File:FIRST FLOOR, SOUTHWEST ROOM, SOUTH WALL - Derby House, 168 Derby Street, Salem, Essex County, MA HABS MASS,5-SAL,30-10.tif

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FIRST FLOOR, SOUTHWEST ROOM, SOUTH WALL - Derby House, 168 Derby Street, Salem, Essex County, MA
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FIRST FLOOR, SOUTHWEST ROOM, SOUTH WALL - Derby House, 168 Derby Street, Salem, Essex County, MA
Depicted place Massachusetts; Essex County; Salem
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS MASS,5-SAL,30-10
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Presently owned by the National Park Service, the house is administered by a superintendent with offices in the Custom House, 178 Derby Street. It functions as a completely furnished early American house museum, open all year to the public. A caretaker occupies the third floor rooms and kitchen ell. Two periods of extensive restoration work have contributed to preserving the Derby House as a good example of an eighteenth century gambrel roof house, generally associated with a date earlier than 1761-62 when it was built. It is the oldest brick house remaining in Salem, an older one having been torn down. The wood stair with carved balusters and newel post, and beveled wall paneling are interesting architectural details. The house is important in connection with early merchant families of Salem, including Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799), merchant who is reputed to be the first American millionaire and for whom the house was built, Captain Henry Prince, shipmaster and merchant, and William Ropes, merchant.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N217
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-306
  • Survey number: HABS MA-269
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0158.photos.078902p
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Object location42° 31′ 09.98″ N, 70° 53′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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