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                    <text>17 Woodside Street
Built for or by John N. Crowe
Ladder and chair salesman
C. 1911

Researched and written by Emily Gonzalez
September 2023

Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
(978) 745-0799 | HistoricSalem.org
©2023

�Author’s photograph, September 2023

MACRIS, SAL_508, ca. 1986-1989

�17 Woodside Street
17 Woodside Street is situated about a block or so from North Street, at the corner of
Woodside and King Streets in North Salem. Once called North Fields, this part of Salem was
farmland and grazing fields until about the mid-19th century, when the area experienced heavy
residential growth. Woodside Street, along with Nursery Street, was laid out around the early
1870s through what was the former nursery of Ephraim Woods. Woods was a horticulturalist
who operated a nursery on North Street and lived at 166 North Street.1 He grew ornamental,
shade and fruit trees, including the Nodhead apple and the Lady Washington pear.2
Woodside Street first appears on an 1871 plot plan and subsequently on the 1874 Salem
atlas. The 1874 atlas shows that what is now 17 Woodside was an empty plot of land belonging
to “Mrs E. Woods” (Ephraim’s widow, Mary A. Woods). The 1897 atlas shows that it belonged to
“Kate T. Woods” (Kate Tannatt Woods, the daughter-in-law of Ephraim and Mary, and a well
known author and clubwoman), likewise an empty plot.3
In 1902, Kate Woods sold the land to local salesman John N. Crowe, who is shown in
the 1897 atlas as owning a structure across the street, at the corner of King and Woodside. This
structure, which looks to be Crowe’s storehouse, was the “original” location of 17 Woodside.
Crowe was a salesman of ladders, steps, and chairs. His storehouse is listed in city directories
as being at this address from 1895 until 1913, although he is listed as residing at 17 Woodside
in the 1900 federal census. In city directories from 1900-1913 he is listed as residing at 19
Woodside, adjacent to his storehouse.
A house visually appears for the first time at the current location of 17 Woodside in the
1906-1938 atlas. There is a house and a small structure in the back. The earliest written record
of a residence at the current location also appears in the 1906 city directory. Oliver Peterson is
listed as living there from 1906 to 1908; he was likely a tenant. Another possible tenant, George
Kimball, lived there in 1909.
Woodside Street was extended down through King Street to Fairmount by at least 1911.
The 1911 atlas shows what appears to be a new or updated residence at what is the current
number 17, slightly altered in shape and this time with no additional structure in the back. This
would appear to be the present house at 17 Woodside. Crowe’s storehouse remains in the
original location (at the corner across the street) and technically should no longer be numbered
17, but is listed as 17 Woodside in an advertisement in the 1911-1913 directories. This remains
puzzling.
Based on the 1911 atlas, the MACRIS report, and architectural trends of the time, it is
likely that the house that currently stands at number 17 was built around 1911, if it was indeed a
new structure. Because there is a gap in the atlas from 1906-1938, it is difficult to know for sure
1

HSI Report on 164 North Street and MACRIS, SAL.1760
Stella, Jeanne. Historic Streets of Salem, Massachusetts. Charleston, SC, The History Press, 2020.
3
https://www.historicsalem.org/blog/kate-tannant-woods-1835-1910
2

�the exact date that this house appeared at this location. The Colonial Revival house with
gambrel roof was popular at this time, however.
This timeline would also place the house as being built during the time that E.D. Strickler
[Stirckler] is recorded as living there in the city directories. However, Strickler does not appear
in any deeds, and there is no record of his having built or purchased the house. Although the
MACRIS inventory for 17 Woodside calls this the E.D. Strickler House, there is no conclusive
evidence pointing to him as the original owner. While there is also no direct evidence of Crowe
having built the current structure either, it is more likely that he was the original owner, since he
owned this entire plot of land after 1902. If so, it seems probable he rented it out, since he was
still living at 19 Woodside in 1911, and had left for Philadelphia by 1914 (his business appears
to have remained in Salem that year and had relocated to 11 Woodside).4
The first recorded deed that references both land and buildings is from 1920, when Crowe sold
it to the Skeffington family.
By description of current public records, 17 Woodside is a single-family residence on
0.07 acres. It has a total of 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms, and 2 full baths. It is a gambrel-front Colonial
Revival house, two stories high and two bays wide. This style, also sometimes called “Old
Style,” was popular at the turn of the century in this neighborhood.The house has a one-story
porch with column supports across the facade.
Owners and Residents (Until 1999)
The Crowe Family (Lived on Woodside 1895-1902, owned the land and buildings
1902-1920)
John Noble Cummings Crowe (1864-1953) was born on November 1, 1864 in Debert,
Nova Scotia to Fletcher Crowe and Charlotte Cottom Crowe.5 He had a brother named Robert.
His father died in 1871 and his mother remarried twice after. He arrived in Boston in March
1884.
He was apparently the third generation of his family to be associated with the Moulton
Ladder Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1839.6 While in Salem he had his own business
primarily selling ladders, first at 3 Nursery7, then at 17-19 Woodside. He was later a senior
partner of the Moulton Ladder Company.
He married Lena S. (Carey) Crowe (1867-1960) on December 4, 1889 in West Medford.
At the time of their marriage, John lived in Somerville and worked as a ladder dealer; Lena lived
in Charlestown and worked as a dressmaker.8 Lena was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia to
James and Sophia Carey. Her siblings included Marjorie, Charles, Harvey, Susan, Andrew, and
possibly George. Lena emigrated to Massachusetts around 1887.

4

Salem City Directories, 1911, 1914
Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index.
6
Newspapers.com, John N. Crowe Obituary, December 23, 1953
7
1893-1894 Salem City Directories
8
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915.
5

�John and Lena had three children, all born in Salem: Hilda, born January 31, 1894; John
Ellsworth, born September 9, 1896; and Emerson Noble, born August 15, 1902.
The 1900 federal census records John and Lena as living at 17 Woodside (although the
1900 city directory lists their address as 19 Woodside), together with their children Hilda and
John, Lena’s sister Susie Carey and her brother George W. Carey. All subsequent directories
list the Crowes as living at 19 Woodside. They left Salem for Philadelphia around 1914-1915.
By the 1930s they were living in Woodbury, New Jersey.9 Daughter Hilda and granddaughter
Charlotte would live with them as well. John and Lena later established residence in Delanco,
New Jersey.10
Hilda Crowe married Harry Kelley Thompson, an efficiency engineer from Lowell, on
May 29, 1917, in Manchester, NH.11 They had a daughter, Charlotte Thompson, on August 20,
1919. Hilda remarried to Eugene H. Lord, a teacher, on October 29, 1938 in Portsmouth, NH.
She lived in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. Hilda died May 10, 1980.12 Charlotte Thompson
married Charles Smith in 1943.13 Charlotte and Charles had three sons, S. Craig, Scott, and
Kent. Charlotte died on January 5, 1973.
John Ellsworth Crowe married Mabel S. Andress (1891-1985) in 1925 in Philadelphia.
Mabel was from Philadelphia and worked as a stenographer.14 They had two daughters, Ada
May Haire (1927-2000) and Gladys White (1932-2021). John worked for the Moulton Ladder
Co. in Philadelphia. He died of cancer on May 16, 1957 in Philadelphia.
Emerson Noble Crowe followed his father and brother into the ladder business, also
working for Moulton Ladder Co. selling ladders and scaffolding.15 Emerson married Evelyn
Gibbs (1914-1998) of New Jersey sometime in the 1930s. They had a son, John Joseph
(1940-1998). Emerson worked in Philadelphia and lived in New Jersey. He died in August 1955
in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Strickler Family (Lived in the home but didn’t own, 1910-1913)
*Note: The city directory uses the spelling “Stirckler,” while both MACRIS and some Ancestry
records use “Strickler.”
Searches for Edward D. Strickler did not yield many results. However, an Edmond D.
Stirckler is listed in later records and it seems likely that this is the same person, but with a
different spelling. Edmond Durs Stirckler was born on May 7, 1868 in Worcester to Peter

9

1930 U.S. Census
Newspapers.com, John N. Crowe Obituary, December 23, 1953
11
Ancestry.com. New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971.
10

12

Findagrave.com
Newspapers.com Marriage Index, June 12, 1943
14
1920 U.S. Census
15
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
13

�Stirckler and Marion Meislen Stirckler. In 1898 he lived at the Hotel Rexford in Boston, working
as a foreman.16 He married Clara Burkhardt on October 18, 1899 in Worcester.
Clara was born on November 24, 1874 in Worcester, the daughter of Henry Burkhardt and
Sophia Myers. Both parents were from Germany and her father was a barber.
In the Salem City Directories from 1908 to 1915 Edmond is listed as a foreman at the
United Shoe Machinery Corp in Beverly, aka “The Shoe” (now the Cummings Center). The
1908-1909 directories listed him as rooming at 10 Gardner, with a Mrs. Clara J. Stirckler, milliner
at 186 Essex, rooming at 1 Gardner. From 1910-1913 Edmond and Clara lived at 17 Woodside.
By 1914 they had moved to Swampscott.17 The 1930 US Census shows Edmond Stirckler, 61,
living at 25 or 27 Banks Road in Swampscott with Clara. Edmond is listed as a machinist at a
factory. He became a mason with the Wayfarers Lodge in 1922.18 It appears that Edmond and
Clara did not have children. Clara may have worked as a saleswoman at 72 Washington in
Salem.19 Edmond died on October 14, 1942 and is buried at Hope Cemetery in Worcester. Clara
died in Worcester in 1950.
Skeffington Family (1915-1999)
William Edward Skeffington (1891-1986) was born in Salem on June 10, 1891, to
Thomas G. Skeffington and Jane Roberts Skeffington, both from England. His sister Edith was
born in England in 1892, followed by four more siblings, born between 1893 and 1902 in
Massachusetts. In 1900 he was living at 7 Botts Court in Salem with his family, then 19 Botts
Court in 1910. His father worked as a coachman for a private family. William married Cora
Mabelle “Mabel” Shaw (1881-1942) on November 25, 1914, in Marblehead.20 William worked
as a chauffeur.
Mabel was born in Nova Scotia in January 1881 to Thomas Shaw and Mary Glover
Reynolds Shaw. Her father emigrated to Boston from Nova Scotia at 16 and worked as a
cordwainer. Her mother was born in Marblehead. They appear to have moved back and forth
between Canada and Marblehead. Her siblings included Albert, Hooper, Robert, Glover, and
Merrill. Thomas died in 1891. In 1900 the family lived at 281 Washington Street in Marblehead.
By 1910, Mabel was listed as working as a jewelry shipping clerk.
William and Mabel lived at 17 Woodside from 1915-1919 presumably as tenants, and
purchased the property from John Crowe in 1920. In 1915-1916 William worked as a chauffeur
at 60 Bridge Street, then as a chauffeur for Mrs. G.H. Shattuck (listed as A.B. Shattuck,
Topsfield, on his 1942 draft card).21

16

Boston City Directory, 1898
Salem City Directory, 1914
18
Massachusetts, US Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990
19
Salem City Directory, 1926
20
Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records 1840-1915
21
Ancestry.com, U.S., 1917 and 1942 U.S. Draft Cards
17

�The Skeffington’s first child William Edward Jr. was born in 1917, followed by Donald
Reynolds in 1919. Mabel passed away in 1942. In 1944, the house was transferred to William
Jr. and Donald. William Sr. died in Beverly on July 6, 1986. He, Mabel, William Jr., William Jr.’s
wife and daughter are all buried at Greenlawn Cemetery.
William Edward Skeffington Jr. (1917-1998) started out working as a mechanic at the
Radio Tube Factory. In 1941 he worked as a junior tube worker and later (ca. 1944) he was
listed as working for Hygrade Sylvania Corp on Loring Avenue. He married Barbara Arlene
Brown (1918-1991) likely between 1939-1940. Barbara was born in Salem and lived at 7
Forrester Street with her parents, Carlton A. Brown (1891-?), an electrician at a cotton mill, and
Susan Lillian Pitman Brown (1890-?). Before her marriage, Barbara worked as an insurance
clerk.22
From 1942-1943, William and Barbara lived at 210 North Street.23 By 1944 he and his
family were living at 17 Woodside. William and Barbara had two children: Donna Louise
Skeffington Eubanks (1942-) and Pamela Jean Skeffington Espindle (1947-1985). In 1947, the
house was transferred to William Jr. and Barbara. Both Donna and Pamela graduated from
Salem High. Pamela died in Ipswich in 1985. Barbara died in 1991, and William in 1998. 17
Woodside was sold to Albert J. Robinson, Jr. and Mark L. Henderson in 1999.
Donald Reynolds Skeffington (1919-2001) was born on February 12, 1919. Like his
brother, Donald worked at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation (Research Division) as a
mechanical engineer.24 Donald served in the US Army during WWII and returned to Salem to
study. He lived with William Jr. and his family until his own marriage in 1949. He married
Barbara Lillian Farquhar in Ipswich. Barbara was born in 1926 to John Farquhar and Cicely
Teare, both from England. Her father worked as a chauffeur. She had one brother, Douglas.
In 1950 Donald and Barbara lived in Ipswich. Their son Donald Jr. was born on August
21, 1950. Donald Jr. graduated from Ipswich High in 1968 and married Sheila Haskell in 1989.
Donald Sr. and Barbara lived in Ipswich where Donald Sr. worked as a mechanical engineer at
McMillan Laboratory Inc.25 Donald Sr. died on February 20, 2001 and is buried in Hamilton.
Barbara died in November 2003 in Falmouth, Maine.

22

Salem City Directory, 1940
Salem City Directories, 1942-43
24
Ancestry.com, U.S., 1940 Draft Card
25
Salem City Directory, 1957
23

�Sources

Kate Tannatt Woods, “A Woman of the Century,” Wikipedia

�1911 Salem City Directory

Plot Plan, 1920, Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds

�John Noble Crowe, Ancestry.com Family Tree - User careyr4. Uploaded 9/21/2007.

Lena Carey Crowe, Ancestry.com Family Tree - User careyr4.

�John N. Crowe Naturalization Paper, 1894. Ancestry.com.

�Newspapers.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23,
1953

Newspapers.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 1955

�Salem High School Yearbook, 1960. Ancestry.com.

�Salem High School Yearbook, 1964. Ancestry.com.

Newspapers.com, Obituary Index, 1800s-current, The Boston Globe, December 3, 1991

�Skeffington Grave, Findagrave.com

Ipswich High School Yearbook, 1968. Ancestry.com.

�Chain of Deeds
Homeowner

Date
Purchased

Ephraim
Woods

May 29,
1871

Years of
Ownership

Number of
Years

Purchase
Price

Documents
Referenced

Notes

831:300
[Plan]
Survey May
29, 1871
“Plan of
Land in
North Salem
belonging to
the Estate of
the late
Ephraim
Woods”

Executrix
Mary A.
Woods,
widow

David Sinclair

September
25, 1871

1871-1876

5

“Considera
tion of
$350”

835:101

“The lot of
land
bounded and
described”

Katie T.
Woods

August 29,
1876

1876-1902

26

“Considera
tion Paid”
$1000

960:262

“Two parcels
of land in
said Salem.
The first lot
is bounded
South
easterly by
Woodside
Street forty
nine
feet…Being
lot numbered
seventeen
on ‘a plan of
lands
belonging to
the estate of
the late
Ephraim
Woods’”

John N.
Crowe
Lena S.
Crowe

November
19, 1902

1902-1920

18

“In
considerati
on of one
dollar and

1689:101

“A certain lot
of land”

�other
valuable
considerati
ons to me”
Cora Mabelle
Skeffington
William E.
Skeffington

September
11, 1920

1920-1944

24

$1 and
other
valuable
considerati
ons

2465:449

“A certain lot
of land, with
the buildings
theron”
Plot plan
2463:593 Lot
B

William E.
Skeffington,
Jr.
Donald R.
Skeffington

August 10,
1944

1944-1947

3

3380:42

William E.
Skeffington,
Jr.
Barbara A.
Skeffington

September
5, 1947

1947-1999

52

“For
considerati
on paid”

3532:300

Albert J.
Robinson, Jr.
Mark L.
Henderson

October
25, 1999

1999-2006

7

$175,000

16012:275

Mark L.
Henderson
Deborah E.
Henderson

August 18,
2006

2006-2016

10

“For
26015:445
considerati
on paid in
the amount
of $1.00”

Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A.

September
15, 2016

2016-2017

1

$275,000

Amy Velardi

March 22,
2017

3/22/17-12
/11/17

~9 mos.

$262,594

35750:287
35323:567
35146:67
power of
attorney

Foreclosure
deed

Amy Velardi
receives
35% interest,
New
Direction
IRA Inc./Amy
Velardi IRA

�receives
65% interest
Andrew E.
Bishop
Luke N.
Tanguay

December
11, 2017

2017-pres
ent

6

$500,000

36409:101

�Residents Table
Directory Year(s)

Residents

Occupation or Notes

1895-1905

J.N. Crowe &amp; Co.
(aka John N. Crowe)

Ladders, steps, and chair
dealer
17 Woodside used as
business storehouse; listed
under business
advertisements
Crowe’s residence:
1895: h. 203 ½ North
1900: 17 Woodside
~1900 City Directory: 19
Woodside h.do. (works and
resides at same address)

1906-1908

Oliver A. Peterson

Chief engineer, 53 Mason

1909-1910

George Kimball

Inspector, Manchester

1910-1913

E.D.Stirckler [sic, also known
as Strickler]

Foreman, U.S.M. Co, Beverly
(United Shoe Machinery
Corp)

1914

C.E. (Ernest) Perkins

Restaurant supplies, Church
St?

1915-1917

WE Skeffington

Chauffeur, Cable co. h60
Bridge
1917-18 draft card lists as
chauffeur for Mrs. G. H.
Shattuck

1918-1937

William E (Cora M)

Chauffeur

1939-1943

Wm E (Cora M)
Wm E jr

Chauffeur (Topsfield)
Tube worker

1944

Wm E (Cora M)
Wm E jr (Barbara A)

““
Maintenance dept Sylvania

1945

Donald R
Wm E jr (Barbara A)

USA (Army?)
Maintenance dept Sylvania

�1946-1949

Wm E jr (Barbara A)
Donald R

Technician, Sylvania
Student

1950-1960

Wm E jr (Barbara A)

Electronic tech, Sylvania

*William E. Jr and Barbara lived at 17 Woodside until William’s death in 1998.

�������������������������Inventory No:

SAL.508

Historic Name:

Strickler, Edward House

Common Name:
Address:

17 Woodside St

City/Town:

Salem

Village/Neighborhood:

North Salem;

Local No:

17-190;

Year Constructed:

C 1911

Architectural Style(s):

Colonial Revival;

Use(s):

Single Family Dwelling House;

Significance:

Architecture;

Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials:

Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard; Wood Shingle;
Foundation: Granite;

Demolished

No

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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
17 Woodside S t r e e t i s a g a m b r e l - f r o n t C o l o n i a l R e v i v a l house
t y p i c a l o f N o r t h Salem's 20th c e n t u r y d e v e l o p m e n t .
Two s t o r i e s
h i g h and two bays wide, i t has a o n e - s t o r y p o r c h w i t h column
supports across the facade.
The e n t r y ( w e s t ) i s a d j a c e n t t o a
t r i p a r t i t e , diamond-paned c o t t a g e window.
Windows a t t h e u p p e r
s t o r i e s o f t h e f a c a d e have e n t a b l a t u r e s . The e a s t e l e v a t i o n
p o s s e s s e s a o n e - s t o r y bay window and two s h e d - r o o f e d d o r m e r s .
Most
window s a s h a r e 6/1. The f i r s t s t o r y i s c l a p b o a r d e d , t h e second
s h i n g l e d . The f o u n d a t i o n i s g r a n i t e .

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
N o r t h Salem was f a r m l a n d u n t i l t h e m i d - 1 9 t h c e n t u r y , when t h e
a r e a e x p e r i e n c e d a g r e a t d e a l o f g r o w t h and became more r e s i d e n t i a l
than a g r i c u l t u r a l .
Woodside S t r e e t was l a i d o u t by t h e e a r l y
1870s; t h e s t r e e t was d e p i c t e d on t h e 1874 a t l a s b u t had
e x p e r i e n c e d l i t t l e c o n s t r u c t i o n by t h a t d a t e .
A house, p r o b a b l y
d i f f e r e n t , i s d e p i c t e d on t h i s l o c a t i o n on t h e 1911 a t l a s , as t h e
p r o p e r t y o f John N. Crowe, who a l s o owned t h e a d j a c e n t h o u s e s .
Crowe, a s e l l e r o f l a d d e r s and c h a i r s , i s l i s t e d i n s t r e e t
d i r e c t o r i e s from 1897-1910 w i t h a s t o r a g e house a t t h i s a d d r e s s .
In 1912 Edward D. S t r i c k l e r , a foreman a t B e v e r l y ' s U n i t e d Shoe
M a c h i n e r y Co., i s l i s t e d as t h e r e s i d e n t o f a house a t t h i s
address.

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

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