Historic Districts
Vacant / Not In Use
Massachusetts - Essex County
Essex County Massachusetts (Page 2) has 50 places on the National Register of Historic Places including 29 places of National significance and 24 places of Statewide significance. Significant places include Whipple, John, House, Essex Company Machine Shop, North Canal Historic District (Boundary Increase), Fort Sewall and Lee, Jeremiah, House.

Learn about the many famous people who are associated with these Essex County historic places including Caleb Cushing, Nathaniel Bowditch, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Story, Gen. John Glover and Henry Cabot Lodge.

Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Essex County places including Samuel McIntire, John Whipple, John Spencer, William Hunt, John Ward, Thomas Gerry, Joseph Everett Chandler, Robert Mills, Charles Bigelow and Fuller & Lord. Prominent architectural styles found in Essex Country are Federal, Georgian and Colonial Revival.

Oak Grove Cemetery (added 1975 - #75000263)
Bounded by Derby, Washington, and Grove Sts., and Maplewood Ave. , Gloucester
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Winding paths through this 1854 Gloucester burial ground lead straight to the rugged granite headstones of Civil War veterans and pioneering marine artist Fitz Henry Lane.
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Landscape Architecture, Community Planning And Development
Period of Significance:
1850-1874
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Funerary
Historic Sub-function:
Cemetery
Current Function:
Funerary
Current Sub-function:
Cemetery
More Information:
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PORTLAND (Shipwreck and Remains) (added 2005 - #04001473)
Also known as Steamship PORTLAND
Address Restricted , Gloucester
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Elite technical divers and marine archaeologists still study the crushed remains of this 1898 side-wheel steamer resting 460 feet deep in Stellwagen Bank, where a brutal storm claimed over 190 lives.
Historic Significance:
Information Potential, Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
New England Shipbuilding Co., et.al.
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Commerce, Transportation, Maritime History, Engineering, Architecture, Historic - Non-Aboriginal
Period of Significance:
1875-1899
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Water-Related
Current Function:
Vacant/Not In Use
Asbury Grove Historic District (added 2009 - #09000935)
Around Asbury St. , Hamilton
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More than a hundred pastel Carpenter Gothic cottages still line these quiet Hamilton lanes, standing just as they did during the 1859 Methodist summer camp meetings.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Social History, Religion
Period of Significance:
1950-1974, 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Camp, Religious Structure
Current Function:
Domestic, Religion
Current Sub-function:
Camp, Religious Structure, Single Dwelling
More Information:
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Castle Hill (added 1977 - #77000183)
E of Ipswich on Argilla Rd. , Ipswich
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Chicago plumbing tycoon Richard Crane finished his 59-room Stuart-style mansion here in 1928, and today''s visitors still walk the massive half-mile grass grand alle that Arthur Shurcliff sculpted straight down to the Atlantic.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Person
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Olmsted Bros., Adler,David
Architectural Style:
Tudor Revival, Other
Historic Person:
Crane,Richard T.,Jr.
Significant Year:
1927, 1926
Area of Significance:
Landscape Architecture, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1925-1949
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Hotel
More Information:
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Whipple, John, House (added 1966 - #66000791)
53 S. Main St. , Ipswich
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Inside this 1677 Ipswich timber-frame home, history buffs can touch massive hand-hewn oak beams, peer through early leaded-glass windows, and explore a garden of sixty seventeenth-century medicinal herbs.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Whipple,John
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1650-1699, 1600-1649
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
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Choate Bridge (added 1972 - #72000137)
MA 133/1A over the Ipswich River (S. Main St.) , Ipswich
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Drivers in Ipswich still rumble daily over this 1764 double-stone arch, the oldest surviving bridge of its kind in America.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Choate,Col. John
Architectural Style:
Other
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Transportation
Period of Significance:
1750-1799
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Road-Related
Current Function:
Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Road-Related
More Information:
archives document
Great Stone Dam (added 1977 - #77000184)
Also known as Essex Company Dam
Merrimack River & MA 28 , Lawrence
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Irish immigrants hand-fitted 900 feet of granite blocks in 1848 to build this massive Merrimack River barrier, which still channels water into Lawrence''s historic mill canals today.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Bigelow,Charles, Storrow,Charles
Architectural Style:
Other
Area of Significance:
Engineering
Period of Significance:
1825-1849
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function:
Energy Facility, Water Works
Current Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current Sub-function:
Energy Facility, Water Works
More Information:
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Essex Company Machine Shop (added 1972 - #72000138)
Union St. , Lawrence
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This massive 1846 granite complex along the canal forged the heavy iron turbines that powered Lawrence''s industrial revolution.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Invention, Architecture, Industry
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility
Current Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility
More Information:
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North Canal (added 1975 - #75000278)
Parallel to Canal St. , Lawrence
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Towering brick factories still flank the hand-cut granite channel that has diverted the Merrimack River to power Lawrence''s industrial looms since 1848.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Et al., Storrow,Charles S.
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Transportation, Industry
Period of Significance:
1825-1849
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Water Works, Water-Related
Current Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current Sub-function:
Water Works
More Information:
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North Canal Historic District (Boundary Increase) (added 2009 - #09000280)
Also known as Morehouse Bakery Building
Roughly bounded by the Merrimack and Spicket rivers, North Canal, and Broadway , Lawrence
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Stroll past Lawrences massive 1840s granite dam to trace the canal water that once powered towering brick mills and fueled the historic 1912 Bread and Roses strike.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Bigelow, Charles, et al.
Architectural Style:
Late Victorian, Greek Revival
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Community Planning And Development, Engineering, European, Social History, Industry, Economics
Period of Significance:
1950-1974, 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Owner:
Local, Federal, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Education, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Transportation
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Social, Transportation
More Information:
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REMOVED
Broad Street Historic District (added 1983 - #83004372)
Marshall's Wharf , Lynn
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This Salem enclave lines up grand Federal-style mansions from the early Republic right next to a 1655 burial ground containing the high sheriff who executed the 1692 witches.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Multiple
Architectural Style:
Romanesque
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Industry
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility, Warehouse
Nahant Beach Boulevard-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston (added 2003 - #03000747)
Nahant Beach Blvd. , Lynn
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This oceanfront reservation still follows the 1905 design mapped out by the Olmsted firm to give Boston''s city dwellers a direct trolley escape to the sea.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
et.al., Eliot, Charles
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Communications, Conservation, Entertainment/Recreation, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Transportation
Period of Significance:
1950-1974, 1925-1949
Owner:
State
Historic Function:
Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Natural Feature, Outdoor Recreation, Park, Road-Related
Current Function:
Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Natural Feature, Outdoor Recreation, Park, Road-Related
More Information:
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New Hampshire, The (added 1976 - #76000261)
Also known as Alabama;Granite State
SE of Manchester off Graves Island , Manchester
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Local divers still plunge thirty feet into the chilly waters off Graves Island to touch the charred timbers and scattered coal of a 74-gun Civil War store ship that burned and sank in 1922.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Doughty,William
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Military
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1850-1874, 1800-1824
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Defense
Historic Sub-function:
Naval Facility
Current Function:
Landscape
Current Sub-function:
Street Furniture/Object
More Information:
archives document
Fort Sewall (added 1975 - #75001908)
Also known as Marblehead Fort;Fort on Gale's Head
Fort Sewall Promontory , Marblehead
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British warships chased the USS Constitution right under the guns of this 1644 coastal defense point during the War of 1812, where grass-covered underground bunkers still overlook the harbor today.
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Military
Period of Significance:
1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1600-1649
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Defense
Historic Sub-function:
Fortification
Current Function:
Landscape
Current Sub-function:
Park
More Information:
archives document
Lee, Jeremiah, House (added 1966 - #66000766)
Washington St. , Marblehead
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This 1768 Marblehead home still preserves its rare, original hand-painted English wallpaper and towering mahogany carvings, looking pretty much just like it did on the eve of the Revolution.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Georgian
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
archives document
Abbot Hall (added 1974 - #74000374)
Washington Sq. , Marblehead
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Marblehead''s 1876 brick municipal building displays the original 1684 land deed from the Naumkeag tribe and Archibald Willard''s iconic Revolutionary War painting, The Spirit of ''76.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Fuller & Lord
Architectural Style:
Romanesque, Other
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1875-1899
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Education, Government
Historic Sub-function:
City Hall, Library
Current Function:
Education, Government
Current Sub-function:
City Hall, Library
More Information:
archives document
Old Town House (added 1976 - #76000265)
Also known as Town House;Town Hall
Town House Sq. , Marblehead
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This yellow 1727 assembly hall in Marblehead still stands right in the middle of the street, preserving the exact spot where angry colonial fishermen and merchants voted to fund a militia against the King.
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1750-1799, 1700-1749
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Government, Social
Historic Sub-function:
City Hall, Clubhouse, Correctional Facility
Current Function:
Education, Government, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Government Office, Library, Museum
More Information:
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Glover, Gen. John, House (added 1972 - #72001101)
11 Glover St. , Marblehead
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This 1762 red gambrel-roofed home in Marblehead once belonged to the tough-as-nails cod fisherman who rowed George Washington across the icy Delaware River to save the American Revolution.
Historic Significance:
Person
Historic Person:
Glover,Gen. John
Significant Year:
1782, 1762
Area of Significance:
Military
Period of Significance:
1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
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Gerry, Elbridge, House (added 1973 - #73000304)
44 Washington St. , Marblehead
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A quick stroll down Washington Street in Marblehead leads straight to the private 1740s colonial home of the Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and unwittingly inspired the term "gerrymandering."
Historic Significance:
Person, Event
Historic Person:
Gerry,Elbridge
Significant Year:
1820, 1744, 1730
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government
Period of Significance:
1700-1749
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
JOFFRE, (shipwreck) (added 2009 - #08000887)
Address Restricted , Massachusetts
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Technical divers still drop nearly three hundred feet into the freezing Stellwagen Bank darkness to lay eyes on the massive steam boiler and charred wooden ribs of this 1918 fishing trawler.
Historic Significance:
Information Potential
Area of Significance:
Historic - Aboriginal, Architecture, Commerce, Engineering, Transportation, Maritime History
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Water-Related
Current Function:
Vacant/Not In Use
Lodge, Henry Cabot, House (added 1976 - #76001971)
5 Cliff St. , Nahant
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Windswept public paths along the Nahant cliffs trace the footprint of the estate where a powerful Gilded Age senator orchestrated the bitter defeat of the Treaty of Versailles.
Historic Significance:
Person
Historic Person:
Lodge,Henry Cabot
Significant Year:
1924, 1850
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
More Information:
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Spencer-Pierce-Little House (added 1968 - #68000043)
Little's Lane , Newbury
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Pigs and sheep still roam the pastures surrounding this 1690 Newbury manor, a rare colonial survivor built from stone and brick in a unique cruciform shape.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Spencer,John
Architectural Style:
Federal
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1700-1749, 1650-1699, 1600-1649
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
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Market Square Historic District (added 1971 - #71000088)
Market Sq. and properties fronting on State, Merrimac, Liberty, and Water Sts. , Newburyport
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Newburyport''s maritime merchants rebuilt these Federal-style brick storefronts right after a massive 1811 fire, and they still stand today because locals blocked the bulldozers in the 1970s.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Federal
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824
Owner:
Private, Local
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Specialty Store
Current Function:
Domestic, Unknown
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
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Superior Courthouse and Bartlett Mall (added 1976 - #76000280)
Bounded by High, Pond, Auburn, and Greenleaf Sts. , Newburyport
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Stand where colonial militias drilled next to a deep glacial pond, right under the shadow of Charles Bulfinchs 1805 brick masterpiece in Newburyport.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Bulfinch,Charles
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1800-1824
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Government, Landscape
Historic Sub-function:
Courthouse, Plaza
Current Function:
Government, Landscape
Current Sub-function:
Courthouse, Plaza
More Information:
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US Customhouse (added 1971 - #71000089)
25 Water St. , Newburyport
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Walk the same 1819 floorboards where Nathaniel Hawthorne paced as a port surveyor, right under the massive gold eagle still guarding Salem''s historic waterfront.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Mills,Robert
Architectural Style:
Classical Revival
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Government
Historic Sub-function:
Customhouse
Current Function:
Vacant/Not In Use
More Information:
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Cushing, Caleb, House (added 1973 - #73000327)
98 High St. , Newburyport
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This 1808 brick mansion in Newburyport showcases the rare Chinese treaty exports, historic carriages, and archival diaries of the nineteenth-century diplomat who opened American trade with China.
Historic Significance:
Person
Historic Person:
Cushing,Caleb
Significant Year:
1849, 1802
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
archives document
Kittredge Mansion (added 1976 - #76000282)
56 Academy Rd. , North Andover
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Walk down North Andover''s Academy Road to eyeball the massive chimneys and 1784 timber framing of this grand Federal-style doctor''s home from the sidewalk.
Historic Significance:
Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Federal
Historic Person:
Kittredge,Dr. Thomas
Significant Year:
1848, 1784
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Health/Medicine
Period of Significance:
1700-1749
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Osgood, Samuel, House (added 1974 - #74000380)
440 Osgood St. , North Andover
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A quick roadside stop in North Andover lets history lovers admire the preserved 1740 timber-frame homestead where America''s very first Postmaster General spent his youth.
Historic Significance:
Person, Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Other
Historic Person:
Osgood,Col. Samuel
Significant Year:
1740
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Military, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1700-1749
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Peabody Institute Library (added 1973 - #73000311)
Main St. , Peabody
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George Peabody''s 1854 neoclassic brick monument still lets visitors dig through rare Audubon prints and centuries of Salem-adjacent history right in its original reading rooms.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Italianate
Area of Significance:
Education, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1850-1874
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Education
Historic Sub-function:
Library
Current Function:
Education, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Library, Museum
More Information:
archives document
Twin Lights Historic District--Cape Ann Light Station (added 1971 - #71000355)
Also known as Thatcher's Island Twin Lights;Cape Anne Light Station
1 mi. E of Rockport on Thatcher's Island , Rockport
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A quick boat ride to Thacher Island puts history buffs right inside the massive 1861 granite towers that survived decades of brutal Atlantic nor''easters.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Transportation
Period of Significance:
1850-1874
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Domestic, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Water-Related
Current Function:
Transportation, Vacant/Not In Use
Current Sub-function:
Water-Related
More Information:
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House of Seven Gables Historic District (added 1973 - #73000323)
Also known as Turner House
54 Turner St. at Derby and Hardy Sts. , Salem
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History buffs touch the original 1668 timber frames of the seaside mansion that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne''s dark gothic novel, finding Salem''s maritime past preserved right on the harbor.
Historic Significance:
Event, Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Chandler, Joseph Everett, Multiple
Architectural Style:
Colonial Revival, Colonial
Historic Person:
Beckett,Retire,et al
Significant Year:
1958, 1804, 1668
Area of Significance:
Literature, Education, Architecture, Transportation, Industry
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1700-1749, 1650-1699
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic, Education, Recreation And Culture, Social
Historic Sub-function:
Civic, Museum, School, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Education, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum, School
More Information:
archives document
Peabody Museum of Salem (added 1966 - #66000783)
Also known as East India Marine Hall;Peabody Academy of Science
161 Essex St. , Salem
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Salem sea captains started pooling their global loot at the Peabody Essex Museum back in 1799, filling the historic East India Marine Hall with logbooks and Asian export art that still anchor America''s oldest continuously operating museum.
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Education
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1825-1849
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Museum
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
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Salem Maritime National Historic Site (added 1966 - #66000048)
Also known as See Also:Derby Waterfront District;Lighthouses of Massachuse
Derby St. , Salem
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Walk the half-mile-long stone wharf built in 1762 and stand inside the 1797 Custom House where Nathaniel Hawthorne paced the floors while weighing cargoes of pepper and silk.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Commerce, Transportation, Architecture, Maritime History
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1700-1749, 1650-1699
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Single Dwelling, Warehouse, Water-Related
Current Function:
Landscape, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum, Park
More Information:
archives document
Baker's Island Light Station (added 1976 - #76000289)
E of Salem on Baker's Island , Salem
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Summer boat trips run by Essex Heritage now land visitors on this rugged Salem Harbor outpost, where an 1820 stone tower still guides boats just like it did in the days of sail.
Historic Significance:
Event
Area of Significance:
Commerce, Transportation, Military
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1800-1824
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Domestic, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Water-Related
Current Function:
Domestic, Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Water-Related
More Information:
archives document
Chestnut Street District (added 1973 - #73000312)
Also known as See Also:Chestnut Street District (Boundary Increase)
Bounded roughly by Broad, Flint, Federal, and Summer Sts. , Salem
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Salem''s wealthy 19th-century sea captains built these massive brick mansions with fortunes from the Sumatra pepper trade, and today they still stand as Samuel McIntire''s finest wood-carving masterpieces.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Multiple
Architectural Style:
Federal, Mid 19th Century Revival, Colonial
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1700-1749, 1650-1699
Owner:
Private, Local
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Derby Waterfront District (added 1976 - #76000297)
Also known as See Also:Salem Maritime National Historic Site;Derby Wharf L
Derby St. from Herbert St. to Block House Sq., waterfront sts. between Kosciusko and Blaney Sts. , Salem
Acroterion, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
History buffs walk Salems half-mile stone pier where 18th-century crews unloaded pepper from Sumatra, then step inside the brick custom house where Nathaniel Hawthorne worked.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Federal
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1750-1799, 1700-1749
Owner:
Private, Local
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Specialty Store, Warehouse
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Specialty Store
More Information:
archives document
Gardiner-Pingree House (added 1970 - #70000541)
128 Essex St. , Salem
KudzuVine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Step inside this 1804 Salem home to see Samuel McIntires crisp Federal-style woodcarvings and stand in the bedroom where a sensational 1830 merchant murder gripped the country.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
McIntire,Samuel
Architectural Style:
Federal, Other
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
archives document
Hamilton Hall (added 1970 - #70000543)
9 Cambridge St. , Salem
Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Federalist elites once danced on the unique spring-loaded ballroom floor of this 1805 brick assembly house on Chestnut Street, and locals still host private events here today.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
McIntire,Samuel
Architectural Style:
Federal, Other
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Government
Historic Sub-function:
City Hall
Current Function:
Government
Current Sub-function:
City Hall
More Information:
archives document
Ward, John, House (added 1968 - #68000045)
132 Essex St. , Salem
Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This 1684 Salem home preserves its original leaded-glass windows and dark timber framing from the witch trial era, though movers had to roll the entire building down the street on logs in 1910 to save it from demolition.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Ward,John
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1650-1699
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
archives document
Essex Insitiute Historic District (added 1972 - #72000147)
134-132, 128, 126 Essex St. and 13 Washington Sq. W. , Salem
Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This block in downtown Salem lets history fans walk straight into a 1684 wood-frame house and a grand 1804 Federal mansion built during the citys wealthy shipping era.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
McIntire,Samuel
Architectural Style:
Italian Villa, Federal, Renaissance
Area of Significance:
Education, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1700-1749
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic, Education, Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function:
Library, Museum, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Education, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Library, Museum
More Information:
archives document
Old Town Hall Historic District (added 1972 - #72000149)
Derby Sq. and 215-231 Essex, 121-145 Washington, and 6-34 Front Sts. , Salem
Marcbela, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Brick paths in Derby Square still lead directly to the federal-style municipal building from 1816, where locals once bought fresh produce under the same roof that housed Salem''s town government during its shipping golden age.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Federal
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Architecture, Community Planning And Development, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1800-1824, 1600-1649
Owner:
Private, Local
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Government
Historic Sub-function:
City Hall, Specialty Store
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Government
More Information:
archives document
Chestnut Street District (Boundary Increase) (added 1978 - #78000468)
Also known as See Also:Chestnut Street District
Roughly bounded by Bridge, Lynn, Beckford, and River Sts. , Salem
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Salem merchants built these grand Federal-style brick mansions with their shipping fortunes, but the neighborhood also features the 1651 Pickering House, America''s oldest continuously occupied home.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Federal, Gothic Revival, Georgian
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Architecture, Community Planning And Development
Cultural Affiliation:
Period Working Class, Federal Us
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Salem Common Historic District (added 1976 - #76000303)
Bounded roughly by St. Peter's, Bridge, and Derby Sts. and Collins Cove , Salem
Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This grassy eight-acre plot hosted the colony''s first military muster in 1637, and today grand Federal-style mansions built by wealthy East India sea captains still ring the perimeter.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architectural Style:
Federal, Colonial Revival, Late Victorian
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Literature, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1700-1749, 1650-1699, 1600-1649
Owner:
Private, Local
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Peirce-Nichols House (added 1968 - #68000041)
80 Federal St. , Salem
Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Master carver Samuel McIntire left his earliest, sharpest woodwork inside this 1782 Salem mansion, where his hand-planed moldings trace the exact moment American design shifted from bulky Georgian to sleek Federal style.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
McIntire,Samuel
Architectural Style:
Georgian
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum
More Information:
archives document
Fort Pickering (added 1973 - #73000320)
Also known as Fort William;Fort Anne
Winter Island , Salem
Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walk the grassy 1643 earthworks on Salem''s rocky shore where Civil War soldiers trained beside an 1871 iron lighthouse.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Engineering, Military
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1750-1799, 1600-1649
Owner:
Federal
Historic Function:
Defense
Historic Sub-function:
Fortification
Current Function:
Landscape
Current Sub-function:
Natural Feature
More Information:
archives document
Bowditch, Nathaniel, House (added 1966 - #66000135)
North St. , Salem
BotMultichillT, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Take a stroll to the Salem clapboard home where a self-taught mathematician calculated the exact astronomical tables for the 1802 manual that still guides sailors across the ocean.
Historic Significance:
Person
Historic Person:
Bowditch,Nathaniel
Significant Year:
1823, 1811
Area of Significance:
Science, Invention
Period of Significance:
1800-1824
Owner:
Local
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Government
Current Sub-function:
Government Office
More Information:
archives document
Gedney and Cox Houses (added 1974 - #74000389)
21 High St. , Salem
Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Preservationists stripped back the plaster on these 1665 Salem structures on High Street, leaving the raw, hand-hewn oak framing completely open for anyone wanting to see how seventeenth-century carpenters built homes.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1750-1799, 1700-1749, 1650-1699
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Museum, Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Story, Joseph, House (added 1973 - #73001952)
26 Winter St. , Salem
Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This 1811 Federal-style brick mansion in Salem housed the youngest-ever Supreme Court Justice as he drafted the landmark Amistad ruling on slavery.
Historic Significance:
Person
Historic Person:
Story,Joseph
Significant Year:
1829, 1811
Area of Significance:
Law
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
More Information:
archives document
Woodbridge, Thomas March, House (added 1975 - #75000304)
Also known as Woodbridge House
48 Bridge St. , Salem
Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A quick walk down Salem''s Summer Street reveals the sharp 1809 brickwork and grand Federal-style symmetry crafted during the height of architect Samuel McIntire''s influence.
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
McIntyre,Samuel
Architectural Style:
Federal
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Social
Current Sub-function:
Civic
More Information:
archives document
Ann's Diner (added 2003 - #03001264)
Also known as Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #824, Pat's Diner; Norm's Place
11 Bridge Rd. (US 1) , Salisbury
Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Breakfast at this 1950 Worcester Lunch Car in Salisbury comes with a side of mid-century nostalgia, thanks to the original barrel roof, neon trim, and blue-and-cream porcelain enamel.
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Worcester Lunch Car Company
Architectural Style:
Other
Area of Significance:
Commerce, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1950-1974
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade
Historic Sub-function:
Restaurant
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade
Current Sub-function:
Restaurant
More Information:
archives document

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