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Phillips Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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4 Phillips Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Henry P. Hood, trader in 1840, Shop of Henry Balcomb, carpenter 1860, Altered to a dwelling house in 1868
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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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1840, 1860, 1868, 1983
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Susan Ash & Joyce King
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English
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1860
1868
1983
4
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Henry
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Hood
House
Massachusetts
P.
Phillips
Salem
Street
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Pickman Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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23 Pickman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Alice M. Tilton & her sisters between 1887 and 1890
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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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between 1887 and 1890, 2015
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Kimberly Whitworth
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English
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1890
2015
23
Alice
Bayley
Carrie
Ellen
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M.
Massachusetts
McDuffee
P.
Pickman
S.
Salem
Street
Tilton
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Pickman Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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22 Pickman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built 1886 for John H. Davis, junk dealer
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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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1886, 2005
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Robert Booth
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English
1886
2005
22
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H.
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John
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Pickman
Salem
Street
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Pickman Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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21 Pickman Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Moses Marshall, housewright, 1809
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house history
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1809, 1978
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Robert Booth
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English
1809
1978
21
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House
Marshall
Massachusetts
Moses
Pickman
Salem
Street
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Osgood Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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47 Osgood Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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William Stickney, ropemaker, 1835
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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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1835, 1970
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Dee
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English
1835
1970
47
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House
Massachusetts
Osgood
Salem
Stickney
Street
William
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Orne Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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91 Orne Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for Benjamin Peters, Fisherman & Coaster 1762 (formerly 30 North Street)
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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, 2003
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Robert Booth
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English
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2003
30
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Orne Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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20-22 Orne 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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circa 1869, 2015
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Kimberly Whitworth
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English
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2015
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Daniel
Harris
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House
M.
Massachusetts
Orne
Salem
Street
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Orne Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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18 Orne Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Joshua Upham, chemist, 1835
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1835, 1976
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Robert Booth
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English
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1976
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Salem
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Upham
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Fort Avenue
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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155 Fort Avenue, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
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Built for William G. Cochrane, manufacturer in 1909
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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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1909, 2000
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Robert Booth
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English
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2000
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Cochrane
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Robert
Salem
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OFFICE AT OLD TOWN HALL
I
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
"
"
�J.
tannery and buildings
Franklin St. 11
land Laboratory St.
land Orchard St.
$8,000; land $3,000
11
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.:
' ... - -
-.
'l
l
(book 1019 page 154-156)
�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.
Sikes
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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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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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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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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Federal Street
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55 - 57 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
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Built for Joshua Loring, coach-maker
Creator
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Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
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1836, 1977
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Robert Booth
Language
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English
55
55-57
57
Booth
Federal
Joshua
Loring
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
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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
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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.
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* 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.
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ff desoription:
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dwelling ho1.1se and land #17 Marlborough Stree\ bounded N. 30' on
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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.
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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
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5/13/1757.
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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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47 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Captain John Felt
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1757, 1969
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Joan Bailey
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POST OFFICE BOX 865
OFFICE AT HAMILTON HALL
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (617) 745-0799
175 FEDERAL STREET
Built by·
JOSHUA CROSS, housewright
Circa 1790
Research by,
Joyce King
May 1988
"to preserve Historic Sites, Buildings and objects,
and to work for the education of the community
in the true value of the same."
�175 FEDERAL STREET
BOOK 9455 PAGE 126
DATE -
April 1, 1988
CONSIDERA'fION
$235,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John M. and Sherlyn Anastasi
GRAHTEE (buyer)
Walter P. Dupuis
DESCRIP'fION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For title see deed recorded in book
8566 page 268
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DATE -
October 8, 1986
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
John M. Anastasi
GRANTEE (buyer)
John M. and Sherlyn Anastasi
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For my title see deed recorded in
book 7774 page 251.
BOOK 7774 PAGE 251
DATE -
May 31, 1985
CONSIDERATION
$140,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
William J. and Karen Whitworth
GRAN'l'EE (buyer)
John M. Anastasi
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
For title of granter see deed of
John J. Crowley recorded in book
6512 page 514.
BOOK 6512 PAGE 514
DATE -
',
August 21, 1978
CONSIDERATION
$33,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John J. and Helen
GRANTEE (buyer)
William J. and Karen Whitworth
of 182 Federal st.
DESCRIPTION
Land and building
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
us by deed of Patrick J. Crowley and
Mary E. Crowley on June 8, 1946 and
recorded in book 3463 page 229.
c.
Crowley
�BOOK 3463 PAGE 229
DATE -
June 8, 1946
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
Patrick J. and Mary E. Crowley
GRAWJ.'EE (buyer)
John J. and Helen
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
deed of Nellie R. Friend on Jan. 6,
1928 and recorded in book 2779 page
553.
c.
Crowley
BOOK 2779 PAGE 553
DATE -
January 6, 1928
CONSIDERATION
None listed (mortgage $5,500)
GRANTOR (seller) -
Nellie R. Friend widow
GRANTEE (buyer)
Patrick J. and Mary E. Crowley
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises which Mary B.
Osgood conveyed to William R. Austin
on May 11, 1880 and recorded in book
1039 page 125 and which he devised
to the granter by his last will.
BOOK 1039
P~GE
125
DATE -
May 11, 1880
CONSIDERATION
$3,500
GRANTOR (seller) -
Mary B. Osgood widow
GRANTEE (buyer)
William R. Austin
DESCRIPTION
Parcel of real estate on the south
side of Federal street
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate deeded to Mary B.
Osgood by Joseph Osgood guardian
on August 2, 1866 and recorded in
book 708 page 133.
�BOOK 708 PAGE 133
DA'l'E -
August 2, 1866
CONSIDERATION
$3,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joseph Osgood guardian of Ebenezer
Beckford an insane person
GRAN'l'EE (buyer )
Mary B. Osgood
DESCRIP'l'ION
Land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate which was purchased
by Nathaniel w. Osgood of Thomas
Moriarty on March 23, 1830 and
recorded in book 256 page 45.
BOOK 256 PAGE 45
DATE -
March 23, 1830
CONSIDERA'l'ION
$1,650
GRANTOR (seller) -
Thomas and Jenima G. Moriarty
GRANTEE (buyer)
Nathaniel
DESCRIPTION '
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate conveyed to William
Low by Michael Webb as recorded in
book 195 page 126 and by the
administrator of William Low to
Moriarty as recorded in book 233 page
53.
w.
Osgood
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BOOK 233 PAGE 53
DATE -
April 29, 1823
CONSIDERATION
$323.44 exclusive of a mortgage and
the amount of the widow's dower
GRANTOR (seller) -
Benjamin R. Nichols administrator of
the estate of William Low
GRANTEE (buyer)
Thomas Moriarty, mariner
DESCRIPTION
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
bui !dings
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PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
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The same conveyed on January 2, 1812
subject to a mortgage of $359.84 and
the widow's dower.
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�BOOK 195 PAGE 126
DATE -
January 2, 1812
CONSIDERA'.l'ION
$1,400
GRANTOR (seller) -
Michael and Sally Webb
GRANTEE (buyer)
William Low, mariner
DESCRIPTION
Lot of land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same estate (and no more)
conveyed by Samuel Peters as recorded
in book 192 page 144.
BOOK 192 PAGE 144
DATE -
December 26, 1810
CONSIDERATION
$1,100
GRANTOR (seller) -
Samuel and Hannah Peters
GRANTEE (buyer)
Michael Webb, merchant
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being part of the same land I
purchased of William Cleaveland as
recorded in book 168 page 87.
�BOOK 164 PAGE 275
DATE -
May 16, 1799
CONSIDERATION
$1,650
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joshua and Lydia cross
GRAN'rEE
(buyer)
William Cleaveland Jr., watchmaker
DESCRIPTION
Land, dwelling house and other
buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same piece of land I purchased
from Jonathan Buffum on June 13,
1783.
BOOK 137 PAGE 150
DATE -
June 13, 1783
CONSIDERATION -
60 pounds
GRANTOR
Jonathan and Sarah Buffum
(seller) -
GRANTEE (buyer) -
Joshua Cross, housewright
DESCRIPTION -
Spot of land on the south side of
the new street, so called, near the
town bridge.
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NOT~S:
Documentation shows that the house built by Joshua Cross was
of one story in height and had 15 windows. Since the structure
is now two stories plus and definitely Greek Revival (1825 1850) in style, it must be assumed that it was altered during
that time frame. There has been no documentation found to
indicate that a new structure was built on this land after
1825.
Since the house was sold to Nathaniel ~. Osgood, in
1830, he is the person n1ost likely responsible for the
transformation.
1790 Census (pg. 94)
Joshua Cross 1 male over the age of 16; 1 h1ale under 16; 6
females.
(The abutters listed, Nathaniel Fisher and Ephraim
Emerton, place Cross as living on the lot now 175 Federal by
this date)
1850 census (Ward 4 #645:974)
Nathaniel Osgood age 53; tanner; prop. val. ~4,200; b. Mass.
Mary b, Osgood age 50; b. Mass.
Joseph Osgood age 25; master mariner; b. Mas~.
Caroline Osgood age 22; b. Mass.
Mary B. Osgood age 18; b. Mass.
Lucy Osgood age 16; b. Nass.
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Federal Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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175 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built by Joshua Cross, housewright
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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1790, 1988
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Joyce King
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172 Federal Street
Built circa 1849 for George Nichols, Tanner
History of the property:
172 Federal Street was built at the peak of the Greek Revival
era of American architecture in the 1840s by Salem tanner George
Nichols for his son Nathan. The elder Nichols built the house and
resided in it briefly before conveying it to Nathan Nichols, a
clerk, who owned and occupied the property for the next fifteen
years.
The western end of the present-day Federal Street, which was
laid out across private lands after 1769 and referred to as the
"new street" on or near the North River until its formal
designation as "Federal Street" in 1794, was owned primarily by the
Buffum family, who had purchased it from the original land grant
recipient Robert Moulton in the later seventeenth century. Both
the Moulton and Buffum families were Quakers, and they located
their meeting house on the nearby "main street", or Essex Street.
The Buffum family retained, their property on Federal Street
until well into the nineteenth century, when it was divided into
house lots and sold to several grantees, including Thomas Reynolds,
a Salem laborer who purchased the lot on which the present-day 172
Federal Street now stands from Peace Buffum, a spinster, in 1847. 1
Reynolds purchased a lot of land bounded southerly by Federal
Street, westerly by land of Miss Buffum extending to the high water
mark of the North River, northerly by the river, and easterly by
land of Daniel Haskell, "together with all the flats belonging to
said lot". Less than a year later, he conveyed this lot to George
Nichols, Jr.,-a Salem tanner, who erected 172 Federal Street. 2
George Nichols did not transfer the deed to 172 Federal Street
to his son in his lifetime, but Nathan Nichols and his wife
Elizabeth took up exclusive residence in 1850 according to the
Salem Directories.
After his father's death and his subsequent
inheritance of the property, the younger Nichols obtained a
mortgage with which he expanded the original house in the early
1860s. The enlarged house was conveyed to Roderick A. MacKenzie,
Essex country (South) Registry of Deeds, Book 386, leaf
293; August 30, 1847.
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2
E.C.R.D. Book 392, leaf 242; January 26, 1848
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a Salem tailor, in 1865. 3 The MacKenzie family resided at 172
Federal Street for five years, after which they conveyed the
property to Daniel Haskell, who owned an adjacent house as well as
the Daniel c. Haskell & company, Tanners and Curriers, on Mason
street. Haskell immediately conveyed 172 Federal Street to one of
his employees, James Donaldson.'
The Donaldson family owned and occupied 172 Federal Street for
over twenty-five years, and their ownership is illustrated on both
the 1876 and 1897 Atlases of Salem (attached).
In 1906 James
Donaldson conveyed the property to the Wesley Methodist Episcopal
Church, and it became the rectory and residence of its pastor, the
Reverend Thomas W. Fessenden. 5
Six years later, the Church
transferred the house and land to the four Cuffe sisters of Salem,
who promptly took up residence. 6
Alice, Nellie, and Sarah Cuffe were single "career women"; the
former two were clerks and the latter was a factory forewoman.
Their elder sister Katharine Cuffe is listed simply as a "boarder"
in the Salem Directories. They apparently experienced difficulties
maintaining their household, as they obtained several mortgage
loans and took in a succession of boarders during their term of
ownership of the property (1912-1946). Of course, the Depression
coincided with several of these difficult years.
In 1946 the
surviving Cuffe sister, Sarah, conveyed the property to a nephew,
John L. Cuffe, and his wife Marion. 7 Though the Cuffes' property
was reduced by the construction of the Sylvania plant along "West"
Bridge Street, 172 Federal Street remained in the family for nearly
forty years through the inheritance of their daughter, Marion
Andrews.
The latter sold the property to its present owners,
Kenneth and Joyce Wallace, in 1984.
Transfers of title:
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Book 386, leaf 293
Grantor: Peace Buffum of Salem, Singlewoman
Grantee: Thomas Reynolds of Salem, Laborer
Consideration: $600
Conveyance of: "a lot of land in said Salem and bounded thus:
southerly on Federal Street thirty-six feet and six inches,
3
E.C.R.D. Book 694, leaves 252-253; December 6, 1865
4
E.C.R.D. Book 810, leaves 205-207; December 2, 1870
5
E.C.R.D. Book 1837, pages 196-197; August 7, 1906
6
E.C.R.D. Book 2144, pages 444-447; May 1, 1912
7
E.C.R.D. Book 3441, pages 473-474; February 13, 1946
�Westerly by land conveyed by me Peace Buffum to Daniel Haskell
one hundred and two feet and seven inches more or less to high
water mark of North River, Northerly on the line of the high
water mark thirty-six feet and six inches, Easterly by a line
running Southerly to said Federal Street parallel to the
Eastern line of said Haskell's land and thirty-six feet and
six inches from the same, together with all the flats
belonging to said lot."
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Date recorded: August 30, 1847
E.C.R.D. Book 392, leaf 242
Grantor: Thomas Reynolds of Salem, Laborer
Grantee: George Nichols, Jr. of Salem, Tanner
Consideration: $762
Conveyance of: the above lot
Date recorded: January 20, 1848
E.C.R.D. Book 694, leaf 252
Grantor: Nathan Nichols of Salem
Grantee: Roderick A. MacKenzie of Salem
Consideration: $5050
Conveyance of: the above lot, in addition to "the dwelling
house and other buildings now standing thereon."
Date recorded: December 6 ;· 1865
E.C.R.D. Book 810, ·leaves 205-207
Grantor: Daniel Haskell of Salem
Grantee: James Donaldson of Salem
Consideration: $6000
Conveyance of: "a lot of land situated in said Salem, bounded
Southerly on Federal Street thirty-six feet and six inches,
Westerly on land of said Haskell sixteen feet then Northerly
on land of said Haskell seventeen feet then Southerly on said
land four feet nine inches, then on a line coincident with the
western line of sixteen feet first described bounding westerly
on land of said Haskell sixty-nine feet seven inches more or
less to high water mark on North River: Northerly on the line
of said high water mark thirty-six feet six inches, Easterly
on a straight line running from the North River to Federal
Street and thirty-six feet six inches distant at each end from
the line of the land of said Haskell which is the western
boundary line of the above conveyed premises, together with
all the flats thereto belonging and extending into the North
River and the dwelling house and other buildings on said
conveyed premises. Being the same estate which was conveyed
this day to said Daniel Haskell by Roderick A. and Sarah A.
MacKenzie."
Date recorded: December 2, 1870
�E.C.R.D. Book 1837, pages 196-197
Grantor: James Donaldson of Salem
Grantee: the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, "a religious
society duly incorporated and having its home of worship in
said Salem"
Consideration: $1 and other considerations
Conveyance of: the above property, "with the exception of
the flats named in said deed which flats have since been
filled."
Date recorded: August 7, 1906
E.C.R.D. Book 2144, pages 445-446
Grantor: the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Salem
Grantee: Nellie M. Cuffe, Sarah A. Cuffe, Alice M. Cuffe, and
Katharine J. Cuffe, all of Salem
Consideration: $1 and other valuable considerations
Conveyance of: the above property
Date recorded: May 1, 1912
E.C.R.D. Book 3441, pages 473-474
Grantor: Sarah A. Cuffe of Salem
Grantee: John L. Cuffe and Marion L. Cuffe of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: the above property, "excepting therefrom and
reserving to myself a life tenancy in the said demised
premises during my natural life."
Date recorded: February 13, 1946
E.C.R.D. Book 7367, page 502
Grantor: Marion L. Andrews of Salem
Grantee: Kenneth s. Wallace of and Joyce E. Wallace of Salem
Consideration: paid
Conveyance of: 172 Federal Street
Date recorded: March 30, 1984
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Federal Street
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172 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for George Nichols
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7 CAMBRIDGE STREET
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (508) 745-0799
167 FEDERAL STREET
Built by
EZRA WOODBURY, carpenter
in 1878
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Research by,
Joyce King
January 1989
�BOOK 6430 PAGE 214
DATE -
December 22, 1977
CONSIDERATION
$25,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
Joseph P. McKay of Beverly
Executor under the will of Ellen E.
Neville
GRANTEE (buyer)
William D. Little trustee
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Said premises were conveyed to John
Neville and Ellen E. by deed recorded
in book 4201 page 441.
BOOK 4201 PAGE 441
DATE -
September 2, 1955
CONSIDERATION
$4,200
GRANTOR (seller) -
Lillian E. Gay of Peabody executrix
GRANTEE (buyer)
John J. and Ellen E. Neville
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
Thomas F. Little to Charles F. Gordon
et ux by deed book 2663 page 186.
�167 FEDERAL STREET
BOOK 9678 PAGE 228
DATE -
August 31, 1988
CONSIDERATION
$145,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
John
GRANTEE (buyer)
David J. and Elizabeth M. Parks
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
Northwest - Federal st. 20.30'
Northeast - Right of way 69.80'
southeast - Lot c by two courses
7.05' and 15.81'
Southwest - Saunders 77.75'
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
The same premises conveyed by deed of
William D. Little trustee as recorded
in book 6431 page 792.
w.
P. McHale
BOOK 6431 PAGE 792
DATE -
December 29, 1977
CONSIDERATION
$30,000
GRANTOR (seller) -
William D. Little trustee of Federal
Street Realty Trust
GRANTEE (buyer)
John
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed by
deed of Joseph P. McKay exc.
and
recorded in book 6430 page 214.
w.
P. McHale of Marblehead
�BOOK 2663 PAGE 186
DATE -
January 8, 1926
CONSIDERATION
None listed (nortgage $1,900)
GRANTOR (seller) -
Thomas F. Little of Salem
GRANTEE (buyer)
Charles F. and Mary A. Gordon
DESCRIPTION
Land and building (Lot A)
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
me by deed of oville L'Heureux on
Jan. 6, 1926.
BOOK 2663 PAGE 163
DATE -
January 6, 1926
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
oville A. L'Heureux of Salem
GRANTEE (buyer)
Thomas F. Little
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
me by Ezra L. Woodbury et al and
recorded in book 2641 page 145 & 146.
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�BOOK 2641 PAGE 145
DA'I'E -
May 16, 1925
CONSIDERATION
None listed
GRANTOR (seller) -
The Heirs of Ezra Woodbury
GRANTEE (buyer)
Oville A. L'Heureux
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
PREVIOUS REFERENCE -
Being the same premises conveyed to
Ezra Woodbury, deceased.
BOOK 996 PAGE 60 & 184
DATE -
May 1878
GRANTOR (seller) -
Samuel A. Macintire by foreclosure of
a mortgage given by Henry Tuttle
.;.
Clarissa F. Tuttle of Whittier, Ill.
GRANTEE (buyer)
Ezra Woodbury
DESCRIPTION
Land and buildings
Reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry of
Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court.
All maps
in this report are for illustrative purposes and are not meant
to be exact.
�167 FEDERAL STREET
Federal street was laid across private land about 1769. It was
called the new street in 1770; new street laid out near the
North river, 1779; a town way, 1782; and Federal street, 1794.
(Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 7, pg. 67)
As shown in the chain of title, this land was owned by Henry
Tuttle prior to Ezra Woodbury's purchase in May of 1878. Mr.
Tuttle lived at 165 Federal and had a small shop on the spot
where this house stands. Mr. Woodbury removed this shop and
obtained a building permit on August 5, 1878:
Ezra woobury - resident at 130 Bridge st. - to build at 167
Federal St. a wooden dwelling house 14' X 27' - two story with a pitched roof.
A summary of Ezra Woodbury's life was published in the Salem
Evening News, on May 4, 1899, at the time of his death:
"Ex Engineer Ezra Woodbury, news of whose critical illness was
announced in the first edition of today's News, died at his
residence, 168 Bridge street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. Woodbury was born in Salem in the house on the corner of
Northey street and Woodbury court, Feb. 10, 1821. He was the
son of Israel and Susan Woodbury. He attended the old Williams
street school, and, after completing his education, learned the
carpenter's trade. On attaining his majority, he went into
business as junior member of the firm of Perkins & Woodbury.
The partnership lasted several yars, and upon its dissolution
he carried on the business alone, continuing it up to a few
years ago. He was largely interested in real estate and the
care of the property has been sufficient of late to keep him
busy.
He was always interested in fire matters and when quite a
young man was captain of one of the old hand engine companies,
and on April 4, 1879, was elected a member of the board of
engineers, serving until April 7, 1878. At the time of the
great fire in Boston, in 1872, in response to a call for help,
he was sent to that city in command of a portion of the Salem
fire department.
He was a member of the common council in 1856 and 1857, and
he had always been an earnest and outspoken temperance worker.
Mr. Woodbury was twice married, his wives being sisters,
Elizabeth and Mary Knight, and daughters of the late William
Knight of Salem. Both are dead. He leaves three sons, Ezra
Woodbury, assistant clerk of courts of Essex county, George P.
Woodbury a contractor and builder and Albert K. Woodbury first
assistant engineer of the Salem fire department, and one
daughter, Miss Abbie K. Woodbury who has kept her father's home
for him since the death of his second wife."
�Ezra Woodbury's real estate holdings in 1896 were listed as:
House 166-168 Bridge, $3,500; house 164 Bridge, $2,300; land,
6900 ft., $1,200; carpenter shop 58 Bridge, $100; land under
and around, $100; barn foot Howard, $700; land under and
around, $700; house 8 Saunders, $1,500; house 3 Cross st. ct.
$1,200; land, 3842 ft., $500; house 15 Northey, $2,000; land
2730 ft., $400; house 5 Woodbury ct. $500; land 1760 ft., $200;
house 7 Woodbury ct., $600; land, 2800 ft., $300; house 9
Woodbury ct., $600; land, 1400 ft., $100; house 165 Federal,
$1,000; house 165 Federal rear, $2,000; shop 167 Federal, $300;
land 8400 ft., $2,500; house 10 Glendale, $1,500; land, 5000
ft., $500; house 103 Essex, $1,600; land, 3800 ft., $1,100;
house 19 Northey, $1,500; land 2720 ft., $400; house 27 Boston,
$2,200; land 3440 ft. $700.
A few occupants of 167 Federal St.
1880 census
Edward Rushford age 38, marbleworker
Isabell Rushford age 22, wife, dressmaker
1884 City Directory - James Stone apothecary
1886/7 City Directory - James Stone M.D. drugs
1900 census
Christopher Ballard age 35, born Canada, teamster
Anna Ballard, wife, age 42, born Canada
Edith Ballard, daughter, age 11, at school
Anna Ballard, daugher, age 10, at school
1901/2 City Directory - Mrs. Margaret Tobin variety store,
house same
1905 City Directory - Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ring variety store,
house same
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House history
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Built by Ezra Woodbury, carpenter
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1878, 1989
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Joyce King
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1989
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Land and House at 153 Federal Street, Salem, Mass.
This house was built for Aaron Hayward, master mason, in 1842.
In 1740 Hannah Orange, a widow of Boston, for,450 li sold
3 3/4 acres of land to Thomas Blaney, Salem shoreman (a man
involved in unloading, preparing, and selling the fish brought
back to Salem from the fishing grounds); this land ran down
along what is now Flint Street to what was then the broad
North River, of which Bridge Street was the southern bank
(80:101). In the 1760s Federal Street was laid out through
this land, and Mr Blaney 1 s widow, Alice Blaney, proceeded to
sell off the land for house-lots. On 18 Sept ·1773 she sold
to Benjamin Nourse, Salem sadler, for 35 li, a house-lot fronting about 36 1 on Federal Street and running ba~k about 200 1 ,
as well as a shallow triangular piece (gore) or land fronting
127' on Federal Street to the east {133:22).
Benjamin Nourse (a direct descendant of Rebecoa Nurse, the
witch trial victL~) built a house on this lot soon after
purchasing it in 1773; on 20 Nov 1789 he bought from Ebenezer
Beckford, a merchant, a parcel of land adjoining to the west,
fronting one pole (16.5 1 ) on Federal Street and running about
200 1 deep; on this strip stood a wood-house and the southerly
end of a dwelling house (148:251}. Mr Nourse immediately
mortgaged his dwelling house, his newly-enlarged house-lot,
and the gore to Mr Beckford, who discharged this mortgage on
15 April 1790 (148:252).
Mr Nourse, "a sexton," died nof old age 11 on_17 Jan 1798 in
his 78th year, having earlier changed his occupation from
sadler to chair-bottom maker; by his will of 24 Nov 1797 he
devised to his (second) wife Abigail a life estate in half
of his hcuse and land, and to his son Samuel the other half
of the homestead, along w:l.th the right to Abigail's half after
her death; to his son Benjamin he left just $50; according to
the inventory, the dwelling house and land were worth $800
(#19685).
On 7 Jan 1799 Samuel Ncurse, a cordwainer (shoemaker1 mortgaged
his half snd his right to his mother's half to Sarah Hathorne,
shopkeeper; she discharged this mortgage 30 April 1801 {164:205).
Again, on 28 April 1801, Mr Nourse mortgaged the same premises
for $500 to John Osgood, merchant, who was acting, evidently,
on behalf of his ward Joseph Jackson hroodbridge ( 169 :243).
11r Nourse paid off this mortgage on 20 Aug 1804 for $604 to
Messrs 0Rgood & Woodbridge (175:33).
It was probably at this time that Mr Nourse began the decline
that ended in death two years later; certainly his actions
were those of a man dete!'lllined to put his house in order. On
�20 Aug 1804 Mr Nourse for $500 granted to his step-mother
Abigail (who was also his mother-in-law) a life estate in
his undivided half of the homestead (175:33). On that same
day Mr Nourse, for $500,sold to William Coombs, baker,
~"'rederick Coombs, mariner, and Elizabeth Coombs, spinster
(his wife 1 s siblings )3:~his :r-ight to his step-mo':;her 1 s right
to the homestead and gore (175:33}; also at this time Mr
Nourse granted his right to his mother's remaining undivided
1/4 right in the homestead & gore to Joseph Mansfield, cordwainer, who immediately reconveyed this 1/4 right to Mr Nourse's
wife, Abigail (Coombs}, (these last two deeds were lost or
destroyed, and were renegotiated on 22 & 23 Oct 1806, 193:69).
Having conveyed all of his property to his ste~-mother and
to his wife and her siblings, Samuel Nourse died late in
November, 1806.
Mr Nourse 1 s step-mother, Mrs Abigail Nourse, died 1 Mar 1814,
aged 70 years. After her decease, the whole homestead & gore
came into the outright possession of William and Frederick
Coombs, and Mrs Elizabeth (Coombs) Symonds and widow Abigail
(Coombs) Nourse. On 20 Oct 18t4 and 22 July 1816, these four
people, for a grand total of $ 1100, granted their rights
to the property to Capt Holten Johnson Breed, master mariner
(203:301, 209:277-8).
Capt Breed lived here for several years; on 19 May 1829 he
sold the estate for $760 to Benjamin Allen, Salem tann9r
{252:81 ); from the sale price, one surmises that the property
had been allowed to run down. Mr Allen died 31 Mar 1839,
aged 36 years; the estate then descended to his father, John
Allen, Salem gentleman. On 6 Jan 1842 John Allen for $1000
granted to his neighbor to the west, Aaron Hayward, Salem
mason, the 11 lot of .land on Federal Street with all the buildings
thereon" as well as his right to the gore (328:259).
Evidently, Mr Hayward proceeded to raze or remove (or drastically
remode~ the old Nourse house, and to build this house in its
place. The 1842 Salem real estate assessments show that Mr
Hayward sold to Leonard B Harrington his half-house (now 155
Federal Street, worth then $1600), that he owned two houses
worth a total of $2800, and that he owned another house worth
$1400 unfinished and $2500 finished. This last house was
unfinished at the time of assessment (probably summer 1842),
but it was probably finished by the end of the year. The 1843
assessment show that }fr· Hayward lived at 75 Federal Street
(now 153 Federal St; the street numbers were changed 21 Mar
1853}, which was assessed at $2500; he still owned the other
two houses worth $2800.
On 26 Ap 1855 Mr Hayward for $4500 sold his homestead to
Leonard B Harrington, Salem leather-dealer (511:264). Mr
Hayward, a master mason, died on 25 Nov 1879, aged about
85 years. He left his wife Eliza (Glazier), daughters
�Eliza Ann (wife of Edward D Loring, who was the son of Joshua
Loring, coach-ms..ker, who built 55-57 Federal Street), Mary
Ellen Hayward, and son Charles Henry Hayward, all of Salem
(#42020).
Leonard Bond Harrington, leather manufacturer (1803-89), lived
here for more than 30 years. He died 6 Mar 1889. having outlived
his wife, Marg~ret G (Hearsay); a wealthy man, he left most
of his holdings to his daughter Mrs Mary E Goodhue, to his
grand-daughter, Mabel C Har~ington (daughter of his deceased
son Leonard), and to his son Henry Harrington (to whom he
left his Federal Street homestead), (#67478).
Henry Harrington (1832-98), like his father a leather-merchant,
died on 20 June 1898; the homestead, valued at $7500, was
devised to his wife Lydia Frye (Nichols) Harrin,~ton (82831 )'.
Mrs Harrington owned the premises up to the time of her death
on 30 Nov 1919; she willed 153 Federal Street to Eunice Alice,
wife of her brother Benjamin C Nichols (134881 ).
Mrs Nichola died on 27 May 1831; by her will of 29 Sept 1924
she left the estate to her daughter Marion Winchester Nichols,
the. present owner (#171078). ·
Robert Booth
6 March 1977
Notes: A parenthetical number such as (#123) refers to
Southern Essex County Probate Docket #123, on file at the
Registry of Probate. A number such as (123:456) refers to
deed bcok and page at the So. Essex County Registry of Deeds.
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Federal Street
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153 Federal Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for Aaron Hayward, master mason
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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1842, 1977
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Robert Booth
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English
01970
153
1842
Aaron
Booth
Federal
Hayward
Massachusetts
Robert
Salem
Street
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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:
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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)
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age 56
born Mass.
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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.
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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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House at
17 Carlton Street, Sale111
Built c.1808 for Margaret Ellison Bray, widow
Enlarged c.1831 for Benjamin Bray, coach-maker & inventor
Francis P. Ashton, barber, in old age (from photo); he resided here from 1809-1821
(source: Hadley's llist01y of Essex Lodge)
�House at 17 Carlton Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built for Margaret (Ellison)
Bray, widow, c.1808. It was enlarged to the rear c.1831 for Benjamin Bray,
chaise- and coach-maker.
On 26 August 1808 Capt. Benjamin Crowninshield, a Danvers merchant who
was formerly a Salem East India shipmaster, for $600 sold to Margaret Bray of
Salem, a widow, a lot of land in Salem bounded southwesterly 38' on "Carlton's
Street", northwesterly 70' on land of Crowninshield, northeasterly 37' on land of
Crowninshield and ofBerry, southeasterly 70' on land of Ranson (ED 185:226).
The evidence indicates that she had a modest house built: it probably had a
central entrance and a room on either side, with chimneys running up the back
walls to provide heat in all four rooms, and perhaps with kitchen rooms attached
as ells. It was two stories high, likely with a pitch roof.
Margaret Hill Ellison was born in Salem and baptized in 1776 at St. Peter's
(Episcopal) Church, the daughter of John Ellison and his wife Elizabeth Ulmer.
John Ellison was an Englishman, born in London; he came as a young man to
Salem, and in 1762 married Elizabeth Ulmer, the granddaughter of Rev. Mr.
Ulmer, who had come as a preacher from Germany c. 1700 and settled in Maine.
The Ellisons had several children, of whom those surviving infancy were Mary,
Rebecca, George, Elizabeth, and Margaret, and John, Jr. John Ellison fought as a
rebel in the War of the Revolution (1775-1783), both as a soldier and later as a
sailor. By 1783 he was in business as a ship-rigger in the East Parish, and in
1798 became a town watchman (policeman). Mrs. Elizabeth (Ulmer) Ellison
would live until October, 1808 (died at age 69) and Capt. Ellison, a watchman in
his last years, lived until March, 1812. He would die at age 74, lamented by many
and characterized by Rev. William Bentley as "a man of great integrity and good
reputation."
In March, 1794, Margaret H. Ellison, 18, married Benjamin Bray, 19. Between
1795 and 1807 they would have seven children, mostly boys. The Brays resided
on Hardy Street, in the old Diman house.
In 1800, Salem was still a town, and a small one by our standards, with a total
population of about 9,500. Its politics were fierce, as the Federalists squared off
against the Democratic Republicans (led by the Crowninshields and comprised of
�the sailors and fishermen). The two factions attended separate churches, held
separate parades, and supported separate schools, military companies, and
newspapers (the Crowninshield-backed Impartial Register started in 1800).
Salem's merchants resided mainly on two streets: Washington (which ended in a
wharf on the Inner Harbor, and, above Essex, had the Town House in the middle)
and Essex (particularly between what are now Hawthorne Boulevard and North
Streets). The East Parish (Derby Street area) was for the seafaring families,
shipmasters, sailors, and fishermen. In the 1790s, Federal Street, known as New
Street, had more empty lots than fine houses. Chestnut Street did not exist: its
site was a meadow, backlands for the Pickerings on Broad Street and the old
estates of Essex Street. The Common, not yet Washington Square, had small
ponds and swamps, and was covered with hillocks and utility buildings and the
town alms-house. In the later 19th century, Salem's manufacturing-based
prosperity would sweep almost all of the great downtown houses away.
The town's merchants were among the wealthiest in the country, and, in Samuel
Mcintire, they had a local architect who could help them realize their desires for
large and beautiful homes in the latest style. While a few of the many new
houses built in the next ten years went up in the old Essex-Washington Street
axis, most were erected on or near Washington Square or in the Federalist "west
end" (Chestnut, Federal, and upper Essex Streets). The architectural style (called
"Federal" today) had been developed years before in the Adam brothers in
England and featured fanlight doorways, palladian windows, elongated pilasters
and columns, and large windows. It was introduced to New England by Charles
Bulfinch upon his return from England in 1790. The State House in Boston was
his first institutional composition; and soon Beacon Hill was being built up with
handsome residences in the Bulfinch manner.
Samuel Mcintire, carver and housewright, was quick to pick up on the style and
adapt it to Salem's larger lots. Mcintire's first local composition, the Jerathmeel
Peirce house (on Federal Street), contrasts greatly with his later Adamesque
compositions. The interiors of this Adam style differed from the "Georgian" and
Post-Colonial: in place of walls of wood paneling, there now appeared plastered
expanses painted in bright colors or covered in bold wallpapers. The Adam style
put a premium on handsome casings and carvings of central interior features such
door-caps and chimney-pieces (Mcintire's specialty). On the exterior, the Adam
style included elegant fences; and the houses were often built of brick, with
attenuated porticoes and, in the high style, string courses, swagged panels, and
even two-story pilasters. The best example of the new style was the Elias Hasket
�Derby house, co-designed by Bulfinch and Mcintire, and built on Essex Street in
1799 (demolished in 1815), on the site of today's Town House Square.
Salem's commerce created great wealth, which in tum attracted many newcomers
from outlying towns and even other states. A new bank, the Salem Bank, was
formed in 1803, and there were two insurance companies and several societies
and associations. The fierce politics and commercial rivalries continued. The
ferment of the times is captured in the diary of Rev. William Bentley, bachelor
minister of Salem's East Church (it stood on Essex Street, near Washington
Square), and editor of the Register newspaper. Mr. Bentley's diary is full of
references to the civic and commercial doings of the town, and to the lives and
behaviors of all classes of society. On Union Street, not far from Mr. Bentley's
church, on the fourth of July, 1804, was born a boy who would grow up to
eclipse all sons of Salem in the eyes of the world: Nathaniel Hawthorne, who~e
father would die of fever while on a voyage to the Caribbean in 1808. This kind
of untimely death was all too typical of Salem's young seafarers, who fell prey to
malaria and other diseases of the Caribbean and Pacific tropics.
In 1806 the Derbys extended their wharf far out into the harbor, tripling its
previous length. This they did to create more space for warehouses and shipberths in the deeper water, at just about the time that the Crowninshields had built
their great India Wharf at the foot of English Street. The other important
wharves were Forrester's (now Central, just west of Derby Wharf), and Union
Wharf (formerly Long Wharf), extending from the foot of Union Street, west of
Forrester's Wharf. To the west of Union Wharf, a number of smaller wharves
extended into the South River (filled in during the late 1800s), all the way to the
foot of Washington Street. Among the most important of these were Ward's,
Ome's, and Joseph Peabody's, which extended from the foot of what is now
Hawthorne Boulevard. Each of the smaller wharves had a warehouse or two,
shops for artisans (coopers, blockmakers, joiners, etc.). The waterfront between
Union Street and Washington Street also had lumber yards and several ship
chandleries and distilleries, with a Market House at the foot of Central Street,
below the Custom House. The wharves and streets were crowded with shoppers,
hawkers, sailors, artisans ("mechanics"), storekeepers, and teamsters; and just
across the way, on Stage Point along the south bank of the South River, wooden
barks and brigs and ships were being built in the shipyards. Perhaps Benjamin
Bray, a boatbuilder and shipwright, worked there, or perhaps he had his own
small shipyard, or worked at Becket's, off Becket Street.
�Salem's boom came to an end with a crash in January, 1808, when Jefferson and
the Congress imposed an embargo on all American shipping in hopes of
forestalling war with Britain. The Embargo, which was widely opposed in New
England, proved futile and nearly ruinous in Salem, where commerce ceased and
families began to wonder how they would survive. In the midst of this
uncertainty, Benjamin Bray, 33, fell ill; and on June 3, 1808, he died of
consumption (pneumonia or tuberculosis), "a worthy man" (per Rev. Wm.
Bentley), leaving Margaret with the care of several young children, including
infants. Joseph Lambert, gentleman, became guardian of some of the Bray
children.
In August, 1808, Mrs. Margaret Bray bought the house-lot on Carlton Street. In
the winter of 1808-9, Mrs. Bray, 30, was courted by a newcomer in Salem,
Francisco Paolo Astranan, 26, a barber from Sicily who had arrived in Salem in
September in the Salem ship Traveller, Capt. Richard Ward Jr. (see Ship
Registers ofDistrict ofSalem & Beverly). Mr. Astranan went by the "Englished"
name of Francis P. Ashton, and started a successful barbering business in Salem.
He and Margaret wed on 29 January 1809; and they would have at least two
children, Lucy Ann and Micalah (born 1817; Francisco's mother's name; it was
handed down in the family but was usually written Mickaler! ). (Info on Mr.
Ashton from 1 Dec. 1865 obituary, Salem Gazette, and from p. 106, H.P.
Hadley's 200 Years ofMasonry in Essex Lodge; photo).
Other Italians had settled in Salem at about this time. Peter Barras, a mariner and
shopkeeper, was here, as was Michele F. Come, a noted painter of seascapes,
who resided on Charter Street and taught painting, did decorative painting of
houses interiors and ship-cabins, and sold his artworks. Joseph Monarch, a
mariner, of Naples, also settled in Salem, and probably was a very close friend of
Francis Ashton. Mr. Monarch named one of his sons Francis Ashton in his
honor; that son later changed his name to Francis M. Ashton. In January, 1817,
Mr. Ashton loaned $200 to Joseph Monarch to help him buy a house (ED
212:206).
As a hotbed of Democratic-Republicanism, Salem's East Parish and its seafarers,
led by the Crowninshields, loyally supported the Embargo until it was lifted in
spring, 1809. Shunned by the other Salem merchants for his support of the
Embargo, the eminent merchant William "Billy" Gray took his large fleet of
ships-fully one-third of Salem's tonnage--and moved to Boston. Gray's move
to Boston permanently eliminated much of Salem's wealth, shipping, importexport cargoes, and local employment. Gray soon switched from the Federalist
�party and was elected Lt. Governor under Gov. Elbridge Gerry, a native of
Marblehead.
In this new house (assuming it was standing by 1809), the Bray children were
growing up, although it is possible that some were sent to live with relatives.
Margaret Hill Ellison (1776-1819), d/o Capt. John Ellison & Elizabeth Ulmer,
died "suddenly" 6July1819 and was buried at Charter Street Graveyard. She
m. 2March1794 Benjamin Bray (1775-1808), son of John Bray & Eunice
Becket, died of consumption on 3June1808. She m/2 29 Jan. 1809 Francisco
P. Astranan (Francis P. Ashton) (1783-1865) born 5 Feb. 1783 Palermo, Sicily,
s/o Thomas Astranan & Michela Campanella, died 26 Nov. 1865 in Salem. He
m/2 5 Dec. 1819 Rachel (Gwinn) Hall (1789-1850+), d/o Thaddeus Gwinn &
Mercy Beadle of Salem. Known issue ofMargaret, surnames Bray and
Ashton:
1. John Bray, 1795 (m. 1817 Margaret Roundy) Boston printer 1821.
2. Benjamin Bray, 1797, died of quinsy 20 Jan. 1799, aged 15 months
3. Margaret Bray, m. 1820 Jonathan C. Taylor, Salem boatbuilder 1821,
pump & block-maker later
4. Eliza Bray, m. David Robinson, Boston horse-letter
5. Benjamin Bray, 1801, m. 8 Sept.1825 Mary Lane
6. Daniel Bray, Salem mariner 1826 (m. 1828 Pheba Skidmore)
7. William Bray
8. Lucy Ann Ashton, m. William N. Nassau; issue
a. W.N. Nassau Jr.
b. Arethusa W. Nassau.
9. Mica/ah (Mickelar) Ashton, 1817, hp 1824, m. Mr. Snow; issue
a. Mickelar Ashton Snow (b.1836) m. Jonathan Davis
b. Margaret Ellison Snow
c. Francis P.A. Snow (b. 1846)
d. James F. Snow m. Sophia E.
The house was owned by Margaret alone, and not with her second husband Mr.
Ashton, who was noted for his uprightness and high standards and may have
refused to take an ownership interest in the house in order to ensure that his stepchildren received an inheritance. His barber shop was likely situated in this
house. The 1812 real estate valuations are the first to note Mr. Ashton's presence
in Salem (Mrs. Margaret Ashton, the owner, was not listed in the valuations of
�1809-1811 either). In 1812 (ward one) he was listed as "Francis F.A. Ashton,
barber," and paid taxes on "part house & shop" worth $300 and $100 in income.
In 1813 he was listed as Francis P. Ashton, with identical property and values.
Salem resumed its seafaring commerce for three years after the end of the
Embargo, but still the British preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812,
war was declared against Britain. Although Salem had opposed the war as being
potentially ruinous and primarily for the benefit of the southern and western warhawk states, yet when war came, Salem swiftly fitted out 40 privateers manned
by Marblehead and Salem crews, who also served on U.S. Navy vessels,
including the Constitution. Many more could have been sent against the British,
but some of the Federalist anti-war merchants held their vessels back. In
addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and artillery. Salem and
Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of British supply
vessels. While some were wounded in engagements, and some were killed, the
possible riches of privateering kept the men returning to sea as often as possible.
The first prizes were captured by a 30-ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame,
and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted with one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem
privateers, the Crowninshields' 350-ton ship America was the most successful.
She captured 30-plus prizes worth more than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. In June, 1813, off Marblehead Neck, the British frigate
Shannon defeated the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake. The Federalists would not
allow their churches to be used for the funeral of the Chesapeake's slain
commander, James Lawrence ("Don't give up the ship!"). Almost a year later, in
April, 1814, the people gathered along the shores of Salem Neck as three sails
appeared on the horizon and came sailing on for Salem Bay. These vessels
proved to be the mighty Constitution in the lead, pursued by the smaller British
frigates Tenedos and Endymion. The breeze was light, and the British vessels
gained, but Old Ironsides made it safely into Marblehead Harbor, to the cheers of
thousands.
On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. Along the
western frontier, U.S. forces were successful against the weak English forces;
and, as predicted by many, the western expansionists had their day. At sea, as
time wore on, Salem's vessels often were captured, and its men imprisoned or
killed. After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the
menfolk were disappearing. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British
�prison-ships and at Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in
1814, New England Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to
bring the war to a close and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy
Pickering of Salem led the extreme Federalists in proposing a series of demands
which, if not met by the federal government, could lead to New England's
seceding from the United States; but the Pickering faction was countered by
Harrison G. Otis of Boston and his moderates, who prevailed in sending a
conciliatory message to Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored.
Post-war, the Salem merchants rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide
trade, slowly at first, and then to great effect. The eldest Bray son, John, may
have fought, as a teenager, on privateers. After the war he became a printer, and
in 1817 married Margaret Roundy. They soon had a first child, a daughter; and
at just that time John's mother, Margaret Ashton, 42, had her last child, a
daughter named Micalah. Mr. Ashton had continued to prosper in his work as
barber and hair-dresser. In February, 1818, he joined Essex Lodge of Masons.
In July, 1819, at the age of 44, Mrs. Margaret H. (Ellison) Bray Ashton died,
probably at home. The effect on her children, some of them quite young, may be
imagined. Like most men of that time, Mr. Ashton sought a new wife to help him
raise the children; and on 5 December 1819 he married Rachel (Gwinn) Hall. In
1809 she had married Spence Hall, who had died in 1816. Evidently the Halls
had had no children. Rachel now became step-mother to the Bray and Ashton
children. In 1820 the house was occupied as a duplex, with families headed by
Francis Ashton and his step-son John Bray (1820 census, p. 40). Mr. Ashton's
family consisted of himself, his new wife, and two little girls, probably Lucy Ann
and Micalah. Mr. Bray's family consisted of himself, his wife, and a little girl.
The other Bray children were living elsewhere, perhaps as apprentices or in the
family of their sister, Margaret, who married Jonathan Taylor in 1820.
In March, 1821, the Probate Court set off to the little Ashton girls the north front
room and the north kitchen and a small piece of land at the northwest part of the
house lot, with certain rights to pass to and fro over the other land (ED 227:46).
This left the rest of the property in the ownership of the Bray siblings. It is likely
that Mr. Ashton and his new wife and his two daughters moved elsewhere in
1820-1. In November, 1820, he (through a trustee) purchased for $180 a plot of
land on Bridge Street, near Pleasant, and he moved a building onto there to serve
as his house and barber shop (ED 224:221). It seems likely that the two Ashton
�rooms were rented out to John Bullock (1781-1854), a laborer who lived here
with his wife Elizabeth (Cloutman) Bullock, and their daughters Elizabeth and
Mary Ann.
Into the 1820s the foreign trade continued prosperous; and new markets were
opened with Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar
(1825), whence came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and
lucrative trade in which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to
all of the east African ports. The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not
resumed post-war, as the middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more
powerful and brought about civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable
Mechanic Association (founded 1817). Salem's general maritime foreign
commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports, which were the cargoes in
Salem ships, were supplanted by American goods, now being produced in great
quantities. The interior of the country was being opened for settlement, and
many Salemites moved away to these new lands of opportunity. To the north, the
falls of the Merrimack River powered large new textile mills (Lowell was
founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their investors; and in general it
seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem. In an
ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its
potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
banded together in 1826 to raise the money to dam the North River for industrial
power. The project, which began with much promise, was suspended Gust before
construction began) in 1827, which demoralized the town even more, and caused
several Salemites to move to Boston, the hub of investment in the new economy.
Mr. Ashton was among them, as were John Bray and his sister Mrs. Eliza Bray
Robinson; but most of the Brays stayed in Salem.
On 1 Sept. 1821 Jonathan C. Taylor, Salem pump- and block-maker, paid $200 to
John Bray, printer, and David Robinson, horse-letter, and wife Eliza, all of
Boston, for their 2/6 interest in a half-house and its lot of land on Carlton Street
(ED 236:260). This gave the Taylors a half-interest in the homestead; they
probably resided here for a few years, in the southwest end of the house (which
seems to have been set off to them), and then purchased and moved into a house
on nearby Neptune Street (part of Charter Street nearest Derby Street). On 22
February 1825 the Taylors for $300 sold to Benjamin Bray, a Salem coach- and
chaise-body maker, their 3/6 undivided interest in the dwelling house and other
buildings on a lot in Carlton Street. The lot fronted 25' on the street and ran back
about 70' deep, where it made an ell. Certain parts of the house and land were
�still reserved to the Ashton girls (ED 236:259). The lot was bounded on the
northwest on the other half of the house and on the southeast by land of Ranson.
On 15 May 1826 Daniel Bray 3d, Salem mariner, for $100 sold his one-sixth of
the premises to Benjamin Bray, who also bought (on 8 July 1826 for $100) the
1/6 right of William Bray, Salem mariner (ED 240:232, 243: 93). Thus Benjamin
Bray, Salem coach and chaise-body maker, acquired the last outstanding shares
in the homestead (other than the Ashtons'), which he now owned.
The younger Brays, William and Daniel, who grew up here, had interesting
careers as sailors. Daniel, a mariner, married Pheba Skidmore in 1828 and
resided at 21 Becket Street in 1836 and 1841, and at 104 Essex Street in 1845.
His brother, William Bray, had been involved in one of the most notorious
episodes in Salem's long seafaring history. In May, 1830, William Bray, aged
about 25, sailed as ship's carpenter on board the Silsbee, Pickman & Stone ship
Friendship, Capt. Charles M. Endicott and a crew of 16, bound to Sumatra to
trade for pepper. Having arrived on the west coast of their destination, they kept
guard against the often-hostile Malays as the pepper (300,000 lbs. for William
Silsbee) was loaded on the ship, anchored about % mile off the port of Quallah
Battoo. One hot morning, while the captain and a few of the crew were on shore,
a boatload Malays came alongside with pepper and were allowed to come on
board the Friendship to help in loading. The mate did not heed his crewmen's
alarm at the number of natives on the decks. Suddenly they attacked, using their
razor-sharp "creese" swords to kill and wound several of the Salem men. Cut off
from guns and handspikes on board, four of the crew jumped overboard. William
Bray and his three companions swam two miles to a remote point, and hid,
naked, in the jungle. Traveling by night and enduring scorching sunburns as they
hid in low brush by day, they spent four days without food and with little drink,
and finally arrived at the house of a friendly rajah, Po Adam, who joyfully
informed them that the Friendship had been re-taken by Captain Endicott and a
group from two other American vessels. Four other crewmen had also escaped to
the shore, one of them badly hurt: Charles Converse, grievously wounded in the
initial assault, had pulled himself up the anchor chains at night and dragged
himself on board the vessel, where he was thought to be dead and left
undisturbed until the Americans re-took the Friendship. The others (five) had
been slain. In the next year, the frigate Potomac was dispatched to Quallah
Battoo, whose forts were taken and destroyed and many Malays killed. For more
information about this episode, see G.G. Putnam's article in EIHC 57, among
other sources.
�In 1830 (census, p. 374) the Benjamin Brays and John Bullocks resided here. In
that year a horrifying crime brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt. Joseph White,
a wealthy merchant, owned and resided in the house now called the GardnerPingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his mansion and
stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of murderous thugs;
but the killer was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed himself at the
Salem Jail), hired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt. Joseph
Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results of the
investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more of
the respectable families quit the notorious town.
15 March 1831 Benjamin Bray, Salem coach and chaisebody maker for $1500
mortgaged to Peter E. Webster, Salem trader, the dwelling house and land on
Carlton Street (excepting Lucy Ann & Merchaler Ashton's portion) (ED
259:106). With the mortgage money, Mr. Bray evidently enlarged the house by
raising the roofline in front and extending it as a two-story leanto toward the rear,
thus adding three or four new small rooms in back. It is likely that the chimneys
(as indicated by the brick foundation arches in the cellar), which had once run up
the end wall of the original house, remained in place and had fireplaces facing
back into the new rooms as well forward into the old rooms.
Benjamin Bray was thirty in 1831, and operated a coach-making business with a
workshop (by 1836) at 15 Union Street. In 1825 he had married Mary Lane; and
they had three daughters by 1835. Mary (Lane) Bray was born in Salem in 1801,
the daughter of shipmaster Capt. William Lane and his wife Elizabeth Brown of
Derby Street. Mary had two older sisters and four younger brothers. Her
grandfather, Nicholas Lane, a sailmaker, had come to Salem from Gloucester.
By 1836, the house was occupied by the Benjamin Brays and by the John
Bullocks (see 1837 Salem Directory). Artisans and laborers like Messrs. Bray
and Bullock looked on with concern as Salem's remaining merchants moved
quickly to take their equity out of wharves and warehouses and ships and put it
into manufacturing and transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals in the
1830s diverted both capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants did
not make the transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like ropemaking, sail-making, and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared.
Well into the 1830s, Salem slumped badly.
Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8
and the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
�farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more
Salem families to head west in search of fortune and a better future. Salem had
not prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages. The North
River served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many
tanneries (23 by 1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens,
many of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity,
ambition, and hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant
built in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue
vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whalefishery, active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the
manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils.
The candles proved very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and
grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were
retooled for making high-quality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to
Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings
burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave
the people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market.
The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel
under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840. Mr. Bray's coach-making business was hurt by the
railroad, for the stagcoach lines to Boston and other places were rendered all but
unnecessary. Mr. Bray could not repay the Webster mortgage; and Mr. Webster
foreclosed. In July, 1839, Mr. Webster agreed to convey the premises to Mrs.
Mary L. Bray for Mr. Bray's payment of unpaid balance, $450, in monthly $20
installments (ED 452:196). The Bullocks remained the tenants in the house, and
were joined there by Mrs. Bullock's sister, Sarah Cloutman, a tailoress.
In the 1840s, new companies in new lines of business arose in Salem. The
tanning and curing of leather was a very important industry by the mid-1800s. It
was conducted on and near Boston Street, along the upper North River. There
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The leather
business would continue to grow in importance throughout the 1800s. Iri 1846
�the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at Stage Point
of the largest factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400' long. It was
an immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment there, many of
them living in industrial tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s, a new method
was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe production. In
Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the nation's leading
shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe workers from
outlying towns and country areas. Even the population changed, as hundreds of
Irish families, fleeing the Famine, settled in Salem; and the-men went to work in
the factories and as laborers.
During the 1840s, with a family of six children to support, Benjamin Bray drew
on his considerable ingenuity to modernize his coach-building business. He was
a talented designer, and applied himself to improving the functioning of windows
and window curtains. Two of his creations were clever enough to earn him
patents. He participated in the first Exhibition of the Salem Charitable Mechanic
Association at the Mechanic Hall, on Essex Street at Crombie Street, in
September, 1849; and there was awarded a diploma in the category of New
Inventions. The diploma was accompanied by the following appraisal by the
judges:
"Car Window Spring and Curtain Fixtures, by Benjamin Bray of Salem.
This is an ingenious application of springs and rollers to window sashes, to
prevent the friction which sometimes occurs, and to allow them to be elevated
or depressed with ease, at the same time, by a simple contrivance, the
window remains suspended at any point of elevation. Something of this kind
would be of very obvious utility in the construction of our car windows,
which are often obstinately fixed at a point, in spite of the efforts of the
conductors and passengers to open or close them. The objection that the
rattling of the cars would continually tend to close the window is theoretically
removed by a contrivance which puts the window in equilibrium with the
spring, and thus produces the same condition as of the weights and pulleys in
the common house window.
"The arrangement of the curtain, though not altogether new in principle,
is, so far as the knowledge of the Committee extends, new in its application
to window curtains, and seems to possess decided advantages over those in
common use. By closing completely at the sides, it not only excludes the
sun, but also operates favorably as a double window to exclude the cold air,
thus contributing materially to comfort of our parlors."
�The talented Mr. Bray also exhibited "a machine for cutting tapered plugs of any
size." These inventions evidently raised the Bray family out of their financial
difficulties, and gave the family a good level of comfort.
Benjamin Bray (born 1801, son ofBenjamin Bray & Margaret Hill Ellison) m.
1825 Mary Lane (born 1801, dlo William Lane & Elizabeth Brown). Known
issue, surname Bray:
1. Mary E., 1826
2. Sarah E., 1831
3. Micalar, 1834
4. Edward L., 1837, mariner 1860
5. WilliamM., 1839, mariner 1860
6. George, 1844
In 1850, the house was occupied by the Benjamin Bray family in % of the rooms,
and by the Bullock sisters, Elizabeth, 38, and Mary Ann, 36, seamstresses, in one
unit, and, in another unit, by the Bullocks' aunt, Miss Sarah Cloutman, 59, a
tailoress (1850 census, ward one, house 192). In 1851, Mr. & Mrs. Bray paid off
the money owed ($375) to Mr. Webster, who had died (ED 452:197, 458:30).
Mr. Bray had made the transition from a coach-builder to a manufacturer of
curtain fixtures. He continued to prosper in the 1850s. In August, 1859, for $100
he purchased from Lucy Ann (Ashton) Nassau her right in the property, and the
right of one of the heirs of her sister, Merchalor (Ashton) Snow (ED 591 :299).
He evidently purchased the other three Ashton-Snow rights, and thus came into
ownership of the Ashton rooms and land, and so owned the whole house and its
lot. With this purchase and the Bray take-over of the Ashton rooms, the Misses
Bullock and their aunt Cloutman moved elsewhere. In 1860 the Benjamin Bray
family resided here, including the three sons, Edward, William, and George, of
whom the first two were sailors (1860 census, house 1247).
Mr. Francis P. Ashton, who had left for Boston about 1825 with his wife Rachel
and little daughters, had prospered in the metropolis, and had saved a good deal
of money. In September, 1834, he had sold his Bridge Street house and shop for
$1100 (ED 278:54). By 1845 he was ready to retire from hair-dressing in
Boston, and he looked to Salem. In March, 1845, he paid $1200 for a house and
land on Dearborn Street, North Salem, and moved back to the town where he had
first arrived from Sicily in 1808. By 1850 he and his wife Rachel were caring for
two of his grandchildren, Mickler Ashton Snow, 13, and Francis P. Ashton Snow,
�four, who lived in their home (1850 census, ward four, house 96). Mr. Ashton
had enough money at that time that he was loaning it out at interest (ED 437:266)
and was "dispensing great sums of money in acts of private charity" (per his
obituary).
Salem continued to change in the 1850s. Some members of Salem's waning
merchant class continued to pursue their sea-borne businesses; but even the
conditions of shipping changed, and Salem was left on the ebb tide. In the late
1840s, giant clipper ships replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had sailed
around the world; and the clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were
usually too large for Salem and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of
little more than Zanzibar-trade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with
cargoes of fuel wood and building timber. By 1850 Salem was about finished as
a working port. A picture of Salem's sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in
his "introductory section" (really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter,
which he began while working in the Custom House.
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or
died of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. Hundreds more suffered
wounds, or broken health. The people of Salem contributed greatly to efforts to
alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and their families; and there was
great celebration when the war finally ended in the spring of 1865.
During the war years, the Bray family moved to Boston. By 1865, the house was
occupied by one Parker Bray and by Charles Fillebrown, 29, a varnisher &
polisher, wife Mary E., 28, and son Charles H., seven (1865 census, Ward One,
house 469). Charles Fillebrown had been a brave soldier during the war, and had
served as a private, from Salem, in July, 1862, in Co. G, First Regiment, Mass.
Volunteer Heavy Artillery. The Regiment was assigned to ordinary duty in forts
near Washington, DC, for a year and more. The outfit saw its first action in the
spring of 1864. At the Battle of Harris Farm, in Virginia, on May 19, the
Regiment lost 54 men killed (Major Rolfe included) and 312 wounded, with 27
missing. The outfit remained in the campaign against Petersburg, and on June 16,
lost 25 killed and 132 wounded in an ill-fated assault on the entrenchments.
Charles Fillebrown was one of those wounded. His wounds were evidently
severe, and he was mustered out in July, 1864. (see Mass. Soldiers, Sailors,
Marines in Civil War, 5:610). He resided at One Carlton Street by 1870.
�Francis P. Ashton, 82, survived to see the end of the Civil War. He died in
November, 1865. In his obituary (1 Dec. 1865 Salem Gazette) it was satted that
he retired from business in the 1840s and lived in retirement on Dearborn Street,
making many charitable donations so that "many a poor family now sincerely
mourns his loss. He was guided through life by a strict, stem, unbending moral
principle, and for this he was honored and respected by all."
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing
course. The managers and capitalists tended to builp their new, grand houses
along Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street).
For the workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage
Point. A second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company would be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills
would employ 1200 people and produce annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth.
Shoe-manufacturing also continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40
shoe factories employing 600-plus operatives. More factories and more people
required more space for buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
In 1870 this was the residence of the Stickneys and Mearas. Charles Stickney,
21, a currier in the leather industry, and his new bride Minnie, 20, born in New
Brunswick. Sherman T. Meara, 35, born in Ireland, was a shoe-factory worker;
he lived here with his wife Eugenia E., 32 (born in Mass.), son Frank S., four,
and William Jones, 22, a boarder, born in Maine and working as a teamster (1870
census, ward one, house 139). Mr. Meara was a veteran of the Civil War. In
1862, a bootmaker residing at Tisbury, he had enlisted as a private in the 43d
Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, for nine months' service, which occurred in
and around Newbern, North Carolina. His regiment saw some skirmishing but
mainly did guard duty. He (a bootmaker of North Bridgewater) enlisted again, in
November, 1863, in the Second Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Heavy Artillery.
This regiment had some Salem officers: Major Samuel C. Oliver (later Lt. Col.)
and Surgeon, Dr. James A. Emmerton. Mr. Meara's Company H was posted to
Fort Monroe, North Carolina, in December, 1863, and in April, 1864, was
engaged in a battle with Gen. Hoke's rebels. After brave resistance, Co. G and
Co. H, 275 men, were captured by the Rebels, and the men sent off to
Confederate prisons, where most of the men died in sub-human conditions. Mr.
Meara escaped from prison on Feb. 22 and made his way back to his regiment,
where he was promoted to sergeant and served out the war at Newbern. He was
mustered out on 8 July 1865, and soon after came to Salem (see MSSMCW,
4:268, 5 :732).
�On 17 September 1874 Mrs. Mary Lane Bray, widow of Benjamin Bray, of
Boston, for $1825 sold to John Collins of Salem, the house and land here fronting
38' on Carlton Street (ED 912:226). Thus, after more than 60 years, the
homestead passed out of the family ownership.
The new owner, Mr. Collins, 44, was a laborer, born in Ireland. He and his wife
Catherine, 54, had a daughter, Mary Ann, 20. They made the house a duplex,
and rented out one unit to tenants. By 1880 the Collins family lived here in one
unit (Mary Ann, 26, was working as a cigar maker); while in the other lived a
widower, William Kane, 45, tinsmith, born in Ireland (he had come to Mass. by
1856), and his children William Jr., 23, a barber, daughter Nellie, 21, a
dressmaker, and sons John, 18, cigar maker, James, 11, and Thomas, 7 (1880
census). The Kanes were still here in 1884, when Mr. Kane had his tinsmith's
shop at 31 Central Street, on the inner harbor.
About 1882 Mary Ann Collins married Bartholomew N. Flynn, a laborer; but Mr.
Flynn died on 12 Aril 1885 leaving her a young widow. In 1885-6 the house was
occupied by the Collinses, Mrs. Flynn, and William Martin, who worked at the
gas works off Bridge Street (Salem Directory). John Collins, the owner, died in
the late 1880s; and by 1890 the residents here were his widow Catherine, his
widowed dughter Mary Ann Flynn, cigar maker, and Henry Randall, a
"yachtsman" probably meaning a crewman on a yacht (see Directory).
After withstanding the pressures of the new industrial city for about 50 years,
Salem's rivers began to disappear. The once-broad North River was filled from
both shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the North Bridge.
The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area between the
present Jefferson A venue, Canal Street, and Loring A venue, finally vanished
beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots. The South
River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a Custom
House built there in 1805) disappeared under the pavement of Riley Plaza and
New Derby Street, and its old wharves (even the mighty Union Wharf, formerly
Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street) were joined together with much in-fill
and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was left, running in
from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street.
By 1893 William G. Dodge, shoemaker, and family, were the tenants, while Mrs.
Collins and Mrs. Flynn occupied the other unit. In March, 1895, Mrs. Ctaherine
Collins conveyed the premises to her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Flynn (ED
1437:294). Mrs. Collins evidently died in the next two years. Mrs Flynn would
�continue to live here for another 50 years, with various tenants moving in and
out. By 1897 the tenants were Michael E. Tivnan, a morocco dresser (leatherworker) and Miss Clara J. Tivnan, a shoe-stitcher, probably with their mother,
Marie, a nurse, widow of Michael Tivnan. Mrs. Tivnan lived here through 1906,
and by 1908 had moved to 4 Messervy Street with her children (Charles, Clara,
and Joseph, a police officer).
Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and established
businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists, carpenters,
millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. Starting in the 1870s, FrenchCanadian families began coming to work in Salem's mills and factories, and
more houses and tenements were built in what had been open areas of the city.
The Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by large numbers of Polish
and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood.
By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported
large department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were
lively, and its economy was strong.
The owner, Mrs. Flynn, lived here alone in 1907-8. By 1911 her tenant was Mrs.
Joanna Leahy, widow of James. In 1913-1914 Mrs. Mary Ann Collins Flynn was
alone here again. On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston
Street opposite Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden
tanneries. This fire soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the
west wind was high and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire,
and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous
front of flame and smoke, wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street,
and upper Broad Street, and then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop,
Endicott, and other residential streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the
enormous fire crossed over into South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods
west of Lafayette Street, then devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself,
and raged onward into the tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of
heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in
its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam
Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled
down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond
Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250
acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and thousands
homeless. Some people had insurance, some did not; all received much support
and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was one of
the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the people of
�Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the
former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects
(including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses and
widening old streets) were put into effect.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. Mrs. Mary Ann (Collins) Flynn lived here
through 1942, with various tenants (in 1920, Emma & Wladislaw Zawacki, a
shoeworker, & family; in 1942 Edward N. Tripp and wife Lillian, who ran the
Salem Recreation Craft Shop in the rear of the house). In 1943 the Salem
Savings Bank took possession of the premises; Mrs. Flynn moved out but the
Tripps stayed on.
Salem boomed right through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping
malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have
with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward
into the present with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the
witch trials, but also from its history as a great seaport and as the home of
Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley, Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a
city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, barbers, and coachbuilders are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any
other place.
--Robert Booth, 13 Oct. 2002 for Historic Salem Inc.
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17 Carlton Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Built for Margaret Ellison Bray - Widow c. 1808
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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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Built as the Orphanage of the Seamen’s Orphans & Children’s Friend Society 1878
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1878, 2002
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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
Carlton's 'new book store' was 'a few doors west of the Sun
Tavern, Essex st.Teet.' 08 In 1797 Carlton's connection with
Cushing ceased, and in 1801 John S. Appleton associated
himself with this book shop, the firm of Cushing and Appleton
being a well-known and successful Salem concern, at the 'Sign
of the Bible,' until the death of both in 1824.
In 1803 their shop was at the corner of Court and Essex
streets, 'lately occupied as an insurance office.'c 9 In 1808 they
removed to the store under the Gazette office, lately occupied
by John Russell, one door west of the Central Building, 70
having purchased Russell's stock of several thousand volumes,
which were sold at auction by Jacob Peabody. A side-light
oil the importance to trade of court business and attendance
at the sittings is manifest in an advertisement which appeared
at this time, after the sale had opened, to the effect that 'the
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4-10 Central Street & 193-195 Essex Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this building was built in 1805 for the merchants
B. Herbert Hathorne and W. Shepard Gray, as a brick block that housed stores
and a residence.
Before 1805 ...
Sidney Perley, in the article "A Part of Salem in 1700" (pp.109-110, Essex
Antiquarian, vol. 11 ), writes that on the site of this building was the lot, with house,
that William Browne sold to Thomas Cromwell, tailor, in 1664. After Cromwell's
death (17 March 1686/7), in 1690 his widow, Ann, and two daughters, Mrs.
Jonathan (Jane) Pickering and Mrs. David (Ann) Phippen, sold the house and land to
Benjamin Browne, merchant (ED 8: 170), who had a stable and warehouse farther
down the street, and his shipping wharf at its foot. By 1693 he had sold the house
and its land to David Phippen, shipwright, son-in-law of the earlier owner Mr.
Cromwell. M~. Phippen died in 1703, leaving his widow Ann, son Thomas Phippen,
and daughters Abigail Fumeux, Anne Ropes, and Elizabeth Webb. In May, 1714,
John Brown, merchant, bought the house and land; and by the time of his death in
1719 the house was evidently gone.
This property was owned by Hon. Benjamin Browne at his death in 1750.
In the 1760s a Scotch sailor, Robert Rantoul, came to Salem and settled here. He
prospered as a shipmaster, and sailed against the British in the Revolution, and made
money as a privateer; and, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, Capt. Rantoul,
on 5 December 1782 for 850 Ii purchased from the heirs of Hon. Benjamin Browne
(John & Martha Browne and Timothy & Eunice Fitch) a lot and buildings at the
westerly corner of the "main street" (Essex) and "the lane leading to the water"
(Central), about 20 poles of land fronting 50' northerly on the street, and 120'
easterly on the lane. There was "a warehouse or small building standing on the
northeast comer thereof." Capt. Rantoul intended to build his residence thereon, and
on Dec. 20th contracted with Eleazer Lindsey to supply the rocks for a cellar 40'
square and 6.5' deep. Unfortunately, Capt. Rantoul was lost at sea on his next
voyage (see EIHC 5:147).
At that time, Central Street--"the lane leading to the water," also known as "the
street leading from the Sun tavern to the South River"-terminated in a public
�landing on the inner harbor (South River), at a point just south of its present
intersection with Charter and Front Streets. The "lane" became Market Street as of
1794, when, at the foot of the street, a new market building was erected for the sale
of fish, shellfish, meat, and produce from the countryside. Later it would be renamed Central Street, probably c.1816, when a new Market Building was built at
Derby Square.
The comer property remained in the ownership of the Rantoul family for many
years; and on the land stood at least one house and three shops, one of them being
the small warehouse mentioned in the 1782 deed to Capt. Rantoul. The Rantoul
family resided on Essex Street, opposite Union. Robert Rantoul (1778-1858), in a
memoir of his life and family, mentions his father's ownership of this property and
notes that it was sold in November, 1804, to W.S. Gray and B.H. Hathorne for
$8500, and that "Gray and Hathorne build a brick block of stores and houses upon
it" (EIHC 5:149). This statement is corroborated by Benjamin F. Browne, in his
Youthfitl Recollections of Salem, published in 1869 (EIHC 49:204), in which he
wrote that a house had been "removed (to Andrew Street) from Central Street to
make room for the Central building, erected by W.S. Gray and Benj. H. Hathorne, in
1805. This house belonged to "Joseph Young, hatter, and organist of St Peter's
Church, who died April 21, 1803, aged 46." In another piece, B.F. Browne wrote,
"Previous to the erection of the Central Building in 1805, there were several old
wooden buildings on this lot of land ... The western shop I principally remember as
being kept by a Mrs. Baldwin. Nathaniel Weston had a shoemaker's shop in one of
them. It (Mrs. Baldwin's) was much resorted to by the boys of that time for the
purchase of marbles and other knickknacks. The old lady came to an untimely end
(March, 1808) from eating bread in the meal of which some arsenic had been
incautiously used in the bread. Joseph Young had a hatter's shop and dwelling
house on Central Street. It was moved to Andrew Street ... " (EIHC 5: 197).
There are other records of the buildings that stood here before 1805. Samuel Webb,
silversmith, had a shop here on Central Street, pre-1805 (see B.F. Browne, 1869
Youthful Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:204). And in his 1793 Account ofHouses
in Salem (EIHC 6:94), Benjamin Pickman mentions that, on land owned by the
widow "Rentall" (Rantoul), stood, on Essex Street, a shop owned by Mr. William
King. To the west of that shop had stood two small houses that had burned down in
1792. To the west of those houses, on Essex Street, stood the house of Dr. Edward
Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829). East of the King shop, also on land ofMrs.
Rantoul, stood a "hatter's shop, owned by Mr. Breck the hatter." Col. Pickman
identified the comer property as "formerly owned by the Brownes."
�In July, 1792, Edward Breck, Salem hatter, purchased for 15 Ii the east end of a
house that was "standing on the land ofRentall's heirs" (ED 154:265). The house
was the one that was owned by Joseph Young, hatter, who may have resided in its
westerly end, and who had mortgage the easterly end in 1787 and lost it on
foreclosure. Mr. Breck mortgaged his new homestead to Mrs. Mary Rantoul for 3 0
li, and paid off the loan by April, 1795 (ED 154:266).
Rev. William Bentley, in his diary, gives an account of the 1792 fire, on August 30th.
The fire broke out at 1 PM in Young's hatter's shop, which stood opposite the Sun
Tavern (on north side of Essex Street). Next to the shop were the small dwellings of
the widows Beckford and Manning. The season had been dry, and the firefighters
were disorganized: the fire spread westerly from the shop to the "small house" next
door, which could not be saved; and the firefighters quicldy demolished the house
next westerly, to keep the fire from spreading. Mrs. Manning in particular suffered
greatly from her losses in this fire. Mr. Bentley was one of the fire-fighters, and, in
order to get the water up to the fire, stood waist-deep in "the dock mud below the
Sun Tavern," meaning next to the wharf at the foot of Market Street.
From this, it would appear that, in the years before the present Hathorne-Gray block
was built, there was a hatter's shop at or near the comer of Essex and Market
(Central) in 1793, conducted by both Breck and Young, and that the Breck-Young
house on Market Street was removed to Andrew Street in 1805 to make way for the
building of this large new business block. Also on or near the comer was the shop
of the ill-fated Mrs. Baldwin. On Essex Street, west of the corner, also on the site of
this building, was the shop of William King; and to the south, on Market Street, was
Samuel Webb's silversmith shop, along with the shoemaker's shop ofNathaniel
Weston. Too, Samuel Rantoul, son of the deceased owner, kept an apothecary shop
here. Samuel died in June, 1802, while away from Salem. Bentley noted in his
diary, 13 June 1802, "The father of S. Rantoul sustained an excellent character and
died just before I came to Salem. His widow lived in the same house in which I first
dwelt. The father left a good interest and to his heirs belongs the western comer of
Market Street in Essex Street, at which Samuel kept an apothecary's shop. Robert
keeps an apothecary's shop in Beverly." Robert, after whom Rantoul Street in
Beverly is named, became a leading man of Essex County.
Before April, 1800, the store at the comer of the two streets was operated by john
Dabney, stationer, as a post office and a book store-one of the earliest attempts at a
private lending library, which was renowned for the excellence of its volumes. On 29
April 1800 for $400 Mr. Dabney sold his building, on the Rantouls' land, to Robe1i
Rantoul (ED 168 :69).
�1805 and Afterward ...
On 3 November 1804 the Rantoul heirs sold the premises here for $8,500 to William
Shepard Gray and Benjamin Herbe1i Hathorne, Salem merchants (ED 175: 108). The
property was described as a piece of land containing about 20 poles, bounded northerly
on Essex Street, easterly on market Street, and southerly and westerly on land of Dr.
Edward A. Holyoke; and it was stipulated that the Rantouls "and others who have
placed and have buildings standing on said piece of land," had "the right to move the
same buildings and each of them from the same place of land upon paying the ground
rent ... within four months from this day." Presumably the Rantouls and the others did
clear their buildings off the land by February, 1805; certainly the Young house was
moved to Andrew Street and perhaps the shops and other buildings also found new
sites.
The new owners, Messrs. Gray & Hathorne, on the day of the purchase, took out
mortgages from Miss Polly Rantoul of Salem for $2,833.33 and from her brother,
Robert Rantoul, Beverly apothecary, for $4,666.66 (ED 175:108,109). Thus the
merchants had but $1,000 in equity invested in the property at the time of purchase.
There is little doubt that Messrs. Gray & Hathorne had big plans for the site at the time
that they bought it. Perhaps they had gone to Samuel Mcintire, the noted Salem
architect, for a design for their intended brick business block, which also included at
least one residential unit. In his study of the works of Mcintire, Fiske Kimball was
unable to uncover proof ofMcintire's involvement in the project, but, due to the
carving of the eagle for one of the new tenants, the U.S. Custom House, and due to the
building's similarity to a known Mcintire composition (the Steams & Waldo block,
now gone, once at the n01iheast coiner of Essex & Washington), he felt that Samuel
Mcintire was likely the designer (see Kimball's Mr. Samuel Mcintire, Carver, The
Architect of Salem). Kimball also traces the whereabouts of some of the building's
interior fittings, which were dispersed to various houses over the years.
For Mr. Gray, the building was evidently an investment and an income-producer; for
Mr. Hathorne, it was also the new home of his import dry-goods business. Benjamin H.
Hathorne (1773-1824) dealt in British textiles-blankets and cloths-in the days when
there were virtually no textiles manufactured in America. On Oct. 2, 1805, he
submitted an adve1iisement to the Salem Register newspaper. The notice began, "Benj.
H. Hathorne Has Removed to the New Brick STORE, corner of Essex and Market
Street, near the Banks, and has ready for sale, a great variety of Fall and Winter
Goods," which are enumerated. The building was completed and occupied, then, by
�September of 1805. It was not at first called the Central Building, but was given that
name by 1808.
Another early tenant was the firm of Derby & Cross, tailors, whose store was here by
Nov. 28, 1805. Their advertisement (sample: Salem Register, 6 Jan. 1806) ran "Derby
& Cross, Tailors, respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have
removed from their former stand to the chamber fronting Market and Essex Streets, of
the new brick building, where they will be happy to receive orders in their line, and
every favor gratefully acknowledged. Wanted: Two Journeymen at the above."
A major tenant of the new brick building was the U.S. Custom House, for which
Samuel Mcintire carved the eagle with the date 1805. At that time, Market Street was
the major thoroughfare to the waterside of the inner harbor (South River), which ran
past the market place; and the area was thick with the masts of vessels tied up alongside
wharves and warehouses. Froin the foot of Market Street, Front Street ran westerly
along the waterfront, while Fish Street and Water Streets ran past the buildings whose
yards backed against the wall of the Burying Point graveyard. These salty streets had
houses, wharves, stores, lofts, shops, and distilleries. Market Street made the transition
from the hurly-burly of the waterfront to the residences and stores of Essex Street. On
the lower part of Market Street, between the new Hathorne-Gray building and Front
Street, were houses; and across the street were fine houses (including some marching up
Charter Street), a tavern, and a bank building and insurance office. At the moment that
the new building was built, one of the houses across the street was the double residence
of Nathaniel Bowditch, the navigator and author (and new president of an insurance
company) and Col. William Raymond Lee, formerly of Marblehead, whom Jefferson
had in 1802 appointed Collector of the Port of Salem & Beverly, and at whose direction
the U.S. Custom House was moved to the new brick building of Hathorne & Gray.
Bowditch moved in the year 1805 to Summer Street, but Col. Lee remained a resident
of Market Street.
The colonial (royal) Custom House in Salem had been situated in a house on Gedney
Court, off High Street, and later on Essex Street in a building that was demolished to
prevent the spread of the great fire of October, 1774. In 1776 Warwick Palfrey was
appointed the first Collector of U.S. Customs in Salem; and his office was located at or
near the Curwen house (now called the "Witch House"), corner of Essex and North
Streets. lvir. Palfrey was succeeded in 1784 by Maj. Joseph Hiller. Major Hiller served
ably for 18 years, during the last 13 of which the Custom House offices were kept in a
building across the street from the site of this one. How many rooms here were devoted
to the federal Customs operations in 1805 is not known; certainly not the whole
building. In those days, Salem was one of the leading ports of the nation, and the value
�of Salem cargoes accounted for about one-twentieth of all federal revenues, which were
largely derived from tariffs on foreign imports. At that time, Salem's merchants owned
a total of 54 ships, 18 barks, and 72 brigs (there were 86 schooners as well, probably
engaged in fishing and coasting for wood).
In 1807, per D.M. Little's article, the Custom House offices were moved to the house of
Mr. Bentley's great friend Dr. Moses Little at 131 Essex Street, and in 1811 to the
Archer Building (site of Hawthorne Hotel); however, I believe this could not be
completely true, for in May, 1809, just after the Embargo was lifted, the Custom House
offices were evidently on the second or third floor of the Central (Hathorne-Gray)
Building (see 1809 Peter Lander advertisement below). In 1813, per the article, the
Custom House offices were moved back into the Central Building here; and evidently
Col. William R. Lee, the Collector, also had his residence here. The Central Building
here remained the home of the Custom House until the opening of the new building at
the head of Derby Wharf, the handsome brick U.S. Custom House, now part of the
federal maritime park. (For information about the Custom House and Collectors, see
R.S. Rantoul's article, The Port of Salem, EIHC 10:62; see also EIHC 67:11, David M.
Little's article, History of the Salem Custom House)).
Of the owners of the building, their careers were in full swing as of 1805.
Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (1773-1824) was born on 9 Sept 1773, the son of Col. John
Hathorne and his wife Susannah Herbert, the daughter of Capt. Benjamin Herbert, after
whom Herbert Street was named. His father was a prominent merchant in Salem, with
a large brick house built in 1774-1775 in Essex Street west of Washington Street, which
is where Benjamin grew up, the eldest of 14 children. In the house was Col. Hathome's
dry-goods store (EIHC 6:108). By early manhood, Benjamin H. was known as Herbert
Hathorne. His brothers John and William were merchants as well, and his eccentric
younger brother Ebenezer (1789-1858) would become a mariner and adventurer who
went west but finally settled down in Salem as a farmer and nurseryman. The Colonel,
a prominent local Jeffersonian politician, had his town house and a farmhouse on Salem
Neck, around where the power plant complex now is. In 1809 he moved permanently
to the farmhouse (where he would die in 1835), and sold the town house to his son
William, who rented it to Joshua Dodge in 1809. Like all Salem Hathornes of that time,
Benjamin's father was descended from Col. John Hathorne, one of the justices of the
witchcraft trials in 1692. The Hathorne family had been prominent in early Salem
history, but by 1800 they were of varying fortunes. Col. John's branch was foremost.
One of Benjamin Herbert Hathorne's first cousins was Capt. Nathaniel Hathorne (17751808), of Union Street, whose son, Nathaniel Jr., born in 1804, would grow up to
�become Hawthorne, the writer. Hawthorne changed the spelling of the name because
he did not like the way that "Hathorne" was pronounced, especially in Salem, where it
was invariably pronounced "Har-thorne."
On 31 July 1799, "Herbert Harthorne married Miss Hall", per the diary of Miss Susann
Holyoke (1779-1860) (see Holyoke Diaries, p.175). This is the only record of this
marriage. Miss Hall was Rebecca Hall, evidently from Boston. The couple would not
have children, but would adopt a daughter, Rebecca Hathorne Hall, born in 1813,
evidently a daughter of Mrs. Hall's brother James. As has been noted, B. Herbert
Hathorne went into business as a dry goods merchant, importing English textiles and
selling them here in his shop, which faced on Essex Street. In March, 1808, for $5,000
he mortgaged his half-interest in the land and the "large brick tenement thereon ...
known by the name of Central building" (ED 182:233).
Wm. Shepard Gray (1773-1824), the other owner of the building, was born in Salem on
30 July 1773, the son of a house-painter, William Gray, and his wife Susannah Shepard.
His father owned a house on the north side of Charter Street, not far from Central
Street. The son changed his name by an act of the legislature in 1798, from William to
William Shepard Gray, because there were five other William Grays in Salem at the
time, including William "Billy" Gray, the eminent merchant, to whom this Gray was
not related. Wm. Shepard Gray married Ann Knight Morland in Newburyport in 1798.
In August, 1800, he was described as "a scribe" when he purchased a piece of land and
a house on upper Federal Street. In 1805 it seems that he worked for the Essex Bank,
preparing loan documents and other instruments. He would later become a ship-owner
and merchant while maintaining his position with the Essex Bank.
In 1805 a bridge was built across the South River, extending Market Street across the
water and connecting it with a new roadway (now known as Lafayette Street) through
the South Fields. The new bridge, which was proposed by the Derby family as a
convenience and in order to help develop their South Salem holdings, was opposed by
the Crowninshields and by William Orne, Joshua Ward, and others who owned wharves
west of it on the South River. At the time of the building of the bridge, evidently, the
market house was moved away.
On 3 November 1807 William Bentley made his first visit to the Hathorne-Gray
building, which now housed the Essex Lodge of Masons. The Lodge, he noted, "has a
new hall in the new brick building, comer of Essex & Market Streets, on the west side
entering Market Street. It was handsomely decorated, the officers enthroned and the
floors spread with carpets and the officers supplied with badges and the apartment with
furniture far above the ancient style. I had never seen the place before. We had a full
�company, an initiation lecture, and a good supper, and parted apparently well pleased
with each other."
On 12 December 1808, Rev. William Bentley composed a letter to William Logan of
Charleston, in which he wrote, "Were you to visit Salem, you would discover great
changes in this town, since your last tarry with us. The encouragement given to brick
buildings has added much to the appearance of Salem. A large block of buildings forms
the comer of1'farket Street, and the market house is removed, and a bridge passes over
South River ... " (EIHC 82:381). This was the period of the Embargo, in which all
foreign commerce was prohibited by the federal government, in an effort to cut off
England from needed supplies, and force the English to stop preying on American
shipping. The Embargo, which was a policy failure and which was disastrous in
bringing all of Salem's commerce to a halt, and throwing all of the mariners out of
work, was removed early in 1809; and foreign commerce resumed.
In May, 1809, Peter Lander, a financial broker, moved into the building, which was
then known as the Central Building. On 10 May 1809 (in the Essex Register
newspaper), a notice ran as follows:
"Insurance, Stock & Exchange Office. Peter Lander informs his friends and the
public that he has taken an office in Central Building, under the Custom House,
and offers his services in the Insurance Stock & Exchange business, where
insurance may be made against all risks, a premium always named proportioned
to the nature of the risk, and the terms and conditions of insurance known upon
application. Likewise, (he) advances money on goods deposited for sale,
purchases and sells public stocks, bills of exchange, shares of any bank and
insurance companies, and negotiable notes, and transacts any other business in
the broker's line."
He also noted "8,000 or 10,000 weight heft green Martinique coffee in casks, for sale
by said Lander."
In the same issue William Hathorne, Jr., ran advertisements offering his father's former
brick house and two stores for sale, and hawking
"Cotton Yam, cheap as can be had at the Manufactory. American, water-spun,
cotton warp & filling, directly from the Smithfield Cotton Manufactory, for sale
at the sign of the subscriber, William Hathorne, Jr., also a small quantity of first
quality knitting yam."
From this, it is apparent that William dealt (sometimes, anyway) in the new Americanmade cotton yams manufactured in Rhode Island; and he had a store here. In 1810,
�another tenant was the Salem Athenaeum, whose library of books and reading rooms
were located here.
In June, 1810, Mr. W. Shepard Gray was owner of the 113-ton brig Mary, Capt.
William Scallon, engaged in foreign trade; and in October, 1810, .Nir. Gray and Robert
.Nforland (his brother-in-law perhaps) were owners of the same vessel, now commanded
by Capt. William Lander (EIHC 41 :144). In December, 1810, he and two others owned
the 133-ton schooner Eliza, registered for foreign trade under Capt. Nathaniel Archer
(EIHC 40:72). In February, 1811, Mr. Gray was one of five owners of the 128-ton
schooner Rising States, Capt. Samuel Lamson, engaged in foreign trade (EIHC 41 :329).
In March, 1812, he was sole owner of the Rising States, Capt. Peter Lander, registered
for overseas trade (EIHC 41 :329). And in September, 1812, he was owner of the brig
Mary, registered for trade under Capt. Benjamin Archer (EIHC 41: 144).
Messrs. Hathorne and Gray owned the building jointly until 16 January 1811, when
they made a division of the property, with Gray receiving the largest portion (ED
192:198). To Hathorne went $500 and the northern end of the lot, with the buildings on
and cellar under, fronting 33' on Market Street, the running 40' westerly through the
northerly partition wall, then running another 10' on a piece of land left in common,
then running northerly 29' by land of Edward A. Holyoke Esq., then running easterly
50' on Essex Street, together with a right of the eaves droppings at the south side of the
southwesterly comer of the buildings (probably for a supply of fresh water). The
partition wall separated the two parts of the building, but did not extend through the
roof; if it were to be so extended, the two parties agreed to bear equal expense. To Gray
went $10 and the southern part of the premises, on which stood the "dwelling house,
stores, and other buildings, and the cellars under the same," and the land fronting
easterly 87' on Market Street, southerly 50' and westerly 82' on land of Edward A.
Holyoke Esq., then running easterly 1O' on the land left in common, then running
northerly 9' to the northerly partition wall, then easterly through the wall to Market
Street. From this, it would seem that part of the southerly part of the building was used
as a residence. Mr. Gray evidently did not live there, but resided in a new house that he
had built on Federal Street. As the son of a house-painter, he had made an
extraordinary leap upward in socio-economic rank.
Salem had resumed its seafaring commerce for three years, but still the British
preyed on American shipping; and in June, 1812, war was declared against Britain.
Although Salem had opposed the war as being potentially ruinous and primarily
for the benefit of the southern and western war-hawk states, yet when it came,
Salem swiftly fitted out 40 privateers manned by Marblehead and Salem crews,
who also served on U.S. Navy vessels, including the Constitution. Many more
�could have been sent against the British, but some of the Federalist merchants held
their vessels back. In addition, Salem fielded companies of infantry and artillery.
Salem and Marblehead privateers were largely successful in making prizes of
British supply vessels. While many of the town's men were wounded in
engagements, and some were killed, the possible riches of privateering kept the
men returning to sea as often as possible. The first prizes were captured by a 30ton converted fishing schooner, the Fame, and by a 14-ton luxury yacht fitted with
one gun, the Jefferson. Of all Salem privateers, the Crowninshields' 350-ton ship
America was the most successful. She would capture 30-plus prizes worth more
than $1,100,000.
Salem erected forts and batteries on its Neck, to discourage the British warships
that cruised these waters. In June, 1813, off Marblehead Neck, the British frigate
Shannon defeated the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake. Salem's Federalists, some
of whom continued to oppose ..the war bitterly, would not allow their churches to be
used for the funeral of the Chesapeake's slain commander, James Lawrence
("Don't give up the ship!").
In the fall of 1813, Cushing & Appleton evidently had a bookstore in the comer
store in Mr. Hathome's part of the building. On 12 October 1813 in the Salem
Gazette, Cushing & Appleton advertised the sale of Spanish cigars and of Oliver
vVelch's new book, American Arithmetic, "adapted to the currency of the U.S.,
to which is added a concise treatise on the mensuration of planes and solids ... "
At the same store was a subscription list for those who wished to sign up for Mr.
Vincent Masi's new "school for dancing." John Fermo, broker, probably with
offices in the Central Building at the time, placed this ad (Gazette, 12 Oct. 1813):
"For Sale. Shares in Mercantile Bank. Shares in Salem Bank. Shares in
Beverly Bank. Apply to John W. Fermo, Broker, who buys and sells bills of
all incorporated banks in the Union. U.S. Treasury Notes negotiated. Also,
approved endorsed Notes, at Bank discount. Wanted: shares in Salem
Turnpike, and a Mass. State Note for $1000 or $1200. Exchange on
Baltimore for sale as above."
In April, 1814, the people gathered along the shores of Salem Neck as three sails
appeared on the horizon and came sailing on for Salem Bay. These vessels proved
to be the mighty Constitution in the lead, pursued by the smaller British frigates
Tenedos and Endymion. The breeze was light, and the British vessels gained, but
Old Ironsides made it safely into Marblehead Harbor, to the cheers of thousands.
�In June, 1814, at the meeting of the Essex Guards militia company, W. Shepard
Gray was elected lieutenant, but he declined to serve (EIHC 57:257). On 4 July
1814 the Essex Guards paraded through Salem, and Mr. Gray served as one of
the four Marshals of the Day, with an oration delivered by Leverett Saltonstall
(EIHC 57:268).
On land, the war went poorly for the United States, as the British captured
Washington, DC, and burned the Capitol and the White House. At sea, as time
wore on, Salem's vessels often were captured, and its men imprisoned or killed.
After almost three years, the war was bleeding the town dry, and the menfolk were
disappearing. Hundreds of Salem men and boys were in British prison-ships and at
Dartmoor Prison in England. At the Hartford Convention in 1814, New England
Federalist delegates met to consider what they could do to bring the war to a. close
and to restore the region's commerce. Sen. Timothy Pickering of Salem led the
extreme Federalists in proposing an ultimatum threatening New England's
seceding from the United States; but the Pickering faction was countered by
Harrison G. Otis of Boston and the moderate Federalists, who prevailed in sending
a more reasonable message to Congress.
At last, in February, 1815, peace was restored. Post-war, the Salem merchants
rebuilt their fleets and resumed their worldwide trade, slowly at first, and then to
great effect. A new U.S. Custom House would be built in 1819, on the site of the
George Crowninshield mansion, at the head of Derby Wharf.
In the spring of 1815, Jonathan P. Saunders, auctioneer, town clerk (later if not then),
and map-maker, had his office at the Central Building. On 19 April 1815 in the Essex
Register he advertised for sale "at J.P. Saunders' Store, Central Building, Market Street,
the sale of the library of the late Rev. Thomas Barnard (appended to this report). In
1820 he would publish his "Plan of the Town of Salem," an excellent chart of the city,
its streets, and landmarks.
In the fall of 1815, one of the major tenants of the building was R. F. Cloutman,
who dealt in glass, crockery, and hard-ware (see appended advertisement, 25 Oct.
1815, Essex Register). His stock consisted of everything from fish-hooks to
spectacles to shovels to elegant tea-trays, decanters, tumblers, dinner-ware. He
was still running his ads in November, 1816: "at his old stand, Central Building,"
he offered "a full assortment of crockery, china, glass, and hardware," including
tea sets, Canton and London dining sets, sickles, cutlery, pins, viol strings, Dutch
brushes, coffee mills, English shovels, etc. (appended to this report).
�The pre-war partisan politics of the town were not resumed post-war, as the
middle-class "mechanics" (artisans) became more powerful. and brought about
civic harmony, largely through the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
(founded 1817). Salem men continued to hold high places in the federal
government: Benjamin W. Crowninshield was formerly Secretary of the Navy,
among other things. It was he who arranged for Rev. William Bentley to have his
portrait painted by James Frothingham, who was then residing in Salem. In his
diary, Bentley noted that on 20 Nov. 1818 Mr. Crowninshield escorted him to "the
apartments of a painter named Frothingham, from Charlestown," where they saw
several fine portraits and some paper profiles. Bentley, evidently impressed,
agreed to sit for Frothingham. On Nov. 23 he recorded that he went "to Mr.
Frothingham' s at the Central buildings ... and had my first sitting" that evening.
The result was a famous portrait (now displayed in East India Marine Hall at the
Peabody Essex Museum) of Mr. Bentley, one of the most extraordinary men of his
time. Later, James Frothingham had his studio on Essex Street; and in 1825 or so
he moved to Boston, and then to New York City.
In 1818 there was still good money to be made in Salem's maritime trade, but it
required a higher level of skill and perspicacity than it had in 1805. As Bentley
wrote in his diary in 1811, "While we (in Salem) went before the wind, credit was
boundless and success followed every adventurer. Since the wind has changed,
few have skill enough to navigate the troubled seas." Evidently Mr. Hathorne had
the right stuff; but Mr. Gray's skills were of a different sort.
W. Shepard Gray, as cashier of the Essex Bank for many years, was in a position
of high trust in Salem: he was, in effect, the manager of the Bank, and had access
to all of its assets, some of which were in the form of coins and specie put on
deposit by merchants and shipmasters. One depositor was Maj. Israel Foster of
Marblehead, a prominent merchant and relative of Col. W.R. Lee, the Collector of
Customs in Salem (and possibly the inhabitant of the residential part of the central
Building). Maj. Foster had deposited a large barrel of specie with the Essex Bank.
In the summer of 1818, W. Shepard Gray took an extended vacation away from
Salem. Eventually, the Bank directors became suspicious. Early in September,
1818, they concluded that the Bank had been robbed. At the time, Bentley wrote
in his diary (Sept. 5), "every inquiry detects the most fraudulent practices. A
deposit of doubloons by Foster of Marblehead has been violated, false contracts
made, and fraud practiced not only in its most artful but most shameful forms. Yet
not one word has appeared as yet, but Gust) a notice that the Cashier, who has long
�been away, has been removed. Suspicions rise in every form, and Salem lays
under the worst imputations."
In fact, Shepard Gray, the Bank's Cashier, and James King, the Bank's Clerk, had
embezzled a great deal of money from the Bank. Gray, who had left Salem, and
King, who had resigned but stayed in town, had offered the Bank's directors
$20,000, when the losses evidently amounted to about $200,000 (see Bentley,
Sept. 11 ). It would appear that Gray, King, and their partner Capt. Joseph
Moseley, a Virginian who had settled in Salem (see B.F. Browne, 1869 Youthful
Recollections of Salem, EIHC 49:200), had invested in highly speculative ventures,
and had lost much of their money, which they replaced with money deposited at
the bank. In Foster's barrel of specie, they had placed ballast stones, leaving an
inch or two of coins at the top. All the rest of the Foster money, $40,000 allegedly,
was gone (the matter would later go to court, in a famous case about the liability of
banks).
In November, 1818, the Grand Jury found against Gray and King "for a conspiracy
to defraud the Bank and for violation of trust and the depredations made on the
deposits and bank interest" (per Bentley, Nov. 6). The Essex Bank directors had
handled most of the matters in secrecy, including a negotiation with Gray and
King, in which terms were given and accepted. The whole matter caused much
alarm and discontent in Salem, many of whose people had money deposited there.
Some were distraught, and one died of the shock (Bentley, ibid): "the widow of
Edward Pulling, Esq., was buried this day, an undoubted victim to her feelings
upon the loss of her property in the Essex Bank. Most of the stock-holders are
widows and orphans."
In June, 1819, Mr. Bentley reflected on the dissension among the shareholders of
the Essex Bank, which was, in fact, about to fold. "The subscribers are disposed to
make their richer members pay the loss. The President declined his office
repeatedly and undertook not to be obliged to issue any money in his signature.
But the offenders had kindred and associates in the board. To whomsoever it may
extend, it was one of the most deliberate, persevering, and complete frauds that
ever was in any country accomplished--and among a people distinguished by their
close attention, we might almost say avarice, in money matters. The business,
when it becomes a public investigation, threatens great divisions and warm
contentions."
Mr. W.S. Gray evidently never returned to Salem, but would die in Cambridge, on 27
May 1824, aged about 51 years.
�At the time ( 1819) that Mr. Gray disappeared and the Custom House offices were
moved to their new quarters, B.H. Hathorne resided in the brick Hathorne house on
Essex Street (evidently 243-5, south side, just west of Washington), probably with a
tenant, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody, and family (1820 census, p. 71). Earlier, Dr. Peabody
had lived in the house ofB.H.H. 's brother William, on Essex Street at the south comer
of Cambridge (see EIHC 21 :219). Dr. Peabody was then the father of 7 children, of
whom one, Sophia, an artist, would grow up and become the wife of Nathaniel
Hawthorne (BHH's first cousin, once removed), while another, Elizabeth P. Peabody, a
teacher, became one of the most important education theorists and reformers in
America. In the household of Mr. B.H. Hathorne in 1820 were himself, a boy, his wife,
two girls, and one young woman.
Augustus J. Archer, a dry goods merchant, wrote a series of articles for the Salem
Gazette in the early months of 1890, on the subject of Essex Street in 1820. In this
series, he related the history of "the brick building built by Benjamin H. Hathorne and
vVilliam Gray, extending into Central Street, and there occupied by the custom house
until 1819, when the U.S. Custom House was built. On the comer of Essex Street,
Cushing & Appleton, succeeded by James R. Buffum, as a book store, were located.
vVm. Hathorne had the western one; he was an Importer of broadcloths and dry goods.
The Salem Register was then established in its present quarters, Warwick Palfrey, Jr.,
the sole editor. From this, it would seem that in 1820 the comer store ofHathome's
paii of the building was occupied by Cushing & Appleton, the store next westerly was
occupied as a dry goods store by William Hathorne, and the upstairs rooms were used
as the office of the Salem Register newspaper (as they would be for decades).
In 1820 the part of the building that fronted on Central Street, and had belonged to Mr.
Gray, was sold to Samuel Tucker, a Salem merchant, for $5825.75, by John Morland,
Roxbury merchant ($800 in May), who was probably W.S. Gray's brother-in-law and
may have held a mortgage on the property, and by Joseph S. Cabot, Salem gentleman
($5025.75 in September), who had foreclosed a mortgage on W.S. Gray on 2 July 1819
(ED 222:266, 225:114). In Mr. Cabot's deed, it is specified that the property consisted
of "the dwelling house in which Samuel Tucker now resides and of the other apartments
in Central Building, so-called;" and in Mr. Morland's deed it mentions the "dwelling
house, stores, other buildings, and cellar under". So there is little doubt but that Mr.
Gray's part of the building contained a portion that had been reserved (perhaps since
1805) as a residence. Samuel Tucker, the new owner, resided here in 1820.
Of this same time (c.1820) Mr. A.J. Archer reminisced as follows. "On Central Street,
Dana & Fenno had an office for the sale of lottery tickets and a general brokerage
�business, having a Boston connection. E H. Payson had charge of this office and tells
me he was the person who built the first coal fire in Salem. Mr. Dana had seen them ir
Boston and employed John Chamberlain, mason, to set a grate in his office; Mr. Pays(
built the fire, and says people used to come in by the dozens to see it. One evening he
went to bed leaving the blower up, having forgot to remove it; of course it became red
hot, and so alarmed the passers-by that they rushed in hot haste to tell him his office
was on fire. The Insurance offices next adopted the grate, and it spread rapidly into
general use. The first furnace in the city was put in by Mr. Chamberlain at his brother'2:.
B. Porter Chamberlain, who owned and occupied the old assembly house on Federal
street. The chambers and offices on Central Street were occupied by the Salem Saving
Bank, incorporated 1818; when first organized, Willard Peele was president, and Danie
Bray treasurer. Capt. Peter Lander and his son, Peter Jr., had a private insurance office
for underwriters. Henry Pickering Esq. had a law office. The Salem Courier, Charles
A. Andrew, was started here Sept. 7, 1828; it was short lived. In 1830 the Salem Light
Infantry had two rooms in the second story for their armory."
In The Salem Gazette of 1 Feb. 1820, Cushing & Appleton advertised "Gold Leaf' and
"Almanacks for 1820," and the Salem Brewery announced that "strong and table beer,
porter, ale, yeast, porter bottles, corks, hops, malt, bottled cider, and a complete
assortment of cordials" were available at the Salem Brewery, and at the store, comer of
Essex and Cambridge Streets, also from 11 to half past 1 at the Central Building."
In 1824, B. Herbert Hathorne died (as did W.S. Gray). Mr. Hathorne owned his part of
the building outright, and owned a very large stock of dry goods, which were
enumerated in the inventory of his estate (appended to this report). By his 1823 last
will, he devised to his wife Rebecca cash, personal effects, and lifetime use of some real
estate which was to devolve to his nephew B.H. Hathorne (Jr.) after the deaths of his
wife and adopted daughter. His "land at the comer of Central Street and Essex Street
with the buildings thereon, called the Central building," he devised in trust to his
brother William Hathorne for the benefit of his sons; and upon his death it was to go the
same nephew, B.H. Hathorne (Jr.). He devised $1000 in trust for his adopted daughter,
and left generous cash bequests to other relatives. The property here would remain in
the ownership of Hathomes throughout the rest of the 19th century.
The 1820s was a decade of challenges for Salem. It struggled successfully to
maintain its overseas commerce and to open new markets for its shipping, in
Madagascar (1820), which supplied tallow and ivory, and Zanzibar (1825), whence
came gum copal, used to make varnish. This opened a huge and lucrative trade in
which Salem dominated, and its vessels thus gained access to all of the east
African ports. From 1827 to 1870, there were 189 arrivals in Salem from
�Zanzibar, carrying ivory, gum copal, and coffee. But in the 1820s Salem's national
influence slipped, and it was unable to develop a manufacturing base. Salem's
general maritime foreign commerce fell off sharply in the late 1820s. Imports,
which were the cargoes in Salem ships, were supplanted by American goods, now
being produced in great quantities. The interior of the country was being opened
for settlement, and many Salemites moved away to these new lands of opportunity.
To the north, the falls of the Merrimack River powered large new textile mills
(Lowell was founded in 1823 ), which created great wealth for their investors; and
in general it seemed that the tide of opportunity was ebbing away from Salem.
In an ingenious attempt to stem the flow of talent from the town and to harness its
potential water power for manufacturing, Salem's merchants and capitalists
focused on damming the North River. The project, which began with much
promise, was suspended (before construction began) in 1827, which demoralized
the town even more, and caused several leading citizens to move to Boston, the
hub of investment in the new economy. In November, 1826, Joseph H. Prince,
counselor at law, advertised in the Salem Gazette his "removal" from "from his
late office, in Central Building, to the office formerly occupied by Hon. John
Pickering, in Court Street." This event, seemingly so obscure, points to a sad
fact: John Pickering VI, the ultimate Salem citizen, had decided to take his family
and his talents to Boston, where they were settled by the spring of 1827.
In 1830 occurred a horrifying crime that brought disgrace to Salem. Old Capt.
Joseph White, a wealthy merchant, owned and resided in the house now called the
Gardner-Pingree house, on Essex Street. One night, intruders broke into his
mansion and stabbed him to death. All of Salem buzzed with the news of
murderous thugs; but the killer was a Crowninshield (a local crime-boss who killed
himself at the Salem Jail), hired by his friends, Capt. White's own relatives, Capt.
Joseph Knapp and his brother Frank (they were executed by hanging). The results
of the investigation and trial uncovered much that was lurid about Salem, and more
of the respectable families quit the notorious town.
Salem's remaining merchants had to move quickly to take their equity out of
wharves and warehouses and ships and put it into manufacturing and
transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals in the 183 Os diverted both
capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants did not make the
transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like rope-making, sail-making,
and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared. Well into the 1830s,
Salem slumped badly.
�Despite all, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built 1837-8 and
the city seal was adopted with an already-anachronistic Latin motto of "to the
farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from "Go West, young man!" The Panic
of 183 7, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic depression, caused even more Salem
families to head west in search of fortune and a better future. Salem had not
prepared for the industrial age, and had few natural advantages. The North River
served not to power factories but mainly to flush the waste from the many
tanneries (23 by 1832) that had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the
leaders of Salem scrambled to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many
of whom were mariners without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and
hard work would have to carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise, founded in 1813 to produce chemicals. At the plant built
in 1818 in North Salem on the North River, the production of alum and blue vitriol
was a specialty; and it proved a very successful business. Salem's whale-fishery,
active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in the 1830s, to the manufacturing of
high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with machine oils. The candles proved
very popular. Lead-manufacturing began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830,
when Wyman's gristmills on the Forest River were retooled for making highquality white lead and sheet lead (the approach to Marblehead is still called Lead
Mills Hill, although the empty mill buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8
the Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave
the people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market.
The new railroad tracks ran right over the middle of the Mill Pond; the tunnel
under Washington Street was built in 1839; and the line was extended to
Newburyport in 1840.
The occupants of this building in the 183 Os were the Salem Light Infantry
(armory here in 1830), newspapers, banks, etc.
Rev. Benjamin Herbert Hathorne (Jr.), a Lynn bachelor clergyman (nephew of the first
BHH), the owner of the Hathorne part of the property (worth $6,000 in 1837), died in
1837, having willed all of his property to his father, William, two sisters, and three
brothers, with the survivor to inherit the full ownership.
�In 1836 (per the Essex Memorial, published in that year), the "Central Building" tenants
included two newspaper offices: that of the Essex Register and that of the Commercial
Advertiser. The Register in 1836 was published by Palfray and Chapman twice a week
and was Whig in politics; the Advertiser, founded in 1832 and edited by Palfray &
Cook, was published weekly and was Democrat in politics. In those days, the Whigs
and the Democrats maintained their own reading rooms: the former was in Holyoke
Place, off Essex Street, while the latter was located here at the "Central Building."
Also here in 183 6 (per the 183 7 Salem Directory) were the offices of the Bank of
General Interest, 4 Central Street, $400,000 in capital, William H. Russell, cashier;
directors John Russell (President), Putnam I. Farnham, Caleb Foote, John W. Fenno,
Jonathan Holman. (p.118). Also headquartered here was the Institution for Savings in
the City of Salem and Its Vicinity, 4 Central, Joseph Peabody, President; Daniel Bray,
Treasurer; Francis H. Silsbee, Secretary (p.119). The bankers who actually came to
work here each day were Daniel Bray (Institution for Savings), of 104 Essex Street, and
John Russell (Bank of General Interest), of 22 Lafayette St., and his son Wm. H.
Russell (ditto) of 2 Lafayette Street. No doubt there were clerks and tellers too.
In the 1830s, James R. Buffum "kept a book and stationery store for himself on the
western comer of Essex and Central Street ... (and) then kept a tavern at Ome's Point,
North Salem. He married Susan Mansfield ... and died 14 Feb. 1863, aged 68 years."
(see EIHC 6:212, Benja. F. Browne, Memorials of the Washington Rangers).
In the 1840s, Mr. Buffum moved out of the comer store, and Stephen Osborne took it
over. He ran a retail business in hats, caps, and furs; and Henry Osborne worked there
as a hatter (hat-maker). Stephen resided in 1841-1845 at 17 Oliver Street, while Henry
resided on "Mechanic Street" (near the Laboratory in North Salem) in 1841 and in 1845
on Federal (Marlborough) Street, near Washington. In the Salem Directory for 1850
was an advertisement for "Osborne's Fashionable Hat, Cap & Fur Establishment, 183
Essex Street, comer of Central Street" (p. 221 ). This store would be operated
throughout the 1860s (see ad, p. 88, 1864 Salem Directory).
The Essex Register newspaper, which was founded by the Crowninshield-HathomeWhite families to represent the Jeffersonian point of view c.1800, and which had been
edited at one point by Rev. William Bentley (a major contributor for years), would be
published from this location throughout the rest of its history. In 1842, the co-editor,
Charles vV. Palfray, resided at 47 Federal Street, while co-editor John Chapman resided
at 33 Federal and served on the Board of Advisers of the Salem Children's Friend
Society. In addition, Edward Palfray, of 2 Hamilton Street, was a printer at 4 Central
Street in 1842. (info from 1842 Salem Directory).
�Samuel Dudley Tucker (1782-1857), the owner of the Central Street part of the Central
Building as of 1820, was a merchant. He was born in Salem on 25 January 1782, one c
the sons of John and Lydia Tucker. Among his older brothers were Andrew Tucker
(born 1773) and Gideon Tucker (b. 1778, married 1804 Martha Goodhue). l\llr. Andre\
Tucker ( 1773-1820), who married l\lfartha Mansfield, had several children, including
Jonathan, Samuel (2d) and Gideon (2d); he was subject to melancholy, and took his
own life in February, 1820, aged 47 years.
In 1830, Samuel D. Tucker added to his holdings hereabouts by purchasing for $1950
from the heirs of Dr. Holyoke some shops on Central Street, with land, just south of the
dwelling house part of the Central Building (ED 258:215). At the same time, the
Holyoke heirs sold him, for $4500, the land to the west of the Hathorne parcel, with a
printing office thereon (ED 258:215). By 1836 Mr. Tucker had moved to 293 Essex
Street, and later he resided at the Essex House hotel. He died in the 1857 (#55777),
having devised the premises by will to Gideon Tucker, who was the president of the
Exchange Bank. Gideon Tucker died in or before 1862, leaving many heirs. In July,
1862, some of the Tucker heirs, having purchased the interests of other of the heirs, sold
the premises for $4572.46 to one of their own, Edward Tucker, of Saco, Maine (ED
642:145, also 639:22,24, 638:126, etc.). In September, 1862, Edward Tucker sold half
of the property to Jonathan Tucker and half of it to Jonathan's son, James T. Tucker. In
September, 1865, Jonathan Tucker for $3,000 sold his half-interest to his son, James T.
Tucker, who granted his father a life estate in the property (ED 688:281,287).
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Roslyn Street). For the
workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company would
be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually 14, 700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing also
continued to expand, and by 1880 Salem would have 40 shoe factories employing
600-plus operatives. More factories and more people required more space for
buildings, more roads, and more storage areas.
Maj. Jam es T. Tucker predeceased his father, whose life estate would come to an
end with his death in 1877. Jonathan Tucker ( 1799-1877) had been a merchant for
most of his career. He left business in 1849, became a City Assessor for awhile, and
by 1860 he was working as a Measurer at the Custom House. In 1872 he was still at
the Custom House, residing at 29 Andrew Street. He purchased 82 Washington
�Square East in 1874, and moved in. To the Salem Gazette in 1875-6 he contributed
an interesting series called "Our Old Houses," in which he jotted down his memories
of who had inhabited the buildings of Essex Street 1807-1810. By 1876 he was
again working as an assessor at City Hall. On the last day of July, 1877, Mr. Tucker
took his own life.
The obituary of Mr. Tucker ran in the Gazette on 3 August 1877. "The death of
Jonathan Tucker, which took place very suddenly on Tuesday morning last, takes
from amongst us one of our most respected citizens ... His character was as sturdy as
his frame. Upright, conscientious, clear-headed, and intelligent, his services on the
board of our City Assessors were never surpassed in value by any who have been
called to the office. His independence and plainness of speech undoubtedly made
him enemies; but, as an honest man, a good citizen, exemplary in purity of morals
and in every relation of life, he will be held in respectful remembrance by all who
knew him. Mr. Tucker retired-from active mercantile business in 1849, when he was
elected one of the Assessors of the City. This office he continued to hold until
March 28, 1853. He was again elected Assessor in 1869, and held the office until
January 11, 1875, when he retired to private life. During most of his term of service,
he was chairman of the board; and there never was a man who paid more strict,
scrupulous, and faithful attention to the duties of his office. A native of Salem, and
blessed with powers of keen observation and a retentive memory, his knowledge of
our local history of the present century-of persons, events, metes and bounds-was
unequalled, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to impart from his
inexhaustible stores. He leaves a widow (a sister of Prof. Alpheus Packard of
Bowdoin College), three sons-Joseph F. and Horace, both holding responsible
positions in the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and Rev. William P., who has
recently accepted a call to a rectorship in Pawtucket, R.I.; and two daughters, Mrs. J.
M. Hagar of Salem, and Mrs. Hanson of Chicago. Two sons, Alpheus Packard and
Col. James T., died before their father."
Joseph F. Tucker, the railroad man, became the new owner of the property. As early as
1881, and perhaps before, much of his part of the Central Building was occupied by
John J. Perkins' notable furniture and upholstering store (some photographs show the
building at that time, with the Perkins signs out front). Mr. Perkins, a resident of Bridge
Street, ran the business for many years. The dwelling part of the building, numbered 10
central, was evidently occupied Mrs. Sarah B. Safford, who had a store at 16-18 central.
She died before 1900, in which year the premises at 4-6 Central Street were occupied
by the Salem Press Company, which had its presses and other machinery there, and by
A.N. Webb & Co., printers. At 8-10 were E.F. McClellan, hairdresser, and the offices
�of Cawley & Trow, plumbers. Alphonse Bouin and family resided in the end unit. (info
from Salem Directory, 1899/1900)
Regarding the Hathorne part of the building, by then known as The Hathorne Building:
in 1878 Henry G. Hathorne, of Lynn, sold his interest in the Central Building to
\iVilliam W. Hathorne, of Lynn, his brother (ED 1000:189). On 2 January 1886 William
W. Hathorne leased the first floor and cellar of his part of the building to Herebert D.
Rice of Boston, who opened The Shawmut Hat Store here. The lease was to run for ten
years at $1500 rent per annum. At the same time, Mr. Rice was to pay the cost of a
major remodeling of this part of the building, and agreed not to sell any liquor here.
The remodeling involved removing the stone front, removing brick piers and windows,
and putting in a new front on Essex Street and part of the building on Central Street.
Large new plate glass windows were to be installed, along with iron girders to support
the upper stories.
Mr. Wm. W. Hathorne died in 1893, whereupon the property was conveyed to his
brothers Henry G. and Charles F. Hathorne (ED1401:109). They continued to lease out
the property as commercial space to Herbert D. Rice, who was the proprietor of the
Shawmut Hat Store at 191-193 Essex Street (see adv. p.1194 Salem Directory 1897-8;
ED 1991:66, etc.).
In 1900, the occupants of "the Hathorne Building" were The Shawmut Hat Store (hats,
furs, etc.) at 191-193 Essex Street, and, at 195 Essex Street, J.M. O'Connell and Mrs.
Kate F. Dean, hairdressers, dentist John W. Patch, A.C. Mackintire, photographer, and
B.L. Pervier, jobber.
Salem kept building infrastructure; and new businesses arose, and established
businesses expanded. Retail stores prospered, and machinists, carpenters,
millwrights, and other specialists all thrived. In the 1870s, French-Canadian
families began coming to work in Salem's mills and factories, and more houses
and tenements filled were built in what had been open areas of the city. The
Canadians were followed in the early 20th century by large numbers of Polish and
Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By
the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
department stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were lively,
and its economy was strong.
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
�and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke,
wiping out the houses of Boston Street, Essex Street, and upper Broad Street, and
then sweeping through Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets.
Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into South
Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then devoured
the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the tenement district.
Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many towns and cities, the
fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the large factory buildings
of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), which exploded in an
inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the water to Derby Street.
There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour rampage, the monster died, having
consumed 25 0 acres, 1600 houses, and 41 factories, and leaving three dead and
thousands homeless. Some people· had insurance, some did not; all received much
support and generous donations from all over the country and the world. It was
one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of the United States, and the
people of Salem would take years to recover from it. Eventually, they did, and
many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt; and several urban-renewal
projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which involved removing old houses
and widening old streets) were put into effect.
Mr. Herbert D. Rice, owner of The Shawmut Hat Store here, and lessee since
1886, purchased the Hathorne Building from the Hathornes on 1 Nov. 1920 (ED
2469:90). The premises had been in Hathorne ownership for more than 115
years.
By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the relocation
of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many other cities.
More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present with
success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also from
its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley,
Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the oldtime merchants, mariners, and mill-operatives-and the commercial buildings that
Salem's prosperity produced and sustained--are all honored as a large part of what
makes Salem different from any other place.
--10 Feb. 2002, Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc.
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Soon after Dabney established his book shop, Thomas C.
Cushing and \'Villiam Carlton, the latter a young man just
reaching his majority, were associated in the 'Bible and Heart'
book shop. Carlton's advertisement in 1791 reYeals the location of his business as 'opposite Rev. :Mr. Prince's meeting
house,' where he had for sale all the principal books and pamphlets, as v.-ell as mariner's compasses, log books, scales and
dividers, backgammon and Hadley's quadrants, and 'Harry
VIII and HighlancJs Playing Cards.' 67 In 1793 he added a
circulating library. J\1r. Streeter says: 'The Bible and Heart
book-store was in the lo·wer story of the building oecupied by ·
the printing office, the same ·which is now (1856) kept by
D. B. Brooks and Brother. There were formerly wooden figures of a Bible ancl a heart suspended over the door, which
during .the last war were torn down in the night by some
mischievous persons and thrown into the harbor. It was upon
the occasion of a list of privateers in our harbor being published in the Gazette by the foreman of the office.' In 1794
Carlton's 'new book store' was 'a few doors west of the Sun
Tavern, Essex st.Teet.' 08 In 1797 Carlton's connection with
Cushing ceased, and in 1801 John S. Appleton associated
himself with this book shop, the firm of Cushing and Appleton
being a well-known and successful Salem concern, at the 'Sign
of the Bible,' until the death of both in 1824.
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streets, 'lately occupied as an insurance office.'c 9 In 1808 they
removed to the store under the Gazette office, lately occupied
by John Russell, one door west of the Central Building, 70
having purchased Russell's stock of several thousand volumes,
which were sold at auction by Jacob Peabody. A side-light
oil the importance to trade of court business and attendance
at the sittings is manifest in an advertisement which appeared
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19 Flint Street, Salem
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1871 for Leonard
Harrington, leather dealer.
On 18 March 1871 Leonard B. Harrington Jr. for $3000 purchased from Samuel P.
Andrews a parcel of land, 8058 square feet, fronting easterly 60' on Flint Street
(ED 818: 145). At about the same time, Mr. Hanington exchanged small gores of
land, which helped to square off the house-lot (ED 819:89). Mr. Harrington, thiliy,
then proceeded to build the present house on the lot, probably in the spring of
1871. (Salem valuations for 1871 have the penciled notation that Leonard
Harrington had a new house at 7 Flint Street, house worth $7000, lot worth $2000).
Leonard B. Harrington Jr. was born in Salem on 8 September 1841, the son of
Leonard B. Harrington, a currier, and his wife Margaret C. Hersey. Leonard was
the last of their four children. An infant, also named Leonard, had died in 1834,
while Henry and Mary Elizabeth had survived.
Leonard grew up in a house on upper Federal Street. His father, born in 1803, was
a native of Salem, the son of Charles Harrington, who had come to Salem from
Watertown after the end of the war for independence. L.B. Harrington Sr. went to
sea at thirteen, but soon gave up that life and was apprenticed to a currier in
Roxbury. In 1824 he began as a journeyman currier, curing leather to be used to
make various items such as shoes, saddles, etc. In 1829 he went into business for
himself; and in January, 1831 he married Margaret Hersey of Roxbury. In the
1830s he formed a partnership with Henry Turner as Harrington & Turner,
curriers, with their leather operation situated at 35 Boston Street, Salem. At first
the Harringtons resided on upper Essex Street, but by 1841, when Leonard Jr. was
born, they had a house on Federal Street (evidently #153, where they certainly
resided in the 1850s).
In the decade before Leonard's birth, Salem's maritime commerce had waned.
The merchants had taken their equity out of wharves and warehouses and ships and
put it into manufacturing and transportation, as the advent of railroads and canals
in the 1830s diverted both capital and trade away from the coast. Some merchants
did not make the transition, and were ruined. Old-line areas of work, like ropemaking, sail-making, and ship chandleries, gradually declined and disappeared.
Well into the 1830s, Salem slumped badly.
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�Despite its woes, Salem was chartered as a city in 1836. City Hall was built in
1837-8 on Washington Street and the city seal was adopted with an alreadyanachronistic Latin motto of "to the farthest port of the rich East"-a far cry from
"Go West, young man!" The Panic of 1837, a brief, sharp, nationwide economic
depression, caused even more Salem families to head west in search of fortune and
a better future. Salem had not prepared for the industrial economy, and had few
natural advantages. The North River served not to power factories but mainly to
carry the waste from the many tanneries (23 by 1832), like L.B. Harrington's, that
had set up along its banks. Throughout the 1830s, the leaders of Salem scrambled
to re-invent an economy for their fellow citizens, many of whom were mariners
without much sea-faring to do. Ingenuity, ambition, and hard work would have to
carry the day.
One inspiration was the Salem Laboratory, which was Salem's first science-based
manufacturing enterprise. At the plant built in 1817 on the North River, the
production of alum and blue vitriol was a specialty; and it proved a very successful
business. Salem's whale-fishery, active for many years in the early 1800s, led, in
the 183 Os, to the manufacturing of high-quality candles at Stage Point, along with
machine oils. The candles proved very popular. Some of the whale-blubber was
perhaps processed on Boston Street, at "Blubber Hollow." Lead-manufacturing
began in the 1820s, and grew large after 1830, when Wyman's gristmills on the
Forest River were retooled for making high-quality white lead and sheet lead (the
approach to Marblehead is still called Lead Mills Hill, although the empty mill
buildings burned down in 1960s).
These enterprises were a start toward taking Salem in a new direction. In 183 8 the
Eastern Rail Road began operating between Boston and Salem, which gave the
people of Salem and environs a direct route to the region's largest market. The
tam1ing and curing of leather was a very important industry by the mid- l 800s. It
was conducted on and near Boston Street, along the upper North River. There
were 41 tanneries in 1844, and 85 in 1850, employing 550 hands. The leather
business would continue to grow in importance throughout the 1800s.
In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company completed the construction at
Stage Point of the largest factory building in the United States, 60' wide by 400'
long. It was an immediate success, and hundreds of people found employment
there, many of them living in industrial tenements built nearby. Also in the 1840s,
a new method was introduced to make possible high-volume industrial shoe
production. In Lynn, the factory system was perfected, and that city became the
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�nation's leading shoe producer. Salem had shoe factories too, and attracted shoe
workers from outlying towns and country areas. Even the population changed, as
hundreds of Irish families, fleeing the Famine, settled in Salem; and the men went
to work in the factories and as laborers. At that time the Catholics worshipped at
St. Mary's Church, which stood nearby at the corner of Bridge and Mall Streets.
In the face of all this change, some members of Salem's waning merchant class
continued to pursue their sea-borne businesses; but even the conditions of shipping
changed, and Salem was left on the ebb tide. In the late 1840s, giant clipper ships
replaced the smaller vessels that Salem men had sailed around the world; and the
clippers, with their deep drafts and large holds, were usually too large for Salem
and its harbor. The town's shipping soon consisted of little more than Zanzibartrade vessels and visits from Down East coasters with cargoes of fuel wood and
building timber. By 1850 Salem was about finished as a working port. A picture
of Salem's sleepy waterfront is given by Hawthorne in his "introductory section"
(really a sketch of Salem) to The Scarlet Letter, which he began while working in
the Custom House.
The symbol of Salem's new industrial economy was the large twin-towered granite
train station, built in 1848-9 on filled-in land at the foot of Washington Street,
where before had been the merchants' wharves. The 1850s brought continued
growth: new churches, schools, streets, stores, etc. More Catholic churches were
built, and new housing was constructed in North Salem and the Gallows Hill areas
to accommodate the workers. A spur railroad line came in from Peabody (South
Danvers), past the end of Northey Street, and turned down Saunders Street, where
it crossed Bridge Street and ran on to Phillips Wharf, where the trains freighted
coal and catTied it all the way to the factories of Lowell.
In 1860, Leonard Hmrington (Jr.), 19, was listed as residing at his father's house,
153 Federal Street, and working in Boston as a clerk at 91 Milk Street (1861 Salem
Directory). At home lived his parents, his brother Henry, 27, a clerk, his sister
Mary, 21, and a servant, Eliza Derrell, 25. Mr. L.B. Harrington then owned real
estate worth $10, 000 and had $100, 000 in personal estate ( 18 60 census, ward four,
house 1942).
The Civil War began in April, 1861, and went on for four years, during which
hundreds of Salem men served in the army and navy, and many were killed or died
of disease or abusive treatment while imprisoned. In mid-September, 1862,
Leonard Harrington, 21, enlisted for nine months in the U.S. Army, as a private in
the 50th regiment of Mass. Volunteer Infantry, which had many Salem men. He
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�was assigned to Company A (the Salem Light Infantry), under Capt. George D.
Putnam. After encamping in New York for some weeks, Company A embarked on
Dec. 13 on the transport Jersey Blue, bound for the Gulf of Mexico; however, once
at sea, the vessel proved unseaworthy and made an emergency landing in a storm
at Hilton Head, SC. On another vessel they made their way to New Orleans,
arriving Jan. 20, 1863 and proceeding upriver to Baton Rouge, where they camped
and prepared for combat. After some skirmishing and many long marches,
Leonard Harrington and the other men of Company A were engaged in May and
June in the bloody attacks on Port Hudson, which finally surrendered after a siege.
In August the men were sent home, and arrived by train in Salem on August 11th,
"thus completing an exceedingly arduous term of service, which left its marks
deeply upon all of the command." (see George D. Putnam's article in Hurd's
History ofEssex County).
The war continued, and Leonard Harrington resumed his job in Boston and his
place in his father's house on Federal Street. The people of Salem contributed
greatly to efforts to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers, sailors, and their
families; and there was great celebration when the war finally ended in the spring
of 1865.
Through the 1860s and 1870s, Salem continued to pursue a manufacturing course.
The managers and capitalists tended to build their new, grand houses along
Lafayette Street (these houses may still be seen, south of Holly Street). For the
workers, they built more and more tenements near the mills of Stage Point. A
second, larger, factory building for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company would
be added in 1859, and a third in 1865; and by 1879 the mills would employ 1200
people and produce annually 14,700,000 yards of cloth. Shoe-manufacturing also
continued to expand, and by 1879 Salem would have 40 shoe factories employing
600-plus operatives. More factories and more people required 1nore space for
buildings, more roads, and more storage areas. Salem kept building infrastructure;
and new businesses arose, and established businesses expanded. Retail stores
prospered, and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists all thrived.
In the 1870s, French-Canadian families began moving to Salem to work in the
mills and factories, and more houses and tenements were built in what had been
open areas of the city.
During this period of industrial expansion, Leonard's father, Leonard B.
Harrington Sr., was one of the leaders of the city's profitable leather industry.
Leonard Jr. continued to work in Boston (at 93 Pearl Street by 1871) and to board
at his father's at 153 Federal Street (see 1872 Salem Director).
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�In 1871 Mr. Harrington, who was engaged to marry Ellen P. Langmaid, had this
house built in the then-popular French Empire style, four-square with mansard roof
and some Italianate trim. They married on December 4 111 • That year, 1871, was
uneventful in Salem, which, in 1870, had received its last cargo from Zanzibar,
thus ending a once-impmiant trade. President U.S. Grant passed through Salem in
October, 1871; and a new Salem & New York freight steamboat line was in
operation. In 1872, a fire destroyed a tam1ery on Franklin Street in North Salem,
near the site of a similar fire in 1870. Leonard Harrington kept commuting to his
job; and on Nov. 9th the financial and manufacturing district of the city of Boston
was destroyed in a terrible fire. It is likely that Mr. Harrington's office was among
the many consumed in that infe1no, one of worst urban fires in American history.
Boston rebuilt, and Mr. Harrington carried on his business in downtown Boston.
In 1873, the Harringtons had a child, a girl whom they named Mabel.
Salem continued to prosper in the 1870s, carried forward by the leather-making
business. In 1874 the city was visited by a tornado and shaken by a minor
earthquake. In the following year, the large Pennsylvania Pier (site of the present
coal-fired harborside electrical generating plant) was completed to begin receiving
large shipments of coal. Beyond it, at Juniper Point, a new owner began
subdividing the old Allen farmlands into a new development called Salem Willows
and Juniper Point. In the Centennial Year, 1876, Prof. A.G. Bell of Salem
announced that he had discovered a way to transmit voices over telegraph wires;
and in 1877, with the arrival of a vessel from Cayenne, Salem's foreign trade came
to an end. On Boston Street in 1879, the Arnold tannery caught fire and burned
down.
Through this period, the Harringtons appear to have lived in comfort in their nice
house. In 1880 the family resided here (Leonard Harrington, 39, leather dealer, his
wife Ellen, 34, their daughter Mabel C., six), along with two servants, Sophia
Baudrot, originally of Nova Scotia, and Nellie Cobane, 17 (1880 census, ED 234 p.
42).
By 1881 this house was re-numbered 6 Flint Street. The Harringtons lived here;
Mr. Harrington worked in Boston at 161 Summer Street, as a leather dealer in his
partnership, Harrington & Cummings. Mr. Harrington's father, Mr. L.B.
Harrington Sr., continued operating his very successful leather factory on Highland
Avenue, Salem. In the fall of 1886 the leather workers went on strike, and there
was a riot on Boston Street on Nov. 25, followed three days later by a settlement.
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�In 1887 the John Bertram house, nearby on Essex Street, was donated to the city
for a public library; and there was a great parade of temperance clubs.
Leonard Harrington kept commuting to Boston through the very cold winter of
1887-1888. On January 26, 1888, occurred a total eclipse of the moon, which Mr.
Harrington probably observed. He fell ill in February; and on the morning of 4
March 1888, a Sunday, he died here at home, aged 47 years. His obituary noted
that he was a member of the firm of Harrington & Cummings, leather dealers, in
Boston, and that he belonged to Post 34 of the Grand Army of the Republic. His
death was "quite sudden." He left his widow Ellen and daughter, Mabel, as well as
his father, who would die in 1889.
In the years that followed, Mrs. Ellen P. Harrington resided here. Her daughter
Mabel married a Mr. Buck.minster, and moved to Burlington, Mass.
After withstanding the pressures of the new industrial city for about 50 years,
Salem's rivers began to disappear. The once-broad North River was filled from
both shores, and became a canal along Bridge Street above the N01ih Bridge. The
cove adjoining Northey Street was filled in from Bridge Street all the way to the
railroad tracks. The large and beautiful Mill Pond, which occupied the whole area
between the present Jefferson Avenue, Canal Street, and Loring Avenue, finally
vanished beneath streets, storage areas, junk-yards, rail-yards, and parking lots.
The South River, too, with its epicenter at Central Street (that's why there was a
Custom House built there in 1805), disappeared under the pavement of Riley Plaza
and New Derby Street, and its old wharves (even the mighty Union Wharf,
formerly Long Wharf, at the foot of Union Street) were joined together with much
in-fill and turned into coal-yards and lumber-yards. Only a canal was left, running
in from Derby and Central Wharves to Lafayette Street.
In the early 20th century large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families came to
Salem and settled primarily in the Derby Street neighborhood. By the eve of
World War One, Salem was a bustling, polyglot city that supported large
depaiiment stores and large factories of every description. Its politics were lively,
and its economy was strong.
In 1911 Mrs. HaITington 1noved to Burlington, probably to live with her daughter;
and the house was then occupied by Walter C. HaITis, who worked in Boston as a
private secretary at 50 State Street (see 1912 Directory). Mr. Harris, who had
grown up on Bridge Street, had resided at 15 Winter Street in 1911. Mrs.
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�Harrington returned to Salem by August, 1913, when her daughter Mrs.
Buckminster granted her a life estate in the homestead here (ED 2227:291).
On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's fire-prone wooden tanneries. This fire
soon consumed the building and raced out of control, for the west wind was high
and the season had been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out
of Blubber Hollow the fire roared easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke
(passing by not far from the back yard of this house), wiping out the houses of
lower Boston Street, upper Essex Street, Warren Street, and upper Broad Street,
and then sweeping tlu·ough Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential
streets. Men and machines could not stop it: the enormous fire crossed over into
South Salem and destroyed the neighborhoods west of Lafayette Street, then
devoured the mansions of Lafayette Street itself, and raged onward into the
tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews from many
towns and cities, the fire overwhelmed everything in its path: it smashed into the
large factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress
Street), which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and
across the water to Derby Street. There, just beyond Union Street, after a 13-hour
rampage, the monster died, having consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses, and 41
factories, and leaving tlu·ee dead and thousands homeless. Some people had
insurance, some did not; all received much suppmi and generous donations from
all over the country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the
history of the United States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover
from it. Eventually, they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were
rebuilt; and several urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard,
which involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
Mrs. Ellen Harrington left town again, never to return. She was dead by March,
1918, when the homestead here was sold by her daughter Mrs. Mabel (Harrington)
Henderson, of Burlington, to John H. Sullivan of Salem, who immediately
conveyed the premises to his wife, Margaret P. Sullivan (ED 2387:470, 471). The
Sullivans would reside here for many years. Mr. Sullivan was president of his own
company (the J.H. Sullivan Co., formerly the P.J. Smith Co.), with a facility at 30
Foster Street for manufacturing cement counters for the shoe industry. He was
born in 1875 in Massachusetts of parents born in Ireland. He married, by 1907,
Margaret, who was a year older and of similar background. They had a son
William T., born c.1906, and a daughter Mary born c.1917 (per 1920 census, ED
265, SD5).
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�By the 1920s, Salem was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926
was a time of great celebration. From that time forward, Salem boomed right
through to the 1960s. Eventually, the arrival of suburban shopping malls and the
relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have with many
other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into the present
with success, trading on its share of notoriety arising from the witch trials, but also
from its history as a great seaport and as the home of Bowditch, Mcintire, Bentley,
Story, and Hawthorne. Most of all, it remains a city where the homes of the oldtime mariners, mill-operatives, and leather-dealers are all honored as a large part of
what makes Salem different from any other place.
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 20 Dec. 2002
8
�Glossary & Sources
A figure like (ED 123:45) refers to book 123, page 45, Essex South registry of Deeds,
Federal Street, Salem.
A figure like (#12345) refers to Essex Probate case 12345, on file at the Essex Probate
Court, Federal Street, Salem, or on microfilm at Mass. Archives, Boston, or at the Peabody
Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem.
MSSRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
MSSCRW refers to the multi-volume compendium, Mass. Soldiers, Sailors, & Afarines in
the Civil War, available at the Salem Public Library among other places.
EIHC refers to the Essex Institute Historical Collections (discontinued), a multi-volume set
(first volume published in 1859) of data and articles about Essex County. The indices of
the EIHC have been consulted regarding many of the people associated with this house.
The six-volume published Salem Vital records (marriages, births, and deaths through
1849) have been consulted, as have the Salem Directory and later Naumkeag Directory,
which have information about residents and their addresses, etc.
Sidney Perley's three-volume Hist01y ofSalem, 1626-1716 has been consulted, as has the
four-volume William Bentley's Diary, J. Duncan Phillips' books, some newspaper
obituaries, and other sources.
Salem real estate valuations, and, where applicable, Salem Street Books, have also been
consulted, as bave genealogies.
Tbere is mucb more material available about Salem and its history; and the reader is
encouraged to make bis or her own discoveries.
--Robert Bootb
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Two Daniels Street
According to available evidence, this house was built in 1906 for Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevenson as the home of her son-in-law, Charles F. Brown, grocer,
and his family.
Around 1895 Charles Franklin Brown, 20, came to Salem from his home town of
Charlestown and went to work in the large grocery store of Cobb, Bates, and
Yerxa, at 176 Essex Street. He would eventually become a buyer for the store.
In 1898 or son he married Alice Stevenson of Salem, whose family owned houses
and a variety store (62 Essex) in this neighborhood. Her mother was Elizabeth
Stevenson, widow of David Stevenson, who resided at 60 Essex Street. Mrs.
Stevenson had purchased the house at 59 Essex Street in 188l(ED 1164:220), and
its lot included the land that would later become the lot for this #2 Daniels Street.
At that time ( 1881) a carriage house stood on the site of the present house.
By 1904, the C.F. Browns (with son Chester, four) resided at 58 Essex Street (at
that time, Mr. Brown was known as C. Frank Brown and was listed as grocery
clerk). The same was true in 1905 (see Salem Directory listings). In 1906, C.
Frank Brown and family were listed at Two Daniels Street (see Salem Directory),
as they would be for years to come. The Salem Real Estate Assessments show
Charles F. Brown first paying taxes on Two Daniels Street in 1907 (Ward One,
precinct Two). From this, it is possible to say that the house was built in 1906 for
the C.F. Brown family and that it stood on the land of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevenson, who evidently paid for the construction of the house, while
Mr. Brown paid the taxes on it.
In 1907 a daughter, Dorothy, was born to the Browns. At about that time, Mr.
Brown was promoted from clerk to buyer at the grocery business where he had
been working for 12 years (see advertisement from 1905 Salem Directory,
appended).
In 1910 (per census, 2 Daniels St., house 66, ward one) the residents here were
Charles Brown, 35, buyer, grocery, married 12 years, Alice 35, son Chester, ten,
daughter Dorothy, three. At that time the house at 59 Essex Street was a three-
1
�family tenement. Four and Six Daniels Street were occupied by Canadian
carpenters and their families.
Salem was vibrant in 1910. Retail stores-like the grocery where Mr. Brown
worked--prospered, and machinists, carpenters, millwrights, and other specialists
all thrived. In the late 1800s, French-Canadian families began coming to town to
work in Salem's mills and factories, and more houses and tenements filled in what
had been open areas of the city. They were followed in the early 20th century by
large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian families, who settled primarily in the Derby
Street neighborhood. By the eve of World War One, Salem was a bustling,
polyglot city that supported large department stores and large factories of every
description. Its politics were lively, and its economy was strong.
In 1914, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson died. That was the year of the Great Salem
Fire. On June 25, 1914, in the morning, in Blubber Hollow (Boston Street opposite
Federal), a fire started in one of Salem's tanneries, as happened from time to time.
This fire soon raced out of control, for the west wind was high and the season had
been dry. The next building caught fire, and the next, and out of Blubber Hollow
the fire advanced easterly, a monstrous front of flame and smoke, wiping out the
houses of Boston and Essex Streets and upper Broad Street and sweeping through
Hathorne, Winthrop, Endicott, and other residential streets, then attacking South
Salem and destroying the homes on and near Lafayette Street before raging
through the tenement district. Despite the combined efforts of heroic fire crews
from many towns and cities, the fire could not be turned: it smashed into the large
factory buildings of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company (Congress Street), ·
which exploded in an inferno; and it rolled down Lafayette Street and across the
water to Derby Street, where the fire was finally halted, just beyond Union Street,
after a 13-hour rampage. The conflagration had consumed 250 acres, 1600 houses,
and 41 factories, leaving three dead and thousands homeless. Some had insurance,
some did not; all received much support and generous donations from all over the
country and the world. It was one of the greatest urban disasters in the history of
the United States, and the people of Salem would take years to recover from it.
Eventually, they did, and many of the former houses and businesses were rebuilt;
and several urban-renewal projects (including Hawthorne Boulevard, which
involved removing old houses and widening old streets) were put into effect.
With the Fire and the death of Mrs. Stevenson, the Browns decided to move. In
1914 this house and the house at 59 Essex Street were sold together to Wojciech &
Mary Piekos (ED 2260:492). The Browns moved to One Buffum Street in North
Salem. There they would live together for seven years, until the death of Mr.
2
�Brown on 9 May 1921, aged just 45 years. The Salem Evening News ran the
following obituary: "Charles Franklin Brown died at home, One Buffum Street,
yesterday after a long illness, in his 46th year. Born in Charlestown, he was the son
of Charles W. Brown & Lucy F. Mitchell. For 25 years he was employed by
Cobb, Bates, Y erxa. He was a member of Starr King Lodge, AF & AM, the Now
and Then Association, and the Washington Associates. He leaves his widow Alice
P. (Stevenson) Brown, son Chester, daughter Dorothy, mother & father."
In 1914, this house was listed as vacant, but in 1915 it was a two-family, occupied
by two widows, Mrs. Hannah Goucher and Mrs James H. (Margaret F. J.)
Redmond. In 1917 Mrs. Goucher resided here. (see Salem Directory listings).
In 1920 (per census, 2 Daniels St., house 51, ward one) the house was occupied by
the extended Freeman family: Thomas J. Freeman, 57, was a janitor at a cotton
mill (no doubt at the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills, off Congress Street) and had
come to the U.S. in 1887 from his native Ireland. He resided here with his wife
Bridget, 55, born Ireland, their three daughters (born in Mass.) Frances, 28, a
housekeeper, Mary, 25, a dressmaker, and Elizabeth, 23, a payroll clerk at shoe
factory; Mrs. Freeman's brother, Luke Durkin, 49, a brass polisher in a foundry;
and little boarders Darce Deanio, 7, and Margaret Quinlan, 7. By the 1920s, Salem
was once again a thriving city; and its tercentenary in 1926 was a time of great
celebration.
The property here was subdivided in 1950, and since that time this house and its
lot, fronting 34.40' on Daniels Street, have been a separate homestead.
Salem boomed right through to the 1960s, but the arrival of suburban shopping
malls and the relocation of manufacturing businesses took their toll, as they have
with many other cities. More than most, Salem has navigated its way forward into
the present with success, trading on its share of fame arising from the
commercialization of the witchcraft delusion, but also from its great history as an
unrivalled seaport and as the home of Hawthorne and Mcintire. Most of all, it
remains a city where the homes of the old-time merchants, mariners, and milloperatives are all honored as a large part of what makes Salem different from any
other place.
--Robert Booth for Historic Salem Inc., 16 May 2001; initial research by Sean P.
Maher, reported on 15 July 2000.
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�Historic Salem, Inc.
House History and Plaque Program
For Owner
Anne Golden
2 Daniels St.,
Salem Massachusetts
Built Circa 1906-1910
July 15, 2000
Prepared by Sean Patrick Maher
�2 Daniels St. is located in one of the oldest areas in Salem. Much of the
settlements early growth was in the area between Essex St. (then Main St.) to the
waterfront, and from the beginning of Salem Neck to where New Derby St. meets
Washington St.. As the area surrounding Salem was wilderness, full of animals, and still
occupied by the Indians, the heart of the town was in this area.
The street itself is one of the first in the city, and has been referred to by several
names over the course of its history. It is first called Ye Highway or Lane in 1661,
Highway by the Waterside in 1669, Ye Street or Lane in 1672, Lane or Highway in 1699,
Ingersoll's Lane in 1679, Daniel's Lane in 1742, and Daniels St. by 1769. Later in 186470, it is sometimes referred to as Wharf St. 1
The Ingersoll family was granted most of the land on the westerly side of Daniels
St. early on by the town, and by 1700 many homes had been erected on the street. Sidney
Perley has documented 12 houses on the easterly and 5 on the westerly side of Daniels
2
St.. In those days, Daniels St. ended where present day Derby St. is, which was then
waterfront. Where Daniels St. extension now is, on the southerly side of Derby St., was
located a point of land that extended out into the harbor. Several housed had been built
on this point during the colony's early days, but a storm in 1690 washed away the point
3
and the houses. As the wharves were extended, and the need for waterfront land
increased, the areas in between the old wharves was filled, creating the land that is there
now.
1
Perley, Salem in 1700, Essex Antiquarian, Sec. 24, p. 114
Ibid
3
Phillips, Salem in the 1t11 Century, p. 313
2
�Nathaniel Ingersoll, a very active and respected member of Salem colony, owned
the land that 59 Essex St. and 2 Daniels St. now occupy. In the 1670's, Nathaniel owned
one of several unlicensed alehouses that were active in Salem at this time. Nathaniel was
one of the few to be granted a legal license by the town selectmen, which he retained
until 1691. 4 When the witch hysteria erupted in 1692, Nathaniel Ingersoll's former
alehouse was intended to be the site of the examinations of the accused, but it was later
decided to hold them at the meeting house. 5
During the 18th Century, Salem increased in both size and importance as a
seaport. More homes and wharves were erected in the area as the old planter's estates
were broken up. A division began to develop in the town between the wealthy and the
poor. The wealthy began building their fine homes along the part of Essex St. west of
Hawthorne Blvd., on what is now called Upper Essex. East of Hawthorne Blvd., or
Lower Essex, became the home of the sailors and poorer residents of the town. 6
Scant information is available for the 59 Essex-2 Daniels St. property during the
18th Century. James Duncan Phillips' map of Salem in 1760, which is based on the
research of Sidney Perley, shows the property as encompassing roughly the same
dimensions as it did in 1950, but gives no information of who owned it at that time. It is
likely the property changed hands frequently once it left the Ingersolls due to the influx
of people and the development of the area.
In 1881, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson acquired the 59 Essex St. lot at a public
auction for $3 ,200 from Charles A. Putnam, who was acting in the interests of Anna M.
4
Perley, History of Salem, vol. 3, p. 82
Ibid, p. 258
6
Phillips, Salem in the 18th Century, p. 173
5
�Upton, who had gone insane.7 Mrs. Stevenson owned several properties along Essex St.,
including a house and cent shop located at 60 Essex St. Mary Northend refers to Mrs.
Stevenson's cent shop in her book, Memories of Old Salem. Pictures 2 and 4 show the
cent shop in the late 19th Century.
The iot of 59 Essex St. included the area 2 Daniels St. now occupies. The exact
date of construction for the house on 2 Daniels St. is not clear. An 1874 map of the city
shows a carriage house to the rear of 59 Essex which fronted on Daniels St. The carriage
house is visible in a circa 1890's picture of the Daniels House, labeled 3. An 1897 map
of the city shows 59 Essex, but lacks both the carriage house and 2 Daniels. The city
directory for 1900 lists a 2 Daniels, but the tax records for Mrs. Stevenson in 1900 list
only one dwelling house at the 59 Essex St. lot, and none for 2 Daniels. It is possible that
the 2 Daniels address refers at this time to the rear portion of 59 Essex, which had been
broken up into tenements. 2 Daniels is also absent from both the 1905 taxes for Mrs.
Stevenson and the 1906 city map. The present dwelling first makes a visible appearance
on the 1910 taxes and the 1911 map of the city, under the ownership of.Mrs. Stevenson.
It is probable that Ivirs. Stevenson built the house between 1906 and 1910.
In 1914, upon the death of Mrs. Stevenson, the executor of her estate, William D.
Chapple, sold the lot with both houses to Wojciech and Mary Piek-0s for $1. 8 Mary
Piekos inherited the land upon her husband's death and sold it to Dorothy Clark, of
Marblehead in June of 1950 for $2,000. 9 Dorothy Clark broke the property into two
separate lots, as shown on the surveyor's report for 1950, which is enclosed. Lot A, or 2
Daniels, was sold back to Mary and Genevieve Piekos in July of 1950 for less than
1
8
South Essex Registry of Deeds, B. 1164, p. 220
Ibid, b. 2260, p. 492
�$100. 10 In March of 1958, for an undisclosed amount, Mary and Genevieve Piekos sold 2
Daniels to Peter S. and Marion S. Whitaker ofMarblehead. 11 Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker
sold the land in June of 1961 to Andrziej T. and Rita C. Malionik. 12 In April of 1966,
J\.1r. and Mrs. Malionik sold the lot to George E. and Joyce E. Merrit.
13
Ellsworth P. and
Carol B. Landry ofDanvers bought the property from the Merrits in 1968. 14 TheLandrys
held the property until 1977, when it was sold to Duane M. and Doris Eagen of
Marblehead for $21,000. 15 In September of 1984, it was sold to Duane M. Eagen, of
Norman, Oklahoma for nominal consideration.
16
In September of 1987, Mr. Eagen sold
the lot to Constantinos Georgakis of Beverly for $129,250. 17 Mary A. Corona bought the
land for $155,000 in February of 1988. 18 In November of 1992, Mark W. Bowen
purchased the lot for $90,000 from Ms. Corona. 19 And in May of 1996, Anne Golden,
the requester of this history, purchased the lot and house for $139, 000.
9
Ibid, b. 3753, p. 64
Ibid, b. 3753, p. 66
11
Ibid, b. 4447, p. 199
12
Ibid, b. 4782, p. 386
13
Ibid, b. 5352, p. 550
14
Ibid, b. 5577, p. 43
15
Ibid, b. 6005, p. 284
16
.
. - Ibid, b. 7560, p. 356
11
Ibid, b. 9222, p. 293
18
Ibid, b. 9411, p. 539
19
Ibid, b. 11608, p. 582
20
Ibid, b. 13593, p. 403
HJ
20
�South Essex _District Registry of Deeds
Book i3593, p. 403
Grantor-Mark W. Bowen
Grantee- Anne Golden
Consideration--$13 9,900
Book 11608, p. 582
Grantor~ Mary A Corona
Grantee- Mark W. Bt>Wn
Consideration~
$90,000
Northeasterly by Danieis St.~ 34AO ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll, 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding, 33.24 ft,
Northwesterly by lot B., 48.46 ft.
Book 9411, p. 539
Grantor- Constantinos Georgakis
Grantee~ Mary A. Corona
Consideration.. $155,000
Northeasterly by Daniels St 34.40 fl:,
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft
Book 9222, p. 293
Grantor~ Duane M. Eagen
Grantee- Constantinos Georgakis
Consideration-- $65,000
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 7560, p. 356
Grantor.. Duane M. Eagen and Doris Eagen
Grantee~ Duane M. Eagen
Consideration- nominal
Northeastely by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
�Book 6005, p. 284
Granter~ Elisworth P. Landry and Carol B. Landry
Grantee- Duane M. Eagen and Doris Eagen
Consideration" $21,500
Northeasteriy by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 5577, p. 43
Granter- George E. Merritt and Joyce E. Merritt
Grantee~ Ellsworth P. Landry and Carol B. Landry
Northeasterly by Danieis St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carron 48.33
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 5352, p. 550
Granter~ Andrziej T. Malionik and Rita C. Malionik
Grantee- George E. Merritt and Joyce E. Merritt
Northeasterly by Danieis St. 34.40
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 4782, p. 386
Grantor- Peter S. Whitaker and Marion S. Whitaker
Grantee~ Andrziej T. Malionik and Rita C. Malionik
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 4447, p. 199
Grantor~ Mary Pinkos and Genevieve H. Pinkos
Grantee- Peter S. Wllitaker _and Marion S. Whitaker
Northeasteriy by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Carroll 48,33 ft,
Southwesterly by land ofHarding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 3753, p. 66
Grantor~ Dorothy Clark
Grantee- Mary Pinkos and Genevieve H Pinkos
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 34.40 ft.
Southeastely by Land of Carroll 48.33 ft.
�Southwesterly by land of Harding 33.24 ft.
Northwesterly by lot B 48.46 ft.
Book 3753, p. 64
Grantor- Mary Pinkos
Grantee= Dorothy Clark
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land ofMannin,_g and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
Book 2260, p. 492
Grant or-William D. Chapple
Grantee- Wojcieck Piekos AndMary Piekos
Consideration-$ I
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Manning and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
Book 1164, p. 220
G-rantor- Charles A Putnam
Grantee- Elizabeth Stevenson
Consideration- $3,500
Northeasterly by Daniels St. 87 ft.
Southeasterly by land of Manning 30 ft.
Southwesterly by land of Manning and Preston 87 ft.
Northwesterly by Essex St. 30 ft.
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I, Mark w. Bowen, of Salem, Massachusetts, for consideration of One
Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred Dollars ($139,900.00)
paid, grant to Anne Golden of Salem, Massachusetts, with quitclaim
covenants, a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon "
situated in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, bounded and
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The property . commonly known as . 2 Daniels Street, · Salem,. ,,
Massachusetts 01970, and as more particularly described in
Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof by this reference.
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the 2llltloo property locatei at 309-:-311 Colony, Noxman, Ckl.ahcma, to the abaue
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land now or late of Harding, 33. 24 feet;
Lot B on plan hereinafter mentioned, 48, 46 feet.
Being Lot A on a plan dated May, 1950 by Edwin T, Brudzynski, Surveyor,
recorded in Book 3753, Page 68.
Being the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Ellsworth P. Landry,
and Carol B. Landry dated August 20, 1973 and recorded in Essex South
District Registry of Deeds in Book 6005, Page 284.
Subject to a prior mortgage with the Salem Co-operative Bank (now
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NORTHEASTERLY
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land now or late of Carroll, 48.33 feet:
land now or late of Hardf nq, 33.24 feet;
Lot Bon plan hereinafter mentioned, 48.46 feet.
Belnq Lot A on a plan dated May, 1950, by Edwin T, Brudzynskl, Surveyor,
recorded In Book 3753, Page .68.
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Reing the same premises conveyed to the Qranto1·s by deed of George E.· Merri
end Joyce E. Merritt dated December 2, 1968 and recorded In Essex South Dlstrl
Registry of Deeds In Rook 5577 et Paqe 043.
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OR'IHtASTEBLY.by Daniels Street, .34.40 feet;
of Carroll, 48.)3 feet;
OUTHWESTERLY by land now or formerly or Harding, 33.24 feet; and
NORTHWESTERLY by lot.Bon the plan hereinafter mentioned, 46.46 ft-et;
OUTHEA.STERLY by land now or formerly
al.f;pf said measurements more or less, or however otherwise bounded
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(Description and encumbrances, if any)
.Maes, May 1950, Scale 1in.•10 tt., Edwin T. Brudzynski, Reg. Surveyor."
Northeasterly by Daniels Street, thirty-tour and forty hundrvdths (34.40) teat;
Southeasterly by lend or Carroll as shown on said plan, tortyeight and thirty-three hundredths·(4S.JJ) teat;
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Southwesterly by land ot Harding as shown on said plan, thirtythree and twenty-tour hundredths (JJ.24) teet; and
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ot the Bstate ot Wojciech Pinkos, and Mary Pinkos, widow, to be recorded herewith in the Essex South District Registry ot Deeds.
Excepting so much as may have been taken by the City or Salem
tor the widening ot Essex Street.
Consid~rati~n does not exceed one hundred .dollars.
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httlJllSlx.iai~ for consideration paid, grant to...........J.o.seph ... A.-..b'weeney... and ... Alice ...M .........-..._sweeney., ....hus.band...and ....w.if.e., ....as ... tenan.ts .....by ....the ... en.tire.ty , .... both .......................--
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Northwesterly by Essex Street, forty-eight and sixty-seven hun1
feet;
Northeasterly by Daniels Street, fifty-two and sixty hun·": dredths (52.60) feet;
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Southeasterly by Lot A on plan herein before referred to;-::_
torty-eight and forty-six hundredths (48.46) feet;
Southwesterly by land now or formerly of Harding, fiftytbree and seventy-seven hundredths (53.77) feet.
For title see deeds to me from Mary Pinkos, Administratrix
or the Estate of Wojciech Pinkos, end Mary Pinkos, widow, to be recorded herewith ln the Essex South District Registry or Deeds.
Excepting so much as may have been taken by the City of
Salem for the widening of Essex Street.
not exceed one hundred dollars.
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now or late ot Manning; thence Westerly by land now
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parallel with and I+ inches distant Westerly trom the'
Westerly side or the rear portion or the dwelling house on the granted
premises and thence upon a continuation or the last line to Essex
Street about 87 teet; thence Easterly by Essex Street JO feet I+ inches
to Daniels Street and point or beginning.
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Beginning at corner of Essex and Daniels Street and thence
running Southerly by Daniels Street about 87 feet to land now or late
of Manning; thence Westerly by land ·now or late of Manning partly by
the fence, and thence on a continuance of the line of said fence 30
teet to land now or late of Manning; thence Northerly by land now or late
ot Manning and Preston partly by the fence and thence by a line parallel
witb and 4 inches distant Westerly from the Westerly side of the rear
portion of the dwelling house on the granted premises and thence upon
a continuation of the last line to Essex Street about 87 feet; thence.
Easterly by Essex Street 30 feet 4 inches to Daniels Street and point
of beginning. Subject to mortgage of $4,500. held by Salem ri,,e Uents
savings Bank. For title see.Book 2260, Page 492 at the Essex South
District Registry of Deeds. '.
with the buildings thereon
Also another parcel of land situated in Salem~bounded and
described as follows:
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Northerly by Essex Street eighteen (18) feet, four (4)
inches; Easterly by land now or late of Edmund Whitlemore eighty-nine
(89) feet; Southerly by land now or rate of Elizabeth Valpey eighteen
(18) feet, four (4) inches; Westerly by land now or late of Joseph
Searle eighty-nine (89) feet. Together with the privilege of all
·passageways thereto belonging. For title see deed to Wojciech Piekos
and Mary Piekos, and to the survivor of them, from Salem Savings Bank
4ated January 11, 1941 and recorded in said Registry of Deeds in Book
3244, Page 464. Said Wojciec~ having deceased.
Excepting so much of the above two parcels as may have
been taken by the City of Salem for the widening of Essex Street.
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James Sullivan. Jr.
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James E. Smith
Joanna Shepard
John J. Sau111lt·rs
John F. Staniford
(ohn T. Street
John J. Sullivan
John E. Sullivan
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Marcus Shea
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Peter Swanson
Robert T. Smith
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Ellery J. Sinclair
l'rnnds F. Slwpard
l•'rnncis J. Shaw
Frank Stillnmn
Frank Stnrcloff
Frederick '\·I. Scott
Frederick I'. Simonds
George .\.Shaw
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II cnry Solie
Henry L. Shute
Herbert L. Strkkland
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Edward A. Stocker
Edward O. Sinclair
Eliza C. Stevenson
Elizabeth Ste\'cnson
10 Federal
10 Oliver
106 Esssx
00 Essex
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Frank Stillman, Jr.
Frank Sullirnn
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F. Sanborn
r:eorge IL Shepard
<:eorge W. Smith
<:corge S. Snelling
llcnry L. Shute
IIerlicrt L. Strickland
I I orace J. Sm·dcn
J. Franklin Sumes
facuh Sneden
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James S. Smart
James E, Smith
James II. Skinner
fames N. Skinner
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John R. Shaughnessy
John A. Shepard
John F. Staniford
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'John E. Sullimn
'[ohn T. Swccncv
)oscph A. Stick;iey
Lawrence R Shallcr
Lemuel W. Symonds
Lillian S. Staniford
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Martha M. Smith
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1 29 Boardman
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1 9 Williams
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Heirs George Creamer........ 12() to 120 Essex. Block, $5500; land,
5733 ft., $8500.
Salem lllarine Society.. . . . . . . 110 to 118 Essex. Store taxed on Washington square.
James Drain ...... ·......... 114 Essex. Ilouse, $2100; land, 2515 ft.,
$lli00.
George L. Upton. . . . . . . . . . . . 112)~ to 110 Essex. House, $1500; land,
2275 ft., $1300.
Mary Flynn, one-half... . . . . . . 108 Essex. House, $1000; lantl, 14G!J ft,,
$1JOU; stock, $100.
I lcirs Anna F. Andrews, one-half 100 Essex. House, $1100; land, 1047 ft., 1
$700.
Charles S. Rea, et al, trustee heirs 10·1 Essex. !louse, $2000; land, 7145 ft.,
!Janie( C. Manning.
$8200.
Lucretia 0. S. Johnson ...... . 100 Essex. House, $4700; land, 2880 ft.,
$1100; personal, $1800.
Nathaniel G. Symonds, executor 98 Essex. Houst>, $2500; land, 3225 ft.,
estate of Laura Lambert.
$1100.
'
I leirs Willard A. Ashby ..... . !J6 Essex. llouse, $1GOO; land, 21!JO ft.,
$800.
Mary E. Duignan •........... !J4 tu !J2t{, Essex. llouse, $5000; land,
u:Hu
fl.,
0000
31100
2800
11'00
r.200
1800
li800
31100
2400
©llO
irnoo.
Samuel Knight.. . . . . . . . . . . . . !J2 .Essex. llousc, $1000; land, 4720 ft.,
$1300; eight horses, $700; per·
sonal, $500.
Eliza C. Stevenson........... 90 Essex. House, $1400; land, 8854 ft.,
$1200.
City of Salem... • . . . . . . . . . . . Essex. School, $88,000; land, 18,000 ft.,
$7200.
EclwardT.Dalrymple,two·thirds. 82 Essex. House, $1200; land, 1840 ft.,
$600; one horse, $100.
Mary A. Kimhall, one-third... 82 Essex. !louse, $GOO; land, 920 ft.,
$300.
John II. Holt............... 78 to 70 Essex. House, $2600; land,
8850 It., $1000.
S. C. Morse and A. W. Moulton, 74 Essex. House, $1500; land, 1400 ft.,
$500.
George F. Getchell ....•...... 72 Essex. House, $1100; land, 144!J ft.,
$000.
Heirs Thomas F. Burbank..... 70 Essex. House, $2300; land, 2050 ft.,
moo
100
1200
:woo
2000
40,200
100
1800
000
8600
2000
1700
3100
~00.
Zina Goodell.... . . . . . • . . • . . . 08 lo 04 Essex. House, $0000; land,
5480 ft., $2200.
Elizabeth Stevenson ....•.•..• 60 Essex. House, $1800; land, 1800 ft,,
$700.
59 Essex. House, $1600; land, 2d40 ft.,
$800.
56 !tr 58 Essex. House, $4800; land,
7317 ft., $2800.
Marietta B. Wilkins ....•••... 54 Essex. House, $700; land, 720 ft.,
$200.
52 Essex. House, $3000; land, 10,IGO
ft., $2800.
City of Salem............... Essex. School, $84,500; land, 19,450 ft.,
$5600.
Charles Bowker. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Essex. llouse, $1400; land, 2000 ft.,
$000.
44 Essex. House, ,£2000; land, 10,511
ft., $2500.
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2500
2400
42
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LOCATION.
Description and Value of Real E.state.
NAME
Total Tax.
r·. •
CUSTOM HOUSE PLACE.
1:-
Herman Tyburc .... , ....
io &
12. House, $6200.
14 & 16. Honse, $1600.
6200
1600
114 70
20 GO
2800
Ill 80
1700
31
64
·12
20
46
42
48
DANIELS STREET.
Elizabeth Stephenson ...
2.
Hot1Sl', $2800; land tal(P.d on Essex
.
s~
.,
i
'
ElizabPth R. Graves .....
Joseph Kowalski, et al. ..
Michael l\:obrullm
Sarah B. Iloo<l, et al. . .. .
Dom Ilm·witz ......... .
Wludyslaws Soboczinski ..
Michael Aronson, et al. . .
Mamie Colliet', et al. . ...
Louis Collier ....•.......
Stanislaus Pszenny, et al.
Bernard Grodski ....... .
Bolslaw J. Soboczinski ..
4. House, $1000; Jund, 2635 ft., $700.
6 & 8. llousp, $2500; land, 5940 ft., $1000.
10. Honi<t>, $1500; Jund, 3420 ft., $800.
.12. Houxt>, $500; land, 2620 ft. $600.
1
121/,i. Houst', $2500.
14. Honse. $1500; land, 3290 ft., $800.
16. House, $2000; laud, 1920 ft., $600.
22. Va<'nnt t>orner, taxed on Derby St.
24. Houst', $1500 ; lnncl, 670 ft., $300.
26. Homw. $5700; Jund, 1729 ft., $300.
28. Roust', $1500; Jund, 2100 ft., $300,
30. House. $400; land, 945 ft., $200.
36. llonst>, $1200; land, 2610 ft., $500.
40. Honse, $1300; land, 4815 ft., $800.
8600
2300
1100
2500
2800
2600
Ji)
75
fii1
:Ji)
2•)
fJl)
10
:m !lO
11 I 00
1800
6000
1800
600
.1700
;1:~
30
11 10
:n .ir,
2100
38 85
18400
247 !10
9600
177 uo
DERBY STREcT.
Frnnk Langmaid, et al. ..
313.
Lmnht•r Tiuilcling, $800; sand shed,
$::00.
311 & :ion.
Oflil'l' mul lmnber bldg., $1200.
Wharf, 16.::rno ft., $4200.
305. fa1111ht•r building·nnd stable, $800,
301 & 29i. LmnbPr hnilding, $300,
293. L11111lii•r building, $800; Jund llntl
Heirs Il. C. ~fanning, et al.
The
New England Investment Co. . ..
wharf, 20,650 ft., $5000.
Building. $1200; <'ottl :,;heels and stahh'. $2400; land, 24000 ft., $6000.
279. -·-nuilding, $2500. -·
277. Building in rear, $200; building in
289.
$2500.
1·1•111·.
275.
277.
277.
Almy, Bigelow & Washburn ........... .
Pitman & Brown Co., Inc.
i;Jwds, $500.
xllt•rl, $100. llnilding in rear,
$:100.
Hldg. in l'l'lll'. $200; laud. 23,350 ft.,
81alil"
111111
261.
I
~I'\\'
$1i000,
271.
269.
12300
TI11ililing.
Building
500 ft..
Bnil<ling
$Ci00.
on wharf, $1700; land, 18,$-1600.
and Htabh',
22.!IOO ft., $5600.
$800;
land,
I
6900 I
6400
l:!i ti5
118 -10
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NAME
al Tax.
De•cription and Value of Real Estate.
.Tnhn Il. Harding ....... .
!)(12 00
G3.
Thomas Chroniak , ••....
Elizaheth Stephenson ••..
(12\l 00
65.
Christn.bcl Swn.sey , , •... .
38B 50
61.
5!l.
House, $1-100. House in rear, $700;
Janel, 37!l5 ft .. :·uooo.
Hornm, $1200; house in rear, $400;
land, 2075 ft .. $600.
IIbuse, $1000: land, 1584 ft., $500.
H;9n&c, _,~2000; .land, . 2640 ft., $1000.
Cli!'i 25
12\l 50
FRONT STREET.
203 50
Charles A. Krtchum ...•.
2-4.
'.
folen S. Collins ..•.... . .
111 00
;,o
lCIO
! .
Al\le11 B. Gardner ••• , ....
Mi<'huel J,, Sullivan, et al.
00
!)(\ 20
13B 75
land,
9900
183 Hi
Il11ihli11g, $6000; land, 4620 ft..,
12000
238 05
3700
68 45
2200
6-12.
,,,,
-~·
16-18.
ll11ildi11g, $2000; Janel, 1165 ft.,
$1700,
""nltc1· G. Phippen ••••••
Eh·auoi· l'. Ginn, et als .•.
2110 .,;,
(j(l
ft.,
$5500;
$G!l00.
212 iii
lil 80
lO!J 1!>
ll11il<li11g,
$-1400.
Cit.y of Salem ••••....•• .
~l:wthn.
Goodell •.••.....
Tlohert C. Wheelock ••....
w. J. nolclthwaite •••.•..
William J. Goldthwaite .•
tlO li5
138 75
Cit.y of Salem
101 30
George L. Hooper, et al. ..
Cl4 7r\
17 70
Michael L . Sullivan, et al.
20. Iluil<ling, $2000; ln.nd, 1870 ft., $2800.
22. lluil<ling, $6'0 00 ; In.ml, 2552 ft., $5000.
32. llnilding, $5000: laud, 1950 ft;, $4000.
43-·l!l. n11ilcli11g, $!i000; l.mrn, $200; land,
64 88 ft" $12,800.
33-33 %. Iluileling. $1800.
31. Iluil<ling, $800; Janel, 14,100 ft., $14000.
27-25. Il11ilding, $8000; land, 4400 ft.,
$5000.
•
23-21. Iluildings, $6000, $300; land, 3306
ft., $4000.
Ilear on cit,v ltttul. Sta.hie and sheds, $300.
Land, !120 ft .• $!JOO.
l!l-17. Il11ilcli11g, $3000; lan<l, 1352 ft.,
$1800.
Ilen.r 17. Stahle, sheds n.nd office,
$2000 ; land, 11,!l20 ft., $6000.
15. Police station, $8000; land, 1935 ft.,
$2rnO.
11-3. Ilnilcling. $11.000; land, 10,383 ft.,
$10,700.
1. Il11ilcling, $4000: land, 3200 ft., $4800.
4800
11000
!JOOO
18000
88
203
100
333
80
50
50
00
10000
307 10
13000
240 50
101!00
100 55
:JOO
!JOO
4800
5 55
65
88 BO
8000
148 00
10400
192 40
21700
401 45
'8800
102 BO
1000
lliOO
18 50
27 75
lliOO
3500
1200
800
64 75
22 20
14 80
1100
1000
3800
20 35
18 50
70 30
1()
7;, 8!'i.
GRANT STREET.
101 7!'i
Bl ·10
212 75
12!1 80
!l9 !lO
r,1 80
-lO iO
48 10
\18 05
Honnra Hegan .•.........
Lon is Collie1· .• •• .•......
,Juhn Szt.emplewsky •••...
Sla11isla11s I'sze nny, et al.
'\"nltm· Shapiro .•.••••...
Fra11cii; ka Dromhrowski
•Jns!' ph Wade •....••..•..
;\(nm l\ins1nn.n .........•
~l;1rt.\m Kohn .•.. .. . .• ..
House, $800: laud. 1020 ft., $200.
Honse, $1200; land, 2250 ft., $300.
Honse, $1200; l:m<l, 1600 ft., $300.
Hons<', $3200; land, 2700 ft., $300.
Hot1Sl' , $1100 ; land, 3000 ft. , $300.
Honse, $!100; shop, $100; land, 2000
ft .. $200.
21-23. Hons<'. $700: land. 3700 ft., $400 •
22. House , $800: Janel, 1800 ft., $200.
20. Honse, $3000; barn, $200; land, 3\100
ft. .. $600.
1.
5.
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11.
15.
l!l.
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Title
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Daniels Street
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2 Daniels Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
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Built 1906 for Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson (plaque has more wording than this)
Creator
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Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
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1906, 2001
Contributor
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Robert Booth
Language
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English
1906
2
2001
Brown
Charles
Daniels
Elizabeth
F.
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Stevenson
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Preservation at work
The following document is a collection of research on 18 Crombie Street. The document
package includes the nomination to Preservation Massachusetts' Most Endangered list, the
house mstory conducted by Rory Goff, the Holyoke Insurance house history (to deem the
house insignificant in hope of tearing it down), and other articles of interest. A larger
collection of documents concerning: tne preservat:ioo of this ho.mse Cafli be fowrrtd in1 HSI 's files.
Contact the office for more information.
9 North Street I P.O. Box 865 I Salem, MA 01970
V 978.745.0799
i F 978.744.4536
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�THE SALEM, MASS., EVENING NEWS -THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1990
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SALEM
Preservationists,· firlll feud over old downtown house
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Crombie Street
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A News staff report
SALEM - The Historical Commission and the Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co. are locked in a battle over an old house on Crombie
Street which the company wants
to tear down for parking spaces
and the commission wants to preserve.
The Historical Commission
voted unanimously Wednesday
night after a three-hour hearing
to recommend against granting a
waiver of the delay ordinance for
demolition, requested by Holyoke. The commission can only
delay demolition of the house for
six months. The Salem Redevelopment Authority will make the
decision whether it can be torn
down.
Commission members and Holyoke representatives could agree
on little about the house including its age and its structural
soundness. Commission members
contended it was structurally fine
and maybe 220 years old while
the company said it was 160 years
old, falling down and ofno historical importance.
Most of the neighbors on Crombie Street also opposed the demolition of the house, which abuts
Joe's Auto Laundry, also owned
by the insurance company. Holyoke is located across Norman
Street from Joe's Auto Laundry.
Among the groups in favor of
preserving the single family gam-
This is a 'histo:ri'We intend. to press
c ally significant
ahead to tear the
building.'
house down.'
Anne Farnham,
William}. Lundregan,
Holyoke attorney
brel house are Historic Salem
Inc. and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Anne Farnham, on behalf of
the Essex Institute, said the
house is a "historically significant
building" which is important to
preserve. She noted it was part of
the historic register.
Attorney William J. Lundregan, representing Holyoke, said
the company originally wanted to
turn the building into a conference center but it was in such
poor shape that rehabilitation
costs were too high.
"We intend to press ahead to
tear the house down," Lundregan
said.
Essex Institute
Lundregan denied charges
from opponents that the company, which employes 200 people,
was threatening to leave the city
ifit didn't get its way.
The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company and the city's Hlstorlcal Commission disagree over the age and
significance of this old gambrel home on Crombie Street and neighbors say the company's plans to
demolish the structure for a parking lot will be one more damaging blow to this downtown residential
street which Is a National Reglste~ district. View Is looking north toward Essex Street. Out of view at left Is
former Joe's Auto Laundry property at corner of Crombie and Norman streets.
T"" Salem .~··,,,•lfi'• plu>•o
He said the company could let
the building decay to a point
where city official would be
forced to tear it down.
Holyoke.didn't have any immediate plans to develop it.
He detailed the company's 140
year commitment to downtown
Salem. He said the company looks
at nearby properties when they
come up for sale if it abuts their
property. Holyoke bought the
house for $169,000 four years ago.
Commission members and others tried to determine whether
the company had any more plans
for the house lot. Lundregan said
"We'd like to find out the company's strategic plans without
any of the threats to leave the
city," said David Pelletier, a
Crombie Street resident.
Board of Appeal member Jane
Stirgwolt suggested that since the
company had no immediate plans
for the lot that it lease the house
until it works out plans. Board
members agreed that it was an
option Holyoke should consider.
Lundregan said the company had
already considered it.
Frank Montesi of 15 Crombie
St. said it is another case of a corporation "bowling over" a Salem
neighborhood. He said only four
homes will be left on the street
which was once filled with homes.
Stephanie Montesi said Crombie Street was the last residential
street downtown, according to
the Historic Register.
"I'm really frustrated about
this back door apprpach," she
said.
Commission member Russell
Slam said the demolition of the
house would be a tragedy.
"The neighborhood has been
under seige for the past 10 years.
This neighborhood is being nickel
and dimed out of existence,"
Slam said.
Commission Chairwoman Annie C. Harris said tearing down
the house will only provide a few
parking. spaces. She mentioned
other city plans to increase parking nearby. She said the property
is listed under the Crombie
Street National Register District.
�Salem Historical Commission
ONE SALEM GREEN, SALEM, MASSACHUSEITS 01970
(617) 7 45-9595, EXT. 311
I 5 May 2001
Kathryn Coggeshall
Endangered Resource Program
Historic Massachusetts, Inc.
Old City Hall
45 School Street
Boston MA 02 I 08
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RE: 2001 List of Most Endangered Historic Resources/ 18 Crombie Street, Salem
Dear Ms. Coggeshall:
The Salem Historical Commission would like to support the nomination submitted to you by
Historic Salem Incorporated, and urge that 1-1.M.I. list 18 Crombie Street in Salem among the
Commonwealth's I 0 most endangered historic resources in 200 I.
Built circa 1770 and moved to its pre.sent site in 1830, this building is a rare surv1v111g
example of a colonial period vernacular house in Salem's central business district. In contrast to
the grand scale and high style of Salem's famous Georgian and Federal mansions, the diminutive
size and setting of this properly is deceptive, causing it to be easily overlooked and
underestimated. In !'act, compact closely spact.:d womlen houses or this type dominated 18'11
century Salem and the historical significance of the City's now more numerous surviving
mansions cannot be fully understood without recognizing their common and traditional
counterparts, such as 18 Crombie Street. Today, only three other comparable houses remain in
Salem's central business district (See NR Nomination form, item 7, pp. 2-3).
In addition to its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is the oldest and smallest of 6
historic buildings which constitute a substantially intact early I 9th century urban streetscapc and
modern residential enclave. As a whole, this strcctscape creates a historical setting for the
prominent Crombie Street Church (1828), which is a focal point of the district and a notable early
example or the Greek revival architectural style in Essex County. The combined impacts of 19' 11
century commercial and industrial expansion, the Great Salem lire or 19 I 4, and urban renewal
clearance programs during the mid 20 111 century have all served lo isolate Crombie Street today as
an archaic and charming reminder or early selllement patterns in Sale111 's evolving central
business district.
In I 983, this property was listed on the National Register as part or a Downtown Salem
Mu ltiplc Resource Norn ination. In I 990, the owner app Iied to the Sa !cm I-I istorica I Commission
!'or a waiver from the City's demolition delay ordinance and lo the Salem Redevelopment
Authority for a permit to demolish the building. Both applications were denied and since that
time no permit has been issued !or demolition. Furlhcnnore, the Massachusetts 1-listorical
Commission and the Architectural Conservation Trust for Massachusetts included this property
on their respective lists of'"rnosl endangered" properties in 1990. /\s a result, 18 Crombie Street
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has been a subject or legal dispute and "demolition by neglect'' for over len years. During the
past year, however, there have been renewed efforts to re-open negotiations toward preservation
of this building. These efforts have been promoted by Crombie Street residents, Historic Salem
Incorporated, the City Council, the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation and the
Salem Evening News.
The Salem Historical Commission fully supports these efforts and the nomination submitted
by Historic Salem Incorporated. We urge H.M.I. to increase public awareness of this greatly
underestimated and critically endangered property by including it on the list of I 0 most
endangered historic resources in the Commonwealth this year.
Please feel free to call if you would like to discuss this matter further.
Sincerely,
Lance Kasparian
Salem Historical Commission, chair
cc:
Joe Walsh, planning department
.Jane Guy, SHC clerk
Joan Lovely, City Council
Tim Jenkins, H.S.l.
John Goff, H.S.I.
�The Wendt House at 18 Crombie Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Application for State's Most Endangered Listing
2001 MASSACHUSETTS' TEN MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC RESOURCES
NOMINATION FORM
Srrn INFORMATION:
Property Name: Wendt House a/k/a Ferguson-Pike-Cate-Jefferson-Dane House
Property Address: 18 Crombie Street,
City I State I Zip: Salem, MAO 1970
NOMINATOR INFORMATION:
Applicant Name: Historic Salem, Inc.
Affiliation I Relation to the Property: Historic Salem, Inc. (HSI) is Salem's 501 ( c) 3 community
preservation advocacy organization. HSI in 2000 commenced designating list(s) of Most Endangered Historic
Resources in Salem, following HMI and National Trust example. The Wendt House is tlte most critical(v
e11da11gered historic property on HSl's first "Most Endangered" historic resources list.
Applicant Address: Post Office Box 865,
City I State I Zip: Salem, MA 01970
Applicant Tclephone:[p/ease include both day and evening 1111111/JersJ (978) 745-0799 day and evening.
Applicant Fax: (978) 744-4536
PROPERTY OWNER INFORMATION:
Owner Name: Holyoke Mutual Square, Inc., or Holyoke Square, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Holyoke
Mutual Insurance Company, a/k/a Holyoke of Salem Insurance Agency, Inc.
Owner Address: I Iolyoke Sq.,
City I State I Zip: Salem, Mi\ 01970
Owner Telephone: (978) 745-6420
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Please provide additional information with al/achments. (fnecessmy.
I.. DESCRIPTION OF THE ENDANGERED RESOURCE
Briefly describe the resource's selling, structures, and/or major.features.
Setting: Crombie Street is the core street in the Crombie Street Historic District, Salem's smallest National
Register listed historic district. The Crombie Street District is composed of six remaining buildings in the last
surviving residential enclave in the heart of Salem's downtown. The street is a paved narrow lane, lined with
18 111 and 19 111 century timber, brick, and stone buildings from the Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, and
Italianate periods and styles. It is only one block long. The district includes a cross-section of residential
buildings from various periods of development, along with a church building originally built as a theatre. Wood
is the dominant material, although the Crombie Street Church and the Bowker House are brick. All the
buildings directly abut the sidewalk, suggesting high density, but placement on the lots is irregular, creating a
neighborhood atmosphere.
The street runs from the old Ruck's Creek waterfront area at its low end (now Norman Street), up to Essex
Street, which traditionally marked the high land, and "ye Main Street" forming the cast-west spine of the
peninsula upon which ! 7' 11 century Salem was settled. The Wendt House anchors the west side of the low end
of the street. It is widely exposed upon its south and west sides, due to the prior removals of other historic
houses.
Structures and Major Features: The Wendt House is a small, handsome I 811i century, Georgian Style, 2-1/2
story, gambrcl roofed timber framed house. It is clad in old wood shingles, painted brown, and has 6/6 double
hung windows, as well as a central brick chimney, impressive wood wainscot and interior details, and a small
two story kitchen addition added to the south side as an ell
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Additional architectural description and plans and Overview, sec Section L
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Photographs, sec Section B
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Slides, sec Section C
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Articles, sec Section H
2. SETflNG.
Does the immediate site retain its original character? Are there open space issues? fr there evidence of
early landscape features and/or design?
The immediate site retains much of its original character from at least the J 830s decade, when it is believed
that I 8 Crombie Street was assembled from older houses, moved to and joined on the old waterfront site.
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Additional site description and documentation, sec Additional Old Maps Section N and
Locator map, see Section D
National Register nomination forms, sec Section G
Historic Landscape analysis and study has been hindered and prevented by Holyoke's deliberate efforts to
demolish the building by neglect. Vestigial plantings remain, but are obscured by weeds, rubbish, and
encroaching pavement. No archaeological study.available.
3. CONTEXT
Whal does the s111To111uli11g area look like? Is ii similar to the original setting:' !Iow has it changed? J>lease
describe with details.
The Wendt House is located on the west side of Crombie Street in the old "Knocker's Hollow"
neighborhood of Salem. It anchors the lowest and southernmost end of Crombie Street where it intersects
Norman Street. Norman Street is part of Route J 14 and Salem's dominant urban entry corridor from Route
128 and the north.
18 Crombie Street's surrounding area is Salem's last surviving early residential neighborhood in the
western part of the central business district. It is part of a National Register district and former waterfront
area.
The principal change over the centuries has been the filling in of the old stream and Ruck's Creek working
waterfront, the demolition of many early buildings, including famed woodcarver and Salem architect
Samuel Mclntire's own home (to create the new Holyoke Building) located directly across Norman Street.
One block west is Summer Street, which forms the boarder between the CBD and the Mcintire local
historic district, where Norman Street continues as Chestnut Street, the site of Salem's finest collection of
Federal period homes-The Wendt House is now the "end" building in the eroded historic Crombie Street
neighborhood, pressure is now being exerted upon 18 Crombie Street to fall.
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/\pplication !'or State's Most Endangered Listing
4. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Briejly state the historical significance <~/'the resource and its relevance to the local co1111111111ity. ls the resource
listed 011, or eligiblejbr listing 011, the Stale or National Register ofl!istoric !'laces:'
Lance Kasparian, Chairman of the Salem Historical Commission characterized the Wendt House's historical
significance as follows:
"Built circa 1770 and moved to its present site in 1830, this building is a rare surviving example
ofa colonial period vernacular house in Salem's central business district. In contrast to the grand
scale and high style of Salem's famous Georgian and Federal mansions, the diminutive size and
setting of this property is deceptive, causing it to be easily overlooked and underestimated. In fact,
compact closely spaced wooden houses of this type dominated 18th century Salem and the historical
significance of the City's now more numerous surviving mansions cannot be fully understood
without recognizing their common and traditional counterparts, such as 18 Crombie Street. Today,
only three other comparable houses remain in Salem's central business district (Sec NR Nomination
form Section G)."
The decline of buildings in the Crombie Street Historic District from eight to six since the National Register
nomination was first prepared, further underscores the rarity and significance of the few buildings which
remain.
It is also important, historically, for many reasons including both its early occupation by William Pike (a U.S.
Customs House official and personal friend of both l JS President Franklin Pierce and Salem's N<tthaniel
Hawthorne) and the Jefferson and Farmer families, important members of Salem's early Afro-American and
maritime community. Circumstantial evidence suggests that 18 Crombie Street may possess additional
significance as a circa 1840 local center of Afro-American liberation-one of the "stops" on Salem's
Underground Railroad. It is an important core contributing element within a recognized National Register
district.
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Letter in the Salem Evening News, January :24, :200 !-"distinguished history", sec Section H
Beyond its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is particularly important <ts an <1nchor structure in an
intact historic neighborhood under redevelopment pressure. It supports and preserves Salem's only surviving
early downtown neighborhood within the bounds of the CBD. This area has felt intense pressures of urban
development and encroachment in the past. Older historic structures were formerly located up the hill, where
the parking lot is now located at the head of Crombie Street, across the street where the White Hen Pantry is
now located, immediately downhill on the asphalt parking surrounding Joe's Auto Laundry and also across
Norman Street on the site of the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company building
The Salem Historical Commission spoke to contextual associations as follows:
"In addition to its individual significance, 18 Crombie Street is the oldest and snrnllest of 6
historic buildings which constitute a substantially intact early 19th century urban streetscape and
modern residential enclave. As a whole, this streetscape creates a historical setting for the prominent
Crombie Street Church (I 828), which is a focal point of the district and a notable early example of
the Greek revival architectural style in Essex County. The combined impacts of 19th century
commercial and industrial expansion, the Great Salem fire or 1914, and mban renewal clearance
programs during the mid :20th century have all served to isolate Crombie Street today as an archaic
and charming reminder of early settlement p<ttterns in Salem's evolving central business district."
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Application for Slate's Most Endangered Listing
The Wendt House is a "bookend" building in a threatened historic neighborhood. It needs to be saved to
preserve the neighborhood as a whole. The Salem Evening News recognized this fact in December, 2000, when
it reversed a long held pro-development position to advocate preserving the house upon its ancient site, because
it illustrates the "cheek by jowl" density of urban downtown neighborhoods in centuries past.
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For additional documentation of 18 Crombie Street's importance as part of a small but
significant district, under development pressure, see "Most Endangered" materials from 1990
[SHC reference, sec Section E], also Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Commission, City
of Salem, Massachusetts Historical Commission, ACT for Massachusetts, Inc., National Trust
for Historic Preservation and Crombie Street Neighborhood Association support letters,
dating from 1990 through May, 200 I l Preservation Support Letters, Section M]
5. THREAT
What is the nature o.f the threat to the property? (Threats might include demolition, arson, neglect,
inappropriate rehabilitation, over-development, vandalism, and/or pending sale or.forc/osure without
restrictions in place.) Please be specific about the threat over the next month, six months, one year and beyond.
The Wendt House suffers from a great number of threats.
The principal active threats to the Wendt House are: demolition, demolition by neglect, risk of arson, risk of
accidental loss by fire, and risk of vandalism, all accelerated in recent months both by new damage to the
building's weather envelope evidenced by broken and unboarded window(s), second floor level; also stepped up
effo1is on Holyoke's part to eliminate all problems by eliminating the building.
The Wendt House's chief threat derives from its current ownership. Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company, the
current owner, seeks to remove the historic house by demolition. The building stands across Norman Street
from the Company's main office building. It was erected in the late 20 111 century on the site of Salem architect
and woodcarver Samuel Mclntire's residence. Mclntire's residence was destroyed by Holyoke to create a new
site for a commercial office building in an essentially residential neighborhood, and now Holyoke wishes to
remove the Wendt House to create a small number of downtown parking spaces.
In addition to all the factors listed above, the Wendt House is additionally physically threatened by its proximity
lo Salem's "dry" homeless sheller on Crombie Street which, when ti.ill, exacerbates homeless persons and
vagrancy problems on Crombie Street most heavily, and to a lesser degree in the whole western part of
downtown.
Architecturally, the Wendt House is further physically threatened by its proximity to Holyoke's ever-expanding
asphalt parking lots, and Holyoke's policy of attempting lo promote intense rental parking on land near the
house. The close proximity of the new asphalt parking lots (combined with Holyoke's long standing desire to
remove the historic building) allows now for large piles of snow to be piled against and near the house in the
winter, providing more water damage and pollution run-off on the property, and opens the possibility for plows
and heavy vehicles to collide with the long abandoned, timber framed house.
For the record, it should be noted that since the Wendt House preservation crisis was first started by Holyoke in
the late 1980s, Holyoke, while being thwarted in obtaining a demolition permit for the house, has been
successful in
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Destroying and removing wood picket fences and constructing additional parking spaces in
the side and rear yards in 1993
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Demolishing the rear porch about 1995.
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/\pplication for Slate\ Most Endangered Listing
The abandoned nature of the house, as well as its sun dried exterior and occasional use as a teenage "hang out"
area, due to its being an attractive nuisance, further increases fire risks, particularly in summer and warm
weather months. There arc no known fire alarms or smoke detectors in the building. and the building receives.
Due to the variety of threats and conditions associated with this property, the Wendt House is at active risk for
loss year round, due to three primary factors:
I)
Changing threat risks associated with changes in the season (e.g. highest vagrancy problems
in winter; highest teenage hangout problems in summer), as well as
2)
The constant desire of the owner to lose the building by any means, and
3) The slow but steady erosion which is occurring, due to the aging of the wood frame house,
with complete non-provision of Owner-supplied maintenance.
Prior to becoming Executive Director of Historic Salem, Inc., HSI spokesman and preservation architect John
Goff served for many years as Historic Massachusetts, Inc. 's Preservation Advocate for the Souther Tide Mills
in Quincy, one of the first properties ever nominated to HMI's Most Endangered List. Mr. Goff has noted for
our record that
"The Wendt House in Salem has many of the same architectural preservation problems
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associated with the Souther Tide Mills-typical of abandoned I 8 " centlllJ' timber frame
buildings left exposed to the elements/or many years. Yet with the Wendt House, the
problems are more shocking lo perceive, because the building is located in the heart of an
historic !vlas.rnchusell.1· city, which prides itself upon its historic districts, and its heritage
to11ris111 attractions. "
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There is additional reason to believe that the Wendt House at I 8 Crombie Street is now Eligible for Listing as
Most Endangered at State Level in 2001, because, according to records on file with both Historic Salem, Inc.
and the Salem Historical Commission,
"the !vlassachusetls f-hl·torical Commission and the Architectural Conservation Trust for
!1/assad111sl'lts i11c/11clecl this 11ro11ert_\' 011 their re.1·11<•cfil•e lists of '111ost e11cla11gerecl' properties
fat State levelJ in 1990. see SJ JC letter Section E"
NOTE: The status of the 18 Crombie Street House thus begs the question "What happened to the State's Most
Endangered Properties between 1990 and 1993 ifthe Wendt House was first listed upon both MHC's and
ACT's lists in 1990-but NOT listed upon the first list created by HM! after it merged with ;\CT for
Massachusetts, Inc. by 1993?"
Shouldn't the Wendt House NOW BE ON the list of State's Most Endangered-not only because of the current
crisis and condition of the property-but also due to the fact that no preservation dangers were remediated or
removed between 1990 and 200 I?
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A comparison of photographs of the Wendt House from the late 1980s-compared with those taken in 2001demonstrate very real deterioration in the fabric of the building, due to its abandonment, deferred maintenance,
and prolonged preservation problems over many years: Sec and compare photograph I (200 I), Section B
with 1989 photograph Section H
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The paint on the wood shingles has all but washed away completely on the upper portion of
the front far;ade.
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The wood shutters have been lost in their entirety.
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A number of the window panes (with early, wavy glass) have been broken out. Many of the
early window sash arc rotted and decayed.
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The foundation has been deteriorated by the roots of 5 inch diameter sumac trees near the
building which have grown 20 feet tall.
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Landscape and yard has been removed to create new rental parking spaces adjacent to the
house.
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The rear porch was allowed to collapse, and was removed.
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The conditions of the roof, downspouts, gutters, sills and timber framing is unknown.
The Wendt House's deteriorations would not be so disturbing, were they not intentionally inflicted, as
byproducts of a Demolition by Neglect land use strategy promoted by one of Salem's largest taxpayers,
employers, and properly casualty insurance company.
The Demolition By Neglect nature of the Wendt House situation is evidenced both by Holyoke's repeated
efforts to tear the building down by legal means, combined with the prolonged abandonment, as well as by a
1990 admission by William .I. Lundregan, the company's attorney, that:
"Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company ... wants to tear down ... an old house on Crombie
Street .. .for parking spaces .... {and should this request.for a demolition permit he denied] the
company could [still choose to} let the building decay to a point where city oj}icials would be
forced to tear it down" jscc November 8, 1990 newspaper article, Section HI
In order to fully comprehend the multi-faceted, complex, challenging, and prolonged nature of the preservation
problems associated with the Wendt House, it is necessary to look beyond and beneath all the physical
manifestations and problems described above to attempt a better and more accurate understanding of the
corporate mentality, and core "mindset" of Holyoke Insurance, which owns the house-as well as the nearby
parking lots and the large office building.
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Holyoke's demolition of Salem architect Samuel Mclntire's own house (formerly located on
the site of the new office building) attests to a past disinterest in preservation.
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The company has rebuffed and/or ignored at least four proposed alternate preservation re-use
options for the Wendt House over the last 12 years, sec Reuse proposals, Section K:
1.
In December, 1990 (shortly after the Wendt House first became endangered by
Holyoke) Pioneer Village in 1630--one of Salem's oldest outdoor educational and
heritage tourism sites-proposed that the Wendt House be restored where it wasand used both for new "classroom facility and residence" by Pioneer Village-and
"valuable reception, meeting and training space for the Holyoke Insurance
Company."
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2.
In March, I 991 (about two years after the Wendt House was first endangered) the
newly formed non-profit organization The Society for the Study of War and
Culture, Inc. proposed purchasing 18 Crombie Strccl ror USC as its new
headquarters. The Society proposed that "This headquarters building will contain
our Offices and Library and provide storage space for the equipment used in our
planned living history program, the Lewisburg Grenadiers Interpretive History
Project." The Society's proposal was rebuffed.
3.
In March, 200 I, (shortly after the property became publicized on HSI 's first Most
Endangered List in December, 2000) Historic Salem, Inc. proposed that Holyoke
either a) transfer the property to Salem Harbor CDC for ultimate renovation as a
first-time homebuyer house; orb) transfer the property to HSI to arrange its
transfer, after restoration, to "an appropriate family." J-ISl's March, 200 I proposal
was rebuffed.
4.
In March and May, 200 I, the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation
proposed having "Holyoke ... work ... with the Salem Harbor CDC on renovating
this property so that it could be re-sold to a first-time homebuyer." To date, Salem
Harbor CDC's offer has been completely rebuffed.
In addition to rebuffing a number of appropriate preservation re-uses for the property, Holyoke has
repeatedly pressured the City to issue it a demolition permit for razing the Wendt House, lost all attempts to
secure a permit, appealed the denial in Court, lost the legal appeal-and yet still persisted in maintaining
that it seeks no other options than to demolish the property--either outright, or through demolition by
neglect.
All of this contextual history relating to the ongoing preservation battles over the last dozen ycarsindicates a tenacity and corporate stubbornness, which highlights and magnifies all the other threats listed
above.
Because Holyoke is a large company, with significant financial resources, it can bring more "firepower" to
the battle than can the neighbors, Ward Councilors, Historic Salem, Inc., even the City orsalcm working
without outside support. We seek active help now, to keep the Wendt House from following the example
of the lost Salem Armory (Most Endangered at State Level), which was similarly neglected for many years,
before becoming ultimately lost forever after a contrived preservation "emergency" last year.
Under the contrived "emergency" pattern, it is typical for maintenance and repairs to be
suspended upon historic buildings, indefinitely, until (finally) city o.flicials would be forced to
tear it down. "
On the subject of contrived Salem "emergencys" it is important to note that increased public visibility of
the Wendt House since it was listed on HSI's Most Endangered list last year may have actually served to
increase the "emergency" situation with respect to I 8 Crombie Street now.
Faced with the fact that 18 Crombie Street is now being called "Holyoke's House of Shame" in Salem
Evening News Editorials-and that the neighbors have just organized a new Crombie Street Neighborhood
Association (and cleaned up the property without obtaining permission) reports are coming in that Holyoke
is exploring other options, including legal challenges on other fronts-as well as seeking to obtain
permission from the Salem fire Department to raze the house, citing hazardous situation.
Prepared by 1-1 istoric Salem, Inc.
May 18, 2001
Page 7
�The Wendt I louse at 18 Crombie Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Application for Slate's Most Endangered Listing
6.
COMMUNITY COMMITMENT
Is there community support for the preservation a/the nominated resource'! Has the local preservation
commission taken a position on the is.1·11e:J Are there any suggestions or plans/iH· the reuse of'the resource.
if appropriate?
There is very strong Salem community support for the preservation of the Wendt House. At the
neighborhood level, a Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association was just formed, on May I,
200 I, to "talk about the plight of the small historic house on our street" and lo brainstorm new means and
methods to repair and to preserve it. The Crombie Street Neighborhood Association's first publication
(sec Section I) concludes with the sentences:
"As a small neighborhood, we can not afford to lose one sixth o/011r critical mass to min and the
eventual expansion q/parking. We want our house back, with a yard and garden. We want people
living in and appreciating the charm of this di111i11111ive house. Holyoke has had the chance to use
and preserve the properly. They insult all (?/Salem and make 111ocke1y (?(their own tenets through
their neglect. Please help us to save this small house with a large historic sign(ficance. "
The Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association, (HCSNA) has been intensely active during its first
month of May, 200 I. Following organization on May I'', it conducted a first CLEAN-UP of the Wendt
House property on Sunday, May 61h, and is planning a "Peaceful Protest and Meditation in the Buddhist
tradition" at both 18 Crombie Street and the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company's headquarters on
Sunday May 20 1h. The neighborhood association is also planning a Crombie Street Block Party for Friday,
June 81h-and has begun a media campaign to get the preservation side of the story out to the public-to
force Holyoke to take responsible and appropriate actions. "Hot off the press" in the Salem Evening News
dated May 17, 2001, Robert Wall ofthe HCSNA fired off the group's first public salvo in a letter to the
Editor, which was titled "Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On" (sec Section H).
Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On
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"Holyoke must be forced lo take even the basic steps needed to maintain the house and the
small piece of surrounding property th al hasn't already been paved. They ignore their own
advice to homeowners and their assurances or community support nng with hypocrisy.
Holyoke Mutual's neighbors arc disgusted and taking matters into their own hands. They arc
actively responding lo Holyoke's practice of demolition by neglect and applying the golden
rule: They arc banding together lo clean up and repair the historic rroperty. I lomclcss
neighbors arc pitching in lo help. Everyone is working side-by-side and having fun gelling lo
know each other.
It is all about building real community in the heart of one of America's oldest downtowns.
Robert Wall
NOTE: Upon May 17111 , we also learned that William J. Lundregan, attorney for Holyoke Square, Inc., served
legal papers on May 161" against the Walls, Pelletiers, and Lawrences of HCSNA for theft of vegetation,
defacement of plywood covers with white paint, and trespass at 18 Crombie Street on May 61". Holyoke,
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through Lundregan, promises to arrest members of HCSNA if further trespass occurs on June 8 ". sec Section P
Prepared by Historic Salem, Inc.
May 18, 2001
Page 8
�The Wendi I louse nl 18 Crombie Strecl
Snlem. Massachusel!s
Application for Slate's Most Endangered Listing
At City level, the preservation of the Wendt House is also a high priority of City Council President Joan
Loveley, as well as the City's Building and Legal departments, Historical Commission, as well as the
Salem Evening News.
City Council President Joan B. Lovely has been working to keep the preservation of 18 Crombie Street in
community awareness since, as a Ward Councillor, she heard her constituents complaining about the
situation years ago-and since HSI nominated it to its Most Endangered List last year. The City of Salem
has fought for the preservation of the Wendt House in court-and won.
The Salem Historical Commission has repeatedly written in favor of preserving the 18 Crombie Street
house-and a number of its letters are attached.
In and outside or Salem, preservation organizations have advocated preserving the Wendt House over the
last 12 years, sec Section M, including:
Local:
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The Crombie Street Neighborhood Association
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The Essex Institute
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Historic Salem, Inc .
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The Salem Historical Commission
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The Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation
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The Salem Redevelopment Authority
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The Society for the Study of War and Culture, Inc .
State and National:
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ACT (Architectural Conservation Trust) for Massachusetts, Inc.
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The Massachusetts Historical Commission
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Historic Massachusetts, Inc.'s recognition and support is now needed, both to
consolidate preservation support from all organizations listed above, as well as to
help tip the ultimate fate of 18 Crombie Street towards preservation, rather than
demolition.
Prepared by Historic Salem, Inc.
May I 8, 2001
Page 9
�The Wendt I louse al 18 Crombie Street
Salem. Massaehusells
/\pplication for State's Most Endangered Listing
Regarding current re-use proposals (see Section K) for the 18 Crombie Street property,
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Historic Salem, Inc. and its preservation advocates who live adjacent to, and across Crombie
Street from the Wendt House would like lo sec the house either: I) restored and retained as
historic district quality housing; and/or 2) used for educational purposes as an historic site
attraction, community education center, or other positive and productive purpose.
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The Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation (CDC) recently made an offer to
Holyoke to work proactively and positively with Holyoke to have Holyoke donate the house to
the CDC for restoration, renovation, and re-sale as a new first time homebuyer affordable
housing project.
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These two proposed re-uses (1-ISl's and Salem Harbor CDC's) appear to be the major re-use
proposals currently "on the table" although as recently as 1997, the City also harbored plans for
historic house restoration and re-use. In footnote 4 of Holyoke's I997 legal challenge (filed
while Neil J. Harrington was Mayor), the Judge, after dismissing Holyoke's case, observed
"The City seeks to preserve the building for historical purposes, but has declined to take it by
eminent domain or even establish the area as an historic district under G.L. c. 40C. The City
seems to hope that it can-unfairly in the Court's view-force Holyoke Square to do the public's
work, at Holyoke Square's private expense, and repair and restore the building."
The property ranks highest on HSJ's first Most Endangered Historic Resources List. The only listed
property of equal or higher standing on I-ISi 's Most Endangered List has been the Salem Jail and Jailer's
House complex, which through being recognized also at State Level as Most Endangered, is now making a
good recovery.
For additional information on the Wendt House, sec the attachments, which include the following
newspaper and newsletter mticles, sec Section H:
Eveni!J~gws.
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"Neighbors Pledge to Block Razing of Crombie Street I-louse" in fuilem
1989?
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"Preservationists, Firm Feud Over Old Downtown I-louse" in Salem Evening News, Nov. 8, 1990;
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"Crombie Street House has its Day in Court" HSI Newsletter, Autumn I Winter 1997;
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"Group Lists Most Endangered Properties in Salem" in Salem Evening News Dec. 12, 2000;
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"Preservationists Fight to Save Old House" in Salem Evening News, Dec. 18, 2000;
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Editorial "Preserving the Character of Downtown Salem" in Salem Evening News Dec. 19, 2000;
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"Neighbors Hope to Save Neglected Historic Home" and "Neighbors want to Save old Home" in
Salem Evening News January 19, 2001;
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"Holyoke's Action Threatens Company's Place in Salem 's History" in Salem Evening News
January 23, 200 I;
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"Crombie Street Dwelling has Distinguished History"in Salem Evening News January 24, 200 I;
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"Nonprofits Want to Save House" in Salem Evening News March 27, 200 I;
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"Neighbors Rally Around an Abandoned Historic House" in Salem Evening News, May 8, 200 I;
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"Holyoke's House of Shame" Editorial in Salem Evening News, May IO, 2001;
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"Crombie Street Neighbors Plan to Keep Pressure On" in Salem Evening News, May 17, 200 I;
Prepared by Historic Salem, Inc.
May 18, 2001
Page 10
�The Wendt I louse al 18 Crombie Street
Salem, Massachuscl!s
Application for State's Most Endangered Listing
7.
FUTURE PLANS
If the resource were selected as one of klassachuselfs' Ten !vlost
Endangered, how would the listing he
used?
Should 18 Crombie Street be listed as a Most Endangered Historic resource at State level, HSI would
likely use that development:
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To promote public support of the Crombie Street Neighborhood Association's efforts to have
their area become recognized as a Local Historic District;
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To begin to forward a proposal to effect a local Demolition By Neglect Ordinance;
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To engineer more public discussion about 18 Crombie Street options at its Fall, 200 I
conference upon local Most Endangered properties;
In addition,
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Holyoke might re-visit the latest re-use proposal offered by the Salem Harbor CDC;
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The Salem Redevelopment Authority might be encouraged to exercise its significant authority
and play a more influential role;
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A property transfer and house restoration project might be commenced, enabling the Wendt
House to be transformed from a 12 year eyesore and perennial problem, to a restored
landmark and new urban asset.
A successful ''reversal of fortune" for this house could also potentially be used by Historic Salem, Inc. to
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Demonstrate the compatibility of historic preservation with affordable housing and open
space restoration re the new Community Preservation Act;
Increase preservation interest and awareness;
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Is there anything else you want us to know about the resource?
We hope HMI will respond positively to our application. Please call if you have any questions. For reference
and further reading, we provide a number of attachments:
Sections:
A.
Nomination Form
B.
Color Photographs
C.
Color Slides
D.
locator !v/ap
E.
Salem Historical Co111111ission Lelfer.1·
F.
local "Most Endangered"
G.
National Register Doc11J11entati1111
H
Nell'spaper Articles
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Crombie Street Neighhorhood Association l'ublications
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May 18, 2001
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Salem. Massachusetts
Application for State's Most Endangered Listing
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Historic Salem, Inc. Position Statements
K.
Re-Use l'ropo.rnl.1·
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Holyoke's "Overview Study"
M. Preservation Support letters with legal Findings
N.
Additional Old Maps
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Pike - Hawthorne Connection
P.
latest Legal Challenges
To Be Considered for Selection, Please Include:
Three to jive color snapshots
Three to jive color slides
Documentation, if available, i.e. National Register o/Historic Places inventOJyform or other study.
8-112 x I I inch copy of a map (.1·treet or USGS) showing the location (){the resource.
All application materials become the property of Historic /vlassachusetts. The nominator grants Historic
Massachusetts unlimited use of all photographs and slides. Please provide the name of the photographer
to he credited in all puhlications.
Authorization: ----------------'-/\-'-1=a'-'rg"''r.=n~·e-'-t~K='·=S~.~T~1~110~/~1e""i_1~P~r=e.~1·i=d~e~n~t,~H~i.1~·1c~J1~·1~·c~S~c~1/~e~11~1.~l~n~c.
Signature
Print or ()!pe name and title
Authori::.ation:
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Print or type name and title
PLEASE RETURN Tl/IS FOR!IJ NO LATER THAN MA!' IS, 200 I TO:
Endangered Resource Program, 1listoric Massachusel/s, Old City l la!l, 45 School Street, Boston, MA (}2 f ()8
{[you have a11y q11eslio11s, please co/l/ac/ KalillJ'll Coggeshall al 617 723-3383.
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May 18, 2001
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Starting from the Essex street end, the corner lot was
owned by Colonel John Hathorne end by him conveyed to BenjaNo.2
Crombie Street, min Marston in 1699. Possibly part of the Crombie street
east side
Church is on the southern edge of Marston's land. No 9 is
Nos.9-17
certainly on the western side of the Jonathan Corwin propersee also 26 Mill ty whose grandson George owned'. the eastern side on the pres& 31 Charter Sts. ent Washington street. There was a house on the southern cor
ner of the George Corwin land and his tomb was in the s·outh
eastern corner of Jonathan's land. George was the Sheriff ir
the witchcraft trial and they did not dare to put his body in
the tomb until the furor had abated. Jonathan had no house
on his land but Benjamin Marston probably built one about
1708. ~enjamin, born in 1651 was the son of John and Mary
(Chisholm) Marston and. he married Abigail, baptized in 1655,
daughter of Hilliard Veren who died after 1692. He married
again _
Patience, ••• and he died in Ireland in 1726. In 1837
and certainly earlier Joel Bowker jr, born in 1806, son of
Joel, born in 1775, died in 1830, married in 1802, Eunice
Pearson, born in 1780, died in 1808, was living here. His
father had married in 1808 Margaret Rogers of Ipswich, born
in 1780; died in 1'818 and he died in 1830. Joel jr married
in 1828 Leafy Curyis of Scituate, daughter of Joseph and Poll~
Bowker. Joel jr was there until 1859 or 1860 when he died
and the widow and his sons George and Charles, the former
born in 1824, the latter~s birth not recorded, lived here witl
their mother who seems to have died before 1861 and Charles
at that time had removed to 44 Essex street. George, who
does not appear to have married, probably died about 1903/4
and Charles in 1913, umLarried. The family is numerous in
Scituate. The map of 1874 shows George as the owner of No.
9 with a large plot of land to the east and south of the
house, still standing.
In the south west corner on Crombie street are two narrow
No.13 & 15
lots, the northerw:one owned by the heirs of Joel Bowker, the
southern one by P(emberton) Hale of Newburyport, who l~ied
at. .lill Cmnbridge street. He was born in 1805, married in 1830
Martha Ford, parents unknown. She died in 1842 ae 31 and be
marr&ed in 1845 Lydia Toppani Hale, born in 1811, daughter
of Moses and Susanna {Toppan.). : Hale ·:- of - ~ewburyport ~ · ·;1n 1881
Samuel Pearce Richardson, born in 1827, son of Rev. Phineas
and Sarah (Pratt) Richardson of Methuen (and as a Baptist
minister, of many other places) married in 1858 Susan Rogers,
daughter of John and Leafy (Curtis) Bowker, was living with
Mrs George Bowker. Richardson died in 1906 and the family
still live there,1939).
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On the 1874 map No.17 is said to be owned by the heirs of
No.17
T(imothy) Bryajt • .He, however, lived in his house at 31 Charter street until his death about 1869 (q.v.), and the house
here was occupied by brief tenants.
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Existing Conditions
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Chart <Appendix)
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DeMarco/Jarek Partnerhsip has been enlisted by Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co., Inc. to review the condition of their property
at 18 Crombie Street, Salem, MA.
In particular, DJP has been
charged with determining the disposition cf the dwelling at
said locati~n with respect to historic relevance, present
physical =haracteristics and "ultimate valueu.
In order to accomplish our gcals, various techniques have been
employed including intensiv~ sit2 inspection work, historic
~esearcn,
cost estimating, mapoing and ap~r3~sal / assessment
evaluation.
The following summary details DJP~s findings along w1Tn
overall conclusic~s and recommendations.
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In order to ascertain what "ultimate value~ the dwelling at !8
Crombie Street has, DJP conducted a multi-prong investigation,
comprehensively covering each of the factors which contribute
to "value".
Historic perspective - the enclosed report (See
Attachment nA"> chronologizes the dwellings history from
original parceling of the land, initial construction
through to present day ownership.
bi story nf 18 Cr omb i _g__
has not been a major
hisforically sianificant tenanc~
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Before and after
that tenancy the occupants, often including a
boarding tenant, were simply residents of the
community. Except for the fact that the dwelling ~~
old, no aspect of the house (fireplace, moulding,
doors or finishes> is of historic significance. As a
result, there is no redeeming historic value
assoc1 ated w1 t:r; tne Tt=nanchJ or the res.i dence perse.
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The original neighborhood at the time of construction tended to relate to the activities of the
adjacent church .=md/or fraterna.l / alliances in the
one of the
i mmediate vicinity.
pPriohPral homes within the bloc k of land that
~ ostered these activiti~s.
The value of the building as a b l oc k ing element
against ccmmercial development, pr ior to or since
zoning has been established is non-e x istent • . The
~b i lity for this re~idPnre +a ~ p a w n residential
' activitu in thi~ are~ is net likPlU as the present
zoning ordinance indicates that area as B-3
<Business Central> making 18 Crombie a nonof the fact that it is in a
conformin
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The following estimate <Attachment D> of repair
established by DJP's office is a projection of
present costs to bring the existing facility into
a habital condition but does establish any addi tional cost expenditures that would be necessary
to make the dwelling suitable fo r a specific
p urpose, i.e. apartments, offices, or retail stores.
The enclosed home inspection report <Attachment B>
establishes in very specific terms, al l of the
positive and negative aspects of the present
condition at 18 Crombie Street, but does not focus
on ' t h P s p ~cifir circumstanrP~ lPadinn tn its pre~ent
Eondition.
However, while researching the pr~sen t
construction evolution~ it was noted that t he
prese n t dwelling was originally built on or directly
adjacent to a stream bed.
Apparently it was built
i n t h e location of a former wor k shed but there is
n o visable evidence that either the original shed
f oundation or timbers were incorporated in t h e
presen~ structure.
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placed on soil of questionable bearing capacity,
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was used to establish footing sizes in those days,
has ultimately lead to the present footing/bearing
wall settlement problems.
In addition, the original
builder chose brick as the below grade foundation
wall material.
Subsequently, the freeze thaw cycle
along with a wet basement from construction onset to
present has contributed to the crumbling brick
condition that we see today. (See Attachment E
Photographs).
These aspects of the present condition, if left
unchecked (i.e. without launching an underpinning
operation) would result in ~Qil~§IDil§!iQil_Qf_!h§
The gambrel frame portion of the
building <with the exception of limit~d sill
deterioration due to wood boering insects) is in
reasonable structural condition.
Unfortunately, the
additions (porch and corner rooms) are failing due
to insect and wet rot problems.
However, if it were
not for the existance of these additions acting as
buttresses against the main house~ the degree cf
settlement encountered at the worst two corners of
the foundation coupled with the pulling away of the
notched first floor frame could have caused the
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failure due to racking.
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Article 22 of the Massachusetts State Code controls
the degree to which a dwelling shall comply with
present code requirements.
As evidenced by the
enclosed floor plans (See Attachment F) the layout,
stairway, fireplace and framing _are all subject to
va~ying degrees of noncompliance.
In order to use
18 Crombie Street for somethinq oth"er tnan c<. si1rcTle
familu residence~ would cause thi: full effect of the
codP requiremPnts tn be impo~ed.
A~ a re~idence,
thi=>ri=> is still significant repair work necesc:;arw to
be completed in order to achieve a negotiated (with
Sali=>m Buildina Department) complidnce with Article
~ 1 he stairs are substa. ndard~
ba.throoms are in
need of code related updating, layout is counter to
present standards and roofing/rbot construction
could use maintenance help.
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The repair costs must be judged inevitably from
a cost benefit view point.
If the repair cost is
out of sync with the value of the house on the
market, the cost for repair becomes a " labor of
love rather than an investment.
It is not li k ely
that this neighborhood would draw such a
bene f .:i. ctor.
If the house is nnt s ~ ab i l-i,..~ d i t s
value will co inue to dimin i sh 1mtj l a cr pss over
ri"t
p oint ic:. reachPd whi=>Y'p cnndemna+ion nr failure
;;-rrurc:. at which point t he .... ~si dence ha.s no va.lu~e. ,
Prudent invP~tme nt nnw to stahili?e t he foundatin Q
previ:.nt the )
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The primary method of establishing the absolute market
value of the residence located at 1 8 Crombie Street is to
be establish what dollar a mount t he market will bear at
the given time of sale by offering the residence for
sale.
Two other me t hods of establishing market value are
available~
A.) being an appraisal, and B.) being an
W ile the latter two methods are not 100%
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accurate, they certainly give a general indication of
value.
In the case of 18 Crombie Street~ the assessed
value is approximately $30,000 more than the appraised
value of the property.
Presently the city has assessed
the residence as follows :
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LAND USE TYPE:
LAND AREA:
LAND VALUE:
?.UILDING VALUE:
101 Single Family House
1 z; 80(Z; SF
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$ 68,600.00
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Fast and present day City Zoning has established the
area in which the residence is located as nBusiness
Central District " .
1n1s s1T u aT1on has not necessar11y
made the house more valuable~ only t h e land.
As of this
writing, the prese nt depressed economic conditions have
further lead to the decline of the property.
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Just as important as economic considerations are the
social implications of the area.
Indioent and homeless
p:::irsnns :11ho frequent the a i=>a da.i lw ar:::i p:::ir re i ved c?.<=. a
neaative inf lu~nce which has contributeu LO oriving the
assessed value of the propertu dawn.
1T is likely that
the same property at another location would attain a
higher appraisal and/ or market value.
There are four broad range "use" strategies or
possibilities for the 18 Crombie Street dwelling as it
presently exists.
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Based on the poor condition of portions of the
dwelling, c~~ing the structure ~s logical and
economical as it enables the land to be used far
commercial development.
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Repairing the structure to serve as a ~g§i~§n~g
is possible, but unlikely as the costs to repair
surpass its potential value.
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B~lQ£~iiQil to another site is a reasonable alternative for the building as it allows the land to
rise to its "highest and best use" while saving the
dwelling which is repairable and of interest as
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Repairing the structure ta serve as a ~gmmg~~i§l
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furthe~ explains the ramifications of choosing any one of
the foJr alternative uses described above.
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1.
A home inspection report documents our observations during several site visits to 18 Crombie
Street, Salem, MA, from July 1990 through
August 1990.
The entire report and its supplements have been included as "Attachment B".
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Photographs have been taken as part of the home
inspection process.
Forty-five of the most
significant areas of deterioration and/or
structural difficulty, along with existing
condition shots have been included.
B.
An independent appraisal has been completed by
Longval Associates which is included as a tool for
comparison of value against assessmenT, estimated
repairs and alternative use considerations.
See
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The assessed value set by the City of Salem
Assessors Office is estabished at $154,600.
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definition of Central Business permitted uses. See
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This plan
Heritage Plaza West Urban Renewal Plan.
encourages preservation and adaptive reuse which serves
the best interest of the city and the owner/developer of
a particular property.
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tracing 18 Crombie Street from initial parceling
to present day, it is obvious tbat the residence
provided a home for some 15 families aver the course
of time but, none of the residents or the building
pla!Jed a role in historhJ to the po-int of being
18 Crombie Street can be
considered significant.
characterized succinctly as having 1.l non-noteworthy owner/tenant residents and 2.) rion-noteworth~
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The enclosed map/locus plan is included for
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After reviewing the condition of the residence at 18 Crombie
Street, delving into its history, establishing its market
value, and estimating the construction costs and code
deficiencies associated with its repair, alternative us~ uc",
relocation of the core building to a remote site is a
practical and sympathetic approach to the present and/or
future disposition of the residence.
If a consensus can not
be achieved to relocate the original Gambrel Frame residence,
leaving the land to obtain its highest and best use, then, the
present structure, which has out lived its economic value
should be razed <Alternative Use A> in order to allow the land
to achieve its highest and b~st use.
The remaining
alternatives (housing or business> would be better served by
creating a better core building specifically suited to
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Fu~thermore,
we recommend that the Building Department from
the City of Salem be invited in to review the condition of the
premises.
In addition, we recommend that a definitive step be
taken related to the condition of the home in order to staive
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18 CROMBIE STREET:
THE WILLIAM B. PIKE HOUSE
BUILT BY 1831 FOR SAMUEL FERGUSON, PAINTER
Researched by Rory Goff
Salem. Massachusetts
July, 1990
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BUILT BY 1831 FORSAMUEL FERGUSON, PAINTER
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CONSIDERATION-
£30
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GRANTOR-
Charles Gott of Wenham, attorney for Hugh Peters,
"sometymes pastor of the Church of Christ" [First
Church], Salem
GRANTEE-
George Corwin of Salem, merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... four acres of pasturage, be it more or less, lying
and being situate in Salem aforesaid, adjoining to
the land of Mr. Raulph Fogge on the north side, and
of Mr. George Emery on the south, and being
bounded on the east with the river [South River,
now Washington Street] and on the west with the
highway [now Summer Street]"
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NOTE-
Hugh Peter or Peters, Salem's second pastor, came
to Salem in 1636 and was probably allotted this
four-acre pasturage by the town shortly thereafter.
Peters was instrumental in promoting Salem's
economic prosperity, but returned to England in
1641, became Chaplain of Oliver Cromwell's
Parliamentary Ar my, and was executed as a
regicide after the Stuart Restoration of 1660, soon
after conveying this property by attorney to Capt.
George Corwin [or Curwen].
After Corwin's death on January 3, 1684-5, the
pasture was divided between his son Jonathan
(western portion. underlying No. 18 Crombie St.)
and the heirs of his son John (eastern portion).
Hon. Jonathan Corwin ( 1610-1718 ), merchant and
judge at the witchcraft trials, married Elizabeth
Sheafe and had daughter Elizabeth ( 1678-1706,
married Deacon James Lindall, merchant), and son
Rev. George Corwin (1683-1717, married
Mehitabel Parkman). The western pasturage was
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the land beneath No. 18 Crombie St. fell to the two
surviving sons of Rev. George: Samuel (1715-1802)
and George (1717- 1802, married Sarah Pickman).
(Essex Antiquarian, "Part of Salem in 1700," Vol. 3,
p. 68; Perley, History of Salem. Vol. 2, p. 299 n.)
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CONSIDERATION-
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£57, and "other Lands released to me by my
Brother George Curwen of Salem aforesaid
Gentleman"
GRANTOR-
Samuel Curwen of Salem, gentleman
GRANTEE-
George Curwen of Salem, gentleman
DESCRIPTION-
"The second lot butts Westerly on a Highway
[Summer St.1 & there measures four pole, Northerly
on land set out to Elizabeth & Mary Lindall,
Easterly on land of Mr. Saml. Browne there
measuring four pole, & Southerly partly on land
formerly Rucks & partly on land of James Lindall
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December 22, 1746
CONSiDERATION-
£257, old tenor
GRANTOR-
Sarah Curwin of Salem, widow, ad ministratriI of
the estate of her late husband George Curwin, late
of Salem, gentleman, dec'd intestate
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John Dampney of Salem, butcher
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DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain piec-e of land in Salem afsd. Containing
about one hundred & five poles butting Westerly
on the street leading to the Almshouse [Summer
St.} sixty-six feet & an half, Northerly on land of
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DESCRIPTION (Cont'd)- Mary Lindall & Eliza. Gray a minor about twentyfive poles, Easterly on land of the heirs of Saml.
Browne late of Salem Gent. deceased sixty-six feet
& an half, & Southerly partly on land of Francis
Smith & partly on land of James Lindall Esqrs.
about twenty-five poles ... "
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- None
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Street, and sold some of his backyard (including
frontage of No. 18 Crombie Street) to Samuel
Gardner in the following deed.
Gardner had bought an estate including the house
on Essex Street (at what would become the east
corner of Crombie Street) built by Benjamin
Marston, Esq, High Sheriff of Essex, who sold it to
Capt. Timothy Orne, who conveyed it in 17 48 to
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along what would become Crombie Street: This
field had belonged to the children of Hon. Jonathan
Corwin's daughter, Elizabeth Lindall: viz., Elizabeth
(Lindall) Gray and Mary Lindall, and was partitioned to Elizabeth (Lindall) Gray's daughter,
Elizabeth (Gray) Cheever in 1755 (Book 102, Page
90) and sold to William Pynchon (Book 110, Page
132}, who resold it 11 days later to Samuel
Gardner on April 26, 1762 (Book 110, Page 148 ).
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property next south, the portion of John Dampney's
backyard which included (at its west end) what
would become the east frontage of No. 18 Crombie
Street, to a depth of twelve - fifteen feet back from
the street:
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£29.6.8
GRANTOR-
John Dampney of Salem, slaughterer [and Penelope,
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Samuel Gardner of Salem, Esq.
DESCRIPTION-
"A piece of land in said Salem containing twentyseven poles & an half bounded Easterly on land by
me this day ... sold to Elizabeth Higginson four
poles and three links ... , Southerly on lands of
Nichols, Luscomb & Dodge six poles & twenty-two
links ..., Westerly by my own land four poles and
two links ... , & Northerly on said Gardner's land
formerly Lindall's six poles & fourteen links ... "
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In the following deed, Dampney sold the remainder
of the Crombie Street lot to Abigail Ives:
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June 7, 1766
CONSIDERATION-
£213.6.8
GRANTOR-
John Dampney of Salem, slaughterer
GRANTEE-
Abigail Ives of Salem, spinster
DESCRIPTION-
"... my Mansion House with the land under &
adjoining to the same in said Salem, bounded
Westerly on the highway leading from the
Main-street to the Alms-House so called [Summer
Street] si1ty-si1 feet, Northerly on land of William
Pynchon Esquire as the fence stands where it is
fenced, Easterly on land of Samuel Gardner Esqr.
sixty-six feet, and Southerly on land of George
Dodge as the fence stands so far as it is fenced ... "
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- None
BOOK 12 3 PAGE 161
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August 22
CONSIDERATION-
£253.6.8
GRANT ORS-
john Foster of Salem, mariner, and Abigail (Ives),
his wife
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Matthew Mansfield of Salem, shopkeeper
DESCRIPTION-
"AU that Mansion House [then same boundaries as
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PREVIOUS REFERENCE- John Dampney to Abigail Ives, June 24, 1766; Book
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CONSIDERATION-
$4,665
GRANTOR-
Daniel H. Mansfield of Salem, merchant [and Mercy,
his wife, for $1]
GRANTEE-
Joseph Baker of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
"... a dwelling house & brick store with the land
under & adjoining the same, situated in Summer
street & bounded as follows, vizt. westerly on said
Summer street and there measures si1ty-si1 feet,
northerly on land of James King as the fence there
stands where it is fenced, easterly on land of
Benjamin Crombie, formerly the late Weld
Gardner's, and there measures sixty-six feet, &
southerly on land of Capt. William Orne's as the
fence there stands where it is fenced ... "
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in the following deed:
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CONSIDERATION-
$462
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Benjamin Crombie of Salem, innholder [and his
wife Elizabeth, for $1 ]
GRANTEE-
Joseph Baker of Salem, merchant
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"... a certain piece or parcel of land bounded as
follows, to wit northerly by a line beginning on
land of said Baker running twelve feet & eight
inches to a way hereinafter described (Crombie St.]
thence running southerly on said way sixty-six
feet, one inch & three-quarters of an inch to land
of Joseph Wiggins, bounding northerly on land of
James King & easterly by said way, southerly by a
line running westerly on said Wiggins' land to land
of said Baker fifteen feet ten inches, thence westerly by a line running northerly sixty-siI feet, siI
inches and one quarter on said Baker's land to the
first-mentioned bound, together with a right &
privelege of a way ... for the said Baker, his heirs,
assigns & servants ... for themselves on foot or in
cariages & for their cattle carts & otherwise, in as
full & ample a manner as the Inhabitants of said
Salem use the streets of said town, into & out of &
over a certain court way (Crombie St., bounded)
easterly by a line running southerly from Essex
street along the westerly end of said Crombie's
house about three hundred & seventy- two feet to
land of M. Larrack, then southerly by a line
running westerly on land of Mr. Wiggins twenty
feet, westerly by a line running northerly at the
distance of twenty feet from the first-mentioned
line and parallel therewith about three hundred &
seventy-two feet to Essex street, thence by a line
on Essex street running easterly to the first bound."
NOTE-
This was a small portion of the old Samuel Gardner
estate that Benjamin Crombie had purchased from
the heirs of George and Weld Gardner in 1802
(Book 172, Pages 34-36}; Crombie converted the
old Marston-Gardner house (on the east corner of
Essex and Crombie Sts.) into a tavern, and it
remained an inn for many years thereafter (it is
labelled the "City Hotel" on the 18 S1 Map of
Salem). Crombie then sold plots along his
newly-established private way, which at this time
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"Mansfield" property east to Crombie Street, which
he then subdivided to form two house lots fronting
on Crombie Street. He sold the southern lot in the
following deed:
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March 13, 1807
CONSIDERATION-
s1100
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Joseph Baker of Salem, merchant [and Nancy, his
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DESCRIPTION-
..... a certain piece or lot of land situate in said
Salem, bounding Easterly on a private way
[Crombie St.], which runs Southerly from Esse1
street along the western side of Crombie's house
about three hundred and seventy-two feet to land
of Larrack & Wiggins, measuring on said way
thirty-three feet, Southerly partly on land of
Wiggins and partly on land of Orne there measuring ninety-six feet and six inches, Westerly on my
own land there measuring thirty-two feet, Northerly on land of James Bott, Jr. ninety-three feet six
inches .....
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The deed includes a right to use the private way
[Crombie St.1. but is also subject to an encumbrance
of a ten-foot private way along James Bott's lot to
the north (Agreement between James Bott, Jr. of
Salem, saddler and chase maker, and Joseph Baker
of Salem, merchant, September 10, 1806; Book 179,
Page 222).
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January 26, 1808
CONSIDERATION-
$1200
GRANTOR-
Francis Quarles of Salem, merchant
GRANTEE
Thorndike Deland of Salem, merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain lot of land situate in Salem ... bounding
easterly on a private way [Crombie St.], measuring
on said way thirty-three feet, southerly partly on
land of Wiggins & partly on land late of Orne now
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inches, westerly on land of Jospeh Baker thirty-two
feet, northerly on land of James Bott, Jr. ninetythree feet six inches ... "
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Included is the right to use the private way
!Crombie St.). The deed is also subject to the same
encumbrance as in the previous deed, but which
was discharged on April 13, 1808 (Book 182, Page
286). Deland subdivided the property into east
and west lots, conveying the east lot in the
following deed:
BOOK 182 PAGE 286
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April 14, 1808
CONSIDERATION-
$500
GRANTOR-
Thorndike Deland of Salem, merchant land
Mehitable Deland, his wife, for $0.10]
GRANTEE-
James Bott, junr. of Salem, saddler
DESCRIPTION-
"... a parcel of land situated in said Salem and
bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the Northeasterly corner thereof on a private way commonly
called Crombie's Court and thence running Southerly bounding Easterly by said Court thirty-two
feet ten inches. thence running Westerly bounding
Southerly on land of Joseph Wiggins thirty-one feet
ten inches. thence running Northerly bounding
Westerly on other land of me the said Deland
thirty-two feet nine inches, thence running Easterly bounding Northerly on land of said Bott
twenty-eight feet seven inches to the first bound
in Crombie's Court aforesaid, together with the
right and privelege to use said private way ... "
NOTE-
James Bott, Jr. erected a workshop on the land,
presumably for use in his trade as saddler and
chaise maker. He sold the land and shop to his
father, and died at his residence on Sewall Street,
of "intemperance," on May 4, 1822, aged 40. He
was survived by his widow, Priscilla, and several
children.
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February 14, 1811
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$142
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James Bott, junior of Salem, saddler & chaise maker
[and Priscilla, his wife, for S0.10]
GRANTEE-
James Bott, senior of Salem (late saddler) now
merchant
DESCRIPTION-
"... a parcel of land situated in said Salem and
bounded as follows: to wit beginning at the
northeasterly corner thereof on a private way now
called Crombie street [and then same bounds as
above], together with the right ... to use said way or
street ... , together with the work shop thereon
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James Bott, Sr. died December 31, 1829. The
Salem Gazette (Jan. 1, 1830) lists "IJeaths. In this
town, last evening, Mr. James Bott, aged 84, a
native of Tudbury, England, but has been a
resident of this town more than sixty years. He
was an honest and worthy man in every relation of
life, and his loss will be severely felt by his
numerous descendants and connexions ... "
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the .nine dwelling houses and other properties he
owned at his death: the children of James Bott, Jr . .
received the house on Sewall street and the "West
Estate;" the children of Hanna (Bott) Ferguson )
received the "Pickering House" and a brick
dwelling_in_Charlestown, and "all my land and
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The children of Hannah (Bott) Ferguson and her
husband John Ferguson included Thomas B.
Ferguson, Margaret (Ferguson) Saunders, Dolly
(Ferguson) Potter, and Samuel Ferguson.
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GRANT ORS-
Thomas B. Ferguson, cordwainer land Mehitabel D.,
his wife]. Eben. S. Saunders, farmer. and Margaret
his wife in her right, Daniel Potter, blacksmith, and
Dolly his wife in her right, all of Salem, "the said
Thomas B., James, Margaret and Dolly being
Grandchildren of James Bott, deceased, and
devisees named in his last Will and Testament.....
GRANTEE-
Samuel Ferguson of Salem, painter, "another
Grandchild of said James, and also devisee named
in said Will"
DESCRIPTION-
"... the following lot of Land on Crombie Street in
said Salem, with the Building thereon and
priveleges & appurtenances, bounded Easterly on
said Street thirty-two feet and ten inches,
Southerly on Farmer and Colman thirty-one feet
and ten inches, Westerly on George Osborn thirtytwo feet and nine inches, and Northerly on other
land of the grantees twenty-eight feet and seven
inches ... "
NOTE-
Samuel Ferguson was born in Salem, baptised April
6, 1800. He married Mercy Lawrence and later
died of consumption on April 29, 1856, aged 56.
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in 1830 or in 1831; the Tax Valuation !'Qr_l8_3J1.ha
pencilled in for Sam!. Ferguson: "new house in
Crombie St., 1000" and his Tax Valuation for
1831 lists ·2 hou~ -_ r mbie - S1800 [raised to
i2500 in 18331;" these are No. 16 and No. 18
Crombie Street. We cannot tell which was built
first. though No.18 certainly looks older, and may
~ven incorporate James Bott, Jr.'s old workshop
within its rather unusual structure.
In 1836 Samuel Ferguson lived at No. 41 Summer
Street., and his painting business occupied No.
340 Essex Street.
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No. 18 Crombie Street successively housed Wm.
Kimbal, Jr. ( 18'43 ); Israel Shepard, grocer on Front
St. (1844); Reuben Floyd (1845-46); George
Blinn (1847- 48); "No Man" (1849); Mrs. Floyd and
_Cook (1850); and "No Man" (1851). 1852 again
shows "No Man," but is amended to list William B.
Pike and Conner-5-wasey-;--- - -.
Prince Farmer, a Black dealer in oysters at Derby
Square, was also shown at No. 18 Crombie St. in
Street Books 1844-45, but at No. 20 Crombie St. in
1846; the 1842 Directory lists him at No. 18 1/2
Crombie Street.
BOOK 484
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October 1, 1853
CONSIDERATION-
$1300
GRANTOR-
Samuel Ferguson of Salem, painter [and Mercy, his
wife]
GRANTEE-
William B. Pike of Salem, weigher & gauger
DESCRIPTION-
"... a certain parcel of land in said Salem with the
buildinW hereon, bounded and described as
follows, viz. easterly on Crombie street, thirty-two
feet & ten inches; southerly on land of the late
Prince Farmer, thirty-one feet & ten inches;
westerly on the other lot herein described,
thirty-two feet & nine inches or thereabouts; and
northerly on land of Oliver Fellows, _
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feet & seven inches ... also a certain other parcel
of land in the rear of the above described lot &
bounded and described as follows viz. Commencing ·
at the northeast bound, & runhlng southerly by the
above described lot, thirty-three feet & five inches;
thence westerly by land of late Prince Farmer, five
feet & si1 inches; thence northerly by land of said
Farmer three feet & si1 inches, thence westerly by
said Farmer twenty-four feet & sil inches, thence
northerly by land now or late of Osborn & Archer
thirty feet & si1 inches; thence easterly by land of
Fellows thirty feet to the point begun at, containing
nine hundred and thirty feet."
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�PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Front lot: Deed of Thomas B. Ferguson and others,
recorded in Book 276-148.
NOTE-
William B. Pike's portrait is included in Portraits in
the Essex Institute. which also provides a
biography (pp. 76-77): "William Baker Pike was a
native of Salem, born in 1811, the son of Jacob and
Mary (Floyd) Pike [and nephew of the Misses
Floyd, living at 18 Crombie St. since 1845]. His
education was obtained in Salem's public schools
and he chose the carpener's trade for his means of
livelihood. He was, however, a deep thinker and a
strong Democrat,writing and speaking on party
politics with great vigor. In 1838 he occupied for
six weeks the editorial chair of the Commerci/ll
Advertiser, a newspaper published in Salem, but
did not continue in this calling. He received an
appointment at the Boston Custom House and later,
in 1857. accepted a position as Collector of the port
of Salem and Beverly. This position he held
throughout President Buchanan 's administration.
Among his friends was Nathaniel Hawthorne, with
whom he was on terms of great intimacy. In his
later years when he had retired to his farm in
South Groveland, he began his Afemories of
HaJvt.horne, which. however, he destroyed before
publication. possibly feeling he had dealt too
intimately with his subject. While living at his
farm which was on the borders of Johnson's pond,
he often entertained many of his Salem friends .
Among this coterie were Dr . George B. Loring,
/ Zachariah Burchmore, and on several occasions
~Jex-President] Franklin Pierce. These gatherings
were delightfully informal and politics were freely
discussed and national affairs criticised. Mr. Pike's
home in Salem was successively on Lafayette, Pond
and Broad Streets, but his residence was longest at
18 Crombie Street. Here he died, unmarried, on ~
April 26 , 1876." At his death, he was attended by~
physician Shadrach M. Cate, who had bought No. 18
Crombie St. but two months previously.
Connor B. Swasey, listed in the Street Book as living
with Pike at 18 Crombie Street from 1852 (aged
22 ) through 1855, also worked at the Custom
House, as Public Storekeeper.
�BOOK 601 PAGE 77
DATE-
February 2, 1860
CONSIDERATION-
$900
GRANT OR-
William B. Pike of Salem
GRANTEE-
Benjamin B. Neal of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Both said lots were conveyed to me by Sa ml.
Ferguson by his Deed of Oct. 1, 1853, ... B[ook] 484,
L[eaf] 140 ... "
NOTE-
In this deed, William Pike stipulates that the
"above bargained premises are conveyed to said
Neal, subject to the right of my aunts Sally, Hannah
and Abigail Floyd or of either of them to hire and
occupy the same during their lifetime ... , paying
therefor the annual rent of Seventy-Five Dollars
($75 )." While Pike sold the house in 1860, he
himself continued to live here until his death in
1876.
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April 14, 1807, of David Neal and Mary (Elliott)
Neal. He is listed as "captain" in the 1861
Directory, and as "fire brick maker" in 1864. He
resided at No. 9 Cambridge Street through 1866;
but was living at 13 School Street at the time of his
death, on November 18, 1868.
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DATE-
February 9, 1863
CONSIDERATION-
$900
GRANTOR-
Benjamin B. Neal of Salem
GRANTEE-
Abby H. Burnett, wife of William Burnett of San
Francisco
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Same as above, except "northerly by land of said
Farmer three feel & six inches" has been copied
erroneously as "southerly ... three feet & six inches"
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Both said lots were conveyed to me by William B.
Pike by his deed of Feb. 2d. 1860, ... B[ook] 601
L[eaf] 77"
NOTE-
Abby Burnett donated the portrait of William B.
Pike to the Essex Institute in 1900.
BOOK 948 PAGE 276
DATE-
February 19, 1876
CONSIDERATION-
$1878
GRANTORS-
William Burnett. and Abby H. Burnett, wife in her
right, of Washington, D.C.
GRANTEE-
Shadrach M. Cate of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
"... the messuage in said Salem which is bounded
beginning at the northeast corner on Crombie
street and thence running southerly by said street
thirty-two feet and ten inches; thence westerly by
land late of Prince Farmer thirty-one feet ten
inches; thence southerly by land late of Farmer
nine inches; thence westerly by land late of Farmer
five feet six inches; thence southerly [sic; should be
"northerly"] three feet. six inches; thence westerly
by land late of Farmer twenty-four feet; thence
northerly by land of Osborn thirty feet six inches;
and thence easterly by land now or late of 0.
Fellows fifty-eight feet seven inches to Crombie
street and the point begun at."
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- "Being the same premises conveyed to said Abby
H. by deed from Benjamin B. Neal, ... Book 647 leaf
59"
NOTE-
The Salem Directory of 1881 lists "Shadrach M.
Cate, physician, 65 Washington St, house ditto."
The Salem Evening News (April 23, 1898) provides
the following obituary: "Danvers, April 23 -- Dr.
Shadrach M. Cate died very suddenly at his home,
�corner of Holton street and Peabody avenue, at S
o'clock last evening, from apoplexy ....
"Dr. Cate was born in London, N.H., October 2, 1823.
He studied medicine when quite young and was
one of the pioneers of homeopathic theory. He
attended the Western Reserve college in Oeveland,
Ohio;ancT-~r~~~!J.ted in 1854 from the Western
Homeopathic medical colle e. He practised in
Akron and Columbus, Ohio, in Augusta, Me., and
Salem, Mass., where he had an extensive business,
covering a period of 25 years. He was an
occasional contributor to the medical journals and
was a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic
society and was its president in 186 7.
"In 1849 he married Miss Martha]. Messer, who
survives him, together with two sons and a
daughter ...
"He has always been a prominent member of the
Swedenborgian church in Salem and was one of the
founders of that society. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity of Salem. He has lived in
Danvers for about two years, and was esteemed by
all who knew him here as elsewhere .... "
On February 24, 1879, Dr. Cate made an agreement
with the Farmers to smooth out the south
boundary line of No. 18 Crombie Street, "whereas
the parties are about to remove the fence between
their respective lots. Now it is agreed that the
dividing line between said estates is and shall be
as follows, beginning at a point on Crombie Street,
nine inches Northerly from the water table of said
Farmer's house and thence running Westerly
thirty-four feet and ten inches to a point three
inches from the water table of said house, then
_ turning and running Northerly three feet and six
inches and thence Westerly twenty-four feet and
six inches to a point distant South thirty feet and
four inches from the Northwest corner of said
Cates' land and twenty-eight feet and four inches
from the Southwest corner of said Farmer's land ... ",
with both parties paying each other $1 for any
land taken from the other (Book 1018, Page 11; see
enclosed Plan).
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DATE-
May 13, 1880
CONSIDERATION-
$1500
GRANTOR-
Shadrach M. Cate of Salem [and Martha j. Cate, his
wife]
GRANTEE-
Leonard j. Jefferson of Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Deed from Wm. Burnett and wife, Book 948 leaf
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unknown. He was a carpenter, and was sexton of
the First Church for many years before buying No.
18 Crombie Street. He died October 8 that same
year, of Bright's Disease, while living at No. 7
Cambridge Street.
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Verde Istands, inherited No. 18 Crombie St. and
lived there for the next forty years, working in her
house as a seamstress and taking in boarders:
Thomas F. Williams, laborer ( 1882-83); William A.
Smith. clerk at D. B. Gardner & Co., Grocers, 127
Washington St. ( 1884-89); Mrs. Lucinda Fennimore. widow and Christian Scientist, and Addie
Fennimore. clerk at Frank Cousin's Dry Goods Store
( 1890-98 ); Alexander McCabe, coachman ( 190108 ); Frederick C. Larrabee, machinist ( 1909 );
Joseph F. Dechene, insurance collector ( 1910-13 );
Emil E. Deschene, carpenter (1914-16); and Thomas
F. and Elizabeth Nolan ( 1918-50). Rufina M.Jeffers ~ died hei:e-aged-?-r,-on-Novemb-~t-fi4~
he had no children, and willed her property first
to the Home for Colored Women. but changed her
will with a codicil, leaving it instead to Joseph A.
ane and Abbie A. Dane.
�BOOK 2600 PAGE 276
DATE-
May 17, 1924
CONSIDERATION-
Uns ecified
DESCRIPTION-
"... the land in Salem, ... together with the buildings
thereon, bounded and described as follows:
northerly by land formerly of Fellows, now or late
of Stevens, 54 feet, 7 inches; easterly by Crombie
Street, 32 feet, 1O inches; southerly by land
formerly of Farmer, now or late of Freedman, 34
feet, 1O inches; westerly by the same land, 3 feet, 6
inches; southerly by the same land, 24 feet, 6
inches; and westerly by land now or late of Osborn,
30 feet, 4 inches."
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1880; Book 1037, Page 115, and wills of Leonard
Jefferson and his wife Rufina M. Jefferson
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Tenant Thomas F. Nolan, general jobber, continued
living here through 19 31, and his widow, Elizabeth
Nolan, remained through 1950.
Sarah [or Sally] W. Shepard resided at No. 23
Summer Street through 1937, but lived at No. 18
Crombie Street from 1939 until 1951, when she
sold the property and moved to No. 384 Esse1
Street. At the time of her death, November 2,
1953, she was 92 years, 5 months, 18 days of age.
The Salem Evening News (Nov. 2, 1953) gives the
following obituary: "Miss Sally W. Shepard, who
made her home at 384 Essex street., died toda in
Salem hospital.
"Mrs. Shepard was born in Salem, the d ghter of
the late Michael W. and Eliza D. (Osborne) Shepard.
She was a member of the Busy Bees and attended
Grace Episcopal church . ... "
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buildings along the east corner of Crombie and
Norman Sts. (Nos. 26-30 Norman St.) are demolished to make a parking lot.
BOOK 3806 PAGE 586
DATE-
March 22, 1951
CONSIDERATION-
Unspecified
GRANTOR-
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GRANTEE-
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DESCRIPTION-
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PREVIOUS REFEREN - Deed from Joseph A. Dane and Abbie A Dane, dated
May 17, 1924; Book 2600, Page 276
NOTE-
Maude Stap e
a e ephone answering
service from No. 18 Crombie St., where she lived
from 1951 until 1957.
In 1957, No. 20 Crombie Street is destroyed, and
the buildings at the west corner of Norman and
Crombie Sts. are razed, including No. 34 Norman
St. (Bridal Shoppe), No. 36 Norman St. (North Shore
Babies' Hospital Thrift Shop and Auxiliary), and No.
38 Norman St. (Thomas J. Cadorette, general
merchandise, and John Reagan, used furniture,
through 1953; Mallard & Pappalardo, plumbing &
heating, 1954-56 ). In the 1958 Directory, No. 38
Norman St. is Eddie Hefferman's Texaco Station.
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Unspecified
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Maude C. Staples of Lynn, unmarried
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GRANTEE-
Frances H. Wendt of Wenham
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Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Deed from Sarah W. Shepard, March 22, 1951; Book
3806, Page 586.
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was manager of the Girls' Club of Lynn. She lived
here from 1957 to 1986.
In 1969, the parking lot at the east corner of
Crombie and Norman Sts., No. 24 1/2 Norman St.
(Crombie St. Parking}, becomes No. 28 Norman St.
(Paul's 66 Gas Station in 1969; North Shore
Towing, 1970-1973; Vacant, 1974-1983; White
Hen Pantry, Domino's izza, Video Village, and
Uniglobe Travel by 986 ). ·
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August 29, 1986
CONSIDERATION-
Paid, and in full consideration of S1
GRANTORGRANTEE-
Frances H. Wendt of Salem
Nau mkeag Trust Company, Trustee of the Frances
H. Wendt Realty Trust, u/d/t dated Aug. 29, 1986,
recorded herewith, of 18 Crombie Street, Salem
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
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DATE-
February 16, 1988
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s169,000
GRANTOR-
Naumkeag Trust Company [Trustee -- see above)
GRANTEE-
Holyoke Square, Inc.
DESCRIPTION-
Same as above
PREVIOUS REFERENCE- Deed dated August 29, 1986; Book 8487, Page 1.
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Book 9430, Page 327, contains a confirmatory
deed, dated March 9, 1988, reflecting the change in
name of the Naumkeag Trust Co. to Eastern Bank
and Trust Co.
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18 Crombie Street, Salem, MA
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The inspection was conducted from on top of the roof.
The
roof style on the main part of the house is a gambrel style
and the addition is a gable style.
The pitch is steep on the
main house and of medium pitch on the addition.
The exposed
roof consists of one layer of asphalt shingles.
The
approximate age of the roof is 18+ years.
Flashing material
is a combination of copper and lead. (Pictures 17-20)
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absence of an attic ventilation system in either roof
requires the installation of a continuous soffit and ridge
vent system, which will reduce excessive attic humidity.
There is also evidence of a pre-existing ice damming
problem.
The lower left gabel roof valleys should have been
lined with metal.
The lower rear roof was incorrectly
flashed ta the a~utting wall of the house.
The rear plumbing
vent has been installed on the outside wall which does not
meet building codes.
The vent should ru~ internally and
protrude above the roof a minimum of twelve
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The inspection was conducted from the ground.
There are two
chimneys in the house.
Chimney #1 is located in the center
of the house.
The exterior, flue lini~g and chimney are all
brick and in marginal condition <Pictures 9-12).
The ch irTiney
cap is in need of rebuilding and the flues need to be lined.
All chimney flashings are deteriorating.
Chimney #2 is located on the left side of the house.
The
exterior flue lining and chimney cap are all brick.
While
the exterior is in marginal condition, the flue lining and
chimney cap are in satisfactory condition.
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T he exterior walls, fascias, soffits and trim are all wood.
The cEdar shingle siding is in marginal condition and is
cupping and splitting on most sides cf the house (Pictures 2328).
There is also a layer of clapboard siding under the
shingles.
The trim is in marginal condition.
Paint has been
peeling from all wood surfaces.
Facias and soffits are
rotten as well as all corner boards.
The electrical entrance
cables are in poor condition.
Service cables entering the
house, which are buried on the exterior, show evidence of
rot-ting.
The basement presently does not have vents for
This w6uld have prevented some of the
cross ventilation=
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Of notable significance is the
collapsing of the brick and block foundations on the front
and left side of the house <Pictures 21-28).
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Th e gutters are of two types: wood and copper.
They are in
poor condition.
The wooden gutters are rotting and the
copper gutters should have been spaced away from all fascias.
The galvanized downspouts are in marginal condition
exhibiting evidence of splitting.
Grading around the
foundation does not slope away from the house, consequently
allowing water to pond.
To avoid drywell back up proper
drainage is recommended.
Sloping grade away from the
foundation a minimum of 1 inch per foot for 5 feet where ever
possible is necessar~.
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The walks are brick and in marginal condition.
Steps are
stone at the front of house and the rear steps leading up to
the porch are made of wood. The front stair was not flashed
against the sill and as a result the sill has rotted.
The
rear wooden stairs are rotting. The rear patio is brick and
is in marginal condition as well.
Of major concern is the
wood porch structure including~ but not limited to the roof
rafters, the corner post and porch decking (Pictures 25-28).
Floor joists and decking have been severely damaged by wood
rot and wood boring insects <the wood boring insects were
identified as carpenter ants).
In addition~ many slats on
the fence need to be replaced.
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T he exterior window style is double hung, and all are in poor
condition.
Entry doors are not square and window threshholds
are rotting. There are no storm doors located on all exterior
doors.
Some windows are fitted with aluminum combination
storms/screens.
The window sashes are loose in their
casings.
All flashing around windows and door heads are in
poor condition, and the bulkhead is unsafe and should be
rebuilt.
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T he existing full basement structure consists of brick walls,
a concrete floor, wood timber beams~ and a Merrimack brick
chimney arch as a central support.
A crawl space exists
under the addition section of the house.
The brick walls are
in poor condition~ note that the right and rear foundation
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walls are collapsing.
The existing first floor is in
satisfactory condition with the exception of a moisture
barrier which should be added to the crawl space floor.
On
the front and right side, the sills are in poor condition;
evidenced by rot and wood boring insect damage.
The floor
joists are in satisfactory condition with the exception of
the ~ight side, which has been damaged by wood boring
insects.
The left side of the merrimack chimney arch has
settled approximately 6-Sa and the foundation has settled 46• <Pictures 38-45).
The brick support posts are in poor
shape showing signs of deterioration.
There are also signs
of basement flooding. It is interesting to note that the
original house was built on a creek bed which the City filled
and later became known as Crombie Street.
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The entire house is heated by a 15+ year old Waltham oil
burner.
The hydronic <hot water) system is a gravity system
with galvanized and copper piping.· The estimated rated
capacity is 90,000 BTU/HR output.
At the time of inspection
the boiler was not operational.
The pipes, which are covered
with asbestos, have been cut.
The boiler shows a heavy soot
buildup and appears to have frozen over the winter months
which may have damaged the unit beyond repair.
A qualified
heating technician would be required to evaluate the damage.
In general, the heat exchanger test result was marginal, the
flue pipe is in such poor condition, evidenced by rotting,
that all the e x posed pipes should be replaced.
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Th e water source and waste disposal are provided by the City
of Salem.
The water supply pipes are copper and the waste
and vent pipes are a combination of copper, brass and cast
iron.
At the • time of inspection, the plumbing system was
inoperative due to the water being shut off at the main.
Visual inspection provided the following information: all
visible supply, waste and vent pipes are in poor condition.
Th~ water meter has been removed and the main line from the
street is also deteriorating.
Several fittings have blown
due to freezing.
The cast iron waste lines are not correctly
vented and the vent line in the attic has split.
The waste
lines and traps under the sink are also not properly vented.
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T he water heater is a Walthem Everhot tankless system.
The
approximate age of the unit is 15+ years and the tank
capacity is 25 gallons.
At the time of the inspection the
water heater was inoperative.
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T he house is set up with 60 AMP service and the fuse box is
located on the left side of the basement.
The main service
wire is tin coated copper and branch wiring is copper and tin
coated copper.
Fuses provide overload protection and branch
protection.
Branch wiring is a combination of romex cable
and knob and tube.
The system is grounded at water pipes. At
the time of inspection the service was shut off.
It should
be noted that the service is antiquated and should be
upgraded, in particular, the knob and tube wiring should be
replaced with romex.
The service entrance cable is also
deteriorated and should be upgraded and replaced.
Additional
receptacles are needed throughout the house to serve todays
needs.
In general~ wiring at the main box and throughout the
house is in marginal condition.
Grounding, bushings, knock
out plugs, and fuses are in satisfacotry condition <Picture
40).
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floors are either hardwood or vinyl.
Hydronic radiators heat
the house and there is no cooling system.
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The general structure of the kitchen is not squared and the
floor is not level.
At the time of the inspection there was
no running water or electricity.
Electrical circuits are
very limited.
The sink basin is in satisfactory condition,
as are the cabinets and countertops with the exception that
they were not fitted properly when they were installated.
The walls, ceiling! floor, and electrical switches, outlets
and fixtures are all in marginal condition.
A room heater is
located on the inside wall. <Picture 29)
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T he house has two stair wells: one runs off the kitchen up to
the second floor bathroom and is meant for secondary use, the
front stair starts at the front door and runs up to the third
floor with three winders at the top.
The front stair well is
in satisfactory condition and the rear stair well is
considered marginal because cf the steepness of the risers.
Walls and ceilings are in satisfactory condition, but the
plaster finish was loosened in the front stair well due to
water damage.
Electrical switches, outlets and fixtures were
inoperative at the time of inspection.
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The walls and ceiling are satisfactory, although the ceiling
does sag due to the settlement in the foundation.
The
hardwood floor is in satisfactory condition, but it is also
not level.
Electrical outlets are in poor to marginal
condition and are limited.
The windows are marginal with
excessive peeling of paint.
The doors are also marginal and
are not square.
The fireplace is in marginal condition and
in need of flue lining.
The room is heated with a radiator
located on the inside wall. <Picture 30)
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The walls, ceiling and floor are in marginal condition.
The
ceiling sags and the structure has settled to the left.
Electrical outlets and fixtures are in poor condition and
receptacles are limited.
All windows stick and need
adjusting.
The fireplace is in marginal condition and the
chimney flue is in need of lining.
The room is heated by a
radiator located on the inside wall.
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The floor, walls and ceiling are in satisfactory condition
but the floor and ceiling sag.
The windows stick and need
adjusting.
Receptacles are inoperative and limited.
The
room heat is heated by a radiator located on an inside wall.
(Picture 32)
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The walls and ceiling are in marginal condition.
The plaster
is cracking and the ceiling is sagging.
The floor is in
marginal condition and not level.
There are no electrical
outlets! fixtures or switches.
The door is not square and
the windows need to be adjusted.
The fireplace is also in
marginal condition and the flue is not lined.
The room is
heated by a radiator located on an inside wall.
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The walls and the ceiling are in marginal condition.
The
plaster has cracked in various places.
Electrical outlets
and fixtures are inoperative and the ones that exist are
limited.
The windows and doors are also in marginal
conu1~1on.
The room is heated by a radiator located on the
inside wall.
The fireplace is in marginal to poor
condition.
The hearth needs rebuilding and the flue needs to
be lined.
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Ba th rooms are located on the second and third floor.
Neither
was operative at the time of inspection since the water and
electricity has been shut off at their respective mains.
All
bathroom fixtures are in marginal condition.
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T he attic was observed through the hatch.
It is insulated
with batt fiberglass, 3 1/2 thick, with an approximate •R•
value of 11.
The framing and sheathing are considered to be
in satisfactory condition. The insulation and ventilation
systems are in poor condition.
There is no side wall
insulation and what insulation exists was installed upside
down.
The chimneys and flues are in marginal condition.
The
left chimney is in need of repair and there is evidence of
leakage at the chimney flashings.
The roof is in need of
soffit and ridge venting.
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ESTIMATE OF REPAIR
1st Floor
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
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608 SF
608 SF
512 SF
Roof Flashing
Gutter
Ventilation
Plumbing Vents & Built-in
Chimney Flue Linings
Chimney Caps
Replace Fascia & Soffits
Trim Boards
Windows
Trim Boards - Doors
Trim Boards - Corners
Basement Vents
Service Entrance
Wet Rot Wood Sills
Grading Around House
Repair Brick Patio
Repair Brick Walks
Rebuild Porch <include foundation)
Insect Extermination
Fense Repair/Reelace
Window Replacement/Repair
Door Replacement/Repair
Bulk-head Replacement
Wall and Roof Insulation
Repair and Stabilize Foundation
Replace Brick Support Posts
Replace Boiler
Repair Plumbing <Heat)
Repair Water Piping
Replace Vent Piping
Replace Water Heater and Piping
Upgrade Electical Service
Additional Outlets/Code
Review per Code
Kitchen Fi>:tures
Repair Walls/Ceiling-Kitchen
Stairs/Halls-Patch and Plaster
Living Room-Repair Walls/Ceiling
Replace Wood Trim
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1,600
800
1,500
1,200
4,000
700
2,400
1,800
600
1 " 12100
600
800
3'!'800
3,01210
1,800
1,000
16,500
500
500
9,800
2,400
1,200
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3,500
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By ANDREW BRENGLE
Neighbors are worried about the future of this. 18th-century house on Crombie Street in
Salem. ·
The Salem Ne.rs/Jonathon M. Whitmore
News Staff
SALEM - Concern for the future of a small, 18th
century house on Crombie Street, next door to Joe's
Auto Laundry, has neighbors pledging to fight any
effort to knock it down.
The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Co., located
nearby on Norman Street, bought the house six
months ago. Crombie Street residents, sensitive to
rumors that the company will ra'ze the house, say the
three-story dark-brown, shingled structure should
be preserved for its historic value.
The house was built in 1783, according to city records, and was moved from Chestnut Street to its
present location in 1830. Frances H. Wendt, its former long-till)e owner, now lives in :Manchester:
The house is not an official historic monument ·
and the street has no standing as part of the city's
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Historic District. However, the
street has been recognized by the
National Register of Historic
Places because of its status as one
of the last primarily residential
streets in downtown Salem.
"I'm worried about the house"
said Ruth Wall of 13 Crombie s't.
"We want to keep what's left of
the neighborhood. Everybody
knows each other here."
Replying to a rumor that the insurance company will replace the
building with parking spaces,
Hoiyoke Vice President Patrick
Grieco said, "At this stage of the
game, I'd say it's not true. We are
just starting to investigate our
different options."
Grieco said it was premature to
say what the company will do
with the house, but added "at this
point we can't rule anything out."
Other options include using the
house as office space or remodeling it and selling it, he said.
Grieco said the company does
not need more parking space because it already owns the auto
laundry parking lot across the
street and has a two-level garage
underneath its own building.
But 15 Crombie St. resident
Frank Montesi disagreed.
"This is just another little block
for them," Montesi said. "They
get enough land, and they can
build another building. It
wouldn't surprise me if they put a
parking garage in its place."
Montesi, a contractor who lives
across the street, said he put a
$75,000 bid do\>;n on the six-room
house.-He wanted to refutbish it.
Holyoke, he said, paid $168,000.
The house has structural rot,
needs a new heating system and
new windows, Montesi said.
The city's opinion is that the
house should stay.
"I'd hate to see anything torn
down," said Mayor Anthony V.
Salvo. "This street was full of historic· homes, but many of therrl.
were torn down during the days
of urban renewal."
City Planner Gerard Kavanaugh said his department was
researching the history of the
house to determine its significance. If the house is to be demolished, Holyoke must go before
the Historical Commission for a
review.
The commission, under the demolition delay ordinance, has six
months to make a ruling. However, it cannot prevent demolition ifit cannot prove the house is
historically significant.
Historical Commission chair·woman Annie Harris said the
house has significance despite its
size.
"It's important in its location,"
she said. "It is in the only really
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residential portion of the street.
One of Salem's most important
assets is its old houses. And that
includes its smaller houses, not
just the large ones on Chestnut
Street."
The owner of Joe's Auto Laundry did not share the sentiment.
"It's not a historic building,"
said Joseph Palamara. "It's a
barn from Chestnut Street. Mrs.
Wendt triE:d to get a plaque for it
and couldn't."
He said residents should tend
to their own homes and stop prying into others' business. Palamara said the insurance company
did well to keep the Crombie
street area clean and well-maintained.
"You look at some of these
other places and they're a mess,"
he said. "I've been in this city 53
years and it's the same people
squawking about the same
things."
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Preservationists,· firlll fend over old do-wnto-wn house
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SALEM - The Historical Commission and the Holyoke Mutual
Insurance Co. are locked in a battle over an old house on Crombie
Street which the company wants
to tear down for parking spaces
and the commission wants to preserve.
The Historical Commission
voted unanimously Wednesday
night an.er a three-hour hearing
to recommend against granting a
waiver of the delay ordinance for
demolition. requested by Holyoke. The commission can only
delay demolition of the house for
six months. The Salem Redevelopment Authority will make the
decision whether it can be torn
down.
Commission members and Holyoke representatives could agree
on Ii ttle about the house including its age and its ·structural
soundness. Commission members
contended it was structurally fine
and maybe 220 years old while
the company said it was 160 years
old, falling down and of no historical importance.
Most of the neighbors on Crombie Street also opposed the demolition of the house, which abuts
Joe's Auto Laundry, also owned
by the insurance company. Holyoke is located across Norman
Street from Joe's Auto Laundry.
Among the groups in favor of
preserving the single family gam-
This is a 'histori'We intend to press
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house down.'
Anne Farnham,
William J. Lundregan,
Essex Institute
Holyoke attorney
brel house are Historic Salem
Inc. and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Anne Farnham, on behalf of
the Essex Institute, said the
house is a "historically significant
building" which is important to
preserve. She noted it was part of
the historic register.
Attorney William J. Lundregan, representing Holyoke, said
the company originally wanted to
turn the building into a conference center but it was in such
poor shape that rehabilitation
costs were too high.
"We intend to press ahead to
tear the house down," Lundregan
said.
Lundregan denied charges
from opponents that the company, which employes 200 people,
was threatening to leave the city
if it didn't get its way.
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The Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company and the city's Hlatorlcal Commlulon disagree over the age and
significance of this old gambrel home on Crombie Str&et and neighbors say the company's plans to
demolish the structure for a parking lot will ~ one more damaging blow to this downtown residential
strHI which la a National Reglste~ district. View la looking north toward Essex Stret1l Out of view at Jen Is
former Joe's Auto Laundry property at comer of Crombie and Norman streets.
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th~""b:lidi~~" d~~;:;.a•~~ '~u•;'o;~~) ate plans to develop it.
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He detailed the company's 140
year commitment to downtown
Salem. He said the company looks
at nearby properties when they
come up for sale if it abuts their
property. Holyoke bought the
house for $169,000 four years ago.
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Commission members and others tried to determine whether
the company had any more plans
for the house Jot. Lundregan said
"We"d like to find out the company's strategic plans without
any of the threats to leave the
ity," said David Pelletier, a
rombie Street resident.
already considered it.
Frank Montesi of 15 Crombie
SL said it is another case of a corporation "bowling over" a Salem
neighborhood. He said only four
homes will be Jen on the street
which was once filled with homes.
Stephanie Montesi said CromBoard of Appeal member Jane bie Street was the last residential
Stirgwolt suggested that since the street downtown, according to
company had no immediate plans the Historic Register.
for the lot that it lease the house
'Tm really frustrated about
until it works out plans. Board
this
members agreed that it was an said. back door appr_oach." she
option Holyoke should consider.
Lundregan said the company had
Commission member Russell
Slam said the demolition of the
house would be a tragedy.
"The neighborhood has been
under seige for the past 10 years.
This neighborhood is being nickel
and dimed out of existence,"
Slam said.
Commission Chairwoman Annie C. Harris said tearing down
the house will only provide a few
parking. spaces. She mentioned
other city plans to increase parking nearby. She said the property
is listed under the Crombie
Street National Register District.
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abandoned jail and a condemned
factory all made the first Most ·Endangered· Historic Resource List
selected by Historic Salem Inc.
The eight historic sites in bad
shape and ill need of private or
public assi~tance were jointly announced by HSI, a local preservation group, and by Mayor Stanley
Usovicz.
. The Salem Jail complex topped
the list of endangered properties.
It also was first on a list published by Historic Massachusetts
·Inc.
There were a few surprises,
most notably a cluster of old city
cemeteries.
HSI said it assembled this list
in the hope people would stop and
think before demolishing old
buildings, or act now to save
property that is deteriorating.
"Our objective is to ensure that
Salem's heritage is not lost, while
helping.with the economic revitalization of Salem," Meg
Twohey, president of Historic
Salem Inc., said in a prepared
statement.
"What puts (Salem) on the map
is the incredible collection of historic structures and the history of
the city, ... " said Tim Jenkins, cochairman of HSI's preservation
committee. "We cannot allow
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Although HSI has been discussing this project for years, it
was the loss of a city landmark,
the Salem Armory wall, that
helped spur the preservation
group into action: HSI went to
court last spring in an unsuccessful attempt to block the
Peabody Essex Museum from
taking down the remainilig facade
of the 1908 Armory.
"It delinite)y inspired us," said
Jenkins.
The Most Endangered Historic
Resom·ce List includes several
buildings the city or others m·c
working to save. A few properties
were the focus of public attention
in recent weeks. HSI applauded
those efforts.
For example, HSI put the downtown retail district on its list, and
cited the Daniel Low building, 227·
231 Essex St., as the "poster child
for the decline of Salem's retail
shopping district." Since the list ,
was selected, a buyer has been
found for the 1826 building, which
is Urn former meetinghouse of U1e
First Church.
The old police station on
Chm·ter Street, which has been vacant for seven years, also made
the list. Just days ago, the Salem
Redevelopment Authority desig·
nated a developer for the 1913
building.
The state also has come to the
city's aid on qne of these endangered sites. Jn)·esponse .to a re·
quest from the Usovicz administration, U1e Massachusetts Historical Commission awarded a
$76,000 grant to stabilize the jail
lceeper's house at Salem Jail,
which was badly damaged in a
fire last year. Usovicz also has set
up a committee to look into the fu·
tm·e use of the jail site.
· Its aim in creating this list, HSI
said, is not "to point an ac·
cusatory finger," but to encourage
city officials, residents, bush.iesses
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HSI put together its list after
seeking nominations from the ·
public.
John Goff, HSI's director, said
the list is both a warning and a
call for help.
"It's kind oflike a traffic light
blinking yellow," he said. "The.
time is running out."
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turn a phone call.
Hoping to resume discussion of
the issue, Ward 3 Councilor Joan
SALEM - To some, it's just a Lovely has submitted a council
small house at the end of a small order to hold a meeting sometime
downtown street. But to others, this winter. Neighbors are anxious
the brown clapboard home at 18 to see something positive happen
Crombie St. is the center of a at the house, she said.
"HSI feels it has value, as do the
decade-long controversy. .
The home, built in the mid-18th neighbors," Lovely said. "It's a ·
century, has an impressive !in· house that is boarded up and sitting vacant. It certainly doesn't
eage.
"There is a very rich history to add any value to the homes. It
the house," said John Goff, execu- takes away value."
tive director of Historic Salem Inc.
Jenkins can show off a thick
Many residents were happy folder full of his research on the
when Holyoke Square Inc., a sub· house. It was actually built somesidiary of Holyoke Mutual Insur- where near Chestnut Street,.then
nce Co., bought it for less than moved to its current location a
'00,000 in 1988. But then Hoiyoke hundred years later, fn the mid-<ltennined that renovating the va- 1700s. The area was one of the origcant house for another use would inal neighborhoods of Salem, and
the house miraculously survived
be too expensive.
The company asked the city for the great fire in 1914.
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pennission to demolish it to make
early Salem - first period Salem,"
way for eight parking spaces.
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Preservationists rallied to pro- Jenkins said.
Historic Salem Inc. hopes to save this house at 18 Crombie St.
One owner of the English Geor·
tect the house, which was built in
the mid-18th century. The city gian-style house, William Pike, was from being demolished.
found Holyoke did not have sum- a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"I think (Hawthorne) used to
cient grounds to demolish it,
sending the dispute into court, visit there almost daily," Jenkins
where the city prevailed.
said.
Then, in 1845, a blac]{ man from
But some fear the little house
has won only a stay of execution. South Carolina, Leonard Jefferson,
Four years, it has been boarded who may have been a freed slave,
tip. Neighbors and preservation- bought the house. He became a
ists complain it has become sexton at the First Church, but died
shabby. They believe ·Holyoke is within a year. The house passed to
trying fo demolish the building by his wife, Rufina, who lived there
neglect.
and rented out rooms for 40 years.
"It's a lot of money to spend on a
"A whole interesting cast of
property to let it go to waste in characters rented out rooms from
order to get permission to de- ·her," Jenkins said.
molish it," said Tim Jenkins, who
Holyoke bought the house from
has researched the house for His- a subsequent owner. ,Jenkins wontoric Salem.
ders whether Holyoke can reno·
Yet, when a building inspector vate the house or sell it to some·
~ecently entered the home, he
body who will. Perhaps the house
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~tural shape. That means the
he added.
standoff could go on for some time.
"Maybe now is the perfect time A large vacant building on Goodhue Street.
A Holyoke representative re- for them to cut their losses,"
ferred comment, this week, to the Jenkins said. "I think it's been
company's lawyer, who did not re- going on for too long."
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
�86 Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The Evening News, Salem, Mass. ·
Preserving the
character of
downtown Salem
Two recent developments threaten to alter the character of
downtown Salem, and not for the better. Fortunately, neither will
take place without a fight.
• The Licensing Board last week turned down an Essex Street
businessman's request to keep five arcade-style games in his store.
He's threatened to take the issue to court, and may have precede,nt
on his side given the fact there all manner of arcade games at the
Salem Willows and the board had previously authorized a smaller
number downtown when a movie chain made that a condition of
its opening a theater at the Museum Place mall.
The theater has since learned to survive without the games,
however, and most would agree it has helped improve the atmosphere but within and outside the mall. In fact, a video arcade is
probably the last thing U1C downtown area needs right now as it
struggles to attract new visitors.
"I don't think this is ... the direction we want to go in," Ward 3
Cow1cilor Joan Lovely told the board, and she's right. While the
honky-ton~< element asserts itself every Halloween, one would just
as soon limit it to that one month. For the city's central business
district needs to reestablish itself as a year 'round destination, not
only for tourists, but for residents of the North Shore who might
be lured by its restaurants, cultural institutions and other activi~
ties.
So long as the Licensing Board retains the legal authority over
the placement of video games, it ought to exercise that power to
keep them away from downtown.
• Just around the corner, on Crombie Street, there's concern
about the deteriorating stq.te of a 150~year-old dwelling owned by
the Holyoke Mutual Instu-ance Co.
The insurance company, located across the street, purchased the
home in 1988 and planned to a parking lot. When Urnt plan en·
countered opposition (our position then was that demolition
should only be allowed if Holyoke planned to put another structme on the site), they simply boarded up the building and let it sit
there.
Now neighbors and Historic Salem Inc. fear there's a purpose
behind Holyoke's allowing the place to deteriorate: At some point
there might not be any choice but to take it down. But there are a
bunch of people, including the ward councilor, who arc determined they arc not going to let that happen.
A short, unassuming little lane, Crombie Street offers a glimpse
of what downtown Salem looked like back in the 19th century
when residents live cheek by jowl with churches and businesses.
The house at 18 Crombie Street is an. important part of this
streetscape which ought to be preserved.
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SALEM - The city is looking at
ways to save a historic, 18th century home from the clutches of
what neighbors say is a neglectful
owner before the house has to be
demolished for safety reasons.
It's a scenario that has played
out several times in Salem's colorful history, yet perhaps never
has it involved one o~ the city's
18 Crombie St. In Salem
most respected companies.
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Yesterday, members ofa City-''.crombie St., which has been vaCouncil committee met with a· }:ant for some 12 years.
dozen historic preservationists> ?//'They're such hypocrites," said
and neighbors who want Holyoke ·. R'Uih Wall of 13 Crombie St., alMutual Insurance Co. to sell the· · luding to the company's efforts to
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where the city prevailed. But the meeting but declined.)
Jenkins said the company's acpromote itself as a good T)eighbor wrangling took several years. The
in Salem. "It's a sham.''. · .·,: ·
company's appeal was only dis- tions contradict its mission. It sells
home insurance, but is letting a
.. The home has had intriguing mi.Ssed this summer.
history. Its owners iii.cIUded a
Meanwhile, neighbors complain historic home fall apart until it befriend of Nathaniel HaWthorne and. the home gets shabbier and shab- comes unsafe.
a freed slave who.becaine. a'sexton bier while the company has no David Pelletier of 12 Crombie St.
said the home has deteriorated
at the First Church and whose wife plans for it
later ran it as a rooming house.
"Day by day, week by week, and since Holyoke bought it. Its loss
· It also is one of only a few homes Holyoke doesn't really want to do would be a blow. "We are not a city
tosurvi.veinoneofthecity'soldest anything," City Solicitor John that ma.i:es postcards out of parking
residential neighborhoods.
Keenan said.
lots," Pelletier said.
The meeting was held at the
.A.side from its historic value, the
Despite its looks, said Building
vacant house could be filled with a Inspector Peter Strout, the home is urging of Council President Joan
new family and brighten ,lip~ a. ~. \3.Ctuajly in goqd st:pictural condi- Lovely, who heard neighbors' comtion of Crombie Street: The"lfom~ tion.'!t"lh1ot dangerous~ Holyoke plaints about the situation when
is located across from-th~ City's requesfs the. city inspect it twice a she campaigned for her seat three
homeless shelter. For years ifnas ye&,;;·~·, , . · ·
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been boarded up.
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At the end of the night, the Com·
· "These neighbors are being held hm.ise· thit's)eft empty during the mittee on Government Services
lie::cage to a large corporation," Said day,'' Strout Sa.id."' .. ; At this PQint, voted to recommend city staff to exMeg 'I\vohey of Historic Salem Inc. I se'e.it being in this same struc- plore three suggestions: Ward 5
. Right now, Holyoke and the city tural condition for the next 5-to-10 Councilor Kim Driscoll said a nuiare locked into a stalemate. The years."
sance ordinance could be used to
company can't knock the house
However, many say the house is prompt repairs; Jenkins said the
do1m. But city officials believe the an eyesore. The paint is peeling and Salem Redevelopment Authority
company has a long-term plan to the yard is overgrovm. And in the could order restoration of the
demolish it by neglect, meaning pa.st, neighbors have complained of home; and Ward 2 Councilor Scott
the house will be allowed to fall people sleeping in the yard.
Lacava asked for a cost-benefit
apart until the city has to step in
News the stalemate could go on analysis of the city acquiring the
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It was not specified in the recom·
1'11988, the company bought the Jenkins of HSI said the historic mendation, but Lacava wanted to
home with the intention of turning preservation group wants to work talk about taking the property by
it Llto a conference center. Its of- with Holyoke to find a solution for eminent domain, and then selling it
fices are a block away. But the price the home, but has so far been re- to a family.
of renovations turned out to be too buffed.
Keenan agreed to look into the
high, so the company pitched a
"For the sake of four parking matters, but he did not give the
pla.11 to knock it down and replace spaces, we'll lose a significant part councilor$ much hope.
it l'.ith parking spaces.
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of this city's history," Jenkins said.
"We can't force someone to spend
··But the building inspector and " ... Everyone who has contacted money on their property if they
Salem Redeve~opment Authority Holyoke has seemingly gotten don't want to," he said. And
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Thanks, Andy, for the support 20 years
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Holyoke action threatens company's place in Salem's history
part of a chain gas station that can be found
Since 1843, the Holyoke Insurance Comanywhere.
Why is Salem's historic
pany has been led by only nine visionaries in·
It is my opinion that this corner could do
eluding its current president. They include
well with five more houses like the one at 18
fabric under siege b;·
John Williams, Augustus Story, Thomas
Crombie and one less generic g(!S station, esinstitutions that should
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Johnson, Alfred Abbot, Charles Price, Walter
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Salem's most historic residential street.
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know better?
mond Morrison, and now, Douglas Ryder of
It is .indeed unfortunate that the 10th and
Marblehead.
current president of Holyoke is trying to
Holyoke has been a strong builder in Salem.
create a situation where the 11th and 12th and
First of office buildings for itself and then of
Even the former Essex Institute director, future Holyoke presidents will never see Ulis
homes and businesses to replace those de- the late Anne Farnham, spoke on behalf of authentic complement to their company's
stroyed in the 1914 fire.
saving this house, acknowledging that it is long and distinguished history. That is, if the
Recently, we have had to meet with mem- "historically significant" apd has been part of company actually remains here and doesn't
bers of the Salem City Council, not to discuss the historic register since 1983, long before disappear like Sylvania and Parker Brothers
something that Holyoke wants to add to . Holyoke purchased it.
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did once they came under external influence,
Salem; but something it wants to take away.
Why is Salem's historic fabric under siege as Holyoke has recently.
I have observed this neighborhood busi- by institutions that should know better?
Salem's leadership should do whatever is
ness' attempts to let a 230-year-old, little, Holyoke wants to sacrifice this irreplaceable within its means, including using the power of
brown house at 18 Crombie Street deteriorate piece of Salem's historical context so it can eminent domain, to encourage Holyoke to befor the past 14 years. It did not look the way it create four more rental parking spaces. ·It will come a better citizen in regards to this matter.
does today when Holyoke bought it for speak volmnes about our paucicy of character We can forgive them for tearing down Samuel
: $169,000 to allegedly turn into a "conference as a historic city if our leaders allow this to Mcintyre's historic residence at 31 Summer
center." It was in "move-in" condition back happen. It will be one more step in the \\Tang Street in order to build their addition in the
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1970s; but now that we all should know better,
}nfact its attomey,(and until recently, City
Will our heritage eventually consist of post- there is no excuse for their current behavior.
solicitor) was reported to have said at a His- cards of parking lots?
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toric Commission meeting in the Nov. 8, 1990
Holyoke can make history, instead of de· · Pa,rker Brothers and Sylvania out of town;
Salem News that "the company would let the stroying it, by doing the right thing and selling · then at least we will still have that little,
building decay to a point where city official(s) this property to someone who will preserve it brown house at 18 Crombie Street to serve as
would be forced to tear it down." And that is and return it to its rightful place as a witness to a reminder of the positive things that Holyoke
exactly what our neighbor has done for the Salem's and Holyoke's long history together.
once stood for in Salem.
pa.st 11 years.
It is a shame that we never got :;krio\v numDavld Pelletier
·· If you did that to your house and_ Holyoke bers 20 and 22 Crombie Street, as well as.numSalem
supplied your homeowrier's policy, they. bers 30, 32, 34 and 36 Norman Street. They
(Editor's note: David Pelletier is a longtime
would probably cancel it.
were all demolished and their lots are now resident of Crombie Street.)
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that you concluded "the house at .
for 18 Crombie Street is an important
m- part of this streetscape which
ought to be preserved" (Editorial,
Dec. 19, 2000).
When the local building inspector says he sees no reason to
destroy a perfectly good antique
house - and common sense also
suggests it can be repaired and relevs to red - one wonders why
Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company of Salem believes this "Most
Endangered Historic Resource"
new must be demolished.
I believe there is a simple expla:8
nation for Holyoke's stance. They
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or the residence per se" in an Salem. He was a personal friend of
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overview study prepared in 1990. U.S. President Franklin Pierce and
1 not This "consultant" further proposed of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Salem's
of
that "during the entire 160-year most famous author.
history of 18 Crombie Street's exisDr. Cate was a distinguished,
mitence, there has not been a major 19th-century Salem physician, and
an
historically significant tenancy."
a founder of the Swedenborgian
Through a simple matter of bad Church in Salem.
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scholarship, Holyoke Insurance
Prince Farmer and the Jcfferabout
was led over 10 years ago to cate- sons arc particularly important to
gorically dismiss a number of his- remember while we celebrate JanJistorical associations which poten- uary as Black History Month here
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tially make this properly individu- in America.
ally eligible for listing on the NaPrince Farmer was one of
JUSing tional Register of Historic Places.
Salem's early Blacks who was re.thigh
I refer of course to the property's cently recognized in the Salem Afroearly ownership by foe First Amcr ican Heritage 'l'rail booklet
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Church of Salem; its early owner- published by the National Park Sercan
ship by Samuel Curwen, the famed vice. A cook aboard the ship George,
te inSalem Loyalist who built the and an oyster retailer at Old 'I'own
by veBowditch House; its early associa- Hall, Mr. Farmer was on the
nter in
tions with Benjamin Crombie who building committee of Salem's first
ran the Sign of the Ship· tavern at chtU·ch erected for blacks, and was
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the head of Crombie Street; as well a close associate of many 19th-cene.
.-edingly as its important early occupancies tury abolitionists, including the
and associations with Prince famed Remands of Salem.
tonomy Farmer, William B. Pike, Dr.
The Jelfcrsons were also strong
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Shadrach M. Cate, and Leonard J. advocates for civil rights and blacl<
ould be and Rufina M. Jefferson.
equality in Salem's fo1111ative years.
William Pike's portrait hangs in They were probably "conductors"
the Peabody-Essex Museum; he is or associates on the "shoreline"
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County Regish-y of Deeds, and to a
20-pagc report which I prepared on
18 Crombie Street in July 1990,.
which was reproduced as "Attachment A" in U1c 19W overview. This
document has been public record
since Holyoke applied to the city
for permission to raze the house.
Additional supporting material on
Salem's black history was compiled
by the National Park Service, and
information on the Salem Underground Railroad was compiled by
the late Miss Eleanor Broadhead.
The facts speak very well for
themselves. This lovely little
building is a unique and most important Salem historic landmark,
which should be repaired and restored immediately upon its ancient site to improve its blighted
neighborhood and downtown
Salem. Thank you for supporting
us in these recognitions.
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Nonprofits want tO save house.
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
SALEM - The historic but
crumbling home at 18 Crombie St.
could have a new savior.
Historic Salem Inc. and Salem
Harbor CDC are talking of teaming
up to buy the house and renovate
it for a family. But as with other
chapters in the house's saga, the
plans may never get off the ground.
The company that owns the
house, Holyoke Square Inc., may ·
have no intention of selling it.
. "Al this stage, I understand
there's been no change in Holyoke's
position," said Tim Jenkins, a
member or HSI who h:1s researched
U1e home's past.
The Wendt House \Vas built in
1783 and moved to its Crombie
Street location in 1830. The small,
brown clapboard house is part of
one of the smallest, but oldest, 18 Crombie Street
neighborhoods in Salem. It mirac'
ulously survived the fire of 1914.
knock it down to make eight under the right terms it could be .
Several months ago, neighbors parking spaces, but the city has restored, and reused, ideally as ·a
residential property. But there;~
and members of HSI brought U1eir blocked the company.
concerns to the City Council. The
Now, neighbors and HSI fear the might be some other alternatives,'."·
home has lx!en vacant since Holyoke company is waiting tmtil the home
Jim Haskell, executive director,,
bought it in 1008, and its appearance crumbles to such an extent that of Salem Harbor CDC, said he has!",
has become shabbier and shabbier.
the city has no choice but to allow met with HSI and neighbors. Th~-.
Holyoke initially wanted to ren- its demolition for safely reasons.
nonprofit is the city's biggest lanr.I::;
"We think it's an important his- lord, and has renovated simila,r:•
ovate the home as a conference
center, but balked when the price torical house, wiU1 a great history prope'rties for first-time home;
tag rose too high. Then it sought to . to it," Jenkins said. "We hope that buyers.
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h,__ ...man of Salem. Grandpar~s
are Robert MacDonald of DaiWers
and Mildred Kaalman of Ij'aisy
Hill, Bolton, England.
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Peterson - Born at Salenl Hospital April 26, a daughter, ~asey
El lzabeth, to Keith Peterson and
Michelle Perrv of Salem. <hand·
parents are ?i.1axine Phili\ps of
Lady Lake, Fla., Edwin Pet'erson
1II of Nahant, and l\1r. anCi Mrs.
Garland Perry of Salem. Greatgrandparents are Mr. and :tv1rs.
Edwin Peterson jr. of Nahant.
Klein - Born ?.t La\vTence Gi:n·
eral Hospital AFU 27, a daughter,
Janel Faith, to :folly and Chris
Klein of Lawre:~.ce. Janel is wel·
corned home by r.er sister, Alexis
Leigh. Grandpar~nts are Sharon
Hoyt of Lawrence, Sheree Klein
and Steve Dohm::. both of Salem.
Meimeteas - Born at Salem
Hospital April 2i, a daughter,
Marla, to Angelo a:-td Amy ~·1eime
teas of Salem. G~andparents are
Christos and ?vl:;~ia n-1eimeteas,
and Esther ~e\\'tC ::, all of Salem.
By DAVE GERSHMAN
News staff
SALEM - Here's what's going on
in Salem neighborhoods this week:
Crombie Street
Big things are happening on
Crombie Street.
A group of neighbors at~e orga·
nizing because of their frustration
with Holyoke Mutual Insurance,
the company that owns the aban:
doned house at 18 Crombie St.
A dozen neighbors went to the
property on Sunday - in honor of
the citywide cleanup - and filled 30
trash bags of weeds, litter and
leaves. They also painted the boards
that cover the windows and doors.
The property, known as the
Wendt House, was built in 1783 and
was moved to Crombie Street in
1830, mirac.ulously surviving the
fire ofl914. In 19>1...3, Holyoke bought
the house to renovate it into a con·
ference center, then changed its
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fused to comment on what hap·
pened next, but one neighbor claims in street lighting by Massachusetts
Ryder called the group "vandals."
Electric, the number of cars stored
"For whatever reason he's not at the auto sales companies on
happy getting free labor for re· Bridge Street, and planning for the
pairing a property he O\Vns," said neighborhoodwide yard sale set
Tim Jenkins, a resident who is in· for Saturday, May 19. All neigh·
terested in preserving the house.
bors are asked to help out.
Outside the house, neighbors
In addition, Ray Shea of the
found bottles and evidence that Salem Citizens Alliance will spt>..a.'\.:
homeless people were on the about the group's effort to gather
property. While they are critical enough signatures to put a quesof the company, they still want to tion asking if residents want to
work with it.
fonn a Charter Review Committee
"We wanted everybody, in· on l\ovember's ballot.
eluding Holyoke, to be proud of
Ultimately, the committee can
our neighborhood that we all live recommend any number of changes
in," said neighbor David Pelletier. to the City Charter, though the
mind. Then it sought to demolish it "And the only people that seemed group only wants one: the elimina·
for parking spaces, but was blocked to appreciate (the house) were the tion of the elected mayor in favor of
by the city. Since then, a standoff dogs who were using it on a reg· a city manager appointed by the
has endured.
ular basis. It was getting unsani- City Council.
:.;eighbors want to save the tary even for dogs."
South Salem
house and fear the company is
Sick of looking at an eyesore,
The South Salem Neighborhood
waiting for it to deteriorate until Jenkins said, neighbors had to Association meets tonight at 7 p.m.
the city allows it to be razed for take matters into their own hands. at the Saltonstall School. Salem
safety reasons.
"This is not how you treat your State College President Nancy Har·
"We have no active olan under neighbors," Jenkins said of the rington will discuss the college's
way for the moment,'i said Dou· company." ... I wouldn't want to be plans for a 450-student dorm, and
glas Ryder, president of Holyoke a property casualty insurance Superintendent Herb Levine and
Mutual Insurance, yesterday. "Ob- company insuring people's homes Mayor Stanley Usovicz will talk
viously, they can't do anything that doesn't know how to take care about nlans for a new Horace
with it unless we're interested in of its own property." .
Mann s·chool.
selling it. At the present time,
Federal Street
Both projects would be built at
we're showing no interest."
The Federal Street Neighbor· the same site, the 37-acre former
Ryder happened to be driving by hood Association meets Tuesday, Sylvania plant on Loring Avenue,
the house on Sunday when he saw May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cotting- which is O\rned by the college.
the neighbors in the yard without
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News and features
Beverly .................................................... A8, A9 Business .........................................................82
Boxford ..................~........._............................. A6 Comlcs .............................................................C5
Danvers .............................................A12, A13 Dear Abby ......................................................C4
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way >Moi
,;to tax the poor
Will a 50-cent increase in the cigarette tax cause people to give
up smoking? Senate President Thomas Birmingham better hope
'~ not, and Uie same goes for U1e 35,000 Bay State residents whose ac:. cess to health care will depend on the revenues it generates.
:·1 As the number of people using tobacco decreases - and it
· should;, as people go out of state to avoid what will be fue highest' in-the nation tax - and they will; Uie revenues generated by this
' "sin" tax will disappear. And fuen what?
' Do we stop the subsidization of health insurance costs for those
in need and aid to hospitals that this particular tax increase is
, supposed to fund?
., Both a.re worthwhile endeavors U1at ought to be supported by
·~ more progressive taxes like those based on income and purchases.
, Should this increase pass over the objections of acting Gov. Jane
~.. Swift and 0U1ers, Massachusetts can probably Jay claim to be a na.. tiona.l leader in taxing to the max those who, as a class, can afford
it U1e least - people who play the lottery and people who smoke.
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,: Holyol(e's l1ouse of shame
.' The Holyoke l'vlut11a1 Insmance Co. has a long and proud his·, tory. In fact, the company's president, Douglas Ryder, even com. missioned a book about it several years ago.
As is typical with such works, ;iut.hor .John .J. ff'ox of Danvers ;1c'. lrnowJcdgcd in Uw forcworcl his intention "to insure that no one
: would be hurt or embarrassed by anything that is included within
the pages of U1is book."
Fortunately for him, his story ended in 1993 - Holyoke's 150th
birthday - for he would have had considerable difficulty dealing
· with recent events on Crombie Street. There, a 218·year-old house
.' which Holyoke wants to demolish for parking, has been allowed to
· deteriorate so that it has become both an eyesore and safety
.. hazard.
Frustrated neighbors took it upon themselves last weel<encl to
; spruce up the yard and exterior. We understand Ryder dropped
. . by; but, sadly, it was neiUier to help nor make a record of the
, cleanup for posterity.
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the firemen who lost their lives. The fire was apparc:I
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SaJem's only homeless.shelter is located only a hundred feet from an abandoned home owned by a wealthy,
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Holyoke Mutual bought the property 13 years ago.
While it said originally that it wanted to convert the
house into a small conference center and to lodging
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for visiting executives, Holyoke later applied to the
city for permission to demolish and expand an adjacent parking lot. It is a small home and only a few
more spaces would result. ·
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The home is located in a st>ven-building National their assurances of community support ring with
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Register district, the last historic residential district hypocrisy.
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Holyoke Mutual's neighbors are disgusted and rt
pns in the heart of Salem's downtown. One of Natllaniel
Hawthorne's closest friends, William Pike, once lived taking matters into their own hands .. They are acin the home. He was also a close friend of President tively responding to Holyoke's practice of demolition
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Franklin Pierce.
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by neglect and applying the golden rule: They are
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. The house was probably a stop on the Under- banding together to clean up and repair the historic ji
ground railroad and was owned by a former slave properly. Homeless neighbors arc pitching in to help. s
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and his widow for 40 years. It is a handsome, 13th-cen- Everyone is working side-by-side and having fun get- 11
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tury, gambrel-roofed home with a history far richer ting to know each other.
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than its diminutive size would indicate.
It is all abput ~µilding real community in the heart v
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City officials have refused to condemn the entire of one of America's oldest downtowns.
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property as it is structurally sound. The seemingly
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endless odyssey moved to the courts and Holyoke has
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lost all legal challenges to date.
Neighborhood Assoc.
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Recently, the City ·council and local preservationSalem ~
ists have stmied to rally behind the neighbors who
(Editor's note: Residents of Crombie Street and their
are mad as hell. Historic Salem Inc. included the supporters will gather this Sunday, May 20, from S to 6
property on its inaugural Most Endangered Historic p.m. for what's being described as a "peace/ul protest
and meditation in tlze Buddhist tradition," at tlze propbm- Resource list.
Holyoke must be forced to take even Uie basic steps erty Holyoke ow/IS at 18 Crombie Street and the compa- s
eneeded to maintain the house and the small
ny's headquarters
tlze street. Tlze nei,glzborlzood r
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Keeping house
Salem residents step up efforts to save the
historic Wendt House- nonviolently, of course
.The battle over Salem's Wendt House took a funky
:urn last Sunday, when the newly founded National
Historic Crombie Street Neighborhood Association
;taged a nonviolent action in the Buddhist tradition.
Their target? The perceived intransigence of Holyoke
\1utual Ins~rance Company, which owns the home in
~uestion.
The Wendt House, which is located at 18 Crombie
St., has· long been a source of acrimony between
Holyoke Mutual and the broader Salem community.
Holyoke Mutual, whose headquarters arc just across
:he street, bought the Wendt House 13 years ago.
The company wants to tear.down the house to exJand an adjacent parking lot. Salem officials have refused to condemn the property as strncturally un)ff
'towever, and demolition plans remµin on
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Up_,tci this: point, HMI's legal challenges have been
Jnsticcessful. But Rob Wall of the Crombie Street as-·
;ociation, and John Goff of Historic Salem Incorpo:ated, charge the company with practicing demoli:ion by neglect- allowing the Wendt House to
5radually deteriorate, since they can't actually tear it
fown.·
"Holyoke has systematically and intentionally
5one aboufletting it fall down, fall into ruin," Wall
;ays. "[Holyoke) remains really intransigent. They
1von't come when summoned to meetings that the
;ity councilors have asked them to come to, [but] the
:ieighborhood comes. Theyjust show a real arro5ance and disrespect - I think believing, narrowly,
:hat they're homeowners and they can do whatever
:hey want with their house."
The stakes are fairly high. The Wendt House,
1vhich was built around 1770 and was moved to its
:::rombie Street location circa 1830, is Iisted on the
~ational Register of Historic Places as a contributing
Juilding in the Crombie Street National Historic Dis:rict. William B. Pike, a close friend of Nathaniel
~awthome and Franklin Pierce, lived there; so did
.eonard and Ruffina Jefferson, an African-American
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:)Ught to have been conductors on the Unlcrg1vu11d Railroad.
Then there's the fact that the Wendt House be)ngs to an almost-vanished architectural catcgo1y
~at's indigenous to Salem. As if all that weren't
nough, the Wendt House is a stone's throw from the
:rombie.Street homeless shelter. Crombie Street res-
STAFF PHOTO BY MIKE MERGEN
Tim Jenkins sits with a giant sumo banner at last
Sunday's protest at the Wendt House in Salem. The
sumo is a symbol of 'power and controlled aggression,' says Jenkins.
idents contend that abandoned buildings and homeless persons arc a risky combination, and cite the
1999 Worcester fire to support their argument.
On May 6, Wall and several other activists cleared
overgrown vegetation from around the Wendt House
and covered the first floor window coverings with
bright white paint. Subsequently, in a letter dated
May 16, Salem attorney William Lundregan, who
represents Holyoke Mutual, accused the group of
trespassing, malicious destruction of property, and
then (of !he aforementioned VCl'.l'l:ilion ). l .1111dc1!r:m
· warned the recipients to stay away from the W<
House and other Holyoke property, and suggcs
that legal action would be taken if they didn't.
That's the context in which the Buddhist non
lent action took place. Before the event, Wall p:
vided a written explanation of its rationale. "Th
purpose is to increase mindfulness and bring :m
riess to the larger process of what preserving thi
house and our neighborhood is all about," Wall
wrote. "It is dedicated to and on behalf of our a<
sarics. They arc our greatest teachers and becau:
they are often unaware, suffer greatly by their sl
sighted, destructive choices."
Under the watchful eye ofa Salem police offi
who said he was doing detail work for Holyoke,
about 14 people showed up. They started with S<
sitting meditation, stayed in the zone for a slow·
around Holyoke's hcadqumtcrs and the rest oft!·
block, and closed \Vith a bit more stationary med
ing. Despite periodic exhortations and gong-ban:
from Wall, not everyone in the group seemed fo.
cuscd. While some pmiicipants looked mindful
throughout, others sipped coffee and smoked clo
cigarettes, or lounged casually with their arms fo
behind their head.
The reaction of passers-by was mixed. One m;
who drove down Crombie Street looked irritated
another appeared curious. At one point, a disheveled man wearing an Orlando Magic bascba
hnt, a cut-off green T-shirt stating that "There's 1
and then there's all you losers," and paint-splatte
pants walked up, watched for a while, and read ti
posted explanation of what was going on. "You
guys oughta have me restore it," he said as he
walked away. "I'm good at stuff like th'at! God
bless."
It's hard to say if the nonviolent action actually
creased the mindfulness of their adversaries at
Holyoke Mutual (whose Web site, www.holyokcn
tual.com, plays up a hometown feel and touts the
company's promise to fulfill its "corporate respon~
bility to the community"). Last Monday, Holyoke
CEO Doug Ryder declined comment on the Wendt
House, stating only thal all inquiries should be directed to attorney Lundrcgan.
Lundrcgan, like Ryder, had nothing to say on th1
sul~jcct.
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�Letters to the editor
Effort to preserve 18 Crombie St. continues
'le Editor:
1 Saturday, May 5, Mayor Usovicz' annual cleanup took place.
Many individuals and groups took
part to show their pride in our city
and to ensure that it was a cleaner
and healthier place to live. Wherever there was debris and decay,
you could find T-shirted team
members attending to the improve. ment of those areas.
One of these locations was 18
.. Crombie St., which, until that day
··the owner had allowed to become.
. surrounded by an ·overgrown,
: poorly maintained lot. It had. be-·
come hazardous to the health and
wellbeing of the neighborhood.
On thaf Saturday morning, to my ·
surprise; I found a team of YMCA
volunteers removing bags of debris, vegetation, broken bottles, etc.
They worked very hard, and when
I asked them who had instructed
·them to clean up this area, they responded that they were doing so at
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When they were done they had i~ ,~ro~ble St, owned by the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company.
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later picked up by city trucks. On
bPhqlf of the Crombie Street HisWhen it was all done you could sat unused and allowed to deterioNeighborhood Association, I see the pride on everyone's face. It rate for 14 years across the street
\h.. ..ud like to offer them our thanks
is true that a police officer had to from the city's homeless shelter.
. ! . for performing a thankless job.
·warn us that we were technically
In the past they have stated,
..., .·' The next day many of the resi- . trespassing, but he declined to in- through their attorney, that they
,:. · dents were thrilled to see what the tervene further as he could see we would "allow the110use to fall into
mayor's wife and her team had ac- were doing a good thing.
disrepair until the city demanded
complished. But there was still so
Our dilemma is this: When a that it be torn down." But recent
much more to be done. It was too property owner systematically and inspections by the city engineer
big of a job for one small team on· · intentionally creates a safety and have found the structure to be
one day.
health hazard increasing the likeli- sound and it can be restored.
Weeds, broken glass and com- hood of.fire and crime, decreasing
Lastly, I would like the citizens
-p.a"i~ted leaves were still every- property:values and the quality of of Salem to visit 18 Crombie Street
where. It smelled. It was unsani- · life, and furthermore flaunts and and bear witness to the "vantary and it was becoming a neigh- disrespects calls by the city and his- dalism" caused by members of our
bor hood fire hazard due to the toric interests to repair the prop- neighborhood. You will find a
owner's neglect.
erty; can .thoughtful persons decide, cleaned-up lot, a brick driveway
Not wanting to have the efforts • without any vandalism nor that we found buried under debris,
of the mayor's cleanup team go to breaking and. entering, to take it and newly painted boarded-up
waste, our entire neighborhood re- upon themselves to improve the se- windows on a little brown house
sponded to finish the job. It be- curity and safety of the neighbor- that witnessed the bhih of our nacame a point of community pride hood by cleaning up the exterior? tion, 218 years ago.
to be involved in this effort.
There are times when the effort to
You be the judge. Will Salem be
. For two hours the next day, all reduce crime and hazard in a neigh- better off with four·more rental
of the residents and children of borhood come into conflict with a parking places or worse, perhaps a
larger edifice; or should this hisCrombie Street, as well as others property owner's intransigence.
disgusted by the long-lasting dereEveryone was delighted that toric survivor be allowed to be reliction of this property, supplied this blight on our neighborhood built and reach its fourth century'!
J tools, paint and muscle power to had been transformed: Everyone We have a plan by which this can
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d finish the job.
that is, except for one.
happen and all of us, including the
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Just as we finished, a representa- present owner, can come out
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• were removed; including a dis- tive of the owner happened upon ahead. Tell the mayor and City
J gusting collection of flammable un- the scene and threatened to have us Council how you feel. Let 18
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derbrush, garbage, leaves and dirt arrested for trespassing, describing Crombie Street become your point
, saturated with bodily fluids as well the activities of the past two days of civic pride, as it is ours.
Robert B. Wall
H as potentially dangerous sumac as "vandalism." We were made to
Salem
~ .weeds whicli had grown to the size feel like criminals because of our
(Editor's note: A "Save 18
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walk and foundat10n. The bare, conditions created and endorsed by Crombie St. block party," featuring
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�wellbeing of the neighborhood.
On that Saturday morning, to my
surprise; I found a team of YMCA
volunteers removing bags of de·
bris, vegetation, broken bottles, etc.
They worked very hard, and when
I asked them who had instructed
them to clean up this area, they responded that they were doing so at
MJ~.· ·v~ovicz' regJJ~.st.
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When ,they were- done they had !.:Z-"-"·"'r,Crombie ,St., owned by the Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company.
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later picked up by city trucks. On
bPhlllf of the Crombie Street His·
When it was all done you could sat unused and allowed to deterioNeighborhood Association, I see the pride on everyone's face. It rate for 14 years across the street
....,,,..<1d like to offer them our thanks is true that a police officer had to from the city's homeless shelter.
.·.for performing a thankless job.
·warn us that we were technically
In the past they have stated,
· ... : ... The next day many of the resi· . trespassing, but he declined to in· through their attorney, that they
'" ·dents were thrilled to see what the tervene further as he could see we would "allow thel1ouse to fall into
mayor's wife and her team had ac- were doing a good thing.
disrepair until the city demanded
complished. But there was still so
Our dilemma is this: When a that it be torn down." But recent
much more to be done. It was too property owner systematically and inspections by the city engineer
big of a job for one small team on· · intentionally creates a safety and have found the structure to be
one day.
health hazard increasing the likeli- sound and it can be restored .
. . W.~eds, broken glass and com- hood offire and crime, decreasing
Lastly, I would like the citizens
pacted leaves were still every- property'.values and the quality of of Salem to visit 18 Crombie Street
where. It smelled. It was unsani· · life, and furthermore flaunts and and bear witness to the "vantary and it was becoming a neigh- disrespects calls by the city and his- dalism" caused by members of our
borhood fire hazard due to the toric interests to repair the prop- neighborhood. You will find a
owner's neglect.
erty; can.thoughtful persons decide, cleaned-up lot, a brick driveway
Not wanting to have the efforts• without any vandalism nor that we found buried under debris,
of the mayor's cleanup team go to breaking and entering, to take it and newly painted boarded-up
waste, our entire neighborhood re- upon themselves to improve the se- windows on a little brown house
sponded to finish the job. It be- curity and safety of the neighbor- that witnessed tl1e birth of our nacame a point of community pricle hood by cleaning up the exterior? tion, 211l years ago.
to be involved in this effort.
There are times when the effort to
You be the judge. Will Salem be
. For two hours the next day, all reduce crime and hazard in a neigh- better off with founnore rcn tal
of the residents and children of borhood come into conflict with a parking places or worse, perhaps a
Crombie Street, as well as others property owner's intransigence.
larger edifice; or should this his·
disgusted by the long-lasting dereEveryone was delighted that toric survivor be allowed to be reliction of this property, supplied this blight on our neighborhood built and reach its fourth century?
•.i . ;tools, paint and muscle power to
had been transformed. Everyone We have a plan by which this can
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finish the job.
that is, except for one.
happen and all of us, including the
I! · Twenty-five more bags of debris
Just as we finished, a representa- present owner, can come out
j were removed; including a dis- tive of the owner happened upon ahead. Tell the mayor and City
ij gusting collection of flammable un- the scene and threatened to have us Council how you feel. Let 18
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derbrush, garbage, leaves and dirt arrested for trespassing, describing Crombie Street become your point
saturated with bodily fluids as well the activities of the past two days of civic pride, as it is ours.
Robert B. Wall
Ii as potentially dangerous sumac as "vandalism." We were made to
Salem
~ weeds which had grown to the size feel like criminals because of our
a of trees despoiling the. brick side- efforts.to improve the slum-like
(Editor's note: A "Save 18
lb · w'alk 'and foundation. The bare, conditions created and endorsed by Crombie St. block party," featuring
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rotted plywood boarding up the his company; Holyoke Insurance music, food, and hay rides, will be
held from 4 to 8 p.m. today, spon1 windows was touched up with Company, in our neighborhood.
' · ..,.. white·paint;a·new downspoutwas · It is ironic that the company sored by the Crombie Street Nainstalled to prevent dangerous 'ice that owns the property keeps it in tional Historic District Association.
darril>; and' a new "18" was put on a condition: that would never be in- Attendees are requested to bring a
the 'front door so the Fire Depart- · sured by one of its competitors.
pot luck contribution. More informent would know where to go if
To make matters worse, what mation can be obtained by calling
ever they were needed.
·was a perfectly good structure has 978-745-3806 or .978·744·2654.)
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SUNDAY
GLOBE
JULY22, 2001
Noteworthy
LISA CAPONE
GL08£ STAFF PH·:i70S/ EVAN
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Neighbors (above) protest an insurance company's plan to raze the \Venclt house, 18 Crombie
St. in Salem. At left, a detail of the building, v.ith local sentiments e:\.lJressed on a banner.
had also ordered a larger recycling District. According to William J.
container for glass and paper that
Lundregan, Holyoke's lawyer, the
will be inst<>Jled at Mount Hood. ··. company bad originally planned
the city-owned golf course, w~cb . to renrrb~b
home. -which
includes a restaurant.
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the
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work·
Holyoke's offic-=.s, a gas station,
and a small strip mall. Residents
point out that the vacant house is
also across the street from a
homeless sheltff.
The Salem City Council president, Joan Lo»ely, whose district
includes Crom'bie Street, said that
Building Commissioner Peter
Strout told her recently that he
didn't believe tile city would have .
reason to condemn the house for ..
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built around 1780 and was moYed
to its cunent location about 150
years ago. Past ov.ners have included William Pike, a friend of
both Ha\\thorne and President
Franklin Pierce, and fonner
slaves who may have u.5ed it as a
stop on the Underground Railroad, they said. Historic Salem,
Inc. placed the house on its "most
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first-time home buyers, but Ryder· ..
wasn't interested in seeing the · ,,
home refurbished in its current lo-> ;
cation.
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bate over 18 Crombie St. often : :·,·~
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Wendt House future
is still in dispute
longstanding dispute
between a Salem insurance company and a group
of Salem residents is headed for a
new chapter. City officials are considering a range oflegislative, regulatory, and perhaps legal avenues
for compelling the company to
maintain an 18th-century home
that it \van ts to raze.
In 1988, Holyoke 1'.IutuaJ Insurance Co. boug.'1t the so-c<llled
Wendt HQuse at 18 Crombie St.,
m-;e of six buildings that comp1ise
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residents say played host to Nathaniel Hawthorne - as work
space for visiting salesmen.
When the firm found renovation costs "economically unfeasible," Lundregan said, it moved to
demolish the house, but was
blocked by the Salem Redevelopment Authority. The company appealed, but lost in Essex Superior
Court.
Crombie Street residents fear
that the company is neglecting the
empty, boarded-up property until
the city is forced to condemn it
and to allow its demolition, paving the way for more commercial
development in a residential enclave alre.ady invaded by asphaJ t.
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didn't believe the city would have
reason to condemn th
·1se for
another dozen years. L ...emed
that the house shouldn't just rot in
the meantime, Lovely said the
council has asked City Solicitor
John Keenan to "look into" drafting an ordinance prohibiting owners from neglecting their property. She said proponents would
"start pushing the issue" at the
end of the summer.
"We're still looking at that and,
actually, we are also looking at
some other options regarding that
property on Crombie Street, including Board of Health enforcement and other issues through the
buildinginspec~'Jr," said Keenan,
adding that the city might again
"end up in litiga~ion" v.ith Holyo'...;e Mutual. "Ifs a priority of the
city. We are WU:-ig a look at it and
hopefully within the next couple
of months we'il be able to ta..1.;e
some action on i:."
That could b:-ing relief to the
newly formed Crombie Street Nation2J Histoiic District Neighborhood Associatio2, which manned
a cleanup of the property in May
that netted 40 b?.gs of weeds and
trash. Lundrega;1 subsequently
slapped the residents \\ith a notrespass order that threatened legal action if they entered tbe property again. Association members
also held a June '·block part)"' to
clra·,v attention tc> the issue, and
have gc.thered on Sunday evenings for sever?J weeks for "silent
vigil protests."
According to ~~veral Crombie
Street residents, including Ruth
and Robert Wall and David Pelletier, and John Goff and Tim Jenkins of Historic Salem, Inc., the
uiey saia. Historic Salem,
Inc. placed the house on its "most
endangered" historic properties
list last year, said Goff, the group's
executive director, and the Salem
HistoriCal Commission petitioned
Hi.St.Orie Massachusetts, Inc. in
May to place the home on its most
endangered historic resources list,
aswe1l.
Holyoke Mutual disputes the
home's historical significance,
Lundregan said, but has nonetheless offered to move it for free for a
nonprofit group willing to put it
elsewhere. That "perfect compromise," he said, would preserve the
house and allow Holyoke to retain
the lot- part of\vhich already is
paved for parking.
"Holyoke has no plans" to expand, ''but if they did it would be
nice to have a square lot," he sPJd,
noting that Holyoke mms an adjacent lot.
Residents say that moving the
house, like tearing it clov.i1, \vould
sap the integrity oftlie neighborhood.
"It's the den•Juing and the igi10ring of history for something
that's commercial. Expansion
could put a building in that spot
that's the same size as the one
across the street," Viall said. "I
don't see moving the house in order to square the lot to put in a sLxor seven-story building to be a
compromise."
Lundrcgan al.so suggested that
neighborhood residents "couJd
get together and make an offer·' to
buy the house. Salem Harbor's
Community Development Corp.
executive director, Jim Haskell,
said he had spoken \vith the company president, Douglas Ryder,
about acquiring the property and
i101yo.Ke is in the life of the com~ . _;. :.
munity."Thecompanfs 15<' -··.:.ar_·-:~,;.
history in Salem haS 'been n
.!d :~ .
by contributions to severii.l com- c ;',:~ ·.
munity organizations, including · ··- ·
Salem Hospital and the YM:CA. he .r':
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grant that \VOuld c;:;·;er about 40 ·
percent of the proj;;o:t's cost.
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$6.88 mi1lion p::ojfc'.·': at a specia1
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Ccirter. The stz,~e's :;'.-,2.re, approved June 7 by fr.=:. j\fassachusetts Board ofLi':irc._-:,· Commissioners, is clepe;:d~~-: on the
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lion bond propooal '.:·r library projects a.nd subseque~.: appropri·
a ti on of MiddletrJn'::- ::'\mds, Carter
said. She said p::i\·2.:': fund-raising
v;ouJd offset tll-2 2.1:,~.·.:;it funded
by Joc;:iJ ta,:pay<::::s.
The constrncti•)r. ·.rn\;)d b·2 the
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1980 renovatio;: foe.: co1fferted
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community/clli!drc~:s room. ·n1e
building, which still c-:cupies the
same 5,000 squ<:.~e L-:·t footprint
a.s when it was b·.1Ut i:-, 1891,
would grow to just o-:::r 20,000
square feet, she s2Jd. Librnry officials hope to have a f..::-,al design in
place within a yea ?_-.d break
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The lawsuit, which alleges negli·
SLx days later, on June 11, the
gence and assault by Gonyea, said suit alleges, Gonyea went to
the dog was allowed to ·roam Vasquez's home with Floyd and
"freely:and unleashed" when it at· "verbally threatened to unleash
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Carney said.
Many officers routinely park
their cruisers and visit businesses
located in the plaza in the course
of patrolling their beat, police said.
There are numerous shops in the
plaza, including Dunkin' Donuts,
against him, according to the com·
plaint and Vasquez's attorney.
Joyce said Vasquez will require
ongoing medical care, including
more surgery to try to repair the
damage to his lip.
The lawsuit seeks compensation
for Vasquez's medical costs as well as
damages for the emotional distress.
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call was made l::.rgely because the
accident invc,:·_-ed.a local police
cruiser and s~~ious injuries to a
pedestrian.
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keep his pledge to reconsider his
redistricting plan, allowing both
Democratic incumbents to keen
the cores of their districts.
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'Tm hoping that (Meehan's deci·
sion) provides an opportunity to
revisit the issue and craft a dis·
trict for each of the in cum bent
congressmen and, more impor·
tantly, recognize the commo:1 in·
terests that exist in the 6th (Con·
51essional District) now and have
~xis.ted for 200 years," Tierney, of
Salem, said in an interview yes·
:erday.
"I think we should take (Fin·
:-:::ran) at his word."
Finneran's redistricting plan
.c-ked many on the North Shore by
:?.king Lynn from Tierney in the
~:hand replacing the city with
·Jur Merrimack Valley communi·
ies from Meehan's 5th, including
.reehan's hometown of Lowell.
Critics say the plan, which
irmeran released July 11, would
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SALE!vI - Saying they're sick
of watching an abandoned, 18thcentury home rot away, city coun·
cilors are turning up the heat dra·
m2,tically on its po Nerful owner.
City Council President Joan
Lo\·ely has asked he.r colleagues
to formally request the Salem Re·
de\'elopment Authority to take
the property by eminent domain.
Holyoke lvlutual Insurance Co.
bought the home at 18 Crombie
St. about 12 years ago. It has been
empty ever since.
"They're just going to let it rot
into the ground," Lovely said.
"And we're not going to let them
do it."
The home's historical signifi·
cance is in dispute. But neighbors
want it saved, brought back to life
and sold to someone who v,:m
maintain it.
They want the company to
abandon its previous plan to
knock do\rn the house and put in
a parking lot. The city has suc·
cessfully blocked that plan in
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stalemate.
Critics say,::-_:: company has
switched to rr.::·e a long-term
strategy of den:: :it ion by neglect
- letting the L·J.se deteriorate
until the citv h:::; no choice but lD
allow it to be ds:-:·.::ilishecl
Lovely wants : J send the com·
pany a message: ::·s tim2 to listen
to the neighbor~
"It's a Yen· ur.::ue little nei£:h·
borhood, it's. a v=:·y strong neigh·
borhood," Lovel:: said. ''They cl02serve the s::me r'.;::1ts as the other
historic neighb:~:hoods, or any
neighborhood, fo~ :hat matter."
Lowly's requ~s: was welcomed
by neighbors, w~.o have staged
peaceful demons::ations outside
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surrounding homes.
"We're thrilled," said Ruth Wall,
who lives next door. "But I kno°I:.·
it's just the beginning of a long
fight."
Lovely's request came in the
form of an order sh:: sponsored c. t
Thursday's City Co'. mcU meeting,
and it received some support from
her colleagues.
The order was sent to the Com·
inittee on Community and Economic Development. Privately,
some acknowledge that taking 2.
building. by eminent domain
would be a drastic st::n and should
be used in the event that all other
remedies have failed.
Citv Solicitor Johi: Keenan is review-ing some of those options.
Some cities have passed laws prohibiting owners from neglecting
maintenance of their buildings, for
examule.
'·There's actually a lot of options
out there that we're trying to take
a look at," Keenan sa'.d.
Keenan expects to share infor·
in?..tion \\'ith city cou:~.::Uors by the
time they take up discussion of
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tionist and member of Historic
Salem Inc., has researcned the ·
"There's actually
issue and believes the SRA does
a lot of options oui there have the power to \\Test control of
the Crombie Street property away
that we're trying to take from Holyoke Insurance. The
SRA's mission is to preserve and
a look at."
enhance the viability of the city's
-City Solicitor John Keenan
downtown, Jenkins notes, and it
can step in when a property is not
being kept up.
Lovely's request this September,
"it had the power," Jenkins said.
after their summer recess is over.
"It's actuallv exercised that nower
"Certainly, I \Vould expect that as well in the past. And it's ail cod·
in the early fall we'd be ta'king ified in the enabling legislation. If
some addition2J action," Keenan the city chooses to do t'.lat, it has
said.
the ontion."
Lovely's request hinges on the
What the city eventus.lly ·does
inclusion of Crombie Street in one may depend on Holyoke. So far,
of two city zones that fall under the company has not responded to
the jurisdiction of the Rede\'elop- requ~sts by neighbors and city of.
ment Authority. ,':('_hough the ficials to discuss the status of the
agency lacks the J'.iudgef and proixrty.
muscle it had in the 1970s,'it has
This week, the silence conbeen growil1g in importance in re-~ tinued. Douglas Ryder; .the comcent years.
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Mayor Stanley Usovicz, for in-·· irientt6 the company's attorney,
stance, sought to revive the SRA to William Llindregan, who did not
recle\·e]op the long-dom1ant former return phone call.
nolice station. The SRA is now
:,vorking with a iocal de\'eloper on
plans for a hotel at the site.
Tim Jenkins, a local preserva-
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slick of raw waste surrounded his
boat. According to his report, he
could not determine which, if any
of those two large vessels, had illegally discharged the raw waste in
the harbor.
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with the cmTcnt or former district
attorneys.
And Grundy's late start tests
two pieces of conventional wisclom: that he got in too late, allCl
that he will get a boost from the
notorietyofthcGrcincdcrca.sc.
The Essex County clerk of
courts, Thomas H. Driscoll Jr.,
said it would be a challeni;e for
Grundy to catch up to Ulodgett,
who has been campaigning since
pmt of Suffolk County Distrir:t Altorncy Ralph L. Martin Jr.
Grundy is only now putting his
team in place ancl making a serious quest for fonds and support.
"There is still time" for Grundy
to become competitive, Driscoll
said. But he said Blodgett and
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SALEM - Before recessing un- Holyoke \.Vould like to demolish or
til September, the Salem City move to square a lot for possible
Council la.st month re- future development.
Update ferrcd to its CommitTile council is not scheduled to
tee on Community
meet ag<1in until Sept. 13. L1.Point
and Economic Development an
said. According to City Solicitor
order requesting the S;tlem RedeJohn Keenan, his office is considvelopment Authority take by emiering a range of options regarding
nent domain an 18th-century
the so-called Wendt House, inhome owned by Holyoke lviutua.l
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quest to draft an ordinance proThe July 19 order, which cites
hibiting owners from neglecting
"continued neglect of the property
their properties. Crombie Street
by its owner," was offered by City
neighbors fear Holyoke is neglect·council President Joan Lovely,
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said Assistant City Clerk Cheryl
forced to condemn it and allow its
La.Point. Lovely's ward includes 18
demolition.
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" ····It would be an unfortunate turn or events incleecl if Salem offi'cials Imel to resort to eminent domain proceedings in orcler to prevent demolition of the house at 18 C:·ombie Street.
While historians can argue about the true signific:mce or the
18th century structure itself, there's no questioning the fact that it
is an important part of what is the last residential neighborhood
within the city's central business district.
Certainly there's been a revival of residenti~1l uses downtown in
recent years which has brought new energy to the area. But these
dwelling units are located primarily in renovated or newly constructed edifices. or traditional streetscapes with a church and
., .·homes intended for a family or two, there's but one left within the
,, :area roughly bounded by Ht. 114, New Derby Street, Hawthorne
:. . :.·Boulevard and Bridge Street - Crombie Street.
... ~· .. It's an anachronism to be sure, with a White Hen Pantry at one
:.; 'end a parking lot at the other. But that part of it's ch;:mn, and the
<''minute or so it takes to wall\ it's length is a journey back into an_,, other era.
.,. Yet the Holyoke Insurance Co., which is seemingly oblivious to
the black eye this dispute has given it. seems determined to allow
the vacant 18 Crombie St. house: to drtcrioratc to thc point it nrnsf
be lali.en down. 1\11d Ii.Jr what purpose':' ~o it can inslatl a parking
.., lot capable of accommodating a !Cw more cars across from Its
., ::.'headquarters in Holyoke Square.
. ·: Hesidents of Crombie Street have been ordered o!Hhe property
: when they have tried to remove some of the debris or otherwise
.. improve the exterior of the place. But 1hev have been ~;ratified by
.:·:;oj_c:support they've received in other qua;·tcrs or lhe city rn lheir
"".e[ort to force Holyoke to do something other than tear the place
·.:"down.
' .. '·Now the City Council has a chance to take this fight to another
:..:)cvcl as a rcsu.lt or Ward :1 Councilor ,Joan Lovely's .proposal last
· · week that it request the Salem Redevelopment Authoritv to take
the property by eminent clomain.
~·'"" Grantee!, this is a rather extreme 111e0sure which will be subject
•·to· further review by the council's Committee of Community and
Economic Development before coming to the floor for a vote. But
in our mind, the preservation of a unique neighborhood such a~;
this is worthy of this radical move.
Holyoke. despite the i11fr;111si1~c11cc and i11clill{:n~11n· if h;1s dis·
played to this point, can still emerge a hero by doing the right
thing. Tf company officials choose not to. the council and Sl~i\
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To the Editor:
Alfhnugh l was in Wnshington
for votes in the House last 1'vlonclay,
I have heard and read numerous
accounts of the rally ;it Lynn City
Hall in support of keeping Lynn
united with other North Shme
communities within the Gth Congressional District.
Tl is easy to sec why people arc
so proud to live ancl work in this
area and wily we :di recognize the
strong communily bonds that cut
.across all of the North Shore's
cities and towns. The several hunclrt:d pt:oph: wllo allemfed Lhe rally,
representing so many different
neighborhoods and organizations,
sent a powerful message about lhe
Nfissile defens(
To the Editor:
The national missile defense
program is senseless, expensive.
and highly dangerous.
It is unproven. The July M "successful" m issilc defense test was
only the second success out of four
such tests and clid little to reflect
reality.
lt is outrageously expensive.
Bush's $8.3 billion request for
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from domr.stic ancl environmental
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Members of the Parrothead Club of Eastern Massachusetts, Mark
Domelly, left, and Jonathan Reardon are helplng to raise money for
the Sf>eclal Olympics by auctioning off tickets to see Jimmy Buffett
A dozen people marched in the
Heritage Days Parade on Sunday,
holding banners and accompanying a float, to call attention to
the abandoned house at 18
Crombie St. And they hit on a
novel idea to raise support among
the spectators. They gave out
"Save No. ta•; fans.
"Everybody wanted a fan because it was so hot," said Miranda
Wall, 17, who marched. "You
turned back and you could see all
these fans."
Many of the participants are
members of the newly formed
Crombie Street Historic Neighborhood Association. Others live elsewhere but are supporters of the
cause.
The float fit in well with the
theme of the parade, which was
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." It featured a replica of
the small 18th century house, surrounded by flowers.
Multi-colored flags hung on either side. Three children, Amore
Dotiglas; 3, Alexander Pelletier, 7,
and::Da:iliel Wall, 15, marched in
frol}t of the float holding a banner.
The house was bought by Holyoke
MutQal Insurance Co., more than a
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dozen years ago. Initially, the company wanted to restore it for use as
a conference center but switched
gears and sought to knock it down
for parking: The city successfully
blocked those plans, leading to a
stand-oft
The neighbors fear the house
will deteriorate to such an extent
that the city will have no choice
but to allow it to be demolished.
Salem Common
The Salem Common Neighborhood Association wants to hear
from members and non-members
about issues or concerns that are
important to the neighborhood.
Contact the group by 8ept. 15 by
writing to SCNA at P.O. Box 8608,
Salem, Mass. 01970, or e-mailing
the group at SCNA@nl.ailcom.
Today marks the beginning of a'.).
new city effort, dubbed "Clean if.
or lien it."
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A group of inmates from the'.;;~
Essex County Sheritf s Depart4J~
ment, supervised by city staff, will!;.~
remove litter, debris and ovei;-~~
grown v~tion froi;n severu. va;~
cant properties on Bridge Street. .; ~~
Last week, Mayor Stanley Usci-f~;
vicz announced the n:ew effort;·~·
which is designed to improve tb.e~J~~
appearanee of vacant lots. The to-~ f.
operation of the Essex County:
Sheriffs Department mak~ it eCo-';1~
nomical, he said.
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Right now, private landowne#~
are receiVing letters making then1'~1f
aware they are ~nsible for tli~ ~t'.>
appearance oftheir lots. They haWl"'.'.<'
30 days to clean up their proper-"~:i,;
ties, or the city will have the in- . ·
mates do it for them anCl attach~:'f,
any costs as a lien on th~ deedS 'tot;<
the properties.
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work rnore quickly. The MBTA~~-'.
and state owns severatpa:rcels :?,:
along Bridge Street
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Philbin, said about 30 inmates Will .·.:
be working today with two. la'wn .:;,;
mowers, 4 weed whackers; 16'j}
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Crombie Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983, this small district
includes the following properties: 7 - 15 Crombie Street, 16-18 Crombie Street,
and 13 Barton Street. It is on the nation's official list of cultural resources
worthy of preservation.
The Street was laid out by Benjamin Crombie in 1805 and this district is what
remains of the extensive residential areas that surrounded downtown, after the urban
renewal programs of the 1960's and '70's. This residential district sits between
Essex Street and Norman Street, in the heart of downtown Salem, and it is
home to a church and a number of families.
The Wendt House, 18 Crombie Street, c. 1783, is currently vacant and threatened with
demolition by neglect. Once the home of a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, this little brown
house has been called "home" by many different people for two centuries. This house has a
very interesting history. Last year, the house was nominated to Historic Salem, Inc.'s Most
Endangered Historic Resources List.
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The residents and neighbors of the district are working hard to save the little brown
house. It has been the topic of discussion on the SalemWeb Message Board in the
Community Issues/Holyoke Mutual section. Here's what you can do to help!
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�for HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"
May 16, 2003
John Goff
Historic Salem, Inc.
P.O. Box 865
Salem, MA 01970
Dear John Goff:
On :\12y 29, t!::e Nati· mal Trust for Hi s~ori c Pr~serv<Jtiori ·~'ill r~J e;i se its 2003 fa;t of
:
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. As always, the selection is very difficult
because every site is well deserving and in need of attention. I am sorry to inform you that we
were unable to put Wendt House on the list this year.
We appreciate your efforts in submitting an entry and keeping us abreast of developments
throughout the selection process. We encourage you to explore other avenues to resolve the threat
or bring some assistance to your site. Please refer to the National Trust's Web site at
www.nationaltrust.org/help for information regarding the National Trust's grant and loan
programs, which have assisted thousands of innovative preservation projects that protect the
continuity, diversity, and beauty of our communities.
We also encourage you to contact our regional offices, also listed on the National
Trust Web site, to keep them apprised of your situation. They can put you in contact with the
appropriate statewide organization if you haven't done so already. You may also want to visit
the Web site of the National Council of State Historical Preservation Organizations (SHPO) at
www.sso.org/ncshpo. A complete and up-to-date list of SHPOs is readily available from that
site.
While we hope that each and every site is saved, we also know the reality of preservation
efforts. If your site is still endangered next year, we encourage you to re-nominate it. Nomination
fonns for 2004 will be available this fall and the deadline will be in early January 2004.
Thank you for your interest and support. Please feel free to contact our Communications
Office at 202-588-6141 if you have any questions.
·
Sincerely,
Beth Newburger
Director of Communications
Protecting the Irreplaceable
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�street in America. Mcintire designed two buildings here, Hamilton Hall (9 Chestnut Street,
1805-1807) and the Hodges House (12 Chestnut St., 1805), but the fine detailing
and consistency of excellent design in the remaining Federal houses on the street leaves little
doubt that they are the work of master builders, as well. The district also contains significant
structures of the later 19th century, for instance the First Unitarian Church (316 Essex Street,
1833-36), the Salem Public Library (370 Essex St., 1850), and Greymoor (329 Essex St., 1871/72),
Salem's most elaborate example and high Victorian Italianate domestic architecture.
Crombie Street Historic District
The Crombie Street District is composed of the eight remaining buildings of this downtown
residential enclave. The district includes a cross-section of residential buildings from various
periods of development, along with a church building originally built as a theater. The
boundaries include the six buildings that face Crombie Street and the two buildings at the west
end of Barton Square, adjacent to Crombie Street on the west.
Crombie Street was laid out in 1805 by Benjamin Crombie, proprietor of a tavern called the
Sign of the Ship, that stood on Essex Street east of his new street. Between 1805 and 1815,
Crombie sold four house lots behind his tavern, as weU as narrow strips of frontage on the
street to three other landholders to the west. Only two of the houses standing today were built
before Crombie sold the remaining property in 1319, but the district is shown intact on the 1851
map of the city.
As the only surviving downtown residential group f.rom the early 19th century, the houses on
Crombie Street provide important information about the character of the city at that time. All
the buildings directly abut the sidewall<, suggesting high density, but placement on the lots is
irregular, creating a rural atmosphere. Wood is the dominant material, although the Crombie
Street Church and the Bowker House (9 Crombie Street) are brick, as is the Prince house (26727.3 Essex St., not in the district), which predates Crombie's acitivity.
While architectural quality within the district is variable, three buildings clustered at its north
end are all individually noteworthy. The Crombie Street Church built as a theater in 1828, is
: the architectural highlight of the district. The monumental relieving arches of the facade
define its composition and suggest the Federal style, but the panelled detailing of the broad
piers separating these arches, introduce a newer Greek Revival influence.
Neighboring the church stands the substantial Bowker House, built in the Federal style around
1810, and modernized by overlaid brownstone trimmings in 1860. The hybrid design is very
successful, reinforcing the central importance of this house to the district. The Pierson House
(13 Barton Square) is an unusuaHy graceful vernacular Italianate residence, typical of the houses
that lined Barton Square in the mid-19th century.
Derby Waterfront Historic District
The Derby Waterfront Historic District is located in Salem's Waterfront area and includes both
sides of Derby Street between Herbert Street to Block House Square,and the streets to the
south of Derby Street from the Salem Maritime National Historic Site to Blaney Street.
Buildings of the Federal period predominate in this densely settled area; although a number of
structures are of the eighteenth, late nineteenth and eariy twentieth centuries, and three
properties date as far back as the seventeenth century. Whereas most of the buildings are
clapboard, there are also some outstadning examples of brick construction.
The development of the area is closely tied to the history of the nearby wharves which began in
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Historic Salem, Incorporated
From:
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Sent:
rory goff <rorygoff@hotmail.com>
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Monday, January 22, 2001 4:45 AM
January 22, 2001
Editor
Salem Evening News
155 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
CROMBIE STREET HOUSE HAS REMARKABLE HISTORY
To the Editor:
I was pleased to read that "Neighbors Hope to Save Neglected Historic Home"
[Salem Evening News, January 19, 2001, page 1] and that you concluded "The
house at 18 Crombie Street is an impo11ant pai1 of this street scape which
ought to be preserved." [Editorial, December 19, 2000]. When the local
building inspector says he sees no reason to destroy a perfectly good
antique house -- and common sense also suggests it can be repaired and
restored -- one wonders why Holyoke Mutual Insurance Company of Salem
believes this "Most Endangered Historic Resource" must be demolished.
I believe there is a simple explanation for Holyoke's stance. They were
seriously misled by a local "consultant" who proposed that "There is no
redeeming historic value associated with the tenancy or the residence per
se" in an Overview Study prepared in 1990. This "consultant" farther
proposed that "During the entire 160 year history of 18 Crombie Street's
existence, there has not been a major historically significant tenancy."
Through a simple matter of bad scholarship, Holyoke Insurance was led over
10 years ago to categorically dismiss a number of historical associations
which potentially make this property Individually Eligible for Listing on
the National Register of Historic Places.
I refer of course to the property's early ownership by the First Church of
Salem; its early ownership by Samuel Curwen, the famed Salem Loyalist who
built the Bowditch House; its early associations with Benjamin Crombie who
ran the Sign of the Ship tavern at the head of Crombie Street; as well as
its important early occupancies and associations with Prince Farmer, William
B. Pike, Dr. Shadrach M. Cate, and Leonard J. & Rufina M. Jefferson.
William Pike's portrait hangs in the Peabody-Essex Museum; he is best
remembered as a U.S. Customs Collector both for Boston and for Salem. He
was a personal friend of U.S. President Franklin Pierce and ofNathaniel
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Hawthorne -- Salem's most famous author. Dr. Cate was a distinguished
19th-century Salem physician, and a founder of the Swedenborgian Church in
Salem.
Prince Farmer and the Jeffersons are particularly important to remember
while we celebrate January as Black History Month here in America. Prince
Farmer was one of Salem's early Blacks who was recently recognized in the
Salem Afro-American Heritage Trail booklet published by the National Park
Service. A cook aboard the ship GEORGE, and an oyster retailer by Old Town
Hall, Mr. Farmer was on the building committee of Salem's first church
erected for Blacks, and was a close associate of many 19th-century
Abolitionists, including the famed Remonds of Salem. The Jeffersons were
also strong advocates for civil rights and Black equality in Salem's
formative years. They were probably "conductors" or associates on the
"shoreline" branch of the Underground Railroad which carried Southern slaves
to Freedom in the North.
For further documentation of all these facts, I refer you to the Essex
County Registry of Deeds, and to a 20-page report which I prepared on 18
Crombie Street in July 1990, which was reproduced as "Attachment A" in the
1990 Overview Study. This document has been public record since Holyoke
applied to the City for permission to raze the house. Additional supporting
material on Salem's Black History was compiled by the National Park Service,
and information on the Salem Underground Railroad was compiled by the late
Miss Eleanor Broadhead.
The facts speak very well for themselves. This lovely little building is a
unique and most-imp01iant Salem historic landmark, which should be repaired
and restored immediately upon its ancient site to improve its blighted
neighborhood and downtown Salem. Thank you for supporting us in these
recognitions.
Sincerely,
Rory Goff
Merrymeeting Archives
Saco, Maine
(1990 historic house researcher for Historic Salem, Inc.)
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�Underground Railroad Initiative
Meeting Notes
January 17, 2001
Attendance: Deb Benvie, Dr. Gloria Bowens, Barbara Brown,
Anne Check, Peter deGrandpre, Ellen DiGeronimo, Jennifer Gaudio,
Meridy Giles, Merrill Kohlhofer, Peter Laraba, Frank Luz,
Joe Makkers, Solange Marchand, Mr.& Mrs. Roger Parker,
Pam Peterson, Dori Phillips, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Ruggles,
Bonnie Smith, Louise Sandberg, Glenn Steen-Johnson,
Nancy TenBroeck,
Rae Emerson, Tina Cross, Bruce Jones
The public response was incredible, as a record twenty- three people attended
the meeting! Rae welcomed the group, gave an overview of the project, and
turned the proceedings over to Bruce and Tina.
Bruce apologized for not having enough info folders for everyone and went over
the contents. He gave a short description of how the Underground Railroad
Initiative was organized within the National Park Service, and stated we didn't
yet know what our final product will be (a brochure, a map, bibliography,
presentation, etc.) and welcomed everyone's input.
Tina asked the gathering to offer any information they might have about the
Underground Railroad, or ask questions concerning the topic.
The attached listing covers much of what was discussed during the next hour.
Note that several research sources were identified and listed. Thanks to Pat
Durkee, Bruce and Tina will contact Salem resident Margaret Hill to arrange for
an interview concerning her families' 4 generations in Salem and her Grandfather
who was a slave.
Also attached for your information is a copy of an October 8, 1999, New York
Times article concerning Nova Scotia Blacks with historical connections to
the American Revolution and the Underground Railroad. This article was
provided courtesy of Bonnie Smith.
There was also enthusiastic support by group members to contribute towards an
exhibit on Essex National Heritage Area Underground Railroad/Abolitionist
activity in the Visitor Center for Black History Month.
�An open house will be announced once the exhibit is installed and all attendees
to the UGRR meetings, along with the public, will be invited.
Next meeting: March 14, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. in the Salem Regional Visitor Center.
�January 17, 2001 UGRR Meeting Notes
Locations identified by attendees to be researched for documentation of UGRR activity:
26 or 27 Beckford St., Salem - way station
House of the Seven Gables, Salem - hidden Staircase
Chestnut St., Salem - two houses, address unknown
Rockaway St., Marblehead - tunnel to harbor
Old North Church, Stacy St., Marblehead - attic hiding place
Training Field Ground, off of Washington St., Marblehead - grave sites of runaway
slaves
11 Hewitt St., Marblehead - hidden staircase
Hearth and Eagle house, Franklin St., Marblehead - way station
Asa Orne House, Orne St., Marblehead - hidden staircase
Research sources identified:
Margaret Hill, Salem - African American Octogenarian; 4 generations in Salem
William Bowditch records - abolitionist
"The Liberator"
Free Baptist Church records, Lawrence
Essex County Anti Slave Society minutes
WEB: Dred Scott
Marblehead Historic Society: "History of Where I Live school project Story describes hidden cupboard
Park Service of Canada: Nova Scotia
Levy Coffin diary
Ship hopping records
North side Stories: Book of interviews with freed slaves in Canada
Quilts
Local newspapers throughout ENHA
Haverhill Historic Society: Archives and Collections
FebruaryVisitor Center Exhibit Contributors:
· Lynn Museum: Abolitionists in Lynn
Dr. Bowens: Quilts
H?G: Excerpt of abolitionist/slave experience
Greater Lawrence UGRR Committee: Greater Lawrence UGRR Exhibit
Marblehead Historic Society: photographs of Dodge family
Pat Durkee, 2 Andover St., Salem: copy of family will showing slave ownership
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with Teena Paynter, secretary.of the
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few days after he returned on tlie.:
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units in Euro.Pe in.:}\Tqrld War.II.· :,,.;,· y;hite.Tories, and black loyalists.
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buttons, a shoe buckle and a bayonet.
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covering the saga of the black loyal.century s_hipping i:e_ cords, ~cholars ·, . :,;
boomtown in the 18th century.
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ly all white ~rriva.Is i:>ut tci fewer: tn.8:Jl~~~'p1~:~tw;~~.,.,,-.,-,,.~
not valid for slaves of LOyalistip~;..
15 percent of the J?lacks. White p~9~;:i..: ·Ms, Rob~-~9.tj:~a~ -1,.
ters. As a result, thousands o!-~frk2~J . . averaged twice the size of the ~~Ck·· after"her ancestors se
can-Americans fie?, s.lavery, and. it-'i!j · if ji>lots, which were often on thin, rocky .
.crossed over to Bntish Un~. whei;-e, :.. :, fSi:>ll distant from town: .
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cam1Hndenttired servants or agreed
military collapse, some officers~- .
to work for radically lower wages. In
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1784, this· depression in wages ·; .. .
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prompted North America's first:, '
the bigh seas, they found that their . · .modern race riot, in Shelburne: Ben- ,
ships were heading south to sugar
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"Great riot today. The disbanded sol~
plantations in the Caribbean, instead
of north to fr€edom ii} Nova Scotia
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ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
Karch 18,1991
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
Submitted to:
Salem Planning Department
One Salem Green
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
INTRODUCTION
Thia report is confined to the present structural
condition of the above-referenced building1
gana~~l
daaoriptiona of repairs and construction are listed with
associated
approximate
costs.
Observations
and
recommendations are drawn from the following:
*
site visit and visual inspection
of the existing building interior.
*
review of
the OVERVIEW
STUDY
prepared by Demarco/Jarek Partnership,
Architects
and
Planners,
dated
September 1990.
*
prior experience
with
similar
building types and typical construction
procedures for
structural rehabilitation.
While we generally agree with the Demarco/Jarek report,
we have addressed only the structural aspects of the
building: foundation,
framing, and related components.
Remedies to structural problems are discussed later;
included in our repair estimate
is a line item which
covers the cost of cutting and patching required for the
structural improvements only.
Anticipated renovation
costs which
are not
warranted by the structural
condition of the referenced building are considered
and presented - by others.
EXISTING CONDITIONS
\.
We find that the condition of the superstructure of the
original building and the addition is acceptable to good
with the exception of the sills and various aspects of
the first
floor framing
<as
discussed in the
Architects~ report>.
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'745·6596
ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEM, XASSACUSETTS
:March 18,1991
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
The condition of the back porch is such that it should
be be torn down entirely.
The original building has a very severe lean to one side
which we partly attribute to the way it was built and
added to, but mostly to problems with the foundation.
The condition of the foundation is fair to poor and
likely to further deteriorate due to disintegration of
its brick
masonry components.
In addition,
sevev~
settlement at two corners and at the chimney supports
has occurred while lateral movement of some of the walls
is evident (consistent with the description in the
Architect~~
report),
RECOMMENDATIONS
Pursuant to
the above
structural problems,
we
corrective measures:
*
description
recommend
Shore superstructure
sills entirely.
budget
and
observed
following
of
the
replace
$
building
6,280.00
*
Jack-up the superstructure where required to
level position to properly facilitate resting
sills on a new foundation. Some improvement in
the presently excessive leaning of the building
may result from this operation.
budget
$
4,860.00
*
Provide miscellaneous first floor framing
Repair
and supports.
reinforcing, connections,
chimney foundation.
budget
$
970.00
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745-6596
ROBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
ASSOCIATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEM, XASSACUSETTS
Karch 18,1991
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
*
Remove porch completely ~nd repl~ce re~r
access with new stairs from exterior grade to
first floor.
budget
$
710.00
*
Remove existing concrete floor and replace
with a new reinforced slab on vapor barrier with
construction joints on suitable, compacted g-ravel
base. Install sump pit with pump to prevent
damage from possible future flooding condition~,
budget
$
3,230.00
*
Remove the existing foundation and excav~te
p1=ff·i:mi:ita1-· to al low installation of new castin-place concrete foundation walls and footings;
dampproof foundation
exterior.
Include coderequired vents or windows.
t~I'=!
$
budget
7,130.00
*
Provide
improved
interior
access
to
basement: install new stairs and rails. Provide
new exterior
bulkhead,
bulkhead stairs,
and
weatherproof doors for exterior access.
·,.";""
budget
$
1,670.00
*
Remove all unused piping, wiring, conduits,
miscellaneous obstructions,
etc.,
in basement.
Clean and treat areas exposed to moisture or
adjacent rot.
budget
$
480.00
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'f5·6596
RoBERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
](arch 18,1991
AssoclATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
*
Cut and patch as necessary for disturbed
areas,
caused
by these specified structural
impi--ovi:uuente,
to
match original or adjacent
exposed construction: interior and exterior.
budget
Also, although
i~~oollllllc:ind
$
960.00
not absolutely required structurally, we
ttoit the addition be tarn down in its entirety
and properly rebuilt. In doing so, this structure would
contribute to the stability of the original building
while following an improved architectural design.
CONCLUSION
The above-listed observations and subsequently devised
recommendations are rendered to show the reasonable
minimum requirements to adequately rehabilitate the
structure and allow architectural and related utility
improvements to follow. While the superstructure needs
work as specified to be restored to level and near-plumb
condition, the general intent of the Engineer is to
require a new, structurally sound foundation and in
doing so,
achieve the additional benefit of a clean,
dry, and usable basement.
�7.45-6596
RosERT
M.
RUMPF
&
STRUCTURAL REPORT
18 CROMBIE STREET
SALEK, XASSACUSETTS
Xarch 18,1991
Assoc1ATES
CONSUL TING ENGINEERS
101 DERBY STREET
SALEM.MASS.01970
Mr. William Luster
Salem Planning Dep~~truent
One Salem Green
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Dear Mr. Luster:
Enclosed herewith please find our report on the structural
condition of the above-referenced building per your request.
f:J~lne r-epor·t
outlines the remedial construction necessary to
prevent further deterioration of the structure and aseu~e
greater safety to its occupants.
If you require additional information relevant to this
matter - or our services in another project - please advise.
Respectfully submi~t~,
fl~r~ H-f?.,
\
_,.,
Robert M. Rumpf, P. ·. 'B.
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The William Pike House. Built for Samuel Ferguson, painter, by 1831
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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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.AJ.~D HIS ACCOUNT BOOK.
BY HEXRY WYCOFF BELK~AP.
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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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her 1795, daughter of Samuel and Susannah (Babbidge)
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.
Carving legs:-
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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
a charter member of the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
in l 8 1 7. Descendants now own a group of pieces tha~ have always been ascribed to him, including this table, two card tables
(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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HISTORIC
SALEM
INC
11 Pickman Street
Built by
John S. Edwards
Housewright
c. 1834
Research Provided by
David Moffat
February 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
Date
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
2016, Sep Ellen DuBois, Personal
29
Representative of the Estate of
Edward Wolkiewicz
Diane Cline
Hastings &
Michael Hastings
1969, Aug. Richard J. Iannitelli & Linda L.
27
Iannitelli
Edward
Wolkiewicz
1966, Jan Leo A. Campbell & Lucy
27
Campbell
Richard J.
Iannitelli & Linda
L. Iannitelli
1957, Oct
21
Leo A. Campbell &
Lucy Campbell
Harold G. Macomber, of
Marblehead
Amount
$300,000
Doc
Book
Deed
(RL) 575806
Considerati Deed
on paid
(RL)
($15,900?)
Consideration paid
Deed
($12,500?)
(RL)
132138
118495
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
84018
1955, Dec. Nathaniel W. Fernald, widower
27
Harold G.
Macomber
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
84017
1929, Nov. Henry H. Kimball, of Melrose
25
Nathaniel W.
Fernald & Cora M.
Fernald
Consideration paid
Deed
(RL)
22237
Page
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1921, Aug. Daniel Upton, by Attorney, etc:
21
Cushing Kimball and Henry H.
Kimball, Executors of the will of
Annie B. Webb, deceased
holders of a mortgage from
Daniel Upton to Salem Savings
Bank, Sep. 30, 1867
Henry H. Kimball
1867, Oct. Betsey C. Russell, widow
3
Daniel Upton
1864, June Samuel Webb, merchant
23
Betsey C. Russell
1847, Dec. Jonathan S. Edwards,
13
housewright
Samuel Webb
1834, May William B. Parker, merchant
9
Jonathan S.
Edwards
$1,000 Deed
2817
371
$3,000 Deed
731
240
$1,500 Deed
670
211
$1,400 Deed
391
55
$550 Deed
276
74
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
11 Pickman Street- Built by Jonathan S. Edwards, Housewright c. 1834
Edwards purchased the lot of William Parker in 1834 and was a housewright.
The same John S. Edwards, born 1808? (Salem Births, p. 237)
John S. Edwards married Charlotte Somes of Gloucester, 1832 (Salem Marriages, p. 327)
Deed 267:29, Joseph Swan, yeoman, sells Edwards & William Batchelder the half of a dwelling house and land in Salem
between St. Peter’s, Brown, and Howard Street on Sep. 22, 1832
Deed 267:30, Edwards conveys his share of the purchase to Batchelder Sep. 20, 1832
Deed 365:130, Henry Derby, tailor, sells John S. Edwards, Housewright, a lot of land bounded westerly by Summer Street on
March 22, 1846.
Thomas P. Honeycomb, home at 92 Essex Street, was the other half of Honeycomb & Edwards
- The property was on the 12-acre lot of Deliverance and Susanna Parkman in 1700, the so-called “Ship Tavern’s Pasture”
-Land of Benjamin Pickman in the early 19th century.
-Pickman Street was laid out May 17, 1824, as per Perley’s “Salem in 1700. No. 19.”
1837-1846 (per MACRIS): John S. Edwards, Honeycomb & Edwards, carpenters
1842 Directory: John Brooks, carpenter + John S. Edwards, 8 North St. (Honeycomb & E.), carpenter
1846 Directory: Samuel G. Danforth, carpenter + John S. Edwards, ditto
1850 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Mrs. Elizabeth Vanderford + Samuel Webb
1851 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Samuel Webb, clerk at Merchant’s Bank
1853 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Mrs. Elizabeth Vanderford + Samuel Webb
1855 Directory: Gardner Barton, apothecary, Mrs. Benjamin Russell + Samuel Webb
1857 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell, Benjamin W. Russell, clerk at Salem Bank boards
1859 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell, Benjamin W. Russell, clerk at Salem Bank boards
1861 Directory: Mrs. Benjamin Russell
1864 Directory: Benj. W. Russell, bookkeeper, Salem Bank, Samuel Webb boards
1869 Directory: Daniel Upton (90 Milk Street, B.), house 11 Pickman
1874 Atlas: D. Upton
1881 Directory: Mrs. A.M. Upton, dressmaker, Daniel Upton, Francis Upton, music teacher
�Ownership History of 11 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1886 Directory: Daniel Upton, Miss Agnes A. Sheehan boards, dressmaker, Charles McCarthy boards,
1895/96 Directory: Mrs. Annie M. Upton
1899/1900 Directory: Mrs. Agnes A. Shehan boards, Francis Upton, a music teacher
1904 Directory: Francis Upton, music teacher, Miss Agnes A. Sheehan boards
1914 Directory: Agnes A. Sheehan boards, dressmaker, Francis Upton, musician
1929: Henry H. Kimball registered the land, Doc. 2821:163.
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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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Bachorowski, A
Boston Globe (1960-1986); Aug 9, 1972; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe
pg. 34
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32 Forrester Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
Description
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., 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
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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.^
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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
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84 Federal Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
Lois E. Mooney and Alvin J. Mooney,
Conductor of Boston & Maine Railroad
1899
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1899
2018
84
Alvin
Federal
History
House
Lois
Massachusetts
Mooney
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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47 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
J. Lovett Whipple
Wheelwright
c. 1854
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
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c. 1854, 2018
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Diana Dunlap
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English
1854
2018
47
circa
Essex
History
House
J.
Lovett
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
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14 Herbert Street
Built for
Antonina and John Boltrukiewicz
Machine Painter
1912
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
July 2018
Historic Salem Inc,
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2018
�View of 14 Herbert Street, 1998 (MACRIS SAL.3865)
14 Herbert Street is a two-family, flat-roofed home built about 1912 by John S.
Boltrukiewicz and his family. The home replaced a circa 1874 single-family home that belonged
to Hannah Brick. The previous home was very similar to the adjacent 16 Herbert Street and was
likely built around the same time, possibly by the Brick family, who owned both plots of land.
In the early 20th century, the Historic Derby Street Neighborhood was predominantly
Polish. Attracted to job opportunities in the city’s mills and factories, Polish immigrants began
arriving in Salem around 1890 and by 1911, Poles comprised about 8% of the city’s overall
population. Religion played a strong role in the Polish community and as the number of Polish
Catholics in Salem grew, the need for a permanent house of worship became apparent. Herbert
Street and Union Street became the heart of the Polish Catholic presence in the city, housing St.
John the Baptist Church, a parochial school, convent, and rectory.
�View of the previous building at 14 Herbert Street and the Manning House at 10 ½ Herbert Street. c. 1890-1910.
(Phillips Library)
Reverend Joseph J. Czubek (1908-1910)
Joseph J. Czubek (1874-1940), was born on August 8, 1874 in Toledo, Ohio, one of five
children belonging to James and Mary (Nowak) Czubek. His parents immigrated to America from
the Province of Posen, an area of Prussia that became part of the German Empire in 1871.1 At
the age of 24, Joseph was ordained at a Polish Seminary in Detroit, Michigan.2
In 1901, Reverend Czubek was beckoned to Salem by Father Chmielewski of Boston, to
conduct mass in Polish. These services were given in the basement of an Irish parish, the Church
1
Year: 1920; Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_696; Page: 6A; Enumeration District:
259
Year: 1937; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 6006; Line: 1; Page
Number: 136
2
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978)
�of Immaculate Conception on Hawthorne Boulevard, (then Walnut Street.) Czubek was quickly
welcomed by Salem’s parishioners due to his support of the need to erect a Polish Catholic
church in the city. Reverend Czubek created and tasked a committee with raising over $2,000
needed to purchase and convert a dwelling into a new parish. Following the building’s
completion, Czubek was appointed the pastor of St. John the Baptist Polish Roman Catholic
Church, which held its first mass at 18-20 Herbert Street on July 3, 1903.3
Reverend Czubek continued expanding church, purchasing additional buildings on
Herbert Street and the surrounding area to house a school, rectory, and a convent.4 After only
three short years, the church building on Herbert Street had already become inadequate for the
growing number of parishioners. Czubek purchased a vacant, former Baptist Church on St. Peter
Street and assigned a committee to oversee the building’s restoration. The new church was
completed in 1909 and the former Herbert Street church was converted into additional
classrooms for the Polish parochial school, which had previously occupied the basement.
One of Czubek’s many purchases was 14 and 16 Herbert Street in 1908, at the cost of
$2,900. The two dwellings were sold to Czubek by Ellen Fitzgerald of Boston.5 The land and two
homes previously belonged to Hannah Brick, who likely built them.6 Czubek used the properties
to house the Felician Sisters, nuns who operated the church’s parochial school, until a convent
could be built on Union Street. 7
Reverend Czubek’s legacy was cemented on June 25, 1914 when the Great Salem Fire
destroyed 1,600 buildings over 250 acres. More than 14,000 Salemites were displaced from their
homes including many from the Derby Street area. After hours of devastation to the city, the fire
stopped at the foot of Herbert Street and Central Wharf. Many Poles have credited this to
Reverend Czubek. Local lore states that Czubek stood in the middle of Derby Street with holy
water and a crucifix, praying for the fire’s end. Another story credits Clara Kotarski, whose
3
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978) and
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, 1904.
4
Polish American Liturgical Center, History of St. John the Baptist, Salem MA, Diamond Jubilee (1903-1978)
5
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:393
6
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts." Map. 11. Philadelphia, PA: C.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874.
7
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, George Whipple Co., 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
�husband owned a row of buildings at the head of Derby Wharf. It is said that she placed a crucifix
on their house to halt the blaze.
In the Heart of Polish Salem, National Park Service
The Boltrukiewicz Family (1910-1996)
John Stanislaw Boltrukiewicz (1886-1954) was born in Poland on June 24, 1886. In 1907
he immigrated to the United States along with his wife Antonina “Annie” (Sigyjy) Boltrukiewicz
(1886-1963) whom he married that same year. 8 The couple rented a home at 43 Union Street,
that they shared with John’s older brother Lucas, and multiple boarders. John worked at United
8
Year: 1910; Census Place: Salem Ward 1, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_587; Page: 13B; Enumeration District:
0455; FHL microfilm: 1374600
�Shoe Company in Beverly painting machines used in the manufacturing of shoes. In 1909 they
welcomed their daughter Bronislawa “Bertha” Boltrukiewicz. (1909-1967) The couple had three
more children, Wladislawa “Alice” (1910-1993), Stanislaw “Stanley” (1912-1965), and Jane
(1914-1996.) It appears that they also had multiple children die in infancy including John Jr. born
on May 4, 1908 and Wclaw, who was born in 1909 and died of pneumonia a few weeks later.9
In August 1910, John S. Boltrukiewicz purchased 14 and 16 Herbert Street from Joseph
Czubek for “one dollar and other considerations paid.”10 Their mortgage however reflects $2,400
which may have been used to construct a new dwelling at #14.11 The family moved into 16
Herbert Street and based on directories, around 1912, constructed a new two-family house at
#14 using the former single-family home’s foundation.12 The previous home looked very similar
to #16 but may have been replaced with a two-family as an investment property.13
During the Boltrukiewicz’s ownership, 14 Herbert Street had multiple tenants, primarily
Polish. The two-family home had a quick turn-over, with most tenants only listed living in the
home for a year. This however was not uncommon, as property ownership was a great source of
pride to the Polish, who would have rented only until they could have afforded a home.
Reverend Czubek was celebrated for assisting over 100 newly married couples purchase their
first homes.14
The Boltrukiewicz children continued to live at home at #16 into adulthood. Jane worked
in the mill of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company and Alice worked downtown as a
saleswoman at Amy, Bigelow & Washburn. Their brother Stanley worked as an auto mechanic at
Colonial Garage and Bertha Boltrukiewicz worked as a full-time stenographer. Around 1941,
Bertha began working at the Hygrade Sylvania Corporation in Salem, assembling lamps. 15 That
9
Wclaw is also listed as Wclaf and William, born September 28, 1909 and died October 11, 1909. John Jr. was born
May 4, 1908, no information on his death was found.
10
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:393
11
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1918:394
12
Both the Phillips Library (Peabody Essex Museum) and City of Salem were contacted to request the building
permits from 1912. Both organizations were not able to locate these records. The use of these records could better
substantiate the home’s construction date.
13
Foundation appears similar to previous foundation based on turn-of-the-century photograph from the Phillips
Library, included in this research.
14
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · 22 Aug 1910, Mon · Main Edition · Page 3
15
Salem City Directory, Salem Massachusetts, R.L Polk & Co., 1941
�same year she married Henry Panek, a machinist. By 1942 the couple had moved into 14 Herbert
Street and the following year they had a son, Henry Jr. The Paneks remained in the home for
over 20 years, the longest of any tenant.
Both homes remained in the Boltrukiewicz family for a total of 86 years. They passed
down from John and Antonina, in 1953, to their children and in 1996, following the death of
Jane, the homes were sold separately for the first time. Henry Panek Jr., Jane’s nephew, who by
that time was living in Pennsylvania, sold 16 Herbert Street to Lorinda and Michael Matter for
$121,000 and 14 Herbert Street to Aaron and Kenneth Dibello for $105,000 16
14 Herbert Street sold again, three years later, to James and Christina Ayube for
180,000.17 The two-family home was rezoned into condo units in 2004 when the Ayube’s sold
the home to Timothy J. Hallinan, III for $285,000.18 Since 2004, the two units have been owned
separately.
16
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 13886:526, 4008:247 and 12610:31
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 15774:382
18
Southern Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 20369:437 and Deed 22337:177
17
�Buyer
Ellen Fitzgerald
Years of
Ownership
1898-1908
Number
of Years
12
Purchase Price
$1,760
Document
Referenced
Deed 1538:550
Joseph J. Czubek
1908-1910
3
$2,900
Deed 1918:393
Deed 1918:394
John S. Boltrukiewicz
1910-1953
43
$2,900
Deed 2036:109
Jane D. Boltrukiewicz,
et al.
Aaron DiBella
Kenneth F. DiBella
1953-1996
43
1996-1999
3
> $100
$1.00
$105,000
Deed 4008:247
Deed 12610:31
Deed 13887:208
James A. Ayube
Christina M. Ayube
Timothy J. Hallinan, III
1999-2003
4
$180,000
Deed 15774:382
2003-2004
<1
$285,000
Deed 20369:437
Cynthia A. Clark
2004-2011
7
$180,000
Rebecca Mackenzie
2011-2017
6
$143,000
Deed 22349:39
Deed 22337:177
Deed 35543:378
Deed 35543:378
Nicholas L. Montefort
Allyson N. Chapman
2017Present
1+
$255,000
Deed 36196:360
Notes
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Authorized by William M. Hill, Probate Commissioner on
behalf of Daniel T. Brick, George J. Brick, Ellen Foley,
Johanna Madden.
Hannah Brick seems to be a maiden name or mother of
Hannah Fitzgerald, which Ellen Fitzgerald may be
relation of.
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Sold for “one dollar and valuable consideration paid”
Mortgaged from Ellen Fitzgerald and paid off in 1911
(Deed 2109:330)
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Sold for “one dollar and valuable consideration paid”
Mortgage states $2,400
14 and 16 Herbert Street
Inherited from her parents along with her siblings.
14 Herbert Street
1996 is the first year 14 & 16 Herbert Street are owned
by separate parties.
14 Herbert Street
14 Herbert Street
Condo association formed January 2004
(Deed 22337:177)
14 Herbert Street Unit 2
14 Herbert Street Unit 2
Rebecca married Jonathan Peros
(Deed 35543:378)
Unit 2
�Resident
F.W Preston
Directory Year
1907-1908
Vacant
1909
Felician Sisters
1910
F. Sentkowski
1911
John Krulski
1912
L. Ossolinska
A. Koscieniski
J. Filikiak
M. Darun
A. Kopuszcz
B. Napierski
H. Pouiz
P. Dombroski
J. Rhuber
I. Andros
A. Lardowski
J. Androskiewicz
1913-1914
R.S. Shaluk
R.S. Shaluk
H. Dragon
H. Dragon
N. Kaplon
1922
1924
1915
1916
1917
1918
1920
1921
1926
Notes
(Listed at 16 Herbert Street in 1909 and later
31 Union Street)
�Mrs. Mabel Fountaine
Michael Szymanski
1929- 1935
Michael switches from being listed at 14 and 15
Herbert. (When listed at #14, no #15 is listed)
Stanley Burba
(2 occupants)
Joseph Palamara Jr.
(4 occupants)
Henry Panek
(2-3 Occupants)
Joseph Palamara Jr.
(4 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Joseph Wojtowicz
(2 Occupants)
Maciej Burak
(2-3 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Sarah Griffin
(1 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
Vernon H. Howard
(2 Occupants)
Henry Panek
(3 Occupants)
1936-1940/1
Joseph owns a car in 1936
1941 Directory was unavailable
1942-1947
Panek household has 3 occupants starting in 1944
Henry Panek is Jane D. Boltrukiewicz’s nephew.
1948-1952
Wojtowicz houshold listed as having a telephone in
1950
1953-1954
The Burak household has 3 occupants beginning in
1954
1955-1956/7
1957-1960
�Salem Atlas, 1874 (Plate A)
�Salem Atlas, 1890-1903
�Salem Atlas 1897 (Plate 3)
�Salem Atlas 1906-1938 (Plate 15)
�Salem Atlas, 1911 (Plate 5)
����(View of the previous building at 14 Herbert Street and the Manning House at 10 ½ Herbert Street. c. 1890-1910. Phillips Library)
��������(Polish American Liturgical Center)
������(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�Article celebrating Reverand Czubek.
��(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�(Stanton, Cathy. In the Heart of Polish Salem: An Ethnohistorical Study of St. Joseph Hall and Its Neighborhood.
Boston, MA: Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2009)
�(St. Mary’s Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 146951826)
146951826
���Death certificate for Wclaw Boltrukiewicz, who died in infancy in 1909 due to pneumonia.
(Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.)
�(St. Mary’s Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 181042919)
�(Boltrukiewicz Family Plot, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 180272170)
�(Boltrukiewicz Family Plot, Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Findagrave.com Memorial ID: 180272170)
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SAL.3865
Historic Name:
Czubeck, John House
Common Name:
Address:
14 Herbert St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Derby Street
Local No:
35-295
Year Constructed:
1912
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
No style
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Ethnic Heritage
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Tar, Built-up
Wall: Vinyl Siding; Wood
Foundation: Concrete Unspecified
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�USGS Quad
Assessor's number
Area(s)
Form Number
Salem
35-295
Town
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Derby Street
Address 14 Herbert Street
Historic Name Czubeck Building
Uses: Present
Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1912
maps, directories
Style/Form
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation Concrete-faced
Wall/Trim
Vinyl Siding
Roof
Tar
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates) c. 1980 - vinyl siding
Condition
good
Moved [Xj no
Acreage
Setting
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
\Z\ yes
Date
1127SF
densely built-up 19th century residential
neighborhood between Essex Street and the waterfront
RECEIVED
Date (month/year) April 1998
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M A S S . HIST. C O M M
�BUILDING FORM (14 Herbert Street)
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
14 Herbert Street is a turn-of-the-century two-story,flat-roofed,two-family block which is sheathed in vinyl siding and rests
on a foundation which has been faced with concrete. The projecting eaves are encased in siding. The southeast comer of the
building is dominated by a recessed two-story porch which is three bays wide and supported by turned posts which are
spanned by an "x" railing. There are two bays of windows on the east side facing Herbert Street. Like most of the other
windows on the building they contain 2/2 sash with exterior storm windows and shutters; their surrounds are not visible due
to the siding. Centered on each level under the porch is a modem door. An additional entrance containing an original glassand-panel door is located on the west end of the south elevation. Fenestration on the north side consists of three irregularly
spaced bays of both small and large windows.
The building is set directly on the sidewalk. Opposite the building is a parking lot.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The present 14 Herbert Street replaced an earlier dwelling which was owned in 1874 by Hannah Brick. The heirs of Hannah
Fitzgerald owned this building and that to the south in 1897. By 1911 the property had been acquired by John Czubeck. It
appears that the present building was constructed shortly thereafter. The 1912 directory is the last to show the building as a
single-family residence; from 1913 on the property is a two-family dwelling. There is no listing for John Czubeck in the
Salem directories although Rev. Joseph Czubeck was appointed pastor of the St. John Baptist (Polish Catholic) Church in
1901 (the building was located at 18-20 Herbert Street) and lived at 31 Union Street.
The building has had a variety of tenants, many of Polish descent, over the years.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Arrington, Benjarnin F. Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts. Volumes I and II. New York: Lewis
Historical Publishing Company, 1922.
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts, 1897.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.
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Built for
Antonina and John Boltrukiewicz
Machine Painter
1912
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Herbert
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7 Prescott Street
Built by
Giuseppe Giunta
Gardener
1916
July 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�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.
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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
~ --f&
�MAP OF THE BURNED DISTRICT
Heavy line denotes boundary of fire
* Star denotes where fire started
1 Plant of Salem Electric Light Company, still standing
2 Storehouse of Naumkeag Mills, still standing
(Courtesy) of Standard Publishing
Company)
�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 .
82 G i l l i g a n , M a r g a r e t
Summit Ave.:
1. F o r d , C l a r a N.
Z. L u s s i e r , A r t h u r
3. G l o v e r , I s a b e l l a
4. Gaffey, J o s e p h M.
5. H e i r s of J a n e D. l ^ a r n h a m
Ropes:
1. Heir's of H a n n a h M a d d e n
2. P e r k i n s , C h a s . C.
2 R - 2 ^ - 4 . Cassidy, P a t r i c k
3. K n i g h t , H o w a r d A.
5. S a l e m , C i t y of
6. C a s s e l l , P M w a r d P .
7-9. R o n a n , E l l e n
8. D e a n , H o n o r a
10-10 y 2 . T h e r i a u l t , J o s e p h
11-15. D e s c h e n e s , A d e l e
12. C a n t y , C h a s . F .
18. S t r a w , J e n n i e M.
Union:
37. H e i r s of T h o m a s O ' H a r a
38. Coffey, M r s . M a r g a r e t
39. R o c h e , S u s a n A.
42. C h a m b e r s , E l i z a b e t h
43. R o c k , A n n a
45-47-51. W i l s o n , C a r o l i n e G.
56. R y a n , G a r r e t
57. H e i r s of E d w a r d L a n e
58. S m i t h , K o n e g o n d a
59. b o r a n , R i c h a r d
bb-68. R o s e n b l o o m , L e n a
69. H e i r s of E d w a r d B . L a n e
77-79. H e i r s of E d w a r d B . L a n e
80-82. C r o n a n , T h o m a s F .
83 H e i r s of E d w a r d B . L a n e
87. P i c k e r i n g , G e o r g e W .
88. J w a n i c k i , W o j c i e c h
N a u m k e a g S t e a m C o t t o n Co.
Roslyn:
2. A d a m s , I d a S.
5. H a m l i n , H a t t i e M.
6. G a r d n e r , W m . D.
7. H a m l i n , M a r y E .
9. H e i r s of L u c i u s P . N o y e s
11. M c C u s k e r , R o s e
13. M c G i n l e y , S a r a h
1 5 - 1 5 % . S u l l i v a n , M a r y A.
16-18. W h e a r t y , E l l a F .
17. L a n d r y , D a n i e l F .
19-19y 2 . S u l l i v a n , M a r y A.
21. H e i r s of P a u l B . P a t t e n
Vale
1. C o n n o l l y , M a r g a r e t M.
4. C u r r i n , F r a n c i s
5 & 5R. J o h n s t o n e , J o n a s
6. F o g g , B r i d g e t
7. J o h n s t o n e , J o n a s
8. H e i r s of R o b e r t L. C a s s e l l
9. H e i r s of F r a n c i s C u r r i n
lO- 10^>. S y r e k , A n d r e z e y
l l . Currin, W i l l i a m J.
12. H e i r s of F r a n c i s C u r r i n
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14. A n d r e w s , J o s e p h A., e t a l
17. L i t t l e , T h o m a s F .
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Prescott Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
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7 Prescott Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
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Giuseppe Giunta
Gardener
1916
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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1916, 2018
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Joe Cultrera
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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
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densely built-up residential neighborhood of
19th -20th century buildings, east o f Washington
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�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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Andrew Street
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4 Andrew Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built as a stable for
Isabella C. Miller
1877
Converted to dwelling
after Great Salem Fire
1914
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1877, 1914, 2018
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Michael Redfern
Language
A language of the resource
English
1877
1914
2018
4
Andrew
Great Salem Fire
Isabella
Massachusetts
Miller
Salem
Street
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17 ½ River Street
Built for
Ann McMahon
Widow
of County Clare Ireland
1884
August 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1858 Sept. 1 - The heirs of Susan Marston sold the dwelling house
and land to Thomas Perkins.
Mr. Perkins was a wealthy merchant
having his residence at 124 Federal St.
The real estate assessed
to_ Mr . Perkins was: 124 Federal St. valued at $3,000; Brick store
house $400; 7 Ash st. $2,000; 10 Lynn st. $1,000; 17 River St. $600;
21 North st. and a lot of land on Walter St. no value given.
1860 census
James Lawrence
II
Hannah
II
John
2nd family
James Shortell
II
Mary
II
Anna
II
Ellen
"
Thomas
age 25 currier
II
24
II
1
II
II
II
II
II
29 currier
28
5
4
2
1866 tax
Occupant
Michael Kenney
born Ire.
II
II
II
Mass.
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Owner
Thomas Perkins
house $350
land
35 0
1869 July 6 - Thomas Perkins sold the dwelline; house and land to
Ann McMahon.
"The same purchased by Perkins except a jog piece
15 1 X 25 1 sold to Mary Jackson et al."
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
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'
(book 776 page 162)
1870 census
Michael McMahon
II
John
II
Bridget
II
Ann
2nd family
Henry McGee
Margaret II
II
William
Margaret II
Mary Ann 11
age 35 laborer
II
25 currier
'
II
20
II
66 keeps house
II
II
II
II
11
30 butcher
28
9 months
2
4
born Ire •. (County Clare:
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Mass.
11
II
II
II
1872 tax
Occupant
Michael McMahon
Patrick Sullivan
John Mct-iabo n
•
Owner
Ann McMahon
house $900
land
600
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1880 census
Michael Boyle
II
Anna
II
Bessie
II
Charles
II
Louisa
2nd family
John McCabe
II
Anne
William 11
1884 August 4 - John
age 40 currier
II
25 keeps house
II
4 daughter
II
3 son
II
1 daughter
II
II
II
11
24 plumber
22 keeps house
4 son
McMeahon" was
born Ire.
II
Nova Scotia
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
N.H.
Mass.
II
II
granted a building permit to
build an "addition" to the dwelling house at 17 River St.
This
then became 17t River St. (Building Permits at the Essex Institute)
1886 tax
Occupants
John McMaho:i
1887 tax
#17 John J. McMahon
Patrick Lynch
Owner
Ann McMahon
house 1tr ,100
land
400
addition
200
Ann McMahon
house $1,300
land
400
#17t James Landers
John Doyle
1890 tax
#17 John J. McMahon
#17t James Landers
Edward Morris
John J. O'Keefe
Ann McMahon
house $1,300
land
400
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1892 March 5
90 years.
·~Ann
McMahon, the widow of John, died at the age of
John J. McMahon and Mrs. Jarries Landers then became the
owners of 17-17~ River st.
1900 census
#17 Amos Sullivan
John Whiting
(illegible)
Delia Leahey
#17~ John McMahon
Katherine II
II
John
II
Patrick
II
Annie
II
Mary
Katherine II
ii
Margaret
2nd family
James Landers
II
Bridget
II
James
II
Ellen
Minnie
"
I
1905 tax
#17
#17~
age 77
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Occupant
Robert Carson
Thomas Carson
Charles Carson
John J. McMahon
James Landers
John J. McMahon Jr.
Patrick Landers
born Ire.
II
Eng.
25
17
43
52
42
15
14
11
8
10
6
grandson
grand daughter
laundress
city worker
44
48
20
17
13
currier
variety store
nephew, general labor
niece, shoemaker
niece, at school
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
II
II
II
Came to
1860
1884
1873
1864
1874.
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
11
II
II
II
II
1882
1868
1895
II
Qwner
Mrs. James Landers
John J. McMahon
house ~n ,300
land
500
u.s.,
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1910 census
#17 Edward Jacobs
age 28 teamster
II
II
Mary
27
II
II
Sara
2
daughter no name - new born
Kathleen Connelly 11 15 sister-in-law
2nd family
II
John- Robinson
42 blacksmith
II
II
Anna
30
II
II
Earl
7
II
#17t James Landers
55 grocer (own shop)
II
II
Bridget
53
II
John J. McMahon
66
II
II
John
26 city worker
II
II
Patrick
24 fireman shoe fact.
II
II
Annie
22
II
Katherine 11
20 stenographer
II
II
Mary
18 stenographer
II
Margaret II
16
1917 May 13 - James Landers died.
born Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
Canada
II
II
II
II
II
Ire.
II
II
II
II
II
Mass.
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
This obituary notice appeared
in the local papers:
''J2mes Landers died at his home, 17t River St. this morning.
He
was the son of Patrick and Ellen (Donnelly) Landers, and for years
conducted a erocery store (10 River St.)."
He was born in Ireland and served, as a member of the constabalary
in his native land.
and its history.
He was a thorough student of the Emerald Isle
He leaves a widow , Bridget (McMahon) Landers.
�From HSI House History for 17 River Street by Joyce King, 1983
1972 July 26 - The property passed from the McMahon family when
Rita McMahon sold the land and buildings (12 Lynn st. and 17-17t
River St.) to Laurence
of $20,000.
c.
Post Jr. and Donald Koleman for the sum
(book 5880 page 170)
1975 Aug. 26 - Laurence c. Post Jr. and Donald Koleman sold the
land and buildings at 17-17t River St. to Nancy Witham.
(book 6175
page 624)
1976 August 12 - Nancy L. Witham trustee of 17-17t River St. Trust
sold the land and buildings to Robert
Trust.
c.
Bramble of Allyn Realty
(book 6268 page 557)
Reference to book and page are deed books at the Registry of Deeds.
Probate numbers are cases at Probate Court. Both offices are
located in the same building on Federal st. All maps in this report
are not meant to be exact, just for illustration purposes.
���Inventory No:
SAL.3834
Historic Name:
McMahon, John House
Common Name:
Address:
17 1/2 River St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
26-647
Year Constructed:
1882
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
No style
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HD: Federal Street
SAL.HL: Chestnut Street Historic District Enlarged
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (10/04/1978); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Random Laid Rubble; Stone, Uncut
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NRDIS 1973; LHD 3/3/81
USGS Quad
Assessor's number
26-647
Town
Area(s)
Form Number
HD,HU,HR,HL
Salem
3834
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village) Central Salem
Address 17 1/2 River Street
Historic Name McMahon House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction
Source
1882
Building Permit
Style/Form —
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation Stone
Wall/Trim
Wood Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition
good
Moved I ] no
X
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Setting
[J yes
Date
less than one acre
set on sidewalk on narrow street of late 18th and
early 19th century dwellings near water
Date (mpnth/yejirfjjJanuary 1997
AUG
0 5
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
17 1/2 River Street is a narrow 2 1/2-story, gablefront building which is built right up to the sidewalk, adjacent to and to the
west of 17 River Street. The simple, clapboarded building rests on a high, mortared stone foundation. The gable roof is
covered with asphalt shingles; a brick chimney rises from just off the ridge. The recessed sidehall entry is framed by a plain
surround, rising from a masonry step and flight of wooden stairs. Adjacent to the entrance there are two somewhat higher 6/6
windows with molded surrounds. Two additional windows are in alignment on the second floor; there is no window on the
second floor over the entrance. A single three-light window punctuates the stone foundation. The 6/6 window in the attic is
framed by cornice returns.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
This building was constructed for John McMahon, who was granted a building permit in 1882 to build an addition to his
property at 17 River Street. The adjacent property at 17 River Street was acquired by his mother, Ami McMahon, in 1869
from wealthy merchant Thomas Perkins. Mrs. McMahon was born in County Clare, Ireland, as were her three children,
John, Michael and Bridget. The family apparently came to this country in the 1860s. After the construction of 17 1/2 River
Street, both John and Bridget's families moved into the building; the family continued to rent out 17 River Street to a variety
of tenants. After Ann McMahon's death in 1892 the property passed to her children, John McMahon and Mrs. James
(Bridget) Landers. James Landers (c. 1917) operated a grocery store at 10 River Street. The property remained in the
McMahon family until 1972 (King 1983).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
King, Joyce. "17 River Street, House Report". Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc., 1983.
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. 1897.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890, 1906, 1950, 1957, 1965, 1970. [Massachusetts State Library].
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
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Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
17½ RIVER ST
SALEM
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.3834
SAL.HD, SAL.HL, SAL.HU
Supplemental photograph by Patti Kelleher, Salem Department of Planning & Community Development, March 2017
RECEIVED
JUN 20 2017
MASS. HIST. COMM.
Continuation sheet 1
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River Street
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17.5 River Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Ann McMahon
Widow
of County Clare Ireland
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, 1983, 2018
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Joyce King
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English
17.5
1884
1983
2018
Ann
History
House
John
Massachusetts
McMahon
River
Salem
Street
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166-168 Bridge Street
Built for
Ezra Woodbury
Carpenter
& his wife Mary Knight
1877
Research & Writing Provided by
Robert Booth
September 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
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Bridge Street
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166-168 Bridge Street, Salem, MA 01970
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Ezra Woodbury
Carpenter
& his wife Mary Knight
1877
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
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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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1877, 2018
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Robert Booth
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English
166
168
1877
2018
Bridge
Ezra
History
House
Knight
Mary
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Woodbury
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11 Daniels Street
Built for
the Grafton family
before 1806
Research provided by
Diana Dunlap
September 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�11 Daniels Street, Unit 1 was sold by Christopher M. Coates and Kimberley K. Coates to Paul
Byron Massari and Sara Massari on June 29, 2007. The quitclaim deed is registered in Book
26,984, page 478, and refers to the Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust
(see below).
11 Daniels Street, Unit 2 was sold by David Ring of Swampscott to Joseph and Robyn Landry
on September 30, 2004, registered in book 23,444, page 458. The quitclaim deed referenced
the Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust.
11 Daniels Street, Unit 1 was sold by David Ring to Christopher M. and Kimberley K. Coates on
September 1, 2004, registered in book 23,340, page 314. The quitclaim deed referenced the
Master Deed of the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust (see below).
David Ring, Declarant, submitted the property at 11 Daniels Street under Chapter 183A of the
General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to form the 11 Daniels Street
Condominium Trust on August 19, 2004, stipulating that the building will contain two condo
units, and registered in book 23,291, page 535. The land of said property is bounded as follows:
northerly by land of now or late of Uszynski, 98.22 feet; easterly by land of now or late of
Churchoski and Sandborn, 38.68 feet; by now or late of Pszeny, 100.67 feet; and by Daniels
Street, 37.11 feet.
Pamela A. Murphy and Erin A. Murphy sold 11 Daniels Street to David Ring on October 23,
2003, registered in book 10,376, page 394. The boundaries of the said property are the same
defined in the 11 Daniels Street Condominium Trust Master Deed. Helen Cichocki died August
20, 2002.
Helen Cichocki granted all right, title, and interest to 11 Daniels Street to Pamela A. Murphy and
Erin A. Murphy of Haverhill on March 6, 1990, “in consideration of $1 Love and Affection,” as
joint tenants with right of survivorship, but retaining full use of the property for her natural life.
The transfer was registered in book 10,376, page 394. The boundaries of the land are the same
sold by the Murphys to David Ring.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki, husband and wife, conveyed 11 Daniels Street to Joseph J. and
Helen Cichocki, husband and wife, on July 28, 1945, registered in book 3411, page 415. The
boundaries of the land are the same granted by Helen Cichocki to Pamela and Erin Murphy.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to the Salem Savings Bank for $300.00
for one year on May 4, 1926, registered in book 2680, page 227.
Joseph and Alice Cichocki mortgaged the land and buildings at 11 Daniels Street to the Salem
Savings Bank for $2500.00 for one year on August 15, 1925, registered in book 2649, page
249.
�Fremont Czerniawski and Julia Czerniawski granted 11 Daniels Street to Joseph and Alice
Cichocki on August 15, 1925, registered in book 2649, page 248. The dimensions of the land
are the same as that granted to Joseph and Helen Cichocki in 1945.
Fremont and Julia Czerniawski mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to Salem Savings Bank for
$600.00 for one year on February 21, 1921, registered in book 2477, page 248.
Fremont and Julia Czerniawski mortgaged 11 Daniels Street to the Salem Savings Bank for
$1000.00 for one year on February 21, 1921, recorded in book 2477, page 247.
Wladyslaw and Josephine Uszynski granted 11 Daniels Street to Julia Czerniawski on February
21, 1921, registered in book 2477, page 246. The dimensions of the land are the same granted
to Joseph and Alice Cichocki in 1925.
Frank F. Stanley of Swampscott, Trustee of the will of the late Nathaniel F. Goldsmith of Boston,
sold 11 Daniels Street to Wladsyslaw and Josephine Uszynski on November 30, 1920,
registered in book 2469, page 365. The land is defined as bound westerly by Daniels Street 97
feet; southerly by land of L.M. Wright and M.S. Frye, 102 feet; westerly by land of Sanborn and
Rideout, 106 feet; and northerly by land of Wiggin, 95 feet.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank sold part of the property that became 11 Daniels Street to
Nathaniel F. Goldsmith on July 9, 1885, for $675.00, after George H. Frye defaulted on his
mortgage (see below), registered in book 1154, page 79. The land is defined as bound westerly
by Daniels Street 33 feet, 6.5 inches; southerly by the land of L.M. Wright and M.S. Frye, 102
feet, 6 inches; easterly by land of Sanborn and Rideout, 34 feet, 6 inches; and by land late of
Wiggin, now Goldsmith, 102 feet. The land had been conveyed to Goldsmith by George H. Frye
and Ezra L. Woodbury, excepting the property Goldsmith sold to A, Frank Hitchings.
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank foreclosed on George H. Frye’s mortgage on the property on
June 30, 1885, registered in book 1154, page 79.
Nathaniel F. Goldsmith sold part of the property he had purchased from Ezra L. Woodbury to A.
Frank Hitchings on June 6, 1883, for $750.00, registered in book 1110, page 31. This land was
bound southerly by Goldsmith’s own land; easterly by land of Rideout, northerly by Bentley
Street, and westerly by land of Smalley. This did not become part of the 11 Daniels Street lot.
George H. Frye mortgaged his property on Daniels Street to the Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank for $500.00 on October 19, 1882, registered in book 1093, page 260.
Ezra L. Woodbury, executor of the late Margaret Wiggin, sold the property at 9 Daniels Street,
including a “brick dwelling house and other buildings thereon,” to Nathaniel F. Goldsmith on
April 9, 1881, for $2800.00, registered in book 1055, page 172. The southerly portion of this
�land became part of the 11 Daniels Street lot, as shown above through Goldsmith’s sale of the
northerly portion to A. Frank Hitchings.
John N. Frye sold the same portion of land later mortgaged to the Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank to George Henry Frye, baker, on November 20, 1863, “with the buildings thereon,” for
$900.00, registered in book 658, page 286.
William Allen, mariner, and his wife Mary sold the property to John Nutton Frye, baker, on April
25, 1820, for $400.00, registered in book 223, page 247. The property was bound 33 feet, 6
inches by Daniels Street; 102 feet, 6 inches by the land formerly of Thomas Palfrey; 34 feet, 6
inches by Nathaniel Silsbee’s, formerly the orchard; and 58 feet, 2.5 inches by Peirce Wiggins’
property. As such, it is essentially the same land John N. Frye sold to George Henry Frye in
1863.
Susanna Richardson, widow, sold the property to William Allen on June 26, 1819, for $400.00,
registered in book 223, page 246. She signed the deed with her mark. Two months earlier,
Susanna Richardson conveyed another property on Hardy Street to William Allen “in
consideration of love affection and five dollars.” The property’s boundaries are the same that
William Allen sold to John N. Frye, and the deed states that the land was “assigned and set off
to Robert and Susanna Richardson under a warrant of partition” in 1807.
A committee of Richard Manning, John Harthorn [Hathorne] and John Osgood was appointed
upon the Court of Common Pleas’ determination in September 1806 that Susanna Richardson
should receive the right to “an undivided one-sixth of a dwelling house in said Salem commonly
called Graftons, and the garden and land thereunto belonging, including the northerly part of
what was formerly an orchard belonging to Warwick Palfrey.” The property was bound by
Daniels Street and land belonging to Joseph Waters, the late Samuel Silsbee, the late Rev.
James Deiman [Diman or Diamond], and the late Thomas Palfrey. The warrant was witnessed
by Timothy Pickering, Esq., on October 6, 1806. On December 24, 1806, the court divided
one-sixth of the “lands and tenements” to “said Richardson and Susanna his wife” and
described boundaries that match Susanna Richardson’s conveyance to William Allen. The
warrant is registered in book 181, page 235.
On March 31, 1789, an indenture was formed to create a “joint property with right of
survivorship” between Susanna, Mary, and Anne Grafton, singlewomen of Salem, and Jonathan
Gardner, merchant of Salem to act as Trustee. The property was left to Susanna, Mary, and
Anne by their deceased father, Joseph Grafton. The property described was large, with two
dwelling houses, and bordered Main [Essex] Street. Susanna Grafton may or may not be the
same person as Susanna Richardson. The creation of the trust was registered in book 149,
page 231.
On August 28, 1729, Joseph Grafton sold a parcel of land in Salem to “my brother William
Grafton sailmaker” for 130 pounds in Province Bills (Massachusetts currency), registered in
�book 52, page 82. The land was bound by “the lane of highway” and by land “formerly of Walter
Palfrey,” and included a house and barn. Without further research on the Grafton family and
their neighbors in the 18th century, it is not possible to know for sure whether part of this
property came down to Susanna Richardson and thus to the 11 Daniels Street plot.
�Inventory No:
SAL.2620
Historic Name:
Common Name:
Address:
11 Daniels St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Derby Street
Local No:
35-384
Year Constructed:
r 1775
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Georgian
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture; Industry
Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Aluminum Siding; Wood
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate i n terms of other buildings within the community.)
I n form and l e v e l o f d e t a i l i n g , t h i s g a m b r e l - r o o f e d s t r u c t u r e i s s i m i l a r
t o many l a t e 1 8 t h / e a r l y 1 9 t h c e n t u r y r e s i d e n c e s i n t h e Derby S t r e e t
area.
The house i s o r i e n t e d s o u t h w i t h a 3-bay s y m m e t r i c a l l y a r r a n g e d
facade and a c e n t e r e n t r y s e t w i t h i n a 2 - s t o r y pedimented p r o j e c t i o n .
Other elements i n c l u d e t h e g r a n i t e f o u n d a t i o n , V i c t o r i a n doorhood, and
massive c e n t r a l • c h i m n e y . The f l u s h r o o f eaves & placement of the second
s t o r y windows c l o s e t o t h e r o o f l i n e a r e t y p i c a l f e a t u r e s f o r a house o f
this period.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played i n local or state.
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The e a r l y h i s t o r y o f t h i s house i s u n c l e a r .
I t may i n f a c t be a
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d w e l l i n g r e f e r e d t o i n a 1796 deed when copper Stephen Smith s o l d t h i s
p r o p e r t y t o m a r i n e r Thomas W i l l i a m s .
A l a t e r deed, however, o f 1819
when Susannah R i c h a r d s o n s o l d the l o t t o m a r i n e r W i l l i a m A l i e n makes no
mention of a b u i l d i n g .
I n 1822, A l l e n and h i s w i f e s o l d t h e l a n d t o
baker John N . F r y e .
A mortgage deed of 1824 makes d e f i n i t e mention o f a
d w e l l i n g house, a bakehouse, and o t h e r b u i l d i n g s on t h i s s i t e .
George
• H . F r y e , a l s o a baker and perhaps J o h n ' s s o n , was l i v i n g here i n 1874.
W h i l e i t seems c e r t a i n t h a t t h i s b u i l d i n g was l o c a t e d i n i t s p r e s e n t
s i t e by .1824, i t i s unknown whether the house s t a n d s on i t s o r i g i n a l
location.
The l o t has e a r l y a s s o c i a t i o n s w i t h S a i e m ' s m a r i t i m e h i s t o r y ,
but f a r much of the 1 9 t h c e n t u r y , i t was connected w i t h the b a k i n g
trade.
L i k e many-Derby S t r e e t area' s t r u c t u r e s , 11 D a n i e l s S t r e e t s e r v e d
an elememt o f S a l e m ' s w o r k i n g - c l a s s p o p u l a t i o n .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher).
1837, 1851 Salem D i r e c t o r i e s
Essex County R e g i s t r y o f Deeds Book 1 6 3 / L e a f 6, Book 1 7 3 / L e a f 106, Book.
1 7 7 / L e a f 252, Book 1 8 1 / L e a f 234, Book "223/Leaf 2 4 6 - 7 , Book 2 3 4 / L e a f
1MQ-
7/82
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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
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�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.
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�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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House history
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Built for
Joseph “Frank” & Mary Boynton
Clothier: Kent & Boynton; Cape Ann Clothing Co.
1894; rebuilt 1910
Built on the former estate of
Philip & Mary English (née Hollingsworth)
Maritime Merchant & Salem Selectman
Accused of Witchcraft, 1692
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1894, 1910, 2018
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Jen Ratliff
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English
1894
1910
2018
4
Boynton
Cousins
English
Frank
History
Hollingsworth
House
Joseph
Mary
Massachusetts
Philip
Salem
Street
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18 Chestnut Street
Built for
James B. Bott
c. 1800
Home of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846-1847
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
�Inventory No:
SAL.1035
Historic Name:
Bott, James B. House
Common Name:
Fabens, Augustus and Benjamin House
Address:
18 Chestnut St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Central Salem
Local No:
25-424
Year Constructed:
c 1800
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Federal
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling
House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):
MA Archaeo/Historic Landmark (06/22/1970); Nat'l
Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Cobblestone; Coursed Ashlar; Granite; Stone,
Uncut
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�FORM B - BUILDING
NRDIS 1973; L H D 3/3/81
U S G S Quad
Assessor's number
25-424
Salem
Town
Area(s)
F o r m Number
HU,HJ,HK
1035
Salem
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address
Central Salem
18 Chestnut Street
Historic Name James B. Bott House
Uses: Present
Residential
Original
Residential
Date of Construction
Source
by 1800
Tolles, Wiswall
Style/Form
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation
Granite, Cobblestone
Wall/Trim
Wood Clapboard
Roof
Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
none
Major Alterations (with dates)
late 19th c. - entrance
moved from west side to south end
Condition
Moved
Acreage
Recorded by
Lisa Mausolf
Organization
Salem Planning Department
Setting
_
good
no
yes
Date
less than one acre
set on sidewalk, comer lot, area of impressive
18th and 19th century residences
B K G E R Q P Q L « y 1997
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19
97
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BUILDING F O R M
A R C H I T E C T U R A L DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural
community.
features.
Evaluate the characteristics
of the building in terms of other buildings within the
Located at the northeast corner of Botts Court, the house at 18 Chestnut Street is a three-story, hip-roofed, wood-frame
residence with a foreshortened third story. It is capped by an asphalt hip roof with two large brick chimneys. The house is
oriented with its narrow three-bay end to the street. Outlining the clapboarded house are simple wooden comerboards and a
plain watertable. It rests on a coursed granite foundation with cobblestone on the side elevation. In 1888 the principal
entrance was moved from the five-bay west side to the present sidehall entrance on the south side. The six-panel door is
capped by a delicate segmental fanlight with geometric tracery which also fills the sidelights. The Doric entrance porch
consists of a flat roof with a thin projecting cornice and triglyphs, lacking an entablature. Modillions decorate the underside.
Supporting the roof are reeded side timbers supported by round columns and square attached pilasters. Above the entrance is
a flat-roofed rectangular bay window containing 1/1 windows with recessed panels below. The remaining windows contain
6/6 sash with molded surrounds and blinds.
The wooden spindle fence in front of the house displays simple posts capped by balls..
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and
the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
According to Tplles, the Bott-Fabens House may be the oldest surviving residence on Chestnut Street and may predate 1800,
although this has not been firmly documented. The house may have been built before Chestnut Street was laid out in 1796.
The first owner was saddler, James B. Bott although it is not clear if he ever lived here. Bott emigrated from Tudbury,
England in 1768 and established a shop on Essex Street constructing fancy carriages. (About 1783 he constructed a house
nearby at 5 Botts Court for his own use). The Chestnut Street building seems to have served as a multi-family residence in its
early years. Mjss Mary Ome Pickering was bom in the house in 1805. The Prescott family lived here from about 1825 to
1JJB2 (Wiswall, p. 210). For about 16 months in 1846 and 1847, while serving as surveyor of the Port of Salem and Beverly,
Nathaniel Hawthorne occupied this house with his family (Cousins: 81). Dr. David Coggin lived in the house from 18811887. Augustus and Benjamin Fabens purchased the building in 1888 and converted it to a single-family house. They also
inoved the entrance from the west elevation to the south end. The Fabens family continued to own the property until 1905.
The Misses Lathrop occupied the house from 1924 until at least 1939 (Wiswall). Later residents included Oliver and Ann
Goodell, Mrs. Rebecca Bradley and Mrs. Lillian Phillips and Jacqueline Frederickson.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S
Cousins, Frank and Phil M . Riley. The Colonial Architecture of Salem. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1919.
Hopkins, G . M . Atlas of Salem. Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
"House Report for 5 Botts Court, Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc. [no date].
Mclntyre, Henry C.E. Map of the City of Salem. Philadelphia: 1851.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the City of Salem. Massachusetts.
Salem City Directories, 1836-1970.
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890, 1906, 1950, 1957, 1965, 1970. [Massachusetts State Library].
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of the Citv of Salem. Massachusetts. Boston: 1911.
Wiswall, Richard Hall and Henry W. Belknap. "Notes on the Building of Chestnut Street", EIHC 75 (July 1939): 227.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
Natip&alJRegister
Criteria
Statement form.
�INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
SALEM
18 CHESTNUT ST
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
SAL.1035
SAL.HJ, SAL.HU
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JUN 20 2017
MASS. HIST. COMM.
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Material:
H i g h /Regular" L o w
B r i c k Stone
ROOF:
Center * End
CHIMNEYS/T 2 3 4
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PORCHES:(l 2 3 4(
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Simple/Complex
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Entrance:(^Front/Side ' Centered
Other
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LANDSCAPING
OUTBUILDINGS
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Chestnut Street
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18 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
James B. Bott
c. 1800
Home of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1846-1847
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
c. 1800, 2018
Contributor
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MACRIS, Tolles
Language
A language of the resource
English
18
1800
2018
B.
Bott
Chestnut
circa
Hawthorne
History
House
James
Massachusetts
Nathaniel
Salem
Street
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Text
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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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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N i t
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Date
June,
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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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House history
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An account of the resource
Built for
Laura Lamprey
& her husband
Reuben Lamprey
Heel Manufacturer
c. 1889
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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c. 1889, 2018
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Alyssa G. A. Conary
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English
1889
2018
31
Appleton
circa
History
House
Lamprey
Laura
Massachusetts
Reuben
Salem
Street
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198 North Street
Built for
Henry Chew
A free man of color
Mariner
c. 1834
Research & Writing Provided by
Amy E. Kellett
October 2018
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2018
�Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street | Salem, Mass.
www.historicsalem.org
House History Report for
198 North Street
c.1967 Photograph — 198 North Street
Report completed by
Amy E. Kellett
October 2018
www.amykellett.com
1
�198 North Street
Built for
Henry Chew
A free man of color
Mariner
c.1834
1867-1925 | Part of the Cressey Estate
1949-1983 | Property of Salem Housing
Authority — Veteran’s Housing
2
�1833 — Henry Chew, mariner, purchases land from the Town of Salem
Amidst the rapidly expanding neighborhoods of the prosperous seaport town of Salem, Massachusetts a
mariner named Henry Chew purchased a plot of land in ‘Northfields’ (what is now North Street) from the
Town of Salem for one-hundred dollars on the 2nd of August, 1833. As there is no buildings noted on the
deed as being part of the property, it can be assumed that shortly after the land purchase, the Greek
Revival dwelling house was built on the land where it stands to this day.
2nd August 1833 — Northfields Property sold from Town of Salem to Henry Chew
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 273 | Page 15
This home remains one of the best examples of vernacular Greek Revival architecture in the City of
Salem, and has remained largely unchanged on its exterior through the decades of history that have
passed by its front door. Indeed, this house is one that is passed by millions of cars every year, as North
Street is one of the main thoroughfares in and out of the ‘Witch City’, and its unassuming appearance
belies its fascinating and extensive history. The architectural history standard text, A Field Guide to
American Houses, by Virginia & Lee McAlester notes the historical significance of Greek Revival
architecture, which is often associated with government buildings and the like, but the vernacular
examples hearken to the same historic influences:
Greek revival was the dominant style of American domestic
architecture during the interval from about 1830 to 1850 […] during
which its popularity led it to be called the National Style. [It]
especially flourished in those regions that were being rapidly
settled in the decades of the 1830s, ‘40s, and ‘50s.
3
�… archaeological investigation in the early 19th century emphasized
Greece as the Mother of Rome which, in turn, shifted interest to
Grecian models. Two additional factors enhanced Greek influence
in this country. Greece’s involvement in a war for independence
(1821-30) aroused much sympathy in the newly independent United
States; at the same time, the war of 1812 diminished American
affection for British influence, including the still dominant Adam
style in domestic architecture.
An important and enduring legacy of the Greek Revival to American
domestic architecture is the front-gabled house. Popularized during
the ascendance of the Greek Revival style in the early 19th century,
this became the predominant form for detached urban houses in cities
of the Northeast…1
The purchase of this property and the subsequent building is especially significant as the home’s builder,
Henry Chew, listed in the 1833 City Directory as a mariner living on North Street, was a free black man.
Records indicate that he lived at the Greek Revival home on North Street for a number of years with his
family, including his wife Venus (married in 1801) and several children. Although the Chew family were of
a higher social status than many of their enslaved counterparts in the South, life was not easy for them, as
the couple buried several children in the time that they lived at the home on North Street, including a son
born the year that the home was built. Just fourteen months later the little boy died of an unnamed illness
in 1834. Prior to the family’s residence on North Street, they had also buried a daughter, Hannah, who
had died in 1822 from consumption, what is today called tuberculosis, at only eight years old.
Unfortunately, not much more is known about the Chew family, as records available from the time are
scarce. As a free black family, they were likely involved in the Abolitionist movement that had taken hold
in the greater Boston and North Shore region. Furthermore, this property may have been involved in the
Underground Railroad, as there is evidence that escaped slaves on the Railroad went through Essex
County, including Salem, on their route North to freedom. Maybe it is appropriate to note the
coincidence here — that Henry Chew and his family purchased land and built their home along a
farmland path that would eventually be named ‘North Street’ before the house was sold to the next
generation of owner in 1842.
1 McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses, Romantic Houses, Greek Revival. Pages 179-84
4
�1842 Salem City Directory — Henry Chew, Mariner, North [Street]
Following the alphabetical list of names of Salem’s white residents, the City Directory included a
separate section entitled “People of Color” — the 1842 publication of the directory notes Henry Chew as
living on North Street, and lists the places of work for the other Chew family members.
5
�1842 — Elisha Odlin purchases property from Henry Chew
According to the records found through the Essex County Registry of Deeds, Elisha Odlin purchased the
property on North Street from Henry Chew, including “a dwelling house and out buildings thereon” for
$100, plus interest. The deed also importantly notes about the North Street property, as “being the same
I (Henry Chew) purchased of the City or Town of Salem,” which refers to the earlier cited 1833 deed.
26th August 1842 —North Street Property sold from Henry Chew to Elisha Odlin
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 333 | Page 65
Elisha Odlin’s occupation is noted as ‘trader’ on the deed (above), which likely refers to the maritime
trade that supported Salem’s booming economy. Although there are several generations of men named
‘Elisha Odlin’ throughout the decades of the 18th and 19th centuries in Salem, the generation that aligns
with this deed suggests it was owned by Elisha Odlin, Jr. son of Samuel Odlin. Unfortunately, just five
years after Elisha Odlin Jr.’s purchase of the property on North Street, he died from consumption at only
twenty-seven years of age on November 19, 1848. Subsequently, his estate was divided among multiple
owners, until the property was procured by Pierce L. W. Gardner, and shortly thereafter sold to Caleb A.
Smith in 1855.
6
�1874 Salem City Atlas
(Top) North Salem was a rapidly-developing neighborhood from the 1830s through the early 20th
century, and these Atlas images show the great swaths of land owned by Wm A. Creesy, as well as other
prominent Salem families. The arrow indicates the property that is now 198 North Street.
(Bottom) Close-up view of the 1874 Salem City atlas that notes 148 and 146 North Street as being the
property of William A. Creesy, and contemporaneous Federal censuses city directories list David
Sinclair, carpenter, as the resident of 148 North Street.
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�1855 — North Street property becomes part of the Estate of Caleb A. Smith
The Essex County Registry of Deeds records records multiple purchases of property by Caleb Smith in
the mid-18th century, including a “parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated on North Street in
Salem” described as “the premises to me (Caleb A. Smith) conveyed by the heirs of Elisha Odlin, by
various deeds on record.” Mr. Smith also appears on Historic Salem, Inc. historic house report records
as being the builder in 1861 of what is now 3-5 Ridgeway Street, less than a tenth of a mile from the North
Street property. For the next twelve years the Smith family would own the property and dwelling house
across the street from their own home on North Street, during which time the home would likely have
been used as a residence for the Smith family staff, or as an income property that they could rent out.
14th March 1867 — North Street Property sold from Caleb A. Smith to Wm. A. Creesy
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 719 | Page 242
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�1867 — Smith sells Estate, including North Street property, to William A. & Emily F. Creesy
Documentation shows that William A. Creesy, along with his wife Emily, purchased the estate from
Caleb A. Smith in 1867. Creesy had made his fortune, along with so many others, in Salem’s booming
maritime trade industry. According to the text entitled ‘Old Marblehead Sea Captains and Ships in
Which they Sailed” published by the Marblehead Historical Society in 1916, William Andrew Cressy
(whose name spelling seems to have varied depending on who recorded the documentation) was the
brother of Josiah P. Cressy, and was the captain for a number of Salem’s ships, including the Oneida,
Mary Whittredge, and Cohota.
1874 Salem City Directory
Captain William A. Creesy and his son and namesake, William A. Creesy Jr. are both noted as living at 145
North Street — their former home is now 3-5 Ridgeway Street, and the property at 198 North Street
belonged to part of the same Creesy Estate.
The 1867 Deed, dated March 14th, notes and references the premises as being the same that were
purchased by Smith in 1855 from Pierce L. W. Gardner:
…the real estate in said Salem which is bounded commencing at the
Southwest corner and running Northwesterly by North Street about one
hundred and forty eight feet to the land of Dearborn about four hundred
and twenty feet to land of Cross, then turning and running Southerly by
land of Cross about one hundred and thirty feet to the land of Newhall,
then turning and running Southwesterly by said Newhall’s land to North
Street and the said point begun at. […] Being the same premises conveyed
to Caleb A. Smith by Pierce L. W. Gardner by deed dated May 5, 1855,
recorded in the Registry of Deeds for Essex County in Book 513 Leaf 13.
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�1886-1889 Massachusetts State and Federal Naturalization Records
Petition for Naturalization — David Sinclair
Volume 3 | No. 4692-ixv3
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�Upon William A. Creesy’s passing in 1874, the Creesy Estate became the property of Mrs. Emily F.
Cressey (whose name spelling yet again changed on subsequent documentation). This is also around the
same time frame that the earliest map and atlas images appear showing the property at what is now 198
North Street. By 1872 a carpenter named David E. Sinclair and his family are listed in the City Directories
as living at 148 North Street (now 198).
1872 Salem City Map
This clip from an 1872 publication that included a map of Salem, Massachusetts Ward 6 area of North
Salem, while the arrow indicates the North Street property that is the subject of this report.
The larger historic context is important to note before recording the Sinclair’s history at 198 North
Street: as noted earlier, the neighborhood of North Salem was rapidly becoming more densely populated
throughout the 19th century, including a major renovation completed by the city around 1871 near what is
now the North Street Bridge (adjacent to the MBTA Commuter Rail station). As a result, land parcels
were subdivided as well as the numbering of the dwelling houses throughout the neighborhood,
including on North Street, where in the time period between 1870 and 1880 the address for the North
Street house that is the subject of this report changed from 148 to 198 North Street. For this reason,
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�earlier historic records of this property proposed a feasible theory that the building had been moved from
another parcel of land to its current current location, but further research confirms that the dwelling
house at 198 North Street has been on its current foundation since the area was called ‘Northfields’ and
the path that now bears the name North Street was little more than a passageway for merchants, goods,
and travelers to and from Danvers.
1870-c.1887 — David E. Sinclair & Family live at North Street property dwelling house
Prior to living at the home that would become 198 North Street for nearly two decades, David Sinclair,
housewright, and his family lived at a number of addresses throughout Salem. Naturalization records
note David Sinclair’s immigration to Salem on the 9th of November, 1849. He and his young wife
Margaret are listed on the 1850 Federal Census as living in Ward 1 along with Catherine Humber, Ann
Garret, Rebecca Phillips, and James A. Humber. The couple soon had a family of their own, and by 1853
are listed as living at 14 Turner Street (in Ward I of Salem, Mass.), and then at 15 Mall Street by 1855.
The 1860 US Federal Census provides more detail about the Sinclair family ten years after the couple
first appeared on Federal records. The family is listed as living in Ward 3, confirmed by the 1861 Salem
City Directory which notes the family’s address as 57 Broad Street. In 1860 the family included Mr. David
Sinclair, a 35 year-old carpenter, his wife Margaret, now 27 years old attended to the house and the
children: David A., age 9; Charles H., age 6, and 2-year-old Frank.
The family of five did not remain in the Broad Street neighborhood of Ward 3 very long, however, as the
American Civil War called Mr. Sinclair to join the Union Army, the family moved once again, this time to
15 Essex Street in Salem’s Derby Street neighborhood, during the absence of David. Mr. Sinclair’s
naturalization records note his voluntary enlistment into the Army of the United States on October 3rd,
1861 until he was honorably discharged in January of 1866. This is confirmed through Salem City
directories that list David Sinclair as serving with Company B of the 24th Army Regiment. Upon the
ending of the war, David Sinclair returned to his family at 15 Essex Street where they remained until 1870,
when the US Federal Census lists the Sinclair family as living in the 6th Ward of the City: North Salem.
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�By the 1870 recording of the US Federal Census, the Sinclair family had changed in the preceding
decade; the two oldest Sinclair boys, David and Charles Sinclair, now 19 and 16 years old, no longer are
listed as living with the family (for reasons yet discovered). David Sinclair, now 44 years old, is again
listed as a carpenter, his wife Margaret, now 37, continued to maintain the family home and raise the
younger Sinclair children: Joseph F. Sinclair, 12 (most likely the ‘F’ meaning ‘Frank’ or ‘Francis’ — the
youngest Sinclair child from the 1860 Census), a 3-year-old daughter, Annie F. Sinclair, and 7-month-old
Stephen H. Sinclair. In all, David and Margaret Sinclair would raise four boys and one girl during their
lives and time lived at 198 North Street.
1870 US Federal Census — Salem, Mass. — Ward 6
The Sinclair family, including David Sinclair with his occupation listed as ‘carpenter, Margaret E.
Sinclair as keeping house, and their 3 children, Joseph (12), Annie (3), and Stephen (7 months).
Salem City Directories during the Sinclair tenure at the North Street property show the change in
address for the home from 148 to 198 North Street between 1876 and 1878, just a few years after the
family’s first appearance at the address. Throughout their time at the residence David Sinclair is listed as
a carpenter by trade through the 1886 City Directory, after which he and his family moved to 29 Osborne
Street by 1888.
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�1888-1925 — 198 North Street remains part of the Cressey Estate while rented by several tenants
While the estate was owned and managed by the widow of William Creesy, Emily F. Cressey, the
property at 198 North Street was home to several tenants, whose names and occupations are traceable
though the Salem City Directories:
1888-c1896 : John E. Scanlan — Morocco Dresser
“Morocco Dresser” is a specialization in leather finishing; specifically, ‘morocco’ referred to a
type of goat skin leather that is much lighter than other 19th and 20th century finished leathers,
and a ‘dresser’ tanned the leather. This type of leather work was most often used in shoe leather
applications, so Mr. Scanlan likely worked with of one of the many shoe factories in Salem and
the greater North Shore region of Boston.
1897 : Walter A. Tarr — Shoe Trimmer
1899 : Ernest A. Oliver — Electrician
1901 : George M. Sinclair — Clerk
1903-1904 : Arthur W. Stevens — Shoemaker
1905-1910 : Frank J. Verry — Brakeman for the Boston & Maine Railroad
1911-1912 : Oliver Collette — Driver
1913 : Otis H. Pickard — Plumber
1914 : Albert Dyer — Teamster
In the early 20th century, ‘teamster’ referred to a person whose occupation it was to manage and
be in charge of a team of horses, which could be used for anything from transportation to fire
brigades.
1915 : Albert Nolet — Carpenter
1916-1920 — Charles W. Chapman — Machinist
(& Martha A. Chapman)
1921-1922 — John F. Farnsworth — Bricklayer
(& Sadie J. Farnsworth)
1924-1926 — William A Walsh — Leatherworker
(& Blanche Walsh)
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�1925 — The Heirs of Emily F. Cressy sell the property at 198 North Street to Arthur W. & Bessie M.
Dorman
The property at 198 North Street remained the property of the Cressy Family until 1925, at which time
the Essex County Registry of Deeds records indicate the land belonging to the Estate of Emily F. Cressey
on the even-numbered side of North Street was sold to Arthur W. & Bessie M. Doorman. Importantly,
this deed references an official survey plan recorded by Civil Engineer Thomas A. Appleton of the
property entitled “Land of Estate of Emily F. Cressy, Salem, Mass.” which clearly depicts the properties
at both 198 and 196 North Street.
30th March 1925 — 198 North Street sold from Cressy Estate to Arthur W. & Bessie M. Dorman
Essex County Registry of Deeds
Book 2634 | Page 201
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�After being in the Cressy family for nearly six
decades since 1867, Arthur & Bessie Dorman
purchased the property at 198 North Street and
maintained its ownership until 1949. The City
Directories give insight to the tenants of the Greek
Revival house at 198 North Street:
January 1925
Land of Emily F. Cressy — Salem, Mass.
Book of Plans 42, Plan No. 30b
With deed Josiah P. Cressy to Arthur W. Dorman
et ux. Rec.B.2634 P.201
1929 - 1935 — Charles E. Millner —Leatherworker
(& Lillian B. Millner)
1936-1939 — Robert J. Preston — Salesman
(& Rose M. Preston)
1940-1949 — John J. O’Shea — Post Office Clerk
(& Mary A. O’Shea)
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�1949 — Salem Housing Authority issues an ‘Order of Taking’ for 198 North Street
Following the second World War, the nation’s burgeoning population, known as the ‘Baby Boom’
created a need for veteran’s housing throughout the country, including in Salem, Massachusetts. As a
result, the property that had been purchased by Arthur and Bessie Dorman in 1925 was the subject of an
official ‘Order of Taking’ by the Salem Housing Authority, by order of an official State-Aided Housing
Project. Two documents record this transaction: the Essex County Registry of Deeds Book 3662 Page
213, and the Plan of Land for the ‘State-Aided Housing Project, Salem #200-1’, which included the
dwelling houses at 198 and 196 North Street, as well as two additional parcels of land:
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�1949-1983 — 198 North Street owned by the Salem Housing Authority
Following the government seizure of the property at 198 North Street, the property is listed as ‘Vacant’ in
the 1950 Salem City Directory. Available City Directories only give insight to tenants through 1963; the
recorded residents of 198 North Street through the early 1960s create a more detailed look into this
property’s extensive history:
1951-1953 — Ernest P. Snow — Leatherworker
(& Anna P. Snow)
1954-1962 — Emerson E. Pollock — Masonic Temple Superintendent
(& Lucy C. Pollock)
1964— Leo W. Dragon —- Leatherworker at A. C. Lawrence
The final document of this report correlates to the 1983 Deed regarding the property at 198 North Street,
by which time the property had been in the ownership and management of a trustee of Allyn Realty Trust.
Recorded in October of 1983, the deed and plan record the sale of the property from being managed as
State-Aided housing project to a private home, which it remains to this day.
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1 Brown Street
Bray Homestead
c. 1766
Research Provided by
David E. Hayes
April 1973
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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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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Between 1825-1839
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144-146 Federal Street
Built for
Capt. Thomas Whittredge
Shipmaster
and his wife
Sarah Whittredge
c. 1802
Researched and written by
Michele Felski-Smith
January 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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© 2019
�The house at 144-146 Federal Street in Salem, Massachusetts was built for shipmaster
Captain Thomas Whittredge and his wife Sarah, around 1802. It is located on the northeastern
corner of Federal Street and Flint Street (originally known as Dean Street). i
The Whittredge house was built in the Federal style, which was the prevailing American
architectural style between around 1780 and 1820, particularly popular along the eastern
seaboard in port cities. The lot on which it is situated is 8,825 square feet, and the house
measures 5 X 3 bays. ii The house is a three-story wood-frame building with clapboard siding and
has a brick chimney on both the east and west sides of the house. It has a low-pitch hipped roof,
which is the subtype of Federal houses most common to New England. iiiiv Three-story hippedroof Federal houses in particular have “an unusually important concentration in the town of
Salem, Massachusetts,” and are usually “of landmark quality.” v Originally, the house had outbuildings, including a shed, and a two-story stables on the northern end of the lot. vi It has a low
foundation made of granite with three granite front steps leading directly from the sidewalk to
the front door.vii viii While almost all of the characteristics of the house match typical Federal
style elements, the low foundation with no porch is one holdover from the preceding Georgian
style.ix
The front door has six panels and is surrounded by two Doric half-round and fluted
pilasters which support a triangular denticulated broken pediment. x Above the door is an
elliptical fanlight with five segments. xixii There is a similar six-panel door on the east side of the
house with pilasters supporting a less elaborate triangular pediment. This door also has three
granite steps extending down to the walkway.
On the front façade, the windows are singly-placed, five-ranked, and balanced
symmetrically with the front door in the center. xiii The third floor is a foreshortened story, and
�thus the windows are shorter than on the first and second floors. xiv Each window has a doublehung 6/6 sash, which is a window made up of six panes separated by muntins, or thin wooden
supports, above another set of six panes. xv By the late 1990s, the house was vacant, and the
windows were empty and boarded up. xvi Since then, they have been reinstalled and restored to
their original style.
During this architectural era, according to Virginia McAlester in A Field Guide to
American Houses, “the first true architects appeared on the American scene.” xvii One of the few
most notable in the country was an architect from Salem, named Samuel McIntire. He was a
master at the Georgian and Federal style of architecture, and several of his works remain in
Salem today. According to Bryant F. Tolles, in Architecture in Salem, An Illustrated Guide, his
greatest achievements came during this mid-Federal period between 1800 and 1815. xviii He was
particularly attracted to the Federal Street area, because of its “elegant streetscape” and was hired
by merchants to build their mansions there. xix The Whittredge House is part of the McIntire
Historic District. The McIntire-designed Samuel Cook/Henry Oliver House is next door at 142
Federal Street, and features some of his famous wood carving. xx Aspects of the Whittredge
House and original stable “show close relationship with McIntire’s work,” according to Fiske
Kimball, an architectural historian, though Kimball was not able to find specific evidence of a
connection.xxi The Whittredge House, and the Federal style in general, share similarities with the
earlier Georgian style, but are a refinement of the style. Houses of the mid-Federal period, are
described as “having a lightness and delicacy in comparison with their close Georgian relatives”
and “the exteriors… have few elaborations other than the fanlight and accentuated front door,”
which fits the Whittredge House perfectly.xxii This new refined architectural development
�borrowed from European styles of the time and was first used by wealthy merchants on the New
England coast, like Thomas Whittredge himself.
Thomas Whittredge was born on May 2, 1766 in Salem, Massachusetts. xxiii Sarah Waters
was born in 1766 in Danvers, Massachusetts to Abel Waters and Lydia (Trask) Waters. xxiv Sarah
married Thomas in Danvers on November 11, 1793 when they were both 28 years old. xxv The
two lived in Danvers in the early years of their marriage, and had three children before building
and moving to their mansion on Federal Street. Henry Trask Whittredge was the first, born
December 29, 1794, followed by Eliza, born November 25, 1796, Thomas Cook, born May 27,
1799, and Edward A., born December 15, 1801.
Thomas Whittredge was a Master Mariner, or Shipmaster, and traded in the mid-Atlantic
states.xxvi He was part of Salem’s proud and important history as a seaport, participating in it
during a time when the merchant culture and rich commerce were at their prime in the town.
According to the History of Essex County, Massachusetts published in 1888, “From the close of
the War of the Revolution until the embargo in 1808, Salem was at the height of her commercial
prosperity. The white sails of Salem’s ships were unfurled in every port of the known worlds and
carried the fame and name of Salem to the uttermost parts of the earth.” xxvii While Whittredge
perhaps was not quite as rich or well-known as some of the other merchants in town, he did a
good business and was quite wealthy, owning real estate not only at the Federal Street property,
but elsewhere in Salem, and in neighboring towns such as Peabody. xxviii
Whittredge was part owner of many ships that sailed from Salem. The 1906 Ship
Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900 lists him as an owner
of two vessels that served as privateers in the War of 1812; the Alexander carried twenty guns
and one hundred fifty-five men before being captured on May 19, 1813, and the Buckskin, a
�schooner, carried five guns and fifty men, and was captured by the British Frigate Statira on
August 7, 1812. He was also an owner of the Andrew Jackson, after its capture in the war,
registering it as a merchant ship when the war was over. Earlier in his career, Whittredge was
also an owner of the Clarissa, registered in 1794, and the Argo, registered in 1808. Whittredge’s
will and other documents reveal interest in ships not mentioned in this register as well. xxix The
ship register shows a chart of private signals from commercial houses, which includes an image
of Whittredge’s signal, shown below. xxx
In the mid-eighteenth century, Joseph Dean owned a large piece of land in Salem, just
south of the North River. The road to the west of this land was named for him for nearly a
century. When he died, he left it to his son John Dean, who in turn sold it to Joseph Sprague on
October 25, 1774.xxxi During that time, Federal Street was laid on the southern border of this
land, named in 1792, and a bustling community of merchant families was created. Sprague, also
a merchant, sold a piece of his land which would become 144-146 Federal Street, to Thomas
Whittredge on November 30, 1799 for six hundred and twenty-five dollars.xxxii This original deed
describes the boundaries of the land, which have remained unchanged to this day. It explains that
the western edge of the land was bounded by Dean Street (later Flint Street) and ran one hundred
and fifty-one feet. The north end was bounded by a school house’s land and ran forty-six feet,
eight inches. The east end was bounded by more land that still belonged to Sprague, and ran one
�hundred and fifty-one feet, equal to the western side. The southern border was a little longer than
the northern border, spanning sixty-one feet, one inch, and was, and still is, bounded by Federal
Street. Whittredge had the mansion built soon after purchasing the land, and it was completed
around 1802.xxxiii
The image below, from an 1890 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, shows the border of the
property, along with its original buildings, including the two-story stable on the northern border.
Behind the lot is the school house property mentioned in the deed, which had been turned into a
six-dwelling tenement house by 1859. xxxiv (The top of the image is East.)
xxxv
After moving into the new house, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s fourth child, Edward,
died on August 25, 1803 at only twenty months of age.xxxvi The next year, however, their
youngest, Sarah, was born on November 1, 1804. The children were all raised in the Federal
Street mansion, and Thomas Whittredge lived there with his wife until he died at age 63 on
September 16, 1829 of “mortification of toes and foot.” xxxvii
In his will, Whittredge stated, “I give and devise to my wife Sarah the mansion house,
buildings, and land under and adjoining the same where I now dwell.” Sarah Whittredge
continued to live in the house until 1841, when she transferred the deed of mortgage to her
�daughter Sarah W. Osborne, and son-in-law, George S. Osborne, a physician from Danvers. xxxviii
Sarah Whittredge then moved to Danvers, where she died on August 16, 1845 at age seventyeight after a “bowel complaint.” xxxix
Upon her death, she left the property equally to her daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her
granddaughter, Elizabeth Williams (the daughter of Thomas Cook Whittredge, and wife of
Henry S. Williams). xl The following year, Sarah Osborne paid her niece Elizabeth Williams two
thousand dollars to purchase her half of the property. As of March 25, 1846, the house belonged
entirely to Thomas and Sarah Whittredge’s daughter, Sarah W. Osborne, and her husband
George.xli
Though the house was in the family for four generations, Thomas and Sarah Whittredge
appear to be the only family members who actually lived in the house as adults. Beginning in the
1850s, the house was split up and rented out, first as a two-family dwelling, and later into
tenement rooms. Around this time, Salem’s booming commerce and shipping economy began to
decline a bit; fewer stately mansions were being built, those that were built were instead erected
further inland, and many existing mansions were being repurposed for other uses. In a 1914
book, Historic Homes of New England, Mary H. Northend laments the end of a romantic era of
young merchants and “jolly sailor lads… bound for Kit’s Dancing Hall,” and the long-closure of
local Inns. Further, she complains that “the large, square homes of yesterday are now
degenerated into tenement houses.” xlii
While this shift may have seemed like a negative one to some in Salem, it is likely a
major reason that some houses such as the Whittredge House remained standing for so long.
Additionally, although none so lucrative as the merchant career of Thomas Whittredge, many of
the house’s residents owned successful businesses in various trades.
�The first renters kept the merchant community alive, as they were both sea captains
themselves. By 1851, Sarah and George Osborne were renting out the house to Captain John Day
on the 144 Federal Street side, and Captain Richard Matthews at 146 Federal Street. xliii The 1851
survey map shows Day and Matthews’ names as owners of the property’s buildings (and the
existing MACRIS record cites Day as owner because of this), however the map must be referring
solely to the house’s residents at the time, as it was still owned by the Osbornes. xliv
In 1860, Xenophon Hector Shaw and his wife Eliza began renting the 144 Federal side of
the house. Xenophon was born on October 28, 1799 in Middlesex, Massachusetts, and Eliza was
born August 16, 1801 in Salem. xlv xlviThe two married on July 1, 1821. xlvii By the time they
moved to the Whittredge house, the couple was older and had three grown children, Mary Shaw,
Brown Emerson Shaw and Hannah Tappan,.xlviii Eliza died just seven years later on November
14, 1868. Eventually Xenophon’s daughter Mary Shaw moved into the house and is listed as a
boarder and housekeeper in the city directories between 1870 and 1886. xlix The two lived in the
house until Xenophon’s death on December 7, 1886. Xenophon owned a picture framing and
gilding business with his son Brown Emerson Shaw, called Xenophon H. and Son. The business
was established in 1820, when Xenophon himself was just twenty years old, so was likely
already a family business. Brown continued the family business with his sister Mary after their
father’s death until 1896, which is the last year it is listed in the directory. l They had large
advertisements placed in several of the Salem City Directories between the 1860s and 1890s.
Shown below is their ad from 1886. li
�By 1866, on the 146 Federal side, Daniel Frye Nichols had moved in with his family.
Daniel was born in 1805 and was married to Lydia F. Cheever (born 1806) on August 8, 1827 in
Salem.lii Similar to the Shaws, the couple moved into the Whittredge house as an older couple
with adult children. In this case, many of their adult children moved with them into the house,
including Randle, Lydia, Abbie, Benjamin, and Henry C. Nichols, all between the ages of twenty
and thirty-four. Daniel F. Nichols made his living as a tanner, working in the tanneries on the
North River near the house. liii In another similarity to the Shaw’s side of the building, Lydia died
only a few years after moving in, on September 1, 1872 at age sixty-six of unknown causes.
By 1880, though Daniel still lived in the house, his son Henry C. Nichols had taken over
as the head of household at 146 Federal Street, living there with his wife Mary, and young son
Edward.liv The Henry Nichols family lived in the house until 1889, following the death of Daniel
Nichols on October 8, 1888. Abby F. Nichols, Henry’s older sister, also continued to live in the
house as a boarder until 1889.
While the Nichols and Shaw families lived in the house, house owners Sarah Whittredge
Osborne died on February 17, 1883 and her husband George Osborne died on September 21,
1882. Upon their deaths, they left the property to their two children George S. Osborne, and
�Eliza D. Shepard. lv The two were “tenants in common” and continued to live elsewhere and rent
out the building until Eliza’s death in 1930.lvi
In 1890, James H. Fitzpatrick moved to 146 Federal, though only for a short time. lvii In
1895, William Sheehan, a physician, moved into the home. William married Katherine C. Anglin
in 1909. Beginning in the 1912 city directory, “K.C. Sheehan” is also listed with William, also as
a physician.lviii This is clearly referring to Katherine, who was also a doctor. In the 1924
directory, her name is listed with William’s in its entirety, both as physicians. lix In the
directories, William gives his office hours next to their address, so it seems he may have visited
patients at the home. lx The couple raised five children in the home and lived there until
William’s death in 1924. Katherine was there for two more years on her own, still practicing
medicine, before moving to another house. lxi
When she died in 1930, owner Eliza D. Shepard left the property to her two children,
Thomas O. Shepard, and Sarah W. Shepard. They never lived there, nor do they seem to have
rented it out, as during their brief ownership the city directory lists the house as vacant. lxii Neither
Thomas nor Sarah ever married or had children, living together until they died. Thus, this is
where ownership of the house left the Whittredge family line.
Thomas and Sarah sold the house to Francis J. Murphy and his wife Louise in 1931, not
long after inheriting it.lxiii Francis was a leatherworker, born July 16, 1899, who married Louise
M. Brophy in 1926.lxiv The two had a daughter, Mary, in 1929, and purchased the Federal Street
home on April 7, 1931.lxv They lived there with their daughter and a servant, eventually giving
birth to a son, Frances.lxvi It seems that they preferred to use the house for only their family
instead of renting it out to tenants, as Francis Murphy is listed as the only occupant of both 144
and 146 Federal Street on the city directories of this time. lxvii They lived in the house until about
�1945, before moving elsewhere in Salem. In 1945, the house was rented out as furnished
tenement rooms, advertised by Laura M. Smith in the city directory, who also lived in the house,
and must have managed the tenants for the owners. lxviii In 1945, there were many tenants,
including Nathan Tucker, Florence and Silvio Landry, Julia Symonds and her husband Frank, a
lathe hand, and widow Marie Maillet. lxix
The Murphys sold the house soon after turning it into tenements, on April 27, 1946 to
Joseph and Tekla Rostkowski, a couple from Poland.lxx They owned the house for just over a
year, and it doesn’t appear that they ever lived there themselves. Laura M. Smith continued to
advertise furnished rooms at the house during this time, until the next owner took over the job
herself. Esther M. and Thomas F. Henry purchased the house on June 25, 1947 and continued to
rent out furnished rooms, advertising them in the directory, while also living there themselves. lxxi
Thomas Henry was born June 5, 1920 in Peabody, and Esther Trabucco, known as Babe,
was born October 8, 1919 in Beverly. lxxii They were married in 1941 in Salem, and had four
children, Thomas, Michael, Barbara, and Patricia. Thomas was enlisted in the army as a private
on October 9, 1944 for the duration of the war; his cemetery marker shows him as a Technician
Fifth Grade. When not serving, Thomas was an engineer at New England Instruments, and
Esther started Henry Associates, a real estate business, in addition to managing tenants in her
home.lxxiii
Below is a picture of Esther and three of their children in 1944, and a picture of Thomas
in 1945.
�The Henry’s tenants listed between 1946 and 1950 are Frank and Julia Symonds;
Josephine Rostkowski, a payroll clerk at John Lynn and Sons, incorporated, and her husband
John; Clifford M. Smith, a machinist; Donald and Doris Haskell; Marie Henry; Mary McGrath;
George Angelico; Joseph Angelico; Mary Kelly; Albert and Ruth Thibodeau; Kenneth Shepard,
a cable splicer at NET&T Company; a nurse, Mrs. Ellen Linscomb; Constance “Connie” Clay, a
telephone operator at NET&T Company, and her husband Leo, a contractor; and several
employees of the Sylvania light bulb factory, Augusta V. Rostkowski, Alice M. Rostkowski,
Robert O. Westman, and Esther Crowell. lxxiv
Additionally, four members of the United States Coast Guard Air Station lived in rooms
in the house at the same time, three of them with their wives. Between 1935 and 1970, Winter
Island, off the coast of Salem, was the site of a United States Coast Guard Air Station, which
patrolled the northeastern shore by plane, “responding to emergency calls off the Atlantic Coast
�from as far south as Connecticut and as far north as Halifax… the men bravely saved dozens of
lives at sea, and risked their own,” according to Salem collector and history writer, Nelson
Dionne.lxxv The USCG Air Station aviators who lived in the Whittredge House beginning in 1949
are Wilbur Stanley, and his wife Eileen, Clarence W. Stanley, Cecil R. Furr, and his wife Jean,
and Paul H. Lavallee and his wife Beatrice. lxxvi
Owners Thomas and Esther Henry lived in the house until Thomas’ death on March 31,
1983, though it isn’t clear for how long its rooms were rented out, as the city directories stop
listing its residents in the 1950s. lxxvii By the 1990s, Esther was no longer living in the Whittredge
House, and it was no longer kept up. In 1997, when the MACRIS report was made, the house’s
windows were gone and had been boarded up.lxxviii
On March 26, 1998, current owners Michaeline D. La Roche and her husband Robert J.
Ouellette purchased the house and land from Esther Henry. Since then, its traditional windows
have been replaced, and the exterior restored, and the house at 144-146 Federal Street remains a
beautiful and historic example of Salem’s Federal architecture, a monument to the maritime
history of Salem.
�i
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
Essex South County Registry of Deeds (hereinafter ESCRD) Book 426, Page 1959.
iii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 762
iv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
v
Virginia & Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
vi
Oliver, Henry K. "Reminiscences of Federal Street, Written in 1885", EIH C 82 (April 1946): 181
vii
Ibid.
viii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
ix
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 76
x
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 746
xiii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 745
xiv
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xv
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 745
xvi
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
xvii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 799
xviii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. xviii
xix
“The McIntire Historic District Architectural Walking Trail,” National Park Service and the Salem Partnership,
https://www.nps.gov/sama/planyourvisit/upload/McTrail.pdf
xx
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 8-9
xxi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxii
McAlester, Virginia. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002., pg. 784
xxiii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 423 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxiv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 398 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850., pg. 316 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxvi
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxvii
Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketched of many of its pioneers
and prominent men., Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis an& Co., 1888, pg. 64
xxviii
Ancestry.com. Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
xxix
Ibid.
xxx
Hitchins, A. Frank, Stephen Willard Phillips, Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts,
1789-1900, Essex Institute, 1906. Pgs. 1-12
xxxi
ESCRD Book 134, Page 54
xxxii
ESCRD Book 166, Page 154
xxxiii
Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983, pg. 148
xxxiv
Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1890 [Massachusetts State Library].
xxxv
Ibid.
xxxvi
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 331 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xxxvii
Ibid.
xxxviii
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xxxix
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988., pg. 331 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xl
ESCRD Book 381, Page 213
xli
ESCRD Book 381, Page 214
xlii
Northend, Mary Harrod, Historic Homes of New England. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1914., pgs. 6-7
xliii
Salem City Directory, 1855
xliv
McIntyre, Henry, “Map of the city of Salem, Mass : from an actual survey,” Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection., https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9g54xk154
ii
�xlv
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlvi
Ibid.
xlvii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlviii
Ancestry.com. The Choates in America, 1643-1896, John Choat and his descendants, Chebacco, Ipswich,
Massachusetts., pg. 161 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
xlix
Salem City Directory, 1886
l
Salem City Directory, 1896
li
Salem City Directory, 1886
lii
Salem City Directory, 1866
liii
Salem City Directories, 1837-1866
liv
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: 532; Page: 690A;
Enumeration District: 235
lv
ESCRD Book 1150, Page 188
lvi
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lvii
Salem City Directory, 1890
lviii
Salem City Directory, 1912
lix
Salem City Directory, 1924
lx
Salem City Directory, 1895
lxi
Salem City Directory, 1926
lxii
Salem City Directory, 1931
lxiii
ESCRD Book 2878, Page 103
lxiv
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850., pg. 316 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.; Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013
lxvi
Ancestry.com. Census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01589; Page: 1A;
Enumeration District: 5-347
lxvii
Salem City Directory, 1933
lxviii
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxix
Salem City Directory, 1945
lxx
ESCRD Book 3459, Page 118
lxxi
ESCRD Book 3554, Page 565
lxxii
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2013.
lxxiii
The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts). October 16, 2005., pg. 10,
https://www.newspapers.com/image/443766729/?terms=esther%2Bhenry
lxxiv
City directories 1946-1950
lxxv
Smith, Bonnie Hurd, Nelson Dionne, U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Massachusetts: 1935-1970: a
Pictorial and Chronological History., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
lxxvi
Salem City Directories, 1949-1950
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
lxxviii
MACRIS SAL.1570, http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SAL.1570
lxxvii
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Robert Peele Jr.
Tailor
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Elizabeth Ropes
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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
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�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
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An account of the resource
Built for
Willard Goldthwaite
Merchant
1868
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1868, 2019
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1868
2019
386
Essex
Goldthwaite
History
House
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Willard
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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
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© 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
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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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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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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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25 Warren Street
Built for
Dennis Brady
Currier
c. 1870
Researched by
Diana Dunlap
March 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�25 Warren Street
Built for Dennis Brady, currier, c. 1870
1. The land that now forms 25 Warren Street was sold as a larger lot, with no buildings or
improvements mentioned in the deed, by Joseph Wallis, cabinetmaker of Salem, to
James Stone, bricklayer of Salem, on October 18, 1838, for $150.00. The property is
described as bordering northwards on Green Street 44’6”, eastwards on land of Henry
Reed’s 91’, southwards on Wallis’s own land 33’, and westwards 84’6” on land Wallis
had already sold to Stone. Wallis was involved in two different land sales around the
area then called Green Street in the 1830s. Registry of Deeds Book 309, Page 23.
2. On May 20, 1870, James Stone sold a parcel of this land to Sarah Saul, wife of John F.
Saul of Salem, carpenter. Registry of Deeds Book 798, Page 219.
3. Only a few weeks later, on June 2, 1870, Sarah Saul sold the land to Dennis Brady of
Salem, currier, for $387.50. The lot is described as running northwards on Warren Street
40’, eastwards on land of Henry Reed 42’, southerly on land of James Stone 35’, and
westerly on Stone’s land 38’. The deeds does not reference any buildings on the lot, so
the house must have been built after this. Registry of Deeds Book 800, Page 299.
4. On November 5, 1870, James Stone, mason of Salem, sold a small, 7’ wide strip
bordering the south side of Brady’s property to Dennis Brady for $100.00. This second
purchase of Dennis Brady’s created the modern lot. Registry of Deeds Book 809, Page
273.
5. On October 15, 1907, Dennis Brady and his wife Emma T. Brady mortgaged the land
and buildings to the Federal Trust Company for $1000.00, with the condition that they
provide fire insurance on the property. Registry of Deeds Book 1899, Page 39.
6. On December 12, 1907, Emma T. Brady and her husband Dennis sold the land and
buildings to Florence J. Mahoney “for one dollar and other valuable considerations
thereof.” Registry of Deeds Book 1905, Page 388.
7. Florence J. Mahoney sold the house and land to Catherine B. Whelton on September
30, 1914. Registry of Deeds Book 2276, Page 26.
8. Catherine B. Whelton sold the property to Andrew Mossett on September 8, 1920.
Registry of Deeds Book 2463, Page 83.
9. Andrew Mossett and his wife Angie mortgaged the house, also on September 8, 1920,
for $650.000 with a term of one year and 6% interest. Registry of Deeds Book 2463,
Pages 84-85.
10. On October 6, 1922, the mortgagee (the Helburn-Thompson Leather Company of
Salem) foreclosed on the the Mosetts’s mortgage. The mortgage listed here is larger
than that referenced in the previous record. Registry of Deeds Book 2530, Page 120.
11. That same day, the Helburn-Thompson Leather Company sold the property at auction to
Harris S. Knight of Salem for $240.00. Registry of Deeds 2530, Page 120-121.
12. Harris S. Knight, “being unmarried,” sold the property to Charles Johnson on October 27,
1922. Registry of Deeds Book 2531, Page 575.
�13. On February 14, 1923, Charles S. Johnston of Salem sold the property to Louis K. Arth
of Salem, subject to a mortgage of $3000.00 with the Roger Conant Cooperative Bank.
Registry of Deeds Book 2541, Page 377.
14. Louis K. Arth, now of Boston, sold the house to Patrick J. and Catherine Landers on
November 25, 1924, subject to taxes and water rates for the ear 1924. Registry of Deeds
Book 2620, Page 566.
15. Katherine E. Riordan and Martin E. Landers granted the property to Martha E. Collins
and Jerome T. Riordan, Jr., Trustees of the Landers Realty Trust (see Page 91), for
$1.00. The deed refers to the estate of Patrick J. Landers, Essex Probate Docket
299384. Registry of Deeds 10286, Page 94.
16. Martha E. Collins and Jerome T. Riordan, Jr., Trustees of the Landers Realty Trust, sold
the property for $125,000.00 to Francis E. Chafe, Jr., and Elizabeth A. Chafe. Regsitry of
Deeds Book 13403, Page 557.
17. Francis E. Chafe and Elizabeth A. Chafe sold the house for $325,000.00 to Bennyi
Moreno on November 30, 2001. Registry of Deeds Book 17967, Page 196.
18. Bennyi Moreno sold the property to Lauren Fortner for “$1 and other valuable
considerations” on January 15, 2003. Registry of Deeds Book 20114, Page 77.
19. Lauren Fortner, married to Eric Donald Munson of Salem, sold the property to Megan M.
Millar and Joel Nentwich as joint tenants for $525,000.00 on October 29, 2018. Registry
of Deeds 37114, Page 131.
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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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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
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����Inventory No:
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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Assessor's number
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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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Organization
Salem Planning Department
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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
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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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House history
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An account of the resource
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c. 1905
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Ernest Machado
Architect
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2019
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Carpenter
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History
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Machado
Massachusetts
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Street
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1 Essex Street
Built by
James Fanning
Carpenter
c. 1894
Research Provided by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
June 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
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�Chain of Title, 1 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Date Recorded Grantor(s)
William F. Chapple of
October 11, 1893 Salem
Grantee(s)
Conveyance of
"one dollar and
other valuable
consideration paid"
all that parcel of real estate situated in
said Salem and bounded south westerly
by Webb Street, southeasterly by land of
Nichols, now or late, north easterly by
the location of the Essex Rail Road, north
westerly by the line of Essex street as
extended across said Webb street to
said Railroad location by the fence as it
now stands one hundred twenty three
feet.
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
Source
Document Book or Vol. Page
Notes
1390
206 No mention of any buildings.
Katie J. Fanning, widow, of
October 27, 1923 Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded
northwesterly by the continuation of
Richard H. G. Hichens and
Essex Street from Webb Street to the
Catherine Hichens, husband
location of the Boston and Maine
and wife, of Salem
"consideration paid" Railroad 41 feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
2574
"Being a portion of the premises
conveyed to James Fanning by
William F. Chapple by deed
recorded with Essex, South
District, Deeds, Book 1390 Page
494 206, and by him devised to me."
Richard H. G. Hichens,
February 19, 1942 widower, of Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded
northwesterly by the continuation of
Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
Richard H. Hichens of Salem "consideration paid" Railroad 41 feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3286
300
Richard H. Hichens of
May 28, 1942 Salem
the land in said SALEM, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: Northwesterly by
the continuation of Essex Street from
Webb Street to the location of the
Boston and Main- Railroad Forty-one (41)
Joseph J. Cichocki of Salem "consideration paid" feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3295
80
Joseph J. Cichocki of
July 30, 1945 Salem
the land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: Northwesterly by
the continuation of Essex Street from
Webb Street to the location of the
Joseph & Alice Cichocki,
Boston and Maine Railroad Forty-one (41)
husband and wife, of Salem "consideration paid" feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
3411
414
Harriet J. Robbins of
Wilmington, MA, Amelia
Borders of Gretna, LA,
Helen N. O'Donnell of
Salem, MA, and Pamela
June 7, 1983 Murphy of Haverhill, MA
Patricia A. Woolf and
Thomas J. O'Donnell, CoExecutors of the Estate of
July 23, 2004 Alfred Cichocki
James Fanning of Salem
Consideration
Alfred Cichocki
Alan R. Barth and Allison C.
Duff, husband and wife, of
Salem
The land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: by the continuation
of Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
"consideration paid" Railroad forty-one (41) feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
7128
The land in said Salem, together with the
buildings thereon, bounded and
described as follows: by the continuation
of Essex Street from Webb Street to the
location of the Boston and Maine
$300,000.00 Railroad forty-one (41) feet...
Essex County Registry of Deeds Deed
23163
"For title reference see Estate of
Alice Cichocki, Essex Probate
64 #357062"
408
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FABENS.
FARRELL.
[Salem.]
Fabens Benjamin F. h. 195 Lafayette
Farley Alice M. ]Hiss, b. 26 West ave.
Bessie H. widow of Charles E. h. 34
Annie Miss, servant at 114 Derby
Summe1·
Charles O. farmer, b. 26 West ave.
Caroline A. Miss, b. 33 Summer
Ernest, watchman, 3! Front, b. 26
Frank P. b. 195 Lafayette
West ave.
!Boardman
George H. painter, h. 40 Harbo1·
Henry, cooper, 225 Derby, b. 40
Margaret D. widow of Augustus J. h.
Herbert N. salesman, h. 40 Boardman
18 Chestnut
James A. driver, h. 13 Winthrop
Sarah, widow of J osepb, b. 5 Bott's ct.
James H. janitor, Bertram school
Fagan James E. machinist, b. Fort ave.
house, b. 26 West ave.
n. Willows
Joseph L. cooper, h. 1 Hazel
John J. died Oct. 19, 1894
Mary C. widow of Alfred M. h. 364
Moses M. E. fisherman, b. 6 Allen
Essex
Thomas, laborer, h. rear 22 Becket
Mary E. i\Iiss, b. 26 We.st ave.
Fahey Joseph, laborer, b. 72 Mason
Farmer Amelia, widow of James D.
Fairfield Charles E. clerk, 52 Central, h.
115 Webb
died Nov. 9, 1893
9 Forrester
Annie W. Miss, clerk, 188 Essex, b.
Charlotte W. Miss, bookkeeper (26
Elizabeth E. Miss, teacher, Oliver
Bedford, Bo•ton). b. 13 Pleasant
school, b. 109 North
AIRFIELD EDWARD W. stationer,
Elizabeth P. Miss, music teacher, 15
Webb, b. do.
20 Boston. h. do. See front cover.
AIRFIELD JAMES, dealer in lumber,
Joseph P. (Farmer & Egell), h. 15
lime, cement and coal, 52 to 60
Webb
[North
Central, and 283 Derby, h. 13
Lucy E. widow of Georite S. b. 109
Pleasant. See opp. page 97,
William S. tinsmith, h. 59 Highland
Jane S. widow of Samuel G. h. 4
AR'MER & EGELL (Joseph P. Farmer
Becket
and Edward M. Eitell), masons
and builders, 15 Webb and 10
Mary A. widow of James, b. 13 Pleas
Essex. See page 1132.
ant
Farnham Edwin A . clerk, 32 Front, h.
Falconer Allan, rem. to Portland, Me.
Jane J. Miss, nurse, h. 14 Margin
at Swampscott
Edwin P. pastor, First Baptist church,
Fall Howard M. fireman, b. 35 Washington
h. 15 Heckford
Fallis Sidney W. milkman at Cabot fa1·m
Thomas, currier, h. 26 Bow
Mary E. Miss, h. 8 Lynde
Fallon Bernard, tanner, b. 2 1-2 Grove
Orrin L. painter, B. & M. car shop, h.
21 Prescott
Bridget, widow of Malachi, h. 4 1-2
Phelps
[ave.
see Farnum
Edward F·. shoeworker. b. 71 Ocean Farnswol·th Albertus, confectioner, b. 3
Logan
[h. 3 Logan
Joanna C. widow of Thomas R. in
telligence office, 40 Norraan, h. po.
Frank P. foreman currier (Peabody),
Frederick J. morocco dresser, b. 24
. JohnH. ,iboe\vorker. b. 71 Ocean ave.
Ord
ALLON J. HOW ARD, supt. Danvers
Lucy A. widow of Francis R. nurse,
Bleachery (Peabody), h. 348
ll. 28 Beckford
Essex
Sarah E. Miss, nur�e, h. 28 Beckford
Malachi J. b. 83 Bow
Farnum Abby, widow of George W. A. h.
Patrick J. currier, h. 87 Mason
4 Friend
Patrick M. died March 18, 1894
A. Frank, currier, b. 4 Friend
P. Joseph, 56 Mason,died Dec. 21,1892
Eliza Miss, shoeworker, b. rear 78
Thomas, currier, h. 5 Flint
Washington
Thomas 13. laborer, h. 56 Mason
Elizabeth, widow of Nathan, seam
Thomas P. carpenter, h. 156 Federal
stress, h. 145 North
William H. shoelaster, b. 4 1-2 Phelps
see Farnham
Fanning Albert F. carpenter, b. 76 Webb
Fanar Benjamin P. shoelaster, h. 1 Essex
Amelia J. widow of Samuel, h. 22
Farrell Ann. widow of Hugh, h. 9½ Creek
Nichols
Hugh F . E. reporter, Salem Daily
Edward J. carpenter, h. 15 Becket
Gazette, b. 9 1-2 Creek
�'rancis, wood worker, h. 84.9 Bridge
James, currier, h. 19 Phelps
'1eorge T. rem. to Peabody
James J. shoewr,rker, b. 24 Phelps
Herbert J. st.ockfitter, b. 22 Nichols
John', currier.�- 24 Phelps
ANNING JAMES, carpenter, rear 11
Maria S. wi,fow of John, b. 7 Salem
St. Peter, h. 76 Webb. See page
Mary J. G. Miss, at 45 Federal
1126.
[Bridge
Michael.;;, delivery clerk, h. 7 Salem
Margaret, widow of William, b. 349
Patrick, 61 Harbor, rem. to Boston
Samuel, died Dec. 17, 1892
Sylvester, laborer, h. 32 Charter
Samuel, shoelaster, b. 22 Nichols
Sylve/jter J . removed to Lynn
Theresa Miss, b. 349 Bridge
Thooias, currier, h. 7 High
Thomas H. carpenter, h. 40 English
Tho·.nas F. hack driver, 4 Charter, h.
William F. clerk (Boston), b. 76 Webb
22 Perkins
Farley Abbie Miss, b. 364 Essex
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1 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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James Fanning
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c. 1894
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1894
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Massachusetts
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Boston Street
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Street History
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1978
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1978
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Industrial
Massachusetts
Salem
Social
Street
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29 Dearborn Street
Built for
Walter T. Berry
Grocer
& his wife
Adelaide S. Warner
in 1911
Researched & written by
Robert Booth
May 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
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Grocer
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Adelaide S. Warner
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1911, 2019
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Robert Booth
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1911
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29
Adelaide
Berry
Dearborn
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Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Walter
Warner
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2 - 4 Emerton Street
Built for
James A. Gillis
Counsellor
by 1894
Research Provided by
Diana Dunlap
June 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
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�2-4 Emerton Street, Salem, MA
Built for James A. Gillis, Counsellor, by 1894
1. The lot of 2-4 Emerton Street was originally part of the estate of Elizabeth Emerton of Salem,
who died intestate March 28, 1837. Her eldest heir, her son William, requested that his brother
Ephraim be appointed to administer the estate. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers,
1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13765/9033-co2/30163294
2. An 1851 map of Salem shows two buildings on Forrester Street (then called East Street)
marked “J. Emerton;” this is likely Elizabeth Emerton’s son James, who is described in deeds for
other properties as an apothecary or druggist (his brother William was a tailor and his brother
Ephraim a merchant; Registry of Deeds Book 421, Page 83). However, the building is too far
west on Forrester Street to be the same house; the eastern end of Forrester Street is still
marked as a creek emptying into Collins Cove and was not yet developed. McIntyre, H. (Henry),
and H. E. B. Taylor. "Map of the city of Salem, Mass." Map. Philada., Pa: Henry Mc. Intyre,
1851. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g54xk154
(accessed June 25, 2019). https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g54xk154
3. On April 13, 1871, William, Ephraim, and James Emerton of Salem sold a portion of the
“Emerton Estate” to James A. Gillis of Salem for $5,000.00. This was a lot bordering 283 feet on
Forrester Street, 213 feet 6 inches on the land of Eunice P. Richardson, 461 feet on land of
“Silsbee and others,” and 309 feel on other land of “Silsbee and others.” The deed specifies that
the land was sold “with buildings theron standing,” Registry of Deeds Book 819, Page 277. On
an 1872 map of Salem, the buildings marked on Forrester Street are the same as on the 1851
map, and the far end of the street has not yet been filled in. This indicates that the current house
is not one of the buildings reference in the above deed.
https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/maps_salem/1/
4. On October 19, 1894, James A. Gillis sold part of the land he had purchased from the
Emerton brothers over twenty years earlier to Ellen M. Hartshorne, widow, “in consideration of
one dollar paid me...a certain lot or parcel of land with buildings theron standing...on the
northerly side of Forrester Street, being a portion of the Emmerton Estate formerly so-called.”
This deed outlines a rectangular lot, running 47.5 feet along Emerton Street but running 108 feet
to Forrester Street, and also includes a rectangular piece of land to the west of the property
“upon which stand the steps of one of the tenements above conveyed,” plus the interest in and
right of way to the “strip of land...sometimes known as Emerton Street.” Registry of Deeds Book
1426, Page 380. One of the buildings referenced in this deed is likely the current house.
�5. On October 25, 1894, Ellen M. Hartshorne mortgaged the property to Elizabeth H. Osgood for
$2,000. This mortgaged was discharged “with full payment and satisfaction” on April 30, 1908.
Registry of Deeds Book 1426, Page 382, and Book 1916, Page 481.
6. On April 30, 1908, Ellen M. Hartshorne sold the property to Joanna A. Fitzgerald “for one
dollar and other valuable considerations.” Registry of Deeds Book 1916, Page 481.
7. On January 12, 1909, Joanna A. Fitzgerald, wife of Joseph A. Fitzgerald, sold the property to
John J. Caplice. The lot is defined as 53 feet 3 inches x 47 feet 6 inches x 53 feet 5 inches,
bordered by Fitzgerald’s property, Emerton Street, the land of John Casey, and Fitzgerald’s,
“running westerly as the fence now stands.” These are more or less the modern boundaries of
the property. This deed does not reference buildings on the property, but the mortgage Caplice
took out two days later does; see below. Registry of Deeds Book 1951, Page 233.
8. On January 14, 1909, John J. Caplice mortgaged the property, including buildings, to the
Salem Savings Bank for $2,200.00; the Bank acknowledged this mortgage fully paid on
September 8, 1916. Registry of Deeds Book 1951, Page 234.
9. John J. Caplice sold the property to William A. Clapp on September 16, 1911. Registry of
Deeds Book 2106, Page 118.
10. Roger F. Clapp, administering the estate of William A. Clapp, sold the property to John J.
and Nellie J. Foley, husband and wife, on March 12, 1924. Registry of Deeds Book 2590, Page
96.
11. John J. and Nellie J. Foley mortgaged the house to the Salem Savings Bank for $3,000.00
on March 12, 1924, for one year at 5.5% interest. Registry of Deeds Book 2590, Page 97.
12. The Salem Savings Bank foreclosed the Foleys’ mortgage on May 28, 1927. Registry of
Deeds 2722, Page 392.
13. On June 9, 1927, the Salem Savings Bank sold the house to Philippe Belanger for
$6600.00.
14. Also on June 9, 1927, Philippe Belanger and his wife, Malvina E.D. Belanger, mortgaged the
property to the Salem Savings Bank for $4500.00 for one year at 5.5% interest. On December
29, 1927, the Belangers took out another one-year mortgage of $1500.00. The bank
acknowledged this was fully satisfied on April 4, 1960. Registry of Deeds Book 2725, Page 432;
Book 2746, Page 562; and Book 4655, Page 249.
15. On June 11, 1938, Philippe Belanger sold the property to Lilian Gordon of Salem. Registry
of Deeds Book 3147, Page 131.
�16. The same day, June 11, 1938, Lilian Gordon sold the property back to Philippe Belanger “for
a consideration of under $100.00.” Registry of Deeds 3147, Page 131.
17. On November 15, 1941, Philippe and Malvina Belanger purchased one tankless hot water
heater from the Harvard Oil Burner Company for $129.23. Registry of Deeds 3301, Page 87.
18. On May 16, 1955, Georges Paul Belanger of Salem, executor of the estate of Malvina E.D.
Belanger of Salem, granted the property to Philippe Belanger of Paris, France, for $3000.00.
Registry of Deeds 4174, Page 365; Probate Docket 246, Page 223.
19. On May 27, 1955, Phillipe J. Belanger of Paris, France, granted the property to George Paul
Belanger, “reserving to myself for the duration of my natural life, the right to use and occupy two
rooms on the second floor...Being the same premises conveyed to me by a deed of Georges
Paul Belanger, executor of the will of Malvina E.D. Belanger...the consideration is less than one
hundred dollars.” The deed was signed by Philippe’s wife, Charlotte Eugenie Belanger. Registry
of Deeds 4174, Page 366.
19. On April 4, 1960, Georges Paul Belanger and his wife Vivian sold the property to Jean R.
and Eva O. L’Italien. Registry of Deeds Book 4655, Page 250.
20. On January 12, 1962, Jean R. L’Italien of Beverly and Leonard P. L’Italien of Peabody
formed the “Len and Jean Real Estate Trust.” Jean and Eva L’Italien transferred ownership of
the property to the trust on March 8, 1962. Registry of Deeds Book 4870, Page 118; Book 4889,
Page 198.
21. Jean R. and Leonard P. L’Italien, as the Len and Jean Real Estate Trust, sold the property
to Barbara A. and Roger N. L’Heureux for $12800.00. Registry of Deeds 5594, Page 473.
22. Barbara A. and Roger N. L’Heureux mortgaged the property to the Salem Co-Operative
Bank for $19,500.00 on February 25. 1972. Registry of Deeds Book 5747, Page 436.
23. On June 12, 1980, Barbara A. L’Heureux of Danvers granted the property to Roger N.
L’Heureux of Lafayette Street, Salem. Registry of Deeds Book 6716, Page 406.
24. Roger N. L’Heureux of Oakland Park, Florida, created the Emerton Street trust on July 27,
1992, and transferred the property to said trust on October 1, 1992. Registry of Deeds Book
11512, Page 560.
25. On March 29, 1994, Sharon L’Heureux of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Michael L’Heureux of
Salem, were appointed trustees of the Emerton Street Trust due to the death of Roger N.
L’Heureux on February 2, 1994. The Massachusetts Real Estate Tax lien M-792 was released
on February 22, 1994. Registry of Deeds Book 12512, Page 210; Book 13417, Page 215.
�26. On November 20, 1996, Sharon L’Heureux of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Michael L’Heureux of
Boston, Trustees of the Emerton Street Trust, sold the property to John T. Kilroy for
$125,000.00. Registry of Deeds Book 13898, Page 310.
27. John T. Kilroy sold the property to Philip J. Malonson for $127,000.00 on March 16, 2001.
Registry of Deeds Book 16972, Page 374.
28. On March 16, 2001, Philip Malsonson established the Step Four Realty Trust with himself as
Trustee. Registry of Deeds Book 16972, Page 370.
29. On July 22, 2016, Philip J. Malonson, of the Step Four Realty Trust, Burlington, sold the
property to the Gregory Investment Group for $299,000.00. Registry of Deeds 35109, Page 130.
30. A master deed of August 22, 2017, established the Emerton Estates Condominium, and
submitted a site plan by the Gregory Investment Group. Registry of Deeds Book 36118, Pages
49-67.
31. On October 12, 2017, David Cole and Bradley Epps, a married couple, purchased 2-4
Emerton Street Unit 2 from the Gregory Investment Group for $560,000.0, with a 60% interest in
the Common Area of Emerton Estates Condominium. Registry of Deeds 36247, Page 029-032.
�Salem Directory, 1872
SALEM DIRECTORY.
83
Gifibrd James B. (T. J. Giford cfi 00.), house 18 Mason
Gifford Rufus B.EET. J. Gzfiord d5 00.), house 11 Dean
Gifford
Thomas
. carpenter,
house Mason,
near
Gifford Thomas J. & 00. (J. B. déR. B. Giford),
Bufi’um
carpenters,
rear Carpenter, house 20 Mason
Gifford
Thomas
Gifford
Gilbert
Gilbert
Gilbert
William, carpenter, boards 64 Washington
Charles W. mariner, house 26 English
Fitz E. carpenter, house 15 Crombie
James, house 148 Federal
S. Mrs. house Mason, near
Gilbert
James,
carpenter,
house
Buffum
14 Aborn
Gilbert John, laborer, house 23 Phelps court
Gilbert John T. shoemaker, house 10 Woodbury court
Giles Lydia G. Mrs. house 28 Lynde
Gill Catharine,
widow,
house
26 Congress
Gill Harriet P. Mrs. boards 4 Harbor square
Gill Michael, laborer, boards 9 Flint
Gilligan Daniel, laborer, boards rear 36 Charter
Gilligan John, laborer, house rear 36 Charter
Gilligan Matthew J. machinist, house 32 Turner
Gilligan Owen, laborer, house 36 Charter
Gillie James A. counsellor, 243% Essex, house 333 do.
Gillis Lydia D. Mrs. house 333 Essex
Gillis Randall, mariner, house 6 Webb
Gillpatrick Azuba Mrs. matron, Seaman’s Orphan Society,
7 Carpenter
Gilman
Daniel
M. ropemaker,
house
14 English
Gilman Joseph, house 14 English
Gilman Joseph jr. ropemaker, boards 14 English
Gilmore John, carpenter, house 12 Broad
Glass Abraham, laborer, house 14 Peabody
Glazier Charles H.
Glazier
Glazier zfiSon), h. 11 Lagrange
Ezra & Son ( C’. H. Glazier),
furniture,
crockery,
&c.
23 Central, house 11 Lagrange
Glazier
Glazier
George
Joseph
W. machinist,
house 31 Harbor
B. mason, Dean, house 2 North _Pine
Gleason Michael Mrs. house 1 Prospect
Glidden Isaac, tin peddler, house 12 Upham
Gildden John, tin peddler, boards 101 North
Gildden Joseph H. grocer, 31 Boston, house do.
Glidden Joseph P. Mrs. house9 Federal
9
Glover Deborah M. Mrs. house 14 Salem
Glover George D. (Bosson cfi GK), shoes, 6 Lafayette,
Hancock
Glover George H. currier, boards 86 North
Glover
John
P. (Steclman
cfi Glover),
9 Beckford,
h. 6
house
8
Monroe
Glover Joseph E. station agent, E. R. R. h. 46 Endicott
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28 Arbella Street
Built for
Sarah H. Plummer and William H. Plummer
Shoemaker
c. 1873
Researched and written by Jen Ratliff
July 2019
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2019
�This house was known as 12 Arbella Street (also called Arabella Street) until it was moved in 1906,
then 10 ½ until the street was renumbered in 1917.
This house was moved on same lot from street frontage to current rear location in 1906,
likely to allow for sale of land and construction
of #30-32 (12 and 12 ½)
Date of Purchase
Conveyed by
Conveyed to
Amount
Document
Notes
April 19, 1872
Robert Hill
Abraham Edwards
Martha P. Edwards
$950
851:85
Only references land
September 6,1872 (#12)
September 1, 1873 (#10)
Abraham Edwards
Martha P. Edwards
William H. Plummer
Sarah H. Plummer
$3,110
$1,000
862:199
887:283
November 1, 1905
George D. Edwards
William H. Edwards
$1 and other valuable
considerations
1800:352
Purchased #10 and
#12 Arbella Street
Abraham died September 29, 1891
(Did not die in this home)
House used as a rental property
Martha died on April 20, 1905
(Did not die in this home)
Son George then sold the home.
Probate #96531
June 24, 1910
William H. Edwards
Alice R. Meek
$1 and other valuable
considerations
2028:570
December 10, 1948
Annie (Meek) Hutchins
Mabelle F. (Warner)
Adlard
Mary Etta Callahan
Mary Elizabeth
Callahan
Arthur G. Spark
Martin Callahan
Mary Etta Callahan
$4,200
3637:205
Arthur G. Spanks
Marilyn P. Spanks
$15,900
5355:534
Christine Makary
Stephanie L. Bailey
$295,000
24950:421
April 25 1961
October 14, 2005
Jen Ratliff | www.jenratliff.com
3 parcels on Arbella Street
purchased
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������������������������������������������������Inventory No:
SAL.3135
Historic Name:
Plummer, William H. House
Common Name:
Edward, William H. - Meek, Alice R. House
Address:
28 Arbella St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Bridge Street
Local No:
36-0393
Year Constructed:
c 1870
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Italianate
Use(s):
Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.ER: Arbella Street Area
SAL.IV: Bridge Street Neck Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (07/19/2002)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Asbestos Shingle; Wood
Foundation: Brick
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�NRDIS 7/19/2002
FORM B BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad
36-0393
Area(s)
IV,
ER
Salem
Town/City:
Form Number
SAL.3135
Salem
Place: (neighborhood or village):
Bridge Street Neck
Photograph
Address: 28 Arbella Street
Historic Name: William H. Plummer House
Uses: Present:
single family dwelling house
Original: single family dwelling house
Date of Construction: ca. 1870
Source:
visual inspection
Style/Form:
Italianate
Architect/Builder:
unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim:
asbestos shingle
Roof:
Locus Map
asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
Major Alterations (with dates):
Date unknown – asbestos shingles, front dormer, new
window sash
Condition:
Moved: no
fair (due to siding)
yes
Date:
ca.1900
Acreage:
0.09 acre
Setting:
mixed residential neighborhood
RECEIVED
Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
SEPT 01 2011
Organization: City of Salem
MASS. HIST. COMM.
Date (month / year): March 2011
3/10
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
�INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET
SALEM
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
28 ARBELLA STREET
Area(s)
Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
IV,ER
SAL.3135
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The house at 28 Arbella Street is set on the back lot between 26 and 30-32 Arbella Street. The 1 ½-story, side-gabled dwelling
is set on a brick foundation and is sheathed in asbestos shingles. The gable roof is sheathed in asphalt shingles with
overhanging eaves ending in returns. Centered on the three-bay facade, the main entrance is sheltered by a well-preserved,
flat-roofed denticulated door hood with the two brackets adorned by large beads, rondels and pendants. The door itself is a
modern multi-light replacement but it is capped by two original transom lights. The adjacent window openings have modern 2/2
vinyl sash but retain molded surrounds and entablature lintels set on brackets that are smaller versions of those on the entrance.
The shed dormer spanning the front roof slope is a later addition. Aligned with the east wall of the house is a single-story ell and
a rear deck.
This house is a contributing property in the Bridge Street Neck Historic District, listed on the National Register on July 19, 2002.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the
owners/occupants played within the community.
It appears that this house may have been originally located on the present site of 30-32 Arbella Street. The 1874 map shows a
house with roughly this shape on that site, owned by William H. Plummer. Plummer was a shoemaker who lived at 16 Saunders
Street and apparently rented this house out.
The 1897 map shows the land was still vacant at that time but was owned by William H. Edwards a contractor and building
mover. The house appears to have been moved to its present site about 1906. The 1911 map shows a house believed to be 28
Arbella Street (?) in place, but without the rear ell and aligned directly behind #26. This house along with 22, 24, 26, and 30 , is
shown as being owned by William H. Edwards although deeds suggest he sold the property in 1910 (see below).
From 1907 to about 1910 the house (then 10 ½ Arbella Street) was rented to George S. Norton who worked as a traveling
salesman for an oil company. He lived here with his wife May, two daughters, his mother Emeline and his father George. In
1917 the house number was changed from 10 ½ to 28.
Deeds indicate that in 1910 the entire Arbella Street property was sold by William H. Edwards to Alice R. Meek (Book 2028,
Page 570). Miss Meek apparently purchased them as income-producing properties. She lived on Essex Street and was the
head of the Henry M. Meek Publishing Company, makers of directories. The property was sold by Annie (Meek) Hutchins and
Mabel Adlard to Martin and Mary Callahan in 1948 (Book 3637/205). Census records indicate that in 1920 the house was rented
to Louis Benway, a French Canadian wagon driver for a coal company. He lived here with his wife Hattie, two daughters, two
sons and a son-in-law.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
City of Salem, Building Permits, 1871-1889. [Salem City Hall].
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Salem, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: 1874.
Salem Directories, various dates.
U.S. Census, 1880-1930.
Continuation sheet 1
�Inventory No:
SAL.3134
Historic Name:
Edwards, William G. Double House
Common Name:
Address:
30-32 Arbella St
City/Town:
Salem
Village/Neighborhood:
Bridge Street
Local No:
36-412
Year Constructed:
1911
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):
Colonial Revival
Use(s):
Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:
Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.ER: Arbella Street Area
SAL.IV: Bridge Street Neck Historic District
Designation(s):
Nat'l Register District (07/19/2002)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
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28 Arbella Street, Salem, MA 01970
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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
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�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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�1874
�1911
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House history
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Built by
John Perkins
Housewright
c. 1839
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2019
34
circa
History
House
John
Massachusetts
Perkins
Salem
Street
Summer
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16 Pickman Street
Built as a
Double House by
David Lord
Housewright
1806
Research Provided by
David Moffat
May 2019
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2019
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
16 Pickman Street, Salem, MA
Built by David Lord, Housewright, 1806.
The house was built as a double house.
Undivided (1967-Present):
Date
Conveyed by
1980,
Dec. 15
1978,
Dec. 15
1975,
Aug. 29
Amount Doc
Book
Page
Peter S. Godfrey and Nancy T. Lloyd G. Ternes
Godfrey, Trustees of the
and Kathleen J.
Pickman Realty Trust
Keefe Ternes
$112,600 Deed
6776
56
Louis A. and Jane M. Schmitz
Peter S. Godfrey
and Nancy T.
Godfrey
$65,900 Deed
6549
98
Transfermation Realty, Inc.
Louis A. and Jane
M. Schmitz
$56,300 Deed
6176
604
Transfermation
Realty, Inc.
$48,900 Deed
6068
3
1974, May Anthony G. and Cecilia R.
6
Rosati
Conveyed to
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1970, Jan. Robert Cook, Trustee of
2
Hampton Realty Trust
Anthony G. and
Cecilia R. Rosati
$28,500 Deed
5659
424
1968,
Dec. 5
Robert M. Cook
$18,950 Deed
5578
179
1968, Apr. Ida M. Maron, wife of Nathan
18
Maron
John L. Hyland
$6,318 Deed
5522
712
1968, Jan.
Joseph Donald Tahany
27
Ida M. Maron
Consideration Paid Deed
5507
799
1967, Jan.
Ida M. Maron
26
Joseph Donald
Tahany
Consideration Paid Deed
5426
191
Consideration Paid Deed
5298
686
John L. Hyland
Western Half (1807-1967):
1965,
Sep. 2
Ernest A. Sanborn, half-brother
Ida M. Maron
of Jennie M. Trow
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1945,
Dec. 5
Jennie M. Trow
Harry H. Bennett
1919,
Dec. 16
Sarah S. Kimball
Jennie M. Trow
1910, Jun.
Margaret A. Upton
22
Power of
Attorney
3434
366
Consideration Paid Deed
2432
592
Sarah S. Kimball
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Consideration Paid
2025
189
1903, Jul.
Edward C. Battis
20
Margaret A.
Upton, wife of
Sumner W. Upton
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Considerations Paid
1711
388
1898,
Aug. 8
James Kenney and Mary E.
Kenney
Edward C. Battis
$1,950 Deed
1554
72
1894,
Nov. 4
Margaret J. Shattuck, Charles
E.W. Clough, Mary A. Clough,
Hannah A. Dodge, Martha R.
Mary E. Kenney
Perkins (Executors of Martha E.
Barnes Estate)
$1 and Other
Valuable Deed
Considerations
1462
523
$200 Deed
797
289
1870, May
William Cabeen
26
Martha Barnes
---
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1865,
Sep. 28
Samuel Varney, mariner
William Cabeen
$1200 Deed
690
250
445
80
356
83
287
35
$1,000 Deed
286
112
$1400 Deed
286
111
?
1851, May
Joshua Cleaves
10
Nathaniel Cleaves
1845,
June 3
Nathaniel Cleaves
Joshua Cleaves
1835,
Dec. 5
Nathaniel Cleaves, ship
chandler; Joshua Cleaves,
gentleman; Teresa Cleaves,
widow
David Lord
1835 Oct. Henry Prince, Inspector of
1
Customs
Nathaniel
Cleaves, Joshua
Cleaves, Teresa
Cleaves
1835,
Oct.1
- Discharge
$500 Deed
Mortgage
Henry Prince
Nathaniel Cleaves, ship
chandler; Joshua Cleaves,
gentleman; Teresa Cleaves,
widow
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1821,
June 28
Benjamin Archer, mariner
Nathaniel Cleaves
$1,000 Deed
1807, Jan. David Lord, housewright
1
226
176
$775 Deed
181
5
Book
Page
Consideration Paid Deed
3898
204
Consideration Paid Deed
2851
303
$1 and Other
Deed
Consideration Paid
1479
505
$1800 Deed
1169
191
Benjamin Archer
Eastern Half (1807-1967):
Date
Conveyed by
1947, Nov.
William T. Walke & Sons, Inc.
21
Conveyed to
Ida M. Maron
John J. and Gertrude M.
1930, July
Fleming, Raymond P. and Lucy William T. Walke
9
D. Grant, and Florence E. Walke
1896, May Adelaide L. Osgood, widow
25
Carrie A. Osgood
1886, Mar. David Cabeen; Thomas J.
1
Cabeen
Adelaide L.
Osgood
Amount Doc
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
1865, Sep. Samuel Varney, mariner
28
William Cabeen
1826, June Nathaniel Archer, mariner
14
Samuel Varney
1807, Sep. David Lord, housewright
8
Nathaniel Archer
$1200 Deed
240
277
$1600 Deed
Conveyed to
David Lord
250
$900 Deed
Undivided (1806):
Date
Conveyed by
1806,
Samuel Archer, 3rd, Esq., John Andrew,
Aug. 5
William Balch Parker, merchants
690
181
285
Amount
Doc
Book
$600
Deed 179
Page
57
�Ownership History of 16 Pickman Street, Salem MA 01970
16 Pickman Street- Built by David Lord, Housewright, 1806.
Built as a real estate venture in 1806 by David Lord on the lot he purchased from Samuel Archer, William B. Parker, and
Nathaniel Andrew, who had purchased the pasture of Benjamin Pickman in 1803.
Originally built as a double house- Benj. Archer, Jr., mariner, on the west half from 1807 to 1831
Nathaniel Archer, mariner, on the east half from 1807 to 1826
Benj. Archer moved to Wethersfield in 1821, selling his half to Nathaniel Cleaves. Nathaniel Archer sold his half to Samuel
Varney in 1826. Other owners included Henry Prince, inspector of Customs, George H. Ropes, master mariner, and William
Cabeen. Aug. 7th, 1806, Daniel lead from Samuel Archer 3rd et al. -179:57
Lord to Nath. Archer, 181:285 (Sept. 8th, 1807)
Lord to Benj. Archer, 181:5 (Jan. 1st, 1807)
There are a number of real-estate transactions between David Lord and the Cleaves regarding a lot on Pleasant Street between
1835 and 1845.
1851 Map: Eastern Side: C. Newcomb, Western Side: S.T. Kimball
1855 Directory: Samuel T. Kimball (Henderson & K.), 16 Pickman; Caleb H. Newcomb, h. 2 Milk Street,
1861: Samuel T. Kimball (Henderson & K.,) furniture, 16 Pickman; Penn T. Kimball, clerk, boards 16 Pickman, Elizabeth Flint,
widow, boards 16 Pickman, Caleb Newcomb, 2 Milk
1864: Elizabeth Flint, widow, board 16 Pickman; Caleb Newcomb, 2 Milk
1869 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, weigher at W.P. Phillips, h. 2 Milk, John Cabeen, teamster
18 Pickman
1872 Directory: Frank L. Clapp, 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, weigher at W.P. Phillips, h. 2 Milk
1874 Atlas: Eastern Side: (William Cabeen), Western Side: Mrs. M. Barnes
1876 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman. William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1878 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1879 Directory: Capt. Henry Barnes, 16 Pickman, Henry E. Barnes, boards 16 Pickman; William Cabeen, clerk, 2 Milk
1895-96 Directory: Miss Edith M. Kenney, James Kenney, James A. Kenney, 16 Pickman; Adelaide L. Osgood, widow of Eben,
botanic physician, 12 Milk, Bertram Osgood, carriage painter, b. 2 Milk, Miss Carrie E. Osgood, boards 2 Milk
1897 Atlas: Eastern Side: (A.L. Osgood), Western Side: Mary E. Kenny
1899-1900 Directory: Mrs. A.L. Osgood-Harris, botanical physician, 2 Milk,
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1904 Directory: W. Sumner Upton, pharmacist, 16 Pickman, William A. Stark, machinist, 2 Milk
1911 Atlas: Eastern Side: (Carrie E. Walke) Western Side: Sarah S. Kimball?
1914 Directory: James H. Trow, plumber, h. 16 Pickman, Carolyn Proctor, masseuse, widow of Edwin L., 2 Milk, Dorothy D.
Proctor, student, boards 2 Milk, J. Worthen Proctor, student, 2 Milk,
Poll Listings:
1964: No Listing
1968: No Listing
1970: No Listing
1971: Just Anthony & Cecilia Rosati
1972: Rosatis + Louis T. Rosati, age 29, draftsman
1973: Rosatis, Cecilia is a housewife
1974: Cecilia R. Rosati, secretary, b. 11/14/44, Anthony G. Rosati, draftsman 6/5/41
1975: Marcia L. Spink, Teacher, b. 5/29/1951
1976: Jane M. Schmitz, Stewardess, b. 8/24/1948), Louis A. Schmitz, Computer Tech (b. 03/06/48), both RLY Lynn
1977: Bruce R. Marshall, Dir. Of Trilogy, Lucinda M. Simpkins, Counselor Simpkins RLY 8 Barton Sq.
1978: Bruce R. Marshall, Director of Trilogy (b. 11/13/46), Lucinda M. Simpkins, Counselor (b. 7/19/48)
1980: 16 Pickman Street Unlisted (1979 no book)
1981: Kathleen (b. 1952), veterinarian & Lloyd Ternes (b. 1949), business manager
1982-2006: Ibid.
2007: Judith E. Ternes, b. 3/29/1989, Catherine M. Ternes (b. 1992),
2008-2016: Ibid.
Both Varney to Cabeen to Barnes and Varney to Cabeen to Adelaide L. Osgood?
Missing Deeds: 1858-1870 western half
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107 Bridge Street
Built for Benjamin Chever Jr.
Leather Dresser
by Andrew Merrill, Housewright
1799
Home of Capt. Thomas Dean, Shipmaster, 1825-1846
Home of Capt. Josiah P. Creesy &
Eleanor Prentiss Creesy
of Clipper Ship “Flying Cloud”
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Robert Booth
July 2019
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130 Bridge Street
Built by
Moses Hale
Carpenter
in 1804
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Robert Booth
July 2019
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360 Essex Street
Built for
Capt. Emery S. Johnson
Shipmaster & Merchant
Spring 1853
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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.
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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]
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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
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Capt. Emery S. Johnson
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Spring 1853
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23 Briggs Street
Built for
John Goodhue
Fisherman
and his wife
Anna Preston
c. 1740
Researched & written by
Robert Booth
October 2019
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Anna Preston
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16 Cross Street
Built for
John F. Wells
Railroad Carpenter
and his wife
Maria L. Weeks
in 1876
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September 2019
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Maria L. Weeks
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69 Summer Street
Built for
George W. Fuller
Retailer
and his wife
Harriet Guy Fuller
in 1914
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Robert Booth
September 2019
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19 North Street
Built as a
medical office for
Dr. John G. Treadwell
in 1852
Remodeled for
J. F. Appleton
in 1893
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Robert Booth
October 2019
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24 Buffum Street
Built for
Ernest F. Symonds
Book-keeper
Descendant of James Symonds
Renowned 17th-century furniture maker
Built in 1897 on land granted to John Symonds,
a master joiner from Norfolk, England
Researched & written by
David Moffat
November 2018
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�I.
The Property, 1665-1736
Throughout Salem’s early history, North Salem was primarily an agricultural area known
as the North Fields (or Northfields) which was largely undeveloped. Development arrived here in
the mid- to late 1800s as the population of Salem grew, but the area did not reach the density it
has today until the 1930s, later than many other parts of the city.
In A Storm of Witchcraft, historian Emerson W. Baker explains how the common division
of land in medieval England, with small villages surrounded by fields for farming divided into
private ownership, was brought in Salem:
Farming was a cooperative activity; the villagers agreed what to plant and when to harvest.
This tradition continued in Salem, where most early settlers lived on the neck on a one- or
two-acre house lot. North Fields lay, logically enough, across the North River, to the north
of the Neck, and South Fields sat to the south of the South River. Residents of the Neck
made a daily trek to farm the ten-acre strips or lots they owned in one of the fields.”1
In the early twentieth century, the antiquarian Sidney Perley studied the deeds of early
Salem in order to construct a map of Salem as it would have appeared in 1700, which was
assembled and edited by the historian James Duncan Phillips in 1937. This map and Perley’s study
of the area provide a sense of how it may have appeared at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Perley states that “when the North field was laid out is unknown, but it must have been
before the town records were begun. Apparently most of the original lots consisted of ten acres
each.”2
A road, roughly following the path of School Street today, went from the horse pasture in
northeast Salem to Trask’s mill in what is today Peabody. The “highway leading into ye North
Field” was roughly equivalent to North Street. Surrounding both sides of this highway was the
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014.
2 Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. I: 1626-1637. Salem, Sidney Perley, 1924. Print, p. 315.
1
�land of a joiner named James Symonds. It was on Symonds’ land that Symonds’ descendant built
24 Buffum Street two centuries later.
Symonds land was bordered to the west by a strip of farmland owned by Caleb Buffum, a
carpenter. Farther west was the vast tract of Jonathan Corwin, a merchant and magistrate, and
beyond that, the land of Robert Buffum, where Mack Park is today. To the east, Symonds’ tract
was bordered by John Bliven, a husbandman. When John Bliven died in 1704, his inventory listed
a ten-acre lot “joyning to James Symonds Land” worth £55, and an additional ten-acre lot adjoining
the horse pasture worth £35. His inventory also lists 3 cows, a calf, 8 sheep, and a “breeding sow,”
giving a sense of the livestock which may have been grazing in the area. 3 Like the Buffums, Bliven
was a Quaker.
Farther east, smaller tracts of farmland belonged to brothers Joseph and Jeremiah Neale
and their sister, Lydia Hart, widow of the mariner Jonathan Hart. 4 Another lot farther away
belonged to Joshua Buffum, a carpenter. According to Perley’s research, James Symonds had the
only house in the North Fields, built in 1665 roughly where the Shell Gas Station is on North Street
today, at number 111.
The Symonds family were master joiners who “dominate[d] the furniture-making trade in
Salem.”5 Art historian Benno Forman first attributed several prominent examples of seventeenthcentury furniture to the Symonds in the 1960s, using evidence from the family’s probates. 6 John
Symonds, James’ father, was a joiner who emigrated from Norfolk, England to Salem in the 1630s,
3
Essex County Probates, Probate #2646, 1705. p .5.
Perley, Sidney. “Part of Salem in 1700: #34” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 13. 1909. p. 37.
5
Willoughby, Martha H. “Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shop and Their Customers.” American
Furniture, 2000. pp. 169-84. Chipstone.org.
6
Forman, Benno M. 1968 "The Seventeenth-Century Case Furniture of Essex County". M.A. University of
Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
4
�and trained his sons and other apprentices in the trade.7 John died in 1671, but his sons, James and
Samuel, continued the trade into the early eighteenth century.
The pieces attributed to the Symonds workshop are among the finest and most desired
furniture pieces which survive from the seventeenth century. Their signature item is a type of
intricately carved valuables chests, usually measuring around 17 inches tall and 17 inches wide
and 9 inches deep. These pieces tend to be constructed of red or white oak and white pine, with
decorative moldings in red cedar, black walnut, and maple.
Many prominent museums with collections of Early American decorative arts have pieces
attributed to the Symonds workshop. The Wintherthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware has a
valuables chest monogramed for T.B. & S.B. from 1676.8 The Massachusetts Historical Society
in Boston has a chest of drawers from the late seventeenth-century.9 The Metropolitan Museum in
New York City has two valuables chests, one made in 1679, likely for Ephraim and Mary Herrick,
and another made in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. 1011 The Peabody-Essex Museum
in Salem has a valuables cabinet belonging to Joseph and Bathsheba Pope from 1679, painted a
reddish black color. 1213 The museum purchased the chest at auction at Christie’s in 2000 for
$2,422,500.14 The Pope cabinet is directly attributed to James Symonds. The Peabody-Essex
7
“Salem Witch Bureau” Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Online,
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=2309&pid=15
8
“Chest of Drawers (Spice Box or Chest)” Winterthur Museum Collections,
http://museumcollection.winterthur.org/print-record.php?srchfld=irn&name=7688&port=40138
9
Massachusetts Historical Society.
10
“Cabinet” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/1076
11
“Chest of Drawers” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/2005
12
“Valuables Cabinet, 1679” Peabody-Essex Museum Collection Online http://explore-art.pem.org/object/americandecorative-arts/138011/detail
13
“Valuables Cabinet, 1679” Peabody-Essex Museum educator’s guide.
http://teh.salemstate.edu/educatorsguide/pages/pre-contact-pdfs/Pope%20Chest.pdf
14
“The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet,” 21 January 2000. Christie’s,
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/the-joseph-and-bathsheba-pope-carved-and-1729638-details.aspx
�Museum also owns and displays the Putnam Family Cupboard from 1680, also attributed to
James.15 A chest which descended in the Trask family, from around 1690, also attributed to James,
sold at Southeby’s in 2011 for $37,500. 16
When Symonds died in 1714, his executors determined that his real estate “will be spoiled
to devide it there being nine Children to have shears in it.”17 Subsequently, Thomas, Joseph, and
Benjamin Symonds relinquished their shares of the real estate to their brother John. 18
The dwelling house was valued at £40, the barn and the shop were valued at £11. The
“westerly lott with ye highway,” where 24 Buffum stands today, was valued at £45. The easterly
lot and some adjoining marsh were valued at £52. Symonds owned another 30 acres of land, split
evenly between lots described a pond, an orchard, and a hill. These were valued respectively at
£43, £43, and £50. Along with some other small lots, Symonds’ total real estate added up to £323,
a sizeable sum. 19 His moveable goods offer a picture of his work: a level, wedges, two small old
saws, an old auger, a glue pot, and a mortise chisel. His other possessions of value were silver, a
“small peice of Gold,” two old skillets, and a silver spoon. In total, the rest of his estate came to
£29..1.20 A second, more detailed inventory placed the value of “his dwelling house part of a barn
an old shop and ten akres land” at £137.
The second inventory gives a clue as to the appearance of Symonds’ early house. The first
floor consisted of the “Great Lower Room,” with a feather bed. The second floor featured the “Best
15
“Putnam Family Cupboard, 1680”, Peabody-Essex Museum Collection Online http://exploreart.pem.org/object/american-decorative-arts/108889/detail
16
“The Important Trask Family Pilgrim Century Oak, Maple and Walnut Chest with Drawer, attributed to the
Symonds Shop, Salem, Massachusetts, probably James Symonds, circa 1690” Sotheby’s.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/important-americana-including-american-stonewareassembled-by-mr-and-mrs-edwin-hochberg-n08710/lot.225.html
17
Essex County Probates, Probate #27083, 1714. p .4.
18
Ibid. p. 6.
19
Ibid. p. 5.
20
Ibid. p. 7.
�Chamber,” with a mix of feather and straw beds, a great deal of furniture (4 chests of drawers, 2
cupboards, 13 chairs, 3 tables, a joined stool, a box, and a trunk), 2 hourglasses, and some books.
For animals, Symonds owned 30 “old sheep,” 15 lambs, an “old hors,” 3 pigs, and 5 1/3 cows.
This second inventory left the valuation of real estate at £323..10, but raised the value of his other
property to £94..14. 21
II.
The Property, 1736-1836
John Symonds died in 1729, “the principal part” of the estate laying “in lands in the North
feild in Salem”22 His real estate came to £315..13..4. 23 In apportioning John’s widow, Sarah Foster
Symonds, her customary third of the estate, some clues are given to the appearance of the Symonds
house in 1729. Sarah is to have “the easterly lower room in the Dwelling house, the Leantoo
Chamber, [and] the westerly third part of the Sellar.” Clearly either the house that James Symonds
built in 1665 had been improved upon or a new house had been built in the interim. A new barn is
mentioned, which Samuel Symonds built. 24
In 1736, James Symonds, aged 19, and Anna Symonds, aged 15, both the children of John,
chose Joseph Pickering to be their legal guardian, as they were minors. 25 Sarah Foster Symonds
died in 1743.26
Phillips’ speculative map of Salem in 1780 shows only Robert Foster’s blacksmith shop
and an empty space in the area called “Buffum’s Hill.” 27 James Symonds was a mariner who
21
Ibid pp. 10-12.
Essex County Probates, Probate #27092, 1729. p. 8.
23 Ibid., p. 19.
24 Ibid., p. 23.
25
Essex County Probates, Probate #27084, 1736. p. .2.
26 Perley (1924), p. 393.
27
Phillips (1937), supplemental map, “Map of Salem, About 1780.”
22
�attended Rev. Barnard’s meetinghouse, where he owned 1/3 of a pew. James Symonds died in
1790. He may be the James Symonds, a ship’s cooper, who died on a ship returning from Aux
Cayes, Haiti, under Capt. Jonathan Tucker. 28 His estate was left to his widow, Mary, John Symonds
III, a shoreman, and John Symonds V, a yeoman. 29 James Symonds’ house, barn, well, along with
a half an acre “situated in the North Fields” were valued at £80. An adjoining 3 ½ acres was valued
at £29:15, a half acre opposite at £6, and two acres of pasture on the main road in the recentlyindependent town of Danvers, £9. His land totaled 6 ½ acres worth £124. His personal estate
included 6 silver tea spoons, a silver spoon, nine earthenware plates, two teapots with cups and
saucers, a cross-cut saw, two flat irons, a hand saw, an ax, two small arms, and a number of small
articles and clothing, totaling £30:2. 30
John Symonds’ nephew, Nathaniel Symonds, became a potter and married Jane Phipps.
Nathaniel’s oldest son, William was born around 1749. William Symonds, a cordwainer and potter,
married Eunice Gardner in 1772. His oldest son, William Phipps Symonds I, was born in 1773. 31
III.
The Property, 1836-1897
Benjamin Ropes Symonds I was born in 1801 to William Phipps Symonds I, a merchant,
and Margaret Ropes, who were married in 1798. Benjamin’s older brother, William Phipps
Symonds II, was born in 1799 and became a cordwainer and a shoemaker. William married Nancy
Phelps in 1825, they had five children, only two of whom survived to adulthood. William died in
28
Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1916. Deaths, p.
262.
29
Essex County Probates, Probate #27085, 1790. pp. 4-5.
30
31
Ibid.
Perley (1924), p.395.
�1850 and Nancy died in 1887. 32 His younger brother, Ephraim G., became a cordwainer, and
married Priscilla Ellen Quiner of Beverly in 1834. He died in 1885 and she lived until 1906. 33
Benjamin R. Symonds I married Elisabeth R. Shatswell April 11, 1829 and they had six
children together. Benjamin Ropes Symonds II, the oldest, was born in Nov. 22, 1829, followed
by Thomas Shatswell, Joseph, George C., who died in infancy, and Elisa S. 34 In 1842, the couple
were living at 101 North Street and Benjamin R. Symonds I was working as a cordwainer. 35
Buffum Street was developed in 1836, when the estate of Jonathan Buffum, who owned
the left side of Buffum Street from what is today number 13 to number 41. 36 Buffum, a tailor and
yeoman, built the Federal mansion at 25-27 Buffum Street around 1818.37 Buffum died aged 81 in
1835.38 His children inherited various houselots, which they sold off. The left side of Buffum Street
developed quickly. Buffum’s daughter, Anna Frye, sold a lot to Mark Sanborn, a tanner, teamster,
and hair dealer, around 1836.39 In 1844, Jonathan’s son Edward Buffum built a house at 21 Buffum
Street.40 17 Buffum Street, the house directly across from number 24, was built in 1849 by Joseph
Towne, a bookkeeper on land that had passed rapidly from Israel Buffum to Mark Sanborn to
Nathaniel Horton. 41
An 1851 map of Salem by Henry McIntyre, shows only two houses on the right side of
Buffum Street between Randall and Mason, that of N. Horton at 22 Buffum and C. Buffum at 16
Perley (1924), p. 398.
Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 1842 Salem Directory, p. 101.
36 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1424, “16 Buffum St.- The Caleb Buffum-Nathaniel Very House.”
37 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1397, “25-27 Buffum St.- The Jonathan Buffum House.”
38 Vital Records, Deaths, p. 123.
39 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1391, “15 Buffum St.- The Mark Sanborn House.”
40 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1394, “21 Buffum St.- The Edward Buffum House.”
41 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1392, “17 Buffum St.- The Joseph Towne House.”
32
33
�Buffum.42 Nathaniel Horton, a currier, built 22 Buffum in a late-period Greek Revival style in
1850.43 Caleb Buffum, a shoe-maker, built 16 Buffum street as a Federal-style house with
Italianate trim around 1845. 44
In 1855, Benjamin R. Symonds I worked as a grocer at 109 North Street and lived at 107
North Street, where Benjamin R. Symonds, Jr., boarded.45 In 1869, Symonds I was working as a
grocer at 79 Federal Street and living at 14 Barr Street. 46 Benjamin R. Symonds II was boarding
at 1 Holly Street, along with Mrs. Lucy W. Holt and dressmaker Lucy Jane Holly in the home of
Mrs. Nathan Poole. 47
In September of that year, Benjamin R. Symonds II purchased a plot of land on the corner
of Buffum and Randall Streets from Nathaniel Horton for $2,200. The parcel measured 150 feet
by 99 feet square. 48
The Atlas of the City of Salem in 1874 shows the property at the southeast corner of Buffum
and Randall streets as belonging to B.R. Symonds, with a house and another structure at the back
of the property. Nathaniel Horton still owns the lot to the south. 49
Benjamin R. Symonds II was also a grocer. There were roughly nine grocers in Salem in
1855, and 73 in 1886.50 Benjamin had retired by that later year, but three Symonds, cousins Joseph
and Thomas, and Benjamin’s brother, Thomas Shatswell, who all ran their own grocery stores on
42
McIntyre, Henry. “Map of the City of Salem, Mass. From an actual survey By H. Mc. Intyre. Cl. Engr.” Map,
1851. Henry McIntyre, Salem, MA. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/15108
43MHC MACRIS, SAL.1422, “22 Buffum St.- The Nathaniel Horton House.”
44 MHC MACRIS, SAL.1424, “16 Buffum St.- The Caleb Buffum-Nathaniel Very House.”
45 1855 Salem Directory, p. 145.
46 1869 Salem Directory, pp. 88, 135, 144, 161, 187.
47 Ibid.
48 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 782:13. 16 Sep 1869.
49 Busch, Edward. Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. From actual Survey & Official records. G.M. Hopkins
& Co. Philadelphia, 1874.
50 Salem Directory, 1886, p. 395.
�North Street. With the exception of two grocers on Mason Street and Edmund F. Night at 86 North
Street, all of North Salem was served primarily by the Symonds. 51
He married Sarah Cox Fillebrown on July 13, 1856. They had four children, Benjamin R.
Symonds III, born 1857, became a physician and married Ida E. Shapleigh in December of 1885.
He died in October of 1912 and she was still living in 1924. They had four children, Walter
Shapleigh, Bertrand Ropes, Helene, and Benjamin Shapleigh. 52 James F. was born in 1860 but
lived only until 1867. Apphia Chesler was born 1868 and married married Arthur L. Pattee of
Peabody in October of 1898. 53 The youngest child, Ernest F. Symonds, was born Oct. 3, 1872.
In the late nineteenth century, the foot of Buffum Street by the North River was an
industrial area, with three curriers and a tanner occupying the area south of Mason Street in 1886. 54
Benjamin’s cousin, Jonathan Shove Symonds, a city assessor, lived at the other end of the street
at 67 Buffum Street with his son, George Gardiner Symonds, a paperhanger. 55
Benjamin R. Symonds II died April 22, 1890. The 1895-1896 Directory of Salem shows
that 26 Buffum Street belonged to Mrs. S.C. Symonds.56 Ernest F. Symonds, then 23, was a clerk
at Salem National Bank, and lived at home. Sarah Cox Symonds died May 22, 1903, and the 1914
Directory lists 26 Buffum Street as vacant. 57 In 1915, John T. Street, a clerk, was living in the
house.58
IV.
Ernest F. Symonds, 1897-1914
Ibid.,
Perley (1924) p. 401.
53 Perley (1924) p. 400.
54 Salem Directory, 1886, p. 32.
55 Ibid., pp. 351-352.
56 Salem Directory, 1895-6, p. 109.
57 Salem Directory, 1914, p. 417.
58 Salem Directory, 1915, p. 391.
51
52
�Ernest F. Symonds, the youngest child Benjamin R. Symonds II purchased the land on
which he built his house from the estate of his late father for one dollar and other valuable
consideration paid on June 5, 1897. His mother, Sarah C. Symonds, and siblings Benjamin R.
Symonds III and Apphia C. Symonds, and Ida E. Symonds, Benjamin’s wife.59
The house at 24 Buffum Street first appears in the 1897 Atlas of Salem, as part of the estate
of B.R. Symonds.60 It is an eclectic and handsome Colonial Revival house, with a porch supported
by six Tuscan columns and a Federal-style urn finial on the post at the top of the entrance stairs.
Above the porch is a dentilled cornice. A half-turret runs up the left side of the façade to the second
story. A bay window sits above the roof of the porch on the right side of the second story. The
fenestration on the North side of the house is very interesting, with an oriel window looking onto
26 Buffum Street and a square diamond-paned window set into the exposed chimney. The eave
has a modillioned cornice and the hipped roof featured two dormers.
Ernest F. Symonds was a bank clerk. The 1897-98 Directory lists him as the bookkeeper
at the Salem National Bank, which was at 114 Washington Street. 61 A 1900 ad in the Salem
Directory lists Symonds fourth among the personnel at the bank, after the president, the cashier,
and the assistant cashier. 62
Ernest F. Symonds married Jessie M. Hatch on June 16, 1897 and they had three children,
Sarah Cox, born June 2, 1901, Helen, born July 8, 1905, and an unnamed son, who was stillborn
on Nov. 4, 1907.63 By 1906, Symonds was working as a bookkeeper in Revere. 64
59
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1515:443. 14 Jun 1897.
1897 Atlas of Salem.
61 Salem Directory, 1897-98, p. 333.
62 Salem Directory, 1900, p. 1263.
63 Ibid. p. 401.
64 Salem Directory, 1906, p 293.
60
�In 1901, Ernest took out a $3,500 mortgage against the property from Aroline C. Gove, a
noted philanthropist and daughter of famous nineteenth-century marketer of medical conconctions
Lydia Pinkham.65 The document for the mortgage describes the property:
“Beginning at the southern corner thereof and running northeasterly by land now or
formerly of Horton one hundred and eight (108) feet more or less to land of the estate of
Benjamin R. Symonds; then turning and running northwesterly by said land of the estate
of Benj. R. Symonds thirty seven (37) feet; thence turning and running southwesterly by
land of the estate of Benj. R. Symonds one hundred and eight (108) feet more or less to
Buffum Street, there turning and running south easterly by said Buffum Street thirty seven
(37) feet to the point begun at.”66
A 1911 Atlas shows 24 Buffum as belonging to E.F. Symonds, 67 and the 1914 Salem
Directory shows Ernest F. Symonds as the owner. 68 In January of 1913, Ernest transferred the
property to his wife, Jessie. 69
Bessie C.I. Hussey, 1914-1928
Jessie Hatch Symonds, wife of Ernest F., sold the property to Love B. Ingalls, in September
of 1914.70 Ten days later, Aroline Gove transferred the mortgage to Ingalls’ daughter, Bessie C.I.
Hussey.71 On December 1 st, Bessie C.I. Hussey made “an open, peaceable, and unopposed entry
on the premises described in said mortgage, for the purpose, by her declared, of foreclosing on
Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern
Massachusetts, Vol. III. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908. p. 1386.
66 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 1648:462. 7 Aug 1901.
67 1911 Atlas.
68 1914 Salem Directory, p. 317.
69 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2193:176. 20 Jan 1913.
70 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 2274:220. 10 Sep 1914.
71 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2271:100. 14 Sep 1914.
65
�said mortgage for breach of condition thereof.” 72 The 1915 shows 24 Buffum Street as vacant and
states that Ernest F. Symonds had removed to Boston. 73 Love B. Ingalls, also referred to as Sarah
L. Ingalls, was the widow of Seth H. Ingalls, and had previously lived at 129 North Street. 74
VI.
Lucy B. Jones, 1928-1935.
In July of 1928, Bessie and Fred Hussey conveyed the property to Lucy B. Jones, wife of
Ralph E. Jones, for consideration paid. The couple received a mortgage of $7,990 from Salem
Savings Bank at the time they purchased the house. 75 Ralph and Lucy Jones received a further
mortgage of $1500 from David V. Nason in September of that year. 76 Ralph moved between a
number of jobs during his residency, beginning as an accountant in 1929, 77 then as a advertising
manager 1930-1932.78 In 1933, 1934, and 1935 he was a salesman in Boston. 79 In 1935, Salem
Savings Bank took possession of the house. 80 Roland Stanley, treasurer of the Salem Savings Bank,
attested that “default has been made in payment of interest and taxes.” An auction was held to sell
the house, subject to “all unpaid taxes, assessments or other multiple liens.” 81 The following year,
Ralph returned to being an accountant and the couple moved to 77 Linden Street. 82
VII.
72
Frank T. McDonald and Rachel G. Barry, 1935-1941
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2280:477. 1 Dec 1914.
Salem Directory, 1915, p. 395.
74 Salem Directory, 1916, p. 300.
75 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2772:448. 16 Jul 1928.
76 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2781:473. 25 Sep 1928.
77 Salem Directory, 1929, p. 181.
78 Salem Directory, 1930, p. 336.
79 Salem Directory, 1933-34, p. 213.
80 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 3043:005. 23 Jul 1935.
81 Ibid.
82 Salem Directory, 1936, p. 212.
73
�In 1936, 24 Buffum Street stood vacant. 83 The following year, a leather worker, Frank T.
McDonald, and his wife, Florence E. moved in and remained until 1940. In that year, Mrs. Rachel
G. Barry, a nurse at the Lamp Division of Hygrade Sylvania, moved in and lived there until 1942.84
VIII. The Constantines, 1942-2004
Lawrence H. Constantine purchased the foreclosed property from the Salem Savings Bank
in August of 1942, and secured a mortgage of $5,200 from Harris S. Knight. 85 Lawrence H.
Constantine, a car salesman, married Katherine L. Donovan between 1926 and 192986. Katherine
had been born January 28, 1900. In 1926, Constantine was at Broad Street market and lived at 46
Broad Street.87 By 1929, he had gotten a job as a salesman at McKenzie Moto Company at 65a
Bridge Street, where he worked until 1936. 8889 In that year, he became the president of Naumkeag
Chevrolet, which as at 17 Canal Street. 90 By 1952, he had become the President and General
Manager of Naumkeag Chevrolet, a role he continued in until his death in September of 1960. 9192
Harris Knight, from whom Constantine received a mortgage was the treasurer of Naumkeag
Chevrolet and chairman of the board of directors of the Merchants National Bank of Salem. 93
The Constantines had three daughters, Muriel, born in 1922, Rosamund, born in 1924, and
Anne, born in 1933.
1936 Salem Directory, p. 412.
Salem Directory, 1940, p. 31.
85 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 3308:145, 15 Aug 1942.
86 Salem Directory, 1926, p. 260; Salem Directory, 1929, p. 216.
87 Salem Directory, 1926, p. 260.
88 Salem Directory, 1929, p. 216.
89 Salem Directory, 1930, p. 56.
90 Salem Directory, 1937, p. 89.
91 Salem Directory, 1959, p. 162.
92 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 16697:170, 20 Mar 2001.
93 Salem Directory, 1959, p. 305.
83
84
�Muriel received a teaching degree from Salem State College in 1944 and began teaching
at the John Brown Elementary School in Manchester, Massachusetts. In 1946, Muriel married
Capt. Raymond H. Bates, who was in the United States Navy. 94 Raymond’s father, George J. Bates,
served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1918 to 1924, and then served 13 years
as the mayor of Salem, from 1924 until 1937. From 1937 until his untimely death in an airplane
crash in 1949, Bates was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. 95 Bates’ son, William
H. Bates, took Bates’ office and occupied it until his untimely death in 1966. 96 Raymond,
subsequently, was the son and the brother of a Representative in Congress for almost thirty years.
Raymond and Muriel Bates purchased a house on Trinity Road in Marblehead for $36,000
on June 3, 1968.97 She lived there until she passed away in 2013.
Rosamund Constantine also received a teaching degree from Salem State College and
taught elementary school. She married Henry J. Rodden, who was a salesman for Armour & Co.,
a meat wholesaler at 260 Bridge Street.98 She lived much of her life in Beverly but moved to
Colorado, where she passed away in Castle Rock in 2009.99
Like her two sisters, Anne L. Constantine also became a school teacher. She married
Harold Sabean, a salesman. She passed away in 1966 at age 33.100
Katherine deeded the land to her daughters, Rosamund Rodden and Muriel Bates, as joint
tenants in 2001. Katherine L. Constantine passed away in April of 2004, at the age of 104.101
Obituary, “Muriel Constantine Bates, Nov. 11, 1922- April 19, 2013,” Murphy Funeral Home, Salem.
“BATES, George Joseph (1891-1949).” Biographical Directory of United States Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000232
96 “BATES, William Henry (1917-1966).” Biographical Directory of United States Congress.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000239
97 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 5532:755. 3 Jun 1968.
98 Salem Directory, 1949, p. 244.
99 Obituary, “Rosamund A. Rodden, September 16, 1924-October 2, 2009”, The Salem News.
100 “Anne Constantine Sabean” Findagrave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47024221
101 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 28914:11. 8 Sep 2009.
94
95
�IX.
2004 to the Present
Aaron A. Sasseville, a construction worker, and Tara, his wife, purchased the home from
Rosamund Rodden and Muriel Bates in 2005.102 After 2009, the property was owned for short
periods of time by various well-to-do professionals as the houses’ property value rose. Katherine
Curley, a journalist, and Matthew Kazman, a software specialist, purchased the property in 2009
and sold it three years later to Paul Helms, an editor, and Jane Helms, a publisher. 103 Paul and Jane
Helms moved to Roslindale and sold the property in 2014 to Sarah N.K. Teasdale, a physician,
and Pedro Poitevin, a mathematics professor at Salem State University. 104 Teasdale and Poitevin
moved to Marblehead and sold the property to Danielle K. Capalbo in December of 2017. 105
X.
Summary
24 Buffum Street is a fine Colonial Revival house built in 1897 by Ernest F. Symonds, a
middle-class bank clerk and book-keeper, on land that had belonged to his family over two
centuries before. After Symonds’ mortgage was foreclosed, the mortgage holder’s mother, a
widow, purchased the house and lived there for 13 years. In 1928, an aspirational accountant and
his wife moved in, but as he shuffled between jobs they were unable to keep up with their mortgage
payments and taxes, so the house was repossessed in 1935. The bank rented the property to a series
of two working-class tenants, a leather worker and then a nurse at the Sylvania plant in the years
leading up to World War II. Lawrence Constantine, the president of Salem’s Chevrolet dealership
for over twenty years, purchased the house and raised three daughters who became teachers.
102
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 23393:406. 24 Feb 2005.
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 28914:11. 8 Sep 2009.
104 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 33461:345. 1 Aug 2014.
105 Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 36424:435. 17 Dec 2017.
103
�Constantine’s widow, Katherine, lived in the house until 2004, when she died at age 104. She lived
at 24 Buffum Street for over 60 years and experienced the whole twentieth century in Salem. After
the Constantines, a construction worker owned the property for a short period, followed by short
residences by upper-middle-class and upper-class professionals.
TABLE 1- Ownership History of 24 Buffum Street
Date
17 Dec
2017
1 Aug
2014
14 Dec
2012
8 Sep
2009
24 Feb
2005
26 Mar
2001
15 Aug
1942
15 Aug
1942
23 Jul
1935
25 Sep
1928
16 Jul
1928
14 Sep
1914
10 Sep
1914
20 Jan
1913
Conveyed to
Danielle K.
Capalbo
Sarah N.K.
Teasdale and
Pedro Poitevin
Paul C. Helms and
Jane Helms
Matthew Kazman
and Katherine M.
Curley
Aaron K.
Sasseville and
Tara C. Sasseville
Rosamund A.
Rodden and
Muriel C. Bates
Harris S. Knight
(Mtg.)
Lawrence H.
Constantine
The Salem Savings
Bank
David V. Nason
(Mtg)
Lucy B. Jones,
wife of Ralph E.
Jones
Bessie C.I. Hussey
(Mtg)
Love B. Ingalls
Jessie Hatch
Symonds
Conveyed by
Sarah N.K. Teasdale
and Pedro Poitevin
Paul C. Helms and
Jane Helms
Amount
$593,000
Book Page
36424 435
$512,000
33461 345
Matthew Kazman and
Katherine M. Curley
Aaron K. Sasseville
and Tara C.
Sasseville
Rosamund A.
Rodden and Muriel
C. Bates
Katherine L.
Constantine
$462,500
32019 61
$430,000
28914 11
$365,000
23993 406
-
16997 170
Lawrence H.
Constantine
The Salem Savings
Bank
Ralph E. Jones and
Lucy B. Jones
Ralph E. Jones and
Lucy B. Jones
Fred Hussey and
Bessie C.I. Hussey
$5,200
3308
145
-
3308
144
-
3043
5
$1500
2772
448
Consideration
Paid
2772
448
Aroline C. Gove
-
2271
100
Jessie Hatch
Symonds
Ernest F. Symonds
Consideration 2274
Paid
Other
2193
considerations
220
176
�7 Aug
1901
5 Jun
1897
Aroline C. Gove,
wife of William H.
Gove (Mtg.)
Ernest F. Symonds
Ernest F. Symonds
$3,500
1648
462
Estate of Benjamin R. $1 and other
1515
Symonds
considerations
443
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OF
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MASSACHUSE
VOLUME I
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SALEM, MASS.
THE ESSEX INSTITUTE
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own towns,
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established by the General Court ; as also to lay mulcts
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surveyors for the highways, and the like
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much business is like to ensue to the constables of several
towns, by reason they are to make distresses, and gather
fines, therefore that every town shall have two constables,
where there is need, that so their office may not be a
burthen unto them, and they may attend more carefully
upon the discharge of their office, for which they shalbe
liable to give their accompts to this Court when they
shalbe called thereunto."
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from the original. The spelling, punctuation, &c, will
be strictly preserved, and passages erased or interlined in
the original will be retained, and indicated by being enclosed, the former between brackets and stars, and the
latter between double parallels.
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short-hand minutes occur in it, show that it was intended to be more
fairly and correctly copied out into another book, but if such a book
was used, it is now lost. Ralph Fogg at this same time kept the records of the Quarter Court for Salem, then just established; and there
he first used a waste-book and then copied out the record in a corrected
form, into another book. (See Essex Inst. Hist. Collections, vol. vii,
The short-hand minutes have, with some difficulty,
p. 238, Note.)
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importance, will be given as they occur. There may be seen in a letter from Edward Howes to John Winthrop, jr., Nov. 23, 1632 (Mass.
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Tho: Watson
Humphrey woodbury
20
10 acres
40 acres
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Title
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Buffum 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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24 Buffum Street, Salem, MA 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for
Ernest F. Symonds
Book-keeper
Descendant of James Symonds
Renowned 17th-century furniture maker
Built in 1897 on land granted to John Symonds,
a master joiner from Norfolk, England
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
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1897, 2018
Contributor
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David Moffat
Language
A language of the resource
English
1897
2018
24
Buffum
ernest
History
House
James
John
Massachusetts
Salem
Street
Symonds