238 Lafayette Street - sal_2030 (2)
Inventory No:SAL.2030
Historic Name:McMorrill, John House
Common Name:
Address:238 Lafayette St
City/Town:Salem
Village/Neighborhood:South Salem
Local No:33-345
Year Constructed:1910
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):Colonial Revival
Use(s):Single Family Dwelling House
Significance:Architecture
Area(s):
SAL.GP: Lafayette Street, 238-310
SAL.GR: Fire Area
SAL.HT: Lafayette Street Historic District
Designation(s):Local Historic District (08/12/1985)
Building Materials(s):
Roof: Slate
Wall: Wood Clapboard
Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut
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DESCRIPTION:
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Source EIHC, Vol. 115, No. 3
Style Colonial Revival
Architect
Exterior wail 'fabric clapboards
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
Moved Date
less than one acre Approx. acreage_
residential, on Routes 114 Setting ;
and 1A
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APJCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important_ architectural xeatures 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-
cal 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
with a triangular pediment containing plaster decoration, a second story three-sided bay,
corner pilasters, and hip-roofed dormers.
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 cf 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).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Johnson, Claire D. "Domestic Architecture in Victorian Salem," Essex Institute Historical
Collection, Vol. 115, No. 3,. July, 1979, pp. 175-176.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET SALEM 238 LAFAYETTE ST
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1
SAL.GP, SAL.HT SAL.2030
Supplemental photograph by Patti Kelleher, Salem Department of Planning & Community Development, December 2016
RECEIVED
JUN 20 2017
MASS. HIST. COMM.