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Postcard c. 1900; Garden View of The House of the Seven Gables
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The Turner-Ingersoll House, 54 Turner St., Salem, aka "The House of the Seven Gables"
Photograph of the House of the Seven Gables with tulips in bloom. (photography by Dan Popp) |
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House of the Turner-Ingersoll House, aka "The House of the Seven Gables" in Salem from the garden
View of the House of the Seven Gables from the garden (photography by Dan Popp) |
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The Shop Bell at the House of the Seven Gables Historic Site
(courtesy of Shakespeare and Company) |
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An architectural rendering of the facade of the Turner-Ingersoll House aka The House of the Seven Gables
(courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) |
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Illustration of the Turner-Ingersoll House aka "The House of the Seven Gables" in Rosalind Ashe'sLiterary Houses, published by Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1982.
illustrations by Roy Coombs (courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) |
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Postcard (1905) of the Turner-Ingersoll House aka "The House of the Seven Gables"--with only three gables
When Caroline Emmerton purchased the house at 54 Turner St., it had lost all but three of its gables. In his lecture on September 14, 2000, Dr. John L. Idol, Jr. noted that Caroline Emmerton "sat about restoring the house, engaging an architect, Joseph Edward Chandler, to help her. He was familiar with Colonial architecture and led her to the discovery of the position of three of the missing gables. They were replaced. Unhappily, for them, as things turned out, they went ahead with the construction of a seventh gable, since, by tradition, the house had sported a seventh one. Further study of the building revealed the presence of another original gable, the authentic seventh.... Despite the evidence before her that Hawthorne's knowledge of the old house was superficial at best, Emmerton pushed ahead with her efforts to transform it into the house that Hawthorne had moved from Turner Street into the pages of his romance. She remodeled the house to give it the requisite number of gables, choosing to keep the one at back rather than to build an authentic seventh over the front entrance, setting up a cent-shop, and furnishing the house in such a manner as to be able to say that a certain room was Phoebe's, that a particular window was the one Clifford had stood at as he gazed upon the street below. As far as possible, life was following art, although she was puzzled to find that Hawthorne had made no apparent use of the secret passage way that the Turner-Ingersoll house has." (with special thanks to Dr. John L. Idol Jr.) |
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Illustration of a deteriorated Turner-Ingersoll House aka "The House of the Seven Gables" by Roy Coombs
This illustration appears in Rosalind Ashe's Literary Houses, published by Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1982. |
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Depiction of Col. Pyncheon's Mansion by Roy Coombs in Literary Houses - Ten Famous Houses in Fiction edited by Rosalind Ashe (Facts on File, 1982)
(courtesy of Facts On File, Inc) |
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Depiction of the Floor Plan of the House of the Seven Gables by Roy Coombs in Literary Houses - Ten Famous Houses in Fictionedited by Rosalind Ashe
(courtesy of Facts On File, Inc) |
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Postcard c. 1900 of The House of the Seven Gables
(courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) |
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Postcard (1905) of The House of the Seven Gables
(courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) |
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Postcard c. 1900 of the Parlor in the House of the Seven Gables
(courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) |
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Postcard of the House of the Seven Gables |
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Postcard, probably c. 1900, of the Jonathan Corwin House, called the "Old Witch House," 310 1/2 Essex St. at North St. in Salem, MA
Jonathan Corwin, a Salem merchant, purchased the house from Nathaniel Davenport of Boston in 1675. Davenport had never finished the construction of the house, so Corwin had the work completed. Corwin was living here in 1692 when he and John Hathorne served as the magistrates of Salem Town, issuing warrants for the arrest of those accused of witchcraft, and on the Court of Oyer and Terminer that sentenced accused witches to death. There is a tradition that some of the accused "witches" of the Salem hysteria were examined in the lower front room on the right, and today the house is know as the "Witch House." The house was unfinished when Corwin purchased it, but when completed, it had a central chimney plan, projecting two-story front central porch, peaked gables, and a rear lean-to. Around 1746 Sarah Corwin, the widow of Jonathan Corwin's grandson, George, enlarged and remodeled the house in the Georgian Colonial style. The house was further altered between 1856 and 1885 when George P. Farrington, the owner, added a drugstore to the front. In 1945 Historic Salem purchased the property, saving it from being demolished, and had it restored. (special thanks to Margaret B. Moore) |
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Hawthorne's Country
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Hawthorne's Country |
