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- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Architecturally speaking, it is usually the feature upon which the chief emphasis is placed; and thus it expresses not only the taste and personality of the architect, but to a certain extent also those of the occupant of the home to which it belongs.
For the doorway is more than a mere entrance and exit to a dwelling. It assumes a human aspect, as standing for personal and social elements, and as revealing something of personal and social ambitions and ideals. It ceases to be merely utilitarian, and becomes suggestive, with an atmosphere of romance and poetry, as being intimately connected with basic human experiences both of joy and sorrow; and associates with itself memories of historic personages who have passed through it, and of historic events which have taken place within the house itself.
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Historic Doorways of Old Salem
THE DODGE-SHREVE HOUSE
HISTORIC DOORWAYS OF OLD SALEM
BY
MARY HARROD NORTHEND
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
1926
© 2022 Librorium Editions
ISBN : 9782383834915
FOREWORD
Salem Doorways! How they awaken romantic memories of a glorious past, linked as they are with the days when merchantmen and clipper ships slipped from the ways to trade in foreign lands. Days when old-fashioned gardens, gay with hollyhock and fragrant with sweet brier, were laid out at the rear of the great Colonial houses of the ship-owners. Doorways that were first designed for the Derby Street houses, later appearing on Chestnut Street, when ship-owners removed to this part of the city.
These doorways were the work of ship carpenters or men who carved figureheads, although the most beautiful of all were those designed by Samuel McIntire, the wood-carver of Salem. Many of them display a marked individuality, the result of McIntire’s skill in combining various types of architecture, and adapting them to the Georgian style. Some show pilasters with Doric or Corinthian feeling, supporting a pediment often triangular in design, gaining in effect through the use of hand-tooled ornamentation.
Nathaniel Hawthorne graphically describes a simple example on the house on Charter Street, where he wooed Sophia Peabody, who later became his bride.
Another notable one adorns the Pickering house, built by John Pickering in 1650. This was the birthplace of Colonel Timothy Pickering, who served in four Cabinet offices.
The Cook-Oliver house on Federal Street shows rare bits of hand-tooling, in part taken from the Elias Hasket Derby mansion on Market Square, considered the finest house of its day.
Salem has just reason to be proud of these doorways which have given to her a distinctive name in the field of architecture. Little wonder that architects from all over the country are copying these historic doorways for reproduction in modern-day homes, with a realization that they have never been excelled by modern-day work.
Acknowledgment should be rendered to Edward Colton Fellowes, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for assistance in arranging the material of this book.
CONTENTS
I.
Character in Doorways
1
II.
Old Salem as a Center of Colonial Doorways
3
III.
The Evolution of the Salem Doorway
5
IV.
The Door Itself
10
V.
Old Salem Houses and Their Doorways
15
The Rebecca Nurse House
15
The John Ward House
17
The Tucker-Rice House
19
The Ropes Memorial
20
The Lindall-Barnard-Andrews House
22
The Cabot-Endicott-Low House
24
The Pickering House
25
The Poynton House
26
The Eden-Brown House
28
‘The Lindens’
29
The Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols House
31
The Hosmer-Townsend-Waters House
33
Assembly Hall
34
The Boardman House
36
‘Oak Hill’
36
The Kimball House
38
The Cook-Oliver House
38
The George M. Whipple House
40
The Nathan Robinson-Little House
42
The Dodge-Shreve House
43
The White-Lord House
44
The Salem Club
45
The Baldwin-Lyman House
47
The Andrew-Safford House
48
The Gardner-White-Pingree House
50
The House of the Seven Gables
51
The J. Foster Smith House
52
The Grace Machado House
53
The Stearns House
53
The Timothy Orne House
55
The Crowninshield-Devereux-Waters House
56
The Mansfield-Bolles House
58
The Richard Derby House
59
The Hodges-Peele-West House
60
The Silsbee-Mott House
61
The Hodges-Webb-Meek House
61
The Pickman-Shreve-Little House
62
The Home for Aged Women
64
The Home for Aged Men
66
The Benjamin Pickman House
67
The Elias Hasket Derby House
68
The Neal-Kittridge-Rogers House
70
The Arthur West House
72
The Hoffman-Simpson House
73
The Doyle Mansion
74
Derby Street and Chestnut Street
75
Famous Names in Salem
81
Palladian Windows
83
VI.
Old Salem Knockers
88
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Dodge-Shreve House
Frontispiece
The House of the Seven Gables: Batten Door
10
The House of the Seven Gables: Another Doorway
11
The Rebecca Nurse House
16
The John Ward House
17
The Tucker-Rice House
20
The Ropes Memorial
21
Closer View of the Ropes Doorway
22
The Lindall-Barnard-Andrews House
23
The Cabot-Endicott-Low House
24
Porch Opening on Old-Fashioned Gardens on the Pickering Estate
25
The Poynton House, Known as the ‘Pineapple House’
26
The Eden-Brown House
27
‘The Lindens’
30
The Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols House
31
The Front Door of the Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols House from the Inside
32
Assembly Hall
33
The Boardman House
36
‘Oak Hill’
37
The Kimball House
38
The Cook-Oliver House
39
The George M. Whipple House
40
The Nathan Robinson-Little House
41
The White-Lord House
44
The Salem Club
45
The Baldwin-Lyman House
48
The Andrew-Safford House
49
The Gardner-White-Pingree House
50
The J. Foster Smith House
51
The Grace Machado House
54
The Stearns House
55
The Mansfield-Bolles House
58
The Richard Derby House
59
The Silsbee-Mott House
60
The Hodges-Webb-Meek House
61
The Home for Aged Women
66
The Home for Aged Men
67
The Neal-Kittridge-Rogers House
72
The Arthur West House
73
The Hoffmann-Simpson House
74
The Doyle Mansion
75
House of Mrs. Emery Johnson
78
House of Mrs. George Wheatland
79
The Custom-House
82
Old Salem Knockers
92
Old Salem Knockers
93
