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Salem, Massachusetts Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County. Home to Salem State University, the Salem Willows Park and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem is a residential and tourist area which includes the neighborhoods of Salem Neck, The Point, South Salem and North Salem, Witchcraft Heights, Pickering Wharf, and the McIntire Historic District (named after Salem's famous architect and carver, Samuel McIntire).Salem was one of the most significant seaports in early America. It has the first National Historic Site designated by Congress, Salem Maritime National Historic Site, which protects Salem's historic waterfront.[citation needed]Featured notably in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, much of the city's cultural identity is reflective of its role as the location of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692: Police cars are adorned with witch logos, a local public school is known as the Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, the Salem High School athletic teams are named The Witches, and Gallows Hill, a site of numerous public hangings, is currently used as a playing field for various sports.Tourists know Salem as a mix of important historical sites, New Age and Wiccan boutiques, and kitschy Halloween or witch-themed attractions. History Salem was founded at the mouth of the Naumkeag river in 1626 at the site of an ancient Native American village and trading center (it was originally called Naumkeag and was renamed Salem three years later) by a company of fishermen from Cape Ann led by Roger Conant, and incorporated in 1629. Conant’s leadership had provided the stability to survive the first two years, but he was immediately replaced by John Endicott, one of the new arrivals, by order of the Dorchester Company. Conant graciously stepped aside and was granted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land in compensation. These “New Planters” and the “Old Planters” agreed to cooperate, in large part due to the diplomacy of Conant and Endicott. In recognition of this peaceful transition to the new government, the name of the settlement was changed to Salem, a corruption of the Hebrew word ‘shalom'.Naumkeag was first settled in 1626 by the Dorchester Company with Roger Conant as Governor. That settlement was located east of the present day Salem commuter rail station.A year later, Governor John Endicott arrived in Naumkeag and a patent was solicited by the Massachusetts Bay Company in England. Endicott moved the Great House from Cape Anne reassembling on what is now Washington Street north of Church Street. And a year later, the Massachusetts Bay Charter was issued creating the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Thomas Craddock as Governor and Endicott as a Governor's Assistant. A challenge to Endicott's authority in Naumkeag arose in London and was settled within the Massachusetts Bay Company. One week later, Governor John Winthrop was elected Governor and John Endicott was re-elected Governor's Assistant, followed by the Great Puritan Migration/Fleet of 1629/1630. Endicott's greeting of Winthrop is the subject of a plaque on the Boston Common.In 1639, his was one of the signatures on the building contract for enlarging the meeting house in Town House Square for the First Church in Salem. This document remains part of the town records at City Hall. He was active in the affairs of the town throughout his life. Roger Conant died 1679, at the age of 87 but to celebrate this majestic life, a gigantic statue stands overlooking Salem Common. Salem originally included much of the North Shore, including Marblehead. Most of the accused in the Salem witch trials lived in nearby 'Salem Village', now known as Danvers, although a few lived on the outskirts of Salem. Salem Village also included Peabody and parts of present-day Beverly. Middleton, Topsfield, Wenham and Manchester-by-the-Sea, too, were once parts of Salem. One of the most widely known aspects of Salem is its history of witchcraft allegations, which started with Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and their friends playing with a Venus glass and egg. Salem achieved further legal notoriety as the site of the Dorthy Talbye trial, where a mentally ill woman was hanged for murdering her daughter, because at the time Massachusetts made no distinction between insanity and criminal behavior.On February 26, 1775, patriots raised the drawbridge at the North River, preventing British Colonel Alexander Leslie and his 300 troops of the 64th Regiment of Foot from seizing stores and ammunition hidden in North Salem. A few months later, in May 1775, a group of prominent merchants with ties to Salem, including Francis Cabot, William Pynchon, Thomas Barnard, E.A. Holyoke and William Pickman, felt the need to publish a statement retracting what some interpreted as Loyalist leanings and to profess their dedication to the Colonial cause.During the Revolution, the town became a center for privateering. Although the documentation is incomplete, about 1,700 Letters of Marque, issued on a per-voyage basis, were granted during the American Revolution. Nearly 800 vessels were commissioned as privateers and are credited with capturing or destroying about 600 British ships. By 1790, Salem was the sixth largest city in the country, and a world famous seaport—particularly in the China trade. Codfish was exported to the West Indies and Europe. Sugar and molasses were imported from the West Indies, tea from China, and pepper from Sumatra. Salem ships also visited Africa, Russia, Japan and Australia. During the War of 1812, privateering resumed.Prosperity left the city with a wealth of fine architecture, including Federal style mansions designed by one of America's first architects Samuel McIntire, for whom the city's largest historic district is named. These homes and mansions from Colonial America now comprise the greatest concentrations of notable pre-1900 domestic structures in the United States.This wealth of architecture in Salem can be directly attributed to the Old China Trade, which was ongoing for years with America and Great Britain. The neutrality of the United States was tested during the Napoleonic Wars. Both Britain and France imposed trade restrictions in order to weaken each others' economies. This also had the effect of disrupting American trade and testing the United States' neutrality. As time went on, harassment by the British of American ships increased by the British Navy. This included impressment and seizures of American men and goods. After the Chesapeake Leopard Affair, Thomas Jefferson was faced with a decision to make regarding the situation at hand. In the end, he chose an economic option: the Embargo Act of 1807 and Thomas Jefferson basically closed all the ports overnight, putting a little damper on the seaport town of Salem. The embargo of 1807 was the starting point on the path to the War of 1812 with Great Britain.Incorporated as a city on March 23, 1836, Salem adopted a city seal in 1839 with the motto 'Divitis Indiae usque ad ultimum sinum', Latin for 'To the farthest port of the rich Indies.' Nathaniel Hawthorne was overseer of the port from 1846 until 1849. He worked in the Customs House near Pickering Wharf, his setting for the beginning of The Scarlet Letter. In 1858, an amusement park was established at Salem Willows, a peninsula jutting into the harbor. It should be noted that up until the War of 1812, the port of Salem was a major center of trade in America.But shipping declined throughout the 19th century. Salem and its silting harbor were increasingly eclipsed by Boston and New York. Consequently, the city turned to manufacturing. Industries included tanneries, shoe factories and the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company. More than 400 homes burned in the Great Salem Fire of 1914, leaving 3,500 families homeless from a blaze that began in the Korn Leather Factory. The fire ripped into one part of the city, but historical places including City Hall from 1837, the oldest contunually operated City Hall in America. The historic concentration of Federal architecture on Chestnut Street, where grand mansions form the China Trade can trace there roots were spared. Salem was really lucky that day because the fire left mostly all of Salem's architectural legacy intact, which helped it develop as a center for tourism.The book 'The Salem-India Story' written by Vanita Shastri narrates the adventures of the Salem seamen who connected the far corners of the globe through trade. This period (1788–1845) marks the beginning of US-India relations, long before the 21st century wave of globalization. It reveals the global trade connections that Salem, Massachusetts, had established with faraway lands, which were a source of livelihood and prosperity for many. Geography and transportation Salem is located at 42°31′1″N 70°53′55″W / 42.51694°N 70.89861°W / 42.51694; -70.89861 (42.516845, -70.898503). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.1 square miles (46.8 km²), of which, 8.1 square miles (21.0 km²) of it is land and 9.9 square miles (25.8 km²) of it (55.09%) is water. Salem lies on Massachusetts Bay between Salem Harbor, which divides the city from much of neighboring Marblehead to the southeast, and Beverly Harbor, which divides the city from Beverly along with the Danvers River, which feeds into the harbor. Between the two harbors lies Salem Neck and Winter Island, which are divded from each othe by Cat Cove, Smith Pool (located between the two land causeways to Winter Island) and Juniper Cove. The city is further divided by Collins Cove, and the inlet to the North River. The Forest River flows through the south end of town as well, along with Strong Water Brook, which feeds Spring Pond at the town's southwest corner. The town has several parks, as well as conservation land along the Forest River and Camp Lion, which lies east of Spring Pond.The city is divided by its natural features into several small neighborhoods. The Salem Neck neighborhood lies northeast of downtown, and North Salem lies to the west of it, on the other side of the North River. South Salem is south of the South River, lying mostly along the banks of Salem Harbor southward. Downtown Salem lies fifteen miles (24 km) northeast of Boston, sixteen miles southwest of Gloucester and Cape Ann, and nineteen miles (30 km) southeast of Lawrence, the other county seat of Essex County. Salem is bordered by Beverly to the north, Danvers to the northwest, Peabody to the west, Lynn to the southeast, Swampscott to the south, and Marblehead to the southeast. The town's water rights extend along a channel into Massachusetts Bay between the water rights of Marblehead and Beverly.The connection between Salem and Beverly is made across the Danvers River and Beverly Harbor by three bridges, the Kernwood Bridge to the west, and a railroad bridge and the Essex Bridge, from the land between Collins Cove and the North River, to the east. The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries Route 1A across the river. Route 1A passes through the eastern side of the city, through South Salem towards Swampscott. For much of its length in the city, it is coextensive with Route 114, which goes north from Marblehead before merging with Route 1A, and then heading northwest from downtown towards Lawrence. Route 107 also passes through town, entering from Lynn in the southwest corner of the city before heading towards its intersection with Route 114 and terminating at Route 1A. There is no highway access within the city; the nearest highway access to Route 128 is along Route 114 in neighboring Peabody.Several lines of the MBTA Bus service pass through the city. Salem has a station on the Newburyport/Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail. The railroad lines are also connected to an abandoned portion of the Springfield Terminal lines which lead into Peabody, and a former line into Marblehead has been converted into a bike path.From late spring through early fall, the Salem Ferry provides ferry service between Salem and Boston, taking less than an hour's ride. In 2010, was a great success and The Salem Ferry Service between Boston's Long Wharf North and Salem's Blaney Street ran from May 28th 2010 and taking the final voyage on the 1st of November 1, 2010. The trip is 55 minutes. The ferry is enclosed, has rest rooms and a snack bar and will resume in the end of May 2011.The nearest small airport is Beverly Municipal Airport, and the nearest national and international service can be reached at Boston's Logan International Airport. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 40,407 people, 17,492 households, and 9,708 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,986.0 people per square mile (1,926.1/km²). There were 18,175 housing units at an average density of 2,242.7/sq mi (866.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 85.37% White, 3.15% African American, 0.22% Native American, 2.00% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 6.74% from other races, and 2.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.24% of the population.There were 17,492 households out of which 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.8% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.5% were non-families. 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.95.In the city the population was spread out with 20.2% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 33.4% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 86.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.5 males.The median income for a household in the city was $44,033, and the median income for a family was $55,635. Males had a median income of $38,563 versus $31,374 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,857. About 6.3% of families and 9.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 7.9% of those age 65 or over. Education Salem State University is the largest state university in Massachusetts (note that State Universities are separate from the University of Massachusetts system), with 7,000 undergraduates and 2,500 graduate students; its campus comprises 108 acres (0.44 km2) and 33 buildings. It hosts a regular Speaker Series, featuring major invited speakers. It was originally founded as the Salem Normal School (for teacher training) in 1854, thanks to the efforts of Horace Mann who is considered the 'Father of American Public Education.'Public elementary schools include the Bates, Bentley, Carlton, Horace Mann, Nathaniel Bowditch, Saltonstall and Witchcraft Heights schools. Collins Middle School, Nathaniel Bowditch School, and Salem High School are located on Highland Avenue. Private schools are also located in the city, including two independent, alternative schools, The Phoenix School and the Greenhouse, as well as the Salem Academy Charter School.Salem also once had a very strong Roman Catholic school system. Once home to almost a dozen schools, the last school in the city, St. Joseph School, closed in June 2009 after over 100 years of providing Catholic Education. St. James High School, St. Chretienne Academy, St. Chretienne Grammar School and St. Mary's School closed in 1971, St. James Grammar School closed in 1972, St. Thomas the Apostle School closed in 1973, St. Anne School closed in 1976, St. John the Baptist School closed in 1977 and St. Joseph High School closed in 1980.In late 2007 and early 2008, the city's public school system garnered regional and even national attention after officials announced a $4.7 million budget shortfall that threatened the jobs of teachers and other staff members. The Massachusetts General Court passed legislation, and residents raised enough money, that averted teacher layoffs. Several dozen support workers were still laid off. Police were investigating what happened to the money in a search for criminal violations of the law. Witch-related tourism Since the decline of the city's industrial base, tourism has become an increasingly important part of Salem's economy. Tourism based on the 1692 witch trials dates back to at least the first half of the 20th century, when dry goods merchant Daniel Low sold souvenir spoons with witch images. Such tourism expanded significantly in the 1970s, when the television comedy Bewitched filmed several episodes there. Witch-related tourism expanded significantly in the 1990s, and the city added an official 'Haunted Happenings' celebration during the October tourist season. In 2007, the city launched the Haunted Passport program which offers visitors discounts and benefits from local tourist attractions and retailers from October to April. In 2010, The City of Salem once again had record attendance from the previous years, with 100,000 on the day of Halloween in 2010!The goal of the program is to get visitors to come back to Salem after Halloween and experience businesses that may not be directly tied to Halloween. A new tradition was started in 2007 by Mayor Kim Driscol when thousands watched a massive fireworks display that kicked off at 10:00 pm on Halloween.In recent years, tourism has been an occasional source of debate in the city, with some residents arguing the city should downplay witch tourism and market itself as a more upscale cultural center. In 2005, the conflict came to a head over plans by the cable television network TV Land to erect a bronze statue of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played the comic witch 'Samantha' in the 1960s series Bewitched. A few special episodes of the series were actually filmed in Salem, and TV Land said that the statue commemorated the 35th anniversary of those episodes.Located at the major intersection of Essex & Washington Street, the statue was sculpted by StudioEIS under the direction of brothers Elliott and Ivan Schwartz. Many felt the statue was good fun and appropriate to a city that promotes itself as 'The Witch City', and contains a street named 'Witch Way'. Others objected to the use of public property for what was transparently commercial promotion. Some felt that the statue trivialized history by encouraging visitors to recall a sitcom rather than the tragic Salem witch trials. The statue was later vandalized with red spray-painted 'X's over the face and chest, and flags placed in the statue's hands.To understand the rich history of the City of Salem, many visitors decide to take a Segway Tour during the day to view this historic city. Others decide on a Night Tour, founded in 1983 by Jim McAllister, the longest running walking tour company in Salem. There are also other many licensed guides for a walking tour of Salem in the day time or evening. The one trolley in Salem is the Salem Trolley, also founded in 1983 for an easy view of this great city and numerous, world famous historical landmarks!The best value are two free movies shown daily by the United States Park Service that show. One is located on the waterfront at Derby Wharf where an eighteen minute orientation film 'To the Farthest Ports of the Rich East' about Salem's Golden Age. At the visitors center across from the Peabody Essex Museum is the location of the other movie.The Parks Service also takes people on tours of the Customs House where Nathanial Hawthorne penned The Scarlett Letter and onto the Friendship.New Self Guided Walking Tours and Guides Available to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Salem architect and carver Samuel McIntire, the National Park Service, Historic New England, and the Peabody Essex Museum have released a newly revised edition of the McIntire Historic District Architectural Walking Trail. The new guide to historic architecture in Salem, Architecture in Salem: A Guide to Four Centuries of Design has also been released. Copies of these guides are available from the NPS Visitor Center in Salem, or can be downloaded here .In 1692, 14 women and 6 men were accused of being witches, were tried, convicted, and executed. Executions took place on June 10, July 19, August 19, September 19 and September 22, 1692. To this day, the events of 1692 are used as a yardstick to measure the depth of civility and due process in our society.To remember the events of 1692, The City of Salem dedicated The Witch Trials Memorial, designed by by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in August 1992 as part of the Salem Witch Trials TerCentenary.Major interest in the design of the Witch Trials Memorial resulted in a international competition that received 246 entries. The winning design by Maggie Smith and James Cutler was inspired by the Vietnam Memorial.The Memorial consists of 20 granite benches cantilevered from a low stone wall surrounding an area adjoining the Old Burying Point. The benches are inscribed with the name of the accused and the means and date of execution. Going into the memorial, visitors walk over a slab of granite where some of the final words of the condemned are carved into granite. The artist who made the memorial did this so that the visitors would walk over the words similar to how the words of the condemned fell on deaf ears!During Halloween 2010, an estimated 100,000 celebrated Halloween in the city of Salem. Other sites The replica tall ship Friendship was built at the Scarano Brothers Shipyard in Albany, New York, and delivered on the 1st of September 1998 to the National Park Service's Salem Maritime National Historic Site.Friendship is a reconstruction of a 171-foot (52 m) three-masted Salem East Indiaman trading ship, originally built in 1797, that traveled the globe many times over to South America, China, the Caribbean, England, Germany, Batavia, India, & The Mediterranean, and Russia Empire.Friendship was captured as a prize of war by the British in September, 1812, and then sold for pieces.Friendship is the largest wooden, Coast Guard certified, sailing vessel to be built in New England in more than a century.Friendship is the largest wooden sailing ship built in Scarano Boat Builders' 25-year history and will be the largest, full-rigged, US built vessel in the modern era of tall ships. Rigging and final outfitting took place at Derby Wharf. Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has in possession a a 9-ft. model of the Friendship, this insuring accuracy when the ship was drawn up by Bay Marine Inc. Each of the 39 frames on each side of the ship was laid out on full sized patterns with an accuracy of 1/16 of an inch. Each frame was constructed from 16 layers of Douglas Fir which were bent to shape and glued together with Resorcinol epoxy.Maintenance and the wood workers area where items for the ship are constantly and yearly carved out to maintain total authenticity regarding wood carvings on the ship. All told, this takes place in the rigging shed¨, roughly with 2,000 sq. feet, plus outdoor storage of large blocks of wood, all located on Derby Wharf, this is all possible with the assistance of many volunteers who give time and money.who make Friendship a reality.The Friendship is a replica but is designed to sail because a laminate epoxy construction makes the replica stronger. Plus rot normally takes its tole of a tradition ship but The Friendship is much stronger than the original, while basically eliminating the threat of dry rot that can threaten conventional wooden construction in as little as ten years after the ship sets into the salty ocean.Under the deck of The Friendship, behind an exterior that appears much like the original are two engines, two generators, a modern galley, fire-fighting equipment and a wheel chair lift from the first deck to the second. Where the original used cargo as ballast, the replica uses 100 lead blocks, each weighing 3000 pounds.Also on Derby Wharf is a ship, The new Fame is a full-scale replica of this famous schooner. Framed and planked of white oak and trunnel-fastened in the traditional manner, Fame was launched in 2003. The Fame is a for profit ship, ,where she takes the paying public for cruises on historic Salem Sound.The original Fame was a fast Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812, taking 20 captures before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814.In 1944, the threatened destruction of The Witch House became the catalyst that launched a new wave of restoration in Salem. A group of concerned citizens raised the $42,500 needed to move and restore the building. The new museum officially opened to the public in 1948, Located on Essex Street, Intersection of North Street and Summer Street.The Witch House, home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, is the only structure still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Tours are operated by the city of Salem as a tourist spot every year from the start of April thru Early November.Located on Essex Street The Salem Athenaeum charter and name date from 1810, its history actually begins fifty years earlier with the founding of two earlier institutions: the Social Library in 1760; and the Salem Philosophical Library in 1781. In 1760 a group of Club members donated 175 guineas toward the foundation of a library for their mutual use. The new Social Library was stocked both by donations from members' own libraries and by new purchases from London booksellers. Membership was not technically restricted as long as applicants could meet the £11 yearly cost (approximately $1500 in current dollars).In 1905, the Athenæum sold the building at 132 Essex Street to the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum), and with the proceeds constructed the building it currently occupies, at 337 Essex Street. Dedicated in 1907, this handsome red brick structure was modeled on Homewood, an estate in Maryland built by Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) for his son.Today the Athenæum is celebrating 200 years and home to over 50,000 volumes in its circulating and research collections and is dedicated to renewing its commitment to its core mission: to enrich the lives of its members and its North Shore community by lending, preserving, and adding to its collection of books and documents, by maintaining and enhancing its historic buildings and grounds, and by offering cultural and educational programs that provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and life-long learning.The Gedney House was built c. 1665 by Eleazor Gedney, a prominent and wealthy Salem shipwright who was related to John Turner, the builder of the House of the Seven Gables. The Gedney House is owned by Historic New England and is open by appointment June through October and is located on High Street, three homes from Summer Street Salem, The GEndy House is one of the Oldest Homes in The City of Sale.Narbonne House from 1675, located at 71 Essex Street was built by butcher Thomas Ives, is a good example of a craftsman’s family home of the late seventeenth century. When it was first completed, the house consisted of single rooms on the first and second fl oor, with an attic under the tall peaked roof and a small root cellar. Most people in Salem would have lived in houses about this size. In the eighteenth century, a shorter addition was added to the side of the house away from Essex Street. The National Park Service administers the Narbonne House, and it is open for tours daily.John Ward House(c. 1684), is located on Brown Street close to the intersection of Howard Street. Built by a leather tanner of moderate wealth, more successful than the families living in the Narbonne house, but less than those in the Corwin and Turner houses, and was about equivalent to the Gedneys. It originally stood on a one-acre plot with a garden and outhouse on St. Peter Street opposite the jail used during the witchcraft trials. Like the Gedney and Narbonne Houses, the Ward House was built in stages between 1684 and 1730: first the left side, then the right, and last the lean-to addition at the rear. The house was moved to its current location in 1910, and was one of the earliest buildings to be relocated and restored for historic interpretation in the United States. The Ward House is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum and is open for tours daily Crowninshield-Bentley House(c. 1727), 126 Essex Street The Crowninshield-Bentley House was built for ship captain and merchant John Crowninshield, and is where the famous diarist Rev. William Bentley boarded with the Crowninshield family for many years. For most of the 18th century, the house was a duplex, because two members of the family each inherited half of the house. This was very common in New England, and explains the presence of multiple kitchens in many 18th century homes. Like most town houses at the time, it originally stood at the curb, but in 1959 it was moved down Essex Street to its present location. The house is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum and is currently closed for renovation.Hawthorne Birthplace (1730–1745), 115 Derby Street – this house, purchased by author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s grandfather in 1772, is a typical house of the successful captain or small business owner of 18th century New England. The first floor contains a kitchen, parlor, and study; the second fl oor contains three bedrooms, and more bedrooms and storage are in the attic. Two staircases, at the front and the back of the chimney, provide access to the upper stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in this house on July 4, 1804, and because of the association the house was moved from Union Street to the grounds of the House of the Seven Gables in 1957. It is owned by the House of the Seven Gables, open to the public daily for tours, and closed in January.Derby House located at 168 Derby Street, next to the Salem Customs House on Derby Wharf. Built as a wedding present from successful merchant Richard Derby to his son Elias Hasket Derby, the Derby House is the oldest standing brick building in Salem. The gambrel roof, symmetrical placement of windows, and elegant front door all exhibit the taste that a wealthy merchant family needed to express in the eighteenth century British world. This house is not as large as many other merchants’ homes of the period, but it is made of brick, the most expensive building material in New England at the time. The bricks were made locally, but the lime that was needed to make the weatherproof mortar had to be imported, since lime is not common in New England. The house is administered by the National Park Service, and is open daily for tours.Hawkes House (1780, 1800), 174 Derby Street About 1780, the Derby family hired Samuel McIntire to design a house to replace the brick home they had lived in for twenty years. The new house was in the late Georgian style, with tall ceilings, large windows, an imposing three story facade, and hipped roof. The Derbys did not, however, move into the house, and it was left unfi nished until about 1800, when it was sold to Benjamin Hawkes, who completed the building. The Hawkes House is part of Salem Maritime National Historic Site, and is not open to the public.Peirce-Nichols House (c. 1782), 80 Federal Street At about the same time McIntire was building a new house for the Derbys, he was also designing a similar house for Jerathmiel Peirce, co-owner of the merchant ship Friendship. McIntire returned to the Peirce house in 1801 to remodel the interior of the east side for the wedding of Sally Peirce to George Nichols. Behind the house are stables and a terraced garden extending back to a small arbor. The property originally swept down to the North River, where Peirce could dock