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30 Northey Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built for Nathaniel Appleton, Jr.,
cabinet-maker, c.1809.
Nathaniel Appleton Jr. (1782-1859) was one of Salem's leading cabinet-makers
(furniture..:makers) at a time when Salem was famous for the quality of its
furniture. On 22 September 1809, for $748.14 Abijah Northey, Salem merchant,
sold to Nathaniel Appleton, Jr., cabinet maker, a piece of land on Northey Street
"with all the buildings thereon" (ED 187:261). The "buildings" are not described
further, and may have been a barn, shop, or shed. The lot was bounded westerly
50' on Northey Street, southerly 100' on land of Farrington and on Putnam,
easterly 50' on Northey land, northerly 100' on Northey land. That same day,
Mr. Appleton (and wife Susanna Foster Appleton) mortgaged the property for the
full purchase price to Mr. Northey (ED 187:261-2).
There is little doubt that Mr. Appleton resided here by 1811, for in the valuation
of that year, for ward two, he is taxed on "part house Northey Street and shop
$600 ," with stock of $100 and income of $100. The "part house" tax was
doubtless because he rented out rooms of the house to another, who would have
been taxed for that part. This is the first reference to Mr. Appleton's residing on
Northey Street, but that's because the valuations ·of earlier years do not mention
the streets on which people lived.
The 1812 valuation listing is the same as for 1811 but does not mention Northey
Street. The 1809 valuation lists Mr. Appleton in ward two, taxed for "part house
& shop" $500, stock $300, income $200 (this is the year he purchased the
property from Mr. Northey); in 1810 his listing was the same except he paid tax
for 2 polls (adult males) and $700 not $500 was the realty tax.
Before that, Mr. Appleton was listed in 1806 in ward two and taxed $400 for ~
shop and part house, with $400 stock and $300 income; in 1807 $500 for the part
house & shop, $400 stock, $200 income; in 1808 the same but $200 stock and
-$100 income-both ward two. All of this is inconclusive with regard to the
construction date of this house, but it seems likely that he built the main house to
its present appearance soon after the purchase in 1809, perhaps having removed
the existing "buildings." A survey of the house (second and third floor rooms)
and cellar leads to ·the conclusion that it was built all of a piece .. The
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�underpinning is original, with large hewn beams and joists, and arched brick
chimney foundations (a double arch on the east side). The main house has a
granite foundation on fieldstone. The trim and features (frames, chimney-pieces,
winder staircase, etc.) all date from the "Federal" period, consistent with a date of
1809, as is the general plan and form, being a three-story hip-roof house, five
bays by two. A side two-story ell (currently being enlarged to three stories),
judging from the foundation, was an early addition but had no chimney in it (the
old ell structure was evidently razed recently after a fire damaged it).
Nathaniel Appleton Jr. was a native of Ipswich, where he was born in 1782,
during the Revolutionary War, the middle child of the nine of Benjamin Appleton
and Mary Tilton. As a boy of thirteen or so, he was apprenticed to learn the trade
of a cabinet-maker, and may have been bound to a Salem master. William
Appleton (1765-1822), arelative and a cabinet-maker, had left Ipswich and
settled in Salem; and it may have been he to whom Nathaniel was apprenticed. It
is also possible that his masters were Elijah & Jacob Sanderson, who, in
partnership with Josiah Austin, were Salem's leading cabinet-makers in the
1780s and 1790s.
During these years, Salem rose to eminence in young America on the basis of
international trade: from Salem, the merchants and mariners pushed their ships
and cargoes into all parts of the known world, and they did so with astonishing
success. For a period of about 25 years, Salem was a famous center of
commercial enterprise: by virtue of competing fiercely, pioneering new routes,
and opening and dominating new markets, Salem won a high place in the world.
Basket Derby, William Gray, Eben Beckford, and Joseph Peabody were the
town's commercial leaders. In 1784, Derby began Salem's trade with Russia;
and in 1784 and 1785 he dispatched trading vessels to Africa and China,
respectively. Voyages to India soon followed, and to the Spice Islands and
Pepper Islands (Sumatra, Java, Malaya, etc.). These new markets-and the
coffee trade, which would be opened in 1798 with Mocha, Arabia-brought great
riches to the merchants, and began to raise the level of wealth throughout the
town: new ships were bought and ~uilt, more crews were formed with more
shipmasters, new shops and stores opened, new partnerships· were formed, and ·
new people moved to town. In 1792 Salem's first batik, the Essex Bank, was
founded, although it "existed in experiment a long time before it was
incorporated," per Rev. William Bentley. From a population of 7921 in 1790, the
town would grow by 1500 persons in a decade. At the same time, thanks to the
economic policies of Alexander Hamilton, Salem vessels were.able to transport
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�foreign cargoes tax-free and essentially to serve as the neutral carrying fleet for
both Britain and France, which were at war with each other.
In the late 1790s, there was agitation in Congress to go to war with France,
which, post-French-Revolution, was at war with England and was impounding
American shipping. After Pres. Adams' negotiators were rebuffed by the French
leaders in 1797, a quasi-war with France began in summer, 1798, much to the
horror of Salem's George Crowninshield family (father and five shipmaster
sons), which had an extensive trade with the French, and whose ships and
cargoes in French ports were susceptible to seizure. The quasi-war brought about
a political split within the- Salem population. Those who favored England aligned
themselves with the national Federalist party, led by Hamilton and Salem's
Timothy Pickering (the U.S. Secretary of State). These included most of the
merchants, who were eager to go to war with France. They were led locally by
the Derby family. Those who favored peace with France (and who admired
France for overthrowing the monarchy, even while deploring the excesses of the
revolutionaries) were the Anti-Federalists, who later became aligned with Pres.
Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican party; they were led locally by the
Crowninshields. For the first few years of this rivalry, the Federalists prevailed;
but after the death ofHasket "King" Derby in 1799 his family's power waned.
In 1800, Adams negotiated peace with France and fired Pickering, his refractory
Secretary of State. Salem's Federalists merchants erupted in anger, expressed
through their newspaper, the Salem Gazette. At the same time, British vessels
began to harass American shipping. Salem owners bought more cannon and shot,
and kept pushing their trade to the farthest ports of the rich East, while also
maintaining trade with the Caribbean and Europe. Salem cargoes were
exceedingly valuable, and Salem was a major center for distribution of
merchandise throughout New England: "the streets about the wharves were alive
with teams loaded with goods for all parts of the country. It was a busy scene
with the coming and going of vehicles, some from long distances, for railroads
were then unknown and all transportation must be carried on in wagons and
drays. In the taverns could be seen teamsters from all quarters sitting around the ·
open fire in the chilly evenings, discussing the news of the day or maldng merry
over potations of New England rum, which Salem manufactured in abundance."
(from Hurd's History ofEssex County, 1888, p.65).
The Crowninshields, led by brother Jacob,-were especially successful, as their
hQldings rose from three -vessels in 1800 to several in 1803. Their bailiwick, the
Derby Street district, .seemed almost to be a foreign country: in the stores, parrots
chattered and monkeys cavorted, and from the warehouses wafted the exotic
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�aromas of Sumatran spices and Arabian coffee beans. From the wharves were
carted all manner of strange fruits and blue and red patterned china and piles of
gorgeous silks and figured cloths. The greatest of the Salem merchants at this
time was William "Billy" Gray, who owned 36 large vessels--15 ships, 7 barks,
13 brigs, 1schooner--by1808. Salem was then still a town, and a small one by
our standards, with a total population of about 9,500-in 1800. Its politics were
fierce, and polarized everything. The two factions attended separate churches,
held separate parades, and supported separate schools, military companies, and
newspapers. Salem's merchants resided mainly on two streets: Washington
(which ended in a wharf on the Inner Harbor, and, above Essex, had the Town
House in the middle) and Essex (particularly between what are now Hawthorne
Boulevard and North Street). The East Parish (Derby Street area) was for the
seafaring families, shipmasters, sailors, and fishermen. In the 1790s, Federal
Street, lmown as New Street, had more empty lots than fine houses. Chestnut
Streetdid not exist: its site was a meadow. The Common was not yet
Washington Square, and was covered with hillocks, small ponds and swamps,
utility buildings, and the alms-house. As the 19th century advanced, Salem's
commercial prosperity would sweep almost all of the great downtown houses
away (the brick Joshua Ward house, built 1784, is a notable exception).
The town's merchants were among the wealthiest in the country, and, in Samuel
Mcintire, they had a local architect who could help them realize their desires for
large and beautiful homes in the latest style. While a few of the many new
houses went up in the old Essex-Washington Street axis, most were erected on or
near Washington Square or in the Federalist "west end" (Chestnut, Federal, and
upper Essex Streets). The architectural style (called "Federal" today) had been
developed by the Adam brother_s in England and featured fanlight doorways,
palladian windows, elongated pilasters and columns, and large windows. It was
introduced to New England by Charles Bulfinch in 1790. The State House in
Boston was his first institutional composition; and soon Beacon Hill was being
built up with handsome residences in the Bulfinch manner.
Samuel Mcintire (1757-1811) was self-educated and made his living primarily as
a wood-carver and carpenter, because architecture was not then a profession or
highly valued as a serviee. He was quick to adapt the Bulfinch style to Salem's
larger lots. Mclntire's first local composition, the Jerathmeel Peirce house (on
Federal Street), contrasts with his later Adamesque designs. In place of walls of
wood paneling, there now appeared plastered expanses painted in bright colors or
covered in bold wallpapers. The Adam style put a premium on handsome casings
and carvings of central interior features such door-caps and chimney-pieces ·
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�(Mclntire's specialty). On the exterior, the Adam style included elegant fences;
and the houses were often built of brick, with attenuated porticoes and, in the
high style, string courses, swagged panels, and even two-story pilasters. The best
example of the new style was the Elias Hasket Derby house, co-designed by
Bulfinch and Mcintire, and built on Essex Street in 1797-8 (demolished in 1815),
on the site of today's Town House Square. It is likely that Samuel Mcintire, in
his role as carver, knew and perhaps worked with young Nathaniel Appleton,
furniture-maker.
In 1803, when Nathaniel Appleton was 21 Gust about the time he would have
become. a journeyman), his name was listed among ten Salem cabinetmakers, led
by the Sandersons, who were shipping 50 cases of mahogany furniture to Brazil-Nathaniel's shipment was valued at $226.50 (EIHC 70:330).
He served out his apprenticeship, and on 7 July 1805 married Susannah Foster
Stone, 17, ofBeverly. They joined the Tabernacle Church, an orthodox
congregational society. He went into the cabinet-making business by 1806 with a
Mr. Ives as Appleton & Ives (see EIHC 70:333). He was known as Nathaniel
Appleton Jr. because there was another Nathaniel Appleton in Salem, an older
man who was a merchant. · Mr. Appleton was an excellent craftsman, whose
pieces are highlyvalued to day. In the September, 1933, issue of the magazine
Antiques (pp.90-91), Fiske Kimball wrote about.Appleton's work. One ofhis
pieces, a table, illustrated an article about Salem furniture (EIHC), in which it is
noted that Joseph True and Samuel F. Mcintire carved some pieces for Mr.
Appleton, and that he worked in the Sheraton style.
Nathaniel Appleton (1782-1859), b. 25 Dec. 1782, Ipswich, s/o Benjamin
Appleton & Mary Tilton, died Salem 18 Jan.1859. Hem. 7July1805
Susannah Foster Stone ofBeverly (1788-1883), died Feb. 1883, 951,, year.
Known issue:
1. Susan A., m. 1832 Isaiah Woodbury (d. 1844); had issue; d. 7July1903.
2.. Sarah Winn, 1March1808, m.1833 Henry Hale; had issue.
3. Ellen Maria, 30 May 1816, m. 1840 Francis Brown; had issue.
A new bank, the Salem Bank, was formed in 1803, and there were two insurance
companies and several societies and associations. The fierce politics and
commercial rivalries continued. The ferment of the times is captured in the diary
of Rev. William Bentley, bachelor minister of Salem's East Church and editor of
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�the Register newspaper. His diary is full of references to the civic and
commercial doings of the town, and to the lives and behaviors of all classes of
society. On Union Street, not far from Bentley's church, on the fourth of July,
1804, was born a boy who would grow up to eclipse all sons of Salem in the eyes
of the world: Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose father would die of fever while on a
voyage to the Caribbean in 1808. This kind of untimely death was all too typical
of Salem's young seafarers, who fell prey to malaria and other diseases of the
Caribbean and Pacific tropics.
In 1806 the Derbys extended their wharf far out into the harbor, tripling its
previous length. This they did to create more space for warehouses and shipberths in the deeper water, at just about the time that the Crowninshields had built
their great India Wharf at the foot of now-Webb Street. The other important
wharves were Forrester's (now Central, just west of Derby Wharf), and Union
Wharf at the foot of Union Street; and then, father to the west, a number of
smaller wharves extended into the South River (filled in during the late 1800s),
all the way to the foot of Washington Street. Each had a warehouse or two, and
shops for artisans (coopers, blockmakers, joiners, etc.). The waterfront between
Union Street and Washington Street also had lumber yards and several ship
chandleries and distilleries, with a Market House at the foot of Central Street,
below the Custom House. The wharves and streets were crowded with shoppers,
gawkers, hawkers, sailors, artisans ("mechanics"), storekeepers, and teamsters;
and just across the way, on Stage Point along the south bank of the South River;
wooden barks and brigs and ships were being built in the shipyards.
Salem's boom came to an end with a crash in January, 1808, when Jefferson and
the Congress imposed an embargo on all shipping in hopes of forestalling war
with Britain. The Embargo, which was widely opposed in New England, proved
futile and nearly ruinous in Salem, where commerce ceased. As a hotbed of
Democratic-Republicanism, Salem's East Parish and its seafarers, led by the .
Crowninshields, loyally supported the Embargo until it was lifted in·spring, 1809.
Shunned by the other Salem merchants for his support of the Embargo, the
eminent Billy Gray took his large fleet of ships-fully one-third of Salem's
tonnage-and moved to Boston, whose commerce was thereby much augmented.
Gray's removal eliminated a huge amount of Salem wealth, shipping, importexport cargoes, and local employment. Gray soon switched from the Federalist
party, and was elected Lt. Governor under Gov. Elbridge Gerry, a native of
Marblehead. Salem resumed its seafaring commerce for three years, but still the
British preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812, war was declared
against Britain.
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�Although the merchants had tried to prevent the war, when it came, Salem swiftly
fitted out 40 privateers manned by Marblehead and Salem crews, who also served
on U.S. Navy vessels, including the frigate Constitution. Many more local
vessels could have been sent against the British, but some of the Federalist
merchants held them back. In addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and
artillery. Salem and Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making
. prizes ofBritish supply vessels. While many of the town's men were woilnded in
engagements, and some were killed, the possible riches of privateering kept the
men returning to sea as often as possible. The first prizes were captured by a 3 0ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame, and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted
with one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem privateers, the Crowninshields' 350ton ship America was most successful: she captured 30-plus prizes worth more
than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as
the British captured Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White
House. Along the western frontier, U.S. forces were successful against the weak
English forces; and, as predicted by many, the western expansionists had their
day. At sea, as time wore on, Salem vessels were captured, and its men
. imprisoned or killed. After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town
dry. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British prison-ships and at
Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in 1814, New Englarid
Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to bring the war to a
close and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy Pickering of Salem led
the extreme Federalists in proposing a series of demands which, if11ot met by the
federal government, could lead to New England's seceding from the United
States; but the Pickering faction was countered by Harrison G. Otis of Boston and
the moderate Federalists, who prevailed in sending a moderate message to
Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored.
Post-war, the Salem merchants rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide
trade, slowly at first, and then to great effect. Many new partnerships were
formed . .The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not resumed post-war, as
the middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more powerful and brought
abo-µt civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
(founded 1817). Nathaniel Appleton, Jr., was~ founding member of this
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�organization, whose other cabinet-makers, in 1817, were Nehemiah Adams,
Cotton Bennett, William Hook, Henry Huban, William Haskell, Jr., John Jewett,
John Mead, John P. McQuillin, Thomas Needham, Francis Pulsifer, Mark
Pitman, Elliott Smith, Jeremiah Staniford, and Elijah Sanderson (EIHC 42). Rev.
William Bentley, keen observer and .active citizen during Salem's time of greatest
prosperity and fiercest political divisions, died in 1819, the year in which a new
U.S. Custom House was built in 1819, on the site of the George Crowninshield
mansion, at the head of Derby Wharf.
In 1820, Nathaniel Appleton, 3 7, had a household of ten persons here, his own
family members and at least three young men working as apprentices in his
cabinet-making business. In those days, apprentices, who were legally bound not
to marry until they had served out their time, were usually taken into the family,
domiciled in its home, and treated more or less as sons. The Appletons
themselves had three little girls, Susan, Sarah, and Ellen. In addition to
Nathaniel, there were five men and teenage boys, three of whom were listed as
engaged in manufacturing (furniture). The other two may have been boarders.
The identities of these five are unknown (see 1820 census, ward two p.48/68).
The Appleton cabinet-maldng business prospered, evidently. A few receipts have
survived, showing that in 1828 Capt. John Nichols paid $25 for a mahogany
bureau, $18 for a Grecian card table, $16 for eightfancy chairs, and $4.50 for six ·
common chairs. Joseph G. Waters Esq. was another customer. In 1830 Mr.
Appleton made the mahogany coffin with nameplate for $27 for the heirs of Mr.
Paul Upton (see PEM family manuscripts). These were typical of the work he
did for many Salem customers.
In March, 1825, for $160 Abijah Northey (Jr.), merchant, sold to Nathaniel
Appleton, cabinet maker, a lot adjoining the homestead. It fronted 50' on Lemon
Street and ran back 93' to the east side of the Appleton lot (ED 237:281). Next
year, in July, Mr. Northey for $27.50 sold to Mr. Appleton, cabinet maker, a strip
of land fronting 5' on Northey Street and bounding northwesterly 100' on
Cleveland land, northeasterly 5' onland of Sawyer, and 100' on Appleton land
(ED 242:63). With these additions, Mr. Appleton completed his homestead lot,
and so it remained for the rest of his life, running all the way to Lemon Street. It
should be noted that he seller, Abijah Northey Jr. (1774-1853), a merchantJike
his father, was also a talented marine artist and architect, and submitted an
interesting design·in the competition f~r Salem's new Custom House in 1818 (see
pp. 48-9, More Marine Paintings & Drawings in the Peabody Museum, PCF.
Smith, editor).
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�Into the 1820s Salem's foreign trade continued prosperous; and new markets
were opened with Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and
Zanzibar (1825), whence came coffee, ivory, and gum copal, used to make
varnish. Thus began a huge and lucrative trade in which Salem dominated; and
its vessels thus gained access to all of the east African ports.
Despite these new trade routes, in general Salem's maritime foreign commerce
fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports in Salem ships were supplanted by the
goods that were now being manufactured in great quantities in America. The
interior of the country was being opened for settlement, and some Salemites
moved away. To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered large new
textile mills (Lowell was founded in 1823 ), which creat~d great wealth for their
investors; and in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away
from Salem. In an ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and
to harness its potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and
capitalists banded together in 1826 to raise the money to dam the North River for
industrial power. The project, which began with much promise, was suspended
in 1827, which demoralized the town even more, and caused several leading
citizens to move to Boston, the hub of investment in the new economy.
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt.
Joseph White, a wealthy merchant, resided in the house now called the Gardner-:Pingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his mansion and
stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of murderous thugs;
but the killer was a Crowninshield-(a fallen son of one of the five brothers; he
killed himself in jail): He had been hired by his friends, Capt. White's own
relatives, Capt. Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank (they would be executed).
After the investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem,
more of the respectable families quit the now-notorious town.
In 1832, Susan A. Appleton became the first of the three Appleton daughters to
marry. Her husband was Capt. Isaiah Woodbury, a Salem shipmaster who hailed
from Boxford. 1n 1834 for $1100 Capt. Woodbury purchased a house and three
acres in Boxford from Josiah Woodbury (ED 279:6). This Boxford property may
have been used as a summer place and tenant farm, for Capt. Woodbury resided
in Salem, here at this house (per '1834 valuation). Isaiah Woodbury and Susan
Appleton had two sons, Nathaniel and Isaiah Jr., in the 1830s. Capt. Woodbury
was probably often away from home, commanding vessels on overseas voyages.
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�In August, 1831, Mr. Appleton had a chance to buy a half-interest in a house on
Hardy Street, and for $600 he made the purchase (ED 262:43). The house was
occupied in 1831 by Henry Archer Jr. and a Mr. Kehew (see 1831 valuation
directory). At that time, Mr. Appleton served as agent for the property, on Derby
Street, owned by the heirs of Rev. James Dimond, formerly parson of the East
Church, consisting of a large lot of land and two houses at the comer of Derby.
and Hardy Streets. Mr. Appleton himself evidently occupied a building on this
land as his cabinet shop (see 1831 valuation-directory).
As the 1830s advanced, Salem's remaining merchants had to take their equity out
of wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into manufacturing and
transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals diverted both capital and
trade away from the coast S.ome merchants did not make the transition, and
were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making, and ship
chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared; and Salem slumped badly.
Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8
and the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of ''to the
farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more
Salem families to head west in search of fortune and a better future.
Salem had not prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages.
The North River served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from
the 25 tanneries that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for the~r fellow citizens,
many of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity,
ambition, and hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant
built in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue
vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whalefishery, active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the
manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils.
The candles proved very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and
grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were
retooled for making high-quality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to
Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings
burned down in 1960s).
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�These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road, headquartered in Salem, began operating between Boston
and Salem, whic~ gave the local people a direct route to the region's largest
market. The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the
tunnel under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840.
By 1840, new styles of furniture were in vogue, and Mr. Appleton, now in his
late 50s, evidently had refocused his work away from the making of fine
furniture, since most furniture was now produced using a partly-machined
process rather than pure hand-craft. He chose to go into the business of making
coffins, evidently on a large scale, at his shop and store at the northwest comer of
Derby and Hardy Streets. At home, he and his wife Susan, in their unit, had just
one girl, aged 10-15, probably a servant; and in the other unit were the
Woodburys, Capt. Isaiah, Susan, and their two little sons, Isaiah Jr. and Nathaniel
A., and a maidservant in her late tens. (1840 census, p.259). The house was then
numbered 14.
In the 1840s, as more industrial methods and machines were introduced, new
companies in new lines of business arose in Salem. The tanning and curing of
leather was very important by the mid-1800s. On and near Boston Street, along
the upper North River, there were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850,
employing 550 hands. The leather business would continue to grow in
importance throughout the 1800s. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company completed the construction at Stage Point of the largest factory
building in the United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was an immediate
success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of them living in
tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s, a new method was introduced to make
possible high-volrime industrial shoe production. In Lynn, the factory system
was perfected, and that city became the nation's leading shoe producer. Salem
had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from outlying towns and the
countryside. Even the. population changed, as hundreds of Irish families, fleeing
the Famine in Ireland, .settled in Salem and gave the industrialists a big pool of
cheap labor.
The Gothic symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large twintowered grariite train station-the "stone depot" --smoking and growling with
idling locomotives, standing on filled-in land at the foot of Washington Street,· .
where before had been the merchants' wharves. In the face of all this change,
. some members of Salem's waning merchant class continued to pursue their sea- .
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�borne businesses; but even the conditions of shipping changed, and Salem was
left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller
vessels that Salem men had sailed around the world; and the clippers, with their
deep drafts and large holds, were usually too large for Salem and its harbor. The
town's shipping soon consisted of little more than Zanzibar-trade vessels and
visits from Down East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and building timber.
By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port. A picture of Salem's
sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne iri his mean-spirited "introductory
section" to The Scarlet Letter, which he began while working in the Custom
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House.
Unlike most of his fellow shipmasters, Capt. Isaiah Woodbury remained·a
seafarer, and it proved his undoing: he died at sea in 1844, leaving his widow and
two sons. His father-in-law, Nathaniel Appleton, Esq., was appointed
administrator of the estate. The inventory, taken 3 August 1845, listed the house
and land in Boxford ($850) and furnishings of his rooms in the Northey Street
house, which were front room or parlor, front-room closet, keeping room,
keeping-room closet, bedroom, kitchen, chamber. He may have sailed out of
Boston, for his chronometer ($100) was in Boston; and he had $6222.75 in cash.
Presumably the estate's assets outweighed the debts, and his widow and young
sons were able to live comfortably. They continued to reside here in the family
home at #14 Northey Street. In 1850, per the census, the house was occupied by
the Appletons (including Mrs. Appleton's mother, Mrs. Rachel Stone, 85) and the
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Woodburys.
Salem's industrial expansion affected even Northey Street as, in 1850, a gas
works was built on the bluf( above the railroad tracks. Salem's growth continued
through the 1850s, as business and industries boomed, the population swelled,
new churches (e.g. Immaculate Conception, 1857) were started, new workingclass neighborhoods were developed (especially in North Salem, off Boston
Street, South _Salem, and along the Mill Pond behind the Broad Street graveyard),
and new schools, factories, and stores were built. A second, larger, factory
building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company was added in 1859, down at
Stage Point, where a new Methodist Church was built, and many neat homes,
boarding-houses, and stores went up along the streets between Lafayette and
Congress. The tanning business continued to boom, as better and larger tanneries
were built along Boston Street and Mason Street; and subsidiary industries; like
glue-manufacturing, sprang up as well, most notably the J.M. Anderson glue·
works on the Turnpike (Highland Avenue).
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�At this house, the 1850s appear to have been a fairly quiet time. Mr. Appleton, in
his 70s, still ran his "coffin wareroom" at 80 Derby Street. The Dimond heirs,
for whom he had served as Salem agent for their property, decided to sell off that
property. In October, 1853, Mr. Appleton, for $639 purchased the building at the
comer of Derby and Hardy Street on a lot about 55' square (ED 484:295). This
was evidently the same building that he had been using for years as his shop.
Mr. Appleton's daughter Mrs. Woodbury still resided in her unit of the house, as
did his two grandsons, Isaiah and Nathaniel Woodbury, both of whom worked as
clerks. Isaiah worked in 1856 at Phillips Wharf, at the foot of Webb Street,
where there was a large coal-distribution business. By 1858 he and his brother
Nathaniel were commuting to Boston for their work (see 1857 & 1859
directories).
Having re-established itself as an economic powerhouse, Salem took a strong
interest in national politics. It was primarily Republican, and strongly antislavery, with its share of outspoken abolitionists, led by Charles Remond, a
passionate speaker who came from one of the city's notable black families. At its
Lyceum (on Church Street) and in other venues, plays and shows were put on,
but cultural lectures and political speeches were given too.
Nathaniel Appleton no doubt took an interest in these events, even as he
considered retirement from his business. By the end of the year 1857 he was still
in good health. On Dec. 12th he made his will, devising to his wife Susan all of
his personal property outright, and the use of all of his real estate for the rest of
her life. The homestead was to go, upon Mrs.~Appleton's death, to two of their
daughters, Mrs. Sarah Hale and Mrs. Susan Woodbury, while all three daughters
were to have the half-interest in the Hardy Street house and the shop and land on
Derby Street. Mrs. Woodbury was to have $200 upon his death, his grandson
Nathaniel Appleton Woodbury was to have $100, as was the widow or daughter
of his brother Benjamin at Newburyport. Mr. Appleton contracted cancer in 1858
and died of it on January 18, 1859, in his 7?1h year. His remains were interred in
his tomb in Salem. Since Mrs. Appleton would survive for more than 20 years
more, the heirs did not inherit arty real estate until the 1880s.
By 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, it was clear that the Southern
states would secede from the union; and Salem, which had done so much to win
the independence of the nation, was ready to go to war to force ·others to remain a
part of it. In that year, the two Woodbury boys having moved out, the house was
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�occupied in separate units by Mrs. Susan F. Appleton, 72, and her daughter, Mrs.
Susan Woodbury, 40 (1860 census, ward 2, house 1928).
The Civil War began in April, 1861. I have not found evidence of any wartime
service by the Woodbury brothers (who had evidently moved to Boston), but
Mrs. Appleton's grandsons Joseph S. and Henry A. Hale did serve. At the end of
May, 1862, as news came of another major defeat, the Mayor, Stephen Webb,
called a meeting of the citizens and invited all men to report to the Armories to
enlist and save the Republic. Joseph Hale and many others did so, but the
emergency soon passed, and Mr. Hale and most of the men returned to Salem.
His brother, Henry A. Hale, was captain in the 19th regiment VMI, Bvt Lt Col
and AAG Vols.
Capt. Arthur Forrester Devereux, commander of the Salem Light Infantry before
the war, had drilled them to a point of perfection and took them through a threemonth stint around Washington, DC. Upon return, he helped to raise the 19th
regiment of Mass. Infantry, went out as Lt. Colonel and took with him 9-10 of his
Salem officers (H.A. Hale included) and more than 100 Salemites, with men
from nearby towns too. The 19th was initiated in battle at Ball's Bluff, then
fought in the Peninsular battles, then at Fredericksburg (advance unit), then at
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg. This was the
hardest fighting of the war. The 19th captured five of the enemy's colors. It
fought its way to Appomatox, where one of its captains was killed by what was
said to be the last shot of the war (seep. 204, Hurd's History ofEssex County).
The war lasted four years, during which hundreds of Salem men served in the
army and navy, and many were killed or died of disease or abusive treatment
while imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered wounds, or broken health. The
people of Salem contributed greatly to efforts to alleviate the suffering of the
soldiers, sailors, and their families; and there was great celebration when the war
finally ended in the spring of 1865. ,
Through the 1860s, Salem pursued manufacturing, especially of leather and shoes
and textiles. The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand
houses along Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn
Street; many are in the French Second Empire style, with mansard roofs). A third
factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company was built in 1865.
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�Within the Appleton family, it was felt, by 1869, that the coffin warehouse
should be sold off; and for $1325 it was conveyed to Michael Donnahoe (ED
788:125).
In 1870, when Salem received its last cargo from Zanzibar, a new Salem & New
York freight steamboat line was in operation.. In 1877, with the arrival of a vessel
from Cayenne, Salem's foreign trade came to an end. After that, "the
merchandise warehouses on the wharves no longer contained silks from India, tea
from China, pepper from Sumatra, coffee from Arabia, spices from Batavia,
gum-copal from Zanzibar, hides from Africa, and the various other products of
far-away countries. The boys have ceased to watch on the Neck for the incoming
vessels, hoping to earn a reward by being the first to announce to the expectant
merchant the safe return of his looked-for vessel. The foreign commerce of
Salem, once her pride and glory, has spread its white wings and sailed away
forever." (per Rev. George Bachelder in History ofEssex County, II: 65)
Salem was now so densely built-up that a general conflagration was always a
·possibility, as in Boston, when, on Nov. 9, 1872, the financial and manufacturing
district of the city burned up. Salem continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried
forward by the leather-making business. In 1874 the city was visited by a
tornado and shaken by a minor earthquake. In the following year, the large
Pennsylvania Pier (site of the present coal-fired harborside electrical generating
plant) was completed to begin receiving large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at
Juniper Point, a new owner began subdividing the 'old Allen farmlands into a new
development called Salem Willows and Juniper Point. In the U.S. centennial
year, 1876, A.G. Bell of Salem announced that he had discovered a way to
transmit voices over telegraph wires.
In this decade, French-Canadian families began coming to work in Salem's mills
and factories, and more houses and tenements were built. The better-off workers
bought portions of older houses or built small homes for their families in the
outlying sections of the city; and by 1879 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton mills
would employ 1200 people and produce annually nearly 15 million yards. of
cloth. Shoe-manufacturing businesses expanded in the 1870s, and 40 shoe
factories were employing 600-plus operatives. Tanning; in both Salem and
Peabody, remained a very important industry, and employed hundreds of
breadwinners. On Boston Street in 1879, the Arnold tannery caught fire and
burned down.
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�In 1880, as in the 1870s, this house was the residence of Mrs. Susan F. (Stone)
Appleton, 92, and her daughter Mrs. Susan A. Woodbury; and they were attended
by a servant, Ann Delahanty, 20, born in Ireland (1880 census, wd 2, house 154).
On February 10th, 1883, Mrs. Susan F. Appleton died in her 95th year. "Mrs.
Appleton was one of the oldest members of the Tabernacle Chmch and her long
and useful life has been marked by those Christian graces which have endeared
her not only to her own immediate family but to all who knew her" (per Salem
Observer 17 Feb. 1883). With her passing, the real estate went to the heirs as
specified in Mr. Appleton's will. On 21July1883 Mrs. Susan Woodbury and the
heirs of her deceased sister Mrs. Hale (Mary S., Henry A., Joseph S. Hale) for
$525 sold off the part of the homestead that was the lot that fronted 50' on
Lemon Street (ED 1112:235). Shortly after, the Appleton heirs sold the halfinterest in the Hardy Street house (ED 1117 :225).
By 1885, Mrs. Woodbury was residing here in one unit, and, in another, were
tenants Mrs. George H. Mair, a widow, and her son Arthur, who was studying
dentistry with Dr. Porter at 237 Essex Street (see 1886 Directory). Like her
mother, Mrs. Woodbury had a very long life, and would reside here through the
1890s and into the 20th century. By 1896, the house was numbered 30, and was
owned jointly by Mrs. Woodbury and the Hales.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses
arose, and established businesses expanded.· Retail stores prospered; horse-drawn
trolleys ran every which-way; and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other
specialists all thrived. In 1880, Salem's manufactured goods were valued at
about $8.4 million, of which leather accounted for nearly half. In the summer of
1886, the Knights ofLabor brought a strike against the manufacturers for a tenhour day and other concessions; but the manufacturers imported labor from
Maine and Canada, and kept going. The strikers held out, and there was violence
in the streets, and even rioting; but the owners prevailed, and many of the
defeated workers lost their jobs and suffered, with their families, through .a bitter
winter.
. By the mid-1880s, Salem's cotton-cloth mills at the Point employed 1400 people
who produced about 19 million yards annually, worth about $1.5 million. The
city's large shoe factories stood downtown behind the stone depot and on Dodge
and Lafayette Streets. A jute bagging company prospered with plants on Skerry
Street and English Street; its products were sent south to be used in cotton-baling.
Salem factories also produced lead, paint, and oil. At the Eastern Railroad yard
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�on Bridge Street, cars were repaired and even built new. In 1887 the streets were
first lit with electricity, replacing gas-light. The gas works, which had stood on
Northey Street since 1850, was moved to a larger site on Bridge Street in 1888.
More· factories and more people required more space for buildings, more roads,
and more storage areas. This space was created by filling in rivers, harbors, and
ponds. The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area
between the present Jefferson A venue, Canal Street, and Loring A venue, finally
vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots.
The South River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a
Custom House built there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement of Riley
Plaza and New Derby Street, and some of its old wharves were joined together
with much in-fill and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was
left, running in from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street. The oncebroad North River was filled from both shores, and became a canal along Bridge
Street above the North Bridge.
In 1900, the house, now #28, was the residence of Mrs. Woodbury, 88, who lived
in her apartment with a nurse-companion, Catherine Cameron, 52, originally of
Nova Scotia; and the other unit was the home of Albert huddell, 29, a janitor, his
wife Mary, 45, and a boarder, Charles A. Rogers, 21, ahorse-shoer (1900 census,
ward 2, SD 115).
On 7 July 1903, Mrs. Susan (Appleton) Woodbury died, aged about 96 years.
She was born in this house, and it was the only home she h~d ever known. By
will, Mrs. Woodbury had devised the property to Arthur Woodbury of Utah, and
three Woodbury women. On 28 May 1906 they joined their Hale relatives and
sold the Northey Street homestead to Mary J. Cooney, the wife of Michael
Cooney of Salem (ED 1826:545). Thus, after nearly a century of family
ownership, the Appleton-Woodbury house .passed into different ownership. The
Cooneys had a large family of children, who, as they grew into adulthood,
continued to. reside here as boarders.
Salem's population burgeoned. The Canadians were followed in the early 20th
century by large numbers ofPolish and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily
in the Derby Street neighborhood. By the eve of World War One,. Salem was a
bustling, polyglot city that supported large department· stores and large factories
of every description. People from Marblehead and other towns came to Salem to
do their shopping; and its handsome government buildings, as befit the county
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�seat, were busy with conveyances of land, lawsuits, and probate proceedings.
The city's politics were lively, and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and
smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad
Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other
residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire
crossed over into South. Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of
Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged
onward into the tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire
crews from many towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it
smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down
Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union
Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres,
1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and thousands homeless.
Some people had insurance, some did not; all received much support and
generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was one of the
greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of
Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the
former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and ,several urban-renewal projects
(including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses and
widening old streets) were put into effect.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the
relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many
other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the
present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch
trials, but also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch,
Mcintire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the
homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, and mill-operatives are all honored as
a large part of what makes Salem different from any other place.
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 31 July 2003.
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JOSEPH TRUE, WOOD CARVER OF SALE:M,
.AJ.~D HIS ACCOUNT BOOK.
BY HEXRY WYCOFF BELK~AP.
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JOSEPH TRUE, CARVER OF SALEM
From a Silr.·:>uette in possession of his Desi:endonts
Joseph True, the second of Salem's great wood-carvers,
Samuel Mcintire being easily the :first, ·worked there for
about fifty years during which little or nothing ·was known
about him until the fortunate cliscoven· of his account
book made it possible to determine the c;use of his obscurity and the character of much of his work. The brief
sk~tch of his family which follows will serve as a background for this talented man.
The True family immigrated to l\ ew Englancl in the
person of Remy True before 1644. He came from the
parish of Filsby, County Norfolk, if the compiler of
Sa.co T7alley Settlements was correctly informed. He
seems to have brought no family with him but must have
found a wife very promptly since their son John was
baptized 13 July 1644. His wife was the peculiarly
named Israel, daughter of John Pike.
Henry was granted 40 acres of land in Salem in the
South Field, 17 December 1G49, Lot No. 41, south of the
Great Cove of the North river in the North Field in 1653,
and lot No. 58 on the South river, east of the present Central street in 1658.
The only intimation of what was his trade is the statement that ~n 18 September 1656 the vessel Return, Henry
True, master, was about to sail from Barbadoes. She
was then in Carlisle Bay (not found in the Gazetteer)
bound for Boston with molasses.
He bought a house and land in Salisbury, :Mass., as is
proved by a deed in the Essex County records, elated 19
April 1657, when Richard Korth of Salisbury, for £60
to be paid by Henry True and Robel't Pike, both of Salem, conveys to Henry a house and land bounded by Edward ffrench and Abraham 1forrill and by the gTeen, as
·well as several other pieces of lancl ancl beach in Salisbury.
He did not long survive but cliecl in 1659, his imentory being taken by Robert Pike and Richard Goodall,
10 April 1660. His house in Salem was then valnecl at
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so far as the character of his work went. N eo-Classic
and Gothic styles ·which were then in vogue were poor substitutes for :i\Icintire's more delicate and graceful designs.
Samuel Field :Mcintire, son of Samuel, attempted to carry on his father's business until his death in 1819, but
his intemperate habits must have been a handicap. A
little of his work has been identified fairly well, but he
clid not produce very much so far as can be told. After
Samuel Field's death, his uncle Joseph was the only one
of the family left to represent the name. He was sixtyfour years old when Samuel died and seems to have been
an eccentric character. He had a shop at 6 Chestnut
street and there is record of his having done work at 29
Chestnut street and that he carved the capitals of the columns of the Custom House. He died in 1825, leaving a
clear field for True.
One thing is very noticeable as one studies the account
book, namely that very few important pieces of work are
found. The Peabody house excepted, almost the entire
contents consist of small parts of furniture or interior
finish which explains the ignorance which has prevailed
as to carving clone by him. How much there may be of
more notable items like the ship Oritsoe which are not
noted in the book can only be guessed at.
Extracts from the account book follow:
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The items are mostly made up of small parts of furniture and hence only the totals are given, with some exceptions.
1811 17 Oct. to 1825 10 Feb.
Nehemiah Adams Dr.
1Iakeing or carving furniture or parts $342.51
NOTE:- Nehemiah Adams, cabinet maker, was baptized 16 April 1769 in Ipswich, marriec11Iehitable Torry
of Boston, (int.) 20 August 1802, who cliecl in Hallowell,
Maine, 9 :May 1847, aet. 79, and he died in Salem 24
January 1847. His shop was burned out in 1798 and he
removed to Brown street, but in 1837 he was at 6 Jviarlborough street and living at 106 Essex street.
ROOM IN THE JOSEPH PEABODY HOUSE, SALEM, SHOWING TRUE'S CARVING
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1812 22 Feb. Thomas Huchinson (Hutchinson) senior
Dr. (See Thomas jr.)
Carving 4 small Eagles
$45.15
13 lfar. to 1817 27 Nov.
Nathaniel Apleton (Appleton) Dr.
Carving legs &c.
$23.76
'NOTE:- Nathaniel Appleton, cabinet maker. There
were several of this name and the birth and death of this
one are not recorded in Salem. He was probably of the
firm of Appleton & Ives before 1806 when Nathaniel
junior succeeded to the business and he was at 80 Derby
street in 1837.
24 Mar. to 1817 15 :Uar.
Francis Pulcifer (Pulsifer) Dr.
Carving legs
$33.27
'NOTE:- Francis Pulsifer was born about 1771 and
died 24: January 1823, cabinet maker. He was of the
firm of Pulsifer and Frothingham, Court street, in 1795
when he succeeded to the business.
24: 1Iar. Ephraim Scerry (Skerry) Dr.
Carving 4 Burow legs
.75
NOTE : - He is not identified.
1 Apl. to 1824: 22 Jun.
Henry Hubon Dr.
$326.74
Carving legs &c.
NOTE:- Henry Hubon, cabinet maker, was born 1
.May 1790 in Dominica, W. I., married Nancy Beckford
5 January 1812 and Frances Dwyer 15 December 1818
in Salem. He died 25 September 1864:. He came to
Salem in 1801 and learned the trade of William Appleton (?junior). About 1816 to 1819 he was in partnership with Jeremiah Staniford (q.v.) at the Sign of the
Bedpost on Charter street and he lived there. They
parted company then and in 1830 he was selling out the
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JOSEPH TRUE, WOOD CARVER OF SALEM
business but evidently continued, being joined by his son
Henry G. l!ubon from 1850 until his death.
12 .A.pl. to 1824 18 Mar.
John. Mead Dr.
Carving legs &c.
$216.41
NOTE:- John Mead, cabinet maker, was born about
1787 and married Phebe Davidson, widow, 24 :March
1822. He diecl 21 February 1824.
1812 13 June Jonathan Smith Dr.
Carving 4 Burow legs
$1:42
pd. by order on Goodhue & Warren
2.92
NOTE:- Jonathan Smith, block maker, son of George
and Hannah (Bickford) Smith, was baptized 8 January
1764, married 6 September 1789 Anstiss Phippen, who
died 30 November 1815, aet. 60, and he married 19 May
1816 Sarah H., daughter of John an.cl Sarah Leach. He
died 11 September 1840, aet. 76, and she died 17 }fay
1842, aet. 63.
1816 10 Jan. to 1818 4 Jul.
Urban 0. Adams Dr.
Carving legs and posts
$55.05
NOTE : - He is not identified.
1816 20 Jan. to 1823 24 Jan.
James l!ogckins (Hodgkins) Dr.
Carving bedposts and legs
$8.00
NOTE:- James S. Hodgkins was born about 1797 and
married Eliza (Elizabeth, widow) Ward Brown September 1819. He died 24 November 1825, aet. 28, and she
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He married secondly Deborah McNutt of Nova
Scotia.
8 May to 1829 25 Jun.
Thomas Needham Dr.
Carving and turning legs
$415.19.
Arch~r.
NOTE:- Thomas Needham, senior, cabinet maker,
married Sarah Phippenny 17 February 1754 in Salem.
He seems to have been first on Charter street in 1802,
but took Joseph McComb's shop on that street 11 October
1811 and he had a furniture warehouse at 205 Essex
street in 1837 and lived at 7 Liberty street. His son
Thomas was baptized 3 August 1755 and died in 1787.
He probably worked in his father's shop.
9 Nov. to 1817 1 Feb.
Richard Dodge Dr.
Carving legs &c.
$30.50
NOTE:- Richard Dodge, cabinet maker, was born in
Boston 25 March 1783 and married 7 June 1814 Abigail
Edwards, who died 18 June 1831, and he married 17 October 1831 Elizabeth Curtis, who died 6 October 1858,
and he married May, 1859, Mrs. Mary 1Iasury. He was
at 283 Cabot street, Beveriy, but gave up his business in
1819.
1817 22 Apl. to 1818 1 Sep.
Phillips & Flint Dr.
Carving legs and posts
$71.78
$4.00
NOTE:- No records of this firm have been found.
2 Sep. to 1821 28 Jun.
Thomas Huchinson (Hutchinson jr.)
Carving legs &c.
$49.13
NOTE:- James Bullock, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Crawford) Bullock, was baptized 25 August 1782.
He married 18 August 1816 Eliza Cotton, born 9 Decem-
NOTE:- Thomas Hutchinson, cabinet maker, was born
in 1794 (baptized 9 J.farch), married Nancy Boden 13
December 1818 in Salem. He appens to have been the
9 October 1831, aet. 31.
8 Apl. James Bullock Dr.
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NO. 226~ ESSEX STREET, STEARNS :BUILDING,
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FAST PRESSES, adapted to •very description of Work,frrm a
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If interested in commissioning a written history of your Salem house and
having a plaque to identify its construction date and early owner(s),
please fill in the blanks below.
The fee for a professionally prepared house history and plaque is $350.00.
Please send a check for that amount, made out to Historic Salem, Inc.,
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35. Portrait of Abijah Northey, 1810. By John Brewster Jr. (1766-1854).
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3. Sofa, attributed to Nehemiah Adams, Salem, c. 181 o.
Carving of top rail attributed to Samuel Mcintire.
Materials: Mahogany-primary wood. Maple, white pinesecondary woods.
Features: This is among the finest of the Sheraton style sofas
with carving attributed to Mcintire. As he favored grapes in his
best Hepplewhite carvings, he used laurel leaves in his best
Sheraton examples. The top rail features a basket of fruit and
flowers in the center, with trailing laurel leaves, and flanked by
garlands of roses, with an eight-pointed star punched background.
Alternating triglyphs and metopes are below. On the arms are
elongated leaves, with rosettes above the arm supports and
conventional leaf carving possibly by another hand. Bulbous feet
on front legs. H. 38¥.±", W. 76%", D. 271/2"·
Comments: An attribution to Adams is justified by comparing
this sofa to a documented example made by him for Lucy Hill
Foster in 1810 and illustrated in Antiques, XXIV (Dec. 1933),
2 1 8, Fig. 1. The turnings of the legs are identical in both examples, and the finesse of the bulbous front feet is rarely seen on
Mcintire sofas. Elements of the carving relate both to the 1796
chest-on-chest made by William Lemon and carved by Mcintire
at the Museum of Fine Arts (the only positively documented
example of his furniture carving), and to his architectural work,
especially a basket of fruit and flowers from an overdoor in the
Privately owned.
Nathan Read house, now at Essex Institute.
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4. Table, attributed to Nathaniel Appleton, Salem, 1805-1815.
Carving associated with Samuel Field Mcintire.
Materials: Mahogany and mahogany veneers-primary
woods. White pine and .mahogany-secondary woods. Brasses old.
Features: The turret corners with a carved area below is a
feature frequently found in Salem Sheraton furniture. The
carved daisies are very similar to those on a table shown in Samuel
Mcintire: A Bicentennial Symposium (Salem, 1957), Fig. 43.
The rather crude gadrooning on the bottom edge of the top can
also be seen on a serving table and sideboard (Nos. 63, 65)
in this catalogue. H. 28%", \V. 21¥.±", D. 17%"·
Comments: Biographical data on the Salem cabinetmaker
Nathaniel Appleton has been sketchy. Through genealogical material and records in the family, we now know he was the son of
Benjamin and l\fary Appleton of Ipswich and was born December 2 5, 1782. He worked in Salem at Derby and Hardy streets,
and on July 7, 1805, he married Susanna Foster Stone of Beverly..
They had three daughters born between 1807 and 18 l 6. He was
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(one shown in the Kimball article listed below), a chest of
drawers, a sofa, and a desk-and-bookcase with glass doors, all in
the later Sheraton style. Bills at the Essex Institute show that
both Samuel Field Mcintire and Joseph True did carving for him.
Privately owned.
He died in Salem on January 18, 1859.
References: Fiske Kimball, "Nathaniel Appleton, Jr.," Antiques, XXIV (Sept. 1 9 3 3), 9 0-9 1.
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31 Appleton Street
Built for
Laura Lamprey
& her husband
Reuben Lamprey
Heel Manufacturer
c. 1889
Research Provided by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
October 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Chain of Title, 31 Appleton Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
November 22, 1887 The City of Salem
Grantee(s)
Reuben S. Lamprey of Salem
Consideration Conveyance of
October 13, 1888 Reuben S. Lamprey
David P. Staniford of Salem
"One dollar and
other good and
sufficient
"a certain parcel of land situate on Appleton
consideration" Street in said Salem..."
October 13, 1888 David P. Staniford
"One dollar and
other good and "that certain parcel of land situate in said
Laura Lamprey of Salem, wife sufficient
Salem, particularly described in the deed of
of Reuben S. Lamprey
consideration" said Reuben S. Lamprey to myself..."
Charles F. Lamprey, Arthur S.
Lamprey, Charles J. MacLean,
Alice Blanche MacLean, all of Francis H. Caskin Jr. of
July 7, 1914 Salem
Danvers
July 7, 1914 Francis H. Caskin Jr.
Charles F. Lamprey & Alice
Blanche MacLean, both of
Salem
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
"a certain parcel of land situate on Appleton
St. in said Salem...reference being had to a
plan entitled 'Plan of the old gravel pit
belonging to the City of Salem, corner of
Appleton St. and Liberty Hill road, Charles A.
Putnam, C. E. October 4th 1887' The premises
above described being Lot No. 4, shown on
$107 said plan."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Notes
1212
201
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1234
216
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1234
217
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
Salem, and designated and marked as Lot
No. 4 on a 'Plan of land of the City of Salem at
"one dollar and the corner of Appleton Street and Liberty Hill
other valuable Road,' made by Charles A. Putnam, C. E.,
considerations" October 4th, 1887."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2267
"which we inherited as
heirs at law of said Laura
362 E. Lamprey, deceased."
"one dollar and "a certain parcel of land with the buildings
other valuable thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
considerations" SALEM..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2267
363
William D. Chapple of Salem,
MA, Administrator of the
Estate of Blanche L. MacLean,
otherwise known as Alice
October 6, 1926 Blanche MacLean
Laura E. Lamprey of Salem
"all the interest of the estate of said Blanche
L. MacLean in a certain parcel of land with the
buildings thereon, situated on Appleton
$2,500 Street in said SALEM..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2701
28
Naumkeag Trust Company,
holder of a mortgage from
Laura E. Lamprey & Flora N.
Lamprey of Salem, MA to
William D. Chapple et al,
Trustees under the will of
January 11, 1935 Sarah A. Silver
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
$3,000 SALEM..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3025
135
"consideration
paid"
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
SALEM..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3025
137
"consideration
paid"
"a certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
SALEM..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3219
217
George E. O'Connell, Trustee $1 "and other
George E. O'Connell & Ada C. of Appleton Street Realty
valuable
February 10, 1982 O'Connell, husband and wife Partnership
consideration"
"A certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6907
715
George E. O'Connell, Trustee
"nominal
of the Appleton Street Realty George E. O'Connell & Ada C. consideration
February 12, 1991 Partnership
O'Connell of Salem
paid"
"A certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
10703
407
George E. O'Connell, Trustee "nominal
George E. O'Connell & Ada C. of the Appleton Street Realty consideration
February 12, 1991 O'Connell
Partnership
paid"
"A certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
10703
415
George E. O'Connell, Trustee
of the Appleton Street Realty Michael P. Libby & Amanda S.
July 18, 1997 Partnership
Kennedy of Salem
"A certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
$205,000 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
14217
407
Michael P. Libby & Amanda S. Kevin G. O'Connell & Diane
Libby f.k.a. Amanda S.
M. O'Connell, husband & wife
October 15, 2004 Kennedy
of Salem
"A certain parcel of land with the buildings
thereon, situated on Appleton Street in said
$490,000 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
23506
524
January 11, 1935 Harold G. Macomber
June 12, 1940 Naumkeag Trust Company
Harold G. Macomber of
Marblehead
Naumkeag Trust Company
George E. & Ada C.
O'Connell, husband & wife of
Salem
��������������������1895-96 Salem City Directory
�Inventory No:
SAL.1765
Historic Name:
Lamprey, Reuben House
Common Name:
Address:
31 Appleton St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
North Salem
Local No:
27-232
Year Constructed:
c 1889
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Queen Anne
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood Clapboard; Wood Shingle
Foundation: Brick
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in relation to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate a l l buildings
between inventoried property and nearest
intersection(s).
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NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT ( i f applicable)
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
31 A p p l e t o n S t r e e t , t h e Reuben Lamprey h o u s e , i s a
w e l l - d e t a i l e d Queen Anne v e r s i o n o f t h e f a m i l i a r g a b l e f r o n t house
t y p e a l s o common i n t h e I t a l i a n a t e s t y l e .
I t r i s e s 2 1/2 s t o r i e s
and i s two b a y s w i d e .
The e n t r y ( n o r t h ) f e a t u r e s a b r a c k e t e d ,
h i p - r o o f e d h o o d . A d j a c e n t i s a t w o - s t o r y p a n e l l e d bay w i t h
b r a c k e t e d c o r n i c e s and f i s h s c a l e s h i n g l e s b e t w e e n t h e s t o r i e s . The
g a b l e end p o s s e s s e s f i s h s c a l e s h i n g l e s , b r a c k e t s and v e r g e b o a r d s .
The window o v e r t h e e n t r y and t h o s e on t h e s o u t h e l e v a t i o n p o s s e s s
m o l d e d , peaked l i n t e l s .
Window s a s h a r e 2/2, a r r a n g e d s i n g l y and
i n p a i r s . The s o u t h e l e v a t i o n a l s o c o n t a i n s t h r e e g a b l e d d o r m e r s ;
t h e n o r t h e l e v a t i o n has a shed d o r m e r .
The f o u n d a t i o n i s b r i c k .
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
L i k e most o f N o r t h S a l e m , A p p l e t o n S t r e e t was f a r m l a n d u n t i l
the mid-19th c e n t u r y .
The l a n d upon w h i c h t h i s house s i t s was p a r t
of t h e F l i n t ' s E s t a t e a s l a t e a s 1851; A p p l e t o n S t r e e t had n o t y e t
been l a i d o u t .
By 1874 t h e s t r e e t e x i s t e d and s i x h o u s e s s t o o d on
t h e w e s t s i d e o f t h e s t r e e t e x t e n d i n g n o r t h f r o m Orne S t r e e t . An
1888 b u i l d i n g p e r m i t was i s s u e d t o Reuben L a m p r e y , a h e e l
m a u n f a c t u r e r , t o b u i l d a 2 1/2 s t o r y house w i t h a p i t c h r o o f a t 31
Appleton S t r e e t .
The a d d r e s s f i r s t a p p e a r e d i n t h e 1890 s t r e e t
d i r e c t o r y , a s t h e Lamprey r e s i d e n c e . The house r e m a i n e d i n t h e
Lamprey f a m i l y a s l a t e a s 1911, when i t a p p e a r e d on t h e a t l a s a s
t h e p r o p e r t y o f L a u r a Lamprey.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Salem C i t y D i r e c t o r i e s
Maps and A t l a s e s , 1851, 1874, 1897, and 1911
S a l e m B u i l d i n g P e r m i t s 1871-1889, on f i l e a t t h e E s s e x
Institute
8/85
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Appleton Street
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31 Appleton Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Laura Lamprey
& her husband
Reuben Lamprey
Heel Manufacturer
c. 1889
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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c. 1889, 2018
Contributor
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Alyssa G. A. Conary
Language
A language of the resource
English
1889
2018
31
Appleton
circa
History
House
Lamprey
Laura
Massachusetts
Reuben
Salem
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31 Flint Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Joyce King
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31
Carlton
Flint
Jonathan
Joyce
King
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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310 Lafayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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32 Forrester Street
Built for
Lizzie and Samuel Frank Masury, Tobacconist
1884
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
April 2018
Historic Salem Inc,
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�View of 32 Forrester Street, 1987. (MACRIS 3370)
The house at 32 Forrester Street was constructed in 1884 in the Queen Anne style.1
Queen Anne architecture reached the peak of its popularity between 1880 and 1900 and is
known for its highly decorative accents, wrap-around porches, and asymmetry. This style
appears throughout Salem but is most densely seen on Boardman and Lafayette streets.
Until the late 19th century, Forrester Street extended from 20 Essex Street through what
is now known as Washington Square South. The land that now connects Forrester Street to
Webb Street, like much of the surrounding area, was previously industrial. The area was filled in
around 1872 and steadily transitioned to residential property until 1910. The neighborhood was
highly sought after for its proximity to Salem’s downtown and the city’s industrial and maritime
industries.
1
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Mortgage 1143:114, 1885
�Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts." Map. Plate A. Philadelphia, PA: C.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874.
The house at 32 Forrester Street sits on land that previously extended from Essex Street,
belonging to William W. Kelman. (1828-1896)2 Kelman’s home fronted Essex Street at number
28, but his land encompassed what is now three lots on Forrester Street. 3 Kelman purchased the
land in 1870 for one thousand dollars from Hephsibeth Kelman, who appears to be his widowed,
paternal grandmother. 4 In the 1874 Salem Directory William’s father, John H. Kelman (a
mariner) and his grandmother, Mrs. John Kelman, (Hephsibeth) are listed at 28 Essex Street, with
Also appears as Kellman and Kilman
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts." Map. 11. Philadelphia, PA: C.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874.
4
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 808:289, 1870
2
3
�William living on Bridge Street.5
Between 1855 and 1879, William, his wife Martha, son William Jr. (listed as a Harvard
student), and daughter Nellie are recorded as owning over twenty investment properties in
Salem and the surrounding towns. According to the Boston Globe, both William and his son
William Jr. died under suspicious circumstances. William Jr. passing first, in 1877 and William Sr.
in 1896.6
In 1864 William W. Kelman split his land between Essex and Forrester streets,
transferring ownership of the parcel abutting Forrester Street to Daniel C. Manning, (1807-1882)
while his parents remained on the Essex Street side.7 Manning was part-owner of Smith &
Manning Co., a livery, which in 1866 had stables on Essex, Hamilton, and Washington Streets.8
Daniel C. Manning and his wife Louisa (Lucy) Massey lived at 62 Forrester Street (now
Washington Square South) with their two daughters, Anna and Mary.
The Masury Family, 1884-1915
In June 1884 William Kelman sold the land now known as 32 Forrester Street to Lizzie W.
(Marshall) Masury (c. 1856-1889) for five-hundred dollars. 9 The following January, Lizzie and her
husband Samuel Frank Masury (1853-1919) applied for a mortgage of fifteen hundred dollars
from Salem Savings Bank, this mortgage is the first mention of a “dwelling house” on the
property.10 The house would be known as 17 Forrester Street until the street was renumbered
between 1894-1895. In 1886 the Masurys expanded their land by purchasing an additional plot
from the estate of Daniel C. Manning for seven hundred dollars. 11 It is thought that the Masury’s
discovered an issue with the land boundaries during the construction of the home, having to
then appeal to both Manning and previous owner, Kelman, for deeds to the land.
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1874
The Boston Daily Globe, “Salem,” January 19, 1877 and The Boston Daily Globe, “Little Done in Leroyd Case”
November 14, 1896 – see attached
7
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 664:60, 1864
8
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1866
9
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 1132:4, 1884
10
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 1143:114, 1885
11
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 1187:255, 1886
5
6
�Samuel Frank Masury, commonly known as S. Frank, was a tobacconist, as was his father
Thomas and older brother John.12 In the second half of the 19th century, Masury & Co. cigar
shops are listed in multiple locations in Salem including, Essex Street, St. Peters Street,
Washington Street, and Cabot Street in Beverly.13
In June 1889, Lizzie Masury passed away at the age of 32. No details of her death are
known, but a will was submitted in probate, in her name, the previous July, implying she may
have been ill for some time. In February 1891, S. Frank married Ruth Jewett Mackenzie, (c. 18611933) a clerk from Essex, Massachusetts.14 The two had a daughter, Pauline Baldwin Masury, in
1893. In 1895 the family relocated to Poplar Street in Danvers, renting the Forrester Street
home.15 The Masury’s returned to 32 Forrester Street in 1908 and remained until July 1915
when the house was sold to Mrs. Daisy E. Jackman.16
The Jackman Family, 1915-1916
Daisy E. (Hill) Jackman (c. 1878 – 1955) was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1878 and
immigrated to America in 1888. On June 8, 1896, while working as a nurse, she married Arthur
Everette Jackman, an electrician from Peabody. 17 Around 1899 the couple welcomed their first
child, a daughter, Ruth. By 1901 the couple moved from Peabody to 27 Warren Street in Salem,
where Arthur worked as an electrician and substitute letter carrier.18 From here it is unclear
what happens to Arthur Jackson. The 1903 Salem Directory, states that he had moved to
Pittsburg Pennsylvania. It is possible that Daisy and Ruth followed. In 1905, their second
daughter Pauline was born, her birthplace is listed as Connecticut. The Jackman family reappears
Massachusetts State Census, 1855
Appears in Salem City Directories as follows: 1878 at 9 St. Peters Street, 1879 at 142 Essex, 1884-1888 at 192
Essex Street, 1893-1894 at 184 Essex Street, 1888 at 150 Cabot Street, Beverly, and 1901 at 99 Washington Street.
14
Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston,
Massachusetts. Salem, 469:41.
15
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1895
16
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 2301:506, 1915
17
Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston,
Massachusetts. Salem, 524:8, 1896
18
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1901
12
13
�in Salem in the 1910 Census, renting a home on Boardman Street. Pauline does not appear in
this record, but Daisy is listed as a mother of two. The following year, Daisy appears in the Salem
Directory, implying that Arthur was no longer head of household. Daisy remains on Boardman
Street until July 1915, when she purchased 32 Forrester from Ruth Masury. On the deed, Daisy is
listed as “having no husband.” Less than a year later Daisy sold the home to Mary and Frank
Wright but continued to live there, with the Wright family, until 1918 when she married Silas
Boyce, who lived on Bridge Street. The new couple welcomed a daughter, Alice, the following
year.
The Wright Family, 1916-1931
Frank B. Wright (1843-1918) was born in Troy, New Hampshire in 1843 to inn-keepers,
Solomon and Polina Wright. In January 1888, while working as a clerk at Central House, on
Washington Street in Salem, Frank married Mary V. Keating, (1867-1927) a waitress, from
Biddeford, Maine.19 The following year the couple had a daughter, Ethel, followed by another
daughter, Marion, in 1892. By 1910, Frank B. Wright was the keeper of a boarding house at 19
Lynde Street before moving in with Daisy Jackman in 1916.20 Around 1918, Frank passed away,
leaving Mary and their two daughters in the 32 Forrester Street home.
Over the next few years, the Wright family hosted boarders including Samuel Webb,
(1858-1945) a widowed, clothing salesman. Samuel Webb was born the youngest of seven
children belonging to Henry and Rebecca Webb.21 The family lived at 22 Hardy Street and Henry
supported the family as a brick mason. Samuel lived with his family on Hardy Street until 1881,
when he married Dolly Potter Ashby. (1857-1905) Two years later, Dolly gave birth to their only
child, a son, Frank Randall Webb. (1883-1960)22 The Webb family lived at 8 Harmony Street in
Salem until 1905 when Dolly died of tuberculosis.23 Frank would soon marry, moving to Boston.
Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston,
Massachusetts. Salem, 1888
20
Massachusetts State Census, 1910
21
Massachusetts. 1855–1865 Massachusetts State Census [microform]. New England Historic Genealogical Society,
Boston, Massachusetts.
22
1900; Census Place: Salem Ward 6, Essex, Massachusetts; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0461
23
Find a Grave database and images, (findagrave.com: accessed April 9, 2018), memorial page for Dolly H. Ashby
(1857-1905), Find a Grave Memorial No. 112291870. Greenlawn Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts.
19
�Samuel then lodged in various homes in Salem before boarding with Ethel and Marion Wright
(1889-1964) at 32 Forrester Street. In 1931, The Wright daughters sold the home to Alice and
Alphonse Bachorowski for $4,500.24
The Bachorowski Family 1931-1985
Alphonse Sylvester Bachorowski (1898-1972) was born in New Jersey to Maryanna and
Zygmunt (Zigmund) Bachorowski, Polish immigrants.25 Around 1900, the family, of at least seven
children, settled in Salem’s Historic Derby Street Neighborhood, living on Herbert Street and
later Hardy Street. In the early 20th century, Derby Street was a predominently Polish
neighborhood. Attracted to job oppertunties in the city’s mills and factories, Polish immigrants
began arriving in Salem around 1890. This was true of Alphonse’s father, Zigmund, who worked
in a tannery as a morocco finisher. By 1911, Poles comprised about 8% of Salem’s population.
By 1922 Alphonse had graduated from St. John’s Preparatory School and earned a law
degree from Boston University. In 1926, Alphonse married Alice H. Kowalski. (1900-1995) In
January 1931, an article by Alphonse titled “Seventy years in Salem” was published in Poland
magazine, discussing the history of Poles in Salem. Around this same time Alphonse presented
his research at Salem’s Essex Institute.26 That same year, Alphonse and Alice purchased the
home at 32 Forrester Street. 27
The couple had two children, Joseph Alphonse and Albert Leon. The Bachorowskis
remained in the home for several decades. After Alphonse passed away in 1972, Alice continued
to reside in the home for another thirteen years. In 1985 she sold the home John and Kim Masiz
for $135,000.28
verified by, New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records,
1840–1911
24
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 2885;67, 1931
25
Year: 1910; Census Place: Salem Ward 1, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_587; Page: 15B; Enumeration District:
0455; FHL microfilm: 1374600
26
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Essex County Collection, Bachorowski, Alphonse,
Seventy years in Salem, 1931.
27
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 2885;67, 1931
28
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts, Deed 7956:254, 1985
�Owners
Years of Ownership
Number of Years
Purchase Price
The Masurys
1884-1915
31
$1,500
The Jackman Family
1915-1916
1
Unknown
The Wright Family
1916-1931
15
$600
The Bachorowski Family
1931-1985
54
$4,500
The Masiz Family
1985-1988
3
$135,000
The Silverman Family
1988-1996
8
$190,000
The Miller Family
1996-2003
6
$193,000
The Sinclair Family
2003-2017
14
$469,000
17 Forrester Street
Resident Listed in Directory
1886-1893
S. Frank Masury
32 Forrester Street
1895
George Richardson
1897
Vacant
1899-1907
Henry H. Richards
1908-1914
S. Frank Masury
1915
Mrs. Daisy Jackman
1916-1916
Mrs. Daisy Jackman and Frank B. Wright
1918-1926
Mrs. Mary V. Wright
1929-31
Samuel Webb and Ethel Wright
1932-1959
Alphonse Bachorowski
�Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts." Map. Plate A. Philadelphia, PA: C.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874.
�. "Map of Salem, Mass." Map. 12. New York, NY: Sanborn Map Co., 1890-1903
�. Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1874
�1860 Federal Census
�Boston Daily Globe, January 19, 1877
�The Boston Daily Globe, November 14, 1896
�“Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.” Map. 12. Sanborn Insurance Co. 1890
�Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1886
�City of Salem Atlas, Walker Lithograph and Publisher, Boston, 1911. Plate 5.
�Grave of Dolly P. Ashby Webb, wife of Samuel Webb. Greenlawn Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com
(Memorial ID: 112291870)
�Death Certificate – Dolly P. Webb (1857-1905)
New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911
�Grave of Mary and Ethel Wright, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com
(Memorial ID: 145601455)
�Grave of Mary and Ethel Wright, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com
(Memorial ID: 145601455)
�Grave of Alice and Alphonse Bachorowski, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, findagrave.com
(Memorial ID: 157232630)
�Grave of Alice and Alphonse Bachorowski, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, findagrave.com
(Memorial ID: 157232630)
�Wilczenski, Felicia L., and Emily A. Murphy. The Polish Community of Salem. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2012. pg 25
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pg. 34
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Forrester Street
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32 Forrester Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
Lizzie and Samuel Frank Masury
Tobacconist
1884
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1884, 2018
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Jen Ratliff
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English
1884
2018
32
Forrester
Frank
History
House
Lizzie
Massachusetts
Masury
Salem
Samuel
Street
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Flint Street
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33 Flint Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built by William Ives, printer
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1855, 1981
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English
33
Flint
Ives
Joyce
King
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
William
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Williams Street
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33 Williams Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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1894
2016
33
around
Cynthia
E.
History
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Lovell
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Williams
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34 Summer Street
Built by
John Perkins
Housewright
c. 1839
Research by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
July 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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�Chain of Title, 34 Summer Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
John H. Stone of Calais, ME and
John Perkins of Salem,
May 13, 1839 Lucy P. & Henry O. Stone of Salem Housewright
August 12, 1845 John Perkins of Salem
Benjamin Cox & Francis Cox, both
of Salem
Joseph B. F. Osgood, John
Pickering, & Edward C. Browne,
Executors under the will of Francis
March 28, 1899 Cox, late of Salem
Alice Browne of Salem
April 26, 1899 Alice Browne, unmarried, of Salem Edward C. Browne of Salem
Charlotte C. Browne, widow, of
January 15, 1917 Cambridge
August 22, 1957 Rebecca C. Putnam of Salem
Alfred E. Chase, Executor under
the will of Everett H. Black, late of
July 13, 1965 Salem
Robert E. Michaud & Yvonne F.
October 16, 1968 Michaud of Salem
Consideration Conveyance of
Source
Document
"a lot of land in Salem bounded as follows:
Beginning at the Northwest corner of it by land
$935 now sold to Luther Upton 25 feet 2 inches..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
"All that piece of land situate in said Salem...
Said land is situate on Chestnut and Summer
Streets...together with the dwelling house and
all buildings which I have since erected...
bounded as follows: 'beginning at the
Northwest corner of it by land now sold to
$4,000 Luther Upton, 25 feet 2 inches..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Book : Page
Notes
313 : 61
No buildings mentioned
357 : 196
"all that lot of land with the two dwelling
houses and other buildings adjacent which
messuage is located in Salem...and is bounded
and described as follows...Beginning at the
northwesterly corner of it by land formerly of
$10,100 Luther Upton, now of Fenallossa..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1572 : 345
"one undivided half portion of that lot of land
with the two dwelling houses and other
buildings adjacent, which messuage is located
in Salem...and is bounded and described as
follows...Beginning at the northwesterly corner
of it, by the land formerly of Luther Upton, now
$5,050 of Fenallossa..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1575 : 341
"the land in SALEM, Massachusetts, situated on
Summer Street, bounded and described as
follows: Beginning at the northeasterly corner
of the premises at a stone post at the land now
Rebecca C. Putnam of Salem, wife "consideration or formerly of Frank P. Fabens; thence running
of Alfred W. Putnam
paid"
westerly..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2353 : 378
Everett H. Black of Swampscott
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings
thereon, bounded as follows: Beginning at the
northeasterly corner of the within granted
premises at a stone post at land formerly of
"consideration Fabens, now Mekelatos, thence running
westerly..."
paid"
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4396 : 408
Robert E. Michaud & Yvonne F.
Michaud, husband and wife
formerly of Marblehead, now of
Salem
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts, with the buildings thereon,
bounded as follows: Beginning at the
northeasterly corner of the within granted
premises at a stone post at land formerly of
Fabens, now Mekelatos, thence running
$14,000.00 westerly..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5284 : 236
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts, situated on Summer Street in
said Salem and said to be numbered 34...
bounded and described as follows: Beginning
at the northeasterly corner of the within
granted premises at a stone post at land
Richard D. Henken & Marguerite A.
Henken, husband and wife of
"consideration formerly of Febens, now or formerly Mekelatos,
thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Salem
paid"
5565 : 561
"For my title see wills of Edward
C. Browne and Alice Browne,
both duly probated in Essex
County Probate Court."
�Chain of Title, 34 Summer Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Alan E. Schaefer & Edith J.
Schaefer, husband and wife of
July 11, 1980 Salem
November 5, 1980 Susan D. Brown of Arlington
Mary R. Chapin as Trustee of the
78 Morton Road Realty Trust, of
November 15, 1983 Revere
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company As Trustee for
Residential Asset Securitization
Trust, the present holder of a
mortgage from Stephanie M.
December 19, 2016 Fitzgerald
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company As Trustee for
Residential Asset Securitization
September 29, 2017 Trust
Source
Document
Book : Page
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts, situated on Summer Street in
said Salem and said to be numbered 34...
bounded and described as follows: Beginning
at the northeasterly corner of the within
granted premises at a stone post of land
formerly of Febens, now or formerly Mekelatos,
$1.00 thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5887 : 434
Alan E. Schaefer & Edith J.
Schaefer, husband and wife of
Salem
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings
thereon, situated on Summer Street numbered
34...bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the
within granted premises at a stone post of land
formerly of Febens, now or formerly of
$56,000.00 Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6128 : 677
Susan D. Brown of Arlington
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings
thereon, situated on Summer Street numbered
34...bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the
within granted premises at a stone post of land
formerly of Febens, now or formerly of
$92,500.00 Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6716 : 466
Mary R. Chapin as Trustee of the
78 Morton Road Realty Trust, of
Salem
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings
thereon situated on Summer Street numbered
34...bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the
within granted premises at a stone post of land
formerly of Febens, now or formerly of
$100,000.00 Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6759 : 741
Stephanie M. Fitzgerald of Salem
"the land in said Salem, with the buildings
thereon situated on Summer Street numbered
34...bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the
within granted premises at a stone post of land
formerly of Febens, now or formerly of
$130,000.00 Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deeed
7270 : 65
Richard D. Henken & Marguerite A.
Henken, husband and wife of
Marguerite A. Henken of Salem,
July 20, 1972 Salem
individually and in her own right
February 19, 1975 Marguerite A. Henken of Beverly
Consideration Conveyance of
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company As Trustee for
Residential Asset Securitization
"by the power
conferred by
said mortgage
and every
other power,
for
$404,000.00
paid"
34 Summer Street, Salem, MA 01970
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
35542 : 432
Rem D. Le & Vuong Duong of
Everett, as Tenants in Common
$380,000.00
"and other
valuable
"all that certain land situate, lying and being in
considerations the City of Salem...More commonly known as:
"
34 Summer Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36219 : 248
Notes
�Chain of Title, 34 Summer Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
April 26, 2018 Vuong Duong, married, of Lynn
August 31, 2018 Rem D. Le, unmarried, of Saugus
Grantee(s)
Consideration Conveyance of
Source
Rem D. Le, unmarried, of Saugus
"all my right, title and interest as Tenant in
Common...All that certain parcel of land with
the buildings thereon situated in 34 Summer
"consideration Street, City of Salem...bounded and described
paid of less
as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly
than one
corner of the within granted premises at a
hundred
stone post of land formerly Febens, now or
dollars"
formerly of Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36671 : 206
"All that certain parcel of land with the
buildings thereon situated in 34 Summer
Street, City of Salem...bounded and described
as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly
corner of the within granted premises at a
stone post of land formerly of Febens, now or
$630,000.00 formerly of Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36984 : 576
"All that certain parcel of land with the
buildings thereon situated in 34 Summer
Street, City of Salem...bounded and described
as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly
corner of the within granted premises at a
stone post of land formerly of Febens, now or
$1.00 formerly of Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36987 : 445
"All that certain parcel of land with the
buildings thereon situated in 34 Summer
Street, City of Salem...bounded and described
as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly
corner of the within granted premises at a
stone post of land formerly of Febens, now or
$640,000.00 formerly of Mekelatos, thence running..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
37303 : 438
Andrew Balter, married, now of
Salem
Andrew Balter, a married person of Andrew Balter & Sara Balter,
September 4, 2018 Salem
husband and wife of Salem
Andrew Balter & Sara Balter,
January 31, 2019 husband and wife of Salem
Jessica Bombardier & Christopher
Bombardier, husband and wife
now of Salem
Document
Book : Page
Notes
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360 Essex Street
Built for
Capt. Emery S. Johnson
Shipmaster & Merchant
Spring 1853
Research & Writing Provided by
Amy E. Kellett
July 2019
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�Suggested Text for HSI Plaque:
Built for:
Capt. Emery S. Johnson
Shipmaster & Merchant
Spring 1853
Homestead of Dr. Alan P. Freedberg
Physician
1936-2007
Researcher’s Note:
The contents of this report are based on research done through the
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, the Salem City Directory
archives, Salem Street Books, Tax Assessment Records, Mystic Seaport
Salem Crew Lists, and other primary sources. (Where secondary sources
have been quoted or otherwise referred to, there are corresponding citation
footnotes and/or appendices.) This report is completed to the best of my
knowledge at the time of its publication. However, I reserve the right to
update, revise, and otherwise edit this report if and/or when new
information is discovered.
This report is published and copyrighted by Historic Salem, Inc.
July 2019
Amy E. Kellett
Researcher & Author
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1843-1853 Property History Prior to Building of 360 Essex Street
The earliest records in regards to the lot of land that is now 360 Essex Street in Salem,
Massachusetts date to June of 1843 when Salem merchant Emery Johnson purchased “a
certain piece of land with the buildings thereon situated in Salem […] on Essex Street” from
Salem industry mogul David Pingree for $5,000:
[…]bounded as follows, Viz., Southerly on Essex Street one hundred and
two feet, more or less, Easterly on land partly now or formerly of Mrs.
Sarah Clark to land of Joseph Winn to a corner, Northerly on land of said
Winn and R. S. Saunders as the fence now stands, to a corner at the fence
just northwest of the barn and thence running Southerly to Essex Street
and bounded Westerly by Ferguson’s land, together with all the privileges
and appurtenances thereto belonging.1
1851 Salem, Mass. Atlas | McIntyre
Area of 360 Essex Street, then owned by Emery Johnson
1
Property Deed from David Pingree to Emery Johnson; Southern Essex Registry of Deeds: Book 353 Page 34.
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Reference points alluded to in the 1843 deed are reflected in the 1851 Salem City
Atlas, published by Henry McIntyre, just six years after Emery Johnson’s purchase of the
property on Essex Street, (specifically the properties belonging to Winn and Ferguson).
Furthermore, the Atlas shows that there is no apparent building footprint at the current
location of 360 Essex Street which confirms that the Italianate home could not have been
standing before 1851.
In 1845, just two years after the purchase of the property that is now 360 and 362
Essex Street from David Pingree, Emery Johnson passed away from scurvy at the age of 54
on the 18th of January, leaving his wife a widow, Sarah (Saunders) Johnson, and their three
surviving sons, Emery Saunders Johnson, Charles Augustus Johnson, and Horace Palmer
Johnson, without a father.
Emery S. Johnson became the man of the house at seventeen and went to work with
his two younger brothers: Charles, aged fifteen in 1845, and Horace, who was just twelve.
Benefiting from their father’s business connections with Salem’s maritime elite, the Johnson
boys were employed at sea working for David Pingree and other Salem ship owners in the
perilous trade with South America, Africa, and Asia.
Tragedy struck the Johnson family again in 1851 when the two youngest surviving
sons of Emery and Sarah Johnson both perished while on dangerous trade voyages between
the shores of Zanzibar and Salem. Charles Augustus Johnson was just 21 years old when he
lost his life in Zanzibar North, Tanzania in May of 1851, then less than 3 months later the
youngest Johnson brother, Horace, was lost at sea in August at the age of nineteen.
Now the only surviving child of Emery and Sarah S. Johnson, Captain Emery S.
Johnson, then aged twenty-five, had already retired from his seafaring career before the age
of 25. Having inherited a sufficient amount of capital from his father’s estate and no remaining
siblings to divide the property, he also purchased the buildings and land at 360 and 362 Essex
Street from his father’s estate, and then leased the home at 362 Essex back to his mother,
Susan Johnson, who remained in the house for the next few decades until her passing in 1880.
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Spring 1853 Italianate Revival Home Built at 360 Essex Street for Capt. Emery S. Johnson
Image Source: Tolles, c.1982
The physical history of the home at 360 Essex Street has been well documented by
architectural historians of the past, including Bryant F. Tolles’ 1982 illustrated guide entitled
‘Architecture in Salem’:
The Emery S. Johnson house is situated above the level of Essex Street on
sloping terrain and is one of Salem’s finest and most imposing Italian
Revival-style residences. […] Familiar Italian Revival features include
corner quoins, rusticated fade boarding, carved and paired cornice brackets
and medallions, segmental-arch dormers, thin modeled chimneys, a front
window bay (second story), heavy molded window frames, and flat molded
pediment caps above the first floor windows, which, judging by old
photographs, appear to have been 20th-century additions.2
2
Tolles, Bryant F. & Carolyn K.; Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide, 1983, p.165.
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On the 28th of August 1973, the Emery S. Johnson House was added to the National
Register, and then added to the Local Historic District in March of 1981. The Massachusetts
Historical Commission also completed its own physical and historical evaluation of the
property at 360 Essex Street:
The 2 1/2-story, hip-roofed dwelling displays a symmetrical facade with
the two end bays bowed and flanking a central entrance porch. The facade
of the Italianate style dwelling is sheathed in wood boards scored to
resemble stone with quoins at the corners; the side elevations are
clapboarded. The projecting eaves are adorned by paired brackets and
dentils. Sheltering the central entrance is a single-story entrance porch
supported by octagonal posts. The flat roof is decorated by curved consoles.
The four-panel door is flanked by partial sidelights and a full transom
filled with stained glass in a foliate pattern. To each side of the entrance is
an elongated 6/6 window with footed sills and heavy molded window
frames. The entablature lintel is supported by two brackets with
modillions [sic] between. The second floor windows consist of smaller 6/6
windows with molded surrounds, footed sills and a simpler entablature
with two brackets. A single-story, three-sided bay window projects from the
west elevation. Resting above the entrance is a rectangular bay window
outlined by simple pilasters with horizontal, recessed panels below the
windows. The hip roof is punctuated by two segmentally arched dormers
with dentils. The balustrade has simple posts with railings in an " x "
pattern. Two interior chimneys punctuate the asphalt-shingled roof. 3
These reports do little to explain the social and familial history of the building, which
began with Emery S. Johnson in 1853. Johnson hired Salem architects William H. Emmerton
and Joseph C. Foster to design an Italianate home to be a statement of the Johnson family’s
relatively new prominence in one of the Nation’s oldest cities. The road to 360 Essex Street
had certainly not been an easy one for Emery Saunders Johnson, but one whose richness
extended beyond his material wealth.
3
Mausolf, Lisa; Researcher. Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey, SAL-1561, 1997.
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Emery S. Johnson & Family
Emery Saunders Johnson was born in Salem on the 7th of May, 1827, the first child to
Captain Emery Johnson (originally of Warren, Mass.) and Salem native Sarah Saunders
(Johnson). The elder Emery Johnson had migrated to Salem from Western Massachusetts
after the death of his father, Eli, and began working in the flourishing shipyards of Salem’s
waterfront, eventually working his way into the inner circles of Salem’s wealthiest traders and
manufacturers.
In April, 1817, Capt. Emery Johnson was co-owner (with James C. King) and master
of the 126-ton Salem brig Roscius and in April, 1819, Captain Johnson was owner and master
of the Salem 114-ton schooner Madeira Packet. In the 1820s he came ashore and became a
partner in the merchant house of the wealthy Rogers Brothers — merchant shippers who
traded overseas to Madagascar and other markets. Together they owned the ship
Perseverance, the ship Clay, and the brig Talent. In the 1830s Captain Johnson joined David
Pingree in ownership of the 240-ton bark Eliza, the large new ship Thomas Perkins (596 tons
burthen) and the 374-ton bark Cynthia, of which, in 1838, Captain Johnson went back to sea
as commander.
By the time his oldest son and namesake came of apprenticeship age, Captain Emery
Johnson, Sr. was able to procure work for his son with David Pingree, at the time Salem’s
wealthiest citizen. Pingree made his fortune in trading cloth, made by the Naumkeag Steam
Cotton Co. in the Point neighborhood of Salem, and bartered throughout markets of the
world, most especially with Zanzibar in Eastern Africa. After the death of Emery Sr., the
three surviving Johnson boys all went to work at sea for the Shipmasters of Salem — only
one would survive to the age of twenty-two.
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Rigging Pattern of a 19th C. American Bark (Barque)
The type of ship that two of the Johnson boys would lose their lives aboard.
Charles Augustus Johnson boarded the Brig Eagle destined for Para, Brazil on the 19th of
September in 1848 and returned home some months later, undoubtedly with stories of
adventure abroad. He sailed again at the age of twenty-one on September 13th in 1850 on the
Bark4 named Lewis with Zanzibar as the cargo’s destination. This voyage was likely shipping
cotton cloth manufactured at the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company, then the largest steampowered manufacturing operation in the world. Sadly, during the return trip from Zanzibar,
the young Charles A. Johnson lost his life on the 8th of May, 1851.5
bark (n.) : (French origin: barque) a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft
rigged and the others square-rigged
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5
Source: Mystic Seaport Archives, Boston, Mass. — Salem Crew Lists, 1799-1879.
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In December of 1848, a seventeen-year-old man named Horace Palmer Johnson, the
youngest surviving son of Emery (Sr.) and Sarah, embarked on his first voyage. La Plata, a
263 ton Boston Bark built in 1839, was loaded with commodities and bound for Western
Africa, and young Horace aboard.6 The trip would have taken anywhere between three to six
months to return. Available records do not indicate he ever sailed to return again; instead, the
only available records show that during the return trip from Zanzibar in August of 1851, 19year-old Horace suffered the same fate as his older brother, Charles, and was lost at sea.
An American Brig
The only type of ship sailed by
Emery S. Johnson in his short but
successful seafaring career.
(Image: The Seaman’s Friend, R.H.
Dana, Jr., 13th Ed., 1873.)
Several months before either of his younger brothers first ventured onto a shipping
vessel bound for exotic lands, Emery S. Johnson had his first voyage as Second Mate aboard
the Brig Garland, which departed the 19th of January in 1848, and safely returned to Salem
after delivering and exchanging commodities and cargo in Para. Apparently proving himself,
then 21-year-old Emery S. Johnson is listed serving as First Mate on his second voyage to
Brazil, this time on the Brig Russell bound for Rio Grande and a ‘Market’. The Russell left
Salem’s shores on December 19, 1848, while Emery’s brother Charles was on his first voyage
aboard the Eagle, and the same month that young Horace embarked towards Zanzibar
aboard La Plata.
6
Ibid.
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After only two successful voyages, Emery S. Johnson was promoted to Shipmaster by
the time the Brig he captained, named Draco, set sail for Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil in May
of 1849. Capt. E. S. Johnson went on to captain the Draco once again to Rio Grande,
departing on the 29th of November 1849, and returning by spring 1850. 7 By this point he had
amassed fortune from his time as a shipmaster, and by the sizable wealth left to the Johnson
family by Emery Sr.’s will. Thus, Emery S. Johnson was able to retire from seafaring after
only two voyages as captain of the merchant brig Draco — he was 22 years old.
During the interim between voyages, Emery S. Johnson met and courted Ann
Elizabeth Creamer, and upon his final return trip from sea the two were wed in June of 1850.
The newlyweds resided in an apartment at 81 Essex Street, at the time the Law Offices of
Stephen P. Webb, located in the historic Capt. J. Hodges House. Tragedy plagued the
Johnson family the following year in 1851, when both of Emery’s younger brothers, Charles
and Horace, died at sea in May and August of the same year. After the passing of his brothers,
Emery S. Johnson became the sole male heir to his father’s fortune, and in October 1852 he
officially purchased the property at 360 and 362 Essex Street from Emery Sr.’s Estate:
[…]executor of the last will and testament of Emery Johnson, late of
said Salem, deceased […] and with the written consent of the widow of
said Emery, as required in said will, in consideration of five thousand
dollars paid me in my said capacity, by Emery S. Johnson of said Salem,
ship master […] being the same estate which was conveyed to said
Emery Johnson by David Pingree, by his deed dated 12th June 1843, and
recorded Book 353, leaf 34.8
WorldCat.org Source: Peabody Essex Museum Archives, Draco (Brig) Logbook, 1849-1850.
Summary: The logbook of the brig Draco details two voyages between Boston, Rio Grande, Brazil and Salem
(May 1849 to Mar. 1850). Home port was [Salem, Mass.]; owners were [the Kimball Brothers]; master was
[E.S. Johnson]; log keeper was Emery S. Johnson. It is an incomplete daily log that describes wind, weather,
location, and sightings of ships. Bound with the ship Ann Maria, the brig Garland, and an unknown vessel.
7
Property Deed from Estate of Emery Johnson to Emery Saunders Johnson; Southern Essex Registry of
Deeds: Book 470 Page 186.
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Image Source: Library of Congress, c.1933
81 Essex Street | Salem, Mass. | Historic Capt. John Hodges House
Residence of newlyweds Emery S. & Sarah Johnson, from 1851 to 1853, while their new home was
being designed and constructed just blocks down the same road at 360 Essex Street.
Emery S. Johnson mortgaged the property at 360 Essex, leased his father’s home at 362
Essex back to his mother, Susan (Saunders) Johnson, and hired local Salem architects
William H. Emmerton (1828-1873) and Joseph C. Foster (1829-1906) to design and contract
the construction of an Italianate home — a statement that Capt. Johnson and family, although
not a Salem native, had established their place in Salem’s history.
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Building contract draft by W. H. Emmerton & J. C. Foster with Emery S. Saunders for Italianate
dwelling at 360 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. | Page 1
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Building contract draft by W. H. Emmerton & J. C. Foster with Emery S. Saunders for Italianate
dwelling at 360 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. | Page 2
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Floor Plan of 360 Essex Street — Commissioned by E. S. Johnson — First Floor
Wm. H. Emmerton & J. C. Foster, c.1852
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Floor Plan of 360 Essex Street — Commissioned by E. S. Johnson — Basement Level
Wm. H. Emmerton & J. C. Foster, c. 1852
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1853-1886 Emery S. Johnson & Family at 360 Essex Street
By the time the Italianate home was completed at 360 Essex Street for Captain Emery
S. Johnson, he had entered into the second half of the 19th century in his early twenties, flush
with cash and ready to move on to the next chapter of his career. The opportunity arose in the
form of Emery’s new father-in-law, Benjamin Creamer, with whom he established Johnson &
Creamer and began their own mercantile shipping business moving commodities of all types
throughout the world.
1855 Massachusetts State Census | Essex Co., Salem | Ward 4
The even side of Essex Street, showing the Emery S. Johnson household as well as his mother, Sarah
S. Johnson, at 360 & 362 Essex (respectively), neighbored on either side by jeweller Benjamin
Shreeve (364 Essex), and Richard & William R. Wheatland (358 Essex), gentlemen farmers.
According to the 1855 Massachusetts State Census, Emery S. Johnson and his wife,
Annie E. Johnson, both aged twenty-seven, had settled into their beautiful new home at 360
Essex Street. (Just across the street at 361 Essex lived Benjamin and Anne Creamer, Annie’s
parents, Emery S. Johnson’s in-laws.) The couple welcomed their first child the same year on
the 3rd of February; just four years after the passing of both Emery’s younger brothers in
1851, the new Mr. and Mrs. Johnson decided to name their first child for the lost Johnson
boys — Charles Horace Johnson. Two years later, another child was born to Emery and Ann
E. Johnson on the 15th of September in 1857, Emery Walter Johnson, who completed this
generation of the Johnson family.
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Regrettably, tragedy followed the Johnson name, and Charles Horace suffered a
similar fate than that of his departed uncles; at the age of seventeen, in early December of
1872, Charles H. Johnson suffered an accidental shooting through his hand, which he initially
survived. As was commonly the case before the advent of antibiotics and penicillin, young
Charles developed a bacterial infection, tetanus, and passed away on the 17th of December.
His premature death was reported the following day in the daily Boston Globe newspaper on
December 18, 1872:
Sad Result — In the Globe of the 9th was mentioned a case of accidental
shooting by the premature discharge of a patent cartridge with which Mr.
Charles Johnson was loading a gun. Young Johnson’s hand was
considerably shattered by the explosion, but the wound was dressed and, up
to Sunday morning, seemed to be doing well, but at that time severe lockjaw set in, and, despite the strenuous efforts of the most skilled doctors,
resulted in his death yesterday afternoon. Young Johnson was about 18
years old, and was the son of Emery S. Johnson, Esq. He was a young
man of marked abilities, and was a member of the senior class of the
Salem classical and high school, and was intending to enter Harvard
College. His early death, just at the beginning of manhood, will be a cause
of deep mourning to a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
Fifteen-year-old Emery Walter Johnson suddenly found himself an only child in a
family with a legacy to maintain in Salem. Named for his wildly successful grandfather and
father young Emery undoubtedly benefitted from his family’s material wealth. His life’s work
shows that he did not take this responsibility lightly and worked throughout his life to live up
to the magnitude of his name. After the passing of his older brother, Emery W. Johnson
attended Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire9, then returned to Salem after
graduating in 1874 at the age of seventeen. In Salem’s 1880 Directory he is noted as having
been ‘removed to Colorado’ — confirmed by an 1890 U.S. Passport Application submitted by
Emery Walter Johnson, which describes his residence as being located at 59 Symes Block in
Denver, Colorado (still standing today).
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Catalogue of the officers and students of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1783-1883.
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While Charles H. and Emery W. Johnson grew through the years, the elder Emery S.
Johnson and his wife, Ann E. (Creamer) Johnson, remained living at 360 Essex Street.
Emery S. managed a successful international shipping business with his in-laws, the Creamer
family.
1852 Invoice of Johnson & Creamer regarding cargo carried by the Ship Golden, one of two
merchant vessels owned by Johnson & Creamer, the other being named ‘Winged Arrow’
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Captain Emery S. Johnson resided in the house until his death in December of 1886,
almost exactly fourteen years to the day that his son, Charles Horace Johnson, suffered an
accidental shooting and subsequent fatal infection. Upon his passing, the Salem Gazette
published a paragraph (albeit with a typo in the decedents address) entitled ‘Another
Shipmaster Gone’:
Capt. Emery S Johnson Passes Away at His Residence
Captain Emery S. Johnson, another of Salem’s shipmasters, died
yesterday afternoon at his residence, No. 380 Essex street, of rheumatism
of the heart. His illness was quite brief. Capt. Johnson was brought up in
the counting room of David Pingree, and very early in life became a
seaman, working his way up until he became a master mariner, and was
engaged in the East India carrying trade. As early in life as 23 years old,
he retired from active business pursuits, having a large income left him by
his father. He was a great traveller and spent several years in the other
countries, visiting all points of interest. He leaves a widow and one son, the
latter being Walter P. Johnson, a lawyer, now engaged in business in
Denver, Col. He was 58 years old. Although he had been quite ill, his death
was somewhat unexpected. 10
Following the passing of Emery S.
Johnson, Ann E. (Creamer) Johnson relocated
to Summer Street until just before her death in
1899, while living at 362 Essex Street, as
reported in the Salem Evening News on the
22nd of July, 1899:
Mrs. Annie E. [Johnson] widow of Capt.
Emery S. Johnson, died at her residence, 362
Essex street, this morning. She was a native
of Salem, a daughter of the late Benjamin
Creamer, and in her 75th year. She leaves a
son, Walter Johnson.
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1888 Salem City Directory
Ann, identified as the widow of Emery S.
Johnson—who is noted as having passed on the
13th of December, 1886.
Salem Gazette, December 14, 1886.
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1886 360 Essex Street becomes a rental property owned by Emery W. Johnson
The Captain’s estate transferred ownership to the Johnson’s only surviving son, Emery
Walter, who had yet to return to Salem from his time in Denver, Colorado. After the passing
of his mother in 1899, Emery W. Johnson returned to Salem and moved into 362 Essex Street
and maintained the neighboring property at 360 Essex as a rental property occupied by a
number of tenants. (For a complete timeline of residents at 360 Essex Street, see appendix
section.)
1911 Salem City Atlas | 360 Essex Street
Noted at both 360 and 362 Essex Street is E. Walter Johnson
The first occupant of 360 Essex Street after Emery S. Johnson’s passing, according to
contemporaneous Salem City Directories, was Andrew W. Dodd and family (including wife,
Ella (Ashton) Dodd, James W. Dodd, and Andrew W. Dodd, Jr.. The Dodd family were
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tenants of 360 Essex Street from 1890 until Andrew W. Dodd Sr.’s passing in 1909. The
Dodd’s hailed from Gloucester, Mass. where the family owned a Glue & Oil Manufacturing
business, which continued to operate and prosper while the Dodd’s lived on Essex Street in
Salem.
After the passing of A. W. Dodd, Sr. in April of 1909, the property at 360 Essex was
occupied by famed airplane engineer, Greeley Stevenson Curtis, Jr., one of the pioneers of
American Aeronautical Engineering. Along with N. Starling Burgess, Greeley S. Curtis
established the Aero Club of America and went on to engineer the first sea-plane ever created.
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The Great Salem Fire raged for more than thirteen hours, destroying an entire third of the City.
On June 25, 1914, a fire started at the Korn Leather Factory, one of Salem’s fire-prone
wooden tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west
wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and
out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke, wiping
out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and then sweeping
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through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets.
Men and machines
could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the
neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself,
and raged onward into the tenement district.
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire
crews from many towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed
into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street),
which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the water to
Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died,
having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, 41 factories, and leaving three dead and thousands
homeless.
The home at 360 Essex was thankfully spared, but in the aftermath of the Great Salem
Fire, Mr. Curtis decided it was time to move on from the City and his home at 360 Essex
Street, and owner Emery W. Johnson rented the property to other tenants. In 1917 Charles
E. Morgan took up residence at the Johnson property, along with his wife, Daisy M. Morgan,
as well as John Morgan Jr. and his wife, Rose. The Morgan family owned and operated a
market gardening business as well as the Alaska Fur Company at 264 Cabot Street, and
remained living at 360 Essex Street through 1926.
1914 Advertisement for ‘New
Fall Velvet Hats,
manufactured by the Alaska
Fur Co., owned by the
Morgan Family who lived at
360 Essex Street from
1917-1926
New Castle Herald (New Castle,
Pennsylvania) 4 Sept. 1914
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1927 Estate of Emery W. Johnson Sells 360 Essex Street to Susan L. Brown
Upon returning from Colorado in the first year of the 20th century, Emery Walter
Johnson and his wife, Annie E. (Cloutman) Johnson resided at 362 Essex Street while
managing 360 Essex as a rental property. According to the 1920 Salem Directory, E. Walter
Johnson had moved to Winchendon, along the northern border of Massachusetts, in an effort
to regain his failing health — on the 29th of July in 1921, at the age of 63, Emery Walter
Johnson passed away suddenly at his home in Winchendon. As a member of the Fraternal
Organization, the Freemasons, his life and passing was diligently memorialized in
contemporaneous Masonic Records:
In Winslow Lewis Lodge
October 14th, 1921
Once more, one of our older members has gone to meet the
Supreme Architect of the Universe, and it is our sad duty to record the
passing of Brother Emery Walter Johnson, a member of our Lodge for over
twenty-eight years.
Brother Johnson was born in Salem, Mass., on September 15th,
1857 and after graduating from the High School, entered Phillips Exeter
Academy. After completing his studies there he went to Denver, Colo.,
where he entered a law office and studied a year or more. He then returned
East, married and went to Europe where he and his wife spent many years
in travel. When in Paris, during the Exposition of 1900, he was appointed
by the Paris Exposition Commission as a member of the Jury.
After his return to America, he went back to his old home in
Salem to live. Owing to failing health, a few years later, he bought a home
in the country, to take up the simple life and to regain his health. Although
greatly improved, he never fully recovered from a serious illness he had
while living in Paris. On July 29th, he passed suddenly away in his home
in Winchendon, Mass. His body was taken to Salem for interment in the
Harmony Grove Cemetery.
He received his degrees in Masonry in Union Lodge, Denver, Colo.,
where he was initiated May 18, 1888, passed June 20, 1888 and raised to
the sublime degree of Master Mason, July 25, 1888. He became a member
of our Lodge on February 24, 1893. While Brother Johnson was not a
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frequent visitor to the Lodge, due to failing health and therefore was not
well known by our younger members, his cheerful disposition and genial
good fellowship made him a host of friends. All who knew him well feel that
they have suffered a personal loss by his unexpected death.
Be it therefore resolved that we, the members of Winslow Lewis
Lodge, realizing our loss, deeply sympathize with his widow, in the keen
sorrow of her earthly separation.
Be it further resolved that these resolutions be spread upon the
records, and that a copy of this Memorial be engrossed and sent to the
widow of our deceased brother.
Wor. Daniel J. Strain
Wor. Philip T. Nickerson
Wor. Thomas O. Paige
Obituary of Emery Walter Johnson
Salem Evening News
30 July 1921
Emery Walter’s will names Mrs. Annie C. Johnson as the beneficiary, and she
continued to rent the house at 360 Essex Street to the Morgan family until the property was
sold in 1927 to Susan L. Brown and her husband, Hulings C. Brown.
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1927 Property Deed from Annie Johnson to Susan L. Brown
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds: Book 2715 Page 409
1927-1936 Hulings C. & Susan L. Brown reside at 360 Essex Street
Originally from Germantown, Pennsylvania, Hulings Coperthwatte Brown built a
career as a publisher with Little, Brown & Co. — established in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little
and partner, James Brown — early publications include ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May
Alcott, poetry by Emily Dickinson, the first U.S. iteration of the ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’,
and John Bartlett’s ‘Familiar Quotations’.
At the age of 25, Hulings met and courted Salem native, Susan L. Waters, daughter of
William C. & Susan Waters — the two were wed on the 4th of June, 1886. By the time
Hulings and Susan Brown purchased the home at 360 Essex Street from the Johnson family,
both were in their mid-sixties, ready to enjoy a comfortable retirement in the city of Salem.
Five years after their purchase of the home, Hulings C. Brown passed away in 1933, leaving a
sizable estate, as reported by the Boston Globe on May 9th, 1933:
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Hulings C. Brown Leaves Estate of $250,000
Salem, May 8 — The will of Hulings C. Brown of Salem,
disposing of an estate estimated at $250,000, was allowed in the Essex
County Probate Court today. The property was left to his wife and
relatives.
The Salem Country Club, of which Mr Brown was a prominent
member, was given 16 paintings now in the Brown home, and the Salem
Billiard Club a set of 16 books. Robert E. Gardiner of Concord and Robert
R. Duncan of Cambridge are named as executors. Mr Brown was a
member of the firm of Little, Brown & Co., Boston book publishers.
Mrs. Brown, now a widow, remained living at 360 Essex Street until her own passing
1935-6, at which point the property was sold to Alan P. Freedberg from Susan L. Brown’s
estate:
1936 Property Deed from Estate of Susan L. Brown to Alan P. Freedberg
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds: Book 3093 Page 116
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1936-2007 Dr. Alan P. Freedberg & Family reside at 360 Essex Street
Solomon and Rose Freedberg arrived on the shores of Boston in 1908 — Rose was
expecting, and they knew that their homeland would be no place to raise their child; for
Russian Jews, the socio-political tensions in Eastern Europe were rising to a fever pitch, with
increasing anti-Semitism and more frequent pogroms throughout the region. Rose “Rosie”
Freedberg was 23 years old when she joined her husband, 20 year-old Solomon H. Freedberg,
in building a life in an entirely new world; by 1912 the couple settled into a home at 28 Ward
Street (and later 8 Cliff), Salem along with family members Hyman, a peddler, and Simon, a
meat cutter. Solomon went to work in Salem’s first kosher butchery, established by the
Freedberg family — the Salem Kosher Meat Co. at 26 1/2 Peabody Street.
Solomon and Rosie Freedberg welcomed their first child, a son named Alan Phillips
Freedberg, on July 30th, 1909 — as new arrivals to a centuries-old city, the couple named
their first-born for one of Salem’s legendary maritime families, the Phillips (the descendants of
whom lived in the same neighborhood at 34 Chestnut Street). Over the next eleven years, the
family would add three more Freedberg children: Abraham in 1910, Edith in 1915, and Ruth
in 1920.
The 1931 Hub | Boston University College of Liberal Arts Yearbook
22 year-old Alan P. Freedberg attended Boston University while residing at 8 Cliff Street, five years
before his purchase of 360 Essex Street.
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The Freedberg family worked tirelessly to provide a better life to their children than
the previous generation, and were successful in doing so — their firstborn, Alan, attended
Boston University College of Liberal Arts where he majored in Biology and minored in
Chemistry, and then attended medical school, earning his degree from the University of
Chicago in 1934. Upon his return to Salem, Alan P. Freedberg established a successful
practice serving the City as a physician and surgeon for the remainder of the 20th century.
Upon purchasing the property at 360 Essex Street from the Estate of Susan L. Brown
in 1936, Alan insisted that his aging parents also occupy the grandiose building on upper
Essex Street, while Solomon continued to work in the real estate industry. One can only
imagine the difference between the world that Solomon and Rosie Freedberg experienced and
fled as a young Jewish couple in turn-of-the-century Russia, and the contrast with life in
Salem at 360 Essex Street. It is encouraging for humanity to see an instance where former
refugees are able to attain a better life for themselves and their families, and even more the
gratitude and responsibility their son, Alan, was able to take on for them later in life.
1944 Salem City Directory | Alan P. Freedberg
When Kamikaze pilots attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, Alan
Phillips Freedberg decided his skills as a physician and surgeon would best be put to use in
the United States Armed Forces — he joined up at the age of 32, eventually earning the rank
of 1st Lieutenant in the US Army for the duration of World War II. Upon his return, he met
and married Charlotte Rosenberg in 1945, at which point the couple settled into their home at
360 Essex Street, where they would remain for the rest of their lives.
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On the 2nd of May in 1957 Solomon Freedberg passed away at the age of 71. Rosie
Freedberg continued to reside with her son, Alan, at 360 Essex Street until her own passing a
decade later on June 24, 1967. Both Solomon and Rosie undoubtedly enjoyed the sunset
years of their lives spent watching their grandsons grow.
Obituary of Solomon H.
Freedberg
Salem Evening News
30 July 1921
In December of 1995, Dr. Alan P. Freedberg (aged 85) and his wife, Charlotte (75),
officially declared the home at 360 Essex as their Homestead.11 Both would live to see the new
century, as the Doctor passed away in January of 2007 at the age of 97, and his beloved wife
Charlotte a decade later in 2018. Alan, his mother Rose, and father Solomon are all interred at
the Sons of Jacob Cemetery in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Headstone of Alan Phillips
Freedberg, M.D.
Sons of Jacob Cemetery
Danvers, Mass.
The Homestead Act is Massachusetts General Laws (MGL) Chapter 188. The homestead estate is designed to
protect home ownership from execution and forced sale, so long as the owner or covered family member
occupies or intends to occupy the property as his or her principal place of residence.
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Appendix — Salem City Directory Timeline of Occupants at 360 Essex Street 1855-1964
[brackets indicate researcher notes]
Name
Year
Spouse
Notes
Emery S Johnson
1855
[Mrs. Emery Johnson @ 362 Essex]
Emery S Johnson
1857
Captain
Emery S Johnson
1864
House 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1869
House 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1872
House 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1876
House 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1878
House 360 Essex
E Walter Johnson
1879
B 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1879
h 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1880
House 360 Essex
E Walter Johnson
1881
Boards 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1881
House 360 Essex
E Walter Johnson
1882
Boards 360 Essex
Emery S Johnson
1882
House 360 Essex
Andrew Y Dodd
1890
Oil Manufacturer ((Gloucester) h. 360
Essex
John H Sutton
1893
[no notes]
Andrew W Dodd
1897
Glue Manufr. (Gloucester), h. 360 Essex
Andrew W Dodd
1901
Glue Manufr. (Gloucester), h. 360 Essex
Andrew Dodd
1904
Student, b. 360 Essex
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Name
Year
Spouse
Notes
Andrew W Dodd
1904
Glue & Oil Mnfr. (Gloucester), h. 360
Essex
Andrew W Dodd
1905
Glue & Oil Mnfr. (Gloucester), h. 360
Essex
Andrew W Dodd Jr
1905
Student, b. 360 Essex
James W Dodd
1905
Student, b. 360 Essex
Alfred J Smith
1906
Carpenter, b. 360 Essex
Andrew W Dodd
1906
Glue & Oil Mnfr. (Gloucester), h. 360
Essex
Andrew W Dodd Jr
1906
Glue mfr. (Gloucester), b. 360 Essex
Benjamin F Morgan
1906
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Esse, b.
451 do.
Charles E Morgan
1906
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, h.
360 do.
James W Dodd
1906
Student, b. 360 Essex
John F Morgan Jr
1906
453 and r. 360 Essex, b. 360 do.
Charles E Morgan
1907
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, h.
360 do.
John F Morgan Jr
1907
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, h.
360 do.
Andrew W Dodd
1908
(A. W. Dodd Co. Gloucester), h. 360 Essex
Andrew W Dodd Jr
1908
(A. W. Dodd Co. Gloucester), b. 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1908
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, h.
360 do.
John F Morgan Jr
1908
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, b.
360 do.
John F Tuttle
1908
Farm Hand, b. 360 Essex
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George F Watson
1909
Farm Hand, b. 360 Essex
John F Morgan Jr
1909
(Morgan Bros.), 451 and r. 360 Essex, b.
360 do.
John F Morgan Jr
1910
(Morgan Bros.), 451 and r. 360 Essex, b.
360 do.
Greeley S. Curtis
1911
(Burgess & Curtis, Mhd.), h. 360 Essex
John F Morgan Jr
1911
(Morgan Bros.), 451 and r. 360 Essex, b.
360 do.
Charles A Morgan
1912
(Morgan Bros.), 453 and r. 360 Essex, h.
360 do.
John F Morgan Jr
1912
(Morgan Bros.), 451 and r. 360 Essex, b.
360 do.
Cornelius Driscoll
1914
Gardner h. 21 Orne sq (360 Essex) [staff]
Greeley S Curtis
1914
(Burgess Co & Curtis Mhd) h. 360 Essex
Charlotte F Chase
1915
b. 360 Essex
Clara K Hammond
1915
h. 360 Essex
Ethel Hammond
1915
Teacher Phillips school h. 360 Esses
Charlotte A Chase
1916
Charlotte F Chase
1916
b. 360 Essex
Guy Smith
1916
Farm Hand, b. 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1917
(Morgan Bros) 83 Standley and r 360
Essex h 360 do
Guy F Smith
1917
Farm Hand, b. 360 Essex
John F Morgan Jr
1917
George Chase
[widow of George] h. 360 Essex
(Morgan Bros) r 360 Essex and Standley h
do
Rose Morgan
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Name
Year
Spouse
Notes
John F Morgan Jr
1917
Rose Morgan
(Morgan Bros) r 360 Essex and Standley h
do
John L Wishart
1917
Margaret P Wishart
Chauffer h off 360 Essex
John L Wishart
1917
Margaret P Wishart
Chauffer h off 360 Essex
Walter Drewey
1917
Alice Drewey
Gardner [@] A C Lawrence h off 360
Essex
Walter Drewey
1917
Alice Drewey
Gardner [@] A C Lawrence h off 360
Essex
Charles E Morgan
1918
Daisy M Morgan
(Morgan Bros) 83 Standley h 360 Essex
Guy F Smith
1918
Farm Hand, b. 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1920
Daisy M Morgan
(Morgan Bros) 83 Standley h 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1922
Daisy M Morgan
Mkt gardner also (Alaska Fur Co) 264
Cabot h 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1922
Daisy M Morgan
Mkt gardner also (Alaska Fur Co) 264
Cabot h 360 Essex
Henry K Roberts
1922
Florence L Roberts
(Star Refining Co B[oston]) h 360 Essex
Henry K Roberts Jr
1922
Appren[tice] b 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1924
[City Directory] Market Gardner @ 360
Essex
Charles E Morgan
1924
Daisy M Morgan
Mkt gardner also (Alaska Fur Co) 264
Cabot h 360 Essex
Charles E Morgan
1924
Daisy M Morgan
Mkt gardner also (Alaska Fur Co) 264
Cabot h 360 Essex
Daisy M Morgan
1924
Charles E Morgan
Finisher 264 Cabot h 360 Essex
John E Morgan
1924
Opr [operator] 264 Cabot b 360 Essex
Mildred E Morgan
1924
Clk [clerk] b 360 Essex
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Mildred L Morgan
1924
Mgr [manager] 264 Cabot b 360 Essex
Carrie A Palmer
1926
John E Morgan
1926
Opr [operator] 264 Cabot b 360 Essex
Mrs Daisy M Morgan
1926
Finisher 285d Cabot h 360 Essex
George Northend
1929
Chauf[fer] b 360 Essex
Margaret McDonald
1929
Maid b 360 Essex
Nora Horan
1929
Cook b 360 Essex
Mary Horan
1930
Opr [operator] 264 Cabot b 360 Essex
Hulings C Brown
1931
Susan L Brown
Ret[ired] h360 Essex
Hulings C Brown
1931
Susan L Brown
Ret[ired] h360 Essex
Mabel McGee
1931
Hulings C Brown
1932
Mabel McGee
1932
Ret[ired] h360 Essex
Bertil Akerlind
1934
Chauf[fer] r360 Essex
Helen O'Hare
1934
Dom[estic staff] r360 Essex
Hulings C Brown
1934
Henrietta Reaphe
1935
Dom[estic staff] r360 Essex
James Morgan
1935
Chauf[fer] r360 Essex
Mabel J Magee
1935
Companion r360 Essex
Susan L Brown
1935
Hulings C Brown
(wid[ow] Hulings C) h360 Essex
Soloman H Freedberg
1937
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
Soloman H Freedberg
1940
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
Elmer Palmer
Wid [widow of Elmer] b 360 Essex
R360 Essex
Susan L Brown
Susan L Brown
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Name
Year
Spouse
Notes
Soloman H Freedberg
1942
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
Soloman H Freedberg
1943
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
Alan P Freedberg
1944
David J Gordon
Phys[ician] USA h 360 Essex
1944
Edith F Gordon
USA [United States Army] r 360 Essex
David J Gordon
1944
Edith F Gordon
USA [United States Army] r 360 Essex
Soloman H Freedberg
1944
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
David J Gordon
1945
Edith F Gordon
USA [United States Army] r 360 Essex
Soloman H Freedberg
1945
Rose Freedberg
Real Est[ate] (Pea)[body] h360 Essex
Alan P Freedberg
1948
360 Essex
Alan P Freedberg
1949
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1950
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1951
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Bella Dailitka
1951
Dom[estic staff] r360 Essex
Alan P Freedberg
1952
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Bella Dailitka
1952
Dom[estic staff] r360 Essex
Alan P Freedberg
1953
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1955
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1957
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
36
�Historic Property Report
Name
360 Essex St. | Salem, Mass.
Year
Spouse
Historic Salem, Inc.
Notes
Alan P Freedberg
1958
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1960
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedlberg
1960
Alan P Freedberg
1961
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1962
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Alan P Freedberg
1964
[City Directory — Physicians and
Surgeons]
Phys Freedberg
1964
Phys[ician] 360 Essex H360 Essex St
Charlotte L Freedlberg
37
Phys[ician] 360 Essex h do
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360 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
Capt. Emery S. Johnson
Shipmaster & Merchant
Spring 1853
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1853, 2019
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Amy E. Kellett
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English
1853
2019
360
Captain
Emery
Essex
History
House
Johnson
Massachusetts
S.
Salem
Street
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Irving Street
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37 Irving Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for Mary Drinan, widow in 1874
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1874, 1991
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Stephen W. McFadden, Valerie E. McNaughton, Rory Goff
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English
1874
1991
37
Drinan
Goff
Irving
Mary
Massachusetts
McFadden
McNaughton
Rory
Salem
Stephen
Street
Valerie
widow
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386 Essex Street
Built for
Willard Goldthwaite
Merchant
1868
Research Provided by
Ryan Conary
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Chain of Title, 386 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
John M. Raymond, of Salem,
Executor of the last will of
Willard Goldthwaite, late of
May 28, 1894 Salem
Grantee(s)
William A. Dane of Hamilton
and J. Webster Dane of
Beverly
Consideration Conveyance of
"a certain parcel of land situate in said
$5,000 Salem..."
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
1412
392/393
Caleb J. Norwood and Martha
March 16, 1911 A. Norwood, both of Hamilton J. Webster Dane, of Salem
"in
consideration of
one dollar and
other good and
valuable
considerations "one undivided sixth part of a certain parcel
paid..."
of land situate in said Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2069 558/559/560
March 16, 1911 Ephraim A. Dane, of Salem
"in
consideration of
one dollar and
other good and
valuable
considerations "one undivided sixth part of a certain parcel
paid..."
of land situate in said Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2069
560/561
$10,000 "Land situate in said Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3694
272
"With quitclaim covenants the land in said
$52,000 Salem, together with the buildings thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6177
788
Robert W. Gunn
"The land in Salem, said Essex County,
Massachusetts, together with the buildings
$83,000 thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6269
618
November 15, 1978 Robert W. Gunn
George W. Bolin, Jr.
"The land in Salem, said Essex County,
together with the buildings thereon known
$85,000 and numbered as 386 Essex Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6539
762
September 2, 1980 George W. Bolin, Jr.
Borromee A. Dube and
Herbert B. Weston, joint
tenants
"The land in Salem, said Essex County,
together with the buildings thereon known
$94,500 and numbered as 386 Essex Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6733
67
"The land in Salem, said Essex County,
together with the buildings thereon known
$195,000 and numbered as 386 Essex Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
7510
243
"The land in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts together with the buildings
thereon known and numbered and known as
386 Essex Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
36279
58
J. Webster Dane, of Salem
Naumkeag Trust Company
and Richard D. Phippen,
Executors of the Will of J.
Manuel T. Solovicos and
Webster Dane, late of Salem, Margaret Solovicos, husband
September 30, 1949 Essex County, Massachusetts and wife
James M. Solovicos, of Salem,
and Raymond T. White, of
Peabody, both in the County
of Essex and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, Trustees
under the Will of Margaret
September 4, 1975 Solovicos, late of Salem
John J. Connelly, of Danvers
August 16, 1976 John J. Connelly
Borromee A. Dube and
Herbert B. Weston, joint
August 31, 1984 tenants
David G. Clarke, Trustee of
October 25, 2017 386 Essex Realty Trust
David G. Clarke, Trustee of
386 Essex Realty Trust
386 ESSEX STREET REALTY
LLC
"nominal
consideration
paid"
����������������������Detail from 1874 Salem Atlas showing the house listed at 388 Essex Street (later changed to 386 Essex Street)
�Willard Goldthwaite obituary from page 12 of the Boston Daily Globe, dated September 2, 1893. The
obituary states Mr. Goldthwaite’s address as 388 Essex Street, and that he built the residence in 1868.
�From the Goldthwaite genealogy, his entry (615) details his profession, and activities and interests.
�Willard Goldthwaite bequeathed a portion of his estate to Tufts College. He endowed the Martha
Goldthwaite Memorial Scholarship, and he is the namesake of the Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric.
�
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386 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Willard Goldthwaite
Merchant
1868
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1868, 2019
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Researched by Ryan Conary
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English
1868
2019
386
Essex
Goldthwaite
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Willard
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387 Lafayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for The Ahern Family by 1878
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1878, 1982
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Joyce King
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English
1878
1982
387
Ahern
Joyce
King
Lafayette
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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4 Andrew Street
Built as a stable for
Isabella C. Miller
1877
Converted to dwelling
after Great Salem Fire
1914
Research Provided by
Michael Redfern
August 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Chain of Title, 4 Andrew Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Nathaniel Silsbee of Salem,
November 28, 1832 Merchant
April 6, 1859 Nathaniel Silsbee Jr.
Grantee(s)
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
$1,000 "A lot of land situated in Salem aforesaid..."
Isabella C. Miller, wife of Charles
H. Miller of Salem, Merchant
"a certain parcel of land situate on the corner
of Pleasant and Andrew Streets in said
$1,000 Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Caroline L. Brown, wife of Frank
March 3, 1891 Isabella C. Miller of Salem, widow A. Brown of Salem
Frank A. Brown & Caroline L.
May 6, 1926 Brown, his wife
Consideration Conveyance of
Nathaniel Silsbee Jr. of Salem,
Merchant
"one dollar and
other valuable
considerations
paid"
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
268
43
585
"as her sole and separate
property free from all
interference or control by
90 her said husband..."
1303
63
"Being a portion of the
premises conveyed to
said Caroline L. Brown by
43 Isabella C Miller..."
"the land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2679
October 15, 1929 Francis Brown
Florence A. Woodbury, Annie E.
Woodbury, & Grace A. Woodbury, "consideration
all unmarried, of Salem
paid"
"the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2825
424
October 10, 1960 Annie Endicott Woodbury
William J. Toomey & Emma G.
Toomey, husband & wife, of
Salem
"consideration
paid"
"the land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
4710
405
Lucille S. Almquist of Salem
"consideration
paid"
"the land in said Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts together with the buildings
thereon..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5194
62
Claud W. Ashcraft & Phyllis G.
Ashcraft, husband & wife, of
Salem
"consideration
paid"
"the land with the buildings thereon, situated
on Andrew Street in said Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5275
342
Robert L. Scagliotti & Nackey
Scagliotti, husband & wife
"the land with buildings thereon situated at 4
Andrew Street, Essex County, Salem,
$24,000 Massachusetts..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
5711
263
Jacqueline Nangle
"the land with buildings thereon situated at 4
Andrew Street, Essex County, Salem,
$45,300 Massachusetts..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6228
667
Judith E. Whitney & Barbara E.
Harrison
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the
buildings thereon situated at 4 Andrew
$56,000 Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6549
370
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the
buildings thereon situated at 4 Andrew
$21,955 Street..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
6829
428
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
9811
162
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
9842
14
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
10935
361
William J. Toomey & Emma G.
August 3, 1964 Toomey
June 10, 1965 Lucille S. Almquist
Claud W. Ashcraft & Phyllis G.
September 11, 1970 Ashcraft
Robert L. Scagliotti & Nackey
April 1, 1976 Scagliotti
December 15, 1978 Jacqueline Nangle
Francis Brown of Salem
Barbara E. Harrison, AKA Barbara
E. Whitney & Judith E. Hanson,
Wayne D. Hanson & Judith E.
formerly Judith E. Whitney, of
Hanson, husband & wife, of
June 12, 1981 Nahant
Nahant
"consideration
paid"
a "parcel of land, with all buildings thereon,
situated in said Salem..."
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Notes
Wayne D. Hanson & Judith E.
December 8, 1988 Hanson
Mortgage Corporation of New
England
"the land in Salem, Essex County,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the
buildings thereon situated at 4 Andrew
$395,000 Street..."
Mortgage Corporation of New
December 30, 1988 England
Robert W. Dick, Trustee of the
Acquisition and Holding Trust
"4 Andrew Street, Salem, MA, bounded and
$250,000 described as follows..."
John J. Heaney, Trustee of the
September 6, 1991 Acquisition and Holding Trust
Fred Whitney & Carol Whitney,
husband & wife
"the following described premises known as
4 Andrew Street, Salem, Essex County,
$147,000 Massachusetts..."
�Inventory No:
SAL.2751
Historic Name:
Miller, Charles Stable
Common Name:
Brown, C. L. - Sweetser, Abbie and Mary House
Address:
4 Andrew St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Salem Common
Local No:
35-534
Year Constructed:
1877
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Second Empire
Use(s):
Out Building; Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Agriculture; Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HW: Salem Common Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (05/12/1976)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Slate
Wall: Vinyl Siding; Wood
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Uncut
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�FORM B - BUILDING
N R D I S 5/12/76
Assessor's number
USGS Quad
35-534
Town
Form Number
Area(s)
Salem
2751
HW
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Salem Common
Address
4 Andrew Street
Historic Name
Misses Sweetser House
(Charles Miller Stable)
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Stable
Date of Construction
Source
1877
Building permits
Style/Form
Second Empire
Architect/Builder
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Stone
Wall/Trim
V i n y l Siding
Roof
Slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
M a j o r Alterations (with dates) 1914 - carriage house
converted to residential use; c. 1980 - vinyl siding
Condition
good
Moved
no
Acreage
Setting
R e c o r d e d by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Date (month/year) M a r c h 1998
R E C E I V E D
Follow Massachusetts Histo,r^^lo^i^s^/t^irvey
O
yes
Date
3684 S F
densely built-up residential neighborhood of
19th -20th century buildings, east o f Washington
Common
Manual instructions for completing this form.
MASS. HIST. C M
OM
�B U I L D I N G F O R M (4 Andrew Street)
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
Functioning as a stable until the early 20th century, 4 Andrew Street is a single-story dwelling capped b y a mansard roof with
a bellcast profile, sheathed in slate fishscale shingles. The building rests on foundation o f uncut mortared stone and is
sheathed i n vinyl siding. The projecting eaves display a wide frieze and are adorned by paired scroll brackets. The main
entrance is located at the northeast corner o f the house and is sheltered by a recessed porch supported by a single Roman
Doric column resting on a wooden deck. The wooden door has 3 x 3 lights in the upper half and is fitted with a wooden
storm door. Adjacent to the entrance is a pair of 6/6 windows with a molded surround and shutters. The shed dormer on the
front roof slope has a set o f three windows consisting of two 6/6 sash with a narrow 4/4 window in the center. The remaining
windows on the building include individual 6/6 sash as well as sets o f three, a l l o f which are framed b y shutters. The dormers
similarly display a variety o f types and include two pedimented dormers with 6/6 and a central gable dormer with an 8/8
window on the west elevation. A n additional shed dormer is located on the east elevation.
The house is set directly on the sidewalk with a driveway extending to the west o f the house. A stockade fence encloses the
modest yard.
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.
Originally a stable for the adjacent property at what is now 96 Washington Square East, this building was constructed for
Charles M i l l e r i n 1877. According to building permits, M i l l e r was granted a permit for a 1 1/2-story building with a "French
r o o f , measuring 24 x 44 feet. M i l l e r was a merchant with a store at 170 1/2 Essex Street. B y 1897 the Washington Square
East property was owned by C . L . B r o w n and occupied by Frank A . Brown. It appears that the building was renovated for
residential use at the time o f the Salem 1914 fire. In 1914 the adjacent property at 96 Washington Square East, including this
building, was owned by Frank Brown, assistant manager of the National Lead Company. H e apparently renovated his barn
for Misses Abbie and M a r y Sweetser, who formerly lived at 185 Lafayette Street but were left homeless by the fire. The
1914 directory shows the sisters to be living at 30 Pleasant Street, apparently awaiting the completion o f 4 Andrew Street.
After M a r y Sweetser passed away in 1919, Abbie Sweetser continued to live here until her death i n 1922. Soon thereafter the
property was occupied by several people until 1930 when it was acquired by Florence Woodbury who continued to live here
into the 1950s. Annie Woodbury was in residence in the 1960s.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
City o f Salem, Building Permits, 1871-1889.
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas o f Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C . E . M a p o f the C i t y o f Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L . J . Atlas o f the C i t y o f Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem C i t y Directories, 1836-1970.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas o f the City o f Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.
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Built as a stable for
Isabella C. Miller
1877
Converted to dwelling
after Great Salem Fire
1914
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1877, 1914, 2018
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1914
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4 Carpenter Street
Built for
the Nichols family
c. 1905
Designed by
Ernest Machado
Architect
June 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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SAL.1604
Historic Name:
Nichols, Francis W. House
Common Name:
Address:
4 Carpenter St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-589
Year Constructed:
c 1905
Architect(s):
Machado, Ernest M. A.
Architectural Style(s):
Colonial Revival
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling
House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Aluminum Siding; Wood
Foundation: Stone, Uncut
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FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's number
U S G S Quad
26-589
Area(s)
Salem
Town
F o r m Number
HD,HR,HU,HJ
1604
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
4 Carpenter Street
Historic Name
Francis W. Nichols House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
c. 1905
Salem City Directories
Style/Form
Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder
Ernest Machado
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Stone
Wall/Trim
Aluminum Siding
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
M a j o r Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Moved
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Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
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community.
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the characteristics
of the building
in terms of other buildings
within the
4 Carpenter Street is a 2 1/2-story dwelling oriented with its narrow end to the street and its principal elevation facing north.
The building is sheathed in aluminum siding and capped by a flared gambrel roof which displays projecting eaves and cornice
returns and is covered with asphalt shingles. The foundation consists o f uncut stones. The north facade is two bays wide.
Projecting from the eastern bay on the facade is a single-story entrance porch supported by paired Roman Doric columns.
There is a wooden deck and stairs and the simple stick balustrade has an inset central diamond. The two-part door is flanked
by leaded sidelights. Windows primarily contain 6/6 sash with molded surrounds, exterior storm windows and shutters.
Centered in the gable is a tripartite window consisting of a 6/6 sash flanked by two narrow 2/2 sash. T w o pedimented
dormers rise from the north slope. Offset to the southeast is a two-story wing.
The house is set back slightly from the sidewalk with a narrow margin of hedges and plantings along the sidewalk.
HISTORICAL
NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
and
According to the previous 1975 survey form for this property, this house was constructed about 1905 according to designs by
local architect, Ernest Machado. Based on interior evidence including the location o f the fireplace, the present owner of the
house believes that the house was built on the site of an earlier dwelling although this could not be verified. Sanborn maps
indicate that there was no building on this site in 1890 although a house is present by 1906. The 1905 City Valuation
indicates that the land was vacant and owned by Jennie Emmerton. The house was apparently constructed shortly thereafter
for Francis W . Nichols who had an antiques store at 67 North Street. The Nichols family continued to own the property until
the 1950s; the last family member to liver here was Millicent Nichols. The property has had numerous occupants since that
time and served as a multiple dwelling for some time. It has now reverted to single-family use.
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REFERENCES
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C . E . M a p o f the City o f Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Reardon, Elizabeth K . Salem Historic District Study Committee Investigation, v. 3, p. 20.
Richards, L . J . Atlas o f the C i t y o f Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance M a p s , 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.
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National Register Criteria Statement form.
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Carpenter Street
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4 Carpenter Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
the Nichols family
c. 1905
Designed by
Ernest Machado
Architect
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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c. 1905, 2019
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English
1905
2019
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Massachusetts
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Salem
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4 Cousins Street
Built for
Mary and J. Frank Boynton
Clothier
1894
Rebuilt 1910
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
September 2018
Historic Salem Inc,
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�View of 4 Cousins Street, 2011 (Redfin)
Cousins Street
The land now known as Cousins Street was the last large plot in the Historic Derby
Street Neighborhood to be developed. The area previously housed the India Manufacturing
Company, which operated a jute mill. Jute is a fiber created from the inside bark of a plant,
native to India, that was commonly used to manufacture bags for bailing cotton.1 The jute mill,
Salem’s second, was built in 1867 on land known as the “Old English Estate,” a reference to
1
MACRIS, SAL.3347
�Phillip and Mary English, accused during the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. 2 The land around
the India Manufacturing Company was sold off in plots by the estate of David Nevins in May
1892. By September 1893, the name Cousins Street appears listed in deeds for the area.3 The
name Cousins, is in homage to well-known Salemite, Frank Cousins, a local photographer and
owner of Frank Cousins Bee-Hive, a souvenir shop in Salem’s downtown.
Mary and Frank Boynton purchased the lot on Cousins Street in 1894 from George
Pitman and Charles Brown, who had acquired the land and assisted in the designation of
Cousins Street, following the plots separation from the adjacent jute mill. The Boynton’s never
lived in the home at 4 Cousins Street but resided on Lafayette Street. It is likely that the
Boynton’s purchased the property on Cousins Street as an investment. Between 1890 and 1910,
Salem’s population increased by 42%. This spike led many Salemites and local developers to
build multi-family tenement homes to accommodate the surge of immigrants settling in Salem.4
In the early 20th century, the Historic Derby Street Neighborhood was predominantly
Polish. Attracted to job opportunities in the city’s mills and factories, Polish immigrants began
arriving in Salem around 1890 and by 1911, Poles comprised about 8% of the city’s overall
population. Religion played a strong role in the Polish community and as the number of Polish
Catholics in Salem grew, the need for a permanent house of worship became apparent. Herbert
Street and Union Street became the heart of the Polish Catholic presence in the city, after the
opening of St. John the Baptist Church, a parochial school, convent, and rectory. St. John the
2
Phillip and Mary English avoided execution by escaping from jail and finding refuge in New York. They later
returned to Salem to find their estate had been pillaged by Sheriff Corwin. Phillip sought reparations but only
received £260 of the estimated £1,183 lost.
3
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4
MACRIS, SAL.3270
�Baptist’s Reverend John Czubek was a central figure in this community, marrying or baptizing
many of Salem’s Poles. The new church increased the settlement of Polish immigrants in the
neighborhood and multiple single-family homes were converted or replaced with multi-family
tenements to house the growing population. This is likely the story of 4 Cousins Street, which
appears to have been built by the Boynton’s in 1894 as a two-family home. In 1910, the home
was replaced with a three-family tenement structure, which still stands today.5 It is likely that
the 1894 foundation and materials were re-used to create the larger home. The home is a
common style of its time and has a striking similarity to a home built at 24-26 Becket Street,
which is dated to c. 1911.
The Boyntons (1894-1911)
Jacob Franklin “Frank” Boynton (1859-1929) was born in Buxton, Maine in May 1859 to
Sarah and Charles Boynton, a merchant. On September 18, 1883, he married the daughter of
Mary and Thomas Waters, Mary A. Waters (1861-unknown) of Salem, Massachusetts. In 1881,
Frank began working in Salem’s clothing industry as a manager for H.B. Wilmot’s. By 1888 he
and another former Wilmot’s manager, Emery E. Kent, owned Kent & Boynton at the previous
H.B. Wilmot’s location, 250-254 Essex Street. The partners opened a second location and
factory of Kent & Boynton in Gloucester, specializing in oil cloth. The business was later
5
This hypothesis is based on evidence exhibited in the included maps, as well as directory listings which begin
showing three families from 1910 onward. The owner of the home was consulted and did not find any evidence of
the third floor being added to the home.
�renamed Cape Ann Clothing Co. and was lost to a fire in 1899 and again in 1912. 6 It appears
that Frank and Mary briefly lived apart in 1900, as Frank is listed as married but living with his
family without Mary in Wakefield, Massachusetts. 7 This separation may have been due to
financial troubles following the Gloucester fire and the failure of a third store for Kent &
Boynton in Newburyport. In 1912, Frank filed for bankruptcy. The Salem location of Kent &
Boynton was sold and replaced with Palmer Clothing House. In 1916, Frank opened another
store in Salem, Boynton’s Clothing Store at 187 Essex Street.8 In 1911, shortly after rebuilding 4
Cousins Street, Mary and Frank sold the home to Mary Ann and John Tyburski for the
remainder of their mortgage, $1,600.9
The Tyburskis (1911-1913)
John Tyburski (1882 – Unknown) was born in Poland on December 27, 1882 to Mary
(Washlek) and Antoni Tyburski. At the age of 13, John immigrated to America, arriving in New
York City prior to Salem. In 1900, John petitioned for U.S. Citizenship citing his brother, Josef
(Joseph) Tyburski, of Herbert Street and Franciszek (Frank) Soboczinski of Webb Street as his
6
The Clothier and Furnisher, Volume 89, Pg. 98, 1916, The Boston Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts) 05 Jul 1899, Wed • Other Editions • Page 6, The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 12
Feb 1909, Fri Page 5
7
Year: 1900; Census Place: Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0972; FHL
microfilm: 1240667
8
According to Clothiers' and Haberdashers' Weekly, Volume 10, Pg. 14, 1897 - The Greenwood Street area of
Wakefield was commonly known as Boyntonville, named for Frank’s parents, considered to be pioneers of the
area.
9
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2067:468
�witnesses.10 In 1908, John was married by Reverend John Czubek to Mary Jarocz, the daughter
of Josefa (née Lozdowska) and Mikolajah Jarocz, also from Poland.11 After living with John’s
family on Herbert Street, the couple purchased 4 Cousins Street in 1911, assuming the
remaining $1,600 mortgage of the Boyntons. When they sold the home only two years later,
they passed on a higher mortgage of $2,400.12 It is possible that this additional mortgage was
used to complete the renovation work begun by the Boyntons.
The Zbyszynskis (1913-1978)
Henryk “Henry” Zbyszynski (1882 – 1946) was born in Poland in 1882, to Petronela
(née Turowska) and Francis Zbyszynski. In 1905, he immigrated to the United States and
married Stefania Kozakiewicz (1885-1974), the daughter of Michalina (née Leczczynska) and
Michael Kozakiewicz. The couple was married at St. John the Baptist Church, in Salem, by Rev.
John Czubek on May 20, 1907.13 Together the couple had four children, Zenon (1909-1978),
Othelia “Tilly” (1911-Unknown), Theodosia (1913-1990), and Irene (1915-2009.) In 1913, Henry
and Stefania bought the home at 4 Cousins Street from the Tyburskis, assuming their $2,400
10
According to Salem Maritime National Historic Sites ethnography “In the Heart of Polish Salem,” both Josef
Tyburski and Franciszek Soboczinski were members of St. Joseph’s Polish Society.
National Archives at Boston; Waltham, Massachusetts; ARC Title: Copies of Petitions and Records of Naturalization
in New England Courts, 1939 - ca. 1942; NAI Number: 4752894; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: RG 85
11
Reference the House History for 14 Herbert Street and In the Heart of Polish Salem for more information on
Joseph Czubek.
New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915
12
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2202:57
13
New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915
�mortgage. 14 While living in the home, Henry worked primarily in the leather industry and later
as salesman. Around 1936, Henry opened a grocery store at 5 ½ Becket Avenue. 15 Stefania
worked in the shop with her husband, while the children began working in local factories as
teenagers. Shortly after opening the grocery store, Stefania and Henry Zbyszynski moved into
the adjoining house at 5 Becket Avenue. They continued to own and rent units in 4 Cousins
Street, moving back into the home in 1948. Their son, Zenon continuously occupied one of the
units with his wife Ann and when Henry died in 1947, Stefania moved in with them. Overall the
Zbyszynskis owned 4 Cousins Street for sixty-five years, the longest occupants in the home’s
history. In 1978, the home was sold to William Little, following the death of Zenon Zbyszynski.
After 1978, the home went through a series of owners and foreclosures, falling into
disrepair. In 2015, 4 Cousins Street was purchased by Keith Crook (b. 1984) a marketing
specialist, and Oliver Kempf (b. 1990), an engineer. The couple spent the next few years
updating and restoring the three-family home, to include adding solar panels. During this
process, they discovered shoes hidden within a wall, a traditional practice meant to bring
protection and good luck to a home.16 The couple also unearthed items from the home’s privy
pit, including tea cups, pottery fragments, and medicine bottles. 17
14
Othelia also appears as Oliya in records.
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2202:57
15
Also listed as 74 Derby Street
16
Shoes were left undisturbed in the first floor, interior wall, next to the bathroom.
17
The privy pit dates c. 1894-1905, when Salem adopted city-wide trash pick-up.
�Buyer
Years of
Ownership
1893-1894
Number
of Years
<1
1894-1911
17
Mary Ann Tyburski
John Tyburski
1911-1913
2
Henryk and Stefania
Zbyszynski
1913-1978
65
William D. Little
John P. Keane, Jr.
Andrew T. Hingson
Eric D. Jackson
Joanne Y. Jackson
John J. Suldenski
1978
1978-1981
1981-1982
1982-1893
<1
4
<1
9
1983-1992
9
Daniel T. Curtin
Four Cousins Realty
Trust
Robert J. O’Grady
Thomas E. Lawlor
(a.k.a. Lawler)
Yvonne Greene
Federal National
Mortgage Association
Anoniou Aristides
Keith Crook
Oliver Kempf
1992-1995
3
1995-2002
2002-2011
7
9
2011-2012
2012-2015
2015-Present
(As of 2018)
George W. Pitman
Etta M. Pitman
Charles W. Brown
Mary A. Boynton
Jacob Frank Boynton
Purchase Price
“One dollar
and other
considerations”
“One dollar
and other
considerations”
“One dollar
and other
considerations”
“One dollar
and other
considerations”
$4,500
$15,000
$57,000
$40,000
$5,000
$53,582
Document
Referenced
Deed 1395:525
Deed 1407:214
Notes
1345:63 (Plan)
Owned in conjunction with land between Webb and
English streets. References Cousins Street
$2,800 mortgage with Salem Savings Bank
Never listed as occupying the home
Deed 2067:468
$1,600 previous mortgage remainder
Deed 2202:57
$2,400 previous mortgage remainder
Henryk and Stefania a.k.a. Henry and Stephanie
Deed 6445:443
Deed 6452:739
Deed 6789:574
Deed 7017:366
Deed 8414:507
Mortgaged for $30,000
Foreclosed (Deed 6999:159)
Purchased after property was foreclosed
Deed 11655:170
Assumed responsibility of previous mortgage balance of
$53,582
Foreclosed (Deed 11186:583)
Purchased after property was foreclosed
$117,500
$315,000
Deed 13194:2
Deed 19000:422
Foreclosed (Deed 29980:370)
<1
$223,119
Deed 30336:496
Foreclosure
4
3+
$300,500
$510,000
Deed 31110:526
Deed 34270:508
Purchased after the property was foreclosed.
�Resident
Henry M. Strout
Daniel M. Hersey
William H. Foye
Meader A. Buck
William H. Foye
F.H. Haines
William H. Foye
F.H. Haines
David J. Hard
C.H. Gillis
C.H. Gillis
James Curran
C.H. Gillis
P.J. Curran
Mrs. C. Clark
J. Tyburski
J. Callahan
Mrs. C. Clark
E.A. Montgomery
J. Callahan
Mrs. C. Clark
Henry C. Zbyszynski
J. Callahan
Mrs. C. Clark
Henry C. Zbyszynski
A. Danda
Mrs. C. Clark
Henry C. Zbyszynski
Mrs. C. Balcomb
Mrs. C. Clark
Henry C. Zbyszynski
Mrs. C. Balcomb
Miss F. Clark
Directory
Year
1895
Notes
1897
1899-1901
1898 directory unavailable
1903-1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Mrs. C. Clark resides in the house until 1924. (14
years)
1911
John and Mary Tyburski
1912
1913
1914-1915
1916-1924
1926
First listing for Zbyszynski
�John J. Clark
Ellery B. Hendricks
Benjamin LeVasseur
Henry C. Zbyszynski
Dennis F. Lawlor
Frank Tobin
Henry C. Zbyszynski
Joseph Bajkiewicz
Oliver F. Davidson
Henry Zbyszynski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Fred Harrison
Henry Zbyszynski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Henry Zbyszynski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
John J. Stankiewicz
Chester Kobuczwiski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Raymond E. DesRosiers
Chester Kobuczwiski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Vacant
Chester Kobuczwiski
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Frederick Kelliher
Ernest A. Dempsey
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Frederick Kelliher
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Frederick Kelliher
Everette E. Saunders
Zenon R. Zbyszynski
Frederick Kelliher
Anthony Lamonte
Stefania and Zenon Zbyszynski
Anthony Lamonte
Zenon and Stefania Zbyszynski
and Mrs. Victoria Kozeo
1929
1930-1932
1934
1935
Zenon’s first year appearing in the directory at
this address.
1936
1937
1939
1940
1942-1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1964
The Zbyzynskis resided in the home until 1978
�1874 Salem Atlas
�1897 Salem Atlas
�1911 Salem Atlas
�1890-1903 Salem Atlas (Plate 12)
�1906-1938 Salem Atlas
�Similar construction seen at 24 Becket Street, built c. 1911. (MACRIS: SAL 3270)
�Salem (Mass.). City Documents. 1893.
�Clothiers' and Haberdashers' Weekly, Volume 10, Pg. 14, 1897
�The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 12 Feb 1909, Fri Page 5
�The Boston Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
04 Dec 1912, Wed • Main Edition • Page 8
The Clothier and Furnisher, Volume 89, Pg. 98, 1916
�Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards 1733–1990. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
�Palmer Clothing House, 250 Essex Street. c. 1912. Previously the home of Kent & Boynton.
(Salem State University Archives and Special Collections)
�The Boston Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
19 Feb 1929, Tue • Main Edition • Page 13
�History of 5 Becket Avenue, which housed Zbyszynski’s grocery store. (MACRIS Sal.3301)
�Find A Grave, memorial page for Henry Zbyszynski (22 Oct 1882–1946), Find A Grave Memorial no. 82112501, citing Saint Mary's Cemetery, Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Kathy Krysiak (contributor 46917874).
�The Boston Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
02 Feb 1992, Sun • Page 167
�Restoration: before (2015) and after (2018) by Keith Crook and Oliver Kempf.
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4-10 Central Street & 193-195 Essex Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this building was built in 1805 for the merchants
B. Herbert Hathorne and W. Shepard Gray, as a brick block that housed stores
and a residence.
Before 1805 ...
Sidney Perley, in the article "A Part of Salem in 1700" (pp.109-110, Essex
Antiquarian, vol. 11 ), writes that on the site of this building was the lot, with house,
that William Browne sold to Thomas Cromwell, tailor, in 1664. After Cromwell's
death (17 March 1686/7), in 1690 his widow, Ann, and two daughters, Mrs.
Jonathan (Jane) Pickering and Mrs. David (Ann) Phippen, sold the house and land to
Benjamin Browne, merchant (ED 8: 170), who had a stable and warehouse farther
down the street, and his shipping wharf at its foot. By 1693 he had sold the house
and its land to David Phippen, shipwright, son-in-law of the earlier owner Mr.
Cromwell. M~. Phippen died in 1703, leaving his widow Ann, son Thomas Phippen,
and daughters Abigail Fumeux, Anne Ropes, and Elizabeth Webb. In May, 1714,
John Brown, merchant, bought the house and land; and by the time of his death in
1719 the house was evidently gone.
This property was owned by Hon. Benjamin Browne at his death in 1750.
In the 1760s a Scotch sailor, Robert Rantoul, came to Salem and settled here. He
prospered as a shipmaster, and sailed against the British in the Revolution, and made
money as a privateer; and, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, Capt. Rantoul,
on 5 December 1782 for 850 Ii purchased from the heirs of Hon. Benjamin Browne
(John & Martha Browne and Timothy & Eunice Fitch) a lot and buildings at the
westerly corner of the "main street" (Essex) and "the lane leading to the water"
(Central), about 20 poles of land fronting 50' northerly on the street, and 120'
easterly on the lane. There was "a warehouse or small building standing on the
northeast comer thereof." Capt. Rantoul intended to build his residence thereon, and
on Dec. 20th contracted with Eleazer Lindsey to supply the rocks for a cellar 40'
square and 6.5' deep. Unfortunately, Capt. Rantoul was lost at sea on his next
voyage (see EIHC 5:147).
At that time, Central Street--"the lane leading to the water," also known as "the
street leading from the Sun tavern to the South River"-terminated in a public
�landing on the inner harbor (South River), at a point just south of its present
intersection with Charter and Front Streets. The "lane" became Market Street as of
1794, when, at the foot of the street, a new market building was erected for the sale
of fish, shellfish, meat, and produce from the countryside. Later it would be renamed Central Street, probably c.1816, when a new Market Building was built at
Derby Square.
The comer property remained in the ownership of the Rantoul family for many
years; and on the land stood at least one house and three shops, one of them being
the small warehouse mentioned in the 1782 deed to Capt. Rantoul. The Rantoul
family resided on Essex Street, opposite Union. Robert Rantoul (1778-1858), in a
memoir of his life and family, mentions his father's ownership of this property and
notes that it was sold in November, 1804, to W.S. Gray and B.H. Hathorne for
$8500, and that "Gray and Hathorne build a brick block of stores and houses upon
it" (EIHC 5:149). This statement is corroborated by Benjamin F. Browne, in his
Youthfitl Recollections of Salem, published in 1869 (EIHC 49:204), in which he
wrote that a house had been "removed (to Andrew Street) from Central Street to
make room for the Central building, erected by W.S. Gray and Benj. H. Hathorne, in
1805. This house belonged to "Joseph Young, hatter, and organist of St Peter's
Church, who died April 21, 1803, aged 46." In another piece, B.F. Browne wrote,
"Previous to the erection of the Central Building in 1805, there were several old
wooden buildings on this lot of land ... The western shop I principally remember as
being kept by a Mrs. Baldwin. Nathaniel Weston had a shoemaker's shop in one of
them. It (Mrs. Baldwin's) was much resorted to by the boys of that time for the
purchase of marbles and other knickknacks. The old lady came to an untimely end
(March, 1808) from eating bread in the meal of which some arsenic had been
incautiously used in the bread. Joseph Young had a hatter's shop and dwelling
house on Central Street. It was moved to Andrew Street ... " (EIHC 5: 197).
There are other records of the buildings that stood here before 1805. Samuel Webb,
silversmith, had a shop here on Central Street, pre-1805 (see B.F. Browne, 1869
Youthful Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:204). And in his 1793 Account ofHouses
in Salem (EIHC 6:94), Benjamin Pickman mentions that, on land owned by the
widow "Rentall" (Rantoul), stood, on Essex Street, a shop owned by Mr. William
King. To the west of that shop had stood two small houses that had burned down in
1792. To the west of those houses, on Essex Street, stood the house of Dr. Edward
Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829). East of the King shop, also on land ofMrs.
Rantoul, stood a "hatter's shop, owned by Mr. Breck the hatter." Col. Pickman
identified the comer property as "formerly owned by the Brownes."
�In July, 1792, Edward Breck, Salem hatter, purchased for 15 Ii the east end of a
house that was "standing on the land ofRentall's heirs" (ED 154:265). The house
was the one that was owned by Joseph Young, hatter, who may have resided in its
westerly end, and who had mortgage the easterly end in 1787 and lost it on
foreclosure. Mr. Breck mortgaged his new homestead to Mrs. Mary Rantoul for 3 0
li, and paid off the loan by April, 1795 (ED 154:266).
Rev. William Bentley, in his diary, gives an account of the 1792 fire, on August 30th.
The fire broke out at 1 PM in Young's hatter's shop, which stood opposite the Sun
Tavern (on north side of Essex Street). Next to the shop were the small dwellings of
the widows Beckford and Manning. The season had been dry, and the firefighters
were disorganized: the fire spread westerly from the shop to the "small house" next
door, which could not be saved; and the firefighters quicldy demolished the house
next westerly, to keep the fire from spreading. Mrs. Manning in particular suffered
greatly from her losses in this fire. Mr. Bentley was one of the fire-fighters, and, in
order to get the water up to the fire, stood waist-deep in "the dock mud below the
Sun Tavern," meaning next to the wharf at the foot of Market Street.
From this, it would appear that, in the years before the present Hathorne-Gray block
was built, there was a hatter's shop at or near the comer of Essex and Market
(Central) in 1793, conducted by both Breck and Young, and that the Breck-Young
house on Market Street was removed to Andrew Street in 1805 to make way for the
building of this large new business block. Also on or near the comer was the shop
of the ill-fated Mrs. Baldwin. On Essex Street, west of the corner, also on the site of
this building, was the shop of William King; and to the south, on Market Street, was
Samuel Webb's silversmith shop, along with the shoemaker's shop ofNathaniel
Weston. Too, Samuel Rantoul, son of the deceased owner, kept an apothecary shop
here. Samuel died in June, 1802, while away from Salem. Bentley noted in his
diary, 13 June 1802, "The father of S. Rantoul sustained an excellent character and
died just before I came to Salem. His widow lived in the same house in which I first
dwelt. The father left a good interest and to his heirs belongs the western comer of
Market Street in Essex Street, at which Samuel kept an apothecary's shop. Robert
keeps an apothecary's shop in Beverly." Robert, after whom Rantoul Street in
Beverly is named, became a leading man of Essex County.
Before April, 1800, the store at the comer of the two streets was operated by john
Dabney, stationer, as a post office and a book store-one of the earliest attempts at a
private lending library, which was renowned for the excellence of its volumes. On 29
April 1800 for $400 Mr. Dabney sold his building, on the Rantouls' land, to Robe1i
Rantoul (ED 168 :69).
�1805 and Afterward ...
On 3 November 1804 the Rantoul heirs sold the premises here for $8,500 to William
Shepard Gray and Benjamin Herbe1i Hathorne, Salem merchants (ED 175: 108). The
property was described as a piece of land containing about 20 poles, bounded northerly
on Essex Street, easterly on market Street, and southerly and westerly on land of Dr.
Edward A. Holyoke; and it was stipulated that the Rantouls "and others who have
placed and have buildings standing on said piece of land," had "the right to move the
same buildings and each of them from the same place of land upon paying the ground
rent ... within four months from this day." Presumably the Rantouls and the others did
clear their buildings off the land by February, 1805; certainly the Young house was
moved to Andrew Street and perhaps the shops and other buildings also found new
sites.
The new owners, Messrs. Gray & Hathorne, on the day of the purchase, took out
mortgages from Miss Polly Rantoul of Salem for $2,833.33 and from her brother,
Robert Rantoul, Beverly apothecary, for $4,666.66 (ED 175:108,109). Thus the
merchants had but $1,000 in equity invested in the property at the time of purchase.
There is little doubt that Messrs. Gray & Hathorne had big plans for the site at the time
that they bought it. Perhaps they had gone to Samuel Mcintire, the noted Salem
architect, for a design for their intended brick business block, which also included at
least one residential unit. In his study of the works of Mcintire, Fiske Kimball was
unable to uncover proof ofMcintire's involvement in the project, but, due to the
carving of the eagle for one of the new tenants, the U.S. Custom House, and due to the
building's similarity to a known Mcintire composition (the Steams & Waldo block,
now gone, once at the n01iheast coiner of Essex & Washington), he felt that Samuel
Mcintire was likely the designer (see Kimball's Mr. Samuel Mcintire, Carver, The
Architect of Salem). Kimball also traces the whereabouts of some of the building's
interior fittings, which were dispersed to various houses over the years.
For Mr. Gray, the building was evidently an investment and an income-producer; for
Mr. Hathorne, it was also the new home of his import dry-goods business. Benjamin H.
Hathorne (1773-1824) dealt in British textiles-blankets and cloths-in the days when
there were virtually no textiles manufactured in America. On Oct. 2, 1805, he
submitted an adve1iisement to the Salem Register newspaper. The notice began, "Benj.
H. Hathorne Has Removed to the New Brick STORE, corner of Essex and Market
Street, near the Banks, and has ready for sale, a great variety of Fall and Winter
Goods," which are enumerated. The building was completed and occupied, then, by
�September of 1805. It was not at first called the Central Building, but was given that
name by 1808.
Another early tenant was the firm of Derby & Cross, tailors, whose store was here by
Nov. 28, 1805. Their advertisement (sample: Salem Register, 6 Jan. 1806) ran "Derby
& Cross, Tailors, respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have
removed from their former stand to the chamber fronting Market and Essex Streets, of
the new brick building, where they will be happy to receive orders in their line, and
every favor gratefully acknowledged. Wanted: Two Journeymen at the above."
A major tenant of the new brick building was the U.S. Custom House, for which
Samuel Mcintire carved the eagle with the date 1805. At that time, Market Street was
the major thoroughfare to the waterside of the inner harbor (South River), which ran
past the market place; and the area was thick with the masts of vessels tied up alongside
wharves and warehouses. Froin the foot of Market Street, Front Street ran westerly
along the waterfront, while Fish Street and Water Streets ran past the buildings whose
yards backed against the wall of the Burying Point graveyard. These salty streets had
houses, wharves, stores, lofts, shops, and distilleries. Market Street made the transition
from the hurly-burly of the waterfront to the residences and stores of Essex Street. On
the lower part of Market Street, between the new Hathorne-Gray building and Front
Street, were houses; and across the street were fine houses (including some marching up
Charter Street), a tavern, and a bank building and insurance office. At the moment that
the new building was built, one of the houses across the street was the double residence
of Nathaniel Bowditch, the navigator and author (and new president of an insurance
company) and Col. William Raymond Lee, formerly of Marblehead, whom Jefferson
had in 1802 appointed Collector of the Port of Salem & Beverly, and at whose direction
the U.S. Custom House was moved to the new brick building of Hathorne & Gray.
Bowditch moved in the year 1805 to Summer Street, but Col. Lee remained a resident
of Market Street.
The colonial (royal) Custom House in Salem had been situated in a house on Gedney
Court, off High Street, and later on Essex Street in a building that was demolished to
prevent the spread of the great fire of October, 1774. In 1776 Warwick Palfrey was
appointed the first Collector of U.S. Customs in Salem; and his office was located at or
near the Curwen house (now called the "Witch House"), corner of Essex and North
Streets. lvir. Palfrey was succeeded in 1784 by Maj. Joseph Hiller. Major Hiller served
ably for 18 years, during the last 13 of which the Custom House offices were kept in a
building across the street from the site of this one. How many rooms here were devoted
to the federal Customs operations in 1805 is not known; certainly not the whole
building. In those days, Salem was one of the leading ports of the nation, and the value
�of Salem cargoes accounted for about one-twentieth of all federal revenues, which were
largely derived from tariffs on foreign imports. At that time, Salem's merchants owned
a total of 54 ships, 18 barks, and 72 brigs (there were 86 schooners as well, probably
engaged in fishing and coasting for wood).
In 1807, per D.M. Little's article, the Custom House offices were moved to the house of
Mr. Bentley's great friend Dr. Moses Little at 131 Essex Street, and in 1811 to the
Archer Building (site of Hawthorne Hotel); however, I believe this could not be
completely true, for in May, 1809, just after the Embargo was lifted, the Custom House
offices were evidently on the second or third floor of the Central (Hathorne-Gray)
Building (see 1809 Peter Lander advertisement below). In 1813, per the article, the
Custom House offices were moved back into the Central Building here; and evidently
Col. William R. Lee, the Collector, also had his residence here. The Central Building
here remained the home of the Custom House until the opening of the new building at
the head of Derby Wharf, the handsome brick U.S. Custom House, now part of the
federal maritime park. (For information about the Custom House and Collectors, see
R.S. Rantoul's article, The Port of Salem, EIHC 10:62; see also EIHC 67:11, David M.
Little's article, History of the Salem Custom House)).
Of the owners of the building, their careers were in full swing as of 1805.
Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (1773-1824) was born on 9 Sept 1773, the son of Col. John
Hathorne and his wife Susannah Herbert, the daughter of Capt. Benjamin Herbert, after
whom Herbert Street was named. His father was a prominent merchant in Salem, with
a large brick house built in 1774-1775 in Essex Street west of Washington Street, which
is where Benjamin grew up, the eldest of 14 children. In the house was Col. Hathome's
dry-goods store (EIHC 6:108). By early manhood, Benjamin H. was known as Herbert
Hathorne. His brothers John and William were merchants as well, and his eccentric
younger brother Ebenezer (1789-1858) would become a mariner and adventurer who
went west but finally settled down in Salem as a farmer and nurseryman. The Colonel,
a prominent local Jeffersonian politician, had his town house and a farmhouse on Salem
Neck, around where the power plant complex now is. In 1809 he moved permanently
to the farmhouse (where he would die in 1835), and sold the town house to his son
William, who rented it to Joshua Dodge in 1809. Like all Salem Hathornes of that time,
Benjamin's father was descended from Col. John Hathorne, one of the justices of the
witchcraft trials in 1692. The Hathorne family had been prominent in early Salem
history, but by 1800 they were of varying fortunes. Col. John's branch was foremost.
One of Benjamin Herbert Hathorne's first cousins was Capt. Nathaniel Hathorne (17751808), of Union Street, whose son, Nathaniel Jr., born in 1804, would grow up to
�become Hawthorne, the writer. Hawthorne changed the spelling of the name because
he did not like the way that "Hathorne" was pronounced, especially in Salem, where it
was invariably pronounced "Har-thorne."
On 31 July 1799, "Herbert Harthorne married Miss Hall", per the diary of Miss Susann
Holyoke (1779-1860) (see Holyoke Diaries, p.175). This is the only record of this
marriage. Miss Hall was Rebecca Hall, evidently from Boston. The couple would not
have children, but would adopt a daughter, Rebecca Hathorne Hall, born in 1813,
evidently a daughter of Mrs. Hall's brother James. As has been noted, B. Herbert
Hathorne went into business as a dry goods merchant, importing English textiles and
selling them here in his shop, which faced on Essex Street. In March, 1808, for $5,000
he mortgaged his half-interest in the land and the "large brick tenement thereon ...
known by the name of Central building" (ED 182:233).
Wm. Shepard Gray (1773-1824), the other owner of the building, was born in Salem on
30 July 1773, the son of a house-painter, William Gray, and his wife Susannah Shepard.
His father owned a house on the north side of Charter Street, not far from Central
Street. The son changed his name by an act of the legislature in 1798, from William to
William Shepard Gray, because there were five other William Grays in Salem at the
time, including William "Billy" Gray, the eminent merchant, to whom this Gray was
not related. Wm. Shepard Gray married Ann Knight Morland in Newburyport in 1798.
In August, 1800, he was described as "a scribe" when he purchased a piece of land and
a house on upper Federal Street. In 1805 it seems that he worked for the Essex Bank,
preparing loan documents and other instruments. He would later become a ship-owner
and merchant while maintaining his position with the Essex Bank.
In 1805 a bridge was built across the South River, extending Market Street across the
water and connecting it with a new roadway (now known as Lafayette Street) through
the South Fields. The new bridge, which was proposed by the Derby family as a
convenience and in order to help develop their South Salem holdings, was opposed by
the Crowninshields and by William Orne, Joshua Ward, and others who owned wharves
west of it on the South River. At the time of the building of the bridge, evidently, the
market house was moved away.
On 3 November 1807 William Bentley made his first visit to the Hathorne-Gray
building, which now housed the Essex Lodge of Masons. The Lodge, he noted, "has a
new hall in the new brick building, comer of Essex & Market Streets, on the west side
entering Market Street. It was handsomely decorated, the officers enthroned and the
floors spread with carpets and the officers supplied with badges and the apartment with
furniture far above the ancient style. I had never seen the place before. We had a full
�company, an initiation lecture, and a good supper, and parted apparently well pleased
with each other."
On 12 December 1808, Rev. William Bentley composed a letter to William Logan of
Charleston, in which he wrote, "Were you to visit Salem, you would discover great
changes in this town, since your last tarry with us. The encouragement given to brick
buildings has added much to the appearance of Salem. A large block of buildings forms
the comer of1'farket Street, and the market house is removed, and a bridge passes over
South River ... " (EIHC 82:381). This was the period of the Embargo, in which all
foreign commerce was prohibited by the federal government, in an effort to cut off
England from needed supplies, and force the English to stop preying on American
shipping. The Embargo, which was a policy failure and which was disastrous in
bringing all of Salem's commerce to a halt, and throwing all of the mariners out of
work, was removed early in 1809; and foreign commerce resumed.
In May, 1809, Peter Lander, a financial broker, moved into the building, which was
then known as the Central Building. On 10 May 1809 (in the Essex Register
newspaper), a notice ran as follows:
"Insurance, Stock & Exchange Office. Peter Lander informs his friends and the
public that he has taken an office in Central Building, under the Custom House,
and offers his services in the Insurance Stock & Exchange business, where
insurance may be made against all risks, a premium always named proportioned
to the nature of the risk, and the terms and conditions of insurance known upon
application. Likewise, (he) advances money on goods deposited for sale,
purchases and sells public stocks, bills of exchange, shares of any bank and
insurance companies, and negotiable notes, and transacts any other business in
the broker's line."
He also noted "8,000 or 10,000 weight heft green Martinique coffee in casks, for sale
by said Lander."
In the same issue William Hathorne, Jr., ran advertisements offering his father's former
brick house and two stores for sale, and hawking
"Cotton Yam, cheap as can be had at the Manufactory. American, water-spun,
cotton warp & filling, directly from the Smithfield Cotton Manufactory, for sale
at the sign of the subscriber, William Hathorne, Jr., also a small quantity of first
quality knitting yam."
From this, it is apparent that William dealt (sometimes, anyway) in the new Americanmade cotton yams manufactured in Rhode Island; and he had a store here. In 1810,
�another tenant was the Salem Athenaeum, whose library of books and reading rooms
were located here.
In June, 1810, Mr. W. Shepard Gray was owner of the 113-ton brig Mary, Capt.
William Scallon, engaged in foreign trade; and in October, 1810, .Nir. Gray and Robert
.Nforland (his brother-in-law perhaps) were owners of the same vessel, now commanded
by Capt. William Lander (EIHC 41 :144). In December, 1810, he and two others owned
the 133-ton schooner Eliza, registered for foreign trade under Capt. Nathaniel Archer
(EIHC 40:72). In February, 1811, Mr. Gray was one of five owners of the 128-ton
schooner Rising States, Capt. Samuel Lamson, engaged in foreign trade (EIHC 41 :329).
In March, 1812, he was sole owner of the Rising States, Capt. Peter Lander, registered
for overseas trade (EIHC 41 :329). And in September, 1812, he was owner of the brig
Mary, registered for trade under Capt. Benjamin Archer (EIHC 41: 144).
Messrs. Hathorne and Gray owned the building jointly until 16 January 1811, when
they made a division of the property, with Gray receiving the largest portion (ED
192:198). To Hathorne went $500 and the northern end of the lot, with the buildings on
and cellar under, fronting 33' on Market Street, the running 40' westerly through the
northerly partition wall, then running another 10' on a piece of land left in common,
then running northerly 29' by land of Edward A. Holyoke Esq., then running easterly
50' on Essex Street, together with a right of the eaves droppings at the south side of the
southwesterly comer of the buildings (probably for a supply of fresh water). The
partition wall separated the two parts of the building, but did not extend through the
roof; if it were to be so extended, the two parties agreed to bear equal expense. To Gray
went $10 and the southern part of the premises, on which stood the "dwelling house,
stores, and other buildings, and the cellars under the same," and the land fronting
easterly 87' on Market Street, southerly 50' and westerly 82' on land of Edward A.
Holyoke Esq., then running easterly 1O' on the land left in common, then running
northerly 9' to the northerly partition wall, then easterly through the wall to Market
Street. From this, it would seem that part of the southerly part of the building was used
as a residence. Mr. Gray evidently did not live there, but resided in a new house that he
had built on Federal Street. As the son of a house-painter, he had made an
extraordinary leap upward in socio-economic rank.
Salem had resumed its seafaring commerce for three years, but still the British
preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812, war was declared against Britain.
Although Salem had opposed the war as being potentially ruinous and primarily
for the benefit of the southern and western war-hawk states, yet when it came,
Salem swiftly fitted out 40 privateers manned by Marblehead and Salem crews,
who also served on U.S. Navy vessels, including the Constitution. Many more
�could have been sent against the British, but some of the Federalist merchants held
their vessels back. In addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and artillery.
Salem and Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of
British supply vessels. While many of the town's men were wounded in
engagements, and some were killed, the possible riches of privateering kept the
men returning to sea as often as possible. The first prizes were captured by a 30ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame, and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted with
one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem privateers, the Crowninshields' 350-ton ship
America was the most successful. She would capture 30-plus prizes worth more
than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. In June, 1813, off Marblehead Neck, the British frigate
Shannon defeated the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake. Salem's Federalists, some
of whom continued to oppose ..the war bitterly, would not allow their churches to be
used for the funeral of the Chesapeake's slain commander, James Lawrence
("Don't give up the ship!").
In the fall of 1813, Cushing & Appleton evidently had a bookstore in the comer
store in Mr. Hathome's part of the building. On 12 October 1813 in the Salem
Gazette, Cushing & Appleton advertised the sale of Spanish cigars and of Oliver
vVelch's new book, American Arithmetic, "adapted to the currency of the U.S.,
to which is added a concise treatise on the mensuration of planes and solids ... "
At the same store was a subscription list for those who wished to sign up for Mr.
Vincent Masi's new "school for dancing." John Fermo, broker, probably with
offices in the Central Building at the time, placed this ad (Gazette, 12 Oct. 1813):
"For Sale. Shares in Mercantile Bank. Shares in Salem Bank. Shares in
Beverly Bank. Apply to John W. Fermo, Broker, who buys and sells bills of
all incorporated banks in the Union. U.S. Treasury Notes negotiated. Also,
approved endorsed Notes, at Bank discount. Wanted: shares in Salem
Turnpike, and a Mass. State Note for $1000 or $1200. Exchange on
Baltimore for sale as above."
In April, 1814, the people gathered along the shores of Salem Neck as three sails
appeared on the horizon and came sailing on for Salem Bay. These vessels proved
to be the mighty Constitution in the lead, pursued by the smaller British frigates
Tenedos and Endymion. The breeze was light, and the British vessels gained, but
Old Ironsides made it safely into Marblehead Harbor, to the cheers of thousands.
�In June, 1814, at the meeting of the Essex Guards militia company, W. Shepard
Gray was elected lieutenant, but he declined to serve (EIHC 57:257). On 4 July
1814 the Essex Guards paraded through Salem, and Mr. Gray served as one of
the four Marshals of the Day, with an oration delivered by Leverett Saltonstall
(EIHC 57:268).
On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. At sea, as time
wore on, Salem's vessels often were captured, and its men imprisoned or killed.
After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the menfolk were
disappearing. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British prison-ships and at
Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in 1814, New England
Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to bring the war to a. close
and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy Pickering of Salem led the
extreme Federalists in proposing an ultimatum threatening New England's
seceding from the United States; but the Pickering faction was countered by
Harrison G. Otis of Boston and the moderate Federalists, who prevailed in sending
a more reasonable message to Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored. Post-war, the Salem merchants
rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide trade, slowly at first, and then to
great effect. A new U.S. Custom House would be built in 1819, on the site of the
George Crowninshield mansion, at the head of Derby Wharf.
In the spring of 1815, Jonathan P. Saunders, auctioneer, town clerk (later if not then),
and map-maker, had his office at the Central Building. On 19 April 1815 in the Essex
Register he advertised for sale "at J.P. Saunders' Store, Central Building, Market Street,
the sale of the library of the late Rev. Thomas Barnard (appended to this report). In
1820 he would publish his "Plan of the Town of Salem," an excellent chart of the city,
its streets, and landmarks.
In the fall of 1815, one of the major tenants of the building was R. F. Cloutman,
who dealt in glass, crockery, and hard-ware (see appended advertisement, 25 Oct.
1815, Essex Register). His stock consisted of everything from fish-hooks to
spectacles to shovels to elegant tea-trays, decanters, tumblers, dinner-ware. He
was still running his ads in November, 1816: "at his old stand, Central Building,"
he offered "a full assortment of crockery, china, glass, and hardware," including
tea sets, Canton and London dining sets, sickles, cutlery, pins, viol strings, Dutch
brushes, coffee mills, English shovels, etc. (appended to this report).
�The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not resumed post-war, as the
middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more powerful. and brought about
civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
(founded 1817). Salem men continued to hold high places in the federal
government: Benjamin W. Crowninshield was formerly Secretary of the Navy,
among other things. It was he who arranged for Rev. William Bentley to have his
portrait painted by James Frothingham, who was then residing in Salem. In his
diary, Bentley noted that on 20 Nov. 1818 Mr. Crowninshield escorted him to "the
apartments of a painter named Frothingham, from Charlestown," where they saw
several fine portraits and some paper profiles. Bentley, evidently impressed,
agreed to sit for Frothingham. On Nov. 23 he recorded that he went "to Mr.
Frothingham' s at the Central buildings ... and had my first sitting" that evening.
The result was a famous portrait (now displayed in East India Marine Hall at the
Peabody Essex Museum) of Mr. Bentley, one of the most extraordinary men of his
time. Later, James Frothingham had his studio on Essex Street; and in 1825 or so
he moved to Boston, and then to New York City.
In 1818 there was still good money to be made in Salem's maritime trade, but it
required a higher level of skill and perspicacity than it had in 1805. As Bentley
wrote in his diary in 1811, "While we (in Salem) went before the wind, credit was
boundless and success followed every adventurer. Since the wind has changed,
few have skill enough to navigate the troubled seas." Evidently Mr. Hathorne had
the right stuff; but Mr. Gray's skills were of a different sort.
W. Shepard Gray, as cashier of the Essex Bank for many years, was in a position
of high trust in Salem: he was, in effect, the manager of the Bank, and had access
to all of its assets, some of which were in the form of coins and specie put on
deposit by merchants and shipmasters. One depositor was Maj. Israel Foster of
Marblehead, a prominent merchant and relative of Col. W.R. Lee, the Collector of
Customs in Salem (and possibly the inhabitant of the residential part of the central
Building). Maj. Foster had deposited a large barrel of specie with the Essex Bank.
In the summer of 1818, W. Shepard Gray took an extended vacation away from
Salem. Eventually, the Bank directors became suspicious. Early in September,
1818, they concluded that the Bank had been robbed. At the time, Bentley wrote
in his diary (Sept. 5), "every inquiry detects the most fraudulent practices. A
deposit of doubloons by Foster of Marblehead has been violated, false contracts
made, and fraud practiced not only in its most artful but most shameful forms. Yet
not one word has appeared as yet, but Gust) a notice that the Cashier, who has long
�been away, has been removed. Suspicions rise in every form, and Salem lays
under the worst imputations."
In fact, Shepard Gray, the Bank's Cashier, and James King, the Bank's Clerk, had
embezzled a great deal of money from the Bank. Gray, who had left Salem, and
King, who had resigned but stayed in town, had offered the Bank's directors
$20,000, when the losses evidently amounted to about $200,000 (see Bentley,
Sept. 11 ). It would appear that Gray, King, and their partner Capt. Joseph
Moseley, a Virginian who had settled in Salem (see B.F. Browne, 1869 Youthful
Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:200), had invested in highly speculative ventures,
and had lost much of their money, which they replaced with money deposited at
the bank. In Foster's barrel of specie, they had placed ballast stones, leaving an
inch or two of coins at the top. All the rest of the Foster money, $40,000 allegedly,
was gone (the matter would later go to court, in a famous case about the liability of
banks).
In November, 1818, the Grand Jury found against Gray and King "for a conspiracy
to defraud the Bank and for violation of trust and the depredations made on the
deposits and bank interest" (per Bentley, Nov. 6). The Essex Bank directors had
handled most of the matters in secrecy, including a negotiation with Gray and
King, in which terms were given and accepted. The whole matter caused much
alarm and discontent in Salem, many of whose people had money deposited there.
Some were distraught, and one died of the shock (Bentley, ibid): "the widow of
Edward Pulling, Esq., was buried this day, an undoubted victim to her feelings
upon the loss of her property in the Essex Bank. Most of the stock-holders are
widows and orphans."
In June, 1819, Mr. Bentley reflected on the dissension among the shareholders of
the Essex Bank, which was, in fact, about to fold. "The subscribers are disposed to
make their richer members pay the loss. The President declined his office
repeatedly and undertook not to be obliged to issue any money in his signature.
But the offenders had kindred and associates in the board. To whomsoever it may
extend, it was one of the most deliberate, persevering, and complete frauds that
ever was in any country accomplished--and among a people distinguished by their
close attention, we might almost say avarice, in money matters. The business,
when it becomes a public investigation, threatens great divisions and warm
contentions."
Mr. W.S. Gray evidently never returned to Salem, but would die in Cambridge, on 27
May 1824, aged about 51 years.
�At the time ( 1819) that Mr. Gray disappeared and the Custom House offices were
moved to their new quarters, B.H. Hathorne resided in the brick Hathorne house on
Essex Street (evidently 243-5, south side, just west of Washington), probably with a
tenant, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody, and family (1820 census, p. 71). Earlier, Dr. Peabody
had lived in the house ofB.H.H. 's brother William, on Essex Street at the south comer
of Cambridge (see EIHC 21 :219). Dr. Peabody was then the father of 7 children, of
whom one, Sophia, an artist, would grow up and become the wife of Nathaniel
Hawthorne (BHH's first cousin, once removed), while another, Elizabeth P. Peabody, a
teacher, became one of the most important education theorists and reformers in
America. In the household of Mr. B.H. Hathorne in 1820 were himself, a boy, his wife,
two girls, and one young woman.
Augustus J. Archer, a dry goods merchant, wrote a series of articles for the Salem
Gazette in the early months of 1890, on the subject of Essex Street in 1820. In this
series, he related the history of "the brick building built by Benjamin H. Hathorne and
vVilliam Gray, extending into Central Street, and there occupied by the custom house
until 1819, when the U.S. Custom House was built. On the comer of Essex Street,
Cushing & Appleton, succeeded by James R. Buffum, as a book store, were located.
vVm. Hathorne had the western one; he was an Importer of broadcloths and dry goods.
The Salem Register was then established in its present quarters, Warwick Palfrey, Jr.,
the sole editor. From this, it would seem that in 1820 the comer store ofHathome's
paii of the building was occupied by Cushing & Appleton, the store next westerly was
occupied as a dry goods store by William Hathorne, and the upstairs rooms were used
as the office of the Salem Register newspaper (as they would be for decades).
In 1820 the part of the building that fronted on Central Street, and had belonged to Mr.
Gray, was sold to Samuel Tucker, a Salem merchant, for $5825.75, by John Morland,
Roxbury merchant ($800 in May), who was probably W.S. Gray's brother-in-law and
may have held a mortgage on the property, and by Joseph S. Cabot, Salem gentleman
($5025.75 in September), who had foreclosed a mortgage on W.S. Gray on 2 July 1819
(ED 222:266, 225:114). In Mr. Cabot's deed, it is specified that the property consisted
of "the dwelling house in which Samuel Tucker now resides and of the other apartments
in Central Building, so-called;" and in Mr. Morland's deed it mentions the "dwelling
house, stores, other buildings, and cellar under". So there is little doubt but that Mr.
Gray's part of the building contained a portion that had been reserved (perhaps since
1805) as a residence. Samuel Tucker, the new owner, resided here in 1820.
Of this same time (c.1820) Mr. A.J. Archer reminisced as follows. "On Central Street,
Dana & Fenno had an office for the sale of lottery tickets and a general brokerage
�business, having a Boston connection. E H. Payson had charge of this office and tells
me he was the person who built the first coal fire in Salem. Mr. Dana had seen them ir
Boston and employed John Chamberlain, mason, to set a grate in his office; Mr. Pays(
built the fire, and says people used to come in by the dozens to see it. One evening he
went to bed leaving the blower up, having forgot to remove it; of course it became red
hot, and so alarmed the passers-by that they rushed in hot haste to tell him his office
was on fire. The Insurance offices next adopted the grate, and it spread rapidly into
general use. The first furnace in the city was put in by Mr. Chamberlain at his brother'2:.
B. Porter Chamberlain, who owned and occupied the old assembly house on Federal
street. The chambers and offices on Central Street were occupied by the Salem Saving
Bank, incorporated 1818; when first organized, Willard Peele was president, and Danie
Bray treasurer. Capt. Peter Lander and his son, Peter Jr., had a private insurance office
for underwriters. Henry Pickering Esq. had a law office. The Salem Courier, Charles
A. Andrew, was started here Sept. 7, 1828; it was short lived. In 1830 the Salem Light
Infantry had two rooms in the second story for their armory."
In The Salem Gazette of 1 Feb. 1820, Cushing & Appleton advertised "Gold Leaf' and
"Almanacks for 1820," and the Salem Brewery announced that "strong and table beer,
porter, ale, yeast, porter bottles, corks, hops, malt, bottled cider, and a complete
assortment of cordials" were available at the Salem Brewery, and at the store, comer of
Essex and Cambridge Streets, also from 11 to half past 1 at the Central Building."
In 1824, B. Herbert Hathorne died (as did W.S. Gray). Mr. Hathorne owned his part of
the building outright, and owned a very large stock of dry goods, which were
enumerated in the inventory of his estate (appended to this report). By his 1823 last
will, he devised to his wife Rebecca cash, personal effects, and lifetime use of some real
estate which was to devolve to his nephew B.H. Hathorne (Jr.) after the deaths of his
wife and adopted daughter. His "land at the comer of Central Street and Essex Street
with the buildings thereon, called the Central building," he devised in trust to his
brother William Hathorne for the benefit of his sons; and upon his death it was to go the
same nephew, B.H. Hathorne (Jr.). He devised $1000 in trust for his adopted daughter,
and left generous cash bequests to other relatives. The property here would remain in
the ownership of Hathomes throughout the rest of the 19th century.
The 1820s was a decade of challenges for Salem. It struggled successfully to
maintain its overseas commerce and to open new markets for its shipping, in
Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar (1825), whence
came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and lucrative trade in
which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to all of the east
African ports. From 1827 to 1870, there were 189 arrivals in Salem from
�Zanzibar, carrying ivory, gum copal, and coffee. But in the 1820s Salem's national
influence slipped, and it was unable to develop a manufacturing base. Salem's
general maritime foreign commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports,
which were the cargoes in Salem ships, were supplanted by American goods, now
being produced in great quantities. The interior of the country was being opened
for settlement, and many Salemites moved away to these new lands of opportunity.
To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered large new textile mills
(Lowell was founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their investors; and
in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem.
In an ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its
potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
focused on damming the North River. The project, which began with much
promise, was suspended (before construction began) in 1827, which demoralized
the town even more, and caused several leading citizens to move to Boston, the
hub of investment in the new economy. In November, 1826, Joseph H. Prince,
counselor at law, advertised in the Salem Gazette his "removal" from "from his
late office, in Central Building, to the office formerly occupied by Hon. John
Pickering, in Court Street." This event, seemingly so obscure, points to a sad
fact: John Pickering VI, the ultimate Salem citizen, had decided to take his family
and his talents to Boston, where they were settled by the spring of 1827.
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt.
Joseph White, a wealthy merchant, owned and resided in the house now called the
Gardner-Pingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his
mansion and stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of
murderous thugs; but the killer was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed
himself at the Salem Jail), hired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt.
Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results
of the investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more
of the respectable families quit the notorious town.
Salem's remaining merchants had to move quickly to take their equity out of
wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into manufacturing and
transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals in the 183 Os diverted both
capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants did not make the
transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making,
and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared. Well into the 1830s,
Salem slumped badly.
�Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8 and
the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more Salem
families to head west in search of fortune and a better future. Salem had not
prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages. The North River
served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many
tanneries (23 by 1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many
of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and
hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant built
in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue vitriol
was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whale-fishery,
active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the manufacturing of
high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils. The candles proved
very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830,
when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were retooled for making highquality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to Marblehead is still called Lead
Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave
the people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market.
The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel
under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840.
The occupants of this building in the 183 Os were the Salem Light Infantry
(armory here in 1830), newspapers, banks, etc.
Rev. Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (Jr.), a Lynn bachelor clergyman (nephew of the first
BHH), the owner of the Hathorne part of the property (worth $6,000 in 1837), died in
1837, having willed all of his property to his father, William, two sisters, and three
brothers, with the survivor to inherit the full ownership.
�In 1836 (per the Essex Memorial, published in that year), the "Central Building" tenants
included two newspaper offices: that of the Essex Register and that of the Commercial
Advertiser. The Register in 1836 was published by Palfray and Chapman twice a week
and was Whig in politics; the Advertiser, founded in 1832 and edited by Palfray &
Cook, was published weekly and was Democrat in politics. In those days, the Whigs
and the Democrats maintained their own reading rooms: the former was in Holyoke
Place, off Essex Street, while the latter was located here at the "Central Building."
Also here in 183 6 (per the 183 7 Salem Directory) were the offices of the Bank of
General Interest, 4 Central Street, $400,000 in capital, William H. Russell, cashier;
directors John Russell (President), Putnam I. Farnham, Caleb Foote, John W. Fenno,
Jonathan Holman. (p.118). Also headquartered here was the Institution for Savings in
the City of Salem and Its Vicinity, 4 Central, Joseph Peabody, President; Daniel Bray,
Treasurer; Francis H. Silsbee, Secretary (p.119). The bankers who actually came to
work here each day were Daniel Bray (Institution for Savings), of 104 Essex Street, and
John Russell (Bank of General Interest), of 22 Lafayette St., and his son Wm. H.
Russell (ditto) of 2 Lafayette Street. No doubt there were clerks and tellers too.
In the 1830s, James R. Buffum "kept a book and stationery store for himself on the
western comer of Essex and Central Street ... (and) then kept a tavern at Ome's Point,
North Salem. He married Susan Mansfield ... and died 14 Feb. 1863, aged 68 years."
(see EIHC 6:212, Benja. F. Browne, Memorials of the Washington Rangers).
In the 1840s, Mr. Buffum moved out of the comer store, and Stephen Osborne took it
over. He ran a retail business in hats, caps, and furs; and Henry Osborne worked there
as a hatter (hat-maker). Stephen resided in 1841-1845 at 17 Oliver Street, while Henry
resided on "Mechanic Street" (near the Laboratory in North Salem) in 1841 and in 1845
on Federal (Marlborough) Street, near Washington. In the Salem Directory for 1850
was an advertisement for "Osborne's Fashionable Hat, Cap & Fur Establishment, 183
Essex Street, comer of Central Street" (p. 221 ). This store would be operated
throughout the 1860s (see ad, p. 88, 1864 Salem Directory).
The Essex Register newspaper, which was founded by the Crowninshield-HathomeWhite families to represent the Jeffersonian point of view c.1800, and which had been
edited at one point by Rev. William Bentley (a major contributor for years), would be
published from this location throughout the rest of its history. In 1842, the co-editor,
Charles vV. Palfray, resided at 47 Federal Street, while co-editor John Chapman resided
at 33 Federal and served on the Board of Advisers of the Salem Children's Friend
Society. In addition, Edward Palfray, of 2 Hamilton Street, was a printer at 4 Central
Street in 1842. (info from 1842 Salem Directory).
�Samuel Dudley Tucker (1782-1857), the owner of the Central Street part of the Central
Building as of 1820, was a merchant. He was born in Salem on 25 January 1782, one c
the sons of John and Lydia Tucker. Among his older brothers were Andrew Tucker
(born 1773) and Gideon Tucker (b. 1778, married 1804 Martha Goodhue). l\llr. Andre\
Tucker ( 1773-1820), who married l\lfartha Mansfield, had several children, including
Jonathan, Samuel (2d) and Gideon (2d); he was subject to melancholy, and took his
own life in February, 1820, aged 47 years.
In 1830, Samuel D. Tucker added to his holdings hereabouts by purchasing for $1950
from the heirs of Dr. Holyoke some shops on Central Street, with land, just south of the
dwelling house part of the Central Building (ED 258:215). At the same time, the
Holyoke heirs sold him, for $4500, the land to the west of the Hathorne parcel, with a
printing office thereon (ED 258:215). By 1836 Mr. Tucker had moved to 293 Essex
Street, and later he resided at the Essex House hotel. He died in the 1857 (#55777),
having devised the premises by will to Gideon Tucker, who was the president of the
Exchange Bank. Gideon Tucker died in or before 1862, leaving many heirs. In July,
1862, some of the Tucker heirs, having purchased the interests of other of the heirs, sold
the premises for $4572.46 to one of their own, Edward Tucker, of Saco, Maine (ED
642:145, also 639:22,24, 638:126, etc.). In September, 1862, Edward Tucker sold half
of the property to Jonathan Tucker and half of it to Jonathan's son, James T. Tucker. In
September, 1865, Jonathan Tucker for $3,000 sold his half-interest to his son, James T.
Tucker, who granted his father a life estate in the property (ED 688:281,287).
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street). For the
workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company would
be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually 14, 700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing also
continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40 shoe factories employing
600-plus operatives. More factories and more people required more space for
buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
Maj. Jam es T. Tucker predeceased his father, whose life estate would come to an
end with his death in 1877. Jonathan Tucker ( 1799-1877) had been a merchant for
most of his career. He left business in 1849, became a City Assessor for awhile, and
by 1860 he was working as a Measurer at the Custom House. In 1872 he was still at
the Custom House, residing at 29 Andrew Street. He purchased 82 Washington
�Square East in 1874, and moved in. To the Salem Gazette in 1875-6 he contributed
an interesting series called "Our Old Houses," in which he jotted down his memories
of who had inhabited the buildings of Essex Street 1807-1810. By 1876 he was
again working as an assessor at City Hall. On the last day of July, 1877, Mr. Tucker
took his own life.
The obituary of Mr. Tucker ran in the Gazette on 3 August 1877. "The death of
Jonathan Tucker, which took place very suddenly on Tuesday morning last, takes
from amongst us one of our most respected citizens ... His character was as sturdy as
his frame. Upright, conscientious, clear-headed, and intelligent, his services on the
board of our City Assessors were never surpassed in value by any who have been
called to the office. His independence and plainness of speech undoubtedly made
him enemies; but, as an honest man, a good citizen, exemplary in purity of morals
and in every relation of life, he will be held in respectful remembrance by all who
knew him. Mr. Tucker retired-from active mercantile business in 1849, when he was
elected one of the Assessors of the City. This office he continued to hold until
March 28, 1853. He was again elected Assessor in 1869, and held the office until
January 11, 1875, when he retired to private life. During most of his term of service,
he was chairman of the board; and there never was a man who paid more strict,
scrupulous, and faithful attention to the duties of his office. A native of Salem, and
blessed with powers of keen observation and a retentive memory, his knowledge of
our local history of the present century-of persons, events, metes and bounds-was
unequalled, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to impart from his
inexhaustible stores. He leaves a widow (a sister of Prof. Alpheus Packard of
Bowdoin College), three sons-Joseph F. and Horace, both holding responsible
positions in the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and Rev. William P., who has
recently accepted a call to a rectorship in Pawtucket, R.I.; and two daughters, Mrs. J.
M. Hagar of Salem, and Mrs. Hanson of Chicago. Two sons, Alpheus Packard and
Col. James T., died before their father."
Joseph F. Tucker, the railroad man, became the new owner of the property. As early as
1881, and perhaps before, much of his part of the Central Building was occupied by
John J. Perkins' notable furniture and upholstering store (some photographs show the
building at that time, with the Perkins signs out front). Mr. Perkins, a resident of Bridge
Street, ran the business for many years. The dwelling part of the building, numbered 10
central, was evidently occupied Mrs. Sarah B. Safford, who had a store at 16-18 central.
She died before 1900, in which year the premises at 4-6 Central Street were occupied
by the Salem Press Company, which had its presses and other machinery there, and by
A.N. Webb & Co., printers. At 8-10 were E.F. McClellan, hairdresser, and the offices
�of Cawley & Trow, plumbers. Alphonse Bouin and family resided in the end unit. (info
from Salem Directory, 1899/1900)
Regarding the Hathorne part of the building, by then known as The Hathorne Building:
in 1878 Henry G. Hathorne, of Lynn, sold his interest in the Central Building to
\iVilliam W. Hathorne, of Lynn, his brother (ED 1000:189). On 2 January 1886 William
W. Hathorne leased the first floor and cellar of his part of the building to Herebert D.
Rice of Boston, who opened The Shawmut Hat Store here. The lease was to run for ten
years at $1500 rent per annum. At the same time, Mr. Rice was to pay the cost of a
major remodeling of this part of the building, and agreed not to sell any liquor here.
The remodeling involved removing the stone front, removing brick piers and windows,
and putting in a new front on Essex Street and part of the building on Central Street.
Large new plate glass windows were to be installed, along with iron girders to support
the upper stories.
Mr. Wm. W. Hathorne died in 1893, whereupon the property was conveyed to his
brothers Henry G. and Charles F. Hathorne (ED1401:109). They continued to lease out
the property as commercial space to Herbert D. Rice, who was the proprietor of the
Shawmut Hat Store at 191-193 Essex Street (see adv. p.1194 Salem Directory 1897-8;
ED 1991:66, etc.).
In 1900, the occupants of "the Hathorne Building" were The Shawmut Hat Store (hats,
furs, etc.) at 191-193 Essex Street, and, at 195 Essex Street, J.M. O'Connell and Mrs.
Kate F. Dean, hairdressers, dentist John W. Patch, A.C. Mackintire, photographer, and
B.L. Pervier, jobber.
Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and established
businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists, carpenters,
millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. In the 1870s, French-Canadian
families began coming to work in Salem's mills and factories, and more houses
and tenements filled were built in what had been open areas of the city. The
Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by large numbers of Polish and
Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By
the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were lively,
and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
�and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke,
wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and
then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets.
Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South
Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured
the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the
fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings
of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an
inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street.
There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having
consumed 25 0 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and
thousands homeless. Some people· had insurance, some did not; all received much
support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was
one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the
people of Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and
many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal
projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses
and widening old streets) were put into effect.
Mr. Herbert D. Rice, owner of The Shawmut Hat Store here, and lessee since
1886, purchased the Hathorne Building from the Hathornes on 1 Nov. 1920 (ED
2469:90). The premises had been in Hathorne ownership for more than 115
years.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation
of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many other cities.
More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present with
success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also from
its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley,
Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the oldtime merchants, mariners, and mill-operatives-and the commercial buildings that
Salem's prosperity produced and sustained--are all honored as a large part of what
makes Salem different from any other place.
--10 Feb. 2002, Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc.
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Cushing and \'Villiam Carlton, the latter a young man just
reaching his majority, were associated in the 'Bible and Heart'
book shop. Carlton's advertisement in 1791 reYeals the location of his business as 'opposite Rev. :Mr. Prince's meeting
house,' where he had for sale all the principal books and pamphlets, as v.-ell as mariner's compasses, log books, scales and
dividers, backgammon and Hadley's quadrants, and 'Harry
VIII and HighlancJs Playing Cards.' 67 In 1793 he added a
circulating library. J\1r. Streeter says: 'The Bible and Heart
book-store was in the lo·wer story of the building oecupied by ·
the printing office, the same ·which is now (1856) kept by
D. B. Brooks and Brother. There were formerly wooden figures of a Bible ancl a heart suspended over the door, which
during .the last war were torn down in the night by some
mischievous persons and thrown into the harbor. It was upon
the occasion of a list of privateers in our harbor being published in the Gazette by the foreman of the office.' In 1794
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Tavern, Essex st.Teet.' 08 In 1797 Carlton's connection with
Cushing ceased, and in 1801 John S. Appleton associated
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streets, 'lately occupied as an insurance office.'c 9 In 1808 they
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having purchased Russell's stock of several thousand volumes,
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Central Street
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4-10 Central Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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Built in 1805 for the Merchants B. Herbert Hathorne and W. Shepard Gray
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1805, 2002
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Robert Booth
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English
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Felt Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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40 Felt Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built by James Brooks and John Bell
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1807, 1973
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Sally Dee
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English
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Howard Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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40 Howard Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
John Prince, mariner, 1852
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1852, 1978
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Joyce King
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English
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Forrester Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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41 Forrester Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built in 1882 for Annie Sweetser, storekeeper
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1882, 2009
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Robert Booth
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English
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Lafayette Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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416 Lafayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1762, 1968
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Dee
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English
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Lafayette Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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452 Lafayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Benjamin G. Hathaway, carpenter, 1874
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1874, 1974
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Dee
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English
1874
1974
452
Benjamin
Dee
Hathaway
Lafayette
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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47 Essex Street
Built for
J. Lovett Whipple
Wheelwright
c. 1854
Research and Writing Provided by
Diana Dunlap
June 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�The house lot that we now think of as 47 Essex Street in Salem first starts to emerge in
the early nineteenth century, although no deed mentions a house standing on the property until
1872; city directories show that there was a dwelling house at 47 Essex by 1861. On June 9,
1804, Bernard and Lois Green and Mary Diman, singlewoman, all of Malden, sold “part of the
estate of the Rev. James Diman, given by will to his daughters Mary and Lois, bounded northerly
by the Rev. William Bentley’s meetinghouse, easterly on Hardy Street, southerly on land of said
Lois and Mary, westerly on land formerly Thomas Palfrey’s…” to Benjamin Hodges of Salem
(Essex Registry of Deed, Book 175, Page 24). The lot is described as running twenty-five feet
along Hardy Street and twenty-five feet across to the land of Rev. Bentley’s East (Unitarian)
Meetinghouse. It’s unclear how this parcel of land originally came into the possession of the
Rev. James Diman; Essex deeds list many variants of the name, of which Diamond is the most
common, and several property transactions for 18th century Diamonds appear in the records,
though none grant property to James Diman.
The Diman heirs sold the lot to Benjamin Hodges and it passed into the hands of the
widow Mary Silsbee and two singlewomen (most likely her sisters), Hannah and Elizabeth
Hodges. These were probably the daughters of Benjamin Hodges, though deeds to not confirm
this, and they sold the lot to a group of men heavily involved in Salem’s East Meetinghouse:
Thomas Downing, William Hunt, William B. Parker, and William Webb, Jr., for $215 on May
28th, 1846 (Registry of Deeds, Book 368, Pages 123-124). The East Meetinghouse was moving
and was busily engaging in property sales at this time, and when the lot was sold again, it was
reconfigured to include land from the former meetinghouse lot that had been conveyed to the
same group of men just a few weeks earlier. On September 23, 1847, the same four men (with
�two of their wives) sold to William H. Lovejoy, Gentleman, ‘a parcel of land...between Hardy
and Bentley Streets... at the northwestern corner of land of Ebenezer Slocum, thence running
northerly by said Bentley Street as recently widened by the city, to Essex Street…” and on to
Hardy Street. This deed describes the land as “estates conveyed to us by Benjamin Upton and
other Committee of the East Society” as well as the Silsbee-Hodges women, so it’s clear that the
lot now included some of the East Meetinghouse property that once adjoined it (Registry of
Deeds, Book 378, Page 9). William H. Lovejoy paid $1134 for his new property; given the
dramatic difference in the price paid by for the property after less than a year and a half, the lot
must have expanded considerably.
Lovejoy and his wife Maria did not keep all of this property long; they sold a portion of
“the estate conveyed to me by Thomas Downing and others” to William M. Harrow of Salem,
Mariner, on September 23, 1847, for $700 (Registry of Deeds, Book 403, Page 88). The
dimensions described in this deed are very much as they remain in every transaction to follow:
33’10” along northerly Essex Street, 92’ along Bentley Street, 39’6” along the southerly edge of
the property, and 91” along the easterly edge. William Harrow might have expected to return to
Salem when he purchased this property, but perhaps seafaring or the California Gold Rush
changed his plans. When he sold the property on July 24, 1854, he is described as “of the city of
Sacramento, State of California” (Registry of Deeds, Book 498, Page 160). The property was
purchased by J. Lovett Whipple for $900.
It seems to be J. Lovett Whipple who finally decided to build a house on this
much-handled chunk of land. No building is mentioned when he purchased the house from
William Harrow, but when it was next sold in 1872, the property is described as “a certain plot of
�land with a dwelling house thereon.” Given the architectural style of the house, a date of
1854-1872 makes perfect sense. Jonathan Lovett Whipple was thirty years old when he
purchased the land on which he presumably planned to build his own home. The fourth of seven
children of Jonathan and Mary Cloutman Whipple, he was born April 19, 1824, in Salem (unless
otherwise noted, birth, marriage, and death dates are derived from the Salem Vital Records). In
1846, the “Naumkeag Directory,” the 19th century forerunner of the city telephone directory,
lists J. Lovett Whipple as a turner living, most appropriately, at 33 Turner Street in Salem. This
is the same address listed for his sister Mary Elisa, a “tailoress,” and for J. Lovett and his mother
in 1851. Two of his brothers, “Stephen Whipple & Brother,” ran a gum copal works at 35 Turner
Street, and their house is listed as 12 Hardy Street (theri father, Jonathan Whipple, is listed as
proprietor in 1846, when Stephen is still described as a carpenter). The 1850 Directory also
informs us that J. Lovett Whipple was treasurer of the Second Universalist church and a fireman
serving as clerk of Engine No. 4, the “Lafayette.” When J. Lovett Whipple bought the property at
47 Essex, he was investing in a neighborhood that he knew well, positioned very close to his
own family. He may have been preparing for his own wedding when he bought the property, as
he married Emma N. Dodge in South Danvers (now Peabody) on September 18, 1855, and
together they had three children. It seems likely the Whipples built their house around this time.
Sadly, it appears their happiness did not last long: J. Lovett Whipple died in Salem in
May 1860, aged only 36. The cause of death is listed as consumption (tuberculosis), an epidemic
disease in 19th century America; Whipple’s younger brother George Augustus died of it in 1841,
almost twenty years earlier. Probate records describe J. Lovett Whipple as a wheelwright (a trade
certainly encompassing his previously listed trade as a turner), though his death record describes
�him as working in his brother’s trade, gum copal. Gum copal is a tropical resin that was used as a
wood varnish, so there may in fact be a link between the trades. His estate was valued at
$3,757.77, and his widow paid off debts to both his sister Mary and several different creditors,
ranging from two local doctors (perhaps those who attended J. Lovett Whipple’s final illness) to
the Salem Register subscription to taxes and insurance. A few items were sold, including a
“daguerretype machine” sold at a profit of $2.
The “Naumkeag Directory” shows that the houses around 47 Essex were occupied by a
mixed array of sea captains, mariners, and skilled tradespeople during the 1860s. “Mrs. J. Lovett
Whipple” is listed at 47 Essex Street in 1861, demonstrating that there was indeed a house on the
property by 1861. Emma Dodge Whipple’s brothers-in-law, Albert and Stephen Whipple, were
still running their gum copal works at 35 Turner Street, but Albert’s house is listed as 45 Essex
Street. Perhaps it was a comfort to Emma Whipple to remain next door to her husband’s brother
while raising three young children. Even if so, she decided to remarry, probably in about five
years after J Lovett Whipple’s death.: Emma N. Whipple of MAssachusetts married Moses W.
George of Plymouth, New Hampshire, on December 18, 1865 (Moses W. George is later
referenced alongside one of the Whipple sons in a deed for 47 Essex Street). “Mrs. J. Lovett
Whipple” is still listed in residence at 47 Essex Street in the Naumkeag Directory for 1866;
perhaps the couple decided to live in Emma Whipple’s own home, or perhaps the late December
wedding simply wasn’t reflected in the city directory.
On October 4, 1872, J. Lovett Whipple’s widow, now Emma N. George, sold the house
on behalf of her three children, Lovett D., Frank M., and Emma E. Whipple, all three of whom
were still legally minors (Registry of Deeds, Book 866, Page 70). The former Mrs. Whipple, now
�guardian of her three children, relinquished her own right of dower to the property and
auctioned it to the highest bidder. It sold to Mrs. Caroline M. Gage, wife of Andrew F. Gage of
Salem, “in her own right without interference or control of her husband’ for $5700. The house
and plot of land passed from one woman to another. One may have sold it of necessity in order to
support her children’s future, while another purchased it for her own pleasure or support.
According to the 1870 U.S. Census, Caroline M. Gage was born in Maine and lived in Ward 1 in
Salem (which included 47 Essex), keeping house for her husband Andrew, the superintendent of
a paint factory, and their teenage children Flora and George. She would have been about 47
years old when she bought the house in 1872, though her reasons and resources for the purchase
are unknown.
The property remained in the hands of Caroline Gage and her heirs until 1906, when Mrs.
Gage’s heirs sold it to Patrick Joseph Kelley (Registry of Deeds Book 1851, Pages 13-15). Alice
R. Meek of Salem, Arthur B. and Carrie Spaulding of Peabody, and Mary Gage of Duluth,
Minnesota (all single) sold “part of the real estate devised to us by Caroline M. Gage” in October
1906. This marked the transfer of 47 Essex Street not only from one family to another, but from
Anglo-Americans to Irish Americans, from one well-established ethnic group to more recent
immigrants. The house was eventually inherited by Patrick Kelley’s daughter, Ruth M. Harrison,
who retained possession until 1952.
Ruth Harrison sold the house and lot to husband and wife Theodore F. and Amelia F.
Buchynski of Hamilton, who bought, sold, and mortgaged several properties in both Hamilton
and Salem in the 1950s (Registry of Deeds Book 3941, Page 472). The eastern end of Essex and
�Derby Streets was a Slavic immigrant neighborhood in the first half of the 20th century; perhaps
the Buchynskis had family connections to the neighborhood.
In 1958, Amelia Buchynski sold the house to Vienna C. Tarchini (Registry of Deeds
Book 4439, Page 412). When Tarchini sold the house in turn to Henry Hilder in 1985, she
reserved the right to “occupy, use, and enjoy said premises for her lifetime” (Registry of Deeds
Book 7965, Page 102). Eight years later, Hilder sold the house to Peter A. Sholds and Mary
Frances Sholds.
�Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874
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Built for
J. Lovett Whipple
Wheelwright
c. 1854
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1854
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47
circa
Essex
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House
J.
Lovett
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Whipple
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Capt. John Felt House
1757
47
Federal St.
Sal"m, Maaa.
Historio
6alem
Inc.
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John Pelt House
47 Federal St., Salem, Mass.
1757
*******************************************
Deeds to 47 Federal Street, Salem, now Robert .B. Bowman and Frank c. Hancock.
look 115176 Page 739
John F. O'Connell and.Barbara F. o•Connell, u:x, grant to
Richard P. Keville and Virginia, uxa
land with bldgs. thereon:
northerly by Federal St. 30 1
easterly by land now or i'mrly. of Pease - 66' more or less
eout.herly by land now or fmr~ of Chamberlain; and
wester~ by land now or formerly of Towne
Beini; eame premises conveyed to us by deed from
James Georges et ux. 11/3/1960 Book 4718, page .347.
Book
114 718
Page
34 7 James
Georges and Elizabeth P. to 0 •Connell, ll/3/1960
Book 4558 Paga 181
Bartholomew R. Brennen and Hannah M. to Georges, 5/1/JfJ59
Book 4556 Page 283
turiel A. St. Pierre to Brennen, April 28, 1959 (Straw 1ale)
Book
4556
Page 282
Bartholomew F. Brennen to St. Pierre, April 28, 1959
loo k 3054 Page 197
E. Barker (widew) and Jennie P. Arvedson {singlewoman)
to Bartholomew F. Brennen and Elizabeth G. oat. 24, 1935
$2800.00 Sale!ll Five 1"'ortgage {Elizabeth r.Jrennsn di"d ll/14/.57
•Being the same premises conveyed to our mother, Ellen L.
Arvedson in deed of E.c. Battis, dtd. 3/18/1880
(Book 1035, page 286) and deed of Andrew Jackson dtd
11/17/1862 (Book 644, page 81). See also probate #67994.
Book 10.35 Page 286
Ecbrud
c.
lo<* 1035
George
Arvid~on
Page 286
Book 732 Page 247
look
508
Page 104
Mary'
Battis to Arvedson, March
a,
1880
to .Battis, March 8, 1880
Andrew Jackson to George Arvidson, Sept. 28, 1867
(Andrew Jackson was mariner and aon
Nathaniel Jackson.) *
lnoo.oo mortgage.
or
Ellen L. Jackson to Andrew Jackson, Feb. 27, la.55
$1.hOO.OQ.;tale prioe. (Ellen Jackson was daughter of
Nathaniel Jaekson).
Premises described as being formerly
17 tbrlborough Street.
Book 508 Page 103
Book
355
Page 133
Andrew Jackson to Ellen L. Jackson, Feb. 23, 1855
(trader) and Catherine Symonds (widow)
both of Salem and Sarah H. Brown, grandchild of Sarah s.
and Edward B. ~own. minor children of Benjamin Brawn convey to
lathaniel Jackson {stone cutter) for ~895.00, property
at 17 Marlborough Streat, April 10, 1845~
Samu~l &-own Jr.
**
* descriptions
lot of land with the huilrlings thereon N. JO' on Federal St.
E. 6o• on estate now or former~ #'d 45J S. on the Est. ntM or
formerly of Bartlett; if~ or.. Est. now or formerly of David Perkins
Which estate my late father Nathaniel Jackson died siezed.
______________________
ff desoription:
,_
dwelling ho1.1se and land #17 Marlborough Stree\ bounded N. 30' on
�Ca~.
John Felt House
1757
47
Page 2
hderal St.• Salem, Ku••
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1aid Street, E. on Est o! 1115 about 66 teet;
land ot !avid Perkins as the fences stand."
s.
on Bartlett wtJ and •· on ·
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Edward Brawn was the son-in-law
Vital Reccrda Essex County:
or Capt.
Benjamin
John Felt.
Brown, eon of Edward Brown bp. 6/7/1795
E81ex Count7 Probate #9390 John Felt, et al minors a
merptaa
Edward Brown of Salem, in said County, Gentleman, authorized by the
Bon. the Justices of the Sp. Jud. Ct. held in Sal.em October 7, 1804 to sell and convey two undivided seventh parts of Real Estate belonging to
John Felt, Porter Felt, Deborah Felt, Sa.Uy Felt and Ephraim Felt, then minors
etc. etc.
having: sold their said interest in said Real Est. nvw on oath
accounts for the proceeds thereof as follmvs:
Tiz a by the gross sales or the said i/7ths parts ot all said
Real Estate sold at auction on Feb. 25, 1804
$1,51B.h4
The said Edward prays to be allowed the following ohargess
TizJ
For cash paid to 8Ulldry creditors ot the estate
ot John Felt, deo 1d. grandfather of said
minors - to which the real estate aforesaid
was 8Ubject
pa.id on account of said minor•
178.32
tor eash paid 2/7ths of eJitp. ot
obtainin:.; order of ·court,
coiweyancing, advising etc.
15.84
For services of said Brawn
57.14
Probate Fees
. For cash paid to the said John Fel•
11ho ia now living, since he became
ot
age
1.00
2SJ.2S
For cash paid to ~;moy Felt, the
Gdn. to the said Porter, Deborah
Sally and Ephraim Felt
•an
the petition or MJJ:ry Felt or Salem etc. widow of John Felt, late of Salem~ and
guardian to all his children; viz. John Felt, Porter Felt, Feborah .Felt. Sally Felt,
and Ephraim Felt, minors under the age of 21 yrs. - smtvdng that said minors are
•eized in fee of and in two undivided seventh parts or the .following real estate
1ituate in Salem afroesaid, and here described viz. (a dewll~ house and land by
Lynde,d. Street, ther,~, and aboundin~ southerly by '. . hat Street 55 1 , westerly by land
Benjamin King 100 •; north'2rly partly on land of Katharine Felt dee 'd, and partly
on land of Edward Brcwn, 59' and one half; and easterly by land of the widow Rand
100• with the appurtenances, etc. etc. 11
lditora
prop~y
Therefore to pay debts owed .from John Felt Eatate, the house (a.nd oth<=>r
named) eomea into hands of Edward Bl"c;wn, Capt. Felt•a son-in-law.
�Capt. John Felt House.
1757
47
page
Federal st;., Salem, Ma.as.
J
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l
Book
104 Pa.ge 81
Benjamin Lynde, ux Mary to Capt. John Felt tor $2 pounds
on February 2, 1757 conveys
House lot in Salem oontaining about 55 polea lying tront
on Izynde St. •o called bounded as followeth:
s.w. comer being the S.E. eomer of
John Holton' s lott and running along by said Holton fenc~
or line on a course North 16° 2$k JO•; East 254 • till it
comes to Owdell's or Cook Fish fence then turning and
running F,asterly 13° South 65' by said Fish Fence then
turning South and running on a course about South 19°
West along by Mr. Hunt and Mr. Orne •s land as the fences
now stand about 254 feet to said Lynde Street then turning
and running on said Street to the first menticned
bounds measurin~ in the front 55'.
Beginning at the
It is agreed that whereas Benjamin Lynde hath
~iven
in
2 feet to widen said street, Felt agrees to erect no
buildings or fence within 2 feet more of the st.reet.
i\U.l ccnsideration paid by
**
5/13/1757.
* **
Capt. John Felt, a ehoreman, or owner of vessels, trading coastw:iae, patriot
died ot eancer :in Danvers, r:ass. August 1785. Administrat'ion of' his .:..state
was granted to Capt. Richard Hanning, June 71 1786 - who gave bonds rlth John
.Felt and Edward Brown (son and son-in-law of Capt. John Felt) as su.::..~iea.
Ineluded in this tracing is a copy of a petition of Uar:r Felt, wid....-..r ot
.John Felt, and gdn. of all his children who are minors, an aocount. c~ sale of
real estate of Felt minors by order of court, and also aome interes-:..:..ng dcinga
ot thie moat interesting man which were recorded in the Felt Gene.a.l.:Q"•
men causing the
Jrr. Felt was patriot and leader of tht:i retreat at the :,iorth .Brici,,,,C"1! :,-- Col. Leslie.
Thia in.t'ormation is ;:;iven in great detail in this 5enealogy1 al.so ~'8Cific
mention of the tact that Capt. Felt purchased 5/10/1757, just preTi. ~ to hi•
second marriag~ a:mi house and lot on 1ynde Street in Salem and ~:;ment~ became
the owner of a large amount of land in the "!forth Fields".
These additicnal pa.pers mentioned above are given to the house
OW'!!:~ ..
We, therefore, state with no hesitation that the house was built i=. :_'""57.
�47 FEDERAL STREET Salem Directory Research
by Jeanne Stella P.O. Box 534 Salem MA 01970
1837 Directory
Hoffman, Charles, merchant, h 47 Federal
1842 Directory
Felt, Joseph, jr. farmer, 47 Federal
1846 Directory
Felt, Joseph, jr. farmer, h 47 Federal
1850 Directory
Felt Joseph, jr. house 47 Federal
1851 Directory
Felt Joseph, jr. house 47 Federal
1864 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1866 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1869 Directory
Arvedson George, clerk, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1872 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1874 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, h 47 Federal
1876 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, h 47 Federal
1881 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
1884 Directory
Arvedson George, boots, shoes, and rubbers, 216 Essex, house 47 Federal
�1886 Directory
Arvedson George, salesman, 206 Essex, house 47 Federal
1890-91 Directory
Arvedson George, shoe dealer, h 47 Federal
Conant Annie R. Mrs. dressmaker, 47 Federal, h. do.
1893-94 Directory
Arvedson George, shoe dealer, h 47 Federal
1895-96 Directory
Arvedson George, h. 47 Federal
Abbott Mary, widow of George A. h. 47 Federal
1897-98 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1899-1900 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1905 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1906 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1908 Di rectory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1910 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1911 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1912 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1913 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1914 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1915 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
�1916 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1917 Directory
Arvedson George, genealogist, h. 47 Federal
1918 Directory
Barker, Mary E. wid. Benjamin, h. 47 Federal
1920 Directory
Wiggin J Edward {Jennie) elect h 47 Federal
1921 Directory
Wiggin J Edward {Jennie) electrician h. 47 Federal
1922 Directory
Taylor Elizabeth Mrs h 47 Federal
1924 Directory
Taylor Elizabeth Mrs h 47 Federal
1926 Directory
47-Vacant
1929 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1930 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) tea room 47 Federal h do
1933-34 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1935 Directory
Killam Anna W {The Nook) h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room
1936 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) slsmn h 47 Federal
Nook The tea room {Eliz Brennan) 47 Federal
1937 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) dept mgr Sears Roebuck & Co h 47 Federal
Nook The (Eliz Brennan) tea room 47 Federal
�1939 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F {Eliz G) slsman h 47 Federal
Nook The {Eliz G Brennan) 47 Federal
1940 Salem Directory
Brennan, Bartholomew F (Eliz G) slsmn 47 Federal
NOTE: THE NOOK IS NO LONGER LISTED
1941 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) slsmn Parkers Farm Supply Store r 47 Federal
1942 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) mgr Parkers Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
1943 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew E {Eliz G) mgr Parker Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
Brennan Eliz M wid Bartholomew r 47 Federal
1944 Directory
Brennan Bartholomew F (Eliz G) mgr Parker Farm Supply Store {D) h 47 Federal
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Captain John Felt
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52 Essex Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Built for Daniel Sage
Mariner and Merchant
c. 1800
Researched and written by David Moffat – January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 ‖ HistoricSalem.org © 2019
�I.
The Property, 1680-1800
John Turner, mariner and builder of The House of the Seven Gables, owned this property
by 1680. His father, Robert Turner, had arrived in Boston from England in the 1630s as an
indentured servant. John Turner was born in 1644 and married Elizabeth Roberts of Boston in
1668, the year he moved to Salem and began construction of his grand mansion nearby on what is
now Turner Street. 1 He owned the property which is today 52 Essex Street at the time of his early
death in 1680. In his probate inventory that year, it was listed as “Land by Christopher Babidges,”
valued at £40.2 Essex Street began as a pathway used by the Naumkeag people who inhabited
Salem for ten millenia before the arrival of English settlers and was one of the first streets in Salem.
By the late seventeenth-century, it was already considered the main street of the town. 3
When John Turner’s property was divided March 22, 1696/7, the lot (then worth £32 11s
was given to his youngest child, his daughter Abial. 4 Abial Turner was born October 14, 1680,
five days after her father’s death. 5 Abial never married and lived until 1723, though she conveyed
the property along Essex Street of Joseph Andrews, a yeoman from Boxford, on January 22, 1705
for £45.6
The land was along the creek which ran from the Salem Common into the cove which is
today called Collins Cove. To the east was the land of Christopher Babbidge, a tailor, by 1683. 7
His house, may survive on the other side of the old Bentley School, hidden between Essex and
Moriarty, G. Andrews “The Turner Family of Salem,” Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 48, 1912, p. 263
Essex County, MA Early Probate Records, Vol. 3, p. 399, 1680.
3
Perley, Sidney. “Part of Salem in 1700: #19” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 9. 1905. p. 72.
4
Ibid, p. 74.
5
Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. 3: 1671-1716. Salem, Sidney Perley, 1928. Print, p. 37.
6
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 18:146. 22 Jan 1705.
7
Perley, 1905, p. 74.
1
2
�Forrester streets. Babbidge’s son, Christopher, Jr., a cordwainer, conveyed the house and property
to merchant Richard Derby in 1757. 8
The property to the west, from what is today number 56 Essex Street to Washington Square
East, was part of the parcel of land owned by John Turner. In 1695, Col. John Turner conveyed it
to Thomas Beadle, a mariner and tavern-keeper for £16.9 Beadle’s Tavern, where accused (and
later executed) witches Reverend George Burroughs, George Jacobs, Sr., and Mary Easty were
held before their pre-trial examinations during the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, stood on the
opposite side of Essex Street, near where number 65 is located today. His house remained until
merchant Clifford Crowninshield acquired the land in 1791 and tore it down. 10
After the death of Joseph Andrews in 1737, his dwelling house and lands in Salem were
inherited by his sons, Nathaniel and John.11
In 1777, Richard Derby purchased the present site of 52 Essex Street from mariner Daniel
Conant along with the rest of Conant’s “goods, chattels, and lands” for the enormous sum of £4,000
18s.12
II.
Daniel Sage, 1800-1831
In 1800, Salem was the eighth largest city in the United States, with 9,457 residents
according to the census conducted that year. 13 After the Revolution, Salem’s maritime trade
flourished as privateers like the Derby family turned their sights on foreign trade which had been
8
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 105:16. 8 Nov 1757.
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 11:30. 4 Jun 1695.
10
Perley (1905), p. 74.
11
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 73:135. 6 Jul 1737.
12
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 135:43. 29 Jan 1777.
13
Gibson, Campbell. “Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in The United States: 1790 to
1990.” United States Census Bureau, 1998. https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POPtwps0027.html
9
�forbidden under the mercantilist British system. The first American ships to trade with ports in
Russia, South Africa, Madagascar, Martinique, and India, left Salem in the period between 1781
and 1800. Salem is often considered the wealthiest city per capita in the United States in that
period, and Elias Hasket Derby was the wealthiest American in the 1790s.
In 1800, the heirs of Samuel Derby (Richard Derby, Samuel Derby, Charles Derby, and
Edward Preble) sold a parcel of land to Capt. Daniel Sage, who constructed 52 Essex Street not
long afterwards.
The deed describes the property as such:
“three fourths parts and seven tenths of a fourth part of a piece of land in said Salem,
bounded as follows, to wit, southerly by Essex Street, there measuring 78 feet,
easterly by land of Mrs. Mary Elkins, there measuring two hundred & seven feet,
northerly by east street there measuring seventy nine feet & six inches, westerly by
land of Capt. Benjn Ward, there measuring two hundred feet” 14
Daniel Sage was born in 1758 in Greenock, a fishing port in Inverclyde in the west central
lowlands along the Firth of Clyde. 15 Greenock had a successful harbor and fishing industry since
the middle ages, largely exporting salted cod. It is unclear when Sage came to the United States,
but he was in Salem by the 1780s.
Sage was a shipmaster, captaining the Patty, a Newbury-built schooner in 1794 for Nathan
Richardson.16 In July of 1795, he carried £3,425 17s 2d worth of provisions to the army of JosephGeneviève de Puisaye at Quiberon in Brittany. 17 De Puisaye was leading a counter-revolutionary
14
Essex Country Registry of Deeds. Deed 166:240. 28 May 1800.
Salem Vital Records, Deaths, p. 204.
16
Hitchens, A. Frank, with Stephen Willard Phillips. Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly,
Massachusetts, 1789-1900. Salem: Essex Institute, 1906. p. 142.
17
Emmerton, James A. A Genealogical Account of Henry Silsbee and Some of his Descendants. Salem: Essex
Institute, 1880. p. 31.
15
�invasion of France backed by British, which lasted from June 23rd to July 23rd, 1795. Two days
after Sage delivered provisions, the counterrevolutionary forces were routed at the Battle of
Quiberon.
In 1796 he captained the Elizabeth, for William Gray.18 In 1800 he supervised the building
of the Laurel for Gray. Built in Danvers, the Laurel was 425 tons, the fourth-largest ship in Salem
at that time.19 He travelled to India aboard the Laurel.20
In 1809, he was part owner with Nathaniel Silsbee, Robert Stone, Jr. Joseph Ropes, Thomas
Whitteridge, Jeremiah Briggs, Daniel Sage, James Devereaux, Moses Townsend, Joseph White,
Jr., Joshua Ward, Joseph J. Knapp, Archelaus Rea, Richard Crowninshield of the brig Romp, which
was confiscated at Naples on her first voyage. 21 There is a half-hull model of the Romp in the
collection of the Peabody Essex Museum.22 Regarding its capture in Naples, there is a “Naples
claim” in Sage’s probate valued at $1592.59.23
Sage married Deborah Silsbee October 8, 1786.24 Silsbee was born in April of 1767, the
daughter of carpenter Samuel Silsbee. 25 The Silsbees were descendants of Henry Silsbee, who
came to Salem by 1639. 26 Samuel was the son of After his marriage, Sage lived in the Silsbee
family house on the corner of Derby and Essex streets for nearly thirty years according to family
genealogist, James A. Emmerton. 27 That house was the Stephen Daniels house, one of the oldest
in Salem, built 1667 and still standing at 1 Daniels Street.
18
Hitchens and Phillips, 1906. p. 50.
Hitchens and Phillips, 1906. p. 104.
20
Emmerton, 1880. p. 31.
21
Hitchens and Phillips, 1906. p. 159.
22
Ibid.
23
Essex County Probate Records, Probate 24516.
24
Salem Vital Records, Marriages, p. 283.
25
Emmerton, 1880, p. 19.
26
Emmerton, 1880. pp. 5-6.
27
Ibid., p. 32.
28
MHC MACRIS, SAL.2616, “Daniels, Stephen House”
19
28
Samuel’s mother, Mary Daniels
�Silsbee, was Stephen Daniels’ daughter. She married Nathaniel Silsbee, who died in 1731 when
he killed during a construction project when the staging collapsed. 29 Samuel Silsbee built the
northern half, third floor, and leanto in 1756 and lived in the home his whole life. 30 Two Silsbee
houses of the era survive in the immediate neighborhood at 69 Essex Street,31 and 27 Daniels
Street.32
Somewhere around 1800, Capt. Sage built a three and a half story Federal house, five bays
wide, on the land he had purchased from the Derby heirs. Architectural historian Bryant F. Tolles
identifies 52 Essex Street as “unusual” as “the only house in Salem with brick ends incorporating
paired chimneys.”33 Sage constructed a small store on the western end of the property, today 54
Derby Street, and owned a lot across the street with a barn.
Capt. Daniel and Deborah Sage had 12 children, only five of whom survived to adulthood,
two sons and three daughters. Joseph Prince, aged 18 months, died September 23rd, 1795, of fever.
Fever claimed two more children within 12 days. Daniel died of fever at age four September 26 th,
followed by Hannah, age six, on October 4th. 1802 was a similarly dark year for the Sages, with
Hannah, aged five, and Daniel, aged three, dying of fever on May 28th and 29th. Deborah, aged 19,
died of dysentery on July 30th of that year. 34 Martha Silsbee, aged one, died of dysentery on
September 26th, 1808.
John Sage, the oldest son, was born in July 1787 and became a mariner. William Sage was
born in September 1803 and became the Secretary of the Union Marine Insurance Company and
is listed in the probate with the profession of gentleman. Mary Ann Sage was born in April 1805.
29
Emmerton, 1880. p. 17.
MHC MACRIS, SAL.2616, “Daniels, Stephen House”
31
MHC MACRIS, SAL.2591, “Silsbee, Nathaniel, Jr.-Upton, Mercy House.”
32
MHC MACRIS, SAL.3449, “Silsbee, Capt. Nathaniel House.”
33
Tolles, Bryant F. Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide, University of New England Press, 2004. p. 40.
34
Vital Records, Deaths, pp. 204-5.
30
�She married the mariner and merchant Ephraim Emmerton. 35 Sarah Sage was born in October
1809 and married Charles Fisk Putnam, merchant and grocer, in 1828. Margaret Sage was born in
December 1811 and married Charles’ younger brother, Edward Putnam in 1839. Edward was
involved in the Brazil trade, particularly in the importation of rubber, and with Charles shipped a
steam sugar mill to Brazil. 36
Sage owned pew number three in the East Meeting House, at the corner of Essex and Hardy
streets.37 The East Church had been established in 1718 and took on Unitarian leanings with the
ministership of the famous Reverend William Bentley between 1783 and 1819. Bentley married
Deborah and Daniel in 1786. 38 In 1812, Bentley notes in his diary that he received “Lady blush
apples” from Sage. 39 In 1817, a subscription was taken to cover deficiencies in the salary of Rev.
Bentley. Capt. Sage contributed $15, ranking number 16 among the donors. The other contributors
were wealthy merchants of the harbor and common neighborhood. 40 After Bentley’s death in 1819,
the minister of the East Church was Dr. James Flint, from 1821 until 1855. 4142
A standing clay figure of Daniel Sage is in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum,
by an unknown face maker in Canton, 1798. This is the last known example of this art (known
35
The Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 3, Dec. 1915-September, 1916, Boston Mass, Google Books. p. 211
Putnam Family Papers, Phillips Library, MSS 153, Finding Aid.
http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/3002
37
Essex County Probate Records, Probate 24516.
38
The Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 3, Dec. 1915-September, 1916, Boston Mass, Google Books. p. 211
39
Bentley, William. The Diary of William Bentley, Vol . 4: 1811-1819. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1914. p. 123.
40
Ibid., p. 529. The others Benjamin William Crowninshield, Nathaniel Silsbee, Joseph White, Gamaliel Hodges
(?), Robert & Anstiss Stone (?), J. Dodge, Zachariah F. Silsbee, Moses Townsend, Henry Prince, and Jonathan
Archer.
41
Colman, Henry. A Sermon, preached at the Installation of the Rev. James Flint, in the East Church in Salem.
Boston, Thomas B. Waite, 1821.
42
Clapp, Dexter. A discourse occasioned by the death of Rev. James Flint, D.D. : senior pastor of the East Church
in Salem : with an address delivered on the day of his burial, March 7, 1855.
36
�figures are from 1710 to 1798, and the only known depiction of an American. Most depict
Englishmen and there is one known figure of a Frenchman.
4344
Deborah Silsbee Sage preceded her husband to the grave by a month, on April 13, 1836. 45
When Daniel Sage died May 18, 1836, he was 77 years old and had amassed the large fortune of
$42,396.33.4647 Of that figure, $5,076 was in real estate. 52 Essex Street, called “The Homestead”
in the probate, was worth $4,000. The lot across Essex Street was valued at $675. There are two
lots of land along Liberal Street in the North Fields worth $225. 48
Sage’s furnishings and possessions came to $523.97. The inventory gives some sense of
the furniture that Sage had in his home. A green sofa and a black sofa, a Turkish rug, bamboo
couch, straw carpet, and a square dining table are listed among less descriptive items of furniture.
Other possessions included a spyglass, two looking glasses, a compass, scales and weights, a
musket, a sword, money scales, and twelve pictures. He owned a Bible and a number of books, as
well as charts and bound newspapers.49
In 2016, a lot of eight mahogany dining chairs carved by Samuel McIntire around 1800
was auctioned by Sotheby’s. The catalogue notes that similar chairs can be found in the SageWebb-Wilkins House in Salem. 50
Schokkenbroek, Joost C.A. “Figuring Out Global and Local Relations: Cantonese Face Makers and Their Sitters
in the 18th Century.” Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature: Essays in Honour of
Professor C.A. Davids. Eds. Pepijn Branden, Sabine Go, Wybren Verstegen. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2018. p.
182.
44
William R. Sargent, “A figure of Captain Daniel Sage discovered.” Sept. 2015 issue of Antiques Magazine. Vol.
182, issue 5, p. 54.
45
Salem Vital Records, Deaths, p. 204.
46
Ibid.
47
Essex County Probate Records, Probate 24516.
48
Ibid.
49
Ibid.
50
Sotheby’s, “Important Americana,” 22-23 January, 2016. Sale #N094056.
43
�Lastly, he had investments and other assets valued at $36,796.36. These included shares in
five banks (Merchant, Exchange, Mercantile, Commercial, and Salem) three insurance companies
(Oriental, Marine, Union Marine), the Essex Marine Railway Corporation, the Salem and Danvers
Aqueduct Corporation, and the Marine Hall Corporation. 51 His son, William, was secretary of the
Union Marine, of which he had more than twice the number of shares than the other two firms.
The subscribers to his estate were Charles F. Putnam, John Sage, Margaret Sage, and
Ephraim Emmerton. William Sage was initially named the administrator, but he died February 19,
1838, before completing the probate and on April 3, Ephraim Emmerton was named administrator
in his place.5253 Daniel Sage’s papers are in the Phillips as part of the Emmerton Family Papers,
MSS 24.54
III.
The Webbs, 1831-1902
William Webb purchased Daniel Sage’s mansion on Essex Street on July 26, 1836, less
than two months after the captain’s death. 55 Webb paid only $100 less than the estimated value of
the property in Sage’s probate. 56 Webb was a trader and an apothecary.
Webb was born in October 1783 to Benjamin Webb and Hannah Bray.57 He married in
1825, the much younger Isabella (or Isabel) Donaldson, who was born in 1800 to Alexander
Donaldson and Elizabeth Peele. 58 William and Isabella had four children, three of whom survived
51
Probate 24516.
Salem Vital Records, Deaths, p. 205.
53
Probate 24516.
54
Emmerton Family Papers, Phillips Library, MSS 24. Finding Aid.
http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/2114
55
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 291:262. 26 Jul 1836.
56
Probate 24516
57 Salem Vital Records, Births, p. 405.
58 Salem Vital Records, Births, p. 258.
52
�to adulthood. Isabella, the firstborn, died in December 1834 at the age seven. 59 Benjamin was born
in May 1829.60 His first marriage was to Lizzie Brown. Elizabeth Donaldson was born in 1831. 61
She married George Whipple, secretary of the Essex Institute and a writer on local history, such
as the history of the Salem Light Infantry. 62 Lastly, William, Jr. was born in September 1833.63 He
moved to Winchester, Massachusetts by 1874. 64
Webb ran his apothecary out of the little shop constructed by Daniel Sage which is today
54 Essex Street.65 In the 1840s, Gardner Barton, an apothecary with a shop at 6 Newbury Street
resided with the Webbs at 52 Essex Street. 66 In 1842, there were only seven apothecaries listed in
the Salem Directory, including Barton and Webb. 67
In 1846, Isabella died of consumption in January 1846.68 Henry McIntyre’s 1851 map of
Salem depicts the home as the property of “W. Webb.” 69 William Webb died April 29, 1870.70
Webb’s son, Benjamin Webb, purchased the property in July of 1870 for $2,666.71 In the 1874
atlas of Salem, Benjamin Webb is listed as the owner and the store at number 54 is located at the
center of the lot, with more property to the west. 72
59
Salem Vital Records, Deaths, p. 313.
Salem Vital Records, Births, p. 401.
61
Salem Vital Records, Births, p. 402.
62 Whipple, George Mantum. History of the Salem Light Infantry, 1805-1890. Salem: Essex Institute, 1890.
63 Salem Vital Records, Births, p. 405.
64 Booth, Robert. “54 Essex Street, Salem History of the Building and Occupants” Salem: Historical Salem, 2007. P.
7.
65
Salem Directory, 1846. p. 121.
66
Salem Directory, 1842. p. 7.
67 Salem Directory, 1842. pp. 7, 29, 41, 95, 115, 116,
68
Salem Vital Records, Deaths, p. 313.
69 McIntyre, Henry. “Map of the City of Salem, Mass. From an actual survey By H. Mc. Intyre. Cl. Engr.” Map,
1851. Henry McIntyre, Salem, MA. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/15108
70
Booth, 2007. p. 7.
71
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 813:299. 5 Jul 1870.
72 Busch, Edward. Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. From actual Survey & Official records. G.M. Hopkins
& Co. Philadelphia, 1874.
60
�In January 1877, Benjamin Webb sold the western half of the lot to John Stevenson, an
engineer living at 2 North Pine Street, for $1,973.97.7374 John Stevenson constructed a double
house on the lot in 1877, which is today 56-58 Essex Street.75
In the 1878 directory, Benjamin Webb, is listed with his shop at 54 Essex and his house at
52 Essex.76 In the 1893-4 Directory, an advertisement for Benjamin Webb, Apothecary lists the
following specialties: “’Old Dr. Webb's Cough Mixture,’ a cheap and effectual remedy, try it! ‘Old
Dr. Webb's Worm Powders,’ Successful through years of trials. A sure remedy! and ‘Dr. Little's
Green Ointment’ positively cures eczema and all skin diseases. Also pills.”
Webb’s second wife, Angie, received the property in September 1897 for $1 and other
considerations.77 He was listed as a chemist and a druggist in the 1899-1900 Directory, with his
shop at 54 Essex and his home at 52 Essex. 78 In that year, there were 14 druggists listed in Salem,
and 26 apothecaries, with all the druggists listed as apothecaries. 79 Benjamin Webb died in
November 1900.80
IV.
The Wilkins, 1902-1951
Marietta B. Wilkins purchased the property in April 1902 for $1 and other considerations. 81
Marietta was the wife of S. Herbert Wilkins, of Briggs & Wilkins, “proprietors of dry and fancy
goods,” 221 Essex street.82 In 1903, number 54 was the bakery of the Pierce Brothers, and in 1904,
73
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 970:258. 27 Jan 1877.
Salem Directory, 1878. p. 180.
75 MHC MACRIS, SAL.2664. “Stevenson, John Double House.”
76 Salem Directory, 1878, p. 196.
77
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1524:86. 20 Sep 1897.
78 Salem Directory 1899-1900, p. 395.
79 Salem Directory, 1899-1900, pp. 365, 369.
80 Booth, 2007. p. 7.
81
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1679:447. 17 Apr 1902.
82 Salem Directory, 1904. pp. 116, 394.
74
�home bakery of S.F. Martinage, 8384 The 1911 Salem atlas shows Marietta B. Wilkins as the owner
of the property, with the part of the lot to the west now occupied by the Stevenson double house. 85
V.
The Harringtons, 1951-1977
In April 1951, Paul P and Mary E. Harrington purchased 52 Essex Street from the estate
of Marietta B. Wilkins for $10,000. 86 The couple immediately took out a mortgage in that amount
from Roger Conant Co-Operative Bank. Paul and Mary Harrington were born in 1905. Paul P.
Harrington was a city worker. Their two sons, Patrick J. and Paul P., Jr., born in the early 1940s,
were in the Merchant Marine. 87 Mary transferred the house to Patrick J. Harrington in August of
1975.88
The Harringtons had a number of boarders or tenants living at 52 Essex Street. Charles A.
O’Connell, a laborer, and James Connell, a city worker, and in 1964 and 1975, respectively. Lucian
L. St. Amand, a laborer, and his son, Lucian R. St. Amand, Jr, a maintenance worker, lived in the
house from 1964 until 1975. Others included Frank Wroblewski, a leather worker, Robert D.
Bouvre, an assistant electrian, Kasimierz A. Lisaj, Michael Krulisky, a leather worker, Louis
Maynard, a train driver, and Conrad J. Verrette, a laborer. John I. Kozak, Edward Shea, Edward
McCoy, Henry S. Klosowski, Joseph Esko, and William Conovan, are listed, all five of them
retired.89
83
Salem Directory, 1904, p. 115.
Booth, 2007. p. 12.
85 Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts Based on Plans in the Office of the City Engineer. Walker Lithograph &
Publishing Company, Boston, 1911.
86
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 3813:542. 26 Apr 1951.
87 Street List of Persons, 1973, 1975.
88
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 6174:95. 20 Aug 1975.
89 Street List of Persons, 1954-1975.
84
�In 1975, Gerald Labonte, a firefighter, and his wife, Patricia, lived at the house. 90 A year
later, Robert F. Quinn, retired, is listed. 91
VI.
The Sets, 1977-2002
April 11, 1977, Patrick J. Harrington sold the property to Set Ming Fong and Set Ngor
Shun How for $53,000.92 Set Ming Fong, also called Set Hing Fong, was the proprietor of the Soe
Hoo Laundry at 54 Essex Street. He and his wife, Set Ngor Shun How, were born in 1917. 93Set
Den Jin (written in legal documents Den Jin Set) was born in 1956, was a student when his father
bought the property, but the laundry owner by 1990. Set Gen Yu, a housewife born in 1962, may
be Set Den Jin’s wife.
From 1980 to 1984, tenants at 54 Essex Street included Robert A. Bergeron, a veteran, Ken
Gibbs and Joseph Labonte, machinists, Kenneth R. Barr, a taxi driver, Heather Crofts, a bank teller,
and Christine Bak, a processing supervisor, Matthew Macfadee, a surveyor and engineer, and four
students.94
Ngor Shun How transferred the property in April 1985 to Set Ngor Shun How, Den Jin Set,
and Moy Ching Sezto for nominal consideration. 95 From 1985 to 1990, the Sets occupied Unit #1
and rented the second and third units. The tenants included Richard Bush, and Jeff Western,
roofers, Susan Harmon, a student, Heidi J. Gage, a therapist, Jeffery D. Summers, a painter, and
Donna A. Frenette, a housewife. 96
90
Street List of Persons, 1976.
Street List of Persons, 1977.
92
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 6361:149. 11 Apr 1977.
93 Annual Listings, 1980, 1986.
94 Annual Listings, 1980-1984.
95
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 7735:541. 26 Apr 1985.
96 Annual Listings, 1986-1990.
91
�Den Jin Set gave his share of the property to Set Ngor Shun How for nominal consideration
in September of 1990.97 52 Essex Street was listed as unoccupied in 1991 and 1992. 98 In 1993,
1994, and 1995, there were several residents: Richard Holder in Unit #2 in 1993 and 1994, Marillis
D. Brooks, Randy C. Hills, both in retail, in Unit #2 in 1995, and Alez Gurreo, a banker, and
Edward I. Reeves, a government worker, in Unit #3 in that latter year. From 1996 to 2002, the
property was not listed in the Annual Listings of Salem. 99
VII.
Condominiums, 2002-Present
Moy Ching Szeto Chew, Den Jin Set, Tsang Mei Shung sold 52 Essex Street to Jon M.
Cahill in April 2002 for $298,000. 100 Cahill subsequently drew up a condo association agreement
and sold the property as three units. In January 2003, he sold Unit #3 to Robert E. O’Brien. 101 In
February, he sold Unit #2 to Daniel P. and Donna M. Thompson. 102 In April of the same year, he
sold Unit #1 to Madeleine Saunders.103
In 2005, the Thompsons sold Unit #2 to Robert and Laura Brooks. 104 In 2008, Madeleine
Saunders and her heirs sold Unit #1 to Dorothy Malcolm, a writer and editor. 105
In 2016, the residents of the building were Karen Barter, the director of development at
The House of the Seven Gables, in Unit #1, Laura L. Brooks, a graphic designer, and her husband,
97
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 10605:120. 28 Sep 1990.
Annual Listings, 1991, 1992.
99 Annual Listings, 1996-2002.
100
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 18627:242. 25 Apr 2002.
101
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 19935:199. 3 Jan 2003.
102
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 20237:132. 26 Feb. 2003.
103
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 20486:311. 1 Apr 2003.
104 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 24179:489. 15 Apr 2005.
105 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 27863:408. 20 Jun 2008.
98
�Robert L. Brooks, a counselor, in Unit #2, and Paul F. Dolimpio, a data collector, and Julia M.
O’Brien, a designer in Unit #3. 106
VIII. Conclusion
Called the Sage-Webb-Wilkins House, this classic Salem house has a storied history and
is a fine example of Federal architecture in the harbor neighborhood. Captain Daniel Sage, a native
of the western coast of Scotland, came to America as a young man. In 1786 he married Deborah
Silsbee and lived in her ancestral home, the First Period Stephen Daniels House on Daniels Street.
In 1800, Sage purchased the property at 52 Essex Street from the Derbys and began construction
of the present building. Sage had success as a shipmaster and later as a merchant. When he died in
1836, he had amassed considerable assets. The house was sold immediately to William Webb, an
apothecary. Webb used 54 Essex Street next door as his apothecary shop. When he died in 1870,
his son, Benjamin Webb, took over the shop and home, living there until 1900. Benjamin’s widow,
Angie, sold the property to Marietta B. Wilkins, the wife of a dry goods merchant.
Paul P. Harrington and his wife, Mary, purchased the house in 1951. Their two sons were
in the merchant marine. Parts of the house were rented to various working-class tenants, many of
them of Polish or French-Canadian heritage.
The Sets, proprietors of a Chinese laundry next door at 54 Essex Street, purchased the
house in 1977, living in it off and on until 1990 and renting parts of the house to various young
and working-class tenants.
106
Annual Listing for the City of Salem, 2017.
�After the building was turned into condominiums in 2002, it has been the home to a few
couples of urban professionals. The home remains an important landmark of Salem’s maritime
and architectural legacy.
Appendix One: Probate Inventory of Capt. Daniel Sage, 1838
Real Estate
The Homestead, with the buildings thereon situated upon the North side of Essex Street-- $4,000
A lot of land with a barn thereon situated opposite upon the south side of Essex Street-- $675.
A lot of land in North Fields situated upon the south side of the road leading to Ornes Point &
part of barn thereon-- $175
A lot of land in North Fields situated upon the South side of Liberal Street— $150
A lot of land in North Fields sitatued upon the North side of Liberal Street -- $75
Pew No. 3 in East Meeting House-- $1
Total-- $5,076
Personal Estate
Furniture &c. Green Sofa $10 Two Tables & Seven Chairs $9.50-- $19.50
Brass Fire Set $4 Looking Glass $5 Turkey Carpet & Two Rugs $20-- $29
Five pieces Plated Ware $10 Sideboard $9 Black Sofa $9--$28
Six Chairs $2.40 Clock Case & Book Case $10-- $12.40
Table & Writing Desk $4.50 Set of Chartes & Bound News Papers $3--$7.50
Bible Lot of Books & Pictures $10 Spy Glass $8 Watch & Case $5—23
Money scales Old Buckels, Reel, Sand Box $0.50 Looking Glass $3- $3.50
Carpet $5 Square Dining Table $4 Stair Carpet, Rods & Lamp $12--$21
Bed, Bedstead & Bedding $25 Easy Chair $7-- $32
Two trunks containing Sheets, Pillow Cases &c $15 Set of Blankets, Bed Quilts & Bed Dress
$30-- $45
Two Baskets $1 Lot Napkins, Table Linins, & Cloths $20-- $21
Carpet & Rug $7 Two Tables, Wash Stand Bowl & Pitcher $4-- $11
Six Chairs $1,50 Twelve Pictures $3 Light Stand $1-- $5.50
Bedstead & Beding $10 Bureau $5.50 Table 25 cts. Seven Chairs 70 cts. – $16.45
Carpet $3 Looking Glass $2 Two Trunks $5-- $5
Bureau and Case of Drawers $7 Cot bedstead $3 Thirty Chairs $5—$15
Bamboo Couch and Straw Carpet $1.50 Light Stand & Paint Box 75 cents—$2.25
Bedstead $1.50 Three Looking Glasses $1.50-- $3
Two Beds, Pillows, and Bolsters-- $20 Sword, Musket & accoutraments $1.50-- $21.50
Lot of Sticks—12 cents Bed Bedstead & Beding $5 Rocking Chair $2.50-- $5.37
Chest Drawers & Cot 25 cts. Chest 50 cts. -- $.075
Bed, Bedstead, Beding, Case drawers and Carpet $4.50 Chest, Case Drawers Bed Bedstead &
Beding $6.50-- $11
Desk $5 Round Table & Work Stand $3.50 Easy Chair $1-- $9.50
�Three Chairs 50 cts. Lot of wooden Ware $2-- $2.50
Two brass fire Sets $5 Two Tea Caddies sugar Box & Knife Case $1-- $6
Three Lanthornes Two foot Stoves $1.25—$1.25
Two Cases bottles and box of Vials $1.25 Three Demijons $1.50 Four Jars China Ware $1.50-$4.25
Nine preserve Pots $1— $1
Lot of China & Crockery Ware consisting of Dining & Tea Sets $18 Looking Glass & Lot of
Glass Ware $7.50-- $25.50
Fire buckets & a lot of Baskets $2-- $2
Lot of Waiters, Compass and a reflector $1.50 Lot Knives & forks $7.50--$9
Chest Drawers and Table $1.50 Lot of Tin & Pewter Ware $5--$6.50
Iron & Copper Ware $5 Steel Yards Scales & Weights $1.50 --$6.50
Lot of Stone and Potters Ware 50 cts. Five Kitchen Tables & five chairs $2 -- $2.50
Lot of Brass Ware $1.50 Kitchen Fire Set $1 Lot Bottles $4.50--$7
Lot of empty Barrels & Boxes $6.50—$6.50
Ladders, wheelbarrow and Sled $1.50 Lot old Tools, old bow, & Rubish $5 half ton Coal $3—
$9.50
Grind Stone & Cloaths line $1.50 Two stoves with funnels $5-- $6.50
Seventy four & a quarter ounces Silver @ $1 per oz. -- $74.25
Stocks, Debts Due to the Estate, & Viz.
Seventy shares in the Merchants Bank-- $7,000
Twenty shares in the Exchange Bank—$1333.33 1/3
Forty-Five shares in the Mercantile Bank— $4500
Ten shares in the Commercial Bank—$666.66 2/3
Fifteen shares in the Oriental Insurance Co.—$1500
Five shares in the Marine Insurance Co.—$1000
Thirty-Four shares in the Union Marine Insurance Co.—$1360
Four shares in the Salem Bank—$400.
Seven shares in the Essex Marine Railway Corporation—$1330
Four shares in the Salem and Danvers Aqueduct Corportation— $2000
Two shares in the Marine Hall Corporation—$190
Deposite in the Grand Bank, present value—$7720.
Deposite in the Nahant Bank, present value—$3777.77
Deposite in the Naumkeag Bank, present value- $1300
Naples claim valued at—$1592.59
Cash on hand—$1126.
Personal Estate: $37,320.33
Total Estate: $42, 396.33
�Appendix Two: Table of Ownership
Date
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
1800,
Richard Derby, Samuel Derby, Charles Derby, Daniel Sage,
May 28 and Ebenezer Preble, Merchants
mariner
1836,
Jul. 26
John Sage, mariner, Wlliam Sage, gentleman, William Webb,
Margaret Sage, singlewoman, Ephraim
trader
Emmerton, and Mary Ann Emmerton,
Charles F. Putnam, trader, and Sarah Putnam
1870,
Jul. 5
George M. & Elizabeth D. Whipple
Benjamin Webb,
Jr., apothecary
Amount Book
Page
$747.40 166
240
$3,900 291
262
$2,666 813
299
1897
Benjamin Webb, Jr., apothecary
Sep. 20
Angie Webb,
wife of Benjamin $1 and other 1524
considerations
Webb
1902
Angie Webb
Apr. 17
Marietta B.
Wilkins, wife of
S. Herbert
Wilkins
1951,
Estate of Marietta Wilkins
Apr. 26
Paul P. & Mary
E. Harrington
1975,
Mary K. Harrington
Aug. 20
Patrick J.
Harrington
86
$1 and other
1670
considerations
447
$10,000 3813
542
$1 and other
good and
valuable
consideration
6174
95
�1977,
Patrick J. Harrington
Apr. 11
Set Ming Fong,
Set Ngor Shun
How,
$53,000
6361
149
1985,
Ngor Shun How, widow of Set Ming Fong,
Apr. 26
Set Ngor Shun
How, Den Jin
Set, Moy Ching
Sezto
Nominal
consideration
7735
541
1990,
Den Jin Set
Sep. 28
Set Ngor Shun
How
Nominal
10605
consideration
120
2002,
Moy Ching Szeto Chew, Den Jin Set, Tsang
Apr. 25 Mei Shung,
Jon M. Cahill
$298,000 18627
242
Amount
Book
Page
$268,000
20486
311
$241,200
27863
408
$275,000
35045
213
$379,900
36887
114
Unit # 1
Date
2003,
Apr. 1
2008,
Jun. 20
2016,
Jun. 29
2018,
Jul. 25
Conveyed by
Jon M. Cahill
Madeline E. Saunders, Charles M.
Saunders, Miriam J. Phelan, Hobart P.
Saunders,
Dorothy Malcolm
Karen C. Barter
Conveyed to
Madeline E.
Saunders
Dorothy
Malcolm
Karen C. Barter
Lisa Marie
Mendelson
Unit # 2
Date
2003,
Feb.
26
2005,
Apr.
15
2017
Sep.
29
Conveyed by
Jon M. Cahill
Daniel P. & Donna M. Thompson
Robert L. & Laura Lynn Scheer
Brooks
Conveyed to
Daniel P. & Donna M.
Thompson
Amount
Book
Page
$278,900
20237
132
Robert L. & Laura
Lynn Scheer Brooks
$329,900
24179
489
John R. & Sandra N.
Pittinger
$345,900
36216
259
�Unit # 3
Date
2003,
Jan. 3
2015,
Nov. 16
Conveyed by
Jon M. Cahill
Robert E. O’Brien
Conveyed to
Robert E.
O’Brien
Julia M. O’Brien
Amount
Doc
Book
Page
$285,400
Deed
19935
199
$1 and
consideration paid
Deed
34524
38
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Historic Salem Incorporated
P.O. Box 865
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
53 Essex Street
01:med 'by
REBECCA SILSBEE
moved to this site by 1843
Research by
Joyce King
March, 1979
"To preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and ol~jccts, and to work/or the education of the community in the tn1e value of the samett
�53 Essex Street
The land on which this building stands was part of the estate of
Stephen Daniel. His house is better known as the Daniel House.
Stephen Daniel conveyed this estate to his daughter, widow Mary
Silsbee in 1748. The estate then descended to her only surviving
child, Samuel Silsbee. Mr. Silsbee died Dec. 14, 1803, leaving
three children, Samuel; Deborah, wife of Daniel Sage and Sarah,
wife of David 1atten. Mr. ~atten died, and in 1808 Sarah married
Raffield W. Reed.
These three children signed their rights in the estate to their
mother, Martha (Prince) Silsbee, on April 18, 1804. Martha was to
receive all rents and profits from the estate for her life time.
(book 196 page 129) Mrs. Silsbee died Sept. 15, 1817, at the age
of 86. A year after her death the three children divided the
Essex St. property as follows:
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�Samuel Silsbee, housewright, died June 7, 1822, leaving to his
wife Rebecca (Read) Silsbee, half of the house on Essex and
Daniels Streets, which half is now occupied by lhilip Manning and
Mr. Savory, together with the land under said half and land
consisting of a garden usually occupied therewith and the buildings
standing thereon (probate #253lq),
The Salem tax record and directory of 1837, 1 isted by street,
states: on the south side of Essex St., Sage owns a lot of land
and barn (Deborah's); Silsbee owns i house (Samuel'~and Sarah
Reed owns ! house. (Since these are the only buildings listed, it
seems #53 Essex St. was not there at this time.)
An indenture between Rebecca Silsbee.and John and Sarah Russell,
was drawn up in March of 1843:
Leased and farm let to John W. and Sarah Russell, all that
messuage and tenement, in Salem, known as house #53 Essex St.
Russell is to pay $200 in advance for rent of house, in case of
decease of Rebecca, before the term, if Russell or wife shall not
be permitted, by the heirs of Rebecca, to occupy till the end of
the term, then the $200 is to be refunded. All repairs and taxes
are to be paid by Russell.
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The tax records show, John W. Russell paid the tax on this house
i.n 1844.
Sarah (Hood) Russell was Rebecca's granddaughter. Sarah married
John W. Russell, carpenter, on Nov. 20, 1842. Until this ti~e
John lived at 10 Turner St.
The newly weds moved into 53 Essex St.
in 1843 and made this their home for the rest of their lives.
�On July 19, 1849, Rebecca Silsbee, widow, sold to Sarah Russell
for $1 and other consideration, the land with a two story dwelling
house thereon ( sa,rne description as the lease). The same property
conveyed to her by will of husband Samuel. (book 414 page 49)
A Federal Census taken in 1850 gives the listing for the Russell
household as follows:
,John W. Russell
age 30 carpenter born Mass.
II
11
Sarah
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II
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11
II
Rebecca S.
7
II
11
2
Sarah E.
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11
II
Catherine Sullivan
Ire.
19
On Oct. 20, 1852, Rebecca Silsbee, widow, sold to John W. Russell
a small piece of land, and the expense incurred in building of an
outhouse partly on land conveyed, the same being for use of my
own family and in common with his.
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A listing found in the street books stored a the Essex Institute
states: Russell and White's men, Thomas Hurd and Wm Dogget and others 1
laid edge stones in front of John W. Russell's estate at 53 Essex
St., 29 feet 6 inches.
John W. Russell, housewright, died on May 10, 1875. The real estate
listed in his probate was the house and land #3 Daniel St. valued
at $1,200 (sold to him by the heirs of Rebecca Silsbee in 1857)
the income of rents to be paid to his widow. (probate #52322)
�Federal census listing 1B80:
Sarah S. Russell
age 56
born Mass.
11
11
Stephen Burger
32 son in law
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11
II
Hebecca
34 wife of Stephen
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II
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Stephen
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Sarah S. Russell died March 2g, 1886 leaving her property to her
heirs: Rebecca Burger and Mrs. Sarah E. Dexter, of Lynn.
Hebecca S. Burger died May 13, 1920. Her heirs were Stephen Burger,
husband, and l~ouise R. Burger, granddaughter (minor). In her will,
made out May 5, 1920, she left all real estate owned being i of
Sarah S. Russell's estate on the corner of Essex and Daniel St.:
53 Essex and 1 & 3 Daniel, shall be in trust for use of my husband
as long as he lives, at his death to .Louise R. Burger. (probate
l/143463)
Sarah R. Dexter died Jan. 1, 1926. Her heir was Louise Burger Waters
of Salem, grandniece. In her will of June 27, 1922, all real estate
being ! of Sarah Russell's estate corner of Essex and Daniel:
53 Essex and 1 & 3 Daniel Streets to be kept in trust for the use
of my son Oliver for life - at his death to my heirs. (probate
#153877)
May 2, 1932 Louise B. Waters, wife of Ernest, sold to Jacob and
Isador Galper, the land and buildings (boundary lines changed to
include land now belonging to Daniel house)
(book 2915 page 520)
July 9, 1932 Jacob Galper, unmarried and Isador Galper and wife,
sold to Margaret McGarry the same property conveyed by Louise B.
Waters. (book 2921 page 531)
Apparently, after some dispute over boundary lines a survey map
was made and the land court named Margaret E. IVlcGarry, of Salem,
married to John E., as owner in fee simple, land as on Flan #15464A.
(registered land book 42 certificate #10397)
Subsequent owners:
Sarah Novick not married, of Salem and John Russo and Dorothy, his
wife, of Beverly, May 18, 1956. (certificate #25476)
Robert Maguire, Oct. 5, 1972 (certificate #42554)
Anthony F. Di Croce, Nov. 4, 1977, the present owner.
Note: all reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry
of Deeds and probate numbers refer to cases in lrobate Court, both
located in the same building on Federal St. in Salem.
All maps in this report are not meant to be exact - just as an
illustration.
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1843
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Salem
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House and Land at
55-57
Federal Street,
Salem, Mass.
This double house was built for Joshua Loring, Salem coachmaker, in.the year 1836.
The lot on which the house stands was first sold on 26 Oct 1815
by Isaac Cushing, Salem bookbinder, for $1000 to Joshua Loring,
Salem chaise-maker, "with all the buildings thereon ••• 11 (207:181 ).
Mr Cushing had, the day before (25 Oct 1815) purchased from the
estate of Hen,ry Rust, deceased Salem merchant, "a dwelling
house and all other buildings 11 together with a lot running
155' from Marlborough (now Federal) to Lynde Street, fronting
59 1 on each street (207:180). Mr Cushing had simply divided
this lot, and sold the Marlborough half to Mr Loring.
Henry Rust had purchased the street-to-street lot and house
on 7 Jan 1812 from Joseph Andrews of Salem for $2510 (195:192);
Mr Andrews had bought the premises at public auction I'.or
$2510 on 10 Dec 1811 (195:139); up to that time it had belonged
to Nathaniel Frothingham Esq, Salem coach-maker, who defaulted
on a debt and so lost the property. Mr Frothingham had
assembled the lot by two purchases from the Cook .family: one
in 1806 (179:168), when he bought an empty lot fronting 20'
on each street, and one in 1810 (192:130), when he bought
a dwelling house and land bounding 401 on each street.
It seems that Mr Cushing sold to Mr Loring the half of the lot
with Nathaniel Frothingham 1 s coach-mslring buildings on it, while
he (l'1r Cushing) retained the Lynde Street half with the house
thereon (probably t·he present yellow house on Lynde Street,
recently fixed over, in the rear of 35-37 Federal Street).
Mr Loring probably maintained his shop here up to 1829.
From 1815-29, he was annually assessed ;for.a:liduse & shop
valued at $500. The location of this house is not known to
me. In 1830 his assessment leaped to $1400, reflecting the
presence of a new hous~ that he had built on the Marlborough
(Federal) Street lot. Here he and his .family lived for the
next five years.
Joshua Loring was born in Hingham on 26 Mar 1782, the son of
Joshua Loring of that place. Joshua Jr was in the seventh
generation from his English immigrant ancestor, rhomas Loring.
He married Sarah vfoodbury Bray of Gloucester, the daughter of
Edward and Edith (Doane) Bray, about 1806. They had at least
eight children, onlY three of whom survived them. Most of
these children were still at home when Mr Loring built his
new house in 1830.
1
�Then, on 4 Sept 1835, Joshua Loring's house burnt to the ground!
(Details may be found in Essex Institute Historical Collections
vol. 39, P• 18; also the Salem Directory, 1904, chronology of
Salem events, under the year 1835). After this disaster, a
new house was begun on the site--this new dwelling being a
double house, the one that is presently standing. 'I'he new
house was built double to house Mr Loring's own family as well
as that of his daughter, Mrs Sarah Hunt.
By the time of the 1836 assessment, the #23 Marlborough Street
half was evidently finished, for the tax records show that
John D Hunt, Hr Loring 1 s son-in-law, was living there; at the
same time, Mr Loring was assessed 0!1lly $500 for "one-half an
unfinished house, No. 21 Marlboro." The double house was
probably finished before the year came to a close. Further
evidence for this conclusion is provided by the 1837 Salem
Directory (which was based on locations as of 1836); it lists
Joshua Loring as a coach-maker with a place of business at
2 Marlboro' St and a house at 21 Marlboro'; John D Hunt is
listed as a chaise-maker with a place of business at 14 Court
Street (now ,upper ;Federal -st.) and a house at 23 Marlboro 1 St.
In the year 1837, Mr Loring and Mr Hunt were taxed for their
respective halves of the double house, each valued at $1400.
In that same year, on 2 Mar 1837, Mr Loring for $2600 sold to
Mr Hunt 11 all the westerly half part of' the dwelling house and
the land on the southerly side of Marlboro' Street •.• being
No. 23 on said street ••• 11 (297:163). Mr Hunt immediately
mortgaged the property to Isaac Cushing ($1100), (297:164),
?-nd to his mother, Mary Hunt, for $1500 (297:164).
Joshua Loring, the original owner of the house, sold his half
for $1900 to Thomas Robbins, Salem chaise-maker, on 14 May 18L~2
(331 :160); the Robbins family lived there for quite a while.
On 28 July 1845 John D Hunt and his mother, widow Mary Hunt
(by right of her interest as mortgagee) sold #23 Marlboro
Street to George Wheatland of Salem (357:123). Mr Wheatland
owned the premises for five years, selling for $2000 to
William Hunt, Salem merchant, "the messuage on Marlborough
Street occupied by John D Hunt" on 18 June 1850 (430:232).
I am not sure what relation ~villiam Hunt bore to John D Hunt;
possibly he was his brother or father.
Meanwhile, in the other half of the house, Mr Robbins died
and his son Thomas A Robbins inherited the place; on 25 Oct
1867 he sold it for $950 to George W Pease of Salem (733:65).
Mr Pease liked his half so well that on 2 July 1869 he bought
the other half for $3500 from William Hunt ( 777~1'67). Mr Pease
thus secured title to the entire double house and land.
�Mr Pease immediately conveyed the house
& land for $3500 to
John S Williams of Salem (890:201 ); this transaction seems
to have been a mortgage, for on 9 Oct 1873, Mr Williams reconveyed the premises to Mr Pease (890:201 ).
Although it certainly appears that Mr Pease had bought up
all rights to 55-57 Federal Street, on 9 Oct 1880 we find
him buying the western half-house (#57), formerly that of
John D Hunt, from a group composed, apparently, of the
living heirs of Joshua Loring (Edward D Loring of Salem,
and John D, John L, Carrie L, & Sarah M Hunt, all of San
Francicco); Mr Pease paid them $2800 for the property, but
I do not understand on what right they based their claim
to the premises (1309:161 ).
·
After the death of Mr Pease, three of his four children
(Mrs Margaret H Fielder, Mrs Helen L Pousland, Mrs Caroline
L Brown) on 6 May 1891 released their rights to their father's
double house to the fourth Pease heir, Mrs Sarah F Pratt of
Salem (1308:485). Mrs Pratt owned the property for many
years; after her death the adminstrator of her estate
(the Naumkeag Trust Co.) on 8 Feb 1930 sold the double
house for $8000 to Mrs Teresa N Johnston of Salem (2836:224).
Mrs Johnston soon (26 June 1930) sold the place to Florence
Boardman Porter of Beverly (2849:224).
Florence B Porter owned the premises about twelve years,
selling on 26 May 1942 to Katharine M Lawless of Waltham
(3295:56). After the death of Katherine M Lawless, on
· 31 Oct 1962 the executor of her will, Philip J Durkin
of Salem, sold the property for $20,000 to Alice B Rogers
of Salem, who continues to own 55-57 Federal Street (%006:285).
Robert Booth
26 Jan 1977
�LORING Family of
55-57
Federal Street
Joshua Loring (1782-1866), Salem coach and chaise maker,
was born in Hingham, Mass., on 26 Mar 1782, son of Joshua
Loring of that place. He married Sarah Woodbury Bray of
Gloucester about 1806; she was the daughter of Edward and
Edith (Doane) Bray; born in 1783, she died 5 Nov 1866, just
after the decease of her husband 21 June 1866. This longlived couple was survived by only two of their children.
Known offspring:
1) Henry Stevens, b 1807, bp 7 Nov 1824, d. at Wenham
29 Dec 1851.
2) S~rB.h. Curtis, b abt 1810, bp 7 Nov 1824, m 8 May 1834
John D Hunt, Salem coach-maker.
3) Joshua, b 22 May 1815, d young
4 )) Lydia Ann, b 1815, bp 7 Nov 1824, d 5 Sept 1880.
5 Mary Toppan, b 1816, d young
6) George Bailey, b 1 81 7, bp ·7,;-Nov 1824; d at sea.
7) Edward Doane, b 9 Feb 1819, m 3 Jan 1850, Salem,
Eliza A Hayward; they had at least
one child, George E, b 1 Aug 1858;
Mr Loring died 21 Ap 1890.
8) Caroline, b 1 Mar 1822, d young (?).
Some of the above information comes from the Loring
Genealogy by Charles H Pope, assisted by K.P. Loring;
Cambridge, Murray & Emery, 1917.
Note: Joshua Loring was a charter member of the Salem
Chari table Mechanics Association, 1817.
HUNT Family of 57 Federal Street
John D Hunt, Salem coach-maker, married Sarah Curtis Lo~ing
(b. abt 1810)~ daughter of Joshua and Sarah W (Bray) Loring
of Salem, on tl May 1834. Known offspring:
1) John Lewis, bp 12 July 1835, m. Martha B. _ __
2) Sarah Mosley, bp 7 Ap 1839
3) Carrie L, bp 21 Aug 1842
4) William, b May 1844, d young (?).
In 1880, Mr Hunt (his wife Sarah was evidently deceased)
and his three children were living in San Francisco, Cal.
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58 Endicott Street
Original house built for
Jesse S. Punchard
1846
Rebuilt after
the Great Salem Fire
June 1914
Researched & Written by
Amy Kellett
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�House History Report
58 Endicott Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Original house built for
Jesse S. Punchard
1846
Destroyed by Great Salem Fire
June 1914
by
Amy E. Kellett
February 2019
Researcher’s Note:
The contents of this report are based on research done
through the Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, the
Salem City Directory archives, Salem Street Books, Tax
Assessment Records, and other primary sources. (Where
secondary sources have been quoted or otherwise referred
to, there are corresponding citation footnotes.) This report is
completed to the best of my knowledge at the time of its
publication. However, I reserve the right to update, revise,
and otherwise edit this report if and/or when new
information is discovered.
This report is published and copyrighted by Historic Salem,
Inc., Feb. 2019.
Amy E. Kellett
Researcher & Author
�Historic Salem, Inc. | House Report
Part I: 1843-1851
One of Salem’s oldest families, the Pickering family, owned the land that 58 Endicott Street now
stands on, historically called the Broadfields. The home which now stands at 58 Essex Street in
Salem, Massachusetts was built as part of a development in 1925 of the even-side lots Endicott
Street by local real estate developer, Morris Gerber. The foundation on which the house at 58
Endicott now stands, however, dates to 1846, when the property was built and owned by painter
and glazier Jesse Punchard. Punchard purchased the lots from John Pickering and built a small
dwelling house that he likely lived in while building a larger two-family home at the corner of
Endicott and Winthrop Streets.
The 1840s in Salem proved to be an opportune time for a new generation of skilled and unskilled
laborers, industrial engineers, entrepreneurs, and the like. In mid-1843 one such man, Jesse S.
Punchard, a window glazier and painter, took an opportunity to purchase land from John
Pickering for $162 in the rapidly developing ‘Broadfields’ neighborhood at the corner of two
newly-named paths called Winthrop and Endicott. By 1843 John Pickering (now living in Boston)
had parceled off most of the Family’s land, including a plot sold to Jesse Smith Punchard,
recorded in the Southern Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 337, Page 242.
… unto the said Punchard a certain piece of land situate in said Salem described
as follows. Viz. Commencing at the Southwest bound and running Northerly
forty one feet by a private way forty feet wide called Winthrop Street; thence
Easterly about ninety two feet by other land of mine, thence Southerly forty feet
by land of Henry J. Lane, thence Westerly eighty three feet by a private way
forty feet wide called Endicott Street to the point commenced at.
According to contemporaneous records, Jesse Punchard began building the first of two homes
on this property — a larger two-family at 15 Winthrop Street, followed shortly thereafter in 1846
by a small single-family home intended to be a rental property. The smaller single-family home
was likely a front-gabled vernacular form of the Greek Revival style, also called the ‘National
Style’ at the time for its popularity the 1830s-1850s throughout the newly-formed United States.
The single-family foundation (originally numbered 60 Endicott) can still be found underneath
the present structure at 58 Endicott Street.
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1843 Land Deed | John Pickering to Jesse S. Punchard
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 337 Page 242
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Prior to owning the property on the corner of Winthrop and Endicott Streets, Jesse Punchard
had been a boarder at 21 Green Street before his marriage to Olive S. Lewis. The two would be
wed in January 1844, just six months after Jesse’s purchase of the land from John Pickering. The
couple likely moved into the larger two-family home on the corner of Winthrop Street while
Jesse finished building the income property dwelling house at 60 Endicott Street. The property
description is confirmed through the 1851 Salem Atlas, created from a survey published the same
year by Henry McIntyre, which shows the Punchard property on the corners of Winthrop and
Endicott Streets.
1851 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
Punchard & H. Lane noted in area of Winthrop Endicott Street
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The first tenants to occupy the property at 60 Endicott included the families of William Moore
and Charles Jesbro, according to the 1846 Tax Valuations of the City and the 1847 Salem Street
Book archives. Unfortunately, there is no other record in Salem of Charles Jesbro to be found.
William Moore was born in England in 1790, made his way to Salem as an adult, and earned a
living as a laborer. He was married to Hannah F. Ross on the 27th of August 1846, the same year
Moore is first recorded as living at 60 Endicott. The newlyweds made their first home at the
rental property on Endicott Street, but shortly thereafter moved to Ward 4 of the City.
1847 Salem Street Book | Endicott Street
Listed at 60 Endicott are ‘Wm. More’ and ‘Chs. Jesbro’— and their neighbor, Jesse Punchard
The 1848 Tax Valuation book for Ward 3 shows Charles F. Adams residing at 60 Endicott and
Jesse S. Punchard at 15 Winthrop, assessed for two houses each $600 value. Found in the 1848
Street book shows for 60 Endicott a young man named George Leach, and ‘gone’ penciled in
next to name (though he appears again in the 1849 Street Book archives, so it would seem that
Leach’s plans to move were postponed for another year after 1848). The 1849 Street Book shows
Chas. F. Adams, 25, and George Leach “gone” at #60. Charles F. Adams (1821-1871), died 28
Nov. 1871, was born in Salem on March 20, 1821, the son of Nathan Adams, a native of Danvers,
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and Eleanor Marshall, who had wed in Beverly in 1805. Charles had several older siblings, and
two, Lucy and George, who were younger.
1850 US Federal Census | Essex Co. | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3
Mary B. Price, et al. at 60 Endicott Street
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When he was 19, he shipped out as a seaman on board the ship Mount Wollaston, Capt. E. L
Rose (of Sag Harbor, L.I., NY), with a crew of 24 men, probably bound on a whaling cruise,
departing in June, 1840, for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He was then described as 5’ 6” tall,
with a fair complexion and brown hair, residing in Salem (see Mystic Seaport, Salem Crew Lists
for his seafaring career).
At 21, he sailed on a whaling voyage, departing Salem in September, 1843, on board the famous
bark Emerald, Capt. Edward F. Lakeman, 30, of Salem; first mate William B. Stanton, 30, of
New Bedford, and the other 23 crewmen residents of Salem except for one from Danvers. A book
has been published about this vessel!
At 27, now described as dark complected with brown hair, he sailed on board the brig Aerial,
Capt. William Hadley with mate John C. Luscomb, and a crew of eight more (including a black
seaman, Benjamin Peters, 22, of Salem—a native of Warren, Me.—and a black steward, George
Peckham), bound for Para (Brazil) and a market, departing in January, 1848.
Charles married c. 1845 Margaret M. Wiggin, born Sept. 12, 1827. Their first child, Eliza Ellen,
was born in 1847, followed by Lucy E. (1849), Edward (1851), and Mary P. (1854). By 1850 Charles
& family had moved to Marblehead and he was working as a machinist and residing on upper
Washington Street, near Rowlands Hill, in a house with the family of grocer and inn-holder
James A. Rix. By 1855, still in Marblehead, Charles, 34, was working as a railroad engineer, and
so he remained for the rest of his life. The family then resided on Sewall Street. Toward the end
of his life he returned to Salem, and was here in 1870. He died of heart disease on Nov. 28, 1871,
aged 50 years, and was survived by his wife and three daughters.
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By 1846 Jesse S. Punchard and his wife, Olive, are listed as living at 15 Winthrop, at which point
they had already begun renting out the smaller home at 60 Endicott. Among the earlier tenants
of 60 Endicott Street included 24 year-old George Leach (and presumably his family) who are
found in Salem’s 1848 and 1849 City Street Books.
1848 Salem City Street Book | Endicott Street
George Leach & H. J. Lane noted at 60 and 58 Endicott Street
When US Federal Census was taken in mid-1850, the lease for 60 Endicott had changed hands to
Mary B. Price, along with her three children and her mother, Lucy Doyle. The Price family is
found on the 1850 Census between the family at 15 Winthrop Street including their landlords
Jesse S. and Olive Punchard along with their three daughters, Mary (11), Rebecca (8), and Emma
(1), as well as the Punchard’s tenants in their two-family home, Joshua and Mary Jones, their two
daughters Mary (8) and Caroline (4), Joshua’s father Joseph Jones, and 19 year-old Catharine. To
the East of the Price’s lived the Lane Family; Henry, Mary, and 13 year-old Mary Eliza Lane, who
had had owned the property at 58 Endicott since Henry J. Lane purchased the land from John
Pickering in 1842, just one year before Jesse Punchard had done the same.
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Mrs. Mary B. Price began her life as Mary B. Doyle, born in Maine, born between 1805-1807. She
married New Hampshire native Ephraim S. Price, in Salem, Massachusetts on June 10, 1828 and
the couple had three children shortly thereafter: Mary Elisabeth, born in 1831, Harriet, born
1836, and Edward, the youngest and only surviving boy, born in 1839.
1837 Salem City Directory | Ephraim S. Price
Cabinet maker at 6 Charter Street; House at 6 Oliver Street
The family lived in a house at 6 Oliver Street, in the Salem Neck neighborhood of the City.
Ephraim Smith Price made his living as a cabinet maker, with a shop at 6 Charter Street, and by
1837 had partnered with James K. Averill to run a cabinet and furniture shop on Vine Street in
downtown Salem. 1
1957 | The Cabinetmakers of America
Clips pertaining to Ephraim S. Price & James K. Averill
In August 1839, Mrs. Mary B. Price became a widow after 10 years of marriage, and three
children, the youngest of which was born within the same year of his father’s death. Ephraim was
buried in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, while his widow and children remained in Salem.
As with many women of her era, it is unknown what Mary B. Price did to make a living for herself,
and local directories show the Price family living in several rental properties throughout the city;
the family likely remained among the working-class population of Salem in the late 19th and early
20th centuries.
1 Bjerkoe, E. Hall. The Cabinetmakers of America. Doubleday. New York. 1957.
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In 1850 Punchard decided it best to sell the small single family, and by doing so divide his
property. Approximately five years after the house at 60 Endicott Street was built on land that
had been purchased for $162, Jesse S. Punchard sold the house and property to Charles L.
Bradbury for $950. This deed provides a clear description of the property as it stood until the
early 20th century:
…The following described messuage 2 situate in said Salem viz. bounded
Southerly by Endicott Street twenty two feet and seven inches; easterly by land
of Henry J. Lane forty feet; Northerly by said Lane twenty two feet and seven
inches; Westerly by other land of mine forty feet.
1850 Deed | Jesse S. Punchard to Charles L. Bradbury
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 435 Page 172
2 messuage — (noun) a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use; from the Latin word
“manere”, meaning ‘dwell'
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Charles L. Bradbury listed as a printer living at the property for only one year, in the 1851 Salem
City Directory. Shortly after purchasing the home, however, Bradbury received an employment
opportunity in Boston that he could not refuse, and he sold the property to Simon Pendar in 1851.
(It is unclear whether Bradbury was successful in Boston, as the 1855 Salem City Directory shows
him as living at 11 Rust Street with a printing shop at 191 Essex Street.)
1851 Salem City Directory
7th from the top shows Charles L. Bradbury, Printer, at 60 Endicott Street
Bradbury being listed on the 1853 Salem City Directory as a printer living at 60 Endicott
indicates provides further indication as to what the home that stood at 60 Endicott may have
looked like; with a profession listed but no business address, it can be assumed that there may
have been a space in the home for a workshop of sorts. (This is again shown through later tenants
of the property operating businesses from the same address.)
In 1851 Bradbury mortgaged the property to Simon Pendar (along with this wife, Anna), who
made his living as a horse trader and livery stable owner, for $565 cash and $450 mortgaged,
recorded in the Southern Essex Co. Registry of Deeds, Book 459, Page 44:
…I, Charles L. Bradbury of Boston County of Suffolk and State of
Massachusetts, Printer, in consideration of five hundred and sixty five dollars
to me paid by Simon Pendar of Salem, Essex County, State aforesaid, Trader,
and of the said Pendars, assuming a certain mortgage upon the following
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described premises of the further sum of four hundred & fifty dollars, the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto
the said Pendar a certain lot of land situated on Endicott Street in said Salem
bounded as follows, Viz. beginning at Punchards land on said Street and
running Easterly twenty two feet seven inches, thence Northerly by land of
Henry J. Lane forty feet, thence Westerly by land of said Lane twenty two feet
seven inches, thence Southerly by land of said Punchard forty feet to the point
begun at, together with the dwelling house standing thereon.
1851 Deed | Charles L. Bradbury to Simon Pendar
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds | Book 459 Page 44
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Part II: 1851-1887 — Simon Pendar, et al.
Simon Pendar (also spelled Pinder, Pindar, and Pender) was born at the turn of the 19th century
on August 1st, 1800, the son of Samuel Pindar and Mehitable “Hitty” Putnam. Hitty Pindar (née
Putnam) was the third of eight children born to Nathaniel Putnam and Mary Ober. Nathaniel
Putnam was a member of Captain Jeremiah Page’s company during the Revolutionary War, who
had marched to Lexington with the company on April 19, 1775.3 Little information can be found
about Simon Pendar’s father, Samuel, but his station in life would undoubtedly have been
improved by marrying the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero.
1829 Deed | Samuel Pinder to Simon Pinder | Danvers, Mass.
The Pendar’s were an upper-middle class working family, and as one of seven children, Simon
Pendar would have had his fair share of work to provide for himself and his family throughout his
life. At the age of 22 Simon married Almira Akerman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with whom
he had one son, George Luellen Pendar. By the age of 29 Simon was able to purchase property in
Danvers from his father, Samuel Pinder, the deed for which mentions Pendar’s title as
‘gentleman’, which does not describe a profession so much as indicate Pendar’s rank and
affluence in the community.
There are few records otherwise to be found regarding Simon’s professional life prior to 1842,
when he first appears in the Salem City Directory as living at 222R Essex Street, in the downtown
district of the city, where he lived with this wife and son. Just three years later on September 17th
3 Putnam, Eben. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. II, 1908.
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1845, Simon Pendar became a widower after 23 years of marriage when his wife, Almira died at
just 43 years of age. A year later, in 1846 Simon Pendar is found renting at the ‘Mansion House’,
likely the Prince Mansion at 108-110 Federal Street in Salem. Simon was remarried in 1848 to
Ann Towle Leavitt. By 1851, Pendar had moved once again to 4 Ward Street, and is listed as the
1851 Salem City Directory | Page 164 | Business Directory
Listed under Livery Stables at 60 Washington St is Simon Pendar
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owner of a livery stable at 60 Washington Street. Finally, by 1853 the Pendar family had settled in
to living at 60 Endicott Street, while Simon still owned the livery stable at 60 Washington and
presumably continued to enjoy success as a horse trader.
1855 Mass. State Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott & Winthrop Streets
Between Henry J. Lane and Jesse S. Punchard’s families is Simon Pendar and his family at 60
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Simon Pendar was not a young man (by 19th century standards) when he purchased the property
at 60 Endicott from C. L. Bradbury in 1851, when he would have been approximately 51 years old,
a middle-aged man of some success with an adult son living elsewhere, and a new wife, family and
home.
Anna T. Pendar (née Leavitt) born on the 4th of August 1817 in North Hampton, New
Hampshire, to Oliver R. Leavitt and Eunice Batchelder. In 1855, at the age of 38, Anna found
herself Simon’s second wife, seventeen years younger than her husband.
Simon and Anna Pendar would have five children; three girls and two boys: Almira Anna Pindar
(1849-1852), Louisa Colby Pindar (1853-1854) and Lizzie Leavitt Pendar, born just five months
before the 1855 Massachusetts State Census. In the next ten years the Pendar family would add
two sons, Simon Oliver Pendar in 1857, and Samuel Dutch Pendar in 1859. The two oldest Pendar
girls sadly did not survive childhood, for reasons yet discovered as of this publication.
1865 Mass. State Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Pendar family at 60 Endicott, still neighbored by Henry J. & Mary Lane
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II-A — The Surviving Pendar Family Children
Lizzie L. Pendar was born in Salem, Massachusetts in April 1855, the first and only girl in the
Pendar family. She was raised and educated in the working-class neighborhood of the
Broadfields. A map surveyed in 1861 shows the proximity of the Pendar family home to the newlyconstructed Salem High School, where all of the surviving Pendar children would have attended.
1861 Salem City Map | Endicott Street Neighborhood
On the 22nd of August 1876, at the age of 21 Lizzie L. Pendar married Joseph Monroe Parsons, a
Portsmouth, NH native that had in-migrated to Salem to made his living as a mason. The
newlyweds moved to a home on Beckford Street while Joseph M. Parsons worked as a builder and
contractor. Sadly, just after the couple celebrated their seventh anniversary in September of
1883, Lizzie L. (Pendar) Parsons succumbed to typhoid fever at only 28 years old.
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1883 September | Salem, Mass. — Death Records | Lizzie L. (Pendar) Parsons
Lizzie was the eleventh of 17 deaths in Salem, September 1883, and the only death caused by typhoid fever.
Simon Oliver Pendar, named for his father, was raised and educated in the Broadfields
neighborhood, and in his young adult life he found work in the shipyards. He eventually earned
the title of ‘Merchant’, and at the age of 27 married the daughter of Simeon & Ellen Flint, Mary
E. Flint (also 27). The marriage record indicates that Simon Oliver at some point decided to
invert his first and middle names, thus his name is recorded as Oliver S. Pendar on official
documents. The two were wed on the first day of November 1883, just a week after the passing of
his older sister, Lizzie.
1888 Salem Business Directory | S. D. Pendar
Samuel D. Pendar, youngest son of Simon and Anna
Pendar, listed as a mason and contractor with a
business at 15 Washington Street; home 5 Winthrop
Samuel Dutch Pendar, named for his paternal grandfather, was born the 25th of May 1859, and
likely worked as a child through his young adult years in his aging father’s livery stables. In his
adult life he married, decided to stay in Salem, and developed a successful business as a regional
mason and contractor. His travels took him to Peterborough, NH for the 4th of July weekend in
1931 when the 72-year-old Samuel Pendar suddenly succumbed to an embolism, causing a
cerebral hemorrhage. He was returned home to Salem and buried with the rest of his relatives at
Harmony Grove Cemetery.
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II-B — The Pendar Family: Life at 60 Endicott in Mid-to-Late 19th Century Salem
In 1846 when Jesse S. Punchard laid the foundation at what was 60 Endicott Street (now beneath
58 Endicott) Salem was in full swing of an industrial revival of its economy. During the 1840s, as
more industrial methods and machines were introduced, new companies in new lines of business
arose in Salem. The tanning and curing of leather was very important by the mid-1800s. On and
near Boston Street, along the upper North River, there were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850,
employing 550 hands. The leather business would continue to grow in importance throughout
the 1800s. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at Stage
Point of the largest factory building in the United States, 60’ wide by 400’ long. It was an
immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of them living in
tenements built nearby.
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. & Neighborhood (Photo c.1907, Nelson Dionne Collection)
Also in the 1840s, a new method was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe
production. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the nation’s leading
shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from outlying towns
and the countryside. Even the population changed, as hundreds of Irish families, fleeing the
Famine in Ireland, settled in Salem and gave the industrialists a big pool of cheap labor.
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Built 1847, Salem City Train Depot (Photo c.1897)
The Gothic symbol of Salem’s new industrial economy was the large twin-towered granite train
station—the “stone depot”--smoking and growling with idling locomotives, standing on filled-in
land at the foot of Washington Street, where before had been the merchants’ wharves. In the face
of all this change, some members of Salem’s waning merchant class continued to pursue their
sea-borne businesses; but even the conditions of shipping changed, and Salem was left on the
ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had
sailed around the world; and the clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too
large for Salem and its harbor. The town’s shipping soon consisted of little more than Zanzibartrade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and building timber.
By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port.
Salem’s growth continued through the 1850s, as business and industries expanded, the
population swelled, new churches (e.g. Immaculate Conception, 1857) were started, new
working-class neighborhoods were developed (especially in North Salem and South Salem, off
Boston Street, and along the Mill Pond behind the Broad Street graveyard), and new schools,
factories, and stores were built.
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In 1851 when Simon Pendar purchased the property from Charles L. Bradbury, the middle-aged
man seized on the economic opportunity presenting itself in Salem; after all, horses were a major
mode of transportation locally and livery stables would have been a lucrative and steady business.
By 1866, now in his mid-sixties, Simon Pendar’s occupation is listed as ‘trader’. Presumably,
Pendar sold the livery stable that he had occupied for decades at 60 Washington, and continued
to make his living as a horse trader.
1853 Salem City Directory | Page 120
Simon Pendar listed with his livery stable at 60 Washington, and house at 60 Endicott
According to the 1870 Federal Census the Pendar family continued to live at 60 Endicott while
Simon made a living as a trader, Mrs. Pendar kept house, and the children attended school. Salem
continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leather-making business. In 1874 the
city was visited by a tornado and shaken by a minor earthquake. In the following year, the large
Pennsylvania Pier (site of the old coal electrical engineering plant on Salem Harbor) was
completed to begin receiving large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new owner
began subdividing the old Allen farmlands into a new development called Salem Willows and
Juniper Point. In the U.S. centennial year, 1876, A.G. Bell of Salem announced that he had
discovered a way to transmit voices over telegraph wires.
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1874 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
S. Pendar noted at 60 Endicott Street (now underneath the footprint of 58 Endicott)
As Simon Pendar entered this eighties, the family decided it best to sell the property to their
long-time neighbors, Henry J. Lane and his family, under the condition that the family could
continue to live on the premises for the remainder of their lives. Deed Release is recorded in the
Southern Essex Co. Registry of Deeds, Book 1087 Page 120:
I, Anna L. Pendar, wife of Simon Pendar, of Salem in the County of Essex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consideration of one dollar and other
valuable consideration paid by Henry J. Lane of said Salem in the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release, and forever quit
claim unto the said Henry J. Lane all my right of and both dower and
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homestead in a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situate in
Salem and bounded and described as follows. Beginning at land now or
formerly of Punchard on Endicott St. and thence running Easterly twenty two
feet seven inches more or less, thence turning and running Northerly by land of
said Henry Lane forty feet more or less then turning and running Westerly by
land of said Lane twenty two feet and seven inches thence turning and running
Southerly by land of said Punchard forty feet to the point begun at…
1882 Deed Release | Simon & Anna Pendar to Henry J. Lane
This release describes the same premises referred to in the 1851 deed between Bradbury and Pendar
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Just five years after this transfer of ‘both dower and homestead’ from Anna and Simon Pendar to
1887 Massachusetts Death Records | Simon Pendar
Noted as the only death on March 30, 1887, Simon Passed away aged 86 years, 8 months, 29 days
Henry J. Lane, Simon Pendar passed away at the age of 86. His cause of death listed as ‘Softening
of the brain’; brain tissue damage due to hemorrhage or inflammation.4
Shortly after Simon’s death, Anna Pendar moved in with her youngest son, Samuel D. Pendar, at
5 Winthrop Street (just around the corner from Endicott), as indicated by the the 1888 Salem
City Directory, where she lived until her death on the 19th of November 1899, aged 82 years.
By 1887 the Lane Estate had passed from Henry J. Lane to his eldest daughter, Mary E. Jelly (née
Lane), upon Henry’s passing in January 1883. Mary, who was born and raised on the property
next to the house at 60 Endicott and the Pendar family, likely lived just a few doors down
Endicott Street with her husband, William F. Jelly, while managing the house at 60 Endicott as a
rental property.
4 Sturges, Allen F, Noah Webster, et al. Webster’s New international dictionary of the English language,
based on the International dictionary of 1890 and 1900.
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Part III: 1887-1914 — Mary E. Jelly (née Lane) Ownership & Property Tenants
c.1890 Photograph | Salem, Mass. | On Washington Street looking down Front Street
Mary E. Jelly, born Mary Eliza Lane, spent nearly her entire life on Endicott Street, raised as the
only child of Henry J. Lane, a New Hampshire-born shoemaker, and Mary (Heard) Lane.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and
established businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered; horse-drawn trolleys ran every whichway; and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived.
In the summer of 1886, the Knights of Labor brought a strike against the manufacturers for a tenhour day and other concessions; but the manufacturers imported labor from Maine and Canada,
and kept going. The strikers held out, and there was violence in the streets, and even rioting; but
the owners prevailed, and many of the defeated workers lost their jobs and suffered, with their
families, through a bitter winter.
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In 1887 the streets were first lit with electricity, replacing gas-light. More factories and more
people required more space for buildings, more roads, and more storage areas. This space was
created by filling in rivers, harbors, and ponds. The once-broad North River was filled from both
shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge. The large and beautiful
Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street,
and Loring Avenue, finally vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and
parking lots.
1897 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
Mary E. Jelly is noted at both 58 & 60 Endicott, and her husband, W. F. Jelly at 48-50 Endicott
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Henry J. Lane was born in June 1809 in Chichester, New Hampshire, son of Simeon Lane and
Huldah (Tilton) Lane. He grew up in the upper Merrimack region of New Hampshire until his
early twenties, when he moved to Salem and married Mary Heard in 1836 at the age of 26. Mary, a
Salem native, was born in 1817 to Daniel Heard and Mary (Tucker) Heard. The two would have
their only child, a daughter named Mary Eliza Lane, in February 1837. Six years after Henry J.
Lane and Mary Heard were wed, in 1842, Henry purchased the property at 58 Endicott Street
from John Pickering (now the location of the yard and parking spaces for 56-58 Endicott) and
built his own house for his young family.
1846 Salem City Directory | Henry J. Lane at 58 Endicott
Lane’s profession listed as ‘cordwainer’ (the traditional term for leather shoemaker) at 326 Essex
Mary Eliza Lane would have been thirteen when Simon Pendar and his family moved in to the
small single-family home that neighbored her own at 60 Endicott, and certainly have been friends
with the Pendar family, as well as the children of Jesse S. Punchard.
1850 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Lane, Pendar, and Punchard families listed, including their children, which by 1850 there
were a total of seven children in the three households, the oldest being Mary Lane at age 18.
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1860 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
Henry J. Lane and his wife Mary shared their home with their daughter, Mary E. Jelly, their sonin-law William F. Jelly, and their newborn granddaughter, named Mary Jelly.
Mary Eliza Lane became a wife and a mother at age 23 in the same year, 1860, when she married a
local mariner named William F. Jelly, and their daughter Mary, born in May of the same year.
Sadly, their firstborn did not survive her childhood as there is no record of the child by the time
of the 1865 Massachusetts State Census.
1865 Massachusetts State Census | Salem | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
William F. Jelly (29), Mary E. Jelly (28), Eliza L. Jelly (4), and Hatty L. Jelly (1) neighboring
Henry J. & Mary Lane, as well as Simon & Anna Pendar and their 3 children.
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1870 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
Just below the 11-year-old Samuel D. Pendar are the Lane’s, including Henry J. Mary, as well as
their daughter, Mary E. Jelly, son-in-law William F. Jelly, and 4 surviving Lane grandchildren.
In the following five years, the Jelly family would add two sons: Henry and Edward. The three
surviving children of William F. And Mary E. Jelly would grow up next door to the Pendar
children. When Henry J. Lane passed away in 1883, he left his estate to his only child, Mary E.
Jelly, who owned and managed the homes as income properties.
1880 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3 | Endicott Street
The Jelly Family, neighbored on either side by the families of Henry J. Lane and Simon Pendar
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After the passing of Simon Pendar in 1887, the property is listed on contemporaneous street
directories to be rented by Mr. James G. Perkins from 1887 through 1890. Perkins, a Civil War
Veteran, worked in Salem’s booming shoe leather industry as a ‘shoe cutter’, according to Salem
City Directories.
1890 Veterans Schedule | Minor Civil Division: Massachusetts
James G. Perkins, listed as a Sargent, enlisted from 1861-62, and noted as living at 60 Endicott St.
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Local painter, Wesley B. Ferguson lived at 60 Endicott from 1893-4, followed by Abner R.
Greenwood in 1895, an employee in the local shoe leather factories, Abner worked operating a
McKay stitching machine to earn his living. He was born the son of Framingham shoemaker,
Charles Greenwood, and Charlotte Beacon Rice in Westboro, Massachusetts. In his childhood
he learned his father’s trade of being a shoemaker, but time and circumstances had different
plans for Abner’s life in 1860s America.
Greenwood served in the Civil War with Company K of the 13th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry regiment, which saw action at Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, and finally Antietam, the
bloodiest battle of the Conflict. Sargent Abner Greenwood led the rest of the 13th Mass.
Volunteer Infantry squad into a field of high corn, marching westward towards higher ground
held by the Rebels. Without any cover, the troops were decimated, and Sgt. Greenwood took a
bullet to through his chest and out his right shoulder, a grievous wound that may have added him
to the body count of the two bloodiest days in American history, but his men saved him and with
some rudimentary medical care, Abner was able to recover enough to reenlist in the 13th Veteran
Reserve Corps for the rest of the war (without being redeployed into battle).
1897 Salem City Directory
Abner Greenwood listed as an
McKay Stitcher with his home at
58 Endicott Street, as well as his
daughter, Rachel, the same year
that Abner passed away.
Following the war, Abner returned to Massachusetts, eventually making his way to Salem where
his skills as a shoemaker would earn him a living, as well as his daughter, Miss Rachel A.
Greenwood who also worked in the shoe factories. Greenwood lived the rest of his days at 60
Endicott, operating a McKay stitcher, until his passing on the 3rd of December 1897 (while living
at 60 Endicott Street) in his 57th year from “heart failure due to Rheumatism & war injuries”. He
was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Salem gardener, Stephen G. Hooper spent just one year, 1897, with his address at 60 Endicott.
By 1898, Linwood Lewis resided at the small home on Endicott Street, where he remained until
1908. In 1900 the Salem City Directory lists Linwood’s occupation as a janitor, until 1906 when
his occupation changes to a ‘Flagman’ (for the Boston & Maine Railroad) at the Washington
Street Crossing.
1897 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
58-60 Endicott Noted as the property of Mary E. Jelly, while directories show the property was being
rented by Stephen G Hooper at the time of this Atlas’ publication, and shortly thereafter 60 Endicott
became the residence of Linwood Lewis and his family
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1900 US Federal Census | Massachusetts | Essex Co. | Salem | Ward 3
Linwood Lewis, along with his second wife, Cassie B Lewis, and Linwood E Lewis at 60 Endicott
During the Lewis’ tenure at 60 Endicott, a Civil War veteran and hostler 5 named Nathaniel T.
Edwards and his family also resided at 60 Endicott from 1901 through 1903. For the year
following the Lewis’ family departure from 60 Endicott, 1909, the property is listed as ‘vacant’
according to the Salem Street Directory. Renovations may have taken place during this time to
modernize the functions of the home including electricity, plumbing, and heating systems; all
parts of Salem were booming and modernizing into the 20th century, including even the most
modest of homes in Salem’s busy streets.
1903 Salem City Directory
Nathaniel T. Edwards, a hostler,
with his home listed at 60
Endicott Street; his place of
business around the corner at 191
Federal Street
By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
department stores and large factories of every description. People from the surrounding towns,
and Marblehead in particular, came to Salem to do their shopping; and its handsome government
buildings, as befit the county seat, were busy with conveyances of land, lawsuits, and probate
proceedings. The city’s politics were lively, and its economy was strong.
5 hostler— (noun) a man employed to look after horses of people staying an an inn or hotel; from Old
French ‘“hostelier”, meaning ‘innkeeper’
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At the beginning of the 20th century’s second decade in 1910, 60 Endicott Street was occupied
by Daniel W. Howe, an elevator works machinist. Howe lived on Endicott with his wife, Lucy,
and her two children from a previous marriage, Carol M Woodward and Berleigh D Woodward.
In 1910, fifteen year-old Carol Woodward is listed on the Federal Census as being an apprentice
in the prospering millinery industry of Salem.
1910 US Federal Census | Salem, Mass. | Ward 3
at 60 Endicott are Daniel Howe, as well as Lucy Howe and her two children, Carol and Berleigh
Just two years later in 1912, the home at 60 Endicott was occupied by watchmaker Arthur A.
Barton, his wife Winnifred, and their daughter Irene. Winnifred was also part of the working
class, as her occupation on the 1910 Census is listed as ‘tailoress’, when the family was located on
Beckford Street in Ward 4 of the City. The family remained at 60 Endicott until 1913, on the eve
of a disaster that few could have predicted.
1912 Salem Business Directory
Among the some two dozen watch and
clock dealers, makers, and repairers in
Salem is Arthur A. Barton, found at 60
Endicott Street
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�58 Endicott Street | Salem, Mass.
1911 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
The final atlas drawn of the city of Salem before the disastrous fire of 1914 shows Mary E. Jelly
as the owner of 58-60 Endicott Street, though at the time of this atlas’ publication the home was
occupied by the Howe family
The final new name associated with the property at 60 Endicott is M. A. Choard, who only lived
in the home for the first six months of 1914, which appears in the Salem City Directory with an
asterisk next to the name and address— indicating that the home was lost in the Great Salem Fire
disaster.
1914 Salem City Directory
The only record of an M. A.
Choard living at 60 Endicott
Street, lost in the Great
Salem Fire of 1914
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On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite Federal), a fire
started in one of Salem’s fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and
raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building
caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of
flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street,
and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets. Men
and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed
the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street
itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
1914 June 25 | Great Salem Fire
Photo captures the fire raging along New Bridge Street and the destruction that leveled Salem
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire
overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag
Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down
Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a
13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories,
and leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some people had insurance, some did not; all
received much support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was
one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of Salem
would take years to recover from it.
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1914 | Destruction after the Great Salem Fire
The ruins of the once-mighty Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. at the waterfront of The Point
Endicott Street suffered total destruction; there would have been nothing remaining of the street
besides foundations, concrete steps, and the occasional surviving chimney. William and Mary
Jelly lost both their home and their income properties at 48 and 58-60 Endicott Street.
According to the record of Data on the Burned District at Salem, Mass. published by the F. W.
Dodge Co. in the aftermath of the conflagration, the assessed valuation of the land at 60 Endicott
was $200; the building: $800 — for a total valuation of $1000, with only $600 of insurance
coverage on the building. Furthermore, this record confirms that all the buildings owned by the
Jelly family were constructed of wood, and were therefore little more than tinder in the 1914 fire.
1914 | Data on the Burned District of Salem, Mass.
Clip showing the properties owned by the Jelly family, including Mary, Katherine, and
the heirs of William F. Jelly (including his wife and children)
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1914 | Map of Data on the Burned District of Salem, Mass.
The bold line denotes the area which was completely destroyed by the fire, including
Endicott Street, along with 250 additional acres of the City
Now, in the 21st century, we can only begin to imagine the destruction left by the fire in 1914;
beyond the physical wreckage the conflagration left in its path, people’s entire lives and
livelihoods were utterly destroyed. Mary Jelly was born, raised, married, and widowed while
living on Endicott Street, and now everything she had ever known was gone. The insurance must
have helped some, but it seems that Mary could not bear to part with the property that her father
had purchased from John Pickering in 1842 and proceeded to build their entire family’s history
there on Endicott Street. Mary is found living with her adult daughters, Lizzie, Hattie, and
Martha Agnes in Ward 4 of the City in 1920, aged 82 years, during which time she still owned the
properties on Endicott Street. In 1925 after Mary’s passing at the age of 87, her heirs finally sold
the land to Morris Gerber.
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�58 Endicott Street | Salem, Mass.
1925 Deed | Mary E. Jelly Executors to Morris Gerber
Deed refers to both properties originally owned by Lane and Pendar, for which Gerber paid just
$950 in 1925 for both properties at 58 and 60 Endicott Street
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Morris Gerber built the properties as they still stand at the corner of Winthrop and Endicott atop
the foundation that once was laid by Jesse S. Punchard after his purchase of the land from John
Pickering in 1843. The home that is now numbered 58 Endicott Street now stands partially on the
foundation of the building that stood firmly for decades as a home for dozens of men, women,
and children from a multitude of places and professions.
1925 Salem City Atlas | Endicott Street
In 1925 much of Salem had recovered post-fire; this clip shows the newly completed construction
along Endicott Street completed by Morris Gerber and others
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926 was a time of
great celebration. The Depression hit in 1929, and continued through the 1930s. Salem, the
county seat and regional retail center, gradually rebounded, and prospered after World War II
through the 1950s and into the 1960s. General Electric, Sylvania, Parker Brothers, Pequot Mills
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(formerly Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.), Almy’s department store, various other large-scale
retailers, and Beverly’s United Shoe Machinery Company were all major local employers. Then
the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their
toll, as they have with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward
into the present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but
also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, McIntire, Bentley, Story, and
Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners,
and mill-operatives are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any other
place.
1926 | Salem, Mass. | City Hall | Washington Street
City Hall decorated for Salem’s Tercentenary (300th) Anniversary Celebration
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58 Endicott Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Original house built for
Jesse S. Punchard
1846
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the Great Salem Fire
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1846, 1914, 2019
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1914
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Great Salem Fire
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Massachusetts
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Salem
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Hardy Street
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6 Hardy Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for Daniel C. Bowditch, shipwright 1844
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1844, 1994
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Larry Davis
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1994
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Bowditch
Daniel
Davis
Hardy
Larry
Massachusetts
Salem
Shipwright
Street
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Herbert Street
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6 Herbert Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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James Dalrymple, teamster, 1854
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1854, 1977
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Robert Booth
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1977
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Booth
Dalrymple
Herbert
James
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
Street
teamster
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Kosciusko Street
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6 Kosciusko Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Warehouse and Barrel Shop
Thomas Downing
Merchant
with cousin
Richard Downing
Cooper
built by 1701
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Joyce King
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Rawlins Street
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6 Rawlins Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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River Street
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60 Federal Street:
built
ca. 1818
for
David Crowell
cordwainer
Researched by: John V. Goff
post office box 86SS, Salem, MA 01971
March 7, 1991
�60 Federa1 Street:
bui1tca. 1818
for
David Crowe11. cordwainer
1. Site: Odell Hill
60 Federal Street, the present Rifkin Law Office, is located on the north side
of Federal Street near the east side of North Street (also known as Route
114). Historically, this area of Salem was known as Odell Hill, apparently
named for the family of James Odell, who owned land north of 60 Federal
Street in the early 19th century [ref: 1826 deed 238:85, also early maps
e.g. 1780, and 1851 maps of Salem]. "Odell Square" was the name given to
a private street which traversed Odell Hill north and east of 60 Federal
Street; portions of its course were located on the 1851 map of Salem.
Eventually, Odell Square was discontinued as a route, and its land was
adapted as common property [ref: 20th c. maps, and 1908 deed 1973:291.)
2. Marlborough Street
The portion of Federal Street east of North Street was originally laid out as
a "lane" separate from Federal Street in the late 18th century. By circa
1780, the path of this road had been drawn on paper, but the lane
supported no buildings, and was apparently newly established [reference:
1780 map of Salem]. By the early 19th century, the street was called
"Marlborough" (or Marlboro) Street. It continued to be known as
Marlborough Street until circa 1855, when it was conceived to be an
extension of the existing Federal Street west of North Street. In or about
1855, Marlborough Street was renamed, and aH of its buildings were given
new Federal Street addresses. The building now known as 60 Federal
Street was known as 28 Marlborough Street before 1855. [ref. 1853. 1855
Salem City Directories].
3. The Architecture of 60 Federal Street (28 Marlborough Street)
60 Federal Street is an early 19th century two-story Federal Style wood
frame building which is oriented along a north-south axis running
perpendicular to Federal Street. Federal Street runs adjacent to the
structure on the building's south side, and the structure is oriented with its
narrow end facing the street. Close inspection of this facade reveals that
originally the building was built with a narrower end; the portion to the
right of the porch is of the earliest period. In the mid-to-late 19th century,
the building was extended and altered on the west side (the old front of
the house) to create a wider building with a porch and larger floor plan. 60
Federal Street assumed its present size and shape betwen 18 51
�and 187 4 [l'~f; 1851, 18 74 Sal~m maps]. The brick foundation which runs
under the whole structure, and the major re-design of the house are
believed to have been created for Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, a
prominent Salem printer who occupied the building for nearly the entire
second half of the 19th century (ca. 1859-ca. 1895). [research cited below]
4. Earliest documented owner: David Crowell. cordwainer
David Crowell, cordwainer, is the earliest documented owner of the house
at 60 Federal Street. He is believed to have been the person who originally
financed its construction circa 1818. David Crowell was a cordwainer--one
who worked "cordwain" or Cordovan leather--probably as a shoemaker.
(Deeds 238:218 and 238:219; 1963 Funk & Wagnalls Standard College
Dictionary definition of "cordwain" and "cordwainer", p. 300 ).
In the first decade of the 19th century, David Crowell purchased separate
lands from Emery Moulton and fellow cordwainer William Pool on
"Buffum's Street" in North Salem. [ 1806 deed 180:251; 181 O deed 188: 179].
Buffum Street is located one block west of North Street on the north bank
of the North River. To its west is Barr Street, perhaps named for Salem
trader John Barr. [map of North Salem, Bryant Tolles Architecture in Salem,
1983, p. 254].
John Barr originally owned the land upon which 60 Federal Street was
built. In 1818, John Barr leased 30 feet of frontage on the north side of
Marlborough Street to David Crowell.IDeed 238:218]. Crowell sold the lease
and the [new! building upon it to Hiram Pond five years later, in 1825. The
deeds suggest that 60 Federal Street was first built or put upon its present
site by David Crowell between the years of 1818 and 1825.
In deed 250:77, Ebenezer Perkins (a later owner of the house) described
"the two story wooden building ... partly on land of Barr ... being the same
building lately owned by Crowell and by him sold to Sanborn and by
Sanborn to said Perkins" [deed 250:77]. Crowell's name as a the earliest
documented owner and occupant is also made evident in deeds 238:219
( 1825) and 240:218 (1826 ). The logic of Crowell building a house shortly
after he aquired a site for it, the language of these early deeds, and the
architectural style of the present building on the site all suggest a circa
1818 construction date for David Crowe H's house at 60 Federal Street.
The modest size (one-room deep, two stories tall) of 60 Federal Street as
first built and the fact that Crowell only owned the building but not the
land beneath it-- suggest that David Crowell was not a wealthy man, and
that the cordwainer's lot was not especially lucrative. In the 1830s, a
�cooper's shop once stood near 60 Federal Street, and in the 1850s, a cigar
manufactory was located one building to the west [deed277: 129, 1851
Salem map]; it appears that this neighborhood on the west end of
Marlborough Street was first developed as an active, tradesman's
neighborhood in the early 19th century.
5. Hiram Pond. Salem trader
In 1825, Hiram Pond purchased David CroweH's lease of John Barr's land,
and also purchased from David CroweU "a certain dwelling house scituate
on Marlborough Street...being the same in which I now live." [Deed
238:219 ]. In its earliest history, the building at 60 Federal Street was
owned separately from the parcels of land which lay beneath it, severely
compJicating its recorded history.[Deeds 238:219, 250:77, etc.] Joseph P.
Pond and his wife released their interest in the property to William M.
Arrington in 1847; Joseph P. Pond is assumed to have aquired his title from
the earlier Hiram Pond [Deed 390:26].
6. Ebenezer Perkins. housewright
Between 1826 and 1828, 60 Federal Street was owned by Ebenezer Perkins
and his wife Betsey. Perkins was a Salem housewright, who removed to
Albany, New York in 1828. Perkins described Crowell's building as being
"partly on above land and partly on land of Barr" and noted that CroweU
sold the building to one Mr. Sanborn, and Sanborn sold it to Perkins. [Deed
250:77]. Unfortunately, Sanborn's ownership can not be further
substantiated. According to cooper Daniel Story, Crowell sold directly to
Perkins in 1826 !Deed 240:218, also cited by Perkins). Perkins sold the land
and the house to Temple Hardy in 1828.[Deed 250:77].
7. Temple Hardy. baker
Between 1828 and 1833, 60 Federal Street was owned and occupied by
Mr. & Mrs. Temple and Sally Hardy. Hardy was a Salem baker, and
described the "two story dwelling house theron" which he purchased from
Ebenezer Perkins and the Barr estate [Deed 277: 128). In 1833, the Hardys
sold this property to William M. Arrington.
8. WiHiam M. Arrington. painter
William M. Arrington and his wife Lydia Arrington aquired 60 Federal
Street from Temple Hardy in 1833, and owned the property until 1838.
Under the Arringtons' ownership, apothecary John S. Harrison lived at 60
Federal Street in 1835-1836 [Salem Directory, 1836--lists Harrison at 28
Marlborough. 28 Marlborough was renamed 60 Federal Street under
�He was in business in Boston, on Church Street, for 9 years, and
then returned to Salem and established himself in the same
business in the Conrad Block. He remained there for 28 years, then
transferred his business to the Price Block, 15 years later removed
to the Kinsman Block, and about two years ago moved to his
present quarters 225 Washington Street. He at one time edited a
paper in Marblehead ...
He married Miss Mary E[llen] Skinner, a sister of Assistant Marshal
Skinner, January 1, 1844, and four children were
born to the couple, only one of whom Edward C. Hutchinson,
associated with his father in business, survives. The funeral will
take place from 60 Federal Street Wednesday. Essex Lodge of
Masons will attend. See notice" [Salem Gazette July 16,
1895, page l l
[NOTE: I wonder if T.J. Hutchinson's wife Mary E. Skinner might also have
been related to the "Richard Skinner and Son" who had a cigar manufactory
and residence one house west of 60 Federal Street in the 1850s--see 1851
Mcintyre Map of Salem, also Salem City Directory listings after 1855.1
According to the Salem City Directories, T.J. Hutchinson was a "job printer"
at 175-112 Essex Street before ca. 1859; and was established at 183 Essex
Street from circa 1859 through 1874. It seems logical to conclude that the
earliest was the address of the Conrad Block, and the latter was the address
of the Price Block. These buildings survive on Essex Street opposite the East
India Mall/ Museum Place complex. According to Salem architectural
historian Bryant Tolles, the Kinsman Block was built in 1882 at 81
Washington Street, and is the magnificent four story ornamented brick
building immediately north of City Hall. [Tolles, Architecture in Salem,
1983, pp.108-109.]
Further information on Hutchinson's printing career was recently supplied
by C. Deirdre Phelps in her essay on "Printing, Publishing, and Bookselling
in Salem, Massachusetts, 1825-1900" published in the Essex Institute
Historical Collections edition of October, 1988. It appears that the original
account books for the Salem Register survive at the Essex Institute, and
from these account books it is evident that Hutchinson apprenticed at the
Register from 1836 through 1839. [EIHC op. cit, p. 277). By 1849,
Hutchinson was established as a printer on his own, and he exhibited some
of his works at the Mechanic's Fair of 1849 in Salem. The Report of the
First Exhibition of the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association ( 1849) noted
that:
"A Card Printing Press ... designated the "Star" Press ... was worked by
T.j. Hutchinson, who also exhibited some commendable specimens
�of his own work, some of which, in different colored bronzes, were
printed with a superior sizing, manufactured by Mr. Hutchinson."
(EIHC op. cit, p. 241]
In 1853, Hutchinson advertised "Bronze printing and printing in colors" in
the Salem City Directory. Before 1860, he also printed a broadside which
survives at the Essex Institute which advertised "Plain and ornamental job
printing." [EIHC op. cit, p.277) T. J. Hutchinson printed most of the Essex
Lodge of Freemasons' by-laws and notices during the second half of the
nineteenth century, and a portrait of T.J. Hutchinson may have been
published in Harold Pierce Hadley's 200 Years of Masonry in Essex Lodge
1779-1979 printed in Danvers in 1979. [EIHC op. cit, p. 240.l Hutchinson's
career with the Masons was also documented in the mid-19th century by
William Leavitt, who published biographical information on Hutchinson in
Volume 3, page 267 of the Essex Institute Historical Collections.
Thomas and Mary Hutchinson's son Edward C. Hutchinson began his
printing career working in his father's office. In 1871, "Eddie C. Hutchinson
12 years of Age" printed a four-page newsheet called The Young Fireman.
no. 1., which opened with a poem about news editing. In 1873, young
"Edward C. Hutchinson" printed a periodical called the City Mirror. From
1878-1885, Edward worked as a "printer" at his father's; from 1886-1887
he was a "foreman", and from 1888-1896 he was a "partner" in T.J.
Hutchinson and Son's Salem printing office. [EIHC op. cit, p. 277)
12. John and Kate McMorriH
Thomas J. Hutchinson's wife Mary Ellen Hutchinson purchased additional
lands for the Hutchinson homestead in 1880 from Wi11iam H. Gove (Deed
1042:209 ]; two years after her husband's death, she sold the 60 Federal
Street property to John McMorriH, whose wife was named Kate McMorrill.
[Deed 1502: 193.] The McMorrills owned the property briefly in 1897, and
sold Hin May, 1897 to Clara P. Wardwell. (Deed 1512:293.l
13. Clara P. Wardwell. single woman
Clara P. Wardwell in 1896 purchased the property immediately east of 60
Federal Street (between the Hutchinson's and the Baptist Church)--see
Deeds 1475:330-331. In May, 1897, she bought 60 Federal Street from the
McMorrills, expanding her holdings on Federal Street [Deed 1512: 293.) In
1908, Clara P. Wardwell bought an additional 67 · x 6' piece of property
on the north from Elizabeth Odell which formerly was set off as "Odell
Square," a private way. (Deed 1973:291.) In 1925, Miss Wardwell sold 60
Federal Street with the former Odell strip on the north to Nellie M. Fay
!Deed 2663: 440.)
�Sleeper's ownership] In 1838, the Arringtons sold the property to Maria M.
Sleeper. [Deed 390:261.
9. Maria M. Sleeper. widow
Maria M. Sleeper, widow, purchased 60 Federal Street in 1838, and resided
here through 1854, according to deeds 390:26, 499:207, and Salem City
Directories. Under Sleeper's ownership, the property was renumbered from
28 Marlborough Street to 60 Federal Street circa 1854. I 1853 and 1855
Salem directories, also deed 499:207).
10. Michael W. Shepard. merchant
In August 1854, Maria M. Sleeper conveyed the 60 Federal Street property
to Salem merchant Michael Shepard, according to deed 499:207. However,
Michael Shepard died shortly therafter, and in 1854, the executors of the
Shepard estate, (Thomas P. Shepard, Michael W. Shepard and Henry F.
Shepard) sold the property to Salem printer T. J. Hutchinson. [deed
572: 130). Hutchinson's full name was Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, and he
was an important Salem citizen in the mid-to-late 19th century.
11. Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson. printer
Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson resided at 60 Federal Street from 1854 until
his death in January, 1895--a period over forty years long! [Deed 572: 130;
also obituary Salem Gazette July 16, 1895 p.1 ]. Of equal significance,
Hutchinson was a prominent Salem citizen--a printer when Salem was a
vital center of the printing and publishing trade--and he left definite
marks on the architecture of 60 Federal Street (the brick foundation, and
west side porch and additions are late 19th century in style and were
apparently added during the Hutchinson family's residence.)
Hutchinson's life is of interest to any student of Salem history, and can be
reconstructed in part from his obituary which was printed in 1895. The
Salem Gazette reported:
USEFUL CAREER FINISHED.
UNEXPECTED DEATH OF THOMAS J. HUTCHINSON.
For more than 50 years he engaged in printing.
Prominent in Masonic and other organizations.
Thomas]. Hutchinson, died at his residence, 60 Federal Street,
yesterday noon. He was born in Salem February 18, 1822, and
during his whole life, after leaving school, engaged in the printing
business, either in Salem or Boston. He learned his trade in the
Salem Register office.
�During Clara P. Wardwell's ownership of 60 Federal Street, others lived
here including Frank Austin, painter ca. 1899) Flora Alden, a dressmaker
ca. 1911 and J. G. Woodbury, a clerk ca. 1920. (Salem City Directories].
14. The Fay Family
Nellie M. Fay resided in Hingham before she purchased 60 Federal Street
from Miss Clara P. Wardwell in 1925. [Deed 2663: 440.] After Nellie M. Fay
died, 60 Federal Street was transferred to two of her heirs Martin F. Fay,
and Mary E. Deviney of Dover, Massachusetts. (Probate Docket 254,193].
Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney owned the property until 1975. [Deed
6123:193.I
During the Fay ownership of 60 Federal Street, others also resided here,
including clerks Lillian B. Harding and Marian Taylor ca. 1930, and Robert
j. Kobierski and Mrs. Mary E. Turner ca. 1960. (Salem City Directories]
1S. Edward and Phyllis M. Mello
In 1975, Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney sold 60 Federal Street to
Edward Mello and Phyllis M. Mello [Deed 6123: 193). The Mellos sold the
property in 1976 to David and Dori Rifkin [Deed 6250: 696].
16. The Rifkins
David Rifkin and Dori Rifkin, "Trustees of Reuben Realty Trust" purchased
60 Federal Street from the Mellos in 1976. [Deed 6250:696). They currently
own the property as of March, 1991, and maintain the "Rifkin Law Office"
here. [Historic Salem house research and plaque application form dated
January 10, 1991; also field inspection of property, 1991.] The Rifkins are
the latest owners of the building which served as the house for printer
Thomas j. Hutchinson and his family for much of the 19th century, and
which is believed to have been built for cordwainer David Crowell circa
1818.[research cited above; see also deed transcriptions, attached.]
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Book:238
Page:218
Grantor: john Barr
Grantee: David Crowell ...cordwainer
Price: $20 per year (ten year lease)
Description: land ...
[property bounded southerly 30 feet on Marlborough Street and Mrs.
Cook's land; westerly by land of Barr; northerly by land of Scates;
easterly by land of Lemuel Briggs]
Source: None cited
Date: January 28, 1818
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Book:238
Page:219
Grantor: David Crowell, cordwainer
Grantee: Hiram Pond, trader
Price: $248 [transfers remainder of his ten year lease from john Barr]
Description:
" a certain dwelling house scituate on Marlborough Street...being
the same in which I now live."
Source: None cited
Date: August 31, 1825
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:2SO
Page:77
Grantor: Ebenezer Perkins of Salem .. .lately but now of Albany NY ...
housewright...
Grantee: Temple Hardy, baker
Price: $625
Description:
[piece of land with 60 feet frontage on Marlborough Street,
bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by Story's
land; northerly by Barr; easterly by Briggs land]
"with the whole of the two story wooden building thereon
including the chimney cellar stones ... partly on above land and
partly on land of Barr ... being the same building lately owned by
Crowell and by him sold to Sanborn and by Sanborn to said
Perkins"
Source: (land from Daniel Story, Book 240, Page 218)
Date:
September 30, 1828
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
Boole 272
Page: 123
Grantor: Henry Barr, mariner; Jonathan Holman, merchant & Sarah ...wife;
Wifliam W. Palfray, Gentleman & Mary ...wife;
Grantee: Temple Hardy ... baker
Price:
$300
Description:
[piece of land with 31 feet frontage on Marlborough Street,
bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by Hardy,
Barr, and others; northerly by Joseph Scates Heirs; easterly by
Lemuel Briggs land)
Source: None cited.
Date:
July 10, 1833
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Boo.k:277
Page: 128
Grantor: Temple Hardy ... baker
Grantee: William M. Arrington, painter
Price:
$82S
Description:
(piece of land with 54 foot-3 inch feet frontage on Marlborough
Street, bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by
Daniel Story, and John Barr Heirs; northerly by Joseph Scates;
easterly by Lemuel Briggs]
"with a two story dwelling house thereon"
Source: Cites Barr, and Ebenezer Perkins.
Date:
August 12, 1833
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:390
Page:26
Grantor: William M. Arrington, painter
Grantee: Maria M. Sleeper, widow
Price:
$1300
Description:
(land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on Marlborough
Street, bounded southerly by Marlborough Street; westerly by
William M. Arrington, Barr Estate, and James P. Pond; northerly
by land of Odell; easterly by land of Briggs)
"with buildings"
Source: None cited.
Date:
November 13, 1847
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book:499
Page:207
Grantor: Maria M. Sleeper, widow
Grantee: Michael Shepard of Salem, merchant
Price:
$1300
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street (late
Marlboro)", bounded southerly by "Federal Street (late Marlboro);
northerly by Odell; easterly by Odell]
"with privileges and appurtenances"
Source: Cites William M. Arrington, Book 390, Page 26; also john Dodge
Book 390, Page 27.
Date:
August 14, 1854
�ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book.:572
Page: 130
Grantor: Thomas P. Shepard of Providence ... Michael W. Shepard and
Henry F. Shepard of Salem ... e1ecutors of estate of Michael
Shepard, deceased
Grantee: Thomas j. Hutchinson, Salem, printer
Price:
$1300
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; northerly by Odell;
easterly by Odell]
"land with dwelling house"
Source: Cites Maria Sleeper to Michael Shepard, Book 499, Page 207.
Date:
junel4,1858
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1042
Page:209
Grantor:William H. Gove
Grantee: Mary Ellen Hutchinson, wife of Thomas j. Hutchinson
Price:
$2500
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs]
"with all the priviledges and appurtenances ... "
Source: None Cited.
Date:
August 10, 1880
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1S02
Page: 193
Grantor: Mary Ellen Hutchinson
Grantee: john McMorrill
Price:
$1
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs]
"with buildings"
Source: Cites William H. Gove, Book 1042, Page 209.
Date:
January 21, 1897
�***************************
ABSTRACT OF DEED
****************************
Book: 1512
Page:293
Grantor: john McMorrill
Grantee: Clara P. Wardwell
Price:
$1
Description:
!land with 31 foot 6 inch inch frontage on "Federal Street
bounded southerly by "Federal Street; westerly by land now or
formerly Skinner; northerly by land now or formerly Odell;
easterly by land now or formerly Ebenezer Buswell Heirs}
"with buildings"
Source: Cites Mary E. Hutchinson, Book 1502, Page 193.
Date:
May 14, 1897
�••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
ABSTRACT
OF
DEED
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book: 2663
Page: 440
Grantor: Clara P. Wardwell, unmarried ...
Grantee: Nellie M. Fay of Hingham ...
Price: (None Listed)
Description:
Iland with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell; northerly by land now or formerly Odell; easterly by land of
Irishj
Source: Cites John McMorrill, Book 1S12 Page 29 3; also Elizabeth Odell
Book 1973, Page 291 (Odell for strip on north side formerly Odell
Square]
Date:
December l, 1925
�••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
ABSTRACT OF DEED
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book.: 6123
Page: 193
Grantor: Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney of
Dover ... Massachusetts ... devisees under will of Nellie M. Fay
Grantee: Edward Mello and Phyllis M. Mello ...
Price: $30,000
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell 66'-9"; northerly by land now or formerly Odell 28'-6";
easterly by land now or formerly of Irish 58.14 feet)
"with buildings ... "
"subject to restriction in deed to Clara P. Wardwell Book 1973, Page
291;
"subject to .. easements ... deed to Alphonso D. Irish & wife ... Book 2588,
Page 591 ...
Source: Cites Nellie M. Fay probate docket
Date:
January 14, 1975
#
254, l 93.
�••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
ABSTRACT
OF
DEED
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Book: 6250
Page: 696
Grantor: Edward Mello and PhylJis M. MelJo, Trustees of Federal Street
Trust...of Peabody ...
Grantee: David Rifkin and Dori Rifkin, Trustees of Reuben Realty Trust...of
Ipswich ...
Price: $35,000
Description:
[land with 31 foot 6 inch frontage on Federal Street, bounded
southerly by Federal Street; westerly by land now or formerly
Goodell 66 '-9"; northerly by land now or formerly Odell 28 '-6";
easterly by land now or formerly of Irish 58.14 feet]
"with buildings ... "
"subject to restriction in deed to Clara P. Wardwell Book 1973, Page
291;
"subject to ..easements ... deed to Alphonso D. Irish & wife ... Book 2588,
Page 591...
Source: Cites Martin F. Fay and Mary E. Deviney, Book 6123, Page 123 ..
Date:
June 16, 1976
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OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 / PHONE (617) 745-0799
63 Federal Street
Built for
NATHANIEL R. TREADWELL, leather manufacturer
in 1875
Research by,
Joyce King
Sept. 1982
"to preseroe Historic Sites, Buildings and obiects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true t>alue of the same."
�63 Federal Street
On July 15, 1874 William R. Weeks sold a lot of land on the
south side of Federal St., for the sum of $3,100, to Nathaniel
R. Treadwell (of 18 Barr St.)
1
(book 909 page 70)
Tax records:
63 Federal St.
1875 - land 3,030 ft.
owner Nathaniel R. Treadwell val. $1,200
On June 7, 1875 Nathaniel R. Treadwell was issued a buildiDg permit
to build a dwelling house 38.8' X 39', two story with a "french
roof". (Essex Institute - Salem building permits)
1876 tax:
63 Federal St.
Nathaniel Treadwell
house $9 ,ooo; land $1,200
$20,000
Valuation- stock in trade
machinery manufacturing
3,000
horses
400
carriages
400
house 18 Barr
3,000
1,200
land
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tannery and buildings
Franklin St. 11
land Laboratory St.
land Orchard St.
$8,000; land $3,000
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6,ooo
5,000
500
1,200
Directory listing:
1875- Nathaniel R. Treadwell, tanner & currier
11 & 13 Franklin St. (& 82 High St., Boston)
house 63 Federal St.
1879 May 29 - Nathaniel Treadwell purchased the adjoining property
fronting on Lynde St.:
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�Nathaniel Treadwell died of spine disease on March 1, 1888.
This obituary notice appeared in the local papers:
"Mr. Nathaniel R. Treadwell, one of the leading leather manufacturers in Salem, died Thursday night, after a lingering illness of several months, in the 62nd year of his age. Mr. Treadwell
was a North Salem boy. He learned the tanning and currying business of the late Alvan A. Evans, though he worked for a time with
L. B. Harrington, Mr. Treadwell began business for himself in a
small way before the war, and when the struggle came he amassed
wealth rapidly. He was especially successful as a manufacturer
of heavy wax leather, and built and operated one of the largest
tanneries and leather factories in N~w England. Twice he suffered
heavily by fire, his buildings being swept away, but each time
he rallied with great energy and pluck and rebuilt better than
before. Mr. Treadwell was $Sociated with the late John Culliton,
in the firm of Culliton, Treadwell & Co. who conducted a successful
hide and leather business on High St. in Boston before the great
fire and was subsequently the senior partner of the firm of
Treadwell, Dugan & Osgood in the same business at 68 High street
for several years after the fire. He was a member of the Salem
Common Council in 1866, 1 67 and 1 68 and was formerly a Director of
the Asiatic National Bank. Mr. Treadwell's estate is estimated
in the vicinity of $500·,ooo. He was a veteran member of the Salem
Light Infantry. A widow and three children survive him."
The heirs of Nathaniel Treadwell remained in the house until
1897 when they rented to Henry G. Rice. Mrs. Lucy Treadwell was
listed as living at 30 Lynde St.
1898 May 20 - Mrs. Lucy E. Treadwell died. Her obituary read:
"Mrs. Lucy Emily, widow of Nathaniel R. Treadwell died yesterday, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence s. Clark,
376 Essex st. She was born in Salem, April 24, 1830land was
the daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Blake) Redding.
Death was caused by a appendicitis. She leaves three children,
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Mrs. Clarence s. Clark, Frank R. and Harry D. Treadwell. Her
husband was an extensive morocco manufacturer for many years on
Franklin street, and the business which he established is still
conducted by his children under the firm name of Treadwell Bro.
& Clark."
The estate was divided on Nov. 19, 1900. The house and iand at
63 Federal St. along with a parcel of land on Foster St. became
the property of Annie F. Clark, wife of Clarence s. Clark and
Harry D. Treadwell:
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1900 tax record:
63 Federal Street
Owner - Heirs of N.R. Treadwell, house $7,000, land $1,300
Occupant - Luther G. Straw, shoemanufacturer
On Feb. 3, 1909 the land and building at 63 Federal St. was
sold to Jennie M. Straw, wife of Luther G. (book 1952 page 511)
�The 1910 tax record reflects the change in ownership:
63 Federal Street
Owner - Jennie M. Straw, house $7,000, land $1,600
Occupant - Luther Straw age 46 owner of Luther G. Straw Co.
located at 47 Canal St.
In 1912 Luther G. Straw was listed as the President of Marston &
Brooks Co. (Hallowell, Maine). The Straw family remained at 63
Federal St. until 1916 when they moved to Maine.
In 1917 the house was leased to Walter
232 Essex St.
s.
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a clerk at
On June 10, 1918 Luther and Jennie M. Straw sold the land and
dwelling house at 63 Federal St. to Margaret A. Tivnan. "Being
the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Clarence s. Clark
and Annie F. Clark date February 4th 1909." (book 2392 page 334)
Margaret Tivnan was the wife of Jeremiah F. Tivnan a janitor at
the post office. The Tivnans converted their large home into a
rooming house. The 1932 tenants were:
James Dean
Martha P. Goodell
John Hennessey
Thomas King
Michael F. Regan
Jeremiah Tivnan
�THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE LAND
ON WHICH 63 FEDERAL STREET STANDS
Sttphm s:wall House. The northern
portion of this lot, down to the lot of Dr.
Weld, was the western portion of Elder
Elder Sharp died
Samuel Sharp's field.
in or before 1662, and his wife Alice survived him three years. Upon her decease this section of the field was divided
among four of his children, the division
lines running from east to west where the
dashes are placed at either end.
To whom the northern strip was assigned the writer does not know, but it
was "ye widow Eleanor Robinson's" in "
I 6 7 l. She probably had only a dower interest in it, and at her decease in 1674 it
came into the possession of Edmund Batter, who died in 1685, having devised it to
his son Edmund. The latter conveyed it
to Stephen Sewall O~t. 9, 1696.t
, 1 he next strip was assigned to Elizabeth,
first wife of Christopher Phelps. Mr.
Phelps conveyed it to .Mr. Sewall May 18,
1685.§
The third strip was assigned to Nathaniel Sharp, who conveyed it to John Turner
June 5, 1671.!I Mr. Turner died possessed of it in 1680; and his widow Elizabeth subsequently married Maj. Charles
Redford and possessed it. Upon her decease, Mr. Turner's only son and heir,
Capt. John Turner, conveyed it to Mr.
Sewall Jan. 10, 1697.t
The next strip was assigned to Hannah.
Sharp, who afterwards married Peter Od-'
Jin., They conveyed it to Mr. Sewall
Mav 2, 1685.* Upon this part of Sharp's
field (at the cross+) was erected about t 630
the block house or fort for the defence of
the town, Mr. Sharp being the gunner.
The remainder of the lot came into the
po~session of Mr. Sew:i.ll as fol1ows: T~e
northern part down to the dashes wa~ on¥inally owned by Henry Cook, who died m
Tudith Cook, his widow, com·eyed
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it to Joshua Rea, husbandman, May 21,
1 662.t The next space (down to the next
dashes) Mr. Cook's son John conveyed
to Thomas Maule March 7, 1671.§ June
10, 1672, Mr. Maule sold the northern
half of the strip to Mr. Rea; II and also
about that time Mr. Rea became possessed
of the other half. He <lied owning the lot,
and his son Joshua conveyed both this. and
the section above to Mr. Sewall Apnl 6,
1685.t The next section (down to the
next dashes) was a portion of the estate of
Edward Norris, who conveyed it to George
Booth, as a part of the considerati~n for
the instruction of his son Edward m the
trade of a carpenter, Jan. 9, 167~-8.~ .Mr.
Booth conveyed it to Dr. Dame! \\eld,
who sold it to Mr. Sewall April 7, 1685.t
The remainder of the lot was a part of the
original lot of Edmund Batter, who conveyed it to Mr. Sewall. Oct. - , 1681..••
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was the first part he bought, Mr. Sewall
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64-68 Essex Street and 70 Washington Square East, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1893 for Zina Goodell,
machinist and inventor, as a first-class apartment house.
On 4 May 1892, Zina Goodell of Salem purchased, at auction, for $11,3 50
from the Salem Savings Bank, the buildings and lot fronting on Washington
Square East and bounded northerly on Forrester Street 72' and southerly 123'
on Essex Street (ED 1344:199). The Bank had acquired the property by
foreclosing on a mortgage of the same given in 1883 by the heirs of James
Devereux, whose father-in-law, Clifford Crowninshield, merchant, had built
the large house on the lot c.1805 (near the corner of Forrester Street). The
Essex Street end of the lot was empty.
Mr. Goodell moved into the old Crowninshield-Devereux mansion, and soon
began planning for construction of a large apartment house on the corner of
Essex Street. By June, 1893, the new structure was "now in process of
erection," for at that time Mr. Goodell made a deal with the city that he could
build projecting bays on the house that would "encroach" on city land (extend
over the side-walk) on the Essex Street side, while he would agree to leave a
small piece of land unbuilt-on at the exact corner of Essex and Washington
Square (see plan and agreement at 1382:203). Presumably the new building
was finished by the fall of 1893.
Zina Goodell (1834-1920) was one of Salem's leading citizens in the late
1800s. He was an inventor, machinist, and employer; and he pushed for
improvements in the city.
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Zina (pronounced with a long i) was born on Oct. 7, 1834, in Ipswich, where
his father, Abner C. Goodell, worked as a machinist and inventor in the first
decades of the local industrial revolution. Abner Goodell (1805-1898) was
born in Franklin County, Mass., the son of a Zina Goodell. Abner married
Sally Haskell Dodge (1804-1891) about 1828, and they lived in Cambridge at
first, where Mr. Goodell's talent for machinery and engineering was
recognized by Prof. Treadwell and Dr. Grenville. For Treadwell, he perfected
the first printing press that printed on both sides of a sheet of paper at once, the
precursor of the Hoe press. In 1834, the family, with its four young children,
moved to Ipswich, where Mr. Goodell invented a machine for making
lozenges, and discovered a process for making steel and copper plates for
engravers. Zina was born at that time. During this period, Abner also worked at
�the cotton factory in Byfield, and at the machine shop in Lowell, where he
helped to build the first locomotive for the Boston & Lowell railroad in 1836.
The family briefly returned to Cambridgeport, but settled in Salem in April,
1837. Abner Goodell went to work for Increase S. Hill at his notable machine
shop, which stood on Stage Point in South Salem (note: most of the
information about Abner Goodell comes from his newspaper obituary).
At that time, modest industrial and manufacturing businesses were starting up
in Salem, which had been recently traumatized by the loss of its traditional
overseas commerce. To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered
large new textile mills (Lowell was founded in 1823), which created great
wealth for their investors; and in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity
was ebbing away from Salem. To stem the flow of talent from the town and to
harness its potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and
capitalists had banded together in the 1820s to raise the money to dam the
North River for industrial power, but the effort had failed, and caused several
leading citizens to move to Boston, the hub of investment in the new economy.
Salem had not prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages.
The North River served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste
from the 25 tanneries that had set up along its banks. As the decade of the
1830s wore on, the new railroads and canals, all running and flowing to Boston
from points north, west, and south, diverted both capital and trade away from
the coast. Salem's remaining merchants took their equity out of local wharves
and warehouses and ships and put it into the stock of manufacturing and
transportation companies. Some merchants did not make the transition, and
were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making, and ship
chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared. Salem slumped badly, but,
despite all, the voters had decided to charter their town as a city in 1836-the
third city to be formed in the state, behind Boston and Lowell. City Hall was
built 1837-8 and the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin
motto of "to the farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West,
young man!"
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Throughout the 1830s, the leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy
for their fellow citizens, many of whom were mariners without much seafaring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant
built in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and
blue vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's
whale-fishery led to the manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point,
along with machine oils. The candles proved very popular. Lead-
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�manufacturing began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830, when Wyman's
gristmills on the Forest River, at the head of Salem Harbor, were retooled for
making high-quality white lead and sheet lead. These enterprises, fostered
largely by the young industrialist Francis Peabody, were a start toward taking
Salem in a new direction. Increase Hill, a Salem boy with great mechanical
talent, worked for Peabody for some years, and then set up his own shop,
manufacturing all sorts of machinery and specializing in the construction of
steam engines. He attracted very talented employees like Abner Goodell and
Joseph Dixon, a Marbleheader who also had a brilliant engineering mind.
Among other projects, they worked on the construction of an invention of
another Salem man, young doctor Charles G. Page, M.D.-the very first
electric motor engine. Unfortunately, Hill's machine shop business-long on
invention and talent but short on funds-was ruined by the Panic of 183 7, a
brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression. Like many others in Salem,
Increase Hill left town to seek his fortune elsewhere.
In 183 8 the Eastern Rail Road, headquartered in Salem, began operating
between Boston and Salem, which gave local people a direct route to the
region's largest market. The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of
the Mill Pond; the tunnel under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the
line was extended to Newburyport in 1840. The presence of the railroad-too
late for the Hill machine shop-gave local machinists a major institutional
client. In 1838 or so Mr. Goodell contracted with Joseph Arrington, a cooper,
to build a machine to manufacture kegs as containers for white lead, which was
being produced in Salem by Francis Peabody's mills. The machine was a great
success.
In 1840 the Goodell family resided on Walnut Street (predecessor of
Hawthorne Boulevard; per 1841 directory), and by 1844 (per 1844 street book)
they resided at 2 Dow Street in South Salem, and Mr. Goodell had a machine
shop at 33 Front Street, at the corner of Washington, in the rear of
Frothingham's stove store, on a wharf on the then-South River, Salem's old
inner harbor. There, he made more keg-making machines and other equipment.
The Eastern Railroad people hired him to build the first engine lathe in their
repair shops, and he was so successful that he never wanted for work again.
Young Zina Goodell, eleven in 1845, was growing up in these years, and
proved to be his father's son, with great aptitude for machinery and
engmeenng.
While the Goodell machine shop began to enjoy some success, Salem as a
whole was declining. A few members of Salem's waning merchant class
continued to pursue their sea-borne businesses into the 1840s; but it was an ebb
tide, with unfavorable winds. Boston, a modern mega-port with efficient
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�railroad and highway distribution to all markets, had subsumed virtually all
foreign trade other than Salem's continuing commerce with Zanzibar. The
sleepy waterfront at Derby Wharf, with an occasional arrival from Africa and
regular visits from schooners carrying wood from Nova Scotia, is depicted in
1850 by Hawthorne in his mean-spirited "introductory section" to The Scarlet
Letter, which he began while working in the Custom House.
Although Hawthorne had no interest in describing it, Salem's transformation
did occur in the 1840s, as more industrial methods and machines were
introduced, and many new companies in new lines of business arose. The
Gothic symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large twin-towered
granite train station-the "stone depot"-smoking and growling with idling
locomotives. It stood on filled-in land at the foot of Washington Street, where
the merchants' wharves had been; and from it the trains carried many valuable
products as well as passengers. The tanning and curing of leather was very
important in Salem by the mid-1800s. On and near Boston Street, along the
upper North River, there were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing
550 hands. The leather business would continue to grow in importance. In
1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at
Stage Point-on the site of the Increase Hill machine shop-of the largest
factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was an
immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of
them living in tenements built nearby. It too benefited from the Zanzibar and
Africa trade, as it produced light cotton cloth for use in the tropics. Also in the
1840s, a new method was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial
shoe production. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city
became the nation's leading shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and
attracted shoe workers from outlying towns and the countryside. Even the
population began to transform, as hundreds of Irish families, fleeing the
Famine in Ireland, settled in Salem and gave the industrialists a big pool of
cheap labor.
Abner C. Goodell continued his creative engineering off Front Street, and
invented machines for cutting and splitting shoe pegs and for rolling tin tubes.
He also manufactured specialty tools for boring the logs used in pumps and
aqueducts. Presumably Zina worked with him on these projects, while
attending Salem schools. He graduated from Salem English High School in the
fall of 1850, aged almost sixteen, and went to work as an apprentice to his
father.
In 1851, Stephen C. Phillips succeeded in building a railroad line from Salem
to Lowell, which meant that coal, landed at Phillips Wharf in Salem, could be
run cheaply out to Lowell to help fuel the boilers of the mills, whose output of
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�textiles could be freighted easily to Salem, and carried to other destinations by
Salem ships. This innovation, although not destined to last long, was a rnuchneeded boost to Salem's economy and continued importance as a port and
transportation center. The Goodell machine shop was given much new
business, and Zina did so well at his work that in 1855, aged twenty, he was
made a partner in the firm. By that time, the family had moved to a house at 18
Central Street (per directory). In 1856 A.C. Goodell & Co. relocated to 16
Lafayette Street, and the family moved to 5 Daniels Street (per 1857 directory),
followed by a move to a new homestead at 4 Federal Street in 1858 (see 1859
directory). On Oct. 26, 1858, Zina Goodell married Mary A. Cousins, the
daughter of Thomas & Mary Cousins of English Street; and Mary & Zina
would move to a home at 14 Harbor Street in South Salem.
Salem's growth continued through the 1850s, as business and industries
expanded, the population swelled, new churches (e.g. Immaculate Conception,
1857) were started, new working-class neighborhoods were developed
(especially in North Salem and South Salem, off Boston Street, and along the
Mill Pond behind the Broad Street graveyard), and new schools, factories, and
stores were built. A second, larger, factory building for the Naurnkeag Stearn
Cotton Company was added in 1859, at Stage Point, where a new Methodist
Church went up, and many neat homes, boarding-houses, and stores were
erected along the streets between Lafayette and Congress. The tanning
business boomed, as better and larger tanneries went up along Boston Street
and Mason Street; and subsidiary industries sprang up as well, most notably
the J.M. Anderson glue-works on the Turnpike (Highland Avenue).
As it re-established itself as an economic powerhouse, Salem took a strong
interest in national politics. It was primarily Republican, and strongly antislavery, with its share of outspoken abolitionists, led by Charles Rernond, a
passionate speaker who came from one of the city's notable black families. At
its Lyceum (on Church Street) and in other venues, plays and shows were put
on, but cultural lectures and political speeches were given too.
By 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, it was clear that the Southern
states would secede from the union; and Salem, which had done so much to
win the independence of the nation, was ready to go to war to force others to
remain a part of it.
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or
died of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered
wounds, or broken health. The people of Salem contributed greatly to efforts to
alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and their families; and there was
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�great celebration when the war finally ended in the spring of 1865,just as
President Lincoln was assassinated. The four years of bloodshed and warfare
were over; the slaves were free; a million men were dead; the union was
preserved and the South was under martial rule. Salem, with many wounded
soldiers and grieving families, welcomed the coming of peace.
Through the 1860s, Salem pursued manufacturing, especially of leather and
shoes and textiles. The managers and capitalists tended to build their new,
grand houses along Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of
Roslyn Street; many are in the French Second Empire style, with mansard
roofs). A third factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company was
built in 1865. By that time, Zina Goodell was managing most of the A.C.
Goodell firm's business.
In 1870 Salem received its last cargo from Zanzibar, thus ending a onceimportant trade. By then, a new Salem & New York freight steamboat line was
in operation. Seven years later, with the arrival of a vessel from Cayenne,
Salem's foreign trade came to an end. After that, "the merchandise warehouses
on the wharves no longer contained silks from India, tea from China, pepper
from Sumatra, coffee from Arabia, spices from Batavia, gum-copal from
Zanzibar, hides from Africa, and the various other products of far-away
countries. The boys have ceased to watch on the Neck for the incoming
vessels, hoping to earn a reward by being the first to announce to the expectant
merchant the safe return of his looked-for vessel. The foreign commerce of
Salem, once her pride and glory, has spread its white wings and sailed away
forever" (Rev. George Bachelder in History of Essex County, II: 65).
Salem was now so densely built-up that a general conflagration was always a
possibility, as in Boston, when, on Nov. 9, 1872, the financial and
manufacturing district of the city burned up. Salem prospered in the 1870s,
carried forward by the leather-making business. In 1872 Zina Goodell had a
large building, constructed of concrete, erected at the corner of Lafayette and
Dodge Streets; and he took in his lead machinist, Paul B. Patten, as a partner in
his machine company. In 1874 the city was visited by a tornado and shaken by
a minor earthquake. In the following year, the large Pennsylvania Pier (site of
the present coal-fired harborside electrical generating plant) was completed to
begin receiving large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new
owner began subdividing the old Allen farmlands into a new development
called Salem Willows and Juniper Point. In the U.S. centennial year, 1876,
A.G. Bell of Salem announced that he had discovered a way to transmit voices
over telegraph wires.
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�In this decade, French-Canadian families began corning to work in Salem's
mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were built. The better-off
workers bought portions of older houses or built small homes for their families
in the outlying sections of the city; and by 1879 the Naurnkeag Stearn Cotton
mills would employ 1200 people and produce annually nearly 15 million yards
of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing businesses expanded in the 1870s, and 40 shoe
factories were employing 600-plus operatives. Tanning, in both Salem and
Peabody, remained a very important industry, and employed hundreds of
breadwinners. On Boston Street in 1879, the Arnold tannery caught fire and
burned down.
In 1880 Goodell and Patten separated as business partners, and Zina Goodell
operated his own company, Zina Goodell & Company, engaged in rnachinework and black-smithing. He and his wife and children resided near his
parents, at 13 Federal Street. He expanded by building a large garage on
Lafayette Street.
Zina Goodell (1834-1920) m. 1858 Mary A. Cousins (1836-1911). Known
issue:
1. George Z, physician
2. Mary E., April 1862, m. George E. Patterson
3. Oliver W., Aug. 1868, m. Annie.
4. Caroline, March, 1872, m. Walter P. Pratt.
5. Frank Thomas, April, 1876, m. 1906 Sophie.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses
arose, and established businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered; horsedrawn trolleys ran every which-way; and machinists, carpenters, millwrights,
and other specialists all thrived. In 1880, Salem's manufactured goods were
valued at about $8.4 million, of which leather accounted for nearly half. In the
summer of 1886, the Knights of Labor brought a strike against the
manufacturers for a ten-hour day and other concessions; but the manufacturers
imported labor from Maine and Canada, and kept going. The strikers held out,
and there was violence in the streets, and even rioting; but the owners
prevailed, and many of the defeated workers lost their jobs and suffered, with
their families, through a bitter winter.
By the rnid-18 80s, Salem's cotton-cloth mills at the Point employed 1400
people who produced about 19 million yards annually, worth about $1.5
million. The city's large shoe factories stood downtown behind the stone depot
and on Dodge and Lafayette Streets. A jute bagging company prospered with
plants on Skerry Street and English Street; its products were sent south to be
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�used in cotton-baling. Salem factories also produced lead, paint, and oil. At
the Eastern Railroad yard on Bridge Street, cars were repaired and even built
new. In 1887 the streets were first lit with electricity, replacing gas-light. The
gas works, which had stood on Northey Street since 1850, was moved to a
larger site on Bridge Street in 1888, opposite the Beverly Shore.
More factories and more people required more space for buildings, more roads,
and more storage areas. This space was created by filling in rivers, harbors,
and ponds. The once-broad North River was filled from both shores, and
became a canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge. The large and
beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area between the present
Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street, and Loring Avenue, finally vanished beneath
streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots. The South River,
too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a Custom House
built there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement, and some of its old
wharves were joined together with much in-fill and turned into coal-yards and
lumber-yards. Only a canal was left, running in from Derby and Central
Wharves to Lafayette Street.
Zina Goodell continued with his inventing of machinery as well as the
management of a profitable business; and in 1890 he patented his invention for
an elevator (see appendix). As has been mentioned, he purchased the
Crowninshield-Devereux mansion in 1892, and had this house (64-68 Essex,
70 Washington Square East) built in 1893. In spring of that year, the big news
was the Lizzie Borden murder trial in Fall River; and the summer of that year
brought with it the start of a bad national economic depression. Construction
went forward, and soon the building was complete. No doubt the very aged Mr.
Abner C. Goodell came by to admire it; and he would die in March, 1898, aged
93 years.
At Mr. Goodell's new apartment house, the first known tenant heads of
households, as of 1896, were (taken from 1897-8 directory):
#64 (two-family): Joseph H.M. Edwards, an apothecary at 120 Essex Street,
and Joseph G. Lufkin, a salesman working in Boston
#66: Samuel A. Knight, partner in a coal business located on Phillips Wharf
#68: Mrs. Ida M. Harford (widow of Harvey) and Charles E. Harford,
machinist
#70 W. Sq. E.: James S. Smart, partner in Smart & Spencer, brass founders and
furnishers (at 84 Lafayette Street, the Goodell bulding) and bicycle dealers and
repairers at 7 8 Washington Street.
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�In 1898 (per 1899-1900 directory), the building was occupied by most of these
same families, except that #68 was vacant, and at #64 the Lutkins' place had
been taken by the family of Walter P. Pratt, 26, Zina Goodell's son-in-law,
who had a grocery and provisions store at 68 Washington Street.
By 1900, the tenants were (per 1900 census):
#64 (two-family): James Wright, 36, engineer (wife Sadie, 32; sons Alexander,
12, Charles, 9, and Jean, five, all but the last born in New Brunswick, Canada)
and the Walter P. Pratts (Walter, 31, grocer, Carrie, 28, children Helen, five,
and Oliver, three)
#66: not listed
#68: James Taylor, 43, a carpenter and native of Canada (wife Lucy, 40,
children James R., 18, at school, Harold J., 14, and Laura M., twelve, born in
New York while the others were born in Canada)
#70 W. Sq. E.: James S. Smart, 49, manufacturer, born in New Hampshire,
wife Caroline, 45, child Nellie, 25).
By 1905, the tenant families were headed by: #64 Robert Webb, optician, and
George E. Carrier, a French-Canadian machinist (wife Delia, 33, a manicurist,
and son Wilfred, 11, born in New Hampshire); #66 James A. Lord, 48,
bookkeeper (wife Nettie and two daughters, Alice and Grace); #68 Frank T.
Goodell, 29, bookkeeper for his father's Zina Goodell Co.; #70 Washington
Sq. East Oscar C. Moore, 49, shoemaker (wife Lavenia, 48, and mother-in-law
Louisa Beal, 72, from Maine).
By 1910 (per census) the building had the same tenants except that in #64 the
Webbs were gone and Edward LeBlanc, 49, a French Canadian laborer, wife
Mary, 38, a dressmaker, and son William, 14, resided in one of the units in
#64.
Salem kept growing. The Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by
large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the
Derby Street neighborhood. By the eve of World War One, Salem was a
bustling, polyglot city that supported large department stores and large
factories of every description. People from the surrounding towns, and
Marblehead in particular, came to Salem to do their shopping; and its
handsome government buildings, as befit the county seat, were busy with
conveyances ofland, lawsuits, and probate proceedings. The city's politics
were lively, and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
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�soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was
high and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next,
and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame
and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper
Broad Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and
other residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire
crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of
Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and
raged onward into the tenement district. Zina Goodell' s large concrete
building, at the corner of Dodge Street, did not burn down-one of the very
few buildings that withstood the flames.
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities,
the fire overwhelmed almost everything in its path: it smashed into the large
factory buildings of the Naurnkeag Stearn Cotton Company (Congress Street),
which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across
the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour
rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41
factories, and leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some people had
insurance, some did not; all received much support and generous donations
from all over the country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban
disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of Salem would
take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the former
houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects
(including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses and
widening old streets) were put into effect.
In the spring of 1920, Zina Goodell, 85, fell ill, and he died on Friday, July 9,
1920, at home. For many decades after his death, his name lived on in his
business, carried on at Lafayette Street, and especially in its hardware store
(now Winer Brothers'), on Lafayette Street at the corner of Dodge.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in
1926 was a time of great celebration. The Depression hit in 1929, and ·
continued through the 1930s. Salem, the county seat and regional retail center,
gradually rebounded, and prospered after World War II through the 1950s and
into the 1960s. General Electric, Sylvania, Parker Brothers, Pequot Mills
(formerly Naurnkeag Stearn Cotton Co.), Alrny's department store, various
other large-scale retailers, and Beverly's United Shoe Machinery Company
were all major local employers. Then the arrival of suburban shopping malls
and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have
with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward
into the present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the
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�witch trials, but also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of
Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a
city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, machinists, and
mill-operatives are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different
from any other place.
-Robert Booth for Historic Salem, Inc., 23 Jan. 2006
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69 Summer Street
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Seven Carpenter Street
Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built as the orphanage of the
Seamen's Orphan and Children's Friend Society in 1878, to the design of
Aaron Goldthwait, architect.
The Seaman's Orphan & Children's Friend Society was founded "to ameliorate
the condition of the fatherless and the widow" (per 1861 Salem Directory).
It had two predecessor organizations. One was The Seamen's Widow and
Orphan Association, formed in 1833. The other was the Salem Children's Friend
Society, organized in 1839 "for the purpose of rescuing from evil and improving
the condition of such children as are in indigent and suffering circumstances and
not otherwise provided for" (see 1842 Salem Directory, pp.123-4). Both were
originally focused on assisting the people of the seafaring East Parish of Salem,
in the Derby Street waterfront neighborhood. In 1839 the new Children's friend
Society's director was the tall, lanky, kindly Rev. Michael Carlton. For years
before the founding of any society, Mr. Carlton and his wife had been taking in
and caring for the orphaned children of seafaring families (see pp. 164-5,
Visitor's Guide To Salem, 1927).
Michael Carlton ( 1795-1865) was born at Blue Hill, Maine, on 26 October 1795,
died Salem 6 March 1865 (see The Perkins Family, EIHC 21 :59-60, 1884, and
The Old Ladies Home for information about Mr. Carlton). He became a Baptist
minister, and in 1822 accepted the call of a parish in Hopkinton. He came to
Salem and married Deborah Hunt, who soon died; and in 1833 he married
Hannah Perkins (1800-1883) with whom he had four children. For several years,
starting in 1837, he was pastor of the Seamen's Bethel Church on Herbert Street
in Salem; and he was a missionary all week long to the sailors along the
waterfront, notable as "the friend in need of the wretched and the poor," and
known to the wisecracking boys of the waterfront neighborhood as "Gospel
Tongs," plucking sinners from the flames.
Eventually, the Carltons' friends and admirers raised money to help the orphaned
children. The Society itself was made up of well-to-do merchants and their
wives, who shared their wealth with the families of mariners who had died ashore
or been lost at sea, leaving widows, fatherless children, and sometimes, orphans.
These seafaring men, employed by the merchants to sail their vessels, faced
�dangers from storms, mischance, disease, and enemies at sea and on land. Often
the sailors died in the service of the merchant, leaving little for the subsistence of
their families. This is where the ship-owning merchant families stepped in, to be
sure that no family in Salem would suffer from hunger or want.
In the early 1840s, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton resided on the north side of Chatter
Street in the handsome old Mason-Harraden house (now gone), and used a house
nearby as an orphanage. Beginning in 1844, the orphans and perhaps some
fatherless families evidently resided here in a house on the site of the present
house at 7 Carpenter Street.
Then, in May, 1844, Robert Brookhouse, a very wealthy self-made merchant,
donated to the Salem Seaman's Orphan & Children's Friend Society a piece of
land with a house and buildings and half of a well, fronting 3 8' 4" on Carpenter
Street and running back 100' (ED 345:6). Mr. Brookhouse had just purchased
the property for $1500 from the Salem Female Charitable Society (ED 344:187).
It would appear that the Society was actually conveying the lot fronting 76' on
Carpenter Street, although the deed mentions only one of the lots (the southern
one, fronting 38' 4", with the house thereon).
The Salem Female Charitable Society, whose purpose was to help the poor and
unfo1tunate, had purchased a house and land in 1808 from housewright Solomon
Chaplin in 1808; that lot fronted 38' 4" on what is now Carpenter Street (ED
185:87). Mr. Chaplin had evidently built the house c.1806 after buying the land
from David Lord (ED 180:25). In 1823 the Society purchased the lot to the
north, also fronting 38' 4" on the street, from William Treadwell (ED 233: 109).
Gifford Court was not formally laid out (over part of the northerly lot) until the
late 1870s.
The 1851 atlas shows this site as occupied by the building of the "Seamen's
Orphan Asylum."
In 1870 the old orphanage was managed by Azubah Kilpatrick, 35, a native of
Maine, assisted by Emma Bruce, 18, also of Maine, and with the help of a servant,
Ellen Marr, 19. In the orphanage were 15 children (six boys) aged four to eleven,
all of them born in Massachusetts (1870 census, ward four, house 253). The 1874
atlas shows the old Chaplin house (sold 1808 to the Female Society) in situ,
numbered 9 Carpenter Street, owned by the "Children's Friend Society," with a
shed or barn attached to it at the rear. Gifford Court did not exist as a forma·l
roadway at that time, but its site was probably used as a passage-way.
�Salem, in the 1870s, was engaged in manufacturing. Factory managers and
capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along Lafayette Street (these
houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street). For the workers, the factory
managers built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. The
Naumkeag Steam Cotton had built a huge factory there in the 1840s; and a second,
larger, factory building had been added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879
the mills employed 1200 people and produced annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth.
Shoe-manufacturing also burgeoned, and by 1880 Salem had 40 shoe factories
employing 600-plus operatives. In the 1870s, French-Canadian families began
coming to work in Salem's mills and factories. More factories and more people
required more tenements and buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
In 1878, the Society voted to build a new and much larger orphanage on the site
of the old one. Many donations were made toward the project, including $5,000
from Mrs. Hemenway. John C. Osgood headed up the building committee, and
working plans for the new building were drafted by Aaron Goldthwait.
The old house was removed and work on the new building commenced on April
16. The frame was raised on May 10, the roof and walls were on by May 25, and
plastering was under way by June 27. C.H. Flint and company were excavators
and masons. The stone work was done Mr. Merrill. R.B. Gifford won the
general contract for carpentry (executed by the men at Ashby & Rowell),
plumbing (by F.P. Goss), slating (by George Fowler), roofing (by J.D. & J.W.
Eaton), and stair-building (by Henry Conant). Charles B. Brown won the
contract for painting and tiling, while Frothingham & Fifield set the furnaces.
Mr. Osgood superintended all the work.
The building was completed and furnished by October, and was dedicated in an
impressive ceremony on the 24th. Many people and institutions had made special
memorial donations and gifts, which were displayed throughout the downstairs
rooms. The upstairs rooms were used as dormitories, and were equipped with
iron bedsteads and white counterpanes. A play-room, hospital, nursery, bath, and
rooms for matron and assistants. Downstairs were the administrative offices,
dining room, etc. The dedication event included choirs, speeches, and a public
inspection of the new building, which was thoroughly described in the
newspapers of the time (see appended articles from the Oct. 26, 1878, Salem
Observer, and the Oct. 28 Salem Register).
�In the spring of 1880, when the census was taken, the Home was occupied by ·
many children, as well as by the matron, Margaret H. Barrows, 34, a native of
Maine. She was assisted by a staff who resided here too: her sister Abby
Barrows, 30, Assistant Matron, nurse Mary Homer, 26, also of Maine, and
servants Alice Havener, 23 (of Maine), Mary Nichols, 21 (of Mass.), and Dora
Beton, 30 (of Nova Scotia). The Home took in small boys and girls, but not older
boys; and no child was over 13. The older girls were Caroline Measly, 13 (b.
Mass.), Nellie Patterson, 13 (b. Scotland), Clara Wentworth, 12 (b. Maine), Mary
Cunningham, 12 (b. Mass.), Nellie Davenport, 12 (b. Mass.), Ella Wentworth, 11
(b. Mass.), Eva Brown, 11 (b. Mass.), Lydia Cresol, 10 (b. Mass.), and Mary
Campbell, 12 (b. Mass.). The 9-year-olds were Carrie Wentw01ih, Winnie
Smith, Jessie Parson (born in Mass. of Scottish parents; three younger sisters here
too), Florence Cunningham, Alice Measly, and Sadie Davenp01i. Jennie Parson
was the lone 8-year-old. The 7-year-olds were Mary Parson, Carrie Atkins,
Emma Sanborn, Mary Allen, Annie Todd, Emma Terrill, Harry McNeil, Daisy
Rowell. Six year-olds were Lizzie Ring, Robbie Thompson (b. Mass.), Fannie
Taylor (b. Mass.). The fives were Jemima Parson (b. Mass.), tvfabel Sanborn (b.
Mass.), Sadie Todd, Mary Hamilton, Han-y Welch, Mary Anderson, Hattie
Coolidge. The littlest ones were Rudolph Nyburg, 4, and Carl Nyburg, 3, both
born in Sweden, Frank Coolidge, 3 (b. Mass.), Emma Ring, 4 (b. Mass.), Emma
Wentworth (b. Mass.), Proctor McNeil, 3 (b. Mass.), George Welch, 4 (b. Mass.),
and Henry Morris, two (b. Mass.). For reference, see 1880 census, house 215.
Presumably the Home continued to serve a like number of children for many
years more. On 2 March 1887 Sidney W. Winslow of Beverly for $1,010 sold to
the Seamen's Orphan and Children's Friend Society a parcel of land in the rear of
a Federal Street; and on this newly acquired land, probably in the summer of
1887, the Society built a hospital, which is now the house at 12 Gifford Court.
By that time, Salem's seafaring days were done, but widows and offspring were
still in need of suppmi. The Society still operated the orphanage, but its main
purpose was to support marginal seafaring families in their own homes.
In 1890, evidently soon after the construction of the hospital here, the all-volunteer
society was headed by Mrs. E.M. Proctor, who had the assistance of two vice
presidents, a treasurer, a secretai-y, and more than a dozen volunteer "managers,"
who were responsible for monitoring the needs of various children and families.
The medical advisors were Dr. Frank S. Atwood, of Federal Street, and Dr. C.A.
Carlton. The matron was still Miss Margaret Barrows, now 44, assisted by her
�sister; and the Society helped about 60 children from infants to those aged 18 years
(per Salem Directory, 1890-1 ).
During these years, Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose,
and established businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists,
carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. After withstanding the
pressures of the new industrial city for about 50 years, Salem's rivers began to
disappear. The once-broad North River was filled from both shores, and became a
canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge. The large and beautiful Mill
Pond, which occupied the whole area between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal
Street, and Loring A venue, finalJy vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junkyards, rail-yards, and parking lots. The South River, too, with its epicenter at
Central Street (that's why there was a Custom House there in 1805) disappeared
under the pavement of Riley Plaza and New Derby Street, and its old wharves
(even the mighty Union Wharf, formerly Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street)
were joined together with much in-fill and tmned into coal-yards and lumberyards. Only a canal was left, running in from Derby and Central Wharves to
Lafayette Street.
In 1900 (per census), the orphanage was run by Margaret Barrows, 54, assisted
by Miss Hatch, 25, Katie Cameron, 30, Mary Cobb, 27, Martha Thompson, 25,
and Margaret Merithew, 17, with servants Nellie Evans, 27, and Tira Wentworth,
32. There were 48 "inmates," ranging in age from one to 17.
By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported
large department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were
lively, and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (on Boston Street opposite
the end of Bridge Street), not far from this neighborhood, a fire started in one of
Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire soon consumed that building and
raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had been dry. The
next building caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared
easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston
Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne,
Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets. Men and machines could not stop
it: the enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the
neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of 1101ihern
Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the tenement district. Despite the
combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire
�overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of
the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an
inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street.
There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having
consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and having left three dead and
thousands homeless. Some people were insured, some were not; all received much
support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. The
Salem Fire was one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United
States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually,
they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several
urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved
removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration.
Eventually the organization's name was changed to the N01th Shore Children's
Friend Society. On 13 March 1951, the Society sold all of its property on
Carpenter Street and Gifford Court to two men, Louis P. Dandelen and Alexander
Turkowski, both of Salem (ED 3810:381). The new owners subdivided the
property.
At about that time, the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation of
manufacturing businesses took their toll on Salem, as they have with many other
cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present with
success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also from
its history as a great seaport and as the home of Derby, Pickering, Bowditch,
Mcintire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the
homes of the old-time residents and their families are honored as a large part of
what makes Salem different from any other place.
--Robe1t Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 14 Aug. 2002
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7 Prescott Street
Built by
Giuseppe Giunta
Gardener
1916
July 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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�Here’s a bit of the history of the house through word and deeds:
I have an original Warranty Deed that indicates there was a house on this parcel of land that was sold on
December 19, 1910 by Lewis H Richards of Lynn, Ira G Taylor and his wife Sarah E Taylor of Salem and
E Osgood Richards, also of Salem, to Paul N Chaput of Salem for "one dollar and other valuable
considerations."
Then I have original mortgage papers showing that my maternal grandfather, Giuseppe Giunta
(misspelled as Guinta on most documents), took out a $2,600 loan from Salem Co-operative Bank for that
house on April 15, 1911.
I have another $600 mortgage between my grandfather and Paul N Chaput dated July 18, 1911 that
indicates there were actually two mortgages from Salem Co-op totaling $3,200. This mortgage is stamped
July 18, 1911 by the registry of Deeds and again on June 16, 1914 which is probably when it was paid off
because the Salem Co-Op mortgage shows that theirs was discharged on June 13, 1914.
Unfortunately, the Great Salem Fire destroyed that house just days after my grandfather paid off the
mortgage.
That takes us to this present house. We were always told that “your grandfather built the house". Whether
that means he literally built it or had it built for him, I do not know. I assume it was a bit of both since he
didn't have a load of money and probably worked on it to keep costs down. He may have employed
friends and family from the old country. The present house has interior details like many houses in the
area – I’m assuming some materials were supplied to people after the fire.
My grandfather was a gardener in Sicily who came here and worked as a caretaker for homes in
Marblehead. He made wine in the cellar wine press which is literally built into the foundation of this
house. Many other houses here have wine presses. During Prohibition the Salem Police looked away
while wine was being produced by the many Italian families here, and then often came calling for a bottle
or two.
I have original papers from Salem Five for a $3,500 mortgage dated Nov 25, 1916. That was paid off on
May 25, 1927 and I have papers for another $3,500 mortgage taken out on June 25, 1927 that was
discharged on October 2, 1985.
Long before 1985, in May of 1918, shortly after his new house was built, my grandfather was riding his
bike up Lafayette. At the corner of Ocean, he was struck by a motorcyclist, smacked his head on a trolley
rail and died on site. So, after struggling to get to America, buy a house, get his family over here and build
a new house – he had but a couple years to enjoy it.
My grandmother was left with seven children. She spoke no English and was pregnant with my Mom at
the time, who was subsequently born in the house in July of 1918. That whole clan grew up in this present
house, mostly on the first floor, with occasional boarders on the second. Various other relatives and
friends lived here when they came over from the old country or just needed a temporary stay. It was a
crowded, lively and loving home for generations.
�When my Mom got married, she and my Dad moved upstairs in the house where they raised my brother,
sister and me. In 2006, when her sister Katherine died at 100 years old, she and my Dad moved
downstairs. After returning from 30 years in New York City I moved in upstairs in 2017.
In 2016, my Mom died - in the same room she was born. She was the last of that Giunta generation.
Joe Cultrera
June 12, 2018
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�DATA
ON
BURNED DISTRICT
AT
SALEM, MASS.
Nature of Buildings Burned—Materials of Original Construction — Assessed
Valuation on Land and Buildings— also Insurance on
Buildings and Contents, where obtainable
Arranged according to Names of Owners, Street Location
and Classes of Buildings
This data is incomplete as some of the records from which the
information was taken were not complete at time of publication.
Corrections ivill be gratefully received by the publishers.
Copyright 1914
BY
T H E F. W. DODGE COMPANY
114 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON
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* Star denotes where fire started
1 Plant of Salem Electric Light Company, still standing
2 Storehouse of Naumkeag Mills, still standing
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�LIST OF OWNERS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
Abbreviations:—A. L. Assessed Valuation on Land; A. B. Assessed Valuation on Building; I. B. Insurance on Building 1 ;
I. C. Insurance on Contents; Apts. Apartments; Res. Residence; R. Rear; Tr. Trustee; (W) Wood; (B) Brick; (W & B) Wood
& Brick.
Abbott, Geo. F . Res. (W), 40 Hathorne,
A. L. $1500, A. B. $2100.
Abbott, Sarah E. Res. (W), 21 Cedar,
A. L. $700, A. B. $1500, I. B. $1000.
Abbott, Sarah E. Double House (W),
129-131 Lafayette, A. L. $500, A. B.
$2400, I. B. $1500.
Abbott, Sarah E. Res. (W), 24 P r e s cott, A. L. $700, A. B. $1300, I. B.
$1500, I. C. $500.
Abel I, Anna. Store & Apt. (W), 3
Dodge, A. L. $1200, A. B. $3000, I. B.
$4000, I. C. $900.
Adams, Harrison S. Res. (W), 6 Piedmont, A. L. $900, A. B. $1500, I. B.
$2000.
Adams, Ida S. Res. (W), 2 Roslyn, A.
L. $900, A. B. $3800, I. B. $4000, I. C.
$1500.
Ahern, Elizabeth & Mary E. Stores &
Apts. (W), 207 Derby, A. L. $500, A.
B. $900, I. B. $800.
Ahern, Elizabeth & Mary E. 2 Apts
(W), 203 Derby, A. L. $500, A. B.
$1400, I. B. $1000.
Almy, Big;elow & W a s h b u r n . Storage
Bldg. (W), 267-271 Derby, A. L. $2300,
A. B. $4600, I. B. $3200, I. C. $1000.
Andrews, Joseph A., et al. Res. (W),
14 Vale, A. L. $200, A. B. $600, I. C.
$400.
Ankcles, Isaac & Dora. Apts. (W), 24
Boston, A. L. $1200, A. B. $6000, I. B.
$7000, I. C. $500.
Ankeles, Isaac & Dora. Apts. (W), 26
Boston, A. L. $1200, A. B. $13,000, 1.
B. $13,500, I. C. $1400.
Appleton, Joseph F . Apts. (W), 265273 Washington, A. L. $3400, A. B.
$10,000, I. B. $7947.75.
Aronson, Nathan. Apts. (W), 18-20
Prescott, A. L. $1100, A. B. $1700, I. B.
$5000, I. C. $500.
Arin^ton, Deborah R. Res. (W), 19 Hathorne, A. L. $900, A. B. $2400, I. B.
$2500.
Arinsston, Deborah R.
2-2
Family
Houses (W), 26-28 Hathorne, A. L.
$1000, A. B. $4200, I. B. $4000.
Arrisigton, Joseph, Heirs. Stores (W),
3 Pond, A. L. $400, A. B. $1100.
Arrington, Joseph, Heirs. Res. (W), 147
Lafayette, A. L. $4100, A. B. $2500.
Arrington, Joseph, Heirs. 2 Apts. &
Store (W), 256-258-260 Washington,
A. L. $2200, A. B. $1900, I. B. $3300.
Arrington, Rosabell L. Res. (W), 16
Cherry, A. B. $1500, I. B. $4000.
Arrington, Rosabell L. Res. (W), 18
Cherry, A. L. $2000, A. B. $1800, I. B.
$9000.
Arthur, Inez G. Res. (W), 25 Winthrop,
A. L. $600, A. B. $1400, I. B. $1500.
Audet, Alfred. 2 Res. (W), 42-42i/2 Congress, A. L. $1200, A. B. $6000, I. B.
$7700.
Audet, Alfred. 2 Res. (W), 46-46^ Con^
gress, A. L. $800, A. B. $3500, I. B.
$3 500.
Audet, Alfred. Apts & Stores (W), 98
to IO41/2 Lafayette, A. L. $3800, A. B.
$15,500, I. B. $13,500.
Audet, Alfred, 2-2 Family Houses (W),
10n-110Dafayette, A. L. $3700, A. B.
$4300, I. B. $5500.
Audet, Alfred. Res. (W), 35 Leach, A.
L. $3000, A. B. $3800, I. B. $6000.
Audet, Alfred. Res. (W), 38 Naumkeag, A. L. $700, A. B. $2000, I. B. $500.
Audet, Alfred. Apts. (W), 55 Palmer,
A. L. $1100, A. B. $6500, I. B. $6000,
I. C. $500.
Audet, Alfred.
Apts.
(W),
65-67
Palmer, A. L. $1200, A. B. $5500, I.
B. $2500, I. C. $1400.
Audet, Alfred. Apts. (W), 38 Prince,
A. L. $800, A. B. $6500, I. B. $4000.
Audet, Demerise. Apts. (W), 51 Salem,
A. L. $800, A. B. $10,000, I. B. $8000,
. I. C. $5400.
Audet, Louis. 2 Family House (W), 18
Pingree, A. L. $800, A. B. $1400, I. B.
$3300.
Austin, Joseph L. Res. (W), 419 Essex,
A. L. $600, A. B. $3200, I. B. $3500, I.
C. $1500.
Averill, Geo. H., Heirs. Res. (W), 31
Cabot, A. D. $800, A. B. $1600, I. B.
$2000,
Vverill, Martha J. Res. (W), 1 Gardner. A. L. $1000, A. B. $3500, I. B.
$3500, I. C. $800.
Axelrod, Louis & Leon Handish.
3
Stores (W), 9-11 Dodge St. Ct., A.
B. $5500, I. B. $2000.
Axelrod, Louis & Leon Handish. Block
(W), 10 Dodge St. Ct., A. B. $1000,
I. B. $7000.
Ayers, Melissa. Res. (W), 14 Eden,
A. L. $700, A. B. $900, I. B. $1000, I.
C. $500.
Ilabbidse, B. P a r k e r . Res. (W), 14
Fairfield, A. L. $2400, A. B. $3300, I.
B. $5000, I. C. $500.
Babbidge, Francis A. Res. & Stable
(W), 43 Broad, A. L. $600, A. B. $900.
Baker, Abraham M. Apts. (W), 59
Broad, A. L. $500, A. B. $3000.
Baker, Mary A. Res. (W), 8 Mt. Vernon, A. L. $1000, A. B. $2200, I. B.
$2000, I. C. $800.
Baker, Wilfred J. J. 2 Family Res.
(W), 12 Prince, A. L. $400, A. B.
$1600, I. B. $1800.
Barker, Anna C. Res. (W), 9-11 Hancock, A. L. $1200, A. B. $4800, I. B.
$4000.
Barker, Annie C. 2 Family Res. (W),
3 Piedmont, A. L. $700, A. B. $4000, I.
B. $3000.
Barry, Catherine. Res. (W), 9 Ward,
A. L. $500, A. B. $600, I. B. $800.
Barry, Mary G., Heirs. 2 Family Res.
(W), 5 Buffum, A. L. $1500, A. B.
$4100, I. B. $4500, I. C. $1000.
Barry, Sarah L. & Francis J. Res. (W),
27 Gardner, A. L. $900, A. B. $1200,
I. B. & I. C. $1000.
Bartlett, Mary. Apts. & Stable (W), 26
Ward, A. L. $800, A. B. $2100, I. B.
$2000.
Batchelder, Henry C. Res. (W), 4
Cabot, A. L. $400, A. B. $1200, I. B.
$1800, I. C. $500.
Batchelder, Henry C. Res. (W), 3
Gardner, A. L. $1900, A. B. $3000, I.
B. $3200, I. C. $800.
Batchelder, Henry M. 2 Res. (W), 5-7
Cedar, A. L. $1700, A. B. $4700, I. B.
$5500.
Batcheliler, Henry M. Res. & Stable
(W). 17 Cedar. A. L. $1000, A. B.
$2800, I. B. $3000, I. C. $2600.
Batchelder, Henry M. 2 Res. (W), 1115 Piedmont, A. L. $1500, A. B. $5600,
I. B. $6000.
Batchelder, Henry M. Res. (W), 204
Lafayette, A. L. $2600, A. B. $5100, I.
B. $6500, I. C. $3500.
Battis, Eelw. C. Store (W), 221 Derby,
A. L. $900, A. B. $1000, I. B. $1000.
Battis, Edw. C. & Martha O. Batchelder.
2 Family Res. (B), 200-02 Lafavette,
A. L. $3200, A. B. $5000, I. B. $5400,
I. C. $3000.
Beaudet, Thomas. Res. (W), 44 E a s t
Gardner, A. L. $500, A. B. $700, I. B.
$1000.
Beaudry, Mrs. Emma D. Apts. (W), 1416 West Place. A. L. $2100, A. B.
$5000, I. B. $3000.
Beaudry, Mrs. Emma D. 3 Apt. Houses
(W), 20-24-26 West Place, A. L. $900,
A. B. $5000 Each, I. B. $8000.
Beaudry, Emma D. Apts. (W), 26 Roslyn, A. L. $600, A. B. $5000.
Beaudry, Emma D., et al. 2 Familv
Res. (W). 39 Roslyn, A. L. $500, A. B.
$5000, I. C. $1000.
Belan^er, Elizabeth. Apts. (W), 37
Salem, A. L. $700, A. B. $900, I. B.
$2000.
Belanger, Elizabeth. .Res. & Garage
(W), 41 Salem, A. L. $700, A. B. $1300,
T. B. $2000.
Belansrer, Elizabeth. Apts. (W), 40
Park. A. B. $5500, I. B. $4000.
Bent, Mary A., Heirs. Apts. (W), 268268Vo Washington, A. L. $1200, A. B.
$2600, I. B. $3000.
Bernson, Gus. 2 Familv Res. (W), 3
Dodge St. Ct., A. L. $500, A. B. $2000,
I. B. $1500.
Bertuccio, Mrs. Bigrerzia M. 2 Stores &
Apts. (W). 34 & 34R Mill, A. L. $600,
A. B. $fi200, I. B. $7700, I. C. $500.
Berube, Claire. Res., Garage & Storehouse (W)\ 61 Congress, A. L. $800,
A. B. $1500, I. B. $3300, I. C. $500,
Besse, Arsene. Apts. (W), 56% Congress, A. L. $600, A. B. $5000, I. B.
$2000.
Besse, Arsene. Apts. & Res. (W), 5858y2-60 Congress/ A. L. $1900, A. B.
$5800, I. B. $5600.
Bickford, John M. 2 Family Res. &
Stable (W), 14 Hathorne, A. L. $700.
A. B. $1000.
Biselow, Adelina Y. Res. & Stable (W),
220 Lafayette, A. L. $3700, A. B. $6000,
I. B. $11,000, I. C. $3500.
Bik, Annie. 2 Family Res. (W), 36
Pingree, A. L. $800, A. B. $2000, I.
B. $2500.
Birmingham, Mary E. Res. & Stable
(W), 13 Pingree, A. L. $900, A. B.
$500.
Blais, Joseph. Stable & Shed (W), 28
Prince, A. L. $800, A. B. $600, I. B.
$500, I. C. $400.
Blais, Josephine. Res. & Stable (W), 35
Park, A. B. $5500, I. B. $4500.
Blanchette, Joseph. Apts. (W), 23 Park,
A. L. $400, A. B. $1000, I. B. $2000.
Blanchette, Joseph. Res. (W), 42 Pingree, A. L. $400, A. B. $1500, I. B.
$1500.
Blunt, Elizabeth M. Res. & Stable (W),
10 Flint, A. L. $600, A. B. $2400, I. B.
$4000, I. C. $1000.
Bosquet, Marie. Res. & Stable (W), 20
Park, A. L. $500, A. B. $800.
Bosquet, Marie L. Apts. & Stable (W),
20 Perkins, A. L. $900, A. B. $3300,
I. B. $1500.
Bosquet, Marie L. Stores & Apts. (W),
27-27i/2-29 Palmer, A. L. $1000, A. B.
$6000, I. B. $2000, I. C. $500.
Bouchard, Francois. Apts
(W), 32
Park, A. L. $300, A. B. $3500, I. B.
$5000, I. C. $500.
Bouchard, Joseph. Apts. (W), 14-16
Park, A. L. $600, A. B. $2000, I. B.
$4500, I. C. $500.
Bouchard, Ovide. 3 Apt. Houses (W),
39-41-43 Congress, A. L. $900, A. B.
$12,000, I. B. & I. C. $14,500.
Bouchard, Ovide. Apts. (W), 45 Congress, A. L. $900, A. B. $4500, I. B.
$2500.
Bouchard, Ovide. Stores (W), 219 to
231 Washington, A. L. $2000, A. B.
$11,000, I. B. $6000, I. C. $1300.
Bouchard, Ovide. 3 Stores
(W), 8
Dodge St. Ct., A. B. $5000, I. B. $2000.
Bouchard, Wilfred. Apts. (W), 6 West
Place, A. L. $600, A. B. $5000, I. C.
$700.
Boucher, Adelaide. 3 Apt. Houses (W),
29-29i/2 & 29R Harbor, A. L. $1300,
A. B. $10,100, I. B. $11,000, I. C. $500.
Boucher, Mrs. Grace. Apts. (W), 73
Leach, A. L. $800, A. B. $2700, I. C.
$500.
Boulanser, Melvina. Res (W), 9 Congress, A. L. $700, A. B. $5200, I. B.
$6000.
BoiilaiiRer, Melvina. Apts. (W>, 11
Congress, A. L. $700, A. B. $5200.
Boursault, Gilbert.
Apts.
(W), 26
F a s t Gardner, A. L. $700, A. B. $5500,
I. B. $2000, I. C. $500.
Boursrault, Joseph L. Apts (W), 1818i/> Porter, A. L. $600, A. B. $2500, I.
B. $4000, I. C. $800.
Bourgeois, Louis R., et al.
Res. &
Stable, (W), 57 Leach. A. L. $2000, A.
B. $3400, I. B. $5000, I. C. $1000,
Iloursreois, Louis R. Apts. (W), fil
Leach, A. L. $600, A. B. $5500, I. B.
$3000.
Iloweii, Job 1 L„ ( E s t a t e of Mary Man1
ning) Stores (W), 217-2171/2 Washington, A. B. $2000.
Bowen, John L., Admr., E s t a t e ©* Mary
Manning) Mfg. Bldg. (W), 213-215
Washington, A. L. $1900, A. B. $2000.
Boyd, H u s h C. Res. & Shop CW), 6
Margin. A. L. $1500, A. B. $3400, I. B.
$3500.
Bradley, Margaret M. Res. (W), 50
Leach, A. L. $500, A. B. $2000, I. B.
$3000.
�LIST OF OWNERS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
Guilmette, Arthur. 2-Family Res. (W),
19 Harbor, A. L. $1200, A. B. $1800, I.
B. $2500.
Guiuta, Guiseppe. Apts. (W), 7 Prescott, A. L. $500, A. B. $3000, I. B. $4000.
Hale, James F. Double Res. (W), 3133 Winthrop, A. L. $900, A. B. $3900,
I. B. $2000.
Hale, James F. Apts. (W), 17 Mt. Vernon, A. L. $1100, A. B. $1200, I. B.
$3800, I. C. $1000.
Hale, James F. Res. (W), 13 Winthrop,
A. L. $1000, A. B. $2800, I. B. $1500.
Haley, Humphrey. Res. (W), 4 P r a t t ,
A. L. $200, A. B. $900, I. B. $1400, I.
C. $1000.
Haley, Humphrey. Res. & Stable (W),
7 & 11 Pratt, A. L. $700, A. B. $1600,
I. B. $3000.
Hall, Mary L. Res. (W), 75 Proctor,
A. L. $300, A. B. $2800.
Hallahau, Timothy. Res. (W), 9 High,
A. L. $200, A. B. $700, I. B. $800.
Hamilton, Claude M. 2 Family Res.
(W), 34 Hathorne, A. L. $300, A. B.
$1800, I. B. $3000.
Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Apts. & Stable
(W), 9 Eden St., A. L. $700, A. B.
$2000, I. B. $1500.
Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Res. & Stable
(W), 38 Leach, A. L. $800, A. B. $1300,
I. B. $1000, I. C. $500.
Hamilton, Ethel M. Double Res. (W),
1 & 1A Hathorne Place, A. L. $400,
A. B. $1800.
Hamilton, Thomas H. Apts. (W), 11
Eden, A. L. $700, A. B. $800, I. B.
$2000.
Hamlin, Gustavus A. Stores & Theatre
(W), 124-132 Lafayette, A. L. $2300,
A. B. $7500, I. B. $6000.
Hamlin, Hattie flf. Apts. & Stable (W),
5 Roslyn, A. L. $1500, A. B. $3900, 1.
B. $3000, I. C. $1000.
Hamlin, Mary E. Res. & Stable (W), 7
Roslyn, A. L. $1400, A. B. $2700, I. B.
$3000, 1. C. $2000.
Hamlin, Ruth R. Apts. (W), 12 Fowler,
A. L. $700, A. B. $2800, I. B. $2000.
Hamlin, Ruth R. Res. & 2 Family
House (W), 12y2 & 14 Fowler, A. L.
$1100, A. B. $3200, I. B. $4000.
Hanrahan, Timothy. Res. & Shop (W),
4y2 & 6 Flint, A. L. $300, A. B. $1300,
I. B. $200.
Harford, Julietta E. P. Shop (W), 414
Essex, A. L. $800, A. B. $500.
Harlow, Mary P. Res. (W), 210 Lafayette, A. L. $3100, A. B. $5800, I. B.
$7500, I. C. $7000.
Harney, T. J. Apts. (W), 79 Proctor,
A. L. $300, A. B. $2500.
Harpel, Morris & Jacob Maehnotsky.
3 Res. (W), 23-25-25r Phelps, A. L.
$700, A. B. $5600, I. B. $4250.
Harrington, Margaret, Heirs. Res. &
Store (W), 4-41/2 Prince, A. L. $500,
A. B. $700, I. B. $1000.
Harris, Dora Clark, Heirs. Res. & 2
Garages (W), 150 Lafayette, A. L.
$1500, A. B. $5100.
Harris, Fanny. 4 Res. (W), 53-53y 2 -5555r Warren, A. L. $1900, A. B. $7000,
I. B. $7700.
Harris, Herman. Stores (W), 79 Harbor, A. L. $500, A. B. $1000, I. B. $1600,
I. C. $6000.
Harris, Rachael. Stores & Apt. (W),
5 Holly, A. L. $900, A. B. $4600, I. B.
$6000.
Hartigau, Elisabeth J. Apts. (W), 4
Boston, A. L. $1800, A. B. $1600, I. B.
$4000.
Hartigan, Elizabeth J. 3 Apt. Houses
(W), 406-408-410 Essex, A. L. $2500,
A. B. $2500, I. B. $7000, I. C. $1000.
Hartt, Millicent H. Res. & Stable (B),
41 Warren, A. L. $4300, A. B. $8200,
I. B. $133,700, I. C. $5300.
Haskell, Florence D. & Lucy A. Oilman.
Res. (W), 9 Margin, A. L. $800, A. B.
$2300, I. B. $2500, I. C. $600.
Haskell, George. 2 Apt. Houses (W),
21-23 Harbor, A. L. $1200, A. B. $3700,
I. B. $3500.
Hathorne Bids. Asso., J. Fred Hussey,
et al, Tr. Business Block (W), 197
to 211 Washington & Shop (W), 16
Dodge, A. L. $11,000, A. B. $12,800, I.
B. $21,000.
Hawkins, Mary R. & Martha C. Jones.
Apts. & Stable (W), 7 Green, A. L.
$700, A. B. $5000, I. B. $4000.
Hawkins, Mary R. 2 Apt. Houses (W),
11-13 Green, A. L. $1400, A. B. $7300,
I. B. $5000.
Hayes, Mary E. Res. (W), 16 Winthrop,
A. L. $800, A. B. $2300, I. C. $3500.
Henderson, Mary. Res. (W), 8 Eden,
A. L. $700, A. B. $900, I. B. $1000.
Henneberry, Mary. 2 Family Res. (W),
5 Fowler, A. L. $400, A. B. $1900, I.
B. $1800.
Henneberry, Thomas. Apts. & Stable
(W), 9 Phelps, A. L. $700, A. B. $1700,
I. B. $2000..
Hennessey, Abbie R. 2 Apt. Plouses
(W), 14-16 Salem, A. L. $900, A. B.
$5800, I. B. $4800.
Henuessy, Abbie H. 2 Family Res. (W),
402 Essex, A. L. $2100, A. B. $2000, I.
B. $2000, I. C. $800.
Hennessy, John. Apts. (W), 15 Pond,
A. L. $300, A. B. $1000, I. B. $1000.
Herlihy, Wm. F. Apts. (W), 39 Ward,
A. L. $300, A. B. $1000, I. B. $1200.
Herlihy, Wm. F. Res. (VV), 38 Peabody,
A. L. $300, A. B. $700, I. B. $1000.
Hever, Anna. Res. (W), 10 Boston, A.
L. $1500, A. B. $2300, I. B. $3000.
Higbee, Edward F. Res. (W), 405 Essex, A. L. $1000, A. B. $3000, I. B. $3500,
I. C. $1500.
HlKKlna, Annie. 2 Family Res. (W),
5 Boston, A. L. $600, A. B. $800, I. B.
. $1000, I. C. $200.
HiKgins, Annie. Res. (W), 17 Boston,
A. L. $1500, A. B. $1500, I. B. $1900.
Hi&gins, Margaret M. Res. (W), 17
Fowler, A. L. $400, A. B. $1200.
Higgins, Mary G. Apts. (W), 22 Phelps,
A. L. $300, A. B. $1200, I. B. $1000.
Hill, Emily F. Res. (W), 8 Margin, A.
L. $800, A. B. $2400, I. B. $3500.
Hill, James L„ Rev. Res. (W), 225 Lafayette, A. L. $3800, A. B. $7800, I. B.
$3000, I. C. $7000.
ilines, Mary & Catherine Phelan. Res.
(W), 30 Mill, A. L. $500, A. B. $900.
Hines, Mary *c Catherine Phelan. Res.
f
(W), 1 High, A. L. $500, A. B. $1600.
Hines, Richard, Heirs. Res. (W), 8
High, A. L. $600, A. B. $1000.
llodKkins, Mary W. Apts. (W), 275
Washington, A. L. $1200, A. B. $2500,
I. B. $3500.
Holmes, Phillip T. Apts. (W), 3 Margin, A. L. $800, A. B. $1900, I. B. et
I. C. $4000.
Hooper, Geo. L., et al. 2 Family Res.
(W), 9-11 Fairfield, A. L. $2700, A.
B. $7000, I. B. $9000, I. C. $5000.
Horton, Hertha M. Res. (W), 46 Leach,
A. L. $800, A. B. $2000, I. B. $3000.
Howe, Ellie L. M. Res. (W), 12 Flint,
A. L. $800, A. B. $1500.
Howe, Grace T. 2 Res. (W), 24-24%
Ward, A. L. $700, A. B. $1400.
Howes, Martha H. C. «fe J. Chisholm.
Res. & 2 Garages (W), 7 Pond, A. L.
$1000, A. B. $900.
Hndon, Joseph F. Apts. (W), 2-4 West
Place, A. L. $1400, A. B. $9000, I. B.
$7500.
Hndon, Joseph F. Double Res. (W),
197 & 199 Lafayette, A. L. $4000, A. B.
$7000, I. B. $8000.
Hnrd, Caroline S. Res. & Shop (W), 27
& 29 Winthrop, A. L. $800, A. B. $1100,
I. B. $1800.
Hnrd, Joseph A. Res. (W), 78 Summer,
A. L. $800, A. B. $3500.
Hurd, Joseph A. Storage Bldg. (W),
5 Prescott, A. L. $800, A. B. $400.
Hnrd Joseph A. Apts. (W), 17 Perkins,
A. L. $800, A. B. $1000, I. B. $1500.
Hurley, Rridget, Mrs., Heirs. 3 Apts.
(W), 23 Liberty, A. L. $2500.
Hurley. H. Maria. 2 Family Res. (W),
4 Lagrange, A. L. $1200, A. B. $2800,
I. B. $3000.
Hurley, H. Maria. Res. (W>, 3 West
Place, A. B. $3000, I. B. $3000 I. C.
$2500.
Hurley, John F. Res. (W), 175 Lafayette, A. L. $3200, A. B. $5700, I. B.
$2000.
*
Hyde, Jennie K. 2 Res. & Garage (W),
10-12 Fairfield, A. L. $2000, A. B. $5200,
I. B. $8000, I. C. $2500.
In^alls, Chas. H., Heirs. Apts. (W),
21 Prescott, A. L. $400, A. B. $2800,
I. B. $2500.
Israel, Jesse. Apts. (W), 10 Margin,
A. L. $800, A. B. $1500, I. B. $2500, I.
C. $500.
Jackson, Eben.
Apts.
(W),
10-12
Palmer, A. L. $700, A. B. $1500, I. B.
$2500.
Jackson, Eben. Apts. (W), 10 Congress,
A. L. $200, A. B. $1900, I. B. $4500.
Jackson, Eben. Apts. & Stable (W), 1618 Congress, A. L. $1300, A. B. $5000,
I. B. $5500.
Jackson, John, Heirs. 2-2 Family Res.
(W), 71-73 Summer, A. L. $2500, A.
B. $6900.
Jackson, John J., Estate of. Res. (W),
38 Endicott, A. B. $2400, I. B. $2500.
Jackson, Mary E. Pies. (W), 55%
Broad, A. L. $300, A. B. $700, I. B.
$1000.
James, Jacob. Res. (W), 8 Warren Ct.,
A. B. $2000.
J a r n e s , Jacob. 2 Res. & Barns (W),
18-20 Laurel, A. L. $500, A. B. $2200.
Jarnes, Lizzie. 2 Apts. (W), 10-12 May,
A. L. $800, A. B. $2000, I. B. $2800.
Jeffrey, Alice M. Apts (W), 104 Proctor, A. L. $400, A. B. $4500.
Jelly, Katherine E. Res. & Store House
(W), 5 Gardner, A. L. $2400, A. B.
$5100, I. B. $5000, I. C. $2000.
Jelly, Mary C. Res. (W), 58 Endicott,
A. L. $800, A. B. $1300, I. B. $1000.
Jelly, Mary C. Res. fW), 60 Endicott,
A. L, $200, A. B. $800, I. B. $600.
Jelly, Wm. F., Heirs. Res. (W), 48 Endicott, A. L, $1000, A. B. $2600, I. C.
$1600.
Jenkins, J. R. Res & Stable (W), 27
Leach, A. L. $2000, A. B. $4000, I. B.
$4500.
Jennings, Wm. J. Apts. (W), 12 Boston, A. L. $2000, A. B. $3200, I. B.
$2500.
Jodoin, Anestase. Stores & Apts (W),
34-36 East Gardner, A. L. $600, A. B.
$5500, I. B. $3000.
Jodoin, Aurelia. Res. (W), 6 Glover,
A. L. $400, A. B. $900, I. B. $2000, I. C.
$800.
Jodoin, Jean R. Apts. (W), 29 Pingree,
A. L. $800, A. B. $5000, I. B. $4000, I.
C. $500.
Johnson, Chas. S, Apts. (W), 68-70
Broad, A. L. $700, A. B. $8000, I. B.
$8000.
Johnson, Mary E. Apts. (W), 35 Hathorne, A. L. $400, A. B. $2300, I. B.
$2000.
Johnston, Margaret. Res. & Shed (W),
282 Washington, A. L. $1300, A. B.
$1600, I. B. $3600.
Johnstone, Jonas. 2-2 Family Res. (W),
5 & 5R Vale, A. L. $700, A. B. $1400,
I. B. $2300.
Johnstone, Jonas. Res. (W), 7 Vale,
A. L. $400, A. B. $1200, I. B. $3200.
Joly, Alphonse M. Apts. & Garage
(W), 8 West Place, A. L. $1500, A.
B. $7100, I. B. $7000.
Joly, Alphonse M. Apts. (B), 7-9 Harbor, A. L. $2100, A. B. $5000.
Joly, Alphonse M. Store & Apts. (W),
Leach St. Court, I. B. $4000.
Joyce, David. 2 Family Res. & Stable
(W), 24 Liberty, A. L. $500, A. B.
$1300, I. B. $1500, I. C. $1000.
Joyce, Mary C. Apts. (W), 13 Margin,
A. L. $900, A. B. $1800, I. B. $2000.
Jwonicki, Wajciech. Apts. (W), 88
Union, A. L. $600, A. B. $3000, I. C.
$1000.
Kane, Catherine. 2 Family Res. (W),
35 Proctor, A. L. $200, A. B. $2000.
Karanicolas, James. Stores & Apts.
(W), 266 Washington, A. L. $1900, A.
B. $800, I. B. $4000.
Karanicolas, John. Apts. & Store (W),
264y2-266R Washington, A. B. $4300.
Keefe, Chas. H. Double Res. & Stable
(W), 46-48 Boston, A. L. $3800, A. B.
$8900.
Keegan, Francis, Heirs. 2 Res. (W),
19 & 19y2 Warren, A. L. $400, A. B.
$3000, I. B. $2700.
Kecnan, Chester F. Apts. (W), 36 Gardner.
Kehew-Rradley Co. Mill Bldgs. (W &
B) East Gardner, A. L. $2300, A. B.
$10,700, I. B. & I. C. $31,200.
Kehew, Mary A., Heirs. Res. (W), 12
Holly A. L. $2800, A. B. $3200, I. B.
$3500.
Kelleher, Thomas. Apts. (W), 21 Laurel, A. L. $500, A. B. $1700.
K el ley, James, Heirs. Res. (W), 7 Barr,
A. L. $600, A. B. $2100.
Kelliher, Ellen J. Res. (W), 2 Flint, A.
L. $500, A. B. $1500, I. B. $4500.
Kelly, Mary A. Res. (W), 1 West Place,
A. B. $2000, I. B. $3000, I. C. $1000.
Kelly, Mary A. Res. (W), 2y2 Lagrange, A. L. $1100, A. B. $2400, I. C.
$500.
�LIST BY STREETS AND NUMBERS
For detailed information as to value of land and buildings, insurance, etc., see List of Owners Arranged Alphabetically
Barr:
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
M o n r o e & A r n o l d E x p r e s s Co.
M o n r o e & A r n o l d E x p r e s s Co.
Saunders, Fred
H e i r s of J a m e s K e l l y
C a r t e r , M a r y J.
Webber, Sarah E.
R e d m o n d , J o h a n n a J.
Boston:
4. H a r t i g a n , E l i z a b e t h J .
5. H i g g i n s , A n n i e
6. M u r p h y , C a t h e r i n e & S a r a h
7 & 7A. W i n b u r y , E l l e n J .
9. G r a n t , C a r o l i n e L.
10. H e v e r , A n n i e
11. M o r r o w , H e l e n
12. J e n n i n g s , W i l l i a m J .
13. H e i r s of M a r i a H . N e w h a l l
16. H e i r s of E d w a r d
&
Samuel
Southwick
17. H i g g i n s , A n n i e
20. C o h a n e , A l i c e
22. M a g u i r e , A l m i r a
24. A n k e l e s , I s a a c & D o r a
2 4 ^ . Flynn, Michael
26. A n k e l e s , I s a a c & D o r a
27. W o o d b u r y , A b b i e K., T r u s t e e
29. C o u g h l i n , J o h n
30 & 32. F i s k , N a t h a n i e l B .
31. W i l c o x , G e o r g e
'Siy2.
D a n e , J. W e b s t e r
34 & 38. T u t t l e , E m m a A.
35. R o b s o n , M a r g a r e t
37. R o b s o n , M a r g a r e t
39. R o b s o n , R o b e r t H .
40 & 41. H e i r s of M a r k J . S m i t h
43. F a r r e l l , O l i v i a & M a r y A.
44. S y m o n d s , L i z z i e & J o h n A.
46 & 48. K e e f e , C h a s . I I .
51. Q u i n n , M a r y
53. Creedon, Mary M.
57. Korn Leather Co., Inc., Max
59. Creedon, P. & Co., Inc.
61 & 63.
Creedon Bldg. Assn.
Broad:
34. T h a y e r , M a r y J .
36. H e i r s of M a r y E . K n i g h t
38. T e m p l e , L u c y F .
40. F l a n i g a n , E l i z a A.
43. D o n a v a n , J a m e s F .
43. B a b b i d g e , F r a n c i s A.
44. D o l a n , S u s a n E .
45. D o y l e , A l l a n
46. M u l l i g a n , M a r y A.
47. L i t t l e , T h o m a s F .
49. C a s s e l l , R o b e r t S.
50. C o h a n e , N e l l i e L.
51. C r o n a n , J o s e p h
52 & 52y 2 . L o o n e y , E l l e n D.
53. S t a n t o n , M r s . T h o m a s
54 & 54R. L o o n e y , E l l e n D.
55. C o h a n e , J o h n
5 5 ^ . J a c k s o n , M a r y E.
56. L u n d r e g a n , N e l l i e E .
5 6 % . F l y n n , D a n i e l J., T r u s t e e
57. S y r e k , A n d r e z e y
58. F l y n n , D a n i e l J .
59. B a k e r , A b r a h a m M.
60. G l o v s k y , S a d i e
61 & 6 1 % . B r a w d e r s , J a m e s
62. P r e s t o n , M a r y E .
63. S u l l i v a n , T h e r e s a B.
65 & 67. M o o n e y , J a m e s J .
66. R u s s e l l , M a r y
68 & 70. J o h n s o n , C h a s . S.
nullum:
3 % . S y m o n d s , E l i z a b e t h C.
5. H e i r s of M a r y G. B a r r y
Cabot:
4. B a t c h e l d e r , H e n r y C.
6. L e B l a n c , J o s e p h i n e & J o s e p h
15. R i n k s , S a r a h A.
23. G o d s l a n d , E l i z a b e t h
24. P o l l o c k , J o h n
29. B r o w n , E d i t h M.
31. H e i r s of G e o r g e H . A v e r i l l
3 5. C h o u i n a r d , E x i l i a
36. S h a w , M r s . J. G l o v e r
37. F i t z s i m m o n s , W i l l i a m H .
38. D o l l i v e r , E d w i n C.
39. C a m p b e l l , R o b e r t
40. T h i b e a u l t , Z e p h e r i n
_. t
41.
42.
43.
Tracey, Mary
L e m a y , J o s e p h Y.
Miller, C h a r l e s H.
Canal:
6 t o 14. D e v l i n B r o s .
17. E a g l e I r o n F o u n d r y , I n c .
47. S t r a w , L u t h e r G .
51. W o o d b u r y , E d w i n S. Co.
Cedar:
1. C u r t i s , M a r t h a H .
2. D r i v e r , M i s s S. E .
3. N e w c o m b , E s t h e r M.
6 & 7. B a t c h e l d e r , H e n r y M.
6-8 & 8 % . P e r k i n s , J a m e s W .
9. F i t z , S u s a n J.
10-10%. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W.
11-11%. Talbot, Auguste
12-12y2-14. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W.
13. D e m e u l e , V i t a l
15. E l w e l l , H a n n a h D.
16. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W .
17. B a t c h e l d e r , H e n r y M.
21. A b b o t t , S a r a h E .
22-24. H e i r s of M r s . W m . G. W e b b e r
23. N e i z e r , Geo. F . & H a n n a h
25. F o n t a i n e , I s a b e l l a L. B .
26. C a s s e l l , H a r r i e t L.
27-27y2-29-31. Giguere, J o s e p h
28. P a r c e l l o , C a r m e n o
Cedar St. Court:
2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 9 . W e b b e r , W m . G., H e i r s
Central:
57. P a r s o n s , M r s . E m e l i n e A.
Charter:
Caron, Magloire.
2-4-6-!
Cherry:
7-9. B u f f u m , C h a r l e s S.
8-10. R o b b i n s , E l i z a b e t h G.
12. N o r t o n , L a F o r e s t
14. N o r t o n , K i t t y E s t e l l a
15. S a u n d e r s , F l o r e n c e S.
16-18. A r r i n g t o n , R o s a b e l l L.
19-24. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W .
Congress:
1-3. C a n a v a n , W i l l i a m
6. M c G i n l e y , S a r a h
7. L e b o u f , A l f r e d T.
9-11. B o u l a n g e r , M e l v i n a
10. J a c k s o n , E b e n
13-15-17. C h a p u t , J o s e p h i n e
16-18. J a c k s o n , E b e n
19-21-23-25-29-31-33. D a i l e y
Jeremiah F.
20-22-24. G a g n o n , P a l m i r a
28-30-32. G u i l m e t , A r t h u r
35-37. W h i t e , M a r y A.
36-38. G a u t h i e r , C a r o l i n e
39-41-43-45. B o u c h a r d , O v i d e
42-42y2-46-46y2. Audet, Alfred
47-49. M i c h a u d , E l z e a r
48-50. R y a n , G a r r e t
51. M i c h a u d , I s a i e
52-56. F o r t i e r , E r n e s t
55-57. O ' C o n n o r , T i m o t h y , e t a l
56%. Besse, Arsene
58 & 58y 2 & 60. B e s s e , A r s e n e
61. B e r u b e , C l a i r e
62-64-66. L e d o u x , J o s e p h
6 5. F u g e r e , J o s e p h & E u c l i d e
67-71-73. C o t e , E u g e n e
70-72. F u g e r e , E u c l i d
74-76. M i c h a u d , M a r t i a l
75. T h e r i a u l t , S e v e r i n e
79. C h o u i n a r d , M r s . E x i l i a
Cypress:
2. D a n c o s e ,
Epiphane
Derhy
188. M c N u l t y , M i c h a e l
191. L a n e , Geo. W.
197. P i c k e r i n g , Geo. Wr.
201. O'Neil, W m . H., T r u s t e e
202-206-208-212. W i l s o n , C a r o l i n e G.
203-207. A h e r n , E l i z a b e t h & M a r y
E.
209-211-213. R o b a z z o w s k i , P e t e r
214-216-218-220. C h a m b e r s ,
Elizabeth
215-217. R y a n , G a r r e t t
221. B a t t i s , E d w . C.
222-224. E i s m o n d , S t a n i s l a u s
226. F r o d y m a , J a n & J a d u r i g a n
230. Z i e l i n s k i , F r a n c i s z e k
231-233. R o c k , A n n a
237. S a l e m I r o n F o u n d r y
249 t o 261. P i t m a n & B r o w n Co.
254 S a l e m H o s p i t a l
267-271. A l m y , B i g e l o w & W a s h b u r n
275. S a l e m H o s p i t a l .
(Lessee Merr o w M a c h i n e Co.)
277. S a l e m H o s p i t a l . ( L e s s e e M o o r e
Bros.)
285 t o 291. R o b b i n s , N. C. e s t a t e .
( L e s s e e E . L. B a l d w i n )
295 t o 313. L a n g m a i d , F . A., e t a l .
(Lessee J. P. L a n g m a i d & Son)
298. L a n g m a i d , F . A. e t a l
306. P a r s o n s , E m e l i n e A.
Dodge:
1. S h a p i r o , L e i l a
3. A b e l l , A n n a
5. D e v l i n B r o s . Bid. Co.
6. G o o d e l l , Z i n a
7. P i n n o c k , T h o m a s 'G.
8. S a l e m C o u n t e r Co. e t a l
Sy2.
S a l e m P l a t i n g & P o l i s h i n g Co.
10. S h o r t e n , M. & Son, e t a l
13. C e n t r a l I r o n F o u n d r y Co.
16. H a t h o r n e , B l d g . A s s o c .
20. C a r t e r , J. H .
D o d g e St. Court:
2. S u l d r z e n s k a , A g a t h a
3. B e r n s o n , G u s
5-7. P a g e , F r a n k A. & F . A.
8. B o u c h a r d , O v i d e
9-10-11. A x e l r o d , L o u i s & H o u d i s h ,
Leon
Downing:
1-3. T o d d , J a m e s A.
2-4-6. G a r d n e r , 'Wm. D.
8. N e v i n s , M a r y E .
B a s t Gardner:
1. K e h e w B r a d l e y Co.
N a u m k e a g S t e a m C o t t o n Co.
16. M a d o r e , J o s e p h
18-20-22-24. P e l l e t i e r , D e l i m a
26. B o u r g a u l t , G i l b e r t
34-36. J o d o i n , A n e s t a s e
40. G a g n o n , J o s e p h A.
44. B e a u d e t , T h o m a s
46. S i m a r d , J o s e p h
52. R i l e y , J o h n
56. M c D o n a l d , E l l e n J.
Eden:
5-5%. Theriault, Orner P.
6. S h e p a r d , L i z z i e C.
7. N o r t o n , A l f r e d R.
8. H e n d e r s o n , M a r y
9. H a m i l t o n , E l i z a b e t h M.
10. St. P i e r r e , A m a n d a
11. H a m i l t o n , T h o m a s H.
12. G r a n t , M a r g a r e t
13. P o i t r a s , J o s e p h i n e
14. A y e r s , M e l i s a
16. P o l l o c k , I s a b e l l e
17. W a l k e r , C a r r i e C.
18. C h o u i n a r d , P i e r r e
19. N a d e a u , F r e d C.
20. C r e a n , C a t h e r i n e , T r u s t e e
Endieott:
12. G a r n e y , J o h n
14-16-18. W i n e a p p l e , A l i c e
20. M i l l e r , A b r a h a m
22 M e l l a , A n t o n i o
23-25. N e w c o m b , D a v i d B .
24. F o i s e y , J o s e p h G.
26. G a n e y , J o h n
27. M a h o n e y , M a r g a r e t M.
28. F i l o c c e a , L u i g i & R a f f a e l a
29. M a h o n e y , F r a n c i s J .
30. M c E l r o y , P e t e r J .
31-33-35. P e a b o d y , M. L i z z i e
34. P e a s e , C h a s . H . E s t a t e
36. M i r a n d i , G u i s s e p p e n a
37. M a n n i n g , M a r y E s t a t e
�LIST BY STREETS AND NUMBERS
16
Pope:
2. W i l l i s , E l i z a b e t h S.
8. C a r r L e a t h e r Co.
9-11. L o o n e y , M i c h a e l
15. L o o n e y , E l l e n M.
54. T r e m b l a y , E d m o n d
55. T u r c o t t e , J o s . A.
58. D e s j a r d i n e s , T h o m a s
59-61. G u a y , M a g o r i q u e
60-64. F o i s e y , L e o n i d e
Phelps:
1. H e i r s of J o h n L i t t l e
2. F u r e y , C a t h e r i n e E .
3. G i l g a n , M a r y E .
4. F u r e y , C a t h e r i n e E .
4%-6. Turbett, John
5. T h o r n t o n , E l l e n
7. H e i r s of S a r a h E . G i l b e r t
8-8R. Bowling-, B r i d g e t
9. H e n n e b e r r y , T h o m a s
10. H e i r s of F r a n c i s C u r r i n
11. M a h o n e y , D a n i e l J .
13. G a l l a g h e r , M a r g a r e t J.
14. B u r k e , W i n i f r e d
15. C a s s i d y , M a r g a r e t E .
17. H e i r s of R o b e r t L. C a s s e l l
18. M a r o n e y , J a m e s J.
19-19%. Gannon, Ellen
20. M u l l i g a n , M a l a c h y
21. M u l l i g a n , M a r y H .
2 1 R - 2 1 R R . H e i r s of R. D a n i e l M c Kinnon
22. H i g g i n s , M a r y G.
23R. H e i r s of P a t r i c k M c C o r m i c k
23-25-25R. H a r p e l , M o r r i s & M a c h notsky, Jacob
24. H e i r s of A n d r e w O ' L e a r y
26. O ' L e a r y , E d w a r d J.
28. W e l c h , J a m e s
Piedmont:
2. F i e l d , M r s . J e s s e A.
3. B a r k e r , A n n i e C.
4. R o a c h , J o s e p h P .
5. S m i t h , S a b r i n a S.
6. A d a m s , H a r r i s o n S.
7-9. S m i t h , S. F r e d e r i c k
8. C o w d r e y , N e l l i e
10. K i n n e a r , M a r y L.
11-15. B a t c h e l d e r , H e n r y M.
12. K l i p p e l , J. M a r k
Pingree:
3. N e a r y , T h o m a s
8-10. M i l l e r , M i n n i e
9. L e o n a r d , F r a n c i s H . & F o y e , A n n i e C.
12-14. M a r c a u r e l l e , M a r i e J .
13. B i r m i n g h a m , M a r y E .
17-19. L u s s i e r , A r t h u r
18 A u d e t , L o u i s
21-23-25. D ' A r m o u r , M a r i e A n n a
22-24. M c D o n a l d , B r i d g e t
29. J o d o i n , J e a n B .
30-32-34. L e w a s k i , B r i d g e t
31-33-37. H e i r s of E d m o n d T r e m b l a y
36. B i k , A n n i e
40. G a r v e y , C a t h e r i n e
41-43. L a m o n t a g u e , F r a n c o i s & M e l vina
42. B l a n c h e t t e , J o s e p h
49-51. P o u s s a r d , J o s e p h
52. D u b e , J o s e p h
53-55. F u g e r e , J o s e p h & E u c l i d
Pond:
3. H e i r s of J o s e p h A r r i n g t o n
5. R i v e r s , F r a n k
4-6. C o n d o n , C a t h e r i n e A.
7. H o w e s , M a r t h a H . C. &
o l m , J.
9. S t r a w , J e n n i e M.
11. L ' H e u r e u x , M e l v i n a
13. R o u l e a u , A n n i e C.
15. H e n n e s s y , J o h n
17. S t r a w , J e n n i e M.
Porter:
4. L e w i s , G e o r g i a n n a
7 - 7 ^ . Wineapple, Ray
9. Buffum, F l o r e n c e P .
10. H e i r s of J o h n C. R o p e s
11-13-15. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W.
14. H e i r s of D a v i d F u l l e r
18-18y 2 . B o u r g a u l t , J o s e p h L.
20. P e r k i n s , J a m e s W .
22. C h a p u t , P a u l N.
30. C h a p u t , P a u l N.
Porter
3.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
St. Court:
D e s c h a m p s , M. E u g e n i e
Ledoux, Joseph
H e i r s of J o h n C. R o p e s
G a r d n e r , W m . D.
B r o w n i n g , E t h e l L.
M a n s f i e l d , H a r r i e t L.
Chis-
22. T o n d r e a u l t , W i l f r e d
23. C h e n e y , A r t h e m i s e
26. B e a u d r y , E m m a D.
28-30-32-32^-34. Ouellette, Emile
37. G a u d e t t e , G e l a s
38 L e v e s q u e , E m i l e
39. B e a u d r y , E m m a D., e t a l
41. N i c h o l s , W m . S.
43. McNiff, M a r g a r e t
44 t o 58. C l a v e a u , H e r m e m e g e l d
47. T r e m b l a y , M a r i e A.
P o w e r s Court:
2-3-4. P r e s t o n , M a r y E .
P r a t t S t r e e t Court:
1. D o g g e t t , J a n e
3-5. C a n t y , C h a s . F .
4. H a l e y , H u m p h r e y
6-8. M a h o n e y , M a r g a r e t
7-11. H a l e y , H u m p h r e y
10-12. H e i r s of H e n r y J . P r a t t
15. F i l o c c e a , L u i g i
18. S h a p i r o , J o s e p h
Rofllyn St. C o u r t :
3. H e i r s of J o h n N e i z e r
5. D o i r o n , O v i d e
9. B r e n t n a l l , E l l a F .
Prescott:
4-6. N e w h a l l , E l i z a b e t h D.
5. H u r d , J o s e p h A.
7. G u i n t a , G u i s e p p e
8-10. R i c h , N e l l i e K.
12. S o u t h a r d , F r e d E.15. B u r k e , A n n i e M.
16. W h i t e , C a t h e r i n e
17. N e v i n s , M a r y E .
18-20. A r o n s o n , N a t h a n
21. H e i r s of C h a s . H . I n g a l l s
22. R o b b l e e , A n n i e
23. M c S w i g g i n , J o s e p h F .
24. A b b o t t , S a r a h E .
26. H e i r s of W m . F . G a r d n e r
28. W i t h e y , A n n a M.
Prince:
3-5. N a u m k e a g S t e a m C o t t o n Co.
4-4 1 / £. H e i r s of M a r g a r e t H a r r i n g ton
6. T o n d r e a u l t , W i l f r e d
7. D e n n i s , P i e r r e
8. D u m a s , C a t h e r i n e
9-11. N a u m k e a g S t e a m C o t t o n Co.
10. G a g n o n , A d d i e
12. B a k e r , W i l f r e d J. J .
14. F i t z g e r a l d , M a r y T.
17-19-21. N a u m k e a g
Steam
Cotton
Co.
18-20. L e v e s q u e , E m i l e
22-24. L e v e s q u e , N a p o l e o n
26. M o r i n , A d e l a r d
28. B l a i s , J o s e p h
30-32. D e m e u l e , M a r k
34-36. L e v e s q u e , D e l i m a
35-37. L e v e s q u e , D e l i m a
38. A u d e t , A l f r e d
39-41. M a r t e l , E l z e a
42. P l o u r d e , J o s e p h P .
42R. P l o u r d e , J o s e p h P .
43. D e s c h a m p s , C y r i l l e
45-47. T r e m b l a y , I s a i e
46. M e r r i c k , S a m u e l J., e t a l
Proctor:
21. B r o p h y , M i c h a e l J .
23. B r o p h y , M a r y E .
23. R e y n o l d s , E l i z a b e t h G.
35. K a n e , C a t h e r i n e
75. H a l l , M a r y L.
79. H a r n e y , T. J.
8l-81 1 / 2. C l a n c e y , J a m e s J .
83-831/2- L o o n e y , M i c h a e l J.
85-85y2-87-87y2. Campbell, M a r y
89. B u t l e r , A t t a l i n e
91 t o 101. C u n n e y , J e n n i e M.
104. J e f f r e y , A l i c e M.
Salem:
5-7. M a d d e n , H a n n a h
9. O u e l l e t t e , O t a v e
11. V i e l , A l b e r t
14-16. H e n n e s s e y , A b b i e B.
15. L i n e h a n , A n n i e C.
17-19. B u r n e t t , C h a s .
21. D e s c h a m p s , C y r i l l e
23. D e s c h a m p s , C y r i l l e
26-28. C h o u i n a r d , M r s . E x i l i a
27-29. M a c D o n a l d , A l e x a n d e r
32. L a v e r t y , E d w a r d M.
33. L a v e r t y , M a r g a r e t
34. K e n n e d y , L a w r e n c e F . ,
35. C h o u i n a r d , A u g u s t i n
36. F u g e r e , J o s e p h
37 B e l a n g e r , E l i z a b e t h
38-38R-4.0-40R. C h o u i n a r d ,
Augustin
41. B e l a n g e r , E l i z a b e t h
45-49. R o u i l l a r d , A d e l a r d
51. A u d e t , D e m e r i s e
54-56. St. A r m o u r , O r n e r
55. U r a n n , F r a n k
58. H e i r s of M r s . H e n r y A. C h a p m a n
59. F e l t , H a t t i e C.
60. C r o n a n , T h o m a s F .
63-65. P l o u r d e , J o s e p h P .
64. G a g n o n , R o s a n n a
66. N e w h a l l , J o h n F . , H e i r s
Summer:
59-59R. F l y n n , J o h n J .
61-61R. W a r d w e l l , A l b e r t F .
62. M a g o o n , Geo. M.
64. F i s h , E d w a r d A.
65. F u l l e r , H a r r i e t A. M.
67. C o n a n t , H e n r y
69 F u l l e r , H a r r i e t A. M.
70-72. F a x o n , C l a r a M.
71-73. H e i r s of J o h n J a c k s o n
75. S u l l i v a n , J o h n
76. S t e v e n s , A b b i e R.
77. U p h a m , C y n t h i a B., T r u s t e e
78 H u r d , J o s e p h A.
79-79R. B u f f u m , C h a s . S.
80. L o r i n g , A n n i e D.
81. S o u t h a r d , F r e d E .
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8 Chestnut Street
Built by
Daniel Gregg
Housewright
c. 1804-1805
Expanded or rebuilt by
John Stone
Between 1825-1839
Research Provided by
Diana Dunlap
January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Built by Daniel Gregg, housewright, c.1804-1805
Expanded or rebuilt by John Stone between 1825-1839
1. March 15, 1804- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 173, Page 170: Jonathan Neal of Salem
sells property on Chestnut Street measuring 30 feet x 94 feet x 30 feet x 88 feet to
Daniel Gregg of Salem, housewright, for $561.56. The deed contains a right of way over
a passage measuring 10 feet, 6 inches over Benjamin Daland’s land to the west, so long
as it “shall be occupied as a site for a meetinghouse, but no longer” (this right of way is
included in deeds to the property into the 1920s). It includes “granted premises with the
appurtenances” but makes no mention of a dwelling house or any other buildings.
2. October 31, 1805- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 177, Page 70: Daniel Gregg
mortgages the property “together with the brick building thereon” back to Jonathan Neal
for $2,200.00
3. February 19, 1814- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 201, Page 296: Daniel Gregg, now of
Charlestown, sells the property outright of Jonathan Neal, merchant, for $1100.00. The
deed still includes “the brick building thereon” and explains that the premises are the
same that he mortgaged in 1805.
4. October 11, 1825- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 238, Page 247: Jonathan Neal sells
the property to John Stone alongside two other parcels of land on Chestnut and Summer
Streets for $6000.00. The property includes a “one story brick dwelling house and all
other buildings thereon.” It’s hard to tell if this is the current house, later expanded, or
not. When Jonathan Neal, Sr.’s estate was being settled in 1816 and land was
transferred between his sons Jonathan Jr. and Joseph, Jonathan Jr. is described as a
bricklayer (see Essex Registry of Deeds Book 210, Pages 254-255). If this is the same
person, he may have played a role in the construction. The eastern boundary is four feet
shorter, at 84 feet, in this deed than previously; the deed states a survey of all the land
sold therin was taken by Jonathan P. Saunders, Esq., on October 6, 1825.
5. April 9, 1839- Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 312, Page 170: John H. Stone of Calais,
Maine, and Lucy P. Stone of Salem sell their interest in the property, including “a brick
dwelling house,” to Henry O. Stone of Salem, Gentleman, for $1866.86, “meaning to
convey each of us one undivided third of said estate only...the said Henry O. Being
seized if one undivided part third thereof.”
6. June 1, 1850- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 429, Page 208: Henry Orne Stone of
Framingham, physician, sells the property to George C Hodgdon of Salem, currier, for
3500.00. The deed specifies that the property was owned by Stone’s father, John, and
conveyed to him by siblings John H. and Lucy P.
7. July 19, 1852- Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 464, Page 12: Henry Poor of Danvers and
Elijah A. Hawson of Salem, “Assignees of George C. Hodgdon, an insolvent debtor
under proceedings of insolvency,” release the property to Hodgdon for $4000.00.
8. July 19, 1852- Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 464, Page 13: George C. Hodgdon of
Salem, merchant, sells the property to James P. Thorndike of Boston, merchant, for
$4000.00.
�9. October 17, 1859- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 596, Page 80: James P. Thorndike
sells the property to Sarah Rea Mansfield, wife of Daniel H. Mansfield, for $3500.00 for
her “sole and separate use, free any interference or control of her present for any future
husband.”
10. April 21, 1871- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 829, Page 98: Sarah Rea and Daniel
Mansfield sell the property to E.C. Bolles of Brooklyn, New York, for $6100.00.
11. July 27, 1889- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 1254, Page 491: Edwin C. Bolles of New
York City sells the property to Jennie M. Emmerton of Salem for $1.00.
12. February 20, 1913- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 2197, Page 550: George H Shattuck
and his wife Annie B. Shattuck of Topsfield sell the property, together with parcels of
land on Turner Street and Federal Street, to Caroline O. Emmerton if Salem. Caroline
Emmerton and Annie Shattuck were daughters of Jennie Emmerton; Jennie Emmerton’s
will was probated in Essex County in 1912, according to the deed. The property is now
described as 36 feet wide rather than 30 feet wide.
13. June 2, 1923- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 2556, Page 482: Caroline O. Emmerton
sells the property to Helen J. O’Connor; grantor and grantee agree to split the taxes and
water rates for the year 1923.
14. December 18, 1972- Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 5934, Page 534: Sumner L.
Raymond and Merchants-Warren National Bank of Salem, executors of the estate of the
late Helen J. O’Connor, sell the property to the State Street Bank and Trust and Charles
Y. Wadsworth of Boston, under Declaration and Agreement of the Trust of Mary Silver
Smith (see Book 05936, Page 694, December 21, 1964), for $76,000.00. The property’s
dimensions are now larger, including land purchased by Helen J. O’Connor of the
Chestnut Street Associates on June 11, 1963 (see Book 5073, Page 311).
15. August 26, 1988- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 09682, Page 020: State Street Bank
and Trust and William A. Truslow, Trustees under Declaration of the Trust of Mary Silver
Smith, sell the property to Janice L. and Richard A. Lebel for $475,000.
16. September 1, 1988- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 09682, Page 020: Janice and
Richard Lebel mortgage the property to Eastern Bank for $275,000.00.
17. October 6, 1989- Essex Registry of Deed Book 10182, Page 028: Janice and Richard
Lebel’s petition is granted for special permission to use part of premises as an office for
the practice of psychology.
18. November 11, 1989- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 10213, Page 007: Janice and
Richard Lebel refinance their mortgage with Eastern Bank.
19. May 20, 1991- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 10799, Page 164: Richard and Janice
Lebel grant Janice Lebel the property to be held by her as a homestead “under the
provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 188.”
20. May 18, 1992- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 11305, Page 287: Janice Lebel grants the
property to Richard and Janice Lebel “as tenants by the entirety.”
21. March 22, 1996- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 13466, Page 207: Richard and Janice
Lebel sell the property to Anne L. Busteed for $393,500.00.
22. February 15, 2007- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 26568, Page 213: Anne L. Busteed of
Salem sells the property to William C Schoene, M.D., of Ipswich for $862,500.00.
�23. March 22, 2018- Essex Registry of Deeds Book 36597, Page 159: Bradford P. Smith
and Shirley B. Hubert, personal representatives under the will of William C. Schoene,
sell the property to Leo Kraunelis of Topsfield for $850,000.
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Chestnut Street
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8 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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Daniel Gregg
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Expanded or rebuilt by
John Stone
Between 1825-1839
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c. 1804-1805, 2019
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Diana Dunlap
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Forrester Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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8 Forrester Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Daniel B. Lord, carpenter for Edmund Yasinski, Tabacconist 1888
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Foley
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English
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1996
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Edmund
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Massachusetts
Salem
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Yasinski
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Kosciusko Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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8 Kosciusko Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
James Flynn, laborer, 1857
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1857, 1977
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Robert Booth
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English
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1977
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Booth
Flynn
James
Kosciusko
Laborer
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
Street
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Williams Street
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8 Williams Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Thomas Oaks, ship-joiner c. 1808
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1808, 2003
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Booth
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English
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2003
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Massachusetts
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Salem
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Williams
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Winthrop Street
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8 Winthrop Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Nathan Putnam, wharfinger, c. 1850.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1850, 2015
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Kimberly Whitworth
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English
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2015
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Massachusetts
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Salem
Street
Whitworth
Winthrop
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Winter Street
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8-10 Winter Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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1830, 1984
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King
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English
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1984
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Israel
James
Massachusetts
Needham
Salem
Street
Winter
Woodbury
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84 Federal Street
Built for
Lois E. Mooney and Alvin J. Mooney,
Conductor of Boston & Maine Railroad
1899
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
May 2018
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�In 1899, 84 Federal Street (originally 86 ½) was constructed by the Mooney family on the plot that previously housed a barn belonging to 86 Federal
Street which they purchased in 1890. Easement to the property was granted to 84 Federal Street by 86 Federal Street in 1967 (Deed 5480:781)
Date of Purchase
October 29, 1890
Conveyed by
Lynn Hospital
Conveyed to
Mrs. Lois E. Mooney
Amount
$3,350
Document
Deed 1293:222
May 28, 1940
Alvin J. Mooney
Mabel F. Ward
“Consideration Paid”
Deed 3219:514
October 3, 1967
Anna M. Kelley, Power
of Attorney for Mable F.
Drolet (nee Ward)
Arthur L. Gaudette
Althea Gaudette
Unknown
Deed 5480:781
June 1, 1970
Arthur L. Gaudette
Althea Gaudette
Donald P. Deveau
Susan A. Deveau
$20,000
Deed 5687:291
June 11, 1971
Donald P. Deveau
Susan A. Deveau
Raymond R. Cooper
$23,000
Deed 5773:584
October 4, 1972
Raymond R. Cooper
Richard E. Gauthier
Ruth G. Gauthier
$26,7000
Deed 5911:557
July 3, 1974
Richard E. Gauthier
Ruth G. Gauthier
John D. Hall, Jr.
Medora K. Hall
$31,500
Deed 6080:522
Notes
“certain parcel of land
with the buildings”
�March 7, 1978
John D. Hall, Jr.
Medora K. Hall
Franklin O’Brien
Marcia A. O’Brien
$33,000
Deed 6453:494
February 11, 1984
Franklin O’Brien
Marcia A. O’Brien
James F. Dykes Jr.
Ghislaine R. Dykes
$83,000
Deed 7344:505
May 27, 1988
James F. Dykes Jr.
Ghislaine R. Dykes
John M. Wathne
Mary A. Wathne
$187,000
Deed 9537:419
Mary becomes sole
owner in February 1997
for $1.00 and other
considerations
Deed 13971:159
(Quitclaim)
July 29, 2016
Mary A. Wathne
Kevin Cassidy
Lindsay Hurley
$550,000
Deed 35126:522
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SAL.1643
Historic Name:
Mooney, Alvin J. House
Common Name:
Ward, Mabel - McTiernan, Charles House
Address:
84 Federal St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-630
Year Constructed:
1899
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Queen Anne
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Glass; Wood; Wood Clapboard; Wood Shingle
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FORM B - B U I L D I N G
N R D I S 1973; L H D 3/3/81
Assessor's number
USGS Quad
26-630
Salem
Town
Area(s)
Form Number
HR,HU,HJ,HD
1643
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
84 Federal Street
H i s t o r i c Name
A l v i n J . Mooney House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1899
Salem City Directories
Style/Form
Queen Anne
Architect/Builder
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Wall/Trim
W o o d Clapboard, W o o d Shingle
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
M a j o r Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
AUG
0 5
1997
FollowMassachusetts
1ASS. HIST. COMM.
Setting
HistoricalCommission
none
good
__
no
•
yes
Date
less than one acre
setback from sidewalk on narrow lot between
82 and 86 Federal Street, fronted by grassy lawn
Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features.
Evaluate
the characteristics
of the building
in terms of other buildings
within the
community.
Setback on a narrow lot which it shares with 86 Federal Street, 84 Federal Street is a modest, 2 1/2-story, Queen Anne-style
dwelling. The building is sheathed i n a combination o f wood clapboards and wood shingles and is capped by an asphalt roof
with an off-ridge brick criirnney. Dominating the gablefront is a two-story, three-sided bay window which is capped by a
flared-hip roof and lit by wide 1/1 windows. T o the west of the bay window is a single-story porch which fronts the
remainder o f the facade as well as the west elevation. The porch is supported by Roman Doric columns which rest on a
wood-shingled wall. The sidehall entrance contains a glass-and-panel front door. Adjacent is an oval, stained-glass window
accented by four keystones. The remaining windows are primarily 1/1 sash. A tri-partite window consisting o f a 1/1 sash
flanked by two narrow 1/1 windows is centered in the gable, flanked by fishscale wood shingles. The triangular section in the
top of the gable is extended forward and there is a pent roof at the base, enclosing the gable. Projecting from the east
elevation is a two-story cross gable.
The house is setback from the street with an asphalt driveway extending in front o f the house. A low brick w a l l and
ornamental plantings are immediately adjacent to the building. A chain link fence marks the boundary between 84 Federal
Street and its neighbor to the east.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building.
Explain
its associations
with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building
and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The house at 84 Federal Street was constructed in 1899 for A l v i n J. Mooney. The building was constructed on the site of the
former b a m associated with 86 Federal Street, owned in 1897 by M r s . Louise Mooney. Mooney, a conductor for the B & M
Railroad, had this house (originally known as 86 1/2 Federal) constructed for his own use. The adjacent house at 86 Federal
was then rented out. A l v i n Mooney continued to occupy 84 Federal until 1944. M a b e l W a r d lived here from 1945-1948 and
Charles McTiernan, a station engineer, and his wife, A l i c i a , lived here from 1950 until about 1965.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C . E . M a p of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L . J . Atlas o f the City o f Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem C i t y Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance M a p s , 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. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.^
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
SALEM
84 FEDERAL ST
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.1643
SAL.HD, SAL.HJ, SAL.HU
Supplemental photograph by Patti Kelleher, Salem Department of Planning & Community Development, March 2017
RECEIVED
JUN 20 2017
MASS. HIST. COMM.
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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84 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Lois E. Mooney and Alvin J. Mooney,
Conductor of Boston & Maine Railroad
1899
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1899, 2018
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Jen Ratliff
Language
A language of the resource
English
1899
2018
84
Alvin
Federal
History
House
Lois
Massachusetts
Mooney
Salem
Street
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PDF Text
Text
86 Federal Street
Built for
Robert Peele Jr.
Tailor
and his wife
Elizabeth Ropes
1769
Research & Writing Provided by
Robert Booth
February 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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86 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Robert Peele Jr.
Tailor
and his wife
Elizabeth Ropes
1769
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1769, 2019
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Robert Booth
Language
A language of the resource
English
1769
2019
86
Elizabeth
Federal
History
House
Jr.
Massachusetts
Peele
Robert
Ropes
Salem
Street
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Federal Street
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89 Webb Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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9 Albion Street
Built by
Benjamin Voller
Laborer
1848
Research Provided by
Emily Udy
October 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�History of Ownership – 9 Albion Street Salem, MA
Ownership Transfers
Date
Book:Page
Notes
Samuel J. Trofutter to
Benjamin H. Voller
6/20/1846
372:46
“A certain lot of land situate in
Salem…beginning at the Northeasterly corner
thereof at land of Haskell and a street that I
laid out (commencing at the street leading to
the pastures, and extending southerly forty
feet wide)…”
“…maintain all the fence…and not to do
anything on said lot that will injure the
fountain on land of Samuel Noah…”
Benjamin H. Voller and
to Aziel Day
8/14/1848
401:29
No building mentioned.
Deed requires Day to maintain a fence.
Voller’s occupation is a Laborer.
Day is a Currier.
Granted a lot of land…bounded by “a street”.
Includes mentions “all the buildings theron”
Aziel Day to James
Tatton
10/6/1866
712:210
Conclusion: Built by Benjamin Voller,
Laborer, 1848
Deed requires Tatton to maintain fence on
westerly side of premises.
James Tatton is listed in the 1872 City of
Salem Directory as a Tanner by profession.
Mary Tatton to Mary
O’Connor and Thomas
O’Connor
10/17/1877
985:205
“Mary Tatton of Salem…guardian of Annie
Tatton, David Tatton and Mary Ellen Tatton
minor children of James Tatton, deceased…”
Sold via auction to Mary O’Connor, the
highest bidder at $1,000.
Mary O’Connor and
Thomas O’Connor to
Emeline Caldwell
Emeline Caldwell to
Michael and Catherine
Cronin
12/20/1878
10/19/1880
1008:242
1047:212
Thomas O’Connor is listed in the 1878 City of
Salem Directory as living at 34 Beaver Street
with profession of Currier.
Mortgage document between O’Connors and
Emeline Caldwell
Granting right to sell at auction
Sold via auction after apparent default on
mortgage.
�Dennis J. Cronin and
Catherine F. Hennessey
to Daniel F. Cronin,
All children of Michael
Cronin and Catherine
Cronin
10/9/1905
1797:328
1901/2 Directory lists Dennis Cronin as head
of household at 9 Albion Street
Dennis and Catherine are siblings to Daniel.
Land with two dwelling houses, no mention
of sewer easement.
1906 Directory shows 9 ½ Albion appearing
with D. F. Cronin living there, and Edward F.
McGlone residing at 9 Albion Street. 9 ½ is
not listed in 1901/2 Directory. 9 ½ Albion
Street is likely built between 1901 and 1905
by Dennis J. Cronin, hair dresser and pool
room (it is not clear if he owns the pool room
or just works there)
D. F. Cronin (occupation hairdresser and pool
room at 9 Prospect Street) continues to
reside at 9 ½ Albion Street in 1910 with D.J.
Ferguson (occupation: tanner) living at 9
Albion Street
Daniel F. Cronin to
James J and Hannah
(Hanna) M. Coughlin
Mortgage between
James J. and Hannah M
Coughlin and Peabody
Co-op Bank
At Hannah M.
Coughlin’s passing
power to sell was
4/20/1912
3/15/1918
2147:362
2387:480
Cronin family members owned the home for
32 years
Land description changes and sewer
easement appears. 9 Albion land subdivided
between 1905 and 1912.
D.F. Cronin continues to reside at #9 ½ after
he sells #9 to the Coughlins.
Hannah (nee Donovan) was born about
1883/4 in Ireland and emigrated in 1903. She
was married at age 25.
James J Coughlin was 27 at marriage (he
emigrated in 1902) and was a leather factory
worker. (1930 Census record). In 1930 James
and Hannah had 4 children living with them
at 9 Albion. John J was their oldest son was
born in 1910 and in 1930 (age 21) was a
bookkeeper. James was 19 and a grocer
errand boy. Mary was 17 and Andrew was
14.
Lived at 9 Albion in 1920.
Probate court dated 4/3/1958.
�conferred to John J
Coughlin.
Hannah died in 1957 and is buried in St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Salem.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1526
75654
John J Coughlin to James
P Coughlin and Mary
Irene Coughlin
At James P. Coughlin’s
passing power to sell
was conferred to James
E. Coughlin (executor)
and Mitchell Coughlin
11/4/1958
4511:371
12/14/1993
12326:267
James E. Coughlin of
Salem and Mitchell F.
Coughlin of Beverly to
David R. Winkler and
Marina T. Winkler
David R. Winkler and
Marina T. Winkler To
William L. Lawnsby and
Donna M. Lawnsby
William L. Lawnsby and
Donna M. Walter to
Ocean City
Development, LLC
Ocean City
Development, LLC to
Jesse Chamberlain and
Kaitlin Hope Connolly
8/31/1999
15908:139
4/30/2004
22770:48
7/11/2013
32651:373
11/26/2013
32984:33
As Joint tenants with rights of survivorship.
Mary died 9/8/1978, James P died 5/9/1993
Coughlin family members owned the home
for 81 years.
See also Divorce decree in Essex County
Family and Probate Court #ES11D1656DR
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1848
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Boston Street
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The Industrial and Social Development of Boston Street, Salem
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Street History
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The Industrial and Social Development of Boston Street, Salem
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1978
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