a dreadful
affliction,
rjving her of the power of seeing and freely
conversing with friends to whom she had been for so many years
so devoted
attached. It was seldom 0 howeverv that the
slightest murmur
her lips; her strong and vigorous mind
ret
to the last its serenity and composure. Mrs. Orne was
fron1 families established at Salem in the first
ri
0f its history and always maintaining a high character
in this neighborhood. She inherited n1any of the excellent
qualities that so
icuously marked the characters of the
puritans of
rn1er
Unswerving fidelity to truth and
rel ious faith, tenacity of affection in domestic li ,
i tense dislike of all that was pretentious or false, and a
charitable and kindly diposition that avoided all public notic,
made her the object of deep regard and respect to her family
friends. While her death must be considered only a
ficent release from mental and bodily suffering, it still
brings sorrow to many hearts; sundering as it does so many
pleasing
dear associations of the past, and extinguishing
a name nee frequent and honored in this community,
�~scy:istoric
OHICE A1 i lAMILTON HALL
~~lk'orporated
POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM,
MAS~·.\CHUSETTS
019 l I PHONE 1617) : iS-0799
23 - 25 1/2 BROAD STREET
Built for
NATHANIEL ROPES, gentleman
in 1885
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Research by,
Joyce King
Auaust l q88
H1,tur1t' t;"1h.·..,, Building .. .
:'to prrM."T\'l'
111d t1l 11 \ , t!'-,
~:·,Qd to work for 1111..· l'duc.tt1on of tht· (omn1tt111ty
io the uuc valul 111 the
~amc
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BOOK 6275 PAGE 195
DATE
~'
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June 11, 1976
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GRANTOR (seller)
.
·ff:t*?.
1
Ralph H. Doer infJ!'Jr. ',,,~l·
Trustee of Doeripg Tru•t
GRANTEE (buyer)
Raymond
DESCRIPTION
4 Parcels of real estate
one parcel, bein9:?~23 - 2S
As shown on Pla'?i
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Por
~.~}
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:~t
w. ·.Thibault
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title see deed as
book 6109 page
3.
6109 PAGE
DATE -
October
.,,,
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GRANTOR (seller) -
)•;'
''ji
Ralph H. ooeri
Doering trust
r . relee; se
,;•
'~to
BOOK 5622 PAGE 449
DATE
July 14, 1969
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller)
Fred E. and
GRANTEE (buyer)
Ralph
DESCRIPTION
l
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Land an<
Adel~ne
Doer in~'~Jr.
·.~-buildin~s
'·
E. Winter/
•'t'
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,:;
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being tJ '· same p~emises conveyed to;'
us by dt 'd of Kenneth E. Winter as "
recordec in book~;53 .n page 762.
�'
BOOK 5331 PAGE 762
' -
DATE -
January 6, .966 ~
CONSIDERATION
None liste(
GRANTOR (seller}
Kenneth E:.
GRANTEE (buyer)
Fred E. anr
DESCRIPTION
Land and b
~
(~',•
third parer
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same C<
book 5000 i
-,
BOOK 5000 PAGE 348
DATE
CONSIDERATION
'
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None liste<
~ .~
'r:fi
~
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!!_'Fred .•• Wir :er a;lso knqwn as 'if:
Wilfred E. iinter and Adeline~
GRANTOR (seller} -
;,:~
::.":";
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H.,
• <.
GRANTEE (buyer)
Kenn~th
DESCRIPTION
Two p I:rcels of
·
(The second being 2 3-2~, 2 /2 Bi:oad)
.
,,,_
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same co tveyed by Joseph Bj
as recorded in book 4613 pag~~315.
0
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E.
,nd Barbara ,B. Winter -
l~nd an~: buil~ngs.
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�BOOK 4613
PAG~
315
DA'l'E -
October :· ., ,· 1959
CONSIDERATIOt~
None lis·.·!d
GRANTOR (seller)
Josephin·: B'~ Loon'y
GRANTEE {buyer)
Fred E. , 1~rAdeli~e Win~er
DESCRIPTION
Land and
,;;;,
.;.;;.<.~
-~·:;;·
~~
~it.•
PREVIOUS REFERENCE
-~M
,~ildin~
~
Being a :) )t.~ion C11 the i>r emi "
t~;~ the ~Ub tee~ of
:>n: Nov .~7, 19,l' an
i~~.book:¥2u2 page,?
'
t~'
:{
conveye<
Memor ia.
recorde<
',,.
BOOK 2282 PAGE 386
DATE -
Novembe~
t~·
21, 19lf
• )'::
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con~i~erati'~n µai~~
CONSIDERATION
•por
GRANTOR (seller)
TrusteeB:Qf the Ropes ~ernori
·~:_
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GRANTEE (buyer)
Josephiq~ •· Looriey
.. .
DESCRIPTION
Lana and·IOUildingE
;f.
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
~
·i't
Tne graritea premises ate sho
upon a plan entitled, ~Plan .9i
land in Salem, Mas~., belon~lg to '
the
Truet~s
M~r$al'
of the Ro!es
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to
)
J'ewburyport
Co-op.Bk.
l,
ll~
r1ed. t
A. 'fhalen,
r~
o! Hewbt.r. po. t,
pa: d gra.nt. to
cons1c1erat1 on
M:assa :~uaetts, be1 r.; UJlJllU',.
JrewbUryp~rt
co-· pere.t1ve
ated 1n Newburyport, Eaeex c )un~.y, Kalaachu.sette, w1.t.t mortgag
to secure
~a
s·~v
pa.ymant or
v1<1ed 1n a note
or
even dacr·,
easorl)' corner
t
~~~
ft _,_ b ti 0 ~ 4 .8 it 1 ng company , thence
si ti.';:.:
'. I.~.}
oovenanteWI ~
Pr;f'
w1th the :~,
:e land 1n Hl:'IBURYPORT
1
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tines as
in
bu.11<11nga thereon, bouru1ed ·
.
:&esex county,
iescr1bed as tollo•s;
.~
. . z:
reot on . :.a:-1ea street by lanc1 of
commenc1:t; at the
Peabod.Y Kanutactur-
.. \8
~
ao,_ ut south 350 west by e >..\.d street about twot'
'"k·
o!; 11 .. y (tormerlY 0170:- IE ·our;yport); thence aJ~
roa.s, ten l1:1k.B to l
~'~
bout North 0° Weat by a~ i:l 13. il or 11ley t~ rods, Jne quarter link, ~.
530 Yest by lan '. o:· or rormeri.Y ot Jrathar Poor two rods,
about North
e1g~
•
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tean llnks to land or Isaac Po ;r; thence about llortb 32-io Bast by said l&Z14
l11ll~o
and
ot Isaac Poor two rods, tn:
'Pan.v; and tr.ance about Scu:n
t.
-~)o
teen l1nk.8, more or less, ·.) the p
es conveye,: to me by the
~·
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"f!:l"ryport
or the Peabc1,y Ka.nutactur1ng com-
by land
or sal'. c:ompany e1x rods, Dlna-,
.
~
or ~eg1nn.1I<g.
ae1ag the same
pre~·,_."
o-operat1ve :Ba-:_:. a.roresa1d by l1ee4 4a',';'
ted. llovemb·~ :- 2, l9H t to b
r ·corded l!Brawi th.
to the sa1 ~ mortgagee to·:r
:i •
gage, and
icy
aaJ.d not
or t:.J pertorma.r:ce
u;.ic
1 -.
tra.nsrer a:;d pl~gt :~
,by
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crea 1n tbe ~th ser les Jt 1 ts cap1 tal stoclC
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as collate.:-al security
I ha
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the co:.Ut1ons or th1a mo~t'
sa.14~u:.. o~ seven hundred t1oliafa
'{.
:.tch sharee
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lla.s 'been advanced
• · 1
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dollars.
this r.iortgage,
the rate ot
flla monk2 y
1
t:.e unpaJ.d balance or the
pee-
a.nnum.
~nta ~
ar th11 ',w;
\ ot .an asa1gnmc nt ot1: : t
.
~
In the even.
't
mortgagee.
This
~·.~nclpal shall b•.~J' .+.1·.
mortgage ~e
pon the statut°7
··r ·
co-operatl:
c c.nd.1t1on, ror an;y brea(' r. ot
.Cb the :nortg\'.i'!···,····.·i't!fl
shall l1aVt1 the Sta.tutor:; ·o- lperat1ve Bank Power o; Salt. Wf!lil:SS Icy haZl4.~;
and se1
t
coJO£oF: ra o:r
Essef as.
t ,I
h1.s e1ghteent'1 :ay or JJovember 1914.
i.cary >..
MASSAClL'E :'.l:-3
Bov. 23,
(seal)
an
'.i
TMn peraor.ally appear"c the above na:iad. 'JIJJZ1 "• ~
1014.
Whalen ant'. aclc.nowled.goo
'fh ;
t'orego1ng 1nstrwnent to be her t~ee act an4 Ott&,,
the
0
Jwstl••;r P•ac~ 'f
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.
before ""
'' tt" nlel •· Jon••
tM
J:ssex ee. Received Nov. ; 7, 1914. 25 zz:. past 3 P . . Recor4e4 and ttam1n'4• ·~
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Trs. ot The The True t :es ot the Ro;A' • ~ ·::iorlal, a corporat1on e 3ta.'bl1aher:1 b~ la• aD4 ~1
Ropes Memorial
cated at 3>:i.lem, :&aaex •x :n tJ, Ka.IJ&&ChuBette, tor · c :is1derat1 on pe id• grt.11U
to
to Joaepl t:'.e :s. Looney '. t: qU1tcl&im covenants t .( land and bu1;d1ng1 .on
Looney
1
;f
ac
vote
the eoutharly e1<1a
,.,pr
t~~ ~rtee1 premrr
ot a; )a~ etrea~ 1n 11&14 BALD J•Ju.n4a4 as
.•
•••
tbllolla:
'
____._P_l_an_ n1~-~~~~~oa4 et~~~- r.t th<> •ort~astarly _corll!r :,(
)"i -
SAA-<?~ .....t. r:.~ land or Eartlett then < ru ru.·ngwbt'tir-i)'-b)'--~ .e.tret_\..:.@:!_lltJ.Mrli4 .·.,·-•
...
"'t
._.a...:..,
u~.
tY two and ttllrty tllr" m; d.recltlla tettt (1'2.38'
to l&n4'.'·or
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thence running aoutherl.Y by land ot Ma.n.at1eld eeventy an4 seventy t1ve hUJl-1
'
dred.thB teet ( 70. 75•); t ance turning and runnlng easter]¥ by other le.nd. ot'
·~
grantor seventy eight ar.c ..t1ve hund.redtha teat ( 7§.0&) to a street or
called Orne Square; ther.- e continuing 1n a straight line across sald Orne
square atout twenty tour JJld th1rty seven hundredthB reet
thence at.lll continuing
l
(2~.37•)
and
n a straJ.ght une torty t1ve and t110 tentl:\8 reet
( 45.2• ); thence turning ,nd running aoutnerly t1ve and one tenth reet (5.1);
thence easterly sixteen ir.d eighty tive nullllredtha feet (18.85 1
)
to land
Bartlett; thence turning -md running northerly by laru1 or Bartlett aevent. ·
together wt th rlgbts ot toot pas ·
seven teet ( 77•) to the polnt oegun at.
sage tlve teat ( 5•) wlde over lar.d ot tr.a grant.or runrung :torty tlve and t
tenths teat (45.2 1
)
1
0
to the east trom Orre Square and tltty eight and tour
tenths teat (68.4•) to tte west from Orre Square, as shown upon the plan
harelnafter reterred to, a.r:d leading to the rea.r ot the dwelling houses u;on the gracted premises to be used ln 'o-nmon
reserving to the grantor
1ts succ1 1a:ira and
aru1
-..
all purposes and 111both d1rec~J-_oM be ~wd&Ji-~the
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tr> the
t
grantor a.n4 1ts
a8~1gne
·~·
lcnolfn
·~'tor
a r1ght or
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Ch 1a
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gran~:or
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d. I
. 1uded 1n the
''.
,
!
ar;c1 1ts aucc-3ssors a ld
assigns a right to lay, ma1nta1n, rape- r aJl4 to rel&iY and to
said grar.ted portion or the
.~s15n.1;
:1·
- _tor1,~~·1ri~-1ni~jl~--1 • 1~n,
l3roa.c1 street over that part ot Jla1d or :e Square "
granted premises, and reserving Uso
.
•1th~he
re~ocate
in
Orne Square pl pea and c oMu1 ts to~
d
water, sewage, gas anc1 wires tor tlw t 1.r.sll\1ss1on ot electric pc.1er, heat,
lieht and telephonic or other torm ot • ·-e~trical or)nagnet1c cozr.Jn.nicat1on
~
anc1 a right at all times
t '
f·,>~
r.1 upon the',sald. wa~/
entw 1nto
')
the same tor any or all or tne toregoir
a:-.a to excavata
>urpoaes. >.The granted pr{ mises are
in Salem, Kass., belongirg to the
shown upon a ple.n entitled, •Plan ot la
j
:ru.stees ot the Ropes llemo:tal• by Char
011
A. lletcal.t, surveyor, dated Aug-
ust, 1914, to be record.ad ·arewith.
fl.
TOSS n:IRIOl' tb.8 aa1d corporatic:1
~.as
caused this instrument
~o
Ill
be execu: 1 by Y1ll1am R. Colby, 1ts rice pree-
1.lent, hereunto duly author1 zed, on th1 J tv~ty seventh ct ay ot liovem >er A.J>.
1914.
Eseax, ss.
:r 1steea or the Ropes icemor1al (seal)
1
~
by William R. Colby
Nov. 28 A. D. 1914-. ):
itl Vlce .Prealaent.
Personally appeared the above name4 ·~·1111am R. Coley, V1ce .Presldan
foresaid, and. acknowledged the toregdrg instrument to
.1
d9 ec1 ot the Trustees
or
the Ropes iceror1al
Robert K.
~ahOmey
be tlW
betore me,
tree
aa a-
E :t
a.n4
.
Justice ot the Peace.
Cdrtltlcate ot vote. At a meeting or ~:i.e T~~e~~--~'~C:?!!_~~~l~~,~!'1 __: __ ''?te
at Salem on November twe·ilf-y'-A.~ D~ iei~-;-~--quorwa be1ng present, the orego-
1~ l!'..etrumant was rea4
aru1 1 t waa
duly vote<! that the sa.me be adopt d u
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The Ropes Memorial was stablishe1
Pickman Ropes and Elizc Orne Rope
of trustees incorporatE
in 1912.
aty
a Doatd
by t
The property was bequeathed to th , Ropes
brother Nathaniel Ropes.
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it
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Nathaniel Ropes acquired the pr or rty f rOGl' his aunt, 1rab Fisk
Orne, who died in March of 1876. Mr. Ropes ~Juilt man.:i houses
in Salem, with the purpose of providing ~6de~n, single fa~1il~
housing at a moderate rent for the working: c Lass. He :lied on
February 6, 1893 at 60 years of age.
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Reference to book and page are deed book.;j;:at the Re~ .: try of
Deeds. Probate numbers Are cases at Pro~att- court.
All map~;
in this report are for i~).ustrative purpojes and ar£ r.ot meant
to be exact.
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The land on which this ouse sta1 c.s i,.. ~s once )art of -:Le
"Common land" which was laid out in t 1e first settle11 2nt of the
town.
,,,,
"
"Broad street was so ca' led as e, r ly
the original highways 1 Cld laid ' . t v
boundary being on a lin with th• ::30L
ground, and the town co veyed to the
of the width of the bur in9 groui-.. at
esterly to a point, so hat the l 0us£
Winthrop and Broad stre'°' ts stand i 1 \
street." (Essex Antiquarian, vo:. 4
.s l 7t9. It wa~ one of
·ry wf,de, the southern
-hern1Tsi :le of the burying
idjoinin'J owners ~a strip·,,
tha~?:crn ..:l and running
.-·
at ihe corner of ·
•
iat was formerly Broad ;::.
>9. 9$)
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Prior to the constructi n of 21-: · Br )ad Stre·~t, the land Jwned
by Sarah F. or ne, was o cupied b:, th( shoe·~.1shop of B(~njamin F.
Pickering and a barn ow ed by th( hej: s of,tJo.Jeph Smith. ::
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On May 21, 1885 a per mi was isst ed t. > Nattian iel Ropes t , build
a wooden dwelling house ~or four farnj ies ,~77' X 32 1/2'· - 2
.,:;.,
1/2 stories high at 25 road st.
1886 Broad Street Resid 1ts
23 Benjamin cram age 3
23 1/2 Andrew Case age 31
25 George Bates age 36
25 1/2 Charles Fry ag 33
>:
1900 census
23
Benjamin Cran
23 1/2
25
~
Bertha
"
n
Benjamin
Mary Rogers
Adeline "
Fannie Dolan
Isak Taylor
Sarah "
Cora M. "
Clarence "
•
Walter
Helen
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25 1/2
II
no listing
Je 48, sl · ~ s
Je 44, be r: 1 fi.
.··~ :ie
20, bc~:ke
ase 59, ct i-. ern
age 47, sister
age 28, S( _var:
age 53, cJ :rk
age 47, be n ~
age 2J I t< lepf'.
age 19, clerk,
age 15, at scb
:~ ..n•Je 5, hr.u:.n .. Ma
.c::
lesman, born Ma :>s.
· ine ~fi.
per in .t bank, )Or
·rodery (1ealer, oor
sal~swiman,
, born
bori
re.
~~
ur ni~ur · store, b
Mass
ss. ~
~
•ne oper l tOt I borrf
born~Ma ,s.
.
·ol, ~Ori• Mass •
s •.
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THE SALE)I NE,VS
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BORN.
'.sE~!O:\:'l.-fn ,<;1!em, Feh ;:
. .,
au<J Hcruuce 8cmon•
IAmas:·~d
em-.
-a-;
~rtune
Eastern R. R. Stock.
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Pccnliar Cbarac1 ;istlcs 'Vhlch
Markell His l ' ter Years.
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ter.
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:-:at baniel Rope s, ,. ho died at hf1
t.. •m" numh»r 318 E ·· x street shortly
!,.•fore 2 o'clock yest c lay afternoon, u
,. ll<:d In the late edi " n of THE N&Wll ·
" H
tho· son of Nn I mlel Ropes and
.,.,,,a born in Cincinn 1l, Ohio, Jan. 'n
1-33. Mr. £lopes, 8 . 1ad gone to that
". ty when lt was in i ·" infancy, and had
1• .na~c<ed considerabl : ·roperty.
De«eaaod attendee• .luvard college
:q1d waa grndunted in the clnsa of
.\mong his classm"t' 1 were the late.
i'olllips Broolt! 1_Dr . .J 1mea A. Emmert on, 11nd H.F. wate '"
During hie stay
: n the east, !!t that t' rn e, ho resided wlt.b
'ds
aunt,
~·lrs.
S.
p
Hopes
man: I
'lrn<', · in the oH
, iou on Essex stre<·t, wb1ch house he !
"ubseqnently occu1,i1 d, and in wbloh
bis death occurred.
Returning to Cmcinnati, he eugage,d
in business with his f\tber, which
ness wu the management of a· l4rp
'~nndle and oil ma.nu! 1ctory. Not tab·
~ylng that business, <>r for some other
c;ood reason, he
·
OBIT1:.\R\",
T"'\ '·iO'era
'·
Join
the ,'Silent :Ilajorlt:r.
William ·~· Lumper, one o! Lynn's
most prominent merchants died on
~Ionday, a~~d 68. He h:id b~en in tba
produce business in Lynn since 1850
and was the lest of thq 'well-ltnowo'.
firm of Lamper Brothers.,
Capt. John BiatcbCord, & former well·
known master m11riner a~d a l:alltornla
pioneer of '49, died in Olouce1ter S11n
day, Rt the age of 63 years. He w'ent t~
Call!otnla In the spring bf 1B49 with 11
party, In the schooner Para.ion, remain·
. lni tner~ t1vo years, 1 ~d After bis re·
turn. commanded aeverlll of th• en.Ok
vessels of the Glouces r tlshlng tleet. ·
lnlell1gence bl\& b 11 received at
Box!or~· announom
the · deutb. ·qf
!Jlraw ·1·0,vne. a natl of that village,
i ID Lawrence, Kanswi. Mr. •rowno was
one of t·he original r rty-niners, going
to California nt th" lme of the gold
lever. H" mnde llis pilo" and made &
short .visit to bl!!
t i\·e placu, tben
going to Kans a, bore be hes since
resided.
.
· Hon. Joseph Hob n, for mnny yean
· a leading dealer n d mnnufacturer or
lumber, died Sundn •. He was bnrn in
Buxton, Me., Marc 20, 1816. On Saco
· becoming n city e was elected Its
mayor In 186i. I ~lnine'11 lui;lslature
. he bad represent d 8nco for several
1865: :
bµ"'-·
Retuructl to Salein About 186:),
ancl devoted hims1·!! to the mllnaie·
ment of what pro)"" ty he posseaaed
He resided witli bi' iuut, and contin:
ued to occupy tl:e house after her
clenth, which occt.r ed some 12 or.15
yen rs a110.
·
. .
He became a larg•' 10tder and buyer
of Baateru rallro111! stock when that. .
coq~rat.lon \'Vall au y• tilng but a 1iaying .
I terms.
10st1tutlo11. Desp11.. tbe advice of :
Death or :\lr1. A. ,V. Beckwith.
frlen<ia be COUtlDU•·d bUninii tb!S BtOCk I
Mrs. Ann Wass Jleckwith died at the
beginning tiy payin: 100, aud neve;·\
residence of her daugbtcr, Mrs. Thomas
ceaslns to invest 1 nt tho bottom
E. Wilson, Lowell Mtreet, about 5
notch . or
f2
wu
reached ,
o'clock yesterday eCtcrnoon at ~he
and the 1 upward ,,· ide bad goua on ·
advanced age 1of 91
years
9
for~eorne' time. It 1'l\S. on tbhl stoct· ;
months and 3 days. Tho deceased was
thn~ moat or bis "'' \ tb. was made. H~ :
\ a very estlmnbla woman and WWI held
Wll!I no~ a speculator u· commonly so
i in the highest esteem by all who·
called. payinr bi- c:ertilicatea out ,
, knew her, even in her old age her bright
dght for cn11b 1 and l 1cklng them up ln
, and cheerful manner a11d her watchlul·
his stron~ boz.
·
· nesa
of
others
and
willingIle alao was· an (' tte68lvo dealer in
ness to he!J,> them being not the
real eat.atu. aud hr I iullt and owned ~~I
· least of the ltmdly traits of character
tcnementH on Orn· riuare, besides eHi which endeared her to so many She
e~~l ot.ber houses : 11 •arious parts of the
' possessed ber faculties till the l11st'
c1 .. y. He also h:1d a large Interest rn
and
carried
sunshine
\fhereproperty lelt l· •:
his lather in
e\·er she went, it. beln i: her practlce till
CinclDnatl, and !II r Orne bad left him
; within a short time to take 1ong' walks
corutiderable pror•'r .y.
·and make frequent calla on bet:. numer·
:-.tr•. Ropes bar' ,,ever been Weet but
· ous acquaintances. Her funeral wlll
twice during hla I 1 t er, Ule to attend tho
fun~ ol h.la p: n a~1- He never mar~all:~ p~~ T~~J~@OOn: . ;::;
rled1,.:_-:_ and " · h" - three
11iat.ers
rcal'™'!ll'
In
Jlnolnnatl ·
a:e
r
0
\T.HE-',ll~E NATHAMlEl ~OPES:·\
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. ~.:EarJi.j.m~. in.· Clnebinatt')
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T~:oldeat;
all
,
Rela.tlvea.
heae slster!I',_ llfsa
lloPll',,hu " en.with him uear•n
w1u\er,
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. ·He· was never an active msri'·fo. b11sl·
nesa with others, in tho way of dlr~ctor·
eblps of hnnks or corporations, and it Is
bellovcd tlll\t be IB director only or tbe
Bo•ton \Valer Power c.1mpany, of which
, ho
i~
the
lo r.;-e~t ow ucr.
ll•J wnH n
' 111cmbor of thu 1·;,,,.lt l11Ktitute. llt:
w11::1 not ll churcb-i;oi11!{ man, but bn•l
contributer\ more or le~s tow1uds the
•upport o( the Nuw J.,ru~nlem chun•h,
ont of rc,pcct to tho belief ol hi~
mnther, who w11~ n ~11·nlcnhurghcn.
Hi~ (:ithl'r llncl been an ntl<'ndant nt th•'
Fir~t t:uitnrinn ehur~h.
Simple funeral •••n-iccs will be con·
ducted by He\". John A. Llaycs ol the
church o( the :-;ew Jeru~alcm, at bi!•
· late residence, Tbur~·lay afternoon nt
' 5 o'clock. The remains will be taken
I to Cincinnati tor interment, un: der the charge of his sister.
A
·
~larked
Purson .. llty.
With tho death of N'athaniol Rope•.
one ol the moet prominent characters of
Salem passes into b btory.
His was 11 personality so marked, an
individuality so peculiar, that his pro·
totype may safely be said not to exist/
nor will it, in the oocial atmo~obere o
toda.y and tbo {uluro, be like[y lo bo
duplicated.
As 11 youtll and college man, he was a
well-known cbnrncter, bii?h in the social world, one of a <'oter1e ol as lively
\'ouths ns over !urn is bed the life of bis
partieular set.
As a man, b.i became altogether clltl• ereut. He l>ccnrue more and more re·
tired in hi:< habit~, continui·ng how·
C\"}r, in his lrien<lly •llHI cordial rela·
tions with bi!1 !ormn· •1ssodntes, enter·
taining lh•:m with r.1ro hospitality at
his own house, hut. rarely, if ov .. r, roturnlng- their frlt>ndly visits.
PorbapA lltt:tt l» his unobstru~lve
philantbropby, pe<'lll>arity nud cccen·
tricity, were his moot marked chamc·
teristics. As a phil11ntbroplst. be kl
not bis right hand know what blY icfl
did. Charitable objects were certain o'
bis support, but not 11 cent would h·
give excent under tho solemn promb•
that bis name would never appear 11
connection therewith.
Amonst otber evidences of his generosity, tinged a bit perhaps with bis ec
\ centricity, and the reverence he alway
hold for the memory nnd wishes ol hi
departed aunt, Ml'l'. S. F. Orne, was tl;
fac~ tbut ho kept upou ·bis bounty roi
all the old servants and retainers ol tbn:
lad:Yjand to their second and third goo
1 oration.
_
~· '.Mr. Ropes was ono ol the origiua'
1 members of the Observatory club whc11
a·young man, which bad beadquurter •
. over. Wallace &
Young's
musi ..
store;
nnd
niter
that
or . ganizatlon
disbanded
be
kcr·'
the apartmenta as a private clubroo1·:
i or· office for several years. 'l'llerc h ·
1
met with his kindred sp;rlts aud did
bis talking and smoking.
·:· Re used to be a
\-· F~mll la1' i~hcn re on the Stre.-t
'untJl within two yenra or so. At thn
tlmi11'~• he.,
bad an
attack c.;
h.'',f.. grip,
from
wbich
h·
. -.~ever fully re<."<>verod. His 011111 ·
. ma upon tbe st ree' were o !ton, ",
~ Wll.Vll In company, misinter.
t'.
·~··
·~am
pMed.'
;E
dt;emed ottena1v 1 I
wee but th.a ollt '"
thought and bu· ir·
His gifts In cl •
hlP, aud mn11y"
1 <lc.,ply !eel tbo
wn..i Indeed a rr: ..
:i.C steady.~~
.,.1~ro
tuoumeru.
111 tho olty w1:l
· 11 friend, wh •
need, :ind wh'
iis !{i1·i11g th ·
I
-.vns so circurns:
almost 110110 su·
~<:eking com p1111
:t.
liis station, he ,.
and for tho goo. 1
revere him.
Hi11 end cam· 1
o'clock ye.>ter-lu ·
!cctly comfortal :.
1 with eel"eral fri· ''
' rcco~nlzed with 1
There was no su -r.
· eral breaking ut .
approached, he 1:
nc!is, u.nd, as a \\ ..,l
fell 11sl.e"'e-'1"'>._ _
star~;
•l'!lsttlve person",
...:ldence of d~q.1
.. >gltatfon.
Instead .
1
witb peoplt', f
ut doing goo· ,
i hunJreds w i l
tw
ln1
bo
te1
·1\ly. Up to · l
" •»n he 1Vas I"· c ' il kcd rutlonu I."'
.:1 ol whom l ;~
c~al snlututi"n.
-. but as the gcti·
wbolo systc· 1
"<1 unconsclou,, ·
lild, peaoefull;
ye
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TUESDAY, F.
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PIERCE-MO:.::
by Hov. Dr. H~lo'
Carnllno E.
< '3 ES.
this dty'pllth '.',• t.l
lon·" 11 <1
• ncl11 A.
r
~101~.
RU8d-i>Ol7LE l·
Erer Butl8r. Cha.r
both of ll•><tou.
(
. ·;ARY 7, 189:;,
·Ith lnRt.. by 1~ • .,,
and Ed la M. ~ itle,
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ceutury the bowe of that brooch ol the Rop«.;
,1 \RRIAQES.
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malw a >hort vi•it. ll11t, nt the earne•t
lh!itatiun of his aunt, who Wid at the time :\
:Hl ff~rer Crom a tli~t-a:-t.> uC the t•yett, whicb StJ• n
re•ulted in tt>ll\I bli11d111•<•, Mr. Rope•, alw"·•s
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h~ ha• coutinued to lil'e in thtl •nme old-fa,h
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tingublle1l ~o u1aoy SJ !em familie11 ol tha u'.11
school. 1' e\~er eng.,;..:et..l in act he bu~llk ~.11
'since leaving Cincinnati, where he Wl\9 c1rn1i. .. ·t·
9.j with hi• f.1ther i 11 the rnanufact11r0 tl! 01 I;
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to one uudeviatiug methtl<l of lu•e•tmeut _
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Newlon, Monda' rwrnoon. at 3.16. Burial
; mucb tu the employme11t t.f lir.t clas>1 mecha 11 •
private.
; 1~·.aod to tbtl comfort of maoy tamilie; tlesiri1•g
DEL.\XD-A• ;· d111ry, !lthtinst.. &t hi• late
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fill nnduu~te.J, and a L•ir r.. turn on the trn··
at Concord, N.
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Ii 1:is1.. Isaiah T. y,.,veland.
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11, 1795, died at her l asidence Cl Essex s~rcet"i'on T 2sd~Xr; .•
morning, March 28, 1871,, after·:~''a Jong and%J;>aJ.nfu.l il n ...
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conversing with fr ienc, to whom. she ·had btlen for so :i. nJ.i yef~s
so devotedly attached. It wastseld~m, ho'l.ever, that th4»~; •
slightest murmur escap• j her (l,:ps; ~er st;gpny and vi oq~us i!J.nd
retaned to the last it: sereni.ty an~ comp~Qsure. Mrs ·Jrne .\f~S
descended from familie:.. estabt~~hed '.'at s~( '.~m in ·:the i r:~t. ' j~
period 0f its history '' nd alw"!S rnai,ntai~ · g a high ' har,pctv.
in t~i~ neighborhood. ~he in~£r i tecf man , of th«r.· exc• l le.~t ·~.·.
qual1t1es that so cons; lcuous~ marked t , character of~th ,
puritans of for mer day: . ' unsw.rv i n~f fide 1 t:; to:.; tru n a#d '.~'
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religious faith, 'tenac ty o~ a,,fection iritfdoL1estic 1 t:e,.\, •: ·
intense dislike of all 1
:hat ·was pretentioQs or false and· a·.'"
charitable and kindly < iposition that avotded all pu; l ic· np. J;c,
made h~r the object of Jeep regard and re!J.>ect to he1 Ea8:'i~t!,·
and friends. While he· death must be con,fid(~red,. only a -:· •'.~i
beneficent release fro mental and qodily~~u1 fer~ng, it. .,~il.J
brings sorrow to many . :!arts: sundering ai£ it does so nany ':i'f,
pleasing and dear ass( :;iations of the pa'8t, and ~extir '3Uishfllg
a name nee frequent an. honored in this c~rnunity, ·
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4. DESCRIPTION
FOUNDATION/BA$E-MENT: High Regular Low
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CHIMNEYS: 1 2 3 4
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Entrance: Front/Side Centered Double Features:
Simple/Complex
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Windows: Spacing: Regular /Irregular Identical/Varied
Corners: Plain Pilasters Quoins Obscured
LANDSCAPING
5. indicate location of structure on map below
6. Footage of structure from street
----Property has
feet frontage on street
NOV
1967
Photo
NOTE: Recorder should obtain written permission from Commission or sponsoring organization before using this form.
(See Reverse Side)
FORM - MHCB - 1OM-6-66-943017
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B - BUILDING
LHD 3/3/81
Assessor's number
USGS Quad
25-451
Area(s)
Form Number
1064
HU
Salem
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125
Town
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Central Salem
Address 23-25 l/2 Broad Street
Historic Name Nathaniel Ropes Tenements
Uses: Present
Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1885
HSI Report
Style/Form
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation Brick
Wall/Trim
Wood Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates) none
Condition
Moved
Acreage
~ecorded
by
Organization
Lisa Mausolf
Salem Planning Department
Setting
good
lSJ
no
Dyes
Date
less than one acre
setback slightly from sidewalk in 19th century
residential area
Date (month/year) April 1997
Follow Aiassachusetts Historical Commission S1i:-vey Alw:ua/ instmctionsfor completing this form.
�~UILDING
FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
The four-family dwelling at 23-25 1/2 Broad Street is a 2 1/2-story building which is rectangular in plan. Clad in wood
clapboards, the building rests on a brick foundation and is capped by a hip roof with brackets decorating the projecting eaves.
The facade measures ten bays wide and fenestration is irregularly spaced but symmetrical. Fronted by concrete steps, a
double portal entrance is located near each of the ends. Each entrance is capped by a hip-roofed door hood supported by a
pair of decorative consoles. Each recessed entrance is fronted by a modem storm door with an interior door displaying fivepanels with the upper two glazed. Windows contain 2/2 sash with molded surrounds, storm windows and blinds. Those over
the entrances are somewhat smaller in size. A series of pedimented dormers punctuate the roof; two on the facade, one on
each end and four on the rear roof slope. The pattern of the fenestration on the rear elevation matches that of the facade. The
four rear entrances contain glass-and-panel doors which are topped by rectangular transoms.
TI1e building is setback slightly from the sidewalk. There is a series of bushes behind the modem picket fence that lines the
sidewalk.
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.
athaniel Ropes was issued a building permit to construct the four-family dwelling at 23-25 1/2 Broad Street in 1885. The
land on which this house stands was once part of the "Common land" which was laid out in the first settlement of the town.
Prior to the construction of the Ropes building, the lot was occupied by the shoe shop of Benjamin F. Pickering and a barn
owned by the heirs of Joseph Smith. Nathaniel Ropes (1833-1893) was born in Cincinnati, and came to live in Salem in
1863. He lived with his aunt in the Ropes Mansion at 318 Essex Street. Nathaniel Ropes also had extensive real estate
holdings, and the four housing units at 23 Broad Street were part of 29 tenements he had built and owned on Orne Square.
The units were inYended to provide modern, single-family housing at a moderate rent for the working class. The apartments
at 23-25 1/2 Broa~ Street were leased to a variety of tenants over the years. At Ropes' death, the property was bequeathed to
his sisters who latdr established the Trustees of the Ropes Memorial. The property was conveyed to Josephine Looney in
1914, who sold it to Fred and Adeline Winter in 1959. Ralph Doering, Jr. purchased the property in 1969 and sold it to
Raymond Thibault in 1976 (King 1988).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
King, Joyce. "House Report for 23-25 112 Broad Street", Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc., 1988.
Mcintyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the City 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 City of Salem, Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
../ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
National Register Criteria Statement form.
If checked, you must attach a completed
�Massachusetts Historical Commission
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125
Community
Property Address
Salem
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in 1885 as rental housing by Nathaniel Ropes, 23-25 1/2 Broad Street is a good example of a late 19th century,
multi-family block. The building retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association
and is eligible for the National Register under Criterion C at the local level. Although the building appears to lack sufficient
significance for individual listing, like its neighbors, it would be a contributing resource if the boundary of the existing
Chestnut Street Historic District (listed 8/28173) was extended to include this section of Broad Street.
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23-25.5 Broad Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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23-25 1/2 Broad
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42 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history and plaque program for owners Andrew and Nan Greer, 42 Chestnut Street Salem, Massachusetts, November 21, 1999.
Built for Miss Maria Ropes, 1858
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6 Andrew Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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William Ropes, 1807
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67-69 Dearborn Street
Built for
Charles F. Ropes
and wife
Margaret L. Robertson
c. 1900
Served as the
Margaret L. Ropes Memorial House
Nurses Residence for the
North Shore Babies Hospital
1948-1960
Researched by Sally McMurry, January 2024
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Undated photo, Realtor.com, accessed January 2024
Note: this house was once part of a Ropes family “compound” on “Ropes Point” in North
Salem. The Ropes property at its peak consisted of three large houses plus land: the Charles
A. Ropes house (1856, later the North Shore Babies Hospital, no longer extant), the Reuben
W. Ropes house (1895, now 18 Felt Street), and the Charles F. Ropes house (c. 1900, now 6769 Dearborn Street). Reuben W. Ropes and Charles F. Ropes were brothers, sons of Charles
A. Ropes and his wife Lucinda Whipple Ropes. For additional information please refer to the
house history for 18 Felt Street.
Note: I have used the most common historical spelling for the North Shore Babies Hospital,
that is without an apostrophe at the end.
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Summary
The house at present #67-69 Dearborn Street was built between 1897 and 1907,
probably around 1900 when Charles Fischer Ropes (1865-1944) married Margaret
Robertson (1877-1946). After Margaret died in 1946 the house was sold to the North Shore
Babies Hospital next door, which formerly had been the Charles A. Ropes estate. Numbered
67 Dearborn at the time, it served as a nurses’ residence named in honor of Margaret Ropes.
After the Babies Hospital moved to the Salem Hospital campus around 1960 the house
reverted to a private residence, probably of two units. The two-unit dwelling was converted
to a two-unit condominium in 1983.
Background: Growing up on Ropes Point
Charles Fischer Ropes was born into a well-off North Salem family in 1865. His
grandfather Benjamin Ropes (1772-1845) had been a cooper, shipping merchant, and soldier
in the War of 1812. Charles’s parents were Charles Augustus Ropes, a merchant, and Lucinda
Whipple Ropes. Both parents held substantial property; Charles claimed $12,000 in real
estate and $75,000 in personal property, and Lucinda had $4,000 worth in her own personal
property. In 1865 Charles A. Ropes was reported to have the fourth largest income among
Salem residents. 1 His obituary noted that he “came from a sterling family, the members of
which all achieved success in mercantile life.” It explained that he had “established a regular
line of coasting vessels between Salem and New York, which for some years did a large
freighting business.” Charles’s company evidently worked with other family connections to
bring hides from South America as well as corn and grain from the Midwest. As well, he
worked in partnership with a wax leather manufacturer for a time. 2 He and his brothers
Reuben W. Ropes (the elder) and Ripley Ropes operated a �lour and grain business in central
Salem which later became Charles Ropes and Son. 3
Charles A. Ropes married twice; his �irst marriage (1843) was to Mary Ann Barker,
who had four children before she passed away in 1853. Two of these children died before
their father remarried. The other two grew up in their father’s household. In 1854 Charles
A. Ropes remarried Lucinda Whipple. A year later he purchased property at the foot of
Dearborn Street (from a James Ropes, an uncle) for $4100. 4 In 1856 he contracted with
Harris & Hutchins, Carpenters, to “build a Dwelling house and outbuildings in conformity
with the plans prepared by Emmerton & Foster, Architects” for a total price of $8995.00. The
1860 US Census; New York Evening Post, August 22, 1865
According to Alexander Watt, Leather manufacture, a Practical Handbook. 5th edition. (London: Crosby
Lockwood, 1919), p. 372, “wax leathers” were “leathers �inished black on the �lesh side.” These leathers were
“specially suitable for the heavy hard wear of the mechanic, agriculturalist, and other wearers who require a
boot fairly waterproof, with a certain amouht of porosity and at a low price.” Watt noted that the advent of
cheaper modern chrome process caused some to believe that the “total extinction of wax leathers… is only a
question of time.” Directories and atlases show that Joseph A. Dalton had a tannery on Mason Street. It seems
likely that the role Charles A. Ropes played in the business was as investor.
3 Information on Charles A. Ropes from obituaries in the Boston Daily Journal, March 20, 1890, and the New
York Tribune, March 21, 1890. Ad for the �irst iteration of Ropes Brothers in the Salem Directory, 1857, p 154.
4 Essex County Deed Book 512, page 7, April 26, 1855 (James Ropes to Charles A. Ropes); 1851 McIntyre Map
of Salem showing a J (?) Ropes beyond the end of Dearborn Street
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designers and carpenters were both located in Salem. 5 This house is no longer extant, but it
is discussed in this history for two reasons. First, it gives an idea about the Ropes brothers’
early lives and surroundings. Second, the Charles A. Ropes Estate later became the North
Shore Babies’ Hospital, which for a time owned the Charles Fischer Ropes house at 67-69
Dearborn Street and operated it as a nurses’ residence.
Charles grew up with seven siblings (including Reuben W. Ropes, b. 1861, owner at
18 Felt Street) and two stepsiblings here. Other relatives came and went, as did “domestics”
– usually young immigrant women -- who would have cooked, cleaned, and provided child
care. For example, in 1865 Margaret Flemming, 26, and Joanna Kelley, 23, both Irish born,
lived in the household. 6 The house speci�ications and later images make clear that this was
a grand mansion trimmed with stylized Italianate ornament. It consisted of thirteen rooms
in all and included a main block and large ell, a piazza, a cellar, up to date plumbing (bath
room and water closet), central heating, fully equipped kitchen, and expensive materials like
black Italian marble in the parlor. Ground �loor rooms included “Drawing Room, Library, Hall,
Parlor, and Dining Room,” the ceilings of which were to have a “marble �inish.” Margaret and
Joanna likely used a system of bells: one in the kitchen connected to the front door, and there
were bells “from each of the Southern chambers with the kitchen, all to be hung in the best
manner.” 7
Ropes Family Papers, 1826-1899, Box 1. Philips Library. The 1855 Salem business directory, shows
Emmerton and Foster, Architects, with an of�ice at 6 Central Street in Salem, very near the Ropes grain
business. (p. 161) In the regular directory, William H. Emmerton is listed as a partner in Emmerton and Foster
with a house at 13 Summer Street. (p. 68). Joseph C. Foster is listed as an engineer with Emmerton & Foster,
with a house at 357 Essex Street. (p.73) On page 163 of the business directory there is a carpenter, D. M.
Harris, at 36 North Street, but no Hutchins. Harris is listed in the regular directory as Daniel M. Harris, 36
North Street, with a house at 12 Upham. (p. 83). Augustus Hutchings, carpenter, has a house at 66 North
Street (p. 90).
6 1865 Massachusetts state census
7“Speci�ications of a Dwelling House for Chas. A. Ropes.” Ropes Family Papers, 1826-1899, Box 1, Phillips
Library collection.
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Charles A. Ropes house, later North Shore Babies Hospital, c. 1856, no longer extant. 1927 image, Salem State
University Archives. The long ell at right was a c. 1926 addition; the �lanking shed roof wings on either side of
the main house had been added about 1909, as “fresh air wards” for the young patients.
At this time North Salem was still quite rural, and in fact the property was farmed.
Much later it still had nine acres planted with shade trees and fruit trees. 8 Indeed, Charles A.
Ropes joined in the North Salem horticultural activity by exhibiting more than twenty
varieties of apples and pears at the Essex Institute Horticulture Exhibition in 1876. 9 Barns
and other agricultural outbuildings were added. In 1870 the agricultural census reported
that the 10-acre farm produced potatoes and tree fruit, probably to supply the household.
Three cows produced milk. This operation was run by wage workers who performed the
actual labor. Here the children would have been surrounded by “horses, cows, livestock,
carriages, tools, and machines.” 10 In this environment Charles F. Ropes and his brothers must
have acquired a good preparation for the grain business.
North Shore Babies Hospital Society Annual Report, 1911. Phillips Library.
Salem Register Sept 14, 1876
10 1870 US Agricultural census; Charles A. Ropes will, 1889, Essex Probate Records 1889-90, p 401-402.
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1875 US Geodetic and Coast Survey Map, Salem Harbor, detail. The Charles A. Ropes Estate shows cultivated
�ields and probably gardens closer to the house.
By the 1880s a new generation joined the Ropes grain business and it became Charles
A. Ropes and Son. Charles F. and his brother Reuben W. were employed there as clerks while
their older brother Willis occupied the more senior role of “Son.” The �irm carried on a
wholesale and retail trade in grain, hay, and animal feed, as well as household staples like
�lour, lard, dried apples, and beans. 11 This enterprise was a more prosaic relative to the Far
Eastern trade that had enriched Salem in the eighteenth century. The �irm’s ads suggest that
Charles A. Ropes and Son’s major market must have been farm households and agricultural
retailers in the rural hinterland. 12 The New England farming economy relied increasingly on
dairying and poultry. Farmland was mostly put into pasture and hay rather than grains.
Farming households purchased grain and �lour from companies like Ropes and Son, who in
turn likely obtained most of their goods from sources in the Midwest or South. For example,
among the ingredients in Reuben Ropes’s advertised “poultry hash” were wheat meal,
cottonseed, and alfalfa meal. 13 Another market for the Ropes company would have been
urban: as long as horses supplied motive power for transport and industry, horse owners
would buy feed and hay. Salem and other nearby towns had livery stables as well as plenty
of family equines. The �irm’s goods were transported by water and (later) rail. Charles A.
Ropes used wharves for his substantial �leet, including one just off Derby Street. His sons
continued to use it into the 1890s. 14
1888 Salem Directory, page 898.
Salem Directory, 1905, no page number
13 Philip H. Smith, “Inspection of Commercial Feedstuffs,” Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station
Control Series Bulletin No. 55, December 1930, p. 36.
14 Charles A. Ropes extended the wharf in 1874 (DB 901/222)
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Salem Atlas of 1897, Plate 3, detail. Reuben W. Ropes wharf in the South River off Derby street, center of image.
To the west, on Central Street, see Ropes Brothers Feed and Grain. The 1890 Salem Sanborn map, Sheet 8, also
shows a Ropes’ Wharf off 125 Derby Street.
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Ad for Charles A. Ropes and Son, Salem Directory, 1888
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Ad for Ropes Brothers, 1905 Salem Directory
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In 1890 Charles A. Ropes died. He left the house and land to Lucinda, plus $30,000
“in money.” His sons Willis H., Charles F., and Reuben W. took over the �irm and renamed it
Ropes Brothers. By 1897 they had opened a branch on Hobart Street in Danvers, where
Charles F. worked while continuing to live with his mother. 15 In 1900, Charles F. Ropes
married Margaret L. Robertson. Margaret, born 1877 in Beverly, worked as a bookkeeper at
her father’s business. Robert Robertson, “Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, Agent for Gurney
Steam and Hot Water Heaters, Pratt’s Gasolene [sic] for Light and Heat,” had of�ices in Beverly,
Beverly Farms, and Manchester. He and his wife Helen had emigrated from Scotland; they
and their children resided at 21 Pond Street in Beverly. Two hundred people were invited
there to a reception where the newlyweds (according to the Salem Evening News) received
many “elegant and costly presents.” 16
1900-1947: Charles F. and Margaret L. Ropes Family Home
In 1901 Charles’s mother, Lucinda, gave him the lot where the present house at 67-69
Dearborn Street stands. That same year Charles and Margaret borrowed $3,000 from
Charles’s sister Mary and her husband Frederick Cates. In all the couple borrowed $7,000 in
three mortgages dated 1901, 1908, and 1916. 17 These funds must have �inanced the house
construction. The �irst visual evidence found for the house is a 1907 plan of the Ropes Point
property that was made in preparation for the transfer of the Charles A. and Lucinda Ropes
Estate to the North Shore Babies Hospital that year. Likely the house had been built nearer
the time of their marriage. The couple had four children by 1910: Charlie A, Margaret, Anna,
and John S. Charles continued in the grain business, shifting back and forth between the
original Central Street location and the Danvers store. 18
1897 Salem Directory
1900 US Census; 1899 Salem Directory; 1897 Salem Directory; Salem Evening News, June 20, 1900, p. 2
17 DB 1632 page 44; DB 1809 p 144; DB 2353 p 457. The second and third loans were from Salem Savings
Bank. All were discharged by 1922.
18 Salem Directories for 1903, 1905, 1906, 1922; 1910 US Census
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Essex Deeds Plan (Plan Book 19 page 2) dated 1907 showing the Charles F. Ropes house. The area to the right
of the line running “A-B-C” went to the North Shore Babies Hospital in 1907, DB 1994 pp 287 to 297.
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1911 Atlas of Salem, Sheet 9, showing C. Ropes house next to the new North Shore Babies Hospital. It has not
been established why the area adjacent to North Shore Babies Hospital was marked Lucinda W. Ropes Hrs.
(heirs)
The Massachusetts Historical Commission form for this property characterizes it as
“one of Salem’s rare examples of the Shingle Style.” 19 Architectural historians often classify
the Shingle Style as a regional expression that drew inspiration from several sources. The
Queen Anne lent its asymmetrical forms, use of shingles, expansive porches; the Colonial
Revival offered gambrel roofs, “rambling lean-to additions”; and vernacular practices
contributed the outer envelope of “naturally weathered shingle siding.” Interior plans tended
to be open and �lowing. 20 The house at 67-69 Dearborn does exhibit these qualities, notably
the gambrel roof, shingle-like cladding, and lean-to elements. Though the style was
uncommon in Salem proper, the nearby area boasted many distinguished Shingle Style
houses, especially on dramatic oceanside sites. Inspiration was accessible for people who
wanted to build in a current fashion. This house shared some qualities with brother Reuben
Ropes’s house at 18 Felt Street, but it lacked outbuildings and elaborate grounds. It seemed
more emphatically suburban than rural.
Massachusetts Historical Commission form SAL.1867, 1986. Available via MACRIS.
Virginia McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses revised edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023),
374; John Milnes Baker, A Concise Guide to American House Styles (New York: Countryman Press, 2018), 92
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Undated photos from Realtor.com, retrieved January 2024. Left, elevation facing Dearborn Street; right,
gambrel roof end facing Larch Avenue.
Charles and Margaret Ropes were active and prominent citizens in the Salem
community. They participated in numerous civic and charitable affairs. Charles was
especially well known for his leadership in the Second Corps of Cadets, a local volunteer
militia that traced its history to 1786. An independent entity until 1915 (when it became
part of the National Guard), the Second Corps was a bona �ide military organization in the
sense that it held training, provided coastal defense during the Spanish American War, helped
to �ight the 1914 �ire, and even policed a workers’ strike in Lawrence. It was a large social
presence in Salem; its parades, plays, dances, and band performances made the local
headlines. Membership afforded opportunities for what we now would call networking since
the corps attracted businessmen, bankers, and professionals to its ranks. Charles F. Ropes
distinguished himself in the Corps, joining in 1884 and rising to commanding of�icer by 1908.
The Corps was so central to his public identity that his obituary headline read “Col. Charles
F. Ropes, Cadet Corps Veteran, Dies.” 21
The couple also supported the local Red Cross, Girl Scouts, and North Shore Babies
Hospital. The last would have a special impact where 67-69 Dearborn Street was concerned.
The Babies Hospital originated from the Fresh Air Fund during an epidemic in 1904. First it
was a summer-only service based on Bakers Island, but when the Charles A. Ropes estate
became available after Lucinda Ropes’s death in 1906, it shifted locations and repurposed
the 1856 house for the Babies Hospital. This institution evolved to a full-service hospital for
very young children, with professional care offered without regard to race, creed, color, or
ability to pay. Margaret Ropes played an important role in the Babies’ Hospital Society as a
vice president, secretary, member of the executive committee, and member of the Ways and
Means committee. Committee members vigorously sought donations from among the North
Shore’s wealthy; opened a thrift shop; ran a yearly “Tag Day” that generated signi�icant
income for the institution; sold garden surplus; opened the beach to the public in cooperation
with a neighborhood association; and solicited in-kind donations. 22 As the Society secretary
Margaret Ropes was responsible for writing the introductory summaries in the group’s
21 Emily Murphy, “Merchants, Clerks, Citizens, and Soldiers, the Second Corps of Cadets in Salem,
Massachusetts.” Undated pamphlet, National Park Service, Salem Maritime National Historic Site; Salem
Evening News August 7, 1944.
22For example, the noted Marblehead seed company, Gregory’s, gave seeds for the vegetable garden which
supplied the hospital.
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annual reports. She ably explained how the Society raised funds for the hospital—and made
pitches to potential donors too. For example in 1911 she wrote hopefully: “the need of
suitable sleeping apartments for the nurses has been more apparent than ever this year –
their quarters being very much overcrowded. Here is a splendid opportunity, for some one
who is interested, to found a nurse’s memorial home.” Other events would intervene before
this dream was realized. In 1914 Salem suffered a devastating �ire. Margaret Ropes and her
colleagues stepped in to help the hospital care for �ire refugees. 67-69 Dearborn became a
site for �ire relief work: “Eighty quarts of cocoa was made daily at the home of Mrs. Charles
F. Ropes and distributed at the Forest River Camp.” 23
Margaret Ropes’s work with the Babies Hospital exempli�ied a wider movement of
middle-class women into public-spirited activism. Progressive-era women founded and ran
important institutions from libraries to settlement houses to hospitals. Like the men, they
networked. In Salem, for example, among the Babies Hospital patrons were the Emmertons,
North Salem neighbors who also supported the John Bertram Home, the Salem Hospital, and
the House of Seven Gables Settlement. As well, Margaret Ropes and her colleagues helped to
facilitate the rise of nursing as a respected “pink collar” occupation for educated women.
Trained nurses staffed the Babies Hospital; eventually the Society helped establish a nursing
school geared speci�ically to pediatric nursing.
By 1930 there were signs of change. For one thing, Charles F. Ropes was apparently
no longer actively involved in the family business, for he now was listed in censuses and
directories as a nurseryman. First, he worked in Boxford, then in 1936 he became
superintendent of Greenlawn Cemetery in Salem. 24 Though this was respectable
employment, it probably was not highly remunerative. Under these circumstances the house
(its mortgage had been paid off in 1922) became an important economic asset for the family.
Sometime around 1934 boarders began to appear at 67 Dearborn Street. Converting extra
house room to generate income was a widely used Depression era strategy. It is not clear
how space use was divided, but currently there are four bedrooms on the second �loor and
an additional third �loor room. It does not seem likely that extensive (and expensive)
renovations would have taken place to accommodate boarders, though an ambiguous 1932
Sanborn map suggests that the footprint may have changed from the original 1907 plan. In
1934 daughter Anna Ropes (a nurse working in Boston), Gordon Clifford (“sta[tionary]
eng[ineer]), and John F. Wilson (factory worker) all lived at “r[ear] 67 Dearborn” while
Charles and Margaret lived at 67 Dearborn. In 1940 the census showed Charles and Margaret
at 67 Dearborn Street with two “roomers”: an engineer with Hygrade named Lawrence
Kimball, and a Kenneth Connery. After Charles F. Ropes died in 1944, his widow lived at 67
Dearborn—continuing to have “roomers” -- until she too passed away in 1946.
23 “To Begin Anew,” 1958 pamphlet, North Shore Babies’ and Children’s Hospital, Phillips Library; Babies’
Summer Hospital Society Annual Reports, Phillips Library, 1905, 1911, 1913, 1914; “North Shore Baby
Hospital Tag Day Produced $5900,” Boston Globe June 11, 1918, 7.
24
1930 US Census; Salem Directory for 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943
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Sanborn Map of Salem, 1906-1950, Sheet 70: “New Sheet, September 1932”, detail. Library of Congress. The
Charles F. Ropes house is numbered 67 in this view. Note the “Nurses Home” in the pink-colored section of the
North Shore Babies Hospital. This was the c. 1926 addition seen in the �irst photo above.
Behind these changes was a deepening crisis at the Ropes Brothers company,
culminating in 1936 when Reuben W. Ropes was declared a bankrupt and his entire property
(including his home) was seized by a court-appointed of�icial. Charles and Willis got caught
up in the proceedings too; they defaulted on their mother’s loan for the Central Street
business premises and ironically Reuben, as trustee, had to enter the grounds to formally
repossess the �irm’s store and warehouses. Available research to date has not �irmly
established how such a wealthy family ended up bankrupt, but it is indisputable that local
businesses like the Ropes Brothers faced an increasingly daunting competitive climate in
early 20th century. The shift from sail to steam power disadvantaged businesses (like the
Ropes’s) that had been founded on large sail �leets. Moreover, the grain and �lour business
was also undergoing dramatic changes related to agriculture and food retailing. A deep
agricultural depression had preceded the Wall Street crash by a decade. Global competition
intensi�ied with European recovery from war. In the US farming became more specialized,
mechanized, and capital intensive. As farm output rose, prices dropped steeply, plunging
farmers into an escalating “cost-price squeeze” (higher costs, lower prices for their
products). The number of farms steadily declined. In New England these forces were
ampli�ied by urbanization and high land costs. To add to the stress, urbanites were trading
horses for automobiles, and farmers were swapping out draft horses for tractors; dairymen
found that growing their own silage for winter feed was a better strategy than purchasing
grain. In sum, both rural and town markets for grain and hay were contracting. Competition
from newer, large nationwide companies like Ralston-Purina also disadvantaged local
distributors. Meanwhile the food retail sector was undergoing a major shift to chain stores;
consumers who formerly might have patronized Ropes Brothers for household staples could
now buy them at a chain store, probably more cheaply. Thus, the household market for
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Ropes Brothers goods was probably dwindling too. These circumstances help to explain how
a formerly pro�itable grain business like Ropes Brothers could be forced out of business.
1947-1961: Margaret L. Ropes Memorial House
After Margaret’s passing in 1946 the house entered a new phase in its history. Her
executors sold the house and lot to the North Shore Babies Hospital. This was a �itting move.
Years before, Margaret had advocated for a “nurse’s memorial home.” The hospital had added
a residential wing for nurses in 1926 but with the passing of a prominent supporter, a new
opportunity arose. Now the house at 67 Dearborn Street became the Margaret Ropes
Memorial House, a nurses’ residence for the North Shore Babies Hospital. A building permit
was issued in 1947 to “remodel dwelling into apartments (Nurses).” 25 The residence was up
and running by 1948. A 1959 site plan (Book 5, Plan 93) showed the footprint of the “Nurse’s
Home.” The main change from the 1907 footprint was the addition of two rectangular shaped
extensions to each gable end, currently where the Unit B porch/deck and Unit A entry are
located today. 26 The available documentary record (city directories only) 27 is hard to
interpret for clues about exactly how the Margaret L. Ropes Memorial House functioned,
because the cryptic, unpunctuated wording in directories leaves so much ambiguity. To
confuse matters further, the extensive residential wing at the Babies’ Hospital itself was also
labeled “Nurses Home” on the 1932 Sanborn map (see image above). The best guess is that
the house at 67 Dearborn provided accommodation for a few nurses and a “house mother.”
The superintendents in charge of the entire hospital also were responsible for the nurses’
residence but did not apparently live at 67 Dearborn. 28
City of Salem public records, Property Card for 67 Dearborn Street. The permit number was # 137, April 4,
1947. A visit to the city building department on January 25, 2024 disclosed that no further information is
available besides this number and date.
26 The 1932 map shows rectangular extensions too, but this drawing seems to be an outlier; all the other map
footprints share elements that this one lacks.
27 No record of entries in the 1950 census could be found, and Margaret L. Ropes’s will also was not located.
28 Salem Directories for 1948 through 1962, street lists and alphabetical lists; City of Salem Property Card for
67 Dearborn Street, noting an April 4, 1947 building permit issued to North Shore Babie’s [sic] Hospital to
“remodel dwelling into apartments (nurses).” Unfortunately the actual permit is not available so it could not
be determined just how the building was renovated. The latest year in the collection of Annual Reports for
the Babies Hospital Society at the Phillips Library is 1940, but if later annual reports could be located it would
probably clear up this confusion quickly. After the Babies Hospital moved away from Dearborn Street, the
1966 Salem Street List showed Helen G. Burke, House mother, appears at address 67 Dearborn along with the
new owner, Joanne McManus. Salem Public Library Local History Room
25
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1959 plan of the North Shore Babies Hospital land, showing Nurse’s Home, then called 67 Dearborn Street, now
67-69 Dearborn Street.
1962-1983: two family private dwelling
1983-present, two unit condominium
The North Shore Babies Hospital moved to the Salem Hospital campus around 1960.
In 1962 the property – along with the Babies Hospital buildings and some of its land (Parcels
B, C, and D on the 1959 map above) -- passed to Charles and Joanne McManus of Lynn, who
then moved to 67 Dearborn. The hospital was converted to the Salem Commercial School, of
which Charles H. McManus was President. The 1965 and 1966 Salem Street lists showed the
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couple at #67 along with a Helen G. Burke whose occupation was listed as “Housemother.” 29
A foreclosure proceeding in the late 1960s apparently left Joanne McManus with just the lot
and house at present 67-69 Dearborn. Later on Joanne McManus appeared by herself at #
67, with an occupation of secretary. 30 After 1983 when the “existing two family dwelling”
was legally converted to a “two unit condominium” the house acquired two numbers, 67 and
69, and accommodated two separate households. This conversion process was very common
in late twentieth century Salem. Floor plans submitted to the city during the transition (see
images below) showed how the dwelling was divided, but give few clues about whether
partitions were added at this time or had appeared in an earlier renovation, perhaps in 1947.
Given that the property was described as an “existing two family dwelling” before the
condominium conversion was approved it seems likely that the building already
accommodated multiple households. Since that time bay windows have been added and
other renovations have been undertaken.
1965 and 1966 Salem Street Lists. Salem Public Library Local History Room.
1967 Salem Street List, Salem Public Library. The source is a street list generated for voting purposes only,
so there may have been children present.
29
30
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Plans submitted when 67 Dearborn was converted to condominiums, 1983.
salemdeeds.com
Conclusion
Plan Book 187 page 87,
The house at 67-69 Dearborn has seen nearly a century and a quarter of service. First
it sheltered Charles F. Ropes, his wife Margaret, and their growing family. It must have seen
many gatherings for social, civic, and charitable purposes, for Charles and Margaret were
both very active community members. During the Depression years, paying boarders
apparently helped bring in needed income as the Ropes business faltered. After Margaret’s
passing the house became a nurses’ residence named in her honor and owned by the North
Shore Babies Hospital. It was renovated around 1947 to accommodate this new purpose.
When the Babies Hospital moved to join up with the Salem Hospital around 1960, the
hospital and house were sold. Soon after the two properties were separated and the house
continued as a two-family dwelling, later as a two-unit condominium. These changes
re�lected broader shifts in Salem residential patterns.
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List of Sources:
Note: if not footnoted, primary source information comes from Salemdeeds.com or
Ancestry.
Secondary work:
Massachusetts Historical Commission, site SAL.1867, available through MACRIS, the
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, https://mhcmacris.net/details?mhcid=SAL.1867
Baker, John Milnes. A Concise Guide to American House Styles (New York: Countryman
Press, 2018)
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses revised edition. (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023)
Murphy, Emily. “Merchants, Clerks, Citizens, and Soldiers, the Second Corps of Cadets
in Salem, Massachusetts.” Undated pamphlet, National Park Service, Salem Maritime
National Historic Site. (Salem Public Library)
Maps of Salem: (I include a hotlink only when the site is tricky to navigate or �ind)
Henry McIntyre, Map of the City of Salem, Mass. 1851. Online at Leventhal Maps
Library, Boston Public Library.
G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the City of Salem. 1874. Available online through the
Massachusetts State Library, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/206060
US Geodetic and Coast Survey Map, Salem Harbor, 1875.
Atlas of the City of Salem. 1897. Online through the Massachusetts State Library,
https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/205576
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. 1911. Online at Leventhal Maps Library,
Boston Public Library.
Sanborn Insurance Maps of Salem, Massachusetts, 1906-1950. Sheet 70. Library of
Congress website, select Maps in search bar
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Deeds:
20
The Southern Essex Registry of Deeds, Salemdeeds.com, has digitized all deeds
executed in the county. https://salemdeeds.com/salemdeeds/Default2.aspx
Newspapers:
Author has Penn State library access to search Salem newspapers. Not all the major
Salem papers are included in the databases and they only go up to about 1900 but I
was able to �ind obituaries for Charles A. Ropes.
Charles F. Ropes obituary, Salem Evening News, August 7, 1944, Front Page. Salem
Public Library.
Biographical details:
Other:
Ancestry.com compiles digitized census, vital statistics, city directories, and other
sources.
Hathi Trust gives access to historical publications, for example lists of ships owned
by Charles A. Ropes.
Phillips Library Collections: North Shore Babies Hospital collection, 1958 pamphlet,
“To Begin Anew”; North Shore Babies Hospital Society Annual Reports; Ropes Family
Papers, 1826-1899 (Speci�ications for Charles A. Ropes House, 1856).
Salem State University Archives, digitized photos and post cards collection.
City of Salem Public Records (digital collection available via the city website)
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Property Ownership History
DATE
March 31, 2023
June 14, 2013
October 18,
1990
June 7, 1984
June 7, 1984
(Master Deed)
December 21,
1983 (petition)
GRANTOR
Charles M.
Lipson and
Barbara S.
Bulriss, married
Barbara S.
Bulriss
Richard A. and
Carolyn M.
Maddocks of
Salem
Joanne A.
McManus aka
Joanne Paolini
Joanne
McManus is the
petitioner
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
Charles M.
Lipson
Barbara Bulriss
32563/430
Richard A. and
Carolyn M.
Maddocks of
Salem
7431/142
Alex D. Sivo and
Mary Ellen Kerr
(married)
41500/153
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
This transaction is for Unit B
of a condo unit established in
1984, DB 7431/90, (see
below)
10602/589
7431/90
5130/510, 513,
519 and special
permit,
7321/365
This transaction is for Unit B
and is the �irst condominium
sale.
This is the Master Deed for
the condominium. See Plan
Book 157 of 1962 and DB
4895/1. (couldn’t �ind the
latter) 67 and 69 Dearborn
Streets are thereby combined.
(Lots A and B). Building is
described as “a three story
free standing and unattached
structure and having a stone
foundation, wood frame
structure and slate roof.”
5130 Refers to a Street
Acceptance Plan of 1963 in
which Dearborn is extended
and a portion of Larch Ave.
established. Among those
involved as property owners
are Esther Ropes and Mary
Cates. 7321 is Special Permit
to convert “an existing two
family dwelling into a two
unit condominium in this R-1
�DATE
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GRANTOR
GRANTEE
May 4, 1970
Mary T. Duffy
September 19,
1969
MerchantsWarren Bank
Joanne A.
5680/765
McManus of 67
Dearborn Street
September 13,
1962
April 13, 1962
November 8,
1946
DB/PAGE #
Mary T. Duffy of
Lynn
5639/318
Charles and
Joanne
McManus of
Lynn
MerchantsWarren bank
North Shore
Babies’ and
Children’s
Hospital
Frederick H.
Klein of
Wyomissing PA
and Anna Ropes
Hall of Salem,
executors of the
will of Margaret
L. Ropes
(widow of
Charles F.
Ropes)
4982/25. Later
documents
show a stepped
process by
which the
MerchantsWarren bank
forecloses for
nonpayment
4759/342 and
346
Charles and
Joanne
McManus of
Lynn
North Shore
3515/178
Babies’ Hospital
22
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
district.” The house was
certi�ied in 1980 as an
existing two family house—
see salem city Properties in
Online portion of the city
website
Premises conveyed is the lot
and buildings as laid out
today (Parcel 1). Price is
$36,000
Foreclosure Deed.
Merchants- Warren National
Bank of Salem, holder of a
mortgage from Charles H. and
Joanne A. McManus. This
includes the present house
and lot (Parcel I) and two
other parcels.
Mortgage for the three
parcels, $25,000 in 10 years
at 6% interest
This transaction involves
three parcels: Lot B, C and
Lot D on Plan Book 93 Plan 5.
$15,000
See plan 2182/579 of 1912.
This is when the Charles F.
Ropes house becomes
property of North Shore
Babies Hospital, and is turned
into a nurses’ residence—see
plan of 1959. The transaction
involves more than just the
house/lot.
�DATE
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GRANTOR
GRANTEE
DB/PAGE #
23
REMARKS (price, wording,
etc)
January 9, 1901 Lucinda W.
Charles F. Ropes 1632/43
$1.00 transaction. This is the
Ropes
lot 100 by 140 feet , “bounded
on all sides by land of L. W.
Ropes, with right of way to
same over the driveway
running in front of said lot,
said driveway running from
Dearborn St. to residence of
Lucinda W. Ropes”.
FOR TRANSACTIONS LEADING TO LUCINDA ROPES’S ACQUISITION OF THIS PROPERTY SEE HOUSE
HISTORY FOR 18 FELT STREET. IN 1859 LUCINDA ROPES BOUGHT A LARGER TRACT FROM WHICH
THIS LOT WAS CARVED IN 1901
Property Ownership Summary (in chronological order):
1859-1901: Lucinda W. Ropes
1901-1946: Charles F. Ropes and Margaret Ropes, then Margaret Ropes (d. 1946), then her
heirs
1946-1962: North Shore Babies’ and Children’s Hospital
1962-1970: Charles and Joanne McManus (present 67-69 Dearborn plus North Shore
Babies Hospital)
1970-1983: Joanne A. McManus
1983: Joanne A. McManus petitions to convert an existing two family dwelling into a two
unit condominium. Petition is granted.
1984-present: Units A and B have various different owners.
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1983 Special Permit for condo conversion DB 7321 p 365
25
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1970 Duffy to McManus DB 5680 p 765
27
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1969 Merchants Warren Bank to Duffy DB 5639 p 318-19
29
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1962 N Shore Babies Hosp to McManus DB 4759 p 342-3
32
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Heirs to N Shore Babies Hosp DB 3515 pp 178-180
34
1946 Ropes
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1901 Lucinda Ropes to Charles F Ropes DB 1632 p 43-4
36
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86 Federal Street
Built for
Robert Peele Jr.
Tailor
and his wife
Elizabeth Ropes
1769
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Robert Booth
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Elizabeth Ropes
1769
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