<p>The Lynn Memorial City Hall and Auditorium is a large Art Deco building that defines the civic heart of Lynn, Massachusetts. The building serves three functions: first, it houses the citys principal offices, including the mayors office, as well as the chambers of the city council. Second, it memorializes the citys fallen in the nations military conflicts. Third, it houses a large public performance space, with a seating capacity over 2,000. It is located at Three City Hall Square.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1948-49 by the M.A. Dyer Company and John Bowen Company. Lynn&#39;s mayor Albert Cole was the driving force behind the design and construction of the building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Lynn Masonic Hall is a historic Masonic building located at 64-68 Market Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was built in 1880 for the Lynn branch of YMCA. It is one of two surviving Victorian Gothic buildings in downtown Lynn. YMCA occupied the building until 1907, when it moved to other quarters  across the street. The building was sold to the local Masonic lodge.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Lynn Bank Block is a historic bank building at 21–29 Exchange Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. The three-story building was built for the First National Bank of Lynn and the Lynn Institution for Savings in 1891. It was the first Colonial Revival construction in Lynn&#39;s rebuilding effort after a disastrous fire destroyed much of its central business district in 1889. Most of the earlier buildings erected after the fire were in Romanesque Revival styling. The building features a large central entry section with an arch framing a recessed doorway and a Palladian window above, which is flanked by columns. On either side of the entry the building extends for three window bays. The two banking institutions shared the building, one occupying each side.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The building currently serves as the headquarters of LynnArts, a local arts organization. It was also home to the studios of noted independent alternative rock station, WFNX for the station&#39;s entire existence from 1983 to 2012. Both LynnArts and WFNX used the address of the building as 25 Exchange Street.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Low House is a historic house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, with a symmetrically windowed five-bay main facade, a rear two-story addition, and a second two-story addition on the right side. The house is first mentioned in a 1708 deed, when it was transferred from John Low to his brother Thorndike. The house has only very minor evidence of its First Period origin. It began as a two-story structure with two rooms on each floor and a chimney between. A leanto addition came at a later date, and was raised to a full second story sometime in the 18th century. The addition on the right side is modern , but is built on the footprint of an older addition. The house was complete restyled during the Federalist period.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Lovejoy House is a historic house at 64 Broad Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. The -story Colonial Revival mansion was built in 1893 for Doctor Charles Lovejoy, one of the founders of Lynn Hospital. It features a Palladian entrance with pilasters topped by a triangular pediment surrounding a recessed entry. The entry is flanked by wings that have two windows on the first floor, one on the second, and then gable-dormered windows at the top.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was included in the Diamond Historic District in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The William Livermore House is a historic First Period house in Beverly, Massachusetts. It is a 2.5-story five-bay colonial wood-frame house that was built in stages. The oldest part of the house, the right front, was built c. 1700, along with the chimney. The left side was added early in the Second Period, and a major addition was made to the rear, adding another row of rooms and a new roof. As a result, the chimney, which normally protrudes through the ridge of the roof in First Period houses, instead protrudes through the front of the roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Lincolnshire is a grand mansion at 22 Hidden Road and 28 Hidden Way in Andover, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built between 1897 and 1898 for Henry Bradford Lewis (1868-1951), who made a considerable fortune from his scouring mills in Lawrence. Lewis was in charge of the three mills of the E. Frank Lewis Co. and the American Lanolin Co., which employed 500 persons at their peak.</p><br>
<p>The architects of the house were Merrill & Cutler of Lowell. It was formerly attributed to George G. Adams of Lawrence, who designed a similar mansion for Lewis&#39; father in that city.</p><br>
<p>At his death in 1951, Lewis left this house and its greenhouse, to his wife Lillian. The house was too large to be maintained for only one occupant, and the building was sold in 1953 to C. Lincoln Giles and converted into apartments. The carriage house is now a single-family residence.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places because it is distinguished:</p><br>
<p>by its association with a wealthy Lawrence manufacturer</p><br>
<p>as an excellent example of around the start of the 20th-century architecture on a grand scale.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the Colonial Revival style structure with some Palladian and Queen Anne elements, along with ocular windows. It has cross-gambrel pavilions and a small window in an exterior chimney. The original, Colonial Revival carriage house at the rear is similarly large in scale, with wood shingles and a large gambrel roof.</p><br>
<p>The Larch Farm, also known as the Goldsmith-Pickering House, is a historic First Period farmhouse in Wenham, Massachusetts. The house is a large colonial -story wood-frame house, eight bays wide. The northern half of the house is three bays deep, and the southern half is two deep. Its complicated construction history begins in 1700, when Zaccheus Goldsmith was given permission to take timber for the purpose of building a house 40 ft wide and 20 ft deep. This structure was two stories high, with a leanto section in the rear and a chimney on its right. An addition during the Georgian period removed that chimney and doubled the size of the house, and moved the front door to the north side. A wing was added on the south during the 1780s, and the exterior was remodeled later to give the house a Federal style appearance. The interior of the house includes surviving decorative features from all three periods of construction.</p><br>
<p>The house is also notable for its purchase in 1806 by Timothy Pickering, a former United States Secretary of State. Pickering transformed the Goldsmith property into a rural country estate, planting linden and larch trees on the grounds. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Fitz Henry Lane House is a historic house at 8 Harbor Loop Road, on the harbor side of Rogers Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The three-story stone Gothic Revival building was designed and built in 1849 by the artist Fitz Henry Lane, and was his home until his death in 1865. The building now sits in a municipal park, and has a commanding view of the harbor.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. At that time, it was known as the "Fitz Hugh Lane House," but the Register changed the name in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Stanley Lake House is a historic First Period house in Topsfield, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house that was built in stages by Mathew Stanley or his heirs between c. 1675 and 1693 and subsequently enlarged by the Lake family. It illustrates a host of building practices over the 17th and 18th centuries. The first Matthew Stanley house was said by Dow to be located northwest of this building. The first portion of this building is the section from the chimney westward. An easterly room was added after and a further addition to the east by the Lakes. Matthew Stanley&#39;s heirs having removed to the Attleborough Falls area, sold the 70 acre farm property 1710- 1718 to Eleazer Lake. The property also includes a rare First Period barn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. In 2005 it was named a contributing property to the River Road-Cross Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stanley Lake House is set on the north side of River Road in a rural section of Topsfield. The road is rural, roughly paralleling the Ipswich River, which runs west-to-east to the south. The house is set close to the road. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, eight bays wide, and a single room deep. A small leanto section extends part of the building to the right rear, and a larger 19th-century addition extends it to the left rear. The facade is asymmetrical, with entrances in the rightmost bay and in the third from the left. The rightmost entrance is more elaborately decorated, with flanking pilasters and a gabled pediment. Brick chimneys rise from the center roughly behind the entrances.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in several stages over a period of decades, beginning c. 1675–1690, when the leftmost three bays were built. Around 1693 two bays were added to t right, and a leanto section was added further to the right sometime before 1710. About 1710, the leanto was raised to a full two stories in height, adding two bays. The rightmost bay and chimney were added in 1752. Architectural analysis identified the differing construction methods used to build each section and the sequence in which they were constructed. The original builder of the house was perhaps Matthew Stanley, whose heirs sold it in 1710 to Eleazer Lake.</p><br>
<p>The barn standing on the property is an extremely rare First Period barn, its presence was recorded in a deed transfer in 1718. It is a post-and-beam structure, built using First Period construction techniques, and was originally four bays in size, enlarged to five not many years later.</p><br>
<p>The George Kunhardt Estate, also historically named Hardtcourt, is a historic estate off Great Pond Road in North Andover, Massachusetts. Built in 1906 for George Kunhardt, a principal owner of textile mills in the Merrimack Valley, the estate later became known as Campion Hall when it served as a Jesuit retreat center. After sitting vacant for many years, the property has been converted into residential condominiums. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The George Kunhardt Estate is located in a rural residential setting in northeastern North Andover, overlooking Lake Cochichewick to the south. Much of the estates 85 acre have been developed as a residential subdivision, and the estates main house and carriage house now form part of that development. The main house is a large and somewhat rambling -story Victorian structure, with asymmetrical massing and projecting sections typical of the Queen Anne style. The main block has a steeply pitched roof that is gabled at one end and hipped at the other, with two-story gabled projections giving it a T shape. A two-story wing extends further east along the main block, with an angled section joining it to the main block. The exterior is finished in red brick, with limestone trim elements that include corner quoining and window sills and lintels. In several places, dormers pierce the main roof sections, either with a hip roof or truncated hip roof.</p><br>
<p>The estate house was designed by Stephen Codman of Boston, a close friend of George Kunhardt, owner of a textile mill complex in Lawrence. Kunhardt sent Codman to Europe to study German architecture, which Kunhardt himself had been exposed to when he traveled there to learn about German textile processing techniques. The house was built in 1906, and was Kunhardts home until his death in 1935. It was acquired by the Jesuits in 1937, and converted by them into a retreat center. A brick dormitory wing was added to one side of the house, and a guest house was attached via a hyphen to the other side. Both of these structures were torn down during conversion of the building to condominiums, a process that occurred after the Jesuits abandoned the property and it stood vacant for many years.</p><br>
<p>The Kittredge Mansion is a historic house in North Andover, Massachusetts. This three story wood-frame house was built in 1784 for Joseph Kittredge, and has remained in the family. Its construction and design have been attributed to noted Salem, Massachusetts builder Samuel McIntire. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in the North Andover Center Historic District in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kittredge Mansion is located in a rural suburban area east of North Andover&#39;s town center, on the north side of Academy Road just east of its junction with Court Street. It is set on about 45 acre of land, with the main house near the southern end. The house is a large three-story wood-frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior and hip roof. The roof is truncated at the center by a flat section surrounded by a balustrade. The main block is five bays wide and three deep, with a center entrance on the front facade, sheltered by an enclosed vestibule with pedimented gable. The third floor windows are half-height, a design seen in period mansion houses in Salem. The building corners have wide fluted Doric pilasters that taper as they rise to a moulded cornice. The interior follows a center hall plan, with a fine staircase in the main hall, with a particularly fine fireplace surround in the southwest parlor. A series of ells project to the rear of the house, and a mid-19th century barn with Gothic features stands just to its right.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1784 for Doctor Thomas Kittredge, a prominent local doctor who served in that capacity in the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. The Kittredges remained a prominent medical family in the Andover-North Andover area, producing generations of doctors through the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Joseph Kittredge operated a small sanitarium in the house in the 1920s and 1930s. When the house was listed on the National Register in 1976, it was still in the family&#39;s hands.</p><br>
<p>The Solomon Kimball House, probably built in 1696, is a historic First Period house in Wenham, Massachusetts. Although named for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century owner Solomon Kimball, the house was built by Thomas and Mary  Kilham—he the veteran of a pivotal battle in King Philip’s War and she the sister and aunt of defendants in the Salem Witchcraft Trials.</p><br>
<p>Eighteenth-century owners included Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Deputies William Fairfield, and American Revolutionary War veteran Capt. Matthew Fairfield.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History of ownership</h2><br>
<p>1701: Thomas Kilham sold his dwelling house, barn, orchard and house lot of 25 acres (along with 1.5 acres of meadow land in Lord’s Meadow, Wenham) to William Fairfield. Further research is needed to determine when and from whom Thomas bought the parcel.</p><br>
<p>1725: William Fairfield gave the house and a house lot of 2 acres to his son Josiah Fairfield as a wedding giftFile:Eunice Fairfield gravestone photographed 020713.JPGthumbrightGravestone of Eunice (Cogswell) Fairfield ( – 1730), first wife of Josiah FairfieldGravestone of Eunice (Cogswell) Fairfield, Fairfield Family Burial Ground, William Fairfield Drive, Wenham, MA, February 7, 2013 photograph and transcription by Robert O. Corcoran:</p><br>
<p>HERE LYES Y BODY OF</p><br>
<p>M EUNICE FAIRFIED</p><br>
<p>WIFE TO M JOSIAH</p><br>
<p>FAIRFIELD DEC JULY</p><br>
<p>Y 25. 1730</p><br>
<p>IN Y 27. YEAR</p><br>
<p>OF HER AGE</p><br>
<p>Gravestones for Josiah Fairfield and his second wife Elizabeth (Appleton) Fairfield not found. For record of Eunice’s death see Essex Institute, Vital Records of Wenham, To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1904), 196; she appears to have died because of complications from childbirth, since daughter Eunice (Junior) was born on July 23, 1730, per Vital Records of Wenham (1904), 33.</p><br>
<p>William reiterated this gift on two subsequent occasions. First, in 1738, William gave Josiah one-fourth of William’s 45 acres of “homesteads and lands in Wenham and elsewhere” (reserving 16 poles for a burying ground) and another one-fourth to William’s son Benjamin—Josiah’s share including “Thomas Killams homestead,” and Benjamin’s share including William’s homestead. Second, in his 1742 will, William refers to his deeds of gift to sons Josiah and Benjamin, and gives them the remainder of his real estate, representing 180 acres of “sundry parcels” in Wenham and Ipswich.</p><br>
<p>Over the years Josiah added to the acreage of his house lot, expanding it to 46 acres by 1767. He appears to have had some financial difficulty around this time, however, because in January 1767 he sold various assets (his dwelling house, barn, “out houses,” house lot of 46 acres, additional parcels of upland and meadow, lots in Wenham Great Swamp, and his pew in the Wenham Meeting House) to his brother Benjamin for £600—and seven months later purchased the same assets (less a lot of upland and the pew in the meeting house) back from Benjamin for £550, and at the same time sold Benjamin 40 acres on the south side of current-day Maple Street (with barn) for 10 shillings.</p><br>
<p>1771: Josiah Fairfield gave “the back part of my dwelling house with the cellar under it and the entry that is between that back house & my dwelling house,” along with one-half of his cider house and cider mill, to his son Capt. Matthew Fairfield</p><br>
<p>1777: Josiah Fairfield died and bequeathed all his real estate to his sons Matthew and Josiah Jr., in reversion, after the death of his wife Elizabeth (Appleton) Fairfield. An inventory of Josiah’s real estate lists a “mansion house,” half a barn, half a cider house, a quarter of a cider mill and about 45 acres of land, the total value of which was £600.</p><br>
<p>1783: Josiah’s widow Elizabeth (Appleton) Fairfield sued Matthew and Josiah Fairfield Jr. to secure her possession of her late husband’s real estate, resulting with a six-acre house lot First we assigned & sett off the</p><br>
<p>Dwelling house of Said Josiah Fairfield Esqr deceased in Wenham & the appurte-</p><br>
<p>nances also the land under & adjoining to said house bounded as follows viz</p><br>
<p>beginning at the highway westerly on land of the heirs of Daniel Gott decease-</p><br>
<p>ed Northerly & Easterly on Land of Francis Porter Southerly on the highway to</p><br>
<p>the bounds first mentioned Also a Small piece of land bounded as follows viz</p><br>
<p>Westerly on land of Said Porter Northerly on land of Benjamin Fairfield</p><br>
<p>Southerly on the highway to the bounds first mentioned the whole contain-</p><br>
<p>ing about Six acres be the same more or less</p><br>
<p>Further research is needed to ascertain when Elizabeth (Appleton) Fairfield died.</p><br>
<p>1797: Matthew Fairfield sold the property (i.e., a “mansion house” and six acres, including a “small piece of land” called “the nursery”) to Thomas Kimball and Joseph Fairfield for $333.33</p><br>
<p>1810: Thomas Kimball died, the inventory of his estate including a house, “old” and “new” barns, a cow barn and “old shop.” Thomas&#39; widow Huldah (Porter) Kimball died in 1835. Their son Thomas Kimball Jr. eventually bought out his siblings’ interests in the real estate.</p><br>
<p>1845: Thomas Kimball Jr. died, and son Solomon E. Kimball inherited his house</p><br>
<p>1924: Solomon E. Kimball died intestate, and son Elwell F. Kimball inherited Solomon’s “arm in Wenham including land and buildings” valued at $5,500.00</p><br>
<h2>Thomas and Mary (Solart) Kilham</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Kilham (or Killam), son of Daniel and Mary (Safford) Kilham, was born in 1653 or 1654 in Wenham, and married Martha Solart. Kilham was a veteran of King Philip’s War, serving under Major Samuel Appleton of Ipswich in Appleton’s campaign against the Narragansett, including the Great Swamp Fight of December 19, 1675. In May 1676 the General Court voted to repay soldiers for losses incurred, and voted £2 15d 6s for Kilham’s losses.</p><br>
<p>Martha (Solart) Kilham was the daughter of John Sr. and Elizabeth (-----) Solart, who kept a tavern in Wenham, still standing at 106 Main Street. John Solart was financially successful, yet drowned himself in 1672 leaving an estate of over £500. His widow soon remarried Ezekiel Woodward, and kept her seven children from receiving their rightful share of Solart’s estate. Eventually, these children successfully petitioned the General Court for redress in 1682.</p><br>
<p>Martha was a sister of Sarah Good, who was one of the first three to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witchcraft hysteria and was hanged in 1692. Sarah&#39;s 4 year-old daughter Dorothy Good (also known as Dorcas Good) was also accused and arrested for witchcraft. Dorothy Good survived the hysteria, but was the youngest to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem episode.</p><br>
<p>Thomas and Martha (Solart) Kilham had six children that we know of, all born in Wenham and the last two likely born in the Solomon Kimball House. However, Wenhams records of births for the periods 1681–1685 and 1688–1694 (and deaths for 1679–1694) have been lost. Consequently, we should keep open the possibility that Thomas and Martha had other children who were born and died during the 1680s and early 90s. After all, seven years passed between the birth of their son Thomas Jr. and the baptism of their son Samuel.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Jr., born in 1684; died November 26, 1742, probably in Boxford, MA; married Sarah Maxey, April 8, 1712, in Topsfield, MA</p><br>
<p>Samuel, baptized in 1691; died after 1740, probably in Wilmington, MA; married Grace Endicott, December 21, 1715, in Boxford, MA</p><br>
<p>Martha, probably born between 1693 and 1696, assuming she was between 18 and 21 years old when she married; died December 27, 1754, in Ipswich, MA; married Timothy Bragg, December 23, 1714, in Hamilton, MA</p><br>
<p>John, born November 3, 1695; died January 15, 1738/9 in Boxford, MA; married Abigail Symonds, February 3, 1724/5 in Boxford, MA</p><br>
<p>Daniel, born May 25, 1698; died October 20, 1699, in Wenham</p><br>
<p>Daniel (2nd), born August 14, 1700; was living in Wilmington, MA as late as 1732; married Mary Kenney, February 17, 1725/6 in Danvers, MA</p><br>
<p>Thomas Kilham sold his house in Wenham to William Fairfield in July 1701 and moved to Boxford (MA). He died there in 1725 and his burial was likely the genesis of the Killam-Curtis Cemetery. Martha died after Thomas did, but no record of her death has survived.</p><br>
<h2>William, Esther (-----) and Rebecca (Tarbox) Fairfield</h2><br>
<p>William Fairfield owned the property from 1701 to 1725. He lived in a house near the current-day intersection of Cherry Street and William Fairfield Drive, a house that he probably built around 1687 coincident with his first marriage. (The land adjacent to Fairfield&#39;s house included a burial ground that the family started in 1691.) The Fairfield Farm was contiguous to the Thomas Kilham Farm, and Fairfield apparently bought the Kilham property as an investment. He gave the former Thomas Kilham homestead to his son Josiah Fairfield as a wedding gift in 1725.</p><br>
<p>A son of Ens. Walter and Sarah (Skipper) Fairfield, William was born October 14, 1662, in Reading, MA, and died on December 18, 1742, in Wenham. He was active in town affairs, and was Town Clerk 1706–1711 and 1724–1729; Moderator of Town Meeting in 1715, 1716, 1733–1736, 1739 and 1741; and was elected deacon of the First Church in 1731. He was a Representative at General Court in 1723, 1728, 1730, and 1732–1742, and “uring the session of 1741, he was Speaker of the House of Deputies, at that time the highest office in the gift of the people, the Governor and Lieut. Governor being appointed by the King.”</p><br>
<p>William married twice. His first marriage was to Esther ----- about the year 1687. She was born and died on January 21, 1722/1723, in Wenham. William and Esther (-----) Fairfield had thirteen children, all born in Wenham:</p><br>
<p>Sarah, born July 23, 1688; died February 6, 1705, in Wenham (buried in Fairfield Family Burial Ground)</p><br>
<p>Mary, born December 18, 1689</p><br>
<p>William Jr., born October 18, 1691; died October 24, 1691, in Wenham (buried in Fairfield Family Burial Ground)</p><br>
<p>William Jr. (2nd), born November 17, 1692</p><br>
<p>Esther Jr., born August 12, 1695</p><br>
<p>Tabitha, born May 17, 1696; died October 7, 1717, in Wenham (buried in Fairfield Family Burial Ground)</p><br>
<p>Abigail, born May 9, 1698</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth, born January 9, 1699/1700</p><br>
<p>Josiah, born October 12, 1701</p><br>
<p>Prudence, born July 13, 1704</p><br>
<p>Skipper, born January 2, 1706</p><br>
<p>Benjamin, born October 29, 1708</p><br>
<p>Rev. John, born November 29, 1712</p><br>
<p>William’s second marriage was to Mrs. Rebecca (Tarbox) Gott on October 14, 1723, in Wenham. Rebecca was born on August 8, 1672, in Lynn, MA, the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Armitage) Tarbox. Her first marriage was to John Gott, whom she married on July 19, 1693, in Salem, MA. (John Gott was the son of Charles and Lydia (Clark) Gott, was born on November 8, 1668, in Wenham, and died on January 25, 1722/3 in Wenham.) She died on July 29, 1765, in Lynn, MA. No children are recorded in Wenham’s vital records for William and Rebecca (Gott) Fairfield.</p><br>
<h2>Capt. Matthew and Abigail (Ayer) Fairfield</h2><br>
<p>Matthew Fairfield, son of Josiah and his second wife Elizabeth (Appleton) Fairfield, was born May 18, 1745, in Wenham (likely in the Solomon Kimball House), married Abigail Ayer on October 22, 1767, in Haverhill (MA), and died on February 11, 1813, in New Boston, NH. Matthew was the first of Josiah’s sons to reach adulthood, and it’s likely that when he married Abigail they took up residence in Josiah and Elizabeth’s house. This was certainly the case by 1771, when Matthew and Abigail were living in the lean-to of the house, Josiah and Elizabeth were living in the other part of the house, and Josiah gave Matthew the lean-to and part of the cellar (along with one half of a cider house and cider mill nearby).</p><br>
<p>Matthew Fairfield was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. In December 1774 he was appointed to the three-member town committee that enlisted Wenham’s minutemen. Once the fighting began, he was a private in Capt. Billy Porter’s company of minutemen, Col. John Baker’s regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, serving five days but arriving too late to see the Battles of Lexington and Concord. When Matthew came home, he enlisted at Gloucester (MA) in Col. Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment, and was stationed at Chelsea from early May through December of 1775, being promoted to lieutenant by early June. While stationed at Chelsea, Matthew was part of the Siege of Boston and was at the Battle of Chelsea Creek (May 27 and 28) and the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17).</p><br>
<p>As a result of the Continental Army’s reorganization of January 1, 1776, Fairfield was assigned to Col. John Greaton’s 24th Continental Regiment with the rank of lieutenant, and served with this regiment throughout 1776 fighting at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Quebec (June 8) and the Battle of Valcour Island, Lake Champlain (October 11). The 24th Continental rejoined Gen. Washington’s main army in November 1776 in Morristown, New Jersey, in anticipation of the year-end expiration of many of its troops’ enlistments, and in anticipation of winter quartering. Matthew re-enlisted and was promoted to captain on January 1, 1777, as part of the reorganization of the 13th Massachusetts Regiment (Col. Edward Wigglesworth commanding). He served under Wigglesworth for much of 1777, encamped outside Philadelphia, but did not see battle during this period. Furloughed on August 22 for 60 days, he was discharged on October 22, 1777, the dates of his furlough and discharge apparently linked to the illness and death of his father Josiah Fairfield.</p><br>
<p>Fairfield was initiated into the Masons in April 1777, and held the office of Steward for the United States Lodge in Danvers in October 1778.</p><br>
<p>At some point during the Revolution, Capt. Fairfield and his company were sent to Hillsborough County, New Hampshire,</p><br>
<p>Abigail Ayer was the daughter of David and Hannah (Shepard) Ayer, and was born in Haverhill (MA) on November 24, 1746. She died in New Boston on January 28, 1825.File:Joint gravestone of Matthew and Abigail Fairfield.jpgthumbrightJoint gravestone of Capt. Matthew and Abigail (Ayer) FairfieldJoint gravestone of Matthew and Abigail (Ayer) Fairfield, New Boston Cemetery, New Boston, NH, June 9, 2015 photograph and transcription by Robert O. Corcoran:</p><br>
<p>In memory of CAPT. MATHEW FAIRFIELD, who died, Feb. 11, 1813; Æt. 67.</p><br>
<p>MRS. ABIGAIL, wife of Capt. Mathew Fairfield, died Jan. 28, 1825; Æt. 78.</p><br>
<p>He was a revolutionary Patriot, whose heart, was ever</p><br>
<p>warm for the cause of his belov’d Country.</p><br>
<p>Matthew and Abigail had twelve children, perhaps nine of whom were likely born in the Solomon Kimball House:</p><br>
<p>Nabby (Abigail), born July 25, 1768, Wenham; died December 24, 1796</p><br>
<p>Betsey (Elizabeth), born April 28, 1770, Wenham; married William Crombie, April 27, 1797</p><br>
<p>John, born February 11, 1773, Wenham; married Mehitable Baker (intention recorded October 12, 1799, Wenham)</p><br>
<p>Hannah, born February 4, 1775, Wenham; died August 8, 1809; married Capt. Joseph Wilson</p><br>
<p>Alice, died in infancy October 20, 1777, Wenham</p><br>
<p>Sarah (Sally), baptized August 29, 1779, Wenham; married Benjamin Fairfield (intention recorded April 3, 1803, Wenham)</p><br>
<p>Walter, died in infancy</p><br>
<p>William, died in infancy</p><br>
<p>Charlotte, baptized October 31, 1784, Wenham; married Capt. Joseph Wilson, her widower brother-in-law</p><br>
<p>Josiah, perhaps born in New Boston, NH; died in infancy</p><br>
<p>Matthew Jr., perhaps born in New Boston, NH; died in infancy</p><br>
<p>William (2nd), perhaps born in New Boston, NH; died in infancy</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>1795: Surveyed by Richard Dodge, this is the oldest map known of Wenham, and shows the town’s boundaries, roads and major bodies of water. Current-day Maple Street appears, as does that portion of current-day Topsfield Road northwest of Maple Street. (Note that current-day Topsfield Road did not extend to the Beverly town line, but stopped at current-day Maple and Cherry Streets.)</p><br>
<p>1831: Surveyed by Philander Anderson, this map shows the expansion of Wenham’s system of roads, the addition of swampland, and a drawing of the Wenham Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>1872: This map shows the Solomon Kimball House as “T. Kimball Est.” The “A. Bagley” house, near the northeast corner of the intersection of current-day Cherry Street and Topsfield Road, was the William Fairfield homestead.</p><br>
<p>1884: This map shows the Solomon Kimball House as “S. Kimball.”</p><br>
<p>1910 (Western & Central Wenham): This map shows the Solomon Kimball House as “S Kimball” and provides the location of the house itself as well as three out buildings. The outline of the house indicates an ell or porch at the northeast corner of the building that no longer exists.</p><br>
<p>1910 (Maple & Bomer Streets): This on-the-ground survey of properties adjacent to Maple and Bomer Streets (Bomer Street subsequently known as the portion of Topsfield Road southwest of Maple and Cherry Streets) shows the location of an orchard and garden belonging to Solomon Kimball, northwest of the Moulton lot (which was opposite Company Lane). The 1910 map of western and central Wenham, however—which likely was not drawn from an on-the-ground survey—identifies the lot northwest of the Moulton lot as “Hrs. E. Kimball” (or heirs of E. Kimball). This label is probably a typo; the lot northwest of the Moulton lot would have been owned by heirs of Thomas Kimball or by Solomon Kimball himself.</p><br>
<p>1955: The subdivision of the Solomon Kimball farm began in 1955 and continued through the mid-1960s, creating Puritan Road, Mayflower Drive and the lots facing those streets. This 1955 map, drawn at the beginning of the subdivision program, shows the location and outline of the Solomon Kimball House and two outbuildings; note the outline of an ell or porch on the north side of the house that no longer exists.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Timothy Johnson House is a historic late First Period house in North Andover, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame gambrel-roofed house was built ca. 1720 by Timothy Johnson, a leading Andover resident who led Massachusetts troops in the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg. The building has a wealth of well-preserved first and second period Georgian detailing.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990., and is currently occupied.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson House is a historic house in Methuen, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a hip roof and end chimneys. The two bays to the right of the entrance have been replaced by a projecting bay window with Italianate paired brackets at its cornice, and the windows left of the entrance have a curved cornice from the same period. The main entrance portico is also an Italianate addition, with jigsawn entablature and an elaborate door surround with diamond-light sidelight windows. The house was built c. 1830 by Joseph Carleton, and was at that time probably one of the grander Federal style houses in Methuen. By 1885 it was owned by Edward Johnson, a clerk for the Boston and Maine Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Reed Memorial Library is located at the junction of US 6 and NY 52 in Carmel, New York, United States. It is the oldest library building in Putnam County, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1914 by Arietta Crane Reed as a tribute to her late husband, William Belden Reed, an ardent supporter of the Literary Union of Carmel, which operates the library. It is a Tudorbethan-style building of local stone with marble accents, and much original period furnishing inside.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The library occupies a corner lot; it takes the form of a one-story trapezoid faced in rock quarried around nearby Lake Gilead. Its slate roof has three gables; a flat-roofed section between the two in the rear curves to form a rounded rear elevation. The main entrance has double doors flanked by narrow windows in a rusticated surround with quoined corners.</p><br>
<p>It opens into a small vestibule of tile with marble trim. Behind it is an oval lobby paneled in oak. A colonnade separates it from the reading rooms and stacks in the rounded rear section. The fireplace in the main reading room has a mantel carved in the shape of monks heads; the one in the childrens reading room is a more restrained, standard Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carmel had had a library since 1868, when the Carmel Library Association was formed. Its 900 volumes were first in a member&#39;s home, then a local church. This made using it difficult, so in 1881 the Literary Union of Carmel was formed to take control. They housed the books first in homes and later on the second story of a local office building.</p><br>
<p>In 1911 that space was expanded, but the library&#39;s collection was growing fast enough that it needed its own space. Two members donated the land; Arietta Crane Reed donated the money for the building in memory of her late husband, an executive with the New York City construction company Miller-Reed.</p><br>
<p>The New York firm of Pryor & Gaylor was commissioned to design a building that could not only serve as a library but a community meeting place. The irregularly-shaped structure accomplished both goals. Reed&#39;s company did the structural work; a local firm handled the masonry. Ground was broken in November 1913 and the building was opened and dedicated seven months later, at a total cost of US$45,000 ($ 2008 USD)). It has remained intact, without any alterations, ever since.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The library is the only significant Tudorbethan building in the Carmel area. While there are some Gothic Revival touches on the interior like the mantel in the children&#39;s reading room, the bulk of the interior shows the strong influence of the related, contemporary Arts and Crafts style, which was upholding simpler Tudorbethan buildings as an alternative to the architectural flourishes and ornament of the later Victorian era.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Jenkins House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts. It was built in about 1807 for Colonel Benjamin Jenkins on family-owned land. The substantial and elegant Federal style house was a stop on the road between Salem and Andover, and remained in the family into the 20th century. One of its owners, William S. Jenkins, was a local builder of note in the second half of the 19th century, built the large ell of the house in 1849. In 1982, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Jackson Terrace Historic District is a historic district in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Jackson Terrace, located on the east side of Camapgnone Common, was developed as a residential extension of the Common, with a small central park area ringed by residences. The houses that line it are distinctive renditions of Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Ipswich Mills Historic District encompasses a major textile mill complex and associated worker housing along the Ipswich River near the center of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The district includes the factories of the Ipswich Mill Company , and several blocks of modest worker cottages mostly on side streets off Estes and Kimball Streets. The site had been used as for mills since the 17th century, and was purchased by the Ipswich Mill Company  in 1868. Mill worker housing was built surrounding the complex through the early 20th century, when River Court, Peatfield Street, and 1st through 6th Streets were laid out. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ipswich Mills district is located just south of the Ipswich central business district, on the west bank of the Ipswich River and south of the Choate Bridge. It is bounded on the west by railroad tracks and the Ipswich commuter rail station. The northern part of the district is where the mill complex was located, with the mill-related residential area stretching out to its south. The mill complex at its height was a large collection of masonry structures that were for the most part interconnected in some way, all but two of which were demolished in the 1970s. One of these, the yarn mill, was one of the major visual elements of the mill complex. It was built in 1880, and is a four-story brick structure with several side wings that were added in the early 20th century. The second building, used for finishing, is a two-story structure that directly abuts the river, and is now separated from the first building by a passage connecting two parking lots.</p><br>
<p>Most of the residences to the south of the mill complex post-date the establishment in 1868 of the Ipswich Mills. One notable house that stood in the area until the 1890s was the John Whipple House, now a National Historic Landmark, which was used as mill tenement housing prior to being moved to its present location on Ipswich&#39;s South Green. The majority of the residential structures are houses that were built by the Ipswich Mill Company in the first two decades of the 20th century. The company built three basic types, which were typically clustered together on the side streets off Estes and Kimball Streets: single-family houses either 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, and duplexes.</p><br>
<p>The Ipswich Mill Company was founded in 1868 by Amos Adams Lawrence, and developed this area, which had seen a variety of industrial uses since the 18th century. The company manufactured hosiery, one of the communitys early industries, and grew to become the largest hosiery maker in the world between 1916 and 1919, with mills in five New England locations. Demand for the mills products declined after the First World War, and its mills were shuttered one by one, with the Ipswich mill closing in 1928. The mill complex was acquired by Sylvania Electric in 1941, which was responsible for the demolition of much of the complex in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Intervale Factory is a historic Late-Victorian factory building at 402 River Street in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Built in 1889, it is one of Haverhill&#39;s better-preserved shoe factory buildings. Now converted to apartments, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Intervale Factory stands west of downtown Haverhill, on the south side of River Street, just east of its junction with Swain Street. It is a long four-story brick building, with a flat roof and brick foundation. It is seven bays wide and eighteen long, with the narrow end oriented to the street. The street-facing historic front facade (now no longer serving in that role) has a bricked-over pedestrian entrance bay on the second level, next to a two-bay double-door non-functioning loading bay. Windows in the rightmost bay are at an offset from the others on the lower floors, because that is where the historic main staircase is located. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings with brick soldier headers, and rough granite sills. The present main entrance is near the center of the long east-facing facade.</p><br>
<p>The factory was built in 1889 to a design by Perkins & Bancroft for the Ellis and Connor Shoe Manufactory, and was one of a cluster of five factories built in the area that were powered by the Chick Brothers steam plant. In the 1920s the building was converted to the manufacture of boxes. It was converted to residences in the late 1980s. Unlike many of the citys other shoe-related industrial buildings, this one is relatively little-altered.</p><br>
<p>The Howe Village Historic District is a historic district in Boxford, Massachusetts. It encompasses an area in and around Massachusetts Route 97, just east of Interstate 95 and south of the junction of those two roads, and includes most of the properties on Ipswich Road and a few on adjacent roads. This area was among the first to be settled in what is now Boxford, and consists of a rural cluster of houses built between about 1750 and 1850. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Boxford was incorporated in 1685, but had probably been settled earlier by landowners from Rowley, from which it was divided. Ipswich Road was from an early date the principal road between Ipswich and Andover, two early colonial settlements. Thomas Perley purchased land along the road and built a tavern in 1684 to serve passing travelers. The site of his tavern is where what is now known as the Asa Perley House stands; it was either built about 1760, or is a substantial alteration of Thomas Perley&#39;s original house. Aaron Perley, a later descendant of Thomas, built the fine Federal style house at 35 Ipswich Road in about 1818. Members of the Perley family played a significant role in the early civic life of Boxford, and continue to live in the community.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house with certain dating is the Old Hale House (15 Ipswich Road), which dates to about 1749, and belonged to the Hale family until the late 19th century. Four of the seven historic houses in the district were built by members of the Howe family in the first half of the 19th century. The Howes were industrious, and several of its members were involved in the shoemaking trade, which at that time was a cottage industry operated out of people&#39;s homes or small outbuildings. Both the Edward Howe House (5 Ipswich) and William Howe House (7 Ipswich) were used in shoemaking operations until late in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Howe Barn is a historic barn, that has been converted into a house, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. It is important as one of a small number of surviving First Period barn frames in Essex County. Family tradition places the construction of the barn to c. 1711 by Abraham Howe, an early settler of the Linebrook Road area. Elements of the frame, which are still visible in the attic and some areas left exposed during the 1948 conversion to a house, bear some resemblance to a similar period barn at the Stanley Lake House in nearby Topsfield.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The House on Labor-in-Vain Road is a historic house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Built about 1720 and enlarged c. 1810, it has a well-preserved assortment of architectural stylistic details predating 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The House on Labor-in-Vain Road stands at the end of a long private lane (now providing access to several nearby houses) in a high area of the marshlands of eastern Ipswich. The lane forms a southern extension of Labor-in-Vain Road, which provides access to the area from Turkey Shore Road. The house is at the center of what was once an estate of more than 600 acre. The main part of the timber-frame house is stories in height, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. This section shows details of construction that contain both First Period and early Georgian features. The staircase in the front lobby has turned balusters that are possibly original, and are similar in appearance to balusters found at the nearby Smith House on Argilla Road. Both the right-side parlor and second-floor chamber have exposed beams with chamfered corners. The doorway between the parlor and the lobby is topped by a distinctive open latticework transom.</p><br>
<p>Later period features include paneling on the fireplace surround of the left parlor, and Federal period features on the right parlor fireplace. The house has had three major additions: the first, in 1810, add a wing to the left side of the house, where additional Federal style features are found. A full leanto was added to the house rear around the turn of the 20th century, and another extension was added on the rear, probably when the house was used as clubhouse for a golf club that occupied the estate. The leanto addition included stylistically First Period elements to harmonize with those found in the older part of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house at 922 Dale Street is a historic First Period house in North Andover, Massachusetts. It is a 2.5-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a small side porch and a rear single story addition. The oldest part of the house is the right rear portion, which is estimated to have been built in the first quarter of the 18th century, along with a central chimney. Sometime between 1740 and 1780 rooms were added to its left. A major renovation during the Federal period removed the central chimney , and added rooms in front of the earlier ones, giving the main block of the house its rectangular shape. The interior has some well preserved Federal period details.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>House at 9 Park Street is a historic house in Methuen, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>According to the assessor&#39;s records the house at 9 Park Street was built in 1876 at a value of $950. A notice in the Methuen Transcript says local builder Albert Fales built an addition in 1880. according to an 1885 directory, the first owner was John W. Mann of Tompkins and Mann (paint and oil vendors), 191 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mrs. Mann still occupied the house as of 1906.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house at 526 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well preserved Greek Revival house built about 1840. It is located near the city&#39;s historic early center, and was probably first occupied by farmers. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>526 Prospect Street is located in a suburban residential area of eastern Methuen, at the southwest corner of Prospect Street and Florence Road. Prospect Street is a historically old road, found on early town maps as a through road. The house is a -story wood-frame building with a gabled roof, center chimney, clapboard siding and a granite foundation. The main five-bay facade is oriented facing south, with a secondary facade facing east toward the road. The building corners are pilastered, rising to an encircling entablature, and (on the eastern gable end) a fully pedimented gable. Doorways on both facades feature entablatures and transom windows above; the side entrance also has sidelights.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1840, in an area that saw development early in the citys history, because of its location on a main road leading to the former town center. This house is one of the citys finer examples of Greek Revival architecture. Its first occupants were probably farmers, whose products would have been delivered to more densely built areas of Methuen and Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The house at 50 Pelham Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Italianate house and barn. Built sometime in the 1870s, the -story wood-frame house features typical Italianate decorations, including extended bracketed eaves , doubled brackets in the gable eaves, and a round-arch window in the gable end. The barn at the back of the property is a simple wood-frame structure that appears to date to the same period as the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 491 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is locally significant as an excellent example of a Shingle Style house of the type built for well-to-do businessmen in Methuen and Lawrence around the turn of the 20th century. The three-story wood-frame building was built c. 1900. One of its principal decorative features at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 This detail has since been lost due to the application of new siding.</p><br>
<p>Other details of note include curved exterior corners, a window recessed in a bay with curved walls, and small decorative rectangular and oval windows. The property also includes a period carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The House at 4 Birch Avenue in Methuen, Massachusetts is a Bungalow-style house built c. 1910. Its style, uncommon in the area, is reminiscent of period architecture in California. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a porch that is faced in fieldstone, and has oversized turned balusters between square fieldstone pillars. On the right side, the porch has a rounded corner that is topped by a conical roof section.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 306 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts, is a well-preserved example of a modest Greek Revival house built c. 1830. This style of house was relatively common in Methuen during the 1830s to the 1850s. The structure is a -story wood-frame building, with its gable end facing the street. The original design featured an entry centered on the longer side wall and three asymmetrically placed windows on the front. Over time, the front was altered to include a row of five windows, forming a virtual wall of glass.</p><br>
<p>Typical of the Greek Revival style, the house features pilastered corners and a deep cornice on the gable end. The main entrance, centered on the five-bay side wall, is highlighted by a transom window above the door.</p><br>
<p>The house was recognized for its historical significance and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house at 262–264 Pelham Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a rare Georgian Revival two-family house in a rural-suburban setting. The two-story house was built in 1920, and is a roughly square center entry plan with a wraparound porch supported by fourteen rusticated Ionic columns. It has a hipped roof, and is built of concrete and cast stone, building materials that are uncommon in Methuen. The windows and corners are highlighted by quoining with darker colored stones.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 23 East Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well preserved Greek Revival cottage. Built in c. 1840, it is a -story three bay wood-frame structure with a side hall entry and a front-facing gable end. The main entrance is flanked by full-length sidelight windows and topped by a transom window. Houses similar to this were generally occupied by craftsmen such as boot-, shoe-, and hatmakers. Before large-scale industrialization they were scattered throughout the town.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The House at 136 Hampstead Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well-preserved rural Greek Revival farmhouse. It is a nearly square -story wood-frame house, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. It has four window bays on the gable end, two on each side of a central doorway, and five bays on the longer side. The doorway on the gable end retains a decorative surround with a glazed transom and narrow pilasters. The house is representative of rural agricultural development that took place in Methuen to provide goods to the growing cities of Lawrence and Lowell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>13 Annis Street is a historic mill worker house in Methuen, Massachusetts. Built about 1880, it is a typical small residence built for workers at the nearby Arlington Mills. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, but has lost many of its exterior decorative details since.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house stands in a dense residential area of southern Methuen, on the north side of Annis Street between Tenney Street and Broadway (Massachusetts Route 28). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, two brick chimneys, and exterior clad in synthetic siding. Its front facade is two bays wide, with the entrance on the right, under a hood supported by a simple knee bracket. The left bay has a projecting polygonal bay, and there are two windows in the attic level above. When surveyed in the 1980s, the house had a somewhat more elaborate exterior: the roof had extended eaves with Italianate brackets, and the attic windows had Italianate bracketed surrounds with diamond-shaped keystones. The main entry hood featured Italianate brackets, and similar window detailing was found on the windows of the bay.</p><br>
<p>Annis was one of the first streets to experience residential development due to the expansion of the Arlington Mills. It lies in what is now the Arlington Mills Historic District, the area immediately to the west along Stevens Pond of the Spicket River. The mills employed thousands of workers who lived in Lawrence and Methuen, but owned little worker housing. This building is representative of the inexpensive dwellings built by speculators for sale to woolen mill workers, which are commonly found in the immediate area. Its historical integrity has been damaged by the removal of many of its exterior decorative features.</p><br>
<p>113–115 Center Street is a historic two-family house in the Arlington Mills district of southern Methuen, Massachusetts. Built about 1880, it is a rare surviving example of the type of worker housing built early in the expansion of the Arlington Mills. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>113-115 Center Street is located in a densely built area of residential and mixed commercial-residential buildings. It is located on the north side of Center Street, just east of its junction with Broadway (Massachusetts Route 28), a major thoroughfare between Methuen and Lawrence, whose city line is not far to the south. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, vinyl siding exterior, and limited vernacular Italianate styling. The main facade is three bays wide, with a small gable above the central bay. The outer bays have polygonal bay windows on the ground floor, topped by a low-pitch roofs with Italianate brackets, and the center bay has a pair of entrances, sheltered by a hood supported by three large Italianate brackets.</p><br>
<p>Center Street was one of the first streets to experience residential development due to the expansion of the Arlington Mills, located to the west on the banks of the Spicket River. It lies in what is now the Arlington Mills Historic District, the area immediately to the west along Stevens Pond of the Spicket River. The mills employed thousands of workers who lived in Lawrence and Methuen, but owned comparatively little housing. This residence, built about 1880, is one of the few surviving example of an early two family duplex house (side by side house) seen in mill housing area. It is a particularly well-preserved example in an area where there has been considerable demolition and alteration, although it has lost some of its decorative elements due to the application of siding and a new roof.</p><br>
<p>10 Park Street  is a historic house located in Methuen, Massachusetts. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, with clapboard siding and a front-gable roof. The front facade is two bays wide, with a two-story projecting bay on the left, and the main entrance on the right, topped by a decorative hood. The gables and eaves are decorated by paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>The E. M. Clark House built around 1880 is a well-preserved Italianate style single family residences, most closely associated with the development of Methuen during the post-war expansion to service the local mills. E. M. Clark, an early resident, listed his occupation as a shoe manufacturer.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Preston House is a historic house in Methuen, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Built around 1840, the house was originally built as a one-story house belonging to Henry Preston who had a wheelwright shop next door. Assessor&#39;s records indicate that in the 1850s, the house belonged to Enoch A. Merrill, and in 1875 the estate of Enoch A. Merrill was taxed to Joel Foster. The barn, which still exists, appears of the map between 1872 and 1884. Foster, who owned other farm sites in Methuen, was named the leading farmer in Essex County in 1884.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the House at 15–19 Park Street in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Robert King Hooper Mansion, built in 1728, is a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The oldest section of the mansion was built by candlemaker Greenfield Hooper, and his son, Robert "King" Hooper, expanded the house, adding its three-story Georgian façade. Hooper made his fortune through the transatlantic fishing business.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976,</p><br>
<h2>Marblehead Arts Association</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is currently used by the Marblehead Arts Association as its headquarters. The Association hosts changing exhibits of art and photography for individuals and groups every six weeks in its seven galleries, as well as art classes and community events. The Hooper Mansion also has an Artisan Shop featuring affordable art and gifts.</p><br>
<p>The George Hopkinson House is a historic colonial First Period house in Groveland, Massachusetts. Built c. 1716, it is a rare surviving single cell house from the period. Most First Period houses were built in their first stage as a chimney section and a two-story section to one side, with one room on each floor, and were later extended with additional rooms on the other side of the chimney, giving colonial rooms their characteristic five bay appearance. Because this one was never extended in this way, it exhibits a three bay front, with a door in the right-side bay, in front of the chimney. A rear leanto section was added later in the 18th century, and the side ell was added in the 19th century. The house is also a rare regional instance of plank frame construction .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Newell Farm is a historic farmhouse at 243 Main Street in West Newbury, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1846 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Newell Farm in West Newbury, Massachusetts, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Researchers for the Massachusetts Historical Commission have found the house significant for two reasons. First, the house is built in a Greek Revival/Federal Style tradition. Second, a portion of the materials used in the construction of the house were salvaged from the demolition of buildings in 1845 on Beacon Hill in Boston to make room for an addition to the Massachusetts State House.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Moses Newell built the 25 room house now standing at 243 Main St. in 1846. His father Joseph Newell was a Sargeant in Captain William Rodger&#39;s Third Company, a local West Newbury unit, during the American Revolutionary War. The Newells owned at that time a house which stood closer to the street by the well on the property. The original house was moved across the street to make room for the present house.</p><br>
<p>Moses Newell shuttled the building materials including mantels, inside shutters, windows, panelling, doors, and lintels from Boston after he sent loads of butchered meat from the farm to the Charlestown Navy Yard. Bricks were made in a local brickyard in West Newbury, close to where Pentucket Regional High School now stands. The brick walls are three layers thick with no insulation.</p><br>
<p>The main body of the three-story house is square with a peaked roof. It has five bays on the front and sides, four chimneys, granite footings and door lintels, sandstone window lintels and sills, and granite steps. There is a two-story narrower extension of the main building with a side entrance. The main building has fret work at the cornices and under the eaves. The main house has eight feet of cellar space beneath it.</p><br>
<p>The interior originally had 25 rooms plus main halls running east–west and side halls running north–south. There were eight fireplaces in the main building. All twenty-three windows in the major rooms of the main building had wooden interior shutters (six or eight panels per window) with various types of hinges made by J. Clark & Son of Wolverhampton, England.</p><br>
<h2>Moses Newell</h2><br>
<p>Moses Newell played an active role in civic affairs in the town, almost from the date West Newbury was incorporated as a town on February 18, 1819. He was on the board of Selectmen intermittently from 1822 to 1860, and served as moderator at town meetings at various times during those years.</p><br>
<p>His son, Captain Richard Newell, traveled for most of his life on ships, but he lived in the house after his retirement. A member of the Marine Society of Newburyport, Richard Newell was born in 1834 and went to sea as a young boy of 15, according to an account he wrote himself in the chronicles, "The Marine Society of Newburyport".</p><br>
<p>The Lucian Newhall House is a historic house in Lynn, Massachusetts. Built in 1866 for a prominent local businessman, it is a high-quality example of Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1985,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lucian Newhall House stands in Lynns Diamond District, a residential area where the citys elite lived during the period of historical significance. The house stands at the northeast corner of Nahant and Ocean Streets, presenting finished facades to both streets.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a flared mansard roof. At the center of the roof is a square cupola with three round-arch windows on each side, and a broad-eaved hip-roof with an elaborate bracketed cornice. The building corners have wooden block quoining, and eaves—like those of the cupola—adorned with an elaborated bracketed cornice. The house&#39;s Nahant Street facade is three bays wide, with single-story projecting bays flanking a center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by an elaborate porch, which is joined to the roofs of the flanking bays and topped by a third projecting bay. Dormers with elaborate window-surrounds encompass round-arch windows, the center of which has a double window and is recessed. The Ocean Street facade of the house has a similar plan and decoration, but its ground-floor bays are rectangular, and its three roof dormers identical.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1866 for Lucian Newhall (October 14, 1824 – May 17, 1898), a descendant of early Lynn settlers. Newhall was one of the first local businessmen to establish a shoe factory in the citys Central Business District (in 1847), and remained in the shoe business until 1875. Newhalls house is one of the most visually prominent in the Diamond District.</p><br>
<p>The Newman–Fiske–Dodge House is a historic First Period house in Wenham, Massachusetts. The house contains a rare instance of preserved 17th century decoration. Like many First Period houses, it was built in stages. The first part, the now-central chimney and right-side two stories, was built c. 1658, with the left-side rooms being added c. 1695–96. The fireplace in the right-side room contains original detailing that was covered over by paneling sometime in the 18th century, and the trim on the staircase to the second floor was probably added at the time of the addition.</p><br>
<p>There have been several later additions to the house. A leanto section was added to the rear in the 18th century, and single story wings were added to either side in the 19th century. The interior was also partially redecorated in the 19th century, giving the left side front room some Greek Revival character. In the early 20th century the house underwent a major restoration, in which the left side front room was opened up to the leanto section, creating a large living space.</p><br>
<p>The first documented owner of the house (and for whom it may have been built) was the Rev. Antipas Newman, who married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Winthrop the Younger. The modifications in the 1690s were probably made by William Fiske, Jr.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It also includes a barn which may be of 18th century origin.</p><br>
<p>The North Andover Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of North Andover, Massachusetts, which was also the heart of neighboring Andover until the two towns split in 1855. The district is roughly bounded by Osgood, Pleasant, Stevens, Johnson, and Andover Streets and Wood Lane. It includes 75 properties, including the Parson Barnard House, and the Kittredge Mansion, the latter of which is built on land that included the town&#39;s original muster ground.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The North Canal Historic District of Lawrence, Massachusetts, encompasses the historic industrial heart of the city. It is centered on the North Canal and the Great Stone Dam, which provided the waterpower for its many mill complexes. The canal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, while the district was first listed in 1984, and then expanded slightly in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The city of Lawrence was founded by industrialist Abbott Lawrence and the associates of the Essex Company as a model industrial city. In 1845 they company acquired land from then towns of Methuen and Andover and began construction on the North Canal and the Great Stone Dam. The work included dredging and building out of "new land", and effectively created a small island between the Merrimack River and the canal, whose outlet is at the mouth of the Spicket River. Work on these two major features was completed in 1848, and development of the city, which formally incorporated in 1853, proceeded from there. The historic district encompasses, in addition to the canal and the dam, the mill-related buildings on the island and on the north side of the canal, as well as a few buildings that front on Methuen and Union Streets, or the connecting side streets. The 2009 expansion of the district, included a single building, the Morehouse Bakery building at 5-9 Mill Street.</p><br>
<h2>Canal and Great Stone Dam</h2><br>
<p>The Great Stone Dam was constructed across the Merrimack River at a place called Bodwells Falls, where there is a five-foot drop. The dam was built to raise the height of the drop to 30 ft. It is made of granite blocks laid on a bed of hydraulic cement. At its base it is 35 ft thick, shrinking to 13 ft at its top. It has three sections: the central span is 900 ft, a south wing 324 ft directs flow to the South Canal, and a 405 ft wing directs water into the North Canal. It has a gatehouse, from which 24 gates in its sluiceway were controlled before the controls were electrified. Nearby on the island are also the surviving gatekeepers house, an 1845 Greek Revival wood-frame structure, and a c. 1860s barn.</p><br>
<p>The North Canal runs parallel to the Merrimack River, and is 5,330 ft long. It ranges in width from 100 ft at its upper end to 30 ft where its wasteway joins the Spicket River. The canal is trapezoidal in its cross-section, with walls lined by granite, and a bottom made of granite rubble that has been sealed with clay. It is capable of delivering 4,000 cubic feet of water per second; water power is still used in some of the mills lining its banks. The canal used to have operable locks for navigation; the upper ones were removed and the lower ones were filled in.</p><br>
<h2>Mill complexes</h2><br>
<p>The Pacific Mills complex is an extensive array of buildings in the western (upper) and central parts of the district. The oldest standing building, a storehouse, dates to 1860, and there are remnants of an earlier 1852 structure. One of the more impressive structures is the Weave Shed built in 1890; it is a two-story brick building 300 ft long. Its main cotton complex comprises five buildings on the north side of the canal. In the central part of the district the Pacific Mills include buildings in which both cotton and worsted wool products were manufactured.</p><br>
<p>The Atlantic Mill Company buildings stand next to those of the Pacific Mills in the upper portion of the island. Only two notable buildings survive, the c. 1906 spinning mill, and a boarding house (one of two such buildings to survive in the district) that dates to 1847 and is the only surviving remnant of what was once a much more extensive housing district.</p><br>
<p>The central portion of the district includes mill buildings from a number of manufacturers, including the Bay State Woolens Company (whose c. 1847 brick boarding house is now the visitor center of Lawrence Heritage State Park), the Washington Mills, and buildings of the American Woolen Company and the Pemberton Mill. Other notable buildings here include the Essex Company Offices and Yard (separately listed on the National Register). The lower portion of the district is predominantly occupied by the mill complexes of the Everett Mills and the Kuhnhardt Woolen Mills.</p><br>
<p>The Norwood-Hyatt House is a historic house at 704 Washington Street in the Gloucester, Massachusetts. It is notable as one of the oldest houses in Gloucester, and for its association with Alpheus Hyatt, who did research in marine biology here before establishing the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole.</p><br>
<p>The oldest part of the house is estimated to have been built in 1664 for Francis Norwood, a mariner and early settler of Gloucester. It remained in the hands of Norwood family descendants until 1879, when Cape Ann Bank took the house by foreclosure. It was acquired that year by Audella Hyatt, wife of Alpheus Hyatt. In 1880 Hyatt used the property as a base for marine research, but abandoned that use, finding it unsuitable, after one season. It was owned by descendants of the Hyatts until 1987.</p><br>
<p>The construction history of the house has not been researched in detail. It is a 2.5-story wood-frame structure, with its earliest framing members showing evidence of 17th century construction methods. It was repeatedly expanded, particularly during the Norwood family&#39;s ownership, to reach its present configuration. The main block of the house is five window bays wide, and there is a two-story ell added on to the west side (probably in the early 19th century), and several shed-style additions on the northwest part of the house. The foundation is mainly mortared stone, but the eastern wall is made of brick.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house has significant features that remain from the 17th and 18th centuries. Many original fireplaces and mantels survive, although most of the fireplaces have been covered over. There are wide pine floors, and the walls and woodwork show many examples of 18th and 19th century construction techniques. Many of the walls were painted with artwork, largely by Audella Hyatt.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The James Noyes House is a historic First Period house at 7 Parker Street in Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. The house was built by the Reverend James Noyes, a Puritan pastor, who settled in Newbury in the mid-17th century. The Noyes family came from Wiltshire in England. The house dates from about 1646. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. When the house was first built, it was only a single room deep; around 1800 a -story cross-gable ell was added to the rear, which was further extended by a -story ell later in the 19th century. The interior rooms of the main block have Federal period styling, probably dating to the time of the first addition.</p><br>
<p>The Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, founded in 1854, which is bounded by Derby, Washington, and Grove Sts., and Maplewood Avenue in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. The cemetery was founded by a group of local businessmen who sought to establish a cemetery in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style. They hired landscape architects Robert Morris Copeland and Horace William Shaler Cleveland to lay out a series of winding lanes. The Bradford Chapel was built through a bequest by George R. Bradford, another local businessman, and built in 1903–04. The cemetery is still privately owned, and has grown over time to occupy 11 acre.</p><br>
<p>It is the burial place of the operatic soprano Emma Abbott.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows&#39; Hall in Beverly, Massachusetts occupies a prominent location on Cabot Street opposite city hall in Beverly Center. It is a -story High Gothic Revival building constructed in 1893 to a design by local architect J. Foster Ober. Its exterior is clad in brick with trim of granite and brownstone. Its roof is a cross gable style, steep roof with polychrome bands of slate tiles. The central portion of the roof is a deck surrounded by a wrought iron railing and is topped by a cupola and weathervane. One of its notable tenants was President William Howard Taft, who had offices in the building during summer residencies in Beverly.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and included in the Beverly Center Business District in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Old Castle is a historic First Period house located on Castle Lane in Rockport, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was probably built c. 1712 by Jethro Wheeler, in whose family it remained for six generations. It was sold out of the family in 1893 to Henry F. Story, and given to the Pigeon Cove Village Improvement Society in 1929. The house underwent some restoration at that time, and is now open during the summer as a historic house museum, operated by the Sandy Bay Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old Farm is a historic First Period house in Wenham, Massachusetts. The oldest part of the house, the left front and chimney, were built first, followed by the rooms to the right of the chimney, and a rear leanto section. This work was all done in the 17th century, but has not been dated with precision. In the late 19th century the rear section was raised to a full two stories, and the roof was rebuilt as a gambrel. The building underwent a major restoration effort in the early 20th century, led by Joseph Everett Chandler, a prominent restoration specialist. The restoration job was the subject of an article in a 1921 edition of House Beautiful.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
