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P.O. BOX 865
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 01970 I PHONE (508) 745-0799
ONE DEARBORN STREET
Built for
WILLIAM MAYNES, haberdasher
in 1869
Research:
Donna Vinson
January, 1993
�ONE DEARBORN STREET
Built in 1869 by William Maynes, Haberdasher
History of the Property:
The house presently bearing the address One Dearborn Street was
built in 1869 by William Maynes, provisioner of "hats, caps and furs"
as an investment property.
Maynes then occupied an adjoining house on
the corner of North and Dearborn Streets and operated a
b~siness
at 88
Nor th Street.
The parcels of land on which Maynes' two DearLorn street houses
were erected had been purchased from the city of Salem in 1867-1868
<Essex County Registry of Deeds, Book 737, leaf 246 and Book 745, leaf
264).
North Salem, known as Northfields until well into the nineteenth
century, was pastureland for Salem's seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury settlers.
Parcels of land were distributed to Salem
householders in ten-acre lots by the town council from 1634 tu 1611,
but the Maynes lots somehow escaped distribution, despite the laying
out of North Street in the eighteenth century.
The main thoroughfare
of Northfields, North Street was alternatively called "Proprietors'
�Way", "Weld's Lane", and the "Highway through ye Nor\-nfield" until the
following century.
Dearborn Street was laid out by the proprietors of Northfields
from North Street to "Rope's Point" on the North River in 1787 in an
attempt to capture the proposed bridge to Beverly for their
neighborhood.
They were not successful, and consequently Dearou1n
Street began developing shortly thereafter along residential, rather
than commercial, lines.
In 1868, when William Maynes purchased "a
certain parcel of land situate in Northfields" bounded by North Street
from the city of Salem, little pastureland remained on Dearborn Street.
Maynes retained his Dearborn Street property for less th,
decade.
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In 1877 he sold "a parcel of land, upon which are two dwelling
houses, situated in said Salem, beginning at the corner of North and
Dearborn Streets and thence running Northeasterly by Dearborn Street
ninety-four feet and nine inches more or less .... '' to
Tho~os
Symonds of
Salem, a descendant of the first settler of North Salem <E.C.R.D. Book
986, leaf 81).
The Symonds family possessed numerous
properti~s
in the
neighborhood, and so One Dearborn Street was let to Lneir daughter and
son-in-law Anna and Joseph Waldron, after their marriage in 1886 <Salem
Directories, 1886-1900).
Evans, a Chelsea clerk.
The Waldrons shared the house with Alvin
After Thomas Symonds died in 1900, his widow
Mary Ann conveyed One Dearborn Street to her daughter Anna S. Waldron
for "love and affection and $1" <E.C.R.D Book 1603, page 567).
The
Waldrons did not reside at their newly-acquired house for long; it
remained a two-family house and was successively leased out to the
Mansfield, Pepper, Putnam, Delaney, and Kingsley families for the term
�of tl1eir possession <Salem Directories, 1900-i923).
The heirs-at-law of Anna Waldron sold the "certain parcel of land
together with the buildings thereon being numbered One on Dearborn
Street in said Salem" to Mary Clancey of Salem,
<E.C.R.D. Book 2541, page 357).
ei
1~idow,
i11 1923
Mrs. Clancey held on to the property
for only a year, after which it was transferred to Fred and Katherine
Litka of Salem (E.C.R.D. Book 2586, page 145).
Mr. Litka, a
shoeworker, and his wife occupied the house exclusively during their
three years of possession, then sold the property to Mary L. Creeden of
Salem, another widow <E.C.R.D. Book 2730, page 14).
Mary Creeden occupied part of One Dearborn Street during her
thirty-year period of ownership, while the other part of the huLSe was
leased to a succession of widows and leatherworkers (Salem
Directories, 1927-1957).
In 1957 Mrs. Creeden conveyed One Dearborn
Street to Marie E. Reardon and Mary Almeida, both of Salem, and the
former continues to own and occupy the property (E.C.R.D. Book 4414,
page 269).
Documentation:
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Bood 745, leaf 264
Granter:
City of Salem
Grantee:
William Maynes of Salem
�Consideration:
$75
Conveyance of:
"a certain parcel of land situate in Nort11fields,
so called, in said Salem, bounded as follows, viz.:
beginning at
the northerly corner of land heretofore conveyed to said Maynes
by City of Salem at land heretofore conveyed by said City to
Augustus Hutchings and thence running in a nothwesterly direction
said land of Hutchings a distance of eighteen feet to a point
which shall be forty-seven feet from Dearborn Street,
me~
~red
on
line between land of said Maynes and land of said Hutchings .... "
Date recorded:
May 22, 1868
E.C.R.D. Book 986, leaf 81
Grantor:
William Maynes of Salem
Grantee:
Thomas Symonds of Salem
Consideration:
$7100
Conveyance of:
"a parcel of land, upon which are two
dw~lling
houses, situated in said Salem, beginning at the corner of North
and Dearborn Streets and thence running northeasterly by Dearborn
Street ninety-four feet and nine inches more or less .... "
Date recorded:
October 27, 1877
E.C.R.D. Book 1603, page 567
Grantor:
Mary Ann Symonds, widow of Thomas Symonds
Grantee:
Anna Symonds Waldron, wife of Joseph E. Waldron
�Consideration:
"love and affect ion and $1
Conveyance of:
"a certain parcel of land with the dwelling house
11
thereon numbered One on Dearborn Street .... being a part
01
the
same land conveyed by William Maynes to my late husband Thomas
Symonds".
Date recorded:
March 3, 1900
E.C.R.D. Book 2541, page 357
Granters:
Isabelle A. Patten, widow, and Ethel S. Parsons,
both of Salem, and Ernest Y. Waldron of Ogden, Utah
Grantee:
Mary F. Clancey of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
"a certain parcel of land together with the
buildings thereon being numbered One on Dearborn Street in said
Salem ..•. the granters obtained their title in said premises as
the only heirs-at-law and legatees under the will of the late
Anna S. Waldron, deceased, who was their mother .... "
Date recorded:
February 14, 1923
E.C.R.D. Book 2586, page 145
Granter:
Mary F. Clancey, widow, of Salem
Grantee:
Katherine Litka of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
One Dearborn Street
�Date recorded:
February 2, 1924
E.C.R.D. Book 2730, page 14
Grantors:
Grantee:
Fred Litka and Katherine Litka of Salem
Mary L. Creeden, widow, of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
One Dearborn Street
Date recorded:
July 8, 1927
E.C.R.D. Book 4414, page 269
Grantor:
Grantees:
Mary L. Creeden of Salem
Marie E. Reardon and Mary Almeida, both of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
"the land with the buildings thereon situated at
One Dearborn Street in said Salem"
Date recorded:
October 24, 1957
E.C.R.D. Book 4757, page 80
Grantor:
Marie E. Reardon of Salem
Grantee:
Mary Almeida of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
One Dearborn Street
�Date recorded:
April 4, 1961
E.C.R.D. Book 5811, page 662
Grantor:
Mary Almeida of Peabody
Grantee:
Marie E. Reardon and Charles H. Reardon, both of Salem
Consideration:
paid
Conveyance of:
One Dearborn Street
Date recorded:
October 16, 1971
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1 Dearborn Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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Built for William Maynes, haberdasher in 1869
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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House built in 1869
Research 1993
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Donna Vinson, January 1993
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