Architectural, Cultural sights in Salem
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House of the Seven Gables
Salem's most famous house is the House of the Seven Gables, made famous in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel of the same name. As he wrote: ‘Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge clustered chimney in their midst.’ The novel brings to life the gloomy Puritan atmosphere of early New England and its effects on the people’s psyches; the house does the same. The admission fee allows entrance to the site’s four historic buildings, as well as the luxuriant gardens on the waterfront.
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Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust House
Lovers of old houses should venture to Chestnut St, which is among the most architecturally lovely streets in the country. One of these stately homes is the Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust House, which displays the family furnishings of Salem sea captains, including a collection of antique carriages and cars.
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Witch House
Best of Salem's other 'witchy' sites is the Witch House, the home of the magistrate who presided over the trials. To dig deeper, read Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which doubles as a parable to the 1950s anticommunist 'witch hunts' in the US Senate that resulted in Miller's own blacklisting.
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Pickering House
Furnished in antiques, Salem’s Pickering House is said to be the oldest house in the USA continuously occupied by the same family.
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