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Final Report
Lafayette Street Historic District
June, 1985
Salem Historical Commission
Salem Planning Board
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PROPOSED LAFAYETTE STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT
FINAL REPORT
June, 1985
INDEX
I. Introduction 1
II. Summary of Inventory Method and District Boundary Choices 3
III. Justification of Historic District 6
A. Description of District 6
B. Justification of Historic District Boundaries 9
C. Description of Individual Buildings 9
IV. Options and Recommendations 15
V. Bibliography 17
VI. Appendices
• A. Maps
B. Photographs
C. Salem Historical Commission Ordinance
D. Inventory Forms
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I. INTRODUCTION
Salem is fortunate to have a wealth of historic architecture. Many of these
important buildings and streetscapes have been protected by the creation of three
local historic districts: the Derby Street District (from Herbert Street to Block
House Square), the Washington Square District (including Salem Common and most
of the buildings surrounding it), and the McIntire District (roughly bounded by
Broad, Summer, North, Bridge, Federal, North Pine, and Essex Streets, and Dalton
Parkway).
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The purposes of these districts are:
1) To preserve and protect the distinctive characteristics of buildings and
places significant in the history of Salem and the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts;
2) To maintain and improve the settings of these buildings and places; and
• 3) To encourage new designs compatible with existing buildings in the
district.
Protection is provided by ensuring that no changes are made to the exterior
architectural features of buildings, structures, and sites visible from a public way
without a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Salem Historical Commission.
Through this procedure, the destruction and disintegration of buildings important
both historically and architecturally can be knowledgeably controlled. Historic
district controls, however, only work to guide the protection of the outer
charateristics of structures and sites without constricting their use or ownership.
Zoning is a separate entity altogether.
The legislation which allows cities and towns to create historic districts was
passed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1960 and is called the Historic
Districts Act, Chapter 40C of the General Laws. The Act was based on similar
legislation passed in Charleston, SC in 1931 and New Orleans, LA in 1937 and has
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since been amended by Chapter 359 of the Acts of 1971 and Chapter 70 of the Acts
of 1975. Salem has its own Historic District Ordinance (passed in 1971) which
established the Salem Historical Commission to administer the City's districts.
The Commission is empowered, among other things, to propose to the City Council
the creation of new districts.
While a great deal of Salem's architectural heritage is protected by the three
existing districts, the majority of these buildings date from the mid-18th to the
mid-19th centuries. Salem's most important collection of late 19th century
Victorian buildings along Lafayette Street is currently unprotected and facing
development pressures that threaten the architectural integrity of this area.
Thus, after careful consideration, on March 6, 1985, the Salem Historical
Commission voted unanimously that the buildings facing and abutting Lafayette
Street from Holly and Leach Streets to Forest and Clifton Avenues be included in
an area for study for the purpose of forming a new historic district.
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• II. SUMMARY OF INVENTORY METHOD AND DISTRICT BOUNDARY CHOICES
To determine district boundaries, the Preservation Planner on the staff of the
Planning Department conducted an architectural inventory in South Salem. While
large sections of the City have already been surveyed, until recently South Salem
has received little attention. Only a few inventory forms were on file for
Lafayette Street and these contained scant information. Therefore, it was decided
to inventory the area of South Salem bordered on the north by Holly and Leach
Streets, on the west by the MBTA Commuter Rail and the Boston and Maine RR
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Marblehead Branch, on the south by Marblehead townline, and on the east by Salem
Sound. The eastern, southern, and western boundaries were selected because they
are natural or manmade borders. The northern boundary was set at Holly and -
Leach Streets because the Salem Fire of 1914 destroyed almost all of South Salem
north of these streets. Since the fire area was rebuilt after 1914, it seemed best to
• handle it as a separate area of study.
Adapting guidelines from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's Historic
Properties Survey Manual, the inventory method followed the steps listed below:
1) General research into the development of South Salem.
2) Overview Survey - going street by street, the style of each building was
marked on Assessor's maps. Those buildings meriting survey forms were
circled.
3) Geographical Research - Using historical maps and atlases, the appearance
of each building was marked on the Assessor's maps.
4) Field Survey - Again going street by street, architectural descriptions and
observations were written for those buildings identified as meriting survey
froms in steps 2 and 3.
5) Historical Research - Using City directories, atlases, photographs, and
• information available at the Essex Institute, each inventoried building was
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• researched, examining not only who built the house, but how the property
fits into the historical development of South Salem.
6) Photography of inventoried buildings.
7) Final inventory forms were written and maps drawn identifying each
building's location.
The criteria used to select buildings for inventory forms were: the age of the
structure, its architectural integrity, and its historical significance. Some
buildings were chosen as examples of the variety of building types in the area, both
vernacular and high-style. Others were selected for their associations with people
important to Salem's history or as representative of the physical development of
South Salem.
The inventory revealed a significant cluster of Victorian structures along
Lafayette Street from Holly and Leach Streets south to Forest and Clifton
Avenues. This area is being proposed as the Lafayette Street Historic District.
Linden Street and Summit Avenue, which run parallel to Lafayette, are important
street-stapes, but due to the number of building alterations and non-contributory
structures, they would be difficult to administer as part of a local district. Instead
these streets may be proposed in the future as part of a National Register district
for the area. In addition, there are significant buildings further south on Lafayette
° Street and scattered throughout South Salem but they are too isolated to be
incorporated into a local district.
The primary reason for creating the Lafayette Street Historic District is to
protect Salem's most intact grouping'of high-style Victorian dwellings. Many of
these structures were built as single family homes. Development pressures to
convert buildings into apartments to satisfy the housing demand around Salem
State College, poorly designed alterations to meet code requirements, and office
conversions along Lafayette Street, a major throughfare, are threatening the
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historic character of this area. Unless the protection available through historic
districting is provided, buildings will be altered in irreversible ways and historic
resources will be lost.
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III. JUSTIFICATION OF HISTORIC DISTRICT
A. Description of District
The proposed Lafayette Street Historic District is a largely residential, urban
area with somexeligious and institutional uses including a Methodist Church, a
Catholic Chapel, a Jewish synogague, and a library building (recently closed and
now unoccupied). The housing is a mixture of single and multiple family dwellings
including two apartment blocks. A few residences have been converted to office
use.
Almost all of the buildings in the district face directly onto Lafayette Street
with the exception of two buildings situated on corner lots, a chapel facing Summit
Avenue, and some carriage houses oriented toward side streets. Since Lafayette
Street north of Holly and Leach burned in the Fire of 1914 and was subsequently
rebuilt, the later structures on that part of the street form a visual boundary to the
district's largely Victorian architecture. South of the district, there is a mixed
commercial and residential block followed by Salem State College which spans
several acres between Lafayette Street and Loring Avenue. To the east and west,
streets were laid out for residential purposes in the late 19th century and the
housing stock dates largely from 1870-1915. With the exception of Linden Street
and Summit Avenue, the structures here are mostly ordinary; they consist of some
single family houses and a majority of two -or multiple-family dwellings.
The area in which this district developed was originally known as the South
Fields, a peninsula bounded on the north and west by the South River, on the east
by Salem Sound, and on the south by the Marblehead line. Under the system of
common fields, small parcels (originally 10 acres) were allotted for individuals, but
the entire area was under joint management as exercised through Town Meetings
(Adams, "Common Fields in Salem," p. 246). The date of laying out the fields is
unknown and probably occurred before town records were kept. Through deed
research, historian Sidney Perley has established 45 persons who held land here
with the earliest allotment dating to 1639 (History of Salem, Vol. I, p. 316).
Access to the South Fields was by ferry until the milldam (now Mill Street at
thesouth end of Riley Plaza) was built in 1665. This construction altered
transportation routes. Previously, the only way from Salem to Marblehead was via
Highland Park to Vinnin Square. After 1665, the new route ran over the milldam
and down Lafayette Street and Loring Avenue to the pumping station at Forest
River. Thus, the existence of Lafayette Street, originally called the South Road or
the Road to Marblehead, dates to the,building of this dam (Perley, History of
Salem, Vol. II, pp. 342-3).
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• Until the mid-18th century, the South Fields continued as common land but as
the century progressed, the fields came into private ownership and served as farms
or summer homes. Ezekial Hersey Derby, third son of wealthy Salem merchant
Elias Hasket Derby, was one of those to maintain a second home here. After his
father's death in 1799, he acquired a gambrel-roofed house with a surrounding farm
and gardens to serve as a country estate. (Little, Nina Fletcher, "Corne, McIntire
and the Hersey Derby Farm," p. 227).
In 1805, Derby and other South Salem property owners sponsored the
construction of the South Bridge near the present intersection of New Derby and
Lafayette Streets. When the bridge was completed in 1808, property owners began
to erect houses on Lafayette Street at a stepped up pace. A third route to South
Salem was later established via Union Bridge, built in 1847, which connected Union -
Wharf with the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills at Stage Point (Tolles, Architecture
in Salem, p. 231).
The 1851 map of Salem shows that by this date South Salem was fairly well
developed down to Cedar and Leavitt Streets. There were some houses on the east
side of Lafayette Street between Leavitt and Leach, but the west side between
Cedar and Holly was open land. Of the blocks in the proposed historic district, the
west side of Lafayette between Holly and Laurel already had four building by 1851
(three of which still stand). The corresponding block on the other side of the street
between Leach and Willow had one building, owned by S.C. Phillips; the majority of
the block was later acquired by William Messervy as part of his estate. The
remaining blocks from Laurel to Forest and Willow to Clifton were part of the
Derby Estate which stretched west to the Mill Pond and east to Salem Sound.
In 1867, an event happened that was pivotal to the development of this
district. James A. Almy, Nathaniel Wiggin, and Charles S. Clark purchased the
Derby Estate and by 1868 had subdivided it into building lots. Almy was the owner
of a dry goods business bearing his name that grew to become Salem's largest
department store. Wiggin and Clark were partners in a wood and coal business
located on Peabody Street. From 1868 until the end of the century, these
developers gradually sold lots to purchasers who erected houses upon them. At the
same time infill structures were also built in the northermost block of the district.
Then in 1914 a disaster occurred. A fire which began at Blubber Hollow (the
core of Salem's largest shoe and leather district at Boston and Bridge Streets)
spread over dozens of City blocks all the way down Lafayette Street to Holly and
Leach. Because of this catastrophe, Lafayette Street lost most of its 19th century
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building stock, leaving the proposed historic district as the best grouping of high-
style Victorian buildings in Salem.
Even without the disaster of the fire, these buildings could stand on their own
as fine examples of 19th century architecture. Among the styles represented are
Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and
Colonial Revival. There are about an equal number of houses in each stylistic
category exept for the Greek Revival, of.which there are two examples, and the
Gothic Revival represented by the Henry Brooks House(260 Lafayette Street).
Although this is the only Gothic Revival house in the district, it is one of the finest
examples of its type in Salem. The Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and
Colonial Revival houses (about six of each) are for the most part highly decorated
representatives of their styles. While the architects of these buildings are
presently unknown, it seems likely that several houses were in fact architect
designed because of their individuality and the quality of their details. Although
some of the buildings have been artificially sided, the majority are in near original
condition.
In addition to their architectural distinction, these houses are representative
• of a very common development process in the 19th century, the subdivision of large
estates into well-populated residential districts. As the major artery of South
Salem, Lafayette Street was the choice location for a new house at the end of the
19th century. These residences served as status symbols of the middle-class
respectability of their owners, most of whom were professional people or well-to-
do. merchants.
In addition to single and two-family residences, there are two apartment
buildings in the district and some non-residential structures outlined earlier. Most
of the buildings are set back from the street about 25 feet and their front yards are
planted with grass and shrubs of various kinds. Both sides of the street have
sidewalks and several of the house lots have granite paving at their edges. Maples
and other species of trees ranging from 10-20 feet tall are planted along the street
aboljt every 50 feet. All of the landisprivately owned and there are no parks,
cemeteries or common areas in the district. The only open space along Lafayette
Street is a parking lot a #273 which serves St. Therese's Chapel on Summit Avenue.
There are some intrusions in the district. An apartment block at 245-247
Lafayette (1969) and a greenhouse at 256 Lafayette (1938) are non-contributing
structures and a few houses have lost.their integrity to artificial siding materials.
At the south end of the district is a three-story brick apartment building, the
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Pickering (Colonial Revival, c. 1930) that is somewhat out-of-character in an area
largely composed of single and double family residences, although there are several
buildings of this type along Lafayette Street outside the district.
B. Justification of Historic District Boundaries.
The boundaries of the Lafayette Street Historic District would include all of
the properties on Lafayette Street four Holly and Leach Streets south to Forest and
Clifton Avenues. East and west boundaries would be drawn at the back of
property lines. Only four buildings do not have street addresses along Lafayette;
these are 4 Laurel Street, 47 Ocean Avenue, 26 Summit Avenue, and 1 Clifton
Avenue.
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Historically the boundaries of this district are justified by the fact that these
three blocks represent the most intact collection of pre-1914 fire buildings along
Lafayette Street. The majority of the properties are the result of subdividing the
Derby and Messervy Estates and therefore represent a typical 19th century _
development pattern of converting open land into building lots.
The district boundaries are justified architecturally because these buildings
taken together form the best preserved grouping of high-style late Victorian
domestic architecture in Salem.
After submitting this report to the Massachusetts Historical Commissionm
and the Salem Planning Board, a mailing will be sent out to property owners
explaining the consequences of historic districting. Public meetings and a hearing
will be held to determine the sentiments of property owners and residents
regarding inclusion of their buildings in this district.
C. Description of Individual Buildings
The following are brief descriptions of the architecturally and historically
significant buildings in the district. More detailed information is provided in the
attached inventory forms.
Lafayette Street - West side
Form No.
33/345 #238 - This Colonial Revival house was built in 1910 by John and
Catherine McMorrill on the site of an earlier Creek Revival house. The
• McMorrills received this property from the Lafayette Street Methodist
Church in exchange for a lot at #296, the location of the present parish
house.
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33/344 6242 - The William Pousland House is the oldest building in the district,
• dating to 1845. The house still retains its Greek Revival character but
has been altered with siding changes and a cross-gable wing. Pousland
was a mariner and later a sea captain.
33/343 4/244 - The Alonzo Smith House, built in 1877, is one of several Second
Empire dwellings in the district. Smith, an iron founder, built this
structure during a period of rapid growth on this part of Lafayette
Street. The engaged tower which breaks through the mansard roof line
shows that this house is a later example of its style.
33/342 44248 - Built in 1848, the John Clifton House is the second oldest
building in the district. This transitional Greek Revival/Italianate
building was built for Clifton, a merchant, and later in the century was
owned by Charles Osgood, a local portrait artist and miniature painter
of distinction.
33/341 41254 - This spacious, asymmetrically massed and richly textured
structure is one of the finest Queen Anne dwellings in the district. The
house was built in 1888 for lawyer William H. Gove who practiced law
in Salem until 1900 when he retired to devote himself to business and
political interests. 4 Laurel Street, the carriage house to this mansion,
is also included in the district.
33/340 4/260 - The Henry M. Brooks House is one of Salem's architectural gems.
The source for this outstanding Gothic Revival cottage was most likely
Design II of Andrew Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences (1842). In
addition to his employment as treasurer of the Forest River Lead Co.,
Brooks was well-known antiquarian and author.
Laurel Street crosses.
33/374 4/262 - Built in 1868, the William E. Bates House is one of half a dozen
Italianate dwellings in the district. Bates, a dentist, was one of the
early people to buy a lot from Almy, Wiggin and Clark, developers of
the Derby Estate. Typical of Italianate houses, this one has bracketed
and drip cap window mouldings, segmentally arched dormers, and paired
cornice brackets. .
33/372-3 #266-268 - This nicely detailed Second Empire dwelling was built in
1870 as a double house by lumber dealer John P. Langmaid for his sons.
Langmaid had purchased the entire lot which stretched back to Linden
• Street and two years later he built his own house in back of this one.
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33/371 41270 - Although sided, this Queen Anne structure retains many of its
distinguishing characteristics including a corner tower, multiple roof
• forms, and an elaborate cornice. The house was built for Francis S.
Barrows in 1984 on a lot created from the subdivision of the Derby
Estate.
33/370 #274 - The Edward S. Thayer House, built in 1871, is a nicely preserved
Italianate example with elaborate window and porch trim. Thayer was
a partner in the Boston oil dealing firm of Seccomb, Kahew and Thayer
and an early purchaser of a lot from the 1868 subdivision of the Derby
Estate.
.33/369 44278 - With its multiple roof forms, asymmetrical massing, numerous
bays and various window arrangements, the Mary A. Devine House is
one of the best Queen Anne dwellings in Salem. Devine purchased this
lot from descendants of Charles S. Clark, one of the 1868 subdividers of
the Derby Estate. When the house was finished in 1892, its tax
valuation was $15,500 for the dwelling, $2,000 for the stable, and
$3,000 for the land, a valuation close to twice that for any house in the
area.
33/368 #284 - One of Salem's most imposing Second Empire residences, this
house was built in 1879 for Ephraim A. Emmerton. Emmerton was one
of the last Salem natives to make his living from maritime commerce.
The building is finely detailed and includes a fine carriage house.
Ocean Avenue crosses.
33/406 47 Ocean Ave.- The South Branch of the Salem Public Library (recently
closed) was built in 1912. The building occupies the site of Ezekial
Hersey Derby's farmhouse and was the first branch of Salem's public
Library system to occupy its own quarters. Boston architect Clarence
H. Blackall designed this Neoclassical structure.
33/405 #292-296 - The Lafayette Street Methodist Church, a late Gothic
Revival structure with an attached parish house, is one of two houses of
worship in the district. The church had previously been located at the
corner of Lafayette and Harbor Streets. Two of its trustees were
James F. Almy and Charles S. Clark, developers of the Derby Estate,
which might explain how the church came to occupy its present site.
33/404 41300 - Built in 1889 for William S. Nichols, this house is an excellent
• example of the Queen Anne style and one of the district's most
noteworthy residences. Among its features are the conically capped
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corner tower, varied surface materials, elaborate cornices, and highly
• decorated entrance portico. Nichols, a bank teller who eventually
became treasurer of the Salem Safe Deposit Co., was typical of the
professionals and well-to-do merchants who lived along Lafayette
Street at the end of the century.
33/402 #310 -.The Mudgett House, built c. 1902, is a common type of single
family Colonial Revival dwelling constructed in Salem. The 1903 Salem
Directory lists its occupants as Sarah A. Mudgett, widow of Daniel
Mudgett, a stable owner, and two boarders who were probably her
children.
Lafayette Street - East Side
33/463 #241 - The Willis Perry House, located at the southeast corner of
Lafayette and Leach Streets, is a Colonial Revival dwelling built c.
1915. If stands on the site of an 1882 house, the only one in the district
to be destroyed by the Fire of 1914. Willis Perry worked as an
advertising agent.
33/465 #249 - The John F. Brooks House is the only gabble-roofed Italianate
dwelling in the district, the others having been designed with hip roofs.
• Its detailing is typical for the period and includes features such as
paired cornice brackets and drip-cap moldings. Brooks, a merchant who
worked in Boston, had moved into his new house by 1872.
33/466 4253 - Built c. 1902, the Jones F. Devlin House is similar to many
Colonial Revival residences erected in South Salem at the turn of the
century. Devlin was a partner of Devlin Brothers, a manufacturer of
shoe stock on Mill Street. The house stands on land that was part of the
William Messervy Estate as late as 1893.
33/467 4255-259 - These two Second Empire dwellings have been identically
° clad with asbestos siding and, joined by a covered walkway but
originally they were not even adjacent. #255 was erected on its present
site for William Messervy around 1868. Messervy owned several acres
of land consisting of what is now 253-259 Lafayette Street and
extending all the way east to Salem Sound. 91259 dates to about 1870
and was originally located across the street at 256 Lafayette. It was
the home of Jose Margati whom directories list as a clerk working in
Boston. The house was moved to its present site in 1938 when the Ives
• Greenhouse was built. The curved walkway is a recent addition dating
to 1980.
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• 33/446 #261-263 - The James H. Andrews House,,built c. 1856, is one of the
older residences in the district. This Italianate double house is fairly
simple and straight forward in its detail. After James died the property
passed to his widow Ruth. It appears that the Andrewses lived in the
left half of the building and rented out the right half to tenants, among
them George F. Flint, a lawyer who lived here from 1872 until at least
1881. _
Willow Avenue crosses.
33/442 44265-267 - Although sided, this building is a well-preserved example of
the Second Empire style which was popular along Lafayette Street. The
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house was built for George Harris and .Joseph Webb c. 1872. Harris
worked as a bookkeeper in Boston, while Webb was employed as a
cashier at the National Exchange Bank of Salem.
33/443 #271 - With its full height portico, the Joseph Simon House, built c. _
1910, is the only Neoclassical dwelling in the district. Although the
house has been significantly altered by the third story addition, it
retains much of its original detail. Simon was a partner in Fanning,
• Simon and Co., realtors and builders whose office was on Essex Street
in Salem.
33/444 #277 - The J. Ford Smith House is one of the districts fine Second
Empire dwellings typical of many that were destroyed by the Fire of
1914. The architectural detailing, including the scalloped slate
shingles, incised banding, segmentally arched dormers, and cornice
brackets, has survived nicely over the years. Smith was a jeweller
whose office was located on Essex Street in Salem. Built c. 1870, the
house is one of the earlier ones to be constructed on land that was
subdivided from the Derby Estate.
33/445 44281 - This typical Italianate dwelling was built c. 1873 for Philip H.
Peach, a dentist who practiced on Essex Street. In spite of the
application of aluminum siding, much of the architectural detail has
been preserved.
33/430 44285 - The Luther D. Pettingill House is typical in size and scale to its
Italianate neighbor at #281 although this house has its original
clapboards. Built c. 1868, it is one of the earliest dwellings erected
. after the 1867 subdivision of the eastern portion of the Derby Estate.
When Pettingill, a partner in a Derby Wharf fishery, purchased the lot,
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• back corner of this property (36 Ocean Ave.).
Ocean Avenue crosses.
33/426 #2877291 - Temple Shalom is a relatively recent building, constructed
in 1951, but its scale and Neoclassical design are compatible with the
surrounding buildings, must of which on this block are Colonial Revival
in style.
33/429 #303 - The Pickering, built c. 1930, is the only brick apartment block in
the district. It is similar in design and scale to other buildings further
north on Lafayette Street built after the Fire of 1914. This building
was named for George and Ella Pickering who had lived in a house on
this site (see below).
33/417 fel Clifton Avenue - Historically, this Colonial Revival house is related
to 303 Lafayette Street. It was built c. 1929 for Ella P. Pickering, the
widow of George V. Pickering, a coal, wood and building materials
merchant on Derby Street. When George was alive, the Pickerings lived
around the corner at 303 Lafayette Street. It seems that Ella built 1
Clifton Avenue for herself to live in after her husband died and
• replaced her former residence with "The Pickering" (see above), built
for income producing purposes.
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IV. OPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• Under Chapter 40C, Section 6 of the Massachusetts General Laws as
amended, "no building or structure within an historic district shall be constructed
or altered in any way that affects exterior architectural features unless the
(Historical) Commission shall first have issued a certificate of appropriateness, a
certificate of non-applicability, or a certificate of hardship with respect to such
construction or alteration."
Cities and towns, however, can exempt certain categories from review. In
the existing historic districts in Salem, the Historical Commission does not review
the following:
1) Temporary structures or signs, subject, however, to such conditions as
to duration of use, location, lighting, removal, and similar matters as
the Commission may reasonably specify.
2) Terraces, walks, driveways, sidewalks, and similar structures or any or,
more of them, provided that any structure is substantially at grade
level.
3) Storm doors, and windows, screens, window air conditioners, lighting
• fixtures, antennae, and similar appurtenances or any one or more of
them.
4) The reconstruction, substantially similar in exterior design, of building,
structure or exterior architectural feature damaged or destroyed by
fire, storm, or other disaster, provided such reconstruction is begun
within one year thereafter and carried forward with due diligence.
The Historical Commission recommends that the Lafayette Street Historic
District be subject to the same conditions as the existing districts as outlined
above and in the Salem Historical Commission Ordinance approved by the mayor on
November 30, 1971. Specifically included in review beyond the general categories
of new construction, demolition, and exterior changes to existing buildings would
be:
1) Walls and fences, or either of them.
2) Paint color.
3) The color of materials used on roofs.
4) Signs, unless the following holds true:
• a. The sign is not more than one square foot in area in connection with
the use of a residence for a customary home occupation or for
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• professional purposes, provided only one such sign is displayed, and if
illuminated, is illuminated only indirectly; or,
b. The sign is not more than 12 square feet in area in connection with
the non-residential use of a building and the sign consists of letters
painted on wood without symbol or trademark, and if illuminated, is
illuminated only indirectly.
The Commission feels that the administrative options selected will
adequately protect the historic and architectural character of the Lafayette Street
area and will be consistent with Salem's other historic districts. Jurisdiction over
walls and fences will also ensure that there are no incompatible intrusions along
the streetscape. Review of signs is particularly important in this district where
some houses have been converted to office use and more conversions may take
place. Since the Commission has no jurisdiction over building use, it is important
to preserve the residential appearance of the area by ensuring that signs are not
out of character with the architecture.
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V. BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Adams, Herbert. "Common Fiels in Salem." Essex Institute Historical
Collections, Vol. 19 (Oct.-Dec., 1882) pp. 241-253.
2. Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in victorian Salem: A Lafayette
Street Sampling." Essex Institue Historical Collections, Vol. 115 (July,
1979), pp. 172-182.
3. Little, Nina Fletcher. "Corne, McIntyre, and the Hersey Derby Farm."
Antiques, January, 1972, pp. 226-229.
4. Perley, Sidney. History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vols. I and II. Salem, MA:
published by Sidney Perley, 1924 and 1926 respectively.
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5. Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. with Carolyn K. Tolles. Architecture in Salem: An
Illustrated Guide. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983.
Maps, Atlases, and Plans
Foster, Gideon. A survey of the several lots of land lying on each side of
the road leading to Marblehead, 1808.
McIntyre, Henry. Map of the City of Salem, Mass., 1851.
• Putnam, Charles A. Portion of the Derby Estate, May, 1864.
Putnam, Charles A. Plan of a Portion of the Derby Estate, Aug., 1867,
recorded at the Essex County Registry of Deeds, Book 726, Leaf 300.
Putnam, Charles A. Plan of a Portion of the Derby Estate, Sept., 1868,
recorded at the Essex County Registry of Deeds, Book 755, Leaf 300.
Hopkins, G. M. & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, Mass., 1874.
Richards, L.J. Atlas of the City of Salem, Mass., 1897.
Walker Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, Mass., 1911.
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SALEM HISTORICAL COMMISSION ORDINANCE
In the year One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-One.
AN ORDINANCE relative to the ESTABLISHMENT OF HISTORIC DISTRICTS.
Beit Ordained by the City Council of the City of SALEM,
as follows:
SECTION 1 . _ This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the
Historic Districts Ordinance under authority of Massachusetts General Laws,
Chapter 40C, as amended .
SECTION 2 . The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote the educa-
tional, cultural, economic and general welfare of the public through the
preservation and protection of Miildings, sites and districts of historic interest;
through the maintenance of such as landmarks in the history of architecture of the
City of Salem, of the Commonwealth and of the Nation, and through the develop-
ment of appropriate settings for such buildings, places and districts .
• SECTION 3 . There is hereby established under the Historic Districts
Act, General Laws Chapter 40C, with all the powers and duties of an historic
district commission, a Salem Historical Commission, consisting of seven members
to be. appointed in accndance with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40C
as amended to date .
SECTION 4 . There is hereby established under the provisions of the
Historic District Act, a historic district, to be known as: THE CHESTNUT STREET
HISTORIC DISTRICT, which District shall include the land and buildings comprising
the parcels on Chestnut Street commonly numbered 1-48 Chestnut Street.
SECTION 5 . The Commission shall have in addition to the powers and
duties of an historic district Commission the following further powers and duties
subject to appropriation or receipt of money gifts,. and may in exercise of any of
its powers or duties accept and expend such gifts and employ clerical and technical
assistants or consultants:
(a) To conduct a survey of Salem buildings and owners for the
purpose of determining those of historic significance architecturally or otherwise,
and pertinent facts about them, acting in collaboration with the Planning Board and
the Redevelopment Authority to the extent that either may from time to time be able
to undertake such work. , and to maintain and from time to time revise detailed
Salem ' and data about them, appropriately
listings of historic sites and buildings in ,a ,
classified with respect to national, state or local significance, to period or field of
interest, or otherwise;
(b) To propose from time to time to the City .Council as they deem
appropriate, the establishment in accordance with the provisions of the Historic Districts
Act of additional historic districts and changes in historic districts;
(c) To determine an appropriate system of markers for selected
historic sites and buildings not already sufficiently marked, to arrange for preparation
and installation of such markers, and to arrange for care of historic markers;
(d) To arrange for preparation and publication of maps and
brochures and descriptive material about Salem Historic sites and buildings, arranged
for convenient walks or tours , or otherwise;
(e) To cooperate with and advise the Planning Board, the
Redevelopment Authority, the Public Works Department, and other City agencies in
matters involving historic sites and buildings;
(f) To cooperate with and enlist assistance for Salem, from the
National Park. Service, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, other agencies,
public and private from time to time concerned with historic sites and buildings;
(g) To advise owners of historic buildings in Salem on
• proliems of preservation .
SECTION 6 . The authority of the Commission is not extended to the
review of the following:
(1) Temporary structures or signs, subject, however, to
such conditions as to duration of use , location, lighting, removal
and similar matters as the commission.may reasonably specify.
(2) Terraces, walks, driveways , sidewalks and similar
structures or any one or more of them, provided, that any structure is
substantially at grade level.
(3) Storm doors, and windows, screens , window air
conditioners , lighting fixtures, antennae and similar appurtenances
or any one or more of them.
(4) The reconstruction, substantially similar in exterior
design, of building, structure or exterior architectural feature damaged
or destroyed by fire, storm or other disaster, provided such reconstruction
• is begun within one year thereafter and carried forward with due diligence.
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SECTION 7 . The Commission may recommend to the Mayor from time to
time as needed appointment of advisory committees of historians and persons ex-
perienced in architecture or other arts or in historic restoration or preservation, to
assist in manner comparable to the National Park Service Advisory Board or consulting
Committee.
SECTION 8 . The Commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the con- .
duct of its business , not inconsistent with the provisions of the Historic Districts
Act or this Ordinance.
SECTION 9 . In case any section, paragraph or part of this ordinance be
for any reason declared invalid or unconstitutional by any Court of last resort,
every other section, paragraph or part shall continue in full force and effect.
SECTION 10. The establishment of the Historic Districts established
under Section 4 of this Ordinance and the establishment of any historic district here-
after as authorized by G. L. Chapter 40C, shall not become effective until the
first day of the third month after the effective date of this Ordinance or of the action
creating any additional historic district as the case may be.
In City Council November 11 , 1971
Adopted for first passage by a roll call vote of 9 yeas , 2 nays , 0 absent.
In Cit} Council November 24, 1971
'Adopted for second and final passage; Councillors J. O'Keefe and Swiniuch
recorded opposed, eleven Members present and voting.
Motion for immediate reconsideratio hoping it would not prevail, denied.
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR on 10V
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ATTEST: _ UGUSTINE.J. 00`IEY
/' CITY CLERK
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SKETCH MAP '
Show property' s location in relation - Style - Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate N Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. / Exterior wail -fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
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Approx. acreage less than one acre
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Organization Salem Planning Dept.
Date December, 1984
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„AF;'IitiUrZaL SIG,;IFIC4NCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This 2� story hip-roofed building is typical of the fine single family homes built along
Lafayette St. from the mid-19th century until the Fire of 1914. The house has a symmetri-
teal+facade with 'a. triangular pediment in the roof containing a Palladian window. Other
features are a center entry with sidelights, a first sotry porch supported on Doric columns
gwith'a triangular pediment containing plaster decoration, a second story three-sided bay,
corner pilasters, and hip-roofed dormers.
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the-development of the community.)
Since the Fire of 1914 travelled as far south as Holly St. , this house is the first one on_
the west side of Lafayette St. to survive that disaster. The building is most likely a
replacement of an earlier Greek Revival house built on the site in 1843, parts of whose
foundation still exist. "The present house appears to date from an exchange of property
between Salem resident John McMorrill and -his wife, Catherine, and the Lafayette St.
Methodist Church in 1909. The McMorrills conveyed to the church the land on which the
present parish house stands at 296 Lafayette St. to the McMorrils.” (EIHC, Vol. 115, No. ..3,
pp., 175-176) .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or PlaMENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
. o
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," Essex Institute Historical
C011ection, .Vol. . 115, No. 3, July, 1979 , pp. 175=176.
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�RCITTEtiZTRAL SIG\IFIMCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
P This house is one of three Greek Revival dwellings on Lafayette St. to survive the Fire
s'k'i of
1914. An 1878 photograph from the Essex Institute shows that the structure was
originally a typical Greek Revival house with a pedimented gable oriented toward the
_
',street and a 'recessed side hall entry. A pedimented gable wing was subsequently added
on the north side from which a one story wing extends. The house features a one story
balustraded porch across the front supported on Doric columns.
HISTORICAL SILNIFICA4CE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
+ William Pouland was a mariner and later a sea captain. He was related to George Pousland
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who owned the house which originally stood next door at 238 Lafayette. 242 Lafayette
4
. " is one of the earliest houses still standing on this street since everything north of
Holly St. burned in the Fire of 1914 and the Derby estate, which ran south from a'r^
Laurel St. to present-day Salem State College, was not subdivided until 1867-8.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFULNCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
`Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem, Essex Inst. Historical
Collection,Vol. 115, No. . 3, July 1979, p. 176.
1851 Map of Salem, surveyed by Henry McIntyre.
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AREA FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING ? 3 143 43 I,
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
k" * own Salem
j ddresS 244 Lafayette St.
istoric Name . Alonzo Smith House
1 — Present resent
RPcid n ia1
Original
DESCRIPTION:
— ate 1877
Source Building Permit
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect f
all buildings between inventoriedf ush bo4rdin ,
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Indicate north. /
Outbuildings None
Major alterations (with dates)
+pu L Eh((t
X
X
X Moved Date
L/tr"arf-F- Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting Residential, on Routes 114
OrganizationSalemSalem Planning and IA
Date December, 1984
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARaUTr—_"TU'na.L SIT�IFIC4NCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.)
"•'a This house is one of a number of Second Empire dwellings built on Lafayette St. south
" '. of Holly St. That it is a later example of the style is indicated by the north side
14 bay whicff breaks through the mansard roof to form a hexagonal tower. The house
features flush boarding on the front, a slate-shingled roof, a center entry with
transom and sidelights marked by a portico with shortened columns decorated
4! • .3n with acanthus leaves, and oriels on the north and south facades.
HISTORICAL SILNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the. commLmity.)
, This house was built by Alonzo Smith., an iron founder who was 36 at the time he took
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out- the building permit for this structure. The building was constructed during a
'_p . y:• period of rapid growth for Lafayette Street as the Derby estate just ea-block
to the south had been subdivided in 1867-8.
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-BIBLIOGWHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domiestic Architecture in Victorian Salem,"
° EIHC Vol. 115, No. 3, July, 1979, p, 176.
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AREA FOR`! NO.
032; B — BUILDING
Mt,SSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION t r
29,; WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
Salem
dress 248 Lafayette St.
storic Name
John Clifton House
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se: Present hotel/inn
r Original residential
DESCRIPTION:
- ate 1848. '
Source EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3
SKETCH MAPs .
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to nearest cross streets and/or r '
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried clapboards )
property and nearest intersection. /✓ Exterior wall fabric
Indicate north. none
Outbuildings
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X Major alterations (with dates)
t X
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X Moved Date
LAUREL X 41«ow Approx. acreage less than one acre
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Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114 and
Organization
Salem Planning Dept. 1A
Date December, 1984
(Staple additional sheets here)
S,RCHITECTMAL SICNIFICkNICE (Describe important architectural featizes and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the cotmmmity.)
This house is one of three Greek Revival houses on Lafayette St. to survive the fire of
1914. It is a symmetrically arranged structure oriented gable end to the street with a
,4 triangular pediment in the front gable, a center-hall entry with transom and sidelights,
and a one-story porch ,across the front supported by fluted Doric columns. The house has
bracketed eaves, cornices, -and window-hoods.`suggesting an Italianate influence.
:HISTORICAL SI&IIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
'history and how the building relates to the-development of the com=, ity.)
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John Clifton, a merchant, built this house in 1848. It is one of the earliest residences
Still standing on Lafayett St. since everything north of Holly Street burned in the
1914 fire and the Derby Estate, which ran south from Laurel St. to present-day Salem
State College was not subdivided :until 1867-8. In 1855, . the .house was sold to Ripley Ropes
who held it until 1872 when it was sold again to Charles Osgood (1809-1890) , a local
po'ttrait artist and miniature painter of distinction.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFr rT'; (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3,
July 1979, pp. 176-177.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983. pp. 236-7.
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AR:A FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
own Salem
ddress 254 Lafayette St. -`
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William H. Gove Housefer
istoric Name a a
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esent residential
se: Pr
Original
DESCRIPTION:
- - ate 1888 ;<+
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to nearest cross streets and/or T
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried / clapboards-1st floc,
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric wood shingles above
Indicate north.
Outbuildings carriage house (4 Laurel .,'I
St.) originally part of this property- i.
C]
Major alterations (with dates)
S i. fYvF
Moved Date
r
L.AFITy51fG ST, Approx. acreage less than one acre '
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114
Organization Salem Planning Dept. and lA
Date December, 1984
(Staple additional sheets here)
,11RC .IiTE-C-1 3RLI. SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the comrmmity.)
According to Bryant_ Tolles, "This spacious, irregular shaped, and richly textured residence
. is as forceful a statement of the Queen Anne style as may be found in Salem. Dominating
the building at its southeast corner is a grandiouse, three-story cylindrical tower capped
by a conical roof with a finial. Other distinctive Queen Anne features are the pedimented
; dormers projecting gabled pavilions, tall step-patterned brick chimneys, multi-storied window
bays, heavy roof cornices, roof, balustrades, and balustraded porch (Architecture in Salem,
i 444 i
I?I5-'ORICAL SIC1'IFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
254 Lafayette St, was built for lawyer William H. Gove (1851-1920) . A native of Maine,
Gove grew up in Lynn, MA. Although impossible today, Gove was admitted to the bar in
1872, before he attended Harvard College .and Harvard Law School (Class of 1877) . Until
1900, he practiced law on Washington St. in Salem after which he devoted himself to
business and political interests. His house is one of the finest left standing on
Lafayette St. and was built at a time when the south end of the street was developing
rapidly.
I BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFnRE\CES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3,
July, 1979 , p. 177.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p. 236.
Manchester,. Rev. Alfred E. "Address at the Funeral of the Honorable William H. Gove,"
Second Church, Salem, MA, April 18, 1920.
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SRC-il EC-1-UR-\L SIG IFIC4NCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terns of other buildings within the corrmznity.)
According to Bryant Telles, "This is one of New England's most outstanding Gothic Revival
houses. It is one of the gems of Salem's rich domestic heritage, there being no other
, Fexamples of its style and type survivng in the City" (Architecture in Salem, .p. 237) .
The source for this building was most likely Design II of Andrew Jackson Downing's Cottage
Residences (1842) . The house is symmetrically arranged with flush clapboards; windows with r
'drip cap moldings, corner quoins, a steep front central gable with a finial and ginger-
bread bargeboards, a gable trefoil window, and an open porch with Tudor arches and
miniature battlements.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Although this house was built for Timothy Brooks, by 1854 it bacame .the property of his
sone Henry. Henry Brooks was later to become the treasurer of the Forest River Lead
Company, located at the southernmost end of Lafayette St. on the Marblehead line.
Brooks was an antiquarian who served as secretary of the -Essex Institute, authored many
Institute papers, and co-published a book called Boston: Older Times Series--Gleanings t
from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem ` Brooks's house, besides its stylistic distinction,
is also notable as one of the earliest houses still standing on Lafayette St. since the
Fire of 1914 destroyed everything north of Holly St. , and =the Derby Estate, extending
south from Laurel St. to present-day Salem State College, was not subdivided until 1867-8.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFEPtENKES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Vol 115 , No. 3,
July 1979, pp. 177-178.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem, Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, pp. 237-8.
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FORM B BUILDING 3
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, • :
gyp 1
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nearest cross streets and/or
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Indicateall buildings between inventoried Clapboards and
property and nearest intersection Exterior wall fabric wood shingles
north.
Major • •
Approx.-LA�*PSL WILLOW
L,As s T. Moved Date
LAf7A4(-7T-IE ST
Recorded by Debra Hilbert • . Residential
Organization Salem Planning Department
Date-
ARC MTE—URAI. SIC;IFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This Queen Anx}e structure is one of the more elaborately designed carriage houses in
South Salem. With-its hip roof, cupola, front gable, pedimented dormers, and- octa-
gonal dormer on the east facade, the building presents a variety of roof shapes.
'II'Evidence of the hayloft is still intact, in the front gable. Another interesting
feature is the balustraded bay next to the carriage doors.
HISTORICAL SILNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
8
This carriage house was built for the William Gove House at 254 Lafayette Street
and repeats some of the same decorative details including the varied wall. surgycQs . _
(clapboards and shingles) , the dentiled cornice, and the prominent window molding
in the gable.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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Richards, L.J. , Atlas of the City of Salem, 1897.
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F0RM B - BUILDING 3.3 3 7
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA. 02108
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address 262 Lafayette St.
istoric Name William E. Bates House
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DESCRIPTION:
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
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w
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extended, Federal-style doorway added
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Moved Date
LAFf"gr- rF S Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting Residential, on Routes 114
Organization Salem Planning Dept. and lA
Date December 1984
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARC-1ITE�L=AL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
f evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
0 The Bates House shows that the Italianate style was still popular in Salem well into
the 1860'x. Typical of that style the building has a symmetrical facade, a cornice
with paired brackets and console modillions, bracketed window hoods on the front, drip
cap moldings in the side windows, segmentally arched dormers, and a second. story 2-sided
�. bay. The entrance porch has been enlarged and the front doorway altered with the
addition of an elliptical fanlight and sidelights.
HISTORICAL SILNIFICMCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the .co==ity.)
As with many of the houses erected on Lafayette St. in the second half of the 19th
Century, this house was built for a professional man, Dr. William E. Bates, a dentist .
It was one of the early houses to be constructed on the former Derby E'sta'te. 'Phe
estate was sold in 1867 to speculators James Almy, Nathaniel Wiggin, and Charles S
Clark who divided the land into building lots. The Bates House was the first one
built on its block and stood alone until 1870..The original lot extended all the way
back to Linden St.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES .(name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Calire D. "Domestic Architecture -in Victorian Salem, EIHC, Vol 115, No 3
July, 1979, p 178.
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HISTORICALMASSACHUSETTS 294 WASHINGTON STREET, :. 02108
s
own Salem
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listoric Name Langmaid House
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Indicate north.
Outbuildings
alterations . dates)
Moved Date
Approx.LArANCTT-E ST
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Set ting Residential, on Routes 114
Organization Salem Planning Dept.
Date December 19:4
ARai17=7UR-i. SIQ�IFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.)
The Langmaid House is a highly decorated example of a popular style along Lafayette St.:
Second Empire. The building is symmetricallly arranged with a concave mansard roof, a
2-..story entrance bay, and corner quions. The window trim on each floor is unique: brack-
eted hoods On the first floor, simple moldings on the second floor, elaborate window
caps on the front pay and traingular pedimented dormers with segmentally arched lintels
t ' in'the roof. Other details include flush boarding on 3 sides, and a c.•ornice with paired
; brackets and dentils.
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;3ISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the co==ity.)
This double house was built by lumber John P. Langmaid in 1870 for his 2 sons: number
266 for Frank A, aged 21 and number 268 for John H. , aged 22. Two years later
Langmaid built his own house at 17 Linden St. on a lot which backs onto 266-68
Lafayette St. These houses were two of the earliest to be developed on the Derby Estate
which had been subdivided in 1867-8.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
° Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem, " ElHC, Vol 115,
No. 3, July 1979, pp. 178-179.
SII, Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p .239.
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This house is one of several fine Queen Anne buildings for which Lafayette Street is noted.
Although it is sided on the first and second floors, the house's architectural details are
preserved. The structure is asymmetrically massed with a variety of roof shapes, including
a main hip roof, several gables, and a pyramidal roof cap over an octagonal tower. The
front gable features floral decoration; its scale-shaped and rectangular wood shingles
refhect ;the slate shingles of-:the tower roof. Other details are the dentiled cornice,
the multi-paned Syrian arched window, the north facade oriel, and the bands of shingling
v a ..
cver theycornice.
HISTORICAL, SI&'IFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the ccn=ity.)
270 Lafayette Street was built for Francis S. Barrows whose occupation is not listed in the
street directories probably because he was in his late 60's and retired when he moved to
this address. The house stands on land that was part of the 1868 subdivision of the western
portion of the Derby Estate. developed by Almy,- Wiggin, and Clark.
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^'Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3,
July,. 1979, pp. 179-180.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. , Architecture in SAlem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p. 239.
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APZ41TECP'JP-AL SIGUICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
While this house is rather backward looking in style reflecting the conservative tastes of
some of Salem's hbmeowners in the Victorian period, it is nevertheless, a fine Italianate
example. The building is symmetrically arranged with a hip roof, a cornice with paired
brackets and console modillions, elaborate dormers with arched windows and segmentally arched
., window caps, and a 3-sided bay over an enclosed entrance portico. Other decoration includes
bracketed window hoods on the first floor, flush boarding on the front and a south-side
porch.
HISTOPdCUT SILNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
274 Lafayette St. was built for Edward S. Thayer, a partner in th Boston firm of Seccomb, Kehew,
and Thayer, oil dealers. He was also the clerk of the Seccomb Oil Manufacturing Co. ,
located at the foot of Harbor Street in Salem. The house stands on land that .ai paft bf-
the 1858 subdivision of. the western portion of the Derby Estate'by Almy, Wiggin, and Clark.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
a
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem, ELHC, Vol. 115, No. 3,
July, 1979 , p. 180.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983. p. 240.
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TECTUR-,L SI�NIFICaNCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
According to Bryant Tolles, "Although a subdued articulation of the Queen Anne style, the
house is one of Salem's best'=examples. . .Dormers, multiple intersecting pitched roofs, bay
windows , balustrades, variously sized windows, modeled chimneys, and a wide entablature
(embellished with dentils and modillions) are all characteristically Queen Anne. The detail
is ,largely classical and small in scale. Both the front gable pediment and roof dormer possess
' .intriguingly decorated triangular panels, the former containing an ellipse and the latter a
Shield suggesting a coat of arms. Unlike more fully developed Queen Anne houses in which
several differently textured wall surfaces appear, the Devine House is sheathed entirely in
shingles, suggesting the influence of the Shingle Style, also in vogue during the late 19th_.. .
century" (Tolles,
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local .or state p, 241) .
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Mary A. Devine, the wife of liquor dealer Thomas A. Devine, purchased the land on which
this house stands from Clarence S. Clark and Charles A. Clark, probably descendants of
Charles S. Clark, who along with Nathaniel Wiggin and James F. Almy, developed the Derby
Farm land. The original lot was very large, consisting of 18,300 square feet. The 1892
valuation of -the property for tax purposes was $15,500 for the house, $2 ,000 for the stable,
and $3,000 for the land, a valuation close to twice that for any house in the area.
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EIELICXO" APHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3, July,
1979, pp. 180-181.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p. 241.
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FO LM B — BUILDING 3 3 G I
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. / Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings carriage house
X OCEAN AVF _Major alterations (with dates)
t X X
Moved Date
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Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by
Debra Hilbert Setting largely residential, on Routes
Organization Salem Planning Dept. 114 and 1A
Date December, 1984
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARC-IIIECNRaL SIGIIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in teens of other buildings within the cormnmity.)
The Emmerton House is one of Salem's most imposing Second Empire residences, with a substan-
tial slate shingled hip-on-mansard roof crowning a classically detailed structure. The
front of the house is covered by flush boarding scored to look like masonry, while the sides
are clapboarded. Triangular pediments are used throughout in the roof dormers, the first
floor windows, the front pavilion, and the enclosed entry porch. Other details include a
dentiled cornice, cornerboards, and a two-story bay with southern exposure. The building
I '%" features a fine carriage .house which repeats some of the detailing of the main structure.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the co==ity.)
Ephraim A. Emmerton, for whom this house was built, was one of the last natives of Salem
to make his livlihood from maritime commerce. His father and two grandfathers had also
spent their lives. at sea. At the age of 22, Emmerton brought his father's bark, Sophronia.,
home to Salem from Rio Grande, Brazil. In his later years he was ,a merchant and importer
and a partner in the firm of Ropes, Emmerton & Company with offices in the Asiatic National l
Bank Building located at 125 Washington St.
This house is one of the finest residences built on land developed by James F. Almy,
Nathaniel Wiggin, and Charles S. Clark fro.m_the.'Derby:iEstate.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem, EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3, July
1979, p. . 181.
Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p. 242.
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evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
The Library is one of the few public buildings built in South Salem; largey a residential
area. This one-story structure is asymmetrically arranged, one end being circular and
the other rectangular. At the center is a full-height pedimented entry portico on
Doric Columns with a full entablature. Other details include the semi-circular fanlight
over the door, the dentiled cornice, and the 12/12 sash with blind transoms.
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the com=pity.)
This building occupies the site of Ezekial Hersey Derby farmhouse. After the death in
1799 of his father, Elias Hasket Derby ( Salem's foremost merchant and shipowner),
Derby acquired a gambrel-roofed house that was on this- site -and several-a-cres of
surrounding land to serve as his country residence The estate remained in the Derby
family until 1867 when it was purchased by developers James Almy, Nathaniel Wiggin, and r':
Charles Clark. The farmhouse was later torn down to make way for the Library which
was opened to the public on April 10, 1913. It was the first branch of Salem's public
library system to occupy its own quarters.
BIBLIOGRAPHYI and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1, Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem,
EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3, July, 1979, p. 181.
2. Tolles, Bryant F. Jr. Architecture in Salem. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983.
"New Branch Library in South Salem Open Today for Public Inspection, Salem Evening
News, April 10, 1913.
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ROHi IE URAL SIa'IFICaNCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the co=mmity.)
The Lafayette Street United Methodist Church has three distinct components. The main church
building is oriented gable end to the street with a massive gothic arched stained glass
window on the front facade. This window and others on the building have drip. cap moldings.
The stone used as a foundation material on the church is repeated on the square hip-roofed
stair tower. This tower is buttressed at the southeast corner and has a gothic arched door- y
way and medieval window trim. The parish house at the south end of the complex has a Tudor
feeling from its cross gable arrangement, use of stucco as a wall material, and diamond-
paned casements in the gables. Other windows on this part of the building are 6/6 sash grouped
in two's and three's.
HISTORICAL SILLNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played ili local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the cocr=ity.)
This is the fourth building for the Methodist Church. Although the first Methodist sermon
was preached in Salem in 1790, it was not until 1822 that a church building was erected on
Sewall St. The Church then moved to Union St. in 1841 and to the corner of Lafayette and M1b
Harbor Sts. in 1851. Two of the .church trustees were James F. Almy and Charles S. Clark,
developers of the Derby Estate, which might explain how the church came to occupy its
present site. The land on which the parish house stands was obtained from a trade with
John and Catherine McMorrill (see survey form for 238 Lafayette St. ) in 1909.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES .(name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Gillespie, Charles E. , comp. Illustrated History of Salem and Environs. Salem: Salem
Evening News, 1897.
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," Essex Institute Historical
Collections, Vol. 115, No. 3, July, 1979.
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ARa'.ITECIURAI. SILNIFICaNCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
"The Nichols House is altered from its original appearance but remains, nonetheless, an
excellent example of its style. Characteristic features include an irregular floor plan, an
asymmetrical front' elevation, intersecting pitched roofs set at right angles to each other, a
round corner tower crowned by a conical roof with finial, pedimented (cross gables) , bay •
windows,'`an encircling porch (now enclosed) , varied wall surfaces (shingles and clapboards) ,
a tall molded brick chimney, thick raking cornices, and a wide entablature with dentil
moulding. Additional curved decorative motifs and stick work adorn the tower and. gable
pediments of the front facade." Tolles, p. 243.
HISTORICAL SI&'IFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
300 Lafayette Street was built by William S. Nichols who was a bank teller with the Salem Safe,
Deposit Company at the time of its construction. Nichols went on to become treasurex• .
The house stands on land that was part of the 1868 subdivision of the western portion of the
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Derby Estate by Almy, Wiggin and Clark.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES .(name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," EIHC, Fol. 115, No. 3, pp. 181-182,
Tolles, Bryant F. , Jr. Architecture in Salem, Salem, MA Essex Institute, 1983, p. 243
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FORM B — BUILDING ORM NO.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL
294 • BOSTQN, MA 02108
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Show property' s location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to
nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate tv Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric MRnboa ds
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Major • • • • . -
portico enclosed, first floor
windows . room
Moved 1-
Approx. te
Recorded by Debra Hilberta • - on Routes
Organization Planning Department
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ii:LCN��1 SI�IFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the comnmity.)
310 Lafayette Street was typical of the single family Colonial Revival dwellings built at the
turn of the centuNy. Originally it was probably symmetrical in appearance. The house has a
roof, roof dormers,. a second story bay over the entrance portico (which has been enclosed)
and a balustraded bay- to the left of the entry.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The 1911 Salem Atlas shows that this house was owned by Charles D. Mudgett. The first year
that thistdwelling appears in the local directory is 1903. The occupants were Sarah A. Pludgett,
the wiz ow of Daniel Mudgett, a stable owner, and two boarders, Elisabeth S. and Charles D.
;'udgett, probably Sarah's children. The lot on which this house stands was part of the 1£368
subdivision of the west half of the Derby Estate; it was the southern most lot along Lafayette
Street in the subdivision which ran from Laurel Street to Forest Avenue.
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BIBLIDGWHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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Walker Co. Atlas of the City of _Salem, 1911
1903-4 haunkeag Directory
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?tip-";SSACEUSETTS HISTORICAL CONIIISSION
t 2 'vrSHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
[wa Salem
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T- 241 Lafayette St.
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Willis S. Perry House
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Original
residential
DESCRIPTION:
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate N Architect
all buildings between inventoried stucco
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
X X
l EAta+ S-i Major alterations (with dates)
C2
is
Moved Date
LA FAyFTTE 51 Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114 .add
Organization Salem Planning Dept. lA
January, 1985
Date
(Staple additional sheets here)
RCHITEi IIRaL SIQ;IFI0%NCE (Describe inportant architectural features and
evaluate in terms of or-her buildings within the community.)
This house is typical of the single family dwellings built along Lafayette St. immediately
after the Fire of 1914. The symmetrically arranged hip-roofed structure has a full-width
first story porch supported by fluted Doric columns. Other features are the central entry
with sidelights and an elliptical fanlight, the second story bay, the oriels on the-north
and south facades, and the roof dormers and balustrade.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the. role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
241 Lafayette St. was built for Willis Perry, an advertising agent. It stands on the
site of an 1882 house, the only one south of Leach St. along Lafayette to be destroyed
by the Fire of 1914.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1914,,1915 Salem Directories '
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G M`. .:,SSACFUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
/ .:94 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
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Salem
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249 Lafayette St.
storic Name John F. Brooks House
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DESCRIPTION:
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
t�'GttY Si �,e�.cH Sr.
x X
x
X X ,,Major alterations (with dates)
x o
X First floor sash replaced with case-
ment, sash also replaced on south side.
I P. F/}yrtTrz: ST.
Moved Date
Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114
Organization
Salem Planning Dept. and lA
Date January, 1985
(Staple additional sheets here)
R
,.R0JiTEC URAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is one of about half a dozen Italianate dwellings on Lafayette Street. The strut-
ture has a gable roof oriented flank end to the street with a center gable breaking the
cornice line on the front. Details include corner quoins, paired cornice brackets, flush .c
boarding scored to look like masonry on the front, and an enclosed balustraded entrance
portico. The window trim consists of bracketed window caps on the first floor and segmentally
arched and square drip cap moldings on the upper floor. , Most of the windows appear singly, , .
but there is a set of paired sash over the .entrance. R.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain therole owners played in local or state ...
history and how the building relates to the-development of the comummity.)
249 Lafayette St. was built for John F. Brooks, a merchant whose business address was on
State St. in Boston. Brooks was typical of the professional and business people building
houses. on Lafayette St. during the last 30 years of the 19th century. This lot adjoined
the Messervy Estate which was intact until at least 1893, but Brooks's lot was not part
of a similar estate development.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hopkits, G. M & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874.
1869, 1872 Salem Directories
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AiC�ITECIURAL KGGIFIC NCrr, (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This hip-roofed dwellings with hip-roofed dormers is typical of the Colonial 1 Revival residences ,
in South Salem. Tpe house has a full width one story porch across the front supported on
paired Tuscan columns with a railing. Except that the front door and the window above it
are slightly off-center,' the front facade has a symmetrical appearance. On either side of
the entrance is a two-story bay running up through the porch. Other features are full molded
chimneys, broad overhanging eaves, and a modillioned cornice.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
253 Lafayette Street was built for Jones- F. Devlin, a partner of Devlin Brothers. manufacturers
of shoe stock" on Mill Street. Jones's brother, John, lived at 214 Lafayette Street which burned
in the 1914 fire. A second brother, Thomas, lived in Brookline. The house stands on land
owned by William Messervy from as early as 1864 to at least 1893. An'1893 plan of land or
file at the Registry of Deeds shows a subdivision including this lot and six others.
255 Lafayette is the only building'on .the plan indicating that 'the Devlin house is probably '
the first building on its site.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFSRE\i10ES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Walker Go. Atlas of the City Df Salem, 1911.
1901, 1903-4 Naumkeag Directories.
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t AREA F0,:M N0.
FORM B - BUILDING
I
^IASSAC USETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
I294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
a
1 I \ wn Salem
dress - 255-259 Lafayette St.
storic Name William Messervy House &
Jose Margati House
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T DESCRIPTION:
c to 41255-c. 1868, 11259-c. 1870
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SKETCH MAP
Showproperty' s location in relation Style Second Empire
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried N
property and nearest intersection. A Exterior wail fabric asbestos siding
Indicate north. / 1950's house on
/ Outbuildings garages,
X rear of lot
X C�
X Major alterations (with dates)
X X LUv4 Avf, siding added; walkway built in 1980
Moved 11259 Date 1938
`A-FAn(Efrk 5T, Approx. acreage less than one acre
Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114
Recorded by and 1A
Organization Salem Planning Dept.
Date January, 1985
(Staple additional sheets here)
j ONCE irmortant architectural features and
-..,CKII�L�IURaI. SI�iIFIG (Describe _ _
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
Although similar in size and shape to other Second Empire houses along Lafayette St. , these
two have been altered substantially especially as regards siding material. Both houses have
mansard roofs with scalloped slate shingles, although only 9259 is concave in shape. Window
treatments are similar on the two buildings; the second story sash are segmentally arched_
and both have dormers, those on 11255 being flat topped while the ones on 11259 are rounded.
The entry to #255 was probably on the front facade in the center bay but has been relocated
to the south side to face the entry of 11259. The walkway is a 1980 addition.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the cormmmity.)
Until 1938, these houses were located across the street from each other. 11255, which stands
on its original site, was the home of William Messervy. Messervy owned several acres of
land consisting of what is now 253-259 Lafayette St. and stretching all the way east to
Salem Sound. This estate was intact until as late as 1893. #259 was built for Jose Margati, -
whom directories list as a clerk working in Boston. The house was originally located at
256 Lafayette St. where the Ives'Greenhouse is now and was moved to its present site upon ' r
construction of the latter building. The house was rotated 90 degress when it was placed in
its present location.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hopkins, G. M. & Go. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874.
1866, 1869, 1872 Salem::Directories .
Information provided by Claire Johnson.
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AREA FORM N0.
FOR-11 B - BUILDING 3 3 Cf 6
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M-kSSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
7 own
Salem
dress., 261-263 Lafayette Street
istoric Name James H. Andrews House
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DESCRIPTION:
ate c, 1856
Source directories, 1874 atlas
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Italianate
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried N
property and nearest intersection. /� Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north. none
Outbuildings
LA-Q(ZEt X ❑ Major alterations (with dates)
X j( A-V
Moved Date
C-A FA YO� S 1• Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential, on Routes 114
Organization Salem Planning Dept. and 1A
Date
January, 1985
(Staple additional sheets here)
i�C':Ii_„iJR_%L, SILNIFIC4NCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the com rL=ty.)
The Andrews House is one of the few Italianate buildings still standing on Lafayette Street.
This double house has a symmetrically arranged facade, a hip roof, and paired entries (each
with a transom and sidelights) that share a bracketed door hood. Other features include
flush .boarding on the front, corner quoins, molded window caps, a bracketed cornice, and a
south side bay.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
261-263 Lafayette St. was built by James H. Andrews and later owned by his widow Ruth. It
appears that the Andrewses lived in the left half of the house and rented the right half to
tenants. One of these tenants was George F. Flint, a lawyer who lived here from 1872 until
at least 1881. The Andrews-House is one of the earliest buildings left standing on the east
side of the street since everything north of Holly and Leach Streets burned in the Fire of.
1914.,
-BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REF"iRLNCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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1855, 1857 Salem Directories
Hopkins, G. M. & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874.
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FORM B - BUILDING 3 Y y a
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
own Salem
t�ddress 255-267 Lafayette Street
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House
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Original Residential
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ate c. 1872
Source Tolles
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Second Empire
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate N Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric Synthetic siding
Indicate north.
Outbuildings Small one story building
(once a store?)
Major alterations (with dates)
LAvR�� S% X x y�i«ow ���E.
X q Rear addition c. 1920
Moved Date
eft Fa�{Et(E" S i
Approx. acreage Less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting Residential, on Routes -114 &- 1A
Organization Salem Planning Department
Date January, 1985
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARC-IITECMAL, SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.)
This house, although sided, is a well-preserved exmaple of the Second Empire style which
was popular alongLafayette Street. It is symmetrically arranged with a concave mansard roof,
center. doorways wlth segmentally arched transoms, a flat-roofed entry porch supported by
square molded porch posts, incised: corner pilasters, paired cornice brackets, gabled dormers,
and windows with segmentally arched moldings.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
265-267 Lafayette Street was built for George R. Harris, a Boston bookkeeper and Joseph H. Webb,
a cashier at the National Exchange Bank in Salem. It was one of the first houses to be
constructed on a lot from the 1867 subdivision of Derby Estate east of Lafayette Street.
1.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Tolles, Bryant F. Architecture in Salem, Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1983, p. 238.
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evaluate in terns of other buildings within the conmmiity.)
The third story addition is an unfortunate alteration to this unusual Neoclassical house.
with its double story balustraded portico supported on two massive Doric columns. The house
has a center fanlit entry surrounded by two-story bays and a full-width porch on paired
columns. The cornices are very deep and have exposed roof beams (generally a Craftsman, -
feature) .
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the comity.)
271 Lafayette Street was built for Joseph L. Simon, a partner in Fanning, Simon & Co. ,
realtors and builders whose office was on Essex Street. Although the lot on which the
house stands was part of the 1867 subdivision of the east half of the Derby Estate, it
was not built upon until about 1910.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFER.E1'CES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1910, '1911 Salem Directories
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aRC:ITE1--aWL SIC41FIG4NCE (Describe important architectural feat,.u•es and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is one of the fine Second Empire dwellings typical of those south of Holly St. which
survived the Fire of 1914. It is symmetrically arranged with a slate shingled mansard roof,
segmentally arche8 dormers, and a center entry marked by a bracketed porch on square posts.
Other decorative details include incised corner boards, the band below the second story-windows, -
the bracketed cornice", flushboarding, and the rounded corners of the second story windows. +.
HISTORICAL SIL'IFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the com=ity.)
277 Lafayette St. was built for J. Ford Smith, a"jeweller whose shop was on Essex St. This
house stands on land that was part of the 1867 subdivision of the eastern portion of the
Derby Estate by Almy, Wiggin, and Clark.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1869, 1x72 Salem Directories
Hopkins, G.M. & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874,
fort - 7/92
•1A FORM NO.
- FORM B — BUILDING A
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
wa Salem
dress 281 Lafayette St.
zstoric Name Phillip H. Peach House
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- c ° Original
DESCRIPTION:
to c. 1873
A� Source Directories, Hopkins Atlas
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Italianate
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric Alum. siding
Indicate north.
Outbuildings Garage
X
X = Major alterations (with dates)
X X pCFh,a tvE.
Moved Date
L/{ FM K frE ST.
Approx. acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting Residential, on Routes 114
Organization Salem Planning Dept. and 1A
Date January, 1985
(Staple additional sheets here)
.AMUT-Ht"T'U U SI�IFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
e�:aluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This Italianate house is typical in size and scale of the Victorian houses .built along Lafayette
St. It is symmetrically arranged with a low hip roof, segmentally arched dormers, a center
entry under a balufftraded portico with open brackets, paired round arched windows- over.ihe
front doors, bracketed window caps, deep eaves, a prominent cornice, and a bracketed door . y ,
hood over the north side entry.
HISTORICAL SILNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the dtaelopment of the conmanity.)
, 281 Lafayette. St. was built for dentist Philip H. Peach whose .office was on Essex St. The .
'house stands on land that was part of the 1867 subdivision of the eastern portion of the Derby
'Estate by Almy, Wiggin, and Clark.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFEMCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1872, 1E`4 Salem Directories
Hopkins, G.M. & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874,
•s,
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10M - 7/82
FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORT! xo.y 3 b
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
_\ rown Salem
.� T Pddress 285 Lafavette St.
11 iistoric NameLuther D. Pettingill House
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se: Present Residential
NO
Original
V4 DESCRIPTION:
ate c.. 1868
Source Directories, Hopkins Atlas
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Italianate
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings garage
X Major alterations (with dates)
OCEAN "e-n
X X
Moved Date
L-AfftyE-ITE 5T.
Approx. acreageless than one acre
Recorded by Debra Hilbert Setting residential
woOrganization Salem Planning Dept.
Date January, 1985 '
(Staple additional sheets here)
A%l^i.ITE=_%L SIGIIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is typical in size and scale of the Victorian houses built along Lafayette„3t.
It is symmetrically arranged with a low hip roof, segmentally arched dormers, an
enclosed pedimented portico, a bracketed entablature cornice, and heavy molded window '
caps (those on ,the first floor front are peaked and have a starburst which is repeated
in the portico pediment. ) y
HISTORICAL SILIIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the co=ity.)
285 Lafayette St. was built for Luther D. Pettingill; a partner in the Derby Wharf
fishery Pettingill and Brother. This house is one of the earliest to be built'on land
that was part of the 1867 subdivision of the eastern portion of the Derby Estate.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1866, 1869 Salem Directories
Hopkins, G.M. & Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1874,
k
IOM - 7/82
ARFA --TFOR.11 NO.
F032% B BUILDING
HISTORICAL • 1
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108
4
Salem
Jdress 303 Lafayette St.
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�RG�uI`iURaI SICIIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and .
evaluate in terns of other buildings within the community.)
The Pickering is the only brick apartment block on Lafayette St. south of Holly and Leach . .
Sts. and it is similar in design to other apartment buildings of its era located further
north along Lafayette. This three—story brick building is symmetrically arranged with as
front facade that steps back twice. A shallow portico supported on Doric columns marks 4
the front entry. Other features are the modillioned cornice and plain concrete window'
lintels. The building's sash are generally grouped in two's and three's and there are
recessed balconies on the south elevation.
;HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the cmmtamity.)
This apartment block stands on the site of a house owned by George V. and Ella P. Pickering.
George was a coal, wood and building materials merchant on Derby St. After his death,
his wife built a house on the adjacent lot at 1 Clifton. Ave; it seems likely that she
had her former residence demolished and erected this building for income producing purposes.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFME10ES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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1929, 1931 Salem Directories
Walker Co. Atlas of the City of Salem, 1911.
101 - 7/82
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'�iITEC;URa? SIIIFIC-MCE (Describe portant architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmmity.)
1 Clifton Avenue is a symmetrically arranged Colonial Revival house with a hip roof and center
entry marked by a Doric columned, pedimented portico. The door ' has an elipticai fanlight '
and is .flanked by- round-headed windows. other features are the exposed rafters and the S
windows in ones, twos, and threes. +
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the conmmity.)
Directories show that the first owner of this house was Ella P. Pickering, the widow of
George V. Pickering, who was a coal, wood, and building materials merchant on Derby Street.
When George was alive, the Pickeringslived around the corner at 303 Lafayette Street. That
house was replaced by 1930 with an apartment block called ".The Pickering." It seems likely
that Ella Pickering built 1 Clifton Avenue for herself to live. in after her husband died
and then had her old house demolished and replaced with the apartment block for income
producing purposes. The 1929 Directory shows that she rented part of 1 Clifton Avenue
to Ernest Boyd, an employee of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co.
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BIBLIOui2APHY and/or REFFIa CES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1926, 1`929 Salem Directories
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