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The Peabody Essex Museum is here, along with the Witch History Museum and lots of spooky shops. My friends and I enjoyed Wicked Good Books, a fantastic little bookshop. For more than a century, The House of the Seven Gables has been a welcoming, thriving, historic site and community resource that engages people of all backgrounds in our inclusive American story. Caroline Emmerton, a philanthropist and preservationist, founded the present-day nonprofit as a museum and Settlement House to assist immigrant families arriving in Salem. Inspired by Jane Addam’s Hull House, she purchased the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in 1908 and worked with architect Joseph Everett Chandler to restore it to its perceived appearance from the 1600s.
Chamber music to benefit the House of the Seven Gables
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The House of the Seven Gables in Salem is hosting a chamber music concert next month to raise funds for its immigrant-focused settlement program. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic novel about the fictional Pyncheon family who lived during the Salem Witch Trials was inspired by a real house in Salem, MA. Colonel Pyncheon craved land owned by another man – Matthew Maule so he took it. During the Salem Witch Trials, people were brutal and if you wanted your neighbour’s land, all you had to do to get it was to accuse them of witchcraft.
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Upon looking back, it proves the depths that we can sink in order to fulfill a cause. As mentioned, the House of the Seven Gables now operates as a museum, teaching a newer generation of the fragile times in which we once lived. The haunted manor has more unexplained actions from within, such as lights turning off and on at will, as well as water faucets actuating all on their own. Museum staff and visitors alike have reported the feeling of an unknown entity in the house.
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Admission also includes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Birthplace, waterfront views, and a unique museum store. Other stops that I didn’t officially visit or take pictures of that are on the official Heritage Trail include the Charlotte Forten Park, named for an early African-American activist. The official Salem Witch Museum (not the same as the Witch History Museum) housed in the grand East Church. And adjacent Salem Common, the city park known as the birthplace of the US National Guard. My particular walk down the Heritage Trail took us down Essex Street, a pedestrian mall of shops and tours.
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Tickets cost $13 and can be combined with the Witch History Museum and the New England Pirate Museum for an $8 savings overall. The House of the Seven Gables is on one end of the heritage trail, so it makes a good spot to start from, especially with the free parking. There’s also a paid parking garage across from the Salem Visitor Center. I didn’t go into most of these other places, so I don’t feel like I can make a proper post about the Heritage Trail itself, so I thought I’d just tack it on here. If you are in Salem to walk around on the Heritage Trail, you’ll find it easy to do.
Information is available for visitors that cannot access our historic house museums. After leaving my backpack in the visitor center, I headed towards the mansion to join the tour and walk around the place that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel. In 1668, sea captain John Turner built a multi-room house on the Salem waterfront.
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And while it is referred to by that name, the official name is the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, named for the previous owners. If you’re ever in Salem, Massachusetts, and want to walk the Salem Heritage Trail, a good place to start (and to park) is The House of the Seven Gables. I’m always a fan of a good house tour, and this one is almost as interesting for its history as a tourist spot as it is for the Hawthorne novel that made it famous. Named after its triangular peaks, or gables, the mansion is now open to the public as a museum. While it is non-profit, there is an admission fee to take a tour.
The Salem Witch Trials
In his Cleopatra and Libyan Sybil, he sculpted strong, sensuous, controversial women and earned international acclaim. Sadly, innocent victims had to pay the ultimate price for society’s bent thinking. And that is the fact that we cannot act on our emotions alone, especially – and most importantly – when we don’t have all of the facts.
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At age 14, the family left Salem for Raymond, Maine, but Hawthorne would return just one year later to begin his preparation for college entrance. His classmates included Franklin Pierce and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is then that he starts to visit his cousin Susanna at the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, which would later be the backdrop for his famed novel, The House of the Seven Gables. Experience a more personal history of Salem from the perspectives of the people who don’t make it into the history books. From enslaved people to indentured servants to immigrants fleeing war and looking for opportunity the Derby St. Neighborhood has been a backbone of Salem since its earliest days.
That event alone seemed to have set off a firestorm of paranormal activity, and anyone who has looked into Salem’s past surely knows about the House of the Seven Gables. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthplace, moved to the grounds of The House of the Seven Gables in 1958, from its original location a few blocks away on Union Street. After John Turner III lost the family fortune, the house was acquired by the Ingersolls, who remodeled it again. Support The House of the Seven Gables at our annual fundraiser, Sips by the Sea, on Saturday, June 1st. The evening will be full of fun, food, purpose, and philanthropy on our oceanfront lawn. Ferry service from Boston is available with a fast, comfortable ride in only 45 minutes from Boston's Central Wharf, home of the New England Aquarium.
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The actual Turner-Ingersoll Mansion is not known to be haunted, but the fictional house is haunted in a different way. Instead of being haunted by ghosts and spirits, the House of the Seven Gables is haunted by a curse that has followed the Pyncheon family through generations, plaguing them with bad fortune. Another reason the house may be thought of as haunted is, as I mentioned above, how Clifford moves though the house seemingly unseen.
In the novel, there’s a character called Clifford who hadpreviously been jailed for murdering his uncle. However, it’s later revealedthat he was framed by his cousin so he could get his hands on Clifford’sinheritance. I know this is afictional story, but people in history have been known to do worse. Caroline Emmerton, a philanthropist and preservationist, founded the present day museum to assist immigrant families who were settling in Salem. Inspired by Jane Addam’s Hull House, she purchased what was the old Turner Mansion in 1908 and worked with architect, Joseph Everett Chandler to restore it to its original seven gables. Chandler was a central figure in the early 20th century historic preservation movement and his philosophy influenced the way the house was preserved.
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