House of the Seven Gables, 54 Turner Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Photographs 1-4 are part of of the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (PAEAA), also found in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
Significance: The house was lived in by three generations of Turners and three generations of Ingersolls, all of them sea captains. It was during Susan Ingersoll's time that Nathaniel Hawthorne visited the house and was inspired to write, The House of Seven Gables.
Survey number: HABS MA-629
Building/structure dates: 1668 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1678 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1692 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1720 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000323