3 Lemon Street Masachusetts Historical Commission Record PageInventory No:SAL.2838
Historic Name:Ellis,James H.House
Common Name:
Address:3 Lemon St
City/Town:Salem
Village/Neighborhood:Salem Common;
Local No:36-33;
Year Constructed:C 1901
Architectural Style(s):Queen Anne;
Use(s):Single Family Dwelling House;
Significance:Architecture;
Area(s):SAL.FQ,SAL.IV
Designation(s):Nat'l Register District (07/19/2002);
Building Materials:Roof:Asphalt Shingle;
Wall:Wood;Wood Clapboard;Wood Flushboard;
Demolished No
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
80 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02116
ft I .-TH
AREA
1338
FORM NO.
36 33
By 1903
Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location
in relation to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate all buildings
between Inventoried property and nearest
intersection(s).
Indicate north
e City Directories
Q.ueen Anne
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Sal em
JSS Lemon St.
>ric Name
Present Residential
Original Re.qi dential
IPTION
Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboard, flush-
n __ -i^. board
Outbuildings eQ~.Qgo
Major Alterations (with dates)
Condition
Moved Date
Acreage Under 1 acre
Setting Residential, urban
UTM REFERENCE
USGS QUADRANGLE_
SCALE
Recorded by robr3 Hilbert & Kim Withers
Brengle
Organization Salem Planning Dept.
Date April. 1987
c:
NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable)
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
3 Lemon Street is a modest example of the Queen Anne style. It is a
two-story, gable roofed house with flush boarding on the facade and
clapboards on other elevations. A suqre tower with a pyramidal roof is set
at an angle at the northeast corner, and at the southeast corner a
first-story bay rises into a squared second-story projection with a gable
roof. A flat-roofed porch with wrought iron replacement posts extends
across the facade.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played 1n local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
Lemon Street has existed by various names since the 17th century, having
been one of the roads to the North River. By 1843 it was known by its
present name. The street contains an eclectic mixture of architectural
styles, with this house being one of the later additions. Built after 1897,
it first appears in the 1903-1904 directory, occupied by James H. Ellis,
secretary and Manager of A.G. Frothingham's Co., shoe trimmings.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ^ _
City Directories, 1903-1904
1874 Atlas
1897 Atlas
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