10 Summer St - inventory form
Inventory No:SAL.1494
Historic Name:
Common Name:
Address:10 Summer St
City/Town:Salem
Village/Neighborhood:Central Salem
Local No:26-469
Year Constructed:r 1800
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):Federal
Use(s):Multiple Family Dwelling House
Significance:Architecture
Area(s):SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District
SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District
Designation(s):Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District
(03/03/1981)
Building Materials(s):Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Granite
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NRDIS 8/28/1973; LHD 3/3/1981
FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's
Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125
26-469 Salem HU 1494
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Town Salem
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Central Salem
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Late 18th/
Early 19th C
Architectural Design and
See Bibliography*
Federal
ct/Builder
r Material:
Foundation Granite
Wall/Trim Clapboard/Wood
Roof Not Visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations (with dates) Bay window
over porch (mid 19th C.?); Rear ell
(1851-1874); Exterior chimney (early
20th C.?), Porch (late 20th C.).
Recorded by: Susan Ceccacci and
Dianne L. Siergiej
Organization: Commonweal Collaborative
Condition
Moved X no
Acreage
Good
yes Date
5,120 SF
Date:
Setting Set close to the sidewalk behind
a narrow landscaped strip of land in a
July 1995 «i t~ 0 t i \/ El D densely-settled, mixed-use neighborhood of
SEP 2 9 195:
MASS. HIST, COMM.
19th through 20th-century buildings.
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BUILDING FORM 10 Summer Street
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION See continuation sheet.
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.
This three-story, five-bay, center-entry, hip-roofed house is two bays deep
with a two-story rear addition. One of a pair of interior chimneys survives
on the north side. A modern, exterior chimney stands on the south side. Like
many large Salem houses of the Federal period, this building is modelled after
an Italian palace. It is boxy in appearance and symmetrical in its design.
Windows diminish in size at ascending levels. Window frames are molded and
window sash are 6/6. A major feature of the building is the apparently
entirely modern (ca. 1990's) Classical style front porch. Possibly inspired
by a Federal period original, it has smooth-shafted, Doric posts, a fileted
frieze, a dentil motif, a projecting cornice, and a square bay window above it
that probably dates from the mid-19th century. Above the porch is a
three-faceted bay window at the second floor level, probably added in the mid
or late 19th century. Map study indicates that the rear ell was added between
1851 and 1874.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE X See continuation sheet.
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state history. Include uses
of the building and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The history of the lot on which this house stands is long, but precise details
about the house in its present form are scarce. The divided ownership of the
house throughout most of its history makes it difficult to understand when it
might have taken its present, imposing Italian palace form. Further research
to learn the occupations of known of owners during the 18th and early 19th
centuries might help suggest a possible date for the house in its
present form.
Its Federal style suggests that either a new house may have been built during
the late 18th or early 19th centuries, or that the earlier house might
possibly have been remodelled and enlarged at that time. Further documentary
and physical investigation will be necessary to better understand this house
and its history.
This lot was part of a two acre parcel granted to Philip Verrin, possibly as
early as the early 1630's. It appears that the first house on the present
site was built between 1700 and 1720 by JOtth "i-Sascoll, Jr., who conveyed it to
his son-in-law, Isaac Williams, in 1720. From the time of Williams' death in
1779, until 1809, when both halves of the property were acquired by his
grandson, Samuel Carrell Pope, the house at this location was divided into
northern and southern halves under separate ownership by family members.
Pope's sole ownership was brief, for the house at this location continued
under divided ownership at least until the 1850's. Salem maps for the years
1874, 1897, and 1911 give a single owner for both halves of the house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES X See continuation sheet.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places;
If checked, see attached National Register Criteria Statement form.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Salem
10 Summer Street
Area HU Form No. 1494
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued)
They were Jonathan Pierce, described as a trader, who was the owner in 1874
and Sarah H. Ropes, who owned it in 1897 and 1911. Pierce, Ropes, and all the
property owners through the late 1950's, when the house was converted to
apartments, were owner/occupants.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
*Nystedt, Mark, Research Report: 10 Summer Street, Historic Salem
Inc., Salem, Massachusetts, October 1993.
Beers, D. G. & Company, Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts,
1872.
Hopkins, G. M. & Co., Atlas of Salem, Massachusetts, 1874.
Mclntyre, Henry C. E., Map of the City of Salem, Mass, 1851.
Richards, L. J., Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts....,
1897.
Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company, Atlas of the City of
Salem, Massachusetts, 1911.
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Original Use_
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Date "?S""O Style
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IMPORTANCE of site to area: Great Little None SITE endangered by_
4. DESCRIPTION"
Brick Stone Other
FOUNDATION/BASEMENT: High Regular Low Material^
WALL COVER: Wood
STORIES: 1 2 3 4 CHIMNEYS: 1 2 3 4 Center End Cluster Elaborate Irregular
ATTACHMENTS: Wing's Ell Shed Dependency Simple/Complex
PORCHES: 1 2 3 4 {^rtic^Balcony £ Recessed
ROOF: Ridge Gambrel Flat Hipi^lansard
Tower Cupola Dormer windows Balustrade Grill work
FACADE: Gable End: Front/Side Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Simple /Complex Ornament
Entrance: Front/Side Centered Double Features:
Windows: Spacing: Regular/irregular Identical/Varied
Corners: Plain Pilasters Quoins Obscured
OUTBUILDINGS LANDSCAPING
5. indicate location of structure on map below 6. Footage of structure from street
Property has feet frontage on street
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REFERENCE (Where was this information obtained? What book, records, etc.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Original Owner:
Deed Information: Book Number Page , Registry of Deeds
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