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Plllllliilh :Ji!:!:!!;^ TITLE of SURVEY: ENTR Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts COUNTY: ViEssex NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) COMMON:.' ' "./. S-_ ^»i „ v: ' ( . - • ": ';: -, 1 .: 3W . '." .I-:;. ; --"---.~ Gardner-SMI^fc-Pingree House AND/OR HISTORIC: ' ' KjjSjjSijSi^lt^ijjijSS^ • ^:W;fe:^:;t':1::W;l:^:;:::::::::;.;::::.:::::::::::::::::::.:;::;:;:::::x::::-:::.-;y:. :;:::::-::. •:-:; :±.:.'±:/<:;^:^^:<^-:<-:<<<-.::<:^<<<:<<<^<<f:^<<<t:^<<:^<:-::<<<<<<:-<\.^ STREET AND NUMBER: 128 Essex Street CITY OR TOWN: Salem STATE CODE COU HTV: CODE Massachusetts Essex li|:iii|iilill*$i;:;::1;:?;i::; STATUS ACCESSIBLE oo CATEGORY OWNERSHIP (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC \ | District [_] Building l~~1 Public Public Acquisition: fi Occupied Y es: 0 . 1 1 Restricted D Site Q Structure 3 Private Q ln Process D Unoccupied i=^ Q Object D Both D Beina Cons icereairWprl r-ji —i preservationr> worki "—il J Unrestricted J- in progress 1 —1 ^° PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Z3 \ | Agricultural | | Government | | Park 1 I Transportation 1 1 Comments Of Q Commercial D Industrial Q Private Residence D Other (Sper.ify) H [^.Educational [~~| Military | | Religious I | Entertainment B Museum | | Scientific co ............... .. •^ OWNER'S NAME: Mr. David Little, Director, Essex Institute STATE: w STREET AND NUMBER: 132 Essex Street LLJ CO CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Salem 01970 Massachusetts •I COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: COUNTY: Registry of Deeds STREET AND NUMBER: 32 Federal Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Saiem Massachusett s plllllliilH :Ji!:!:!!;^ TITLE OF SURVEY: ENTR Historic American Buildings Survey (1 sheet and 2 photos) Tl O NUMBERY DATE OF SURVEY: 1938, 1940 H Federal ~] State [~| County | | Loca 73 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Z-o t/1 c ^iyisiorj ^of BP.rints and Photographs, Library en m •z.0 I———————————————— r CITY OR TOWN: ^_ .„ STATE: n _ p _ -< Washington 20540 DATE (Check One) Excellent LD Good Fair | | Deteriorated | | Ruins f~1 Unexposed CONDITION (C/iecfc One; (Check One) j£ Altered Q Unaltered Moved PI Original Site DESCRIBEThe THE Gardner-Wfii£e-PinPRESENT AND ORIGINAL g(ifree known) House PHYSICAL is APPF-""'"-'-an ?bl onjg_ shaT)ed three-story brick town house with hipped and balustraded root. The structure i£ 52 feet wide, 40 feet deep, and has a two-story ell at the rear northwest corner that measures 1^ ^^ b^ 2® feet in size. The walls are of brick laid in Flemish bond and the trim is of white marble. Windows in the five-bay wide main (south) facade are symmetrically disposed. The center door, framed by reeded pilasters, has fan and side lights and is sheltered by a one-story elliptical porch with four very slender Corinthian columns. The windows are topped by flat arch winged marble lintels with keystones and their sills are also of marble. Third story windows are reduced in height and all windows are adorned by exterior louvered shutters. The second and third floor level! are marked by wide projecting horizontal bands, or belt courses. A modillioned cornice and the balustraded parapet on the roof are also carried completely around the building. The plan of the house is a spacious one, with a wide center hall co running from front to rear and dividing the four large rooms on each floor rn into pairs. To the left, or west, of the hall is the large dining room, rn a pantry in the rear, and a kitchen located in the rear ell. To the right of the hall are spacious double parlors. The interiors are elegantly carved and decorated in the Adam style. Garlands of leaves, sheaves of wheat, baskets of fruit, and other designs cover the rich mantels, cornices, and the CO trim surrounding the doorways. Windows have interior paneled folding shutters.^ Except for the balustrade of the tall staircase in the center hall, the interior is original. The balusters sawn in interlocking patterns have been reconstructed from some of the original ones. The upper floor contains a total of eight bedrooms. The Gardner^WMte^-Pingree House is in exeellent- condition and is open to visitors as a furnished historic house -exhibit. PERIOD fchecfc One or More as Appropriate) I | Pre-Columbian | CD 16th Century 18th Century 20th Century (7J 15th Century D 17th Century 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (U Applicable and Known) 1804-1805 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE f Check One' or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal Q Education n PoliticaF " PI Urban Planning |~~1 Prehistoric I | Engineering Q Religion/Phi­ n Other (Speci/yJ [j Historic p^~ -industry losophy 17] Agriculture [~] Invention I| Science T3 Architecture I I Landscape 'PI' Sculpture D Art Architecture I I Social/Human­ [7J Commerce | | Literature itarian | | Communications Q Military I | Theater I ! Conservation n Music I | Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Designed by the noted Salem architect and carver, Samuel Mclntire, and erected in 1804-05, this elegant Adamesque-Federal brick town house is generally regarded to be MeIntire's masterpiece,- magnificently illustrating his mature work in the. .fully developed neoclassical style. Z o History Samuel Mclntire planned and built this residence for John Gardner, a Salem merchant, in 1804-05. i Upon the owner's death, the property was sold U to Nathaniel West in 1811. In 1814 the house was next purchased by Captain Joseph White. In 1834, David Pingree acquired it, and the house remained in the possession of the Pingree family until it was given to the Essex Institute in 1933. The house has remained substantially intact to the present. The only serious change made was the removal of the original pierced stair balustrade. This feat^urce has been carefullyy:r_ejopjist:r,jUQtejl. rfjcom some of LJJ 'the \suryiving original balustarSj.,,., , vr : tr: ; 3 - K ,/;i ; ;i- 5-: .'.-..>. -• i 111 Fiske Kimball j: Mr. Samuel Melntire, Carver, The Architect of Salem (Gloucester, Mass., 1966), 107, fig. 242. Fiske Kimball, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies a.nri of the Early Republic (New Yorlk, 1922), 156, 207, 209, 221, 243, 254. Talbot F. Kami in, The American Spirit in Architecture (New Haven, 1926), 95. Fiske Kimball, American Architecture ( Indianapolis, 1928). LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY V ) DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY , OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES ————————— ————————————————————————— ————————————————————————— J< ——————————————————————————————————————— r ———— r-7-i ——— T-! ————— ••, i- •- : ——— «-, ———— CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW ° ° 42o 31, 20" 70° 53' 31" NE ' o , „ _^o_ -J-J ':'->~^J ')3^ SE ° ' » ' " 6 SW o , . o APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: \ / ^ 3PYV3 |LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES rn STATE: •" CODE COUNTY ... CODE s< rn STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE •-.-••-Z o,-:V; •-'•..;•-:.: '.:•- , v , 'iC * . J l i:C;.\/ - -, STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE C NAME AND Tl TLE: n Charles W. Snail Siu*vay Wi Parian - - •- ORGAN. ZATION Division of History, Office oi -Archeology and ,~ ^f- v r -' r . ,-t Historic Preservation, National Park Service. 7/1 fi/7n STREET AND NUMBER: o 801 19th Street, N. W. z: CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Washington - ,„„.,.. ,,,.P. C, ........ .......... , ............ ^MI^MM^itll^»WMilllMf^itl^i®ti As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na­ I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: National d State n Local D Date Name ATTEST: Title Keeper of The National Register Date Date Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Essex FOR NPS USE ONLY (Continuation Sheet) ENTRY NUMBER (Number all entries) 9. Major Bibliographical References Continued page 1 Thomas E. Tallmadge, The Story of Architecture in America. (London, 1928) 58-61 Wayne Andrews, Architecture, Ambi/fcion and Americans (New York, 1955), 95- 96. Talbot F. Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America (New York, 1944), 15-16, III. Dorothy and Richard Pratt, A Guide to Early American Homes - North (New York, 1956), 21. Massachusetts, A Guide to Its Places and People (American Guide Series) (Boston, 1937), 346. John Burchard and Albert Bush-Brown, The Architecture of America, A Social and Cultural History (Boston and Toronto, 1961) 67. Arnold Nicholson, American Houses in History (New York, 1960), 38-40. Alan Gowans, Images of American Living (Philadelphia & New York, 1964), 213, 234. Wendell D. Garrett, Paul F. Norton, Alan Gowans, and Joseph T. Bulter, .The Arts in America, The 19th Century (New York, 1969) 50-.S2, Alice Winchester, "The Pingree House in Salem," Antiques, XLIX, (March 1946), 174-177. Fahve'.^p'jrt -'.V/V'....•'!••!••'"•- •*'•• ' ''•.'-'•'.'••- >';/' *,-•..' 4 .-" f, - ,„.. ^ ••.-'. .V;;.'.'.' """•' ' :-..'/ .;Viv."'"'-''v;.V*':':x _.,;i ,: i? .; .../r a. I P v •- C 'S#, '.Y;.:'^ 1 ''Foste-sPt ,_ _ '""••..'•" ... «* " '• -\ .• """• -.^ ., ' X I **• w' O_N .. 1' :^^"si<V (** . " ' *** "" ";. UoS.G.S* 7*5 l-SLnute series, * ;-'.- / Salem Quadrangle, Massachusetts ,. :l.'/: Essex County, 1956«. V-viy**-. 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