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Derby Mansion at 140 Lafayette St. was demolished in 1898.
Central Fire Station in 1897. What happened to the homes next door? Looks like they were taken down or moved to make room for the parking lot.
Cabot Street looking north from West Dane Street. 300 Cabot is seen on the left side of the street.
The house was moved in 1958 to The House of the Seven Gables museum complex.
Salem's first motorized fire department apparatus
Photo of the Great Salem Fire in June, 1914. Taken from Gallows Hill with 21, 23, 24 & 25 Proctor St visible in the distance. I tried to put the map pin roughly where I think this photo was taken.
Where the Great Salem Fire of 1914 began, showing ruins at the intersection of Bridge, Boston, and Proctor Streets. 21, 23 & 25 Proctor St can be seen in the distance
Sylvania Employees Watch Salem Soldiers March Off 60 Boston Street Salem, Massachusetts Hygrade Sylvania employees (Boston St. plant) watch soldiers march off to serve in WWI. "The debris in the foreground marks the spot where the great Salem Fire of 1914 started."
Baker's Island Lighthouse
This is the photo that blew my mind! Seeing that huge factory in the park I grew up in totally shifted my understanding of the area. Langdon St is in the foreground, the old Salem High School (now Collins Middle School) is in the background. I tried to place the pin where it looks like the photo was taken from.
Pickering House. I've walked by this house thousands of times but have never been inside. I remember reading about Pickering in Chernow's biography of George Washington and thinking, "Hey! I know that house!"
Before it was Hytron Radio and Electronics Corp (which is where my grandparents met as employees during WW2), this building was Salem Elevator Works!
My grandmother and her brother posing at the entrance arch of Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, MA
My grandmother and some coworkers at Hytron Radio and Electronics Co. during WW2. It looks like this photo is taken behind the building?
this is a memory of this post
From the Goat Hill family photos. No date.
From the Goat Hill family photos
My grandfather with a sweet ride outside their house on Goat Hill
Aunts and uncle outside their house on Goat Hill
View from 8 Porter St with 10 Linden St in the background.
Uncle Tommy and Maggie posing in Sgt Frank D Gillis Memorial Park
Back says “Tom and Maggie Nelson”. I believe this is my uncle Tommy
St Mary’s Crusaders parading down Cabot St
My uncle walking in the St Mary’s Crusaders down Cabot Street
Kitchen
This photo was taken in 1968. The fire station moved out in 1976. By the time I was a kid in Salem, this was where Ted Cole's Music store was located. I remember going there to buy resin for my Cello bow in the 80s.
This photo is a little before my time, but looks very similar to when I was a kid. We used to go to that CVS and Crosby's all the time. In fact, we'd climb up the hill behind the CVS and pass through the apartment building parking lot at the top on our way back to Langdon St. I have scoped that area out recently, and it is no longer really open for that kind of passage! This photo looks like it was taken from the driveway of 45 Warren St.
Building a 2-story addition
On my way to getting baptized at St Mary Star of the Sea on Cabot St. 248 Cabot in the background. It’s part of Montserrat College of Art now.
Blizzard of 1978
A beautiful and powerful moment in the lives of the Hawthornes captured in simple glass etchings overlooking the back orchard.
Visited on a beautiful October afternoon in 2018
My family and I camped on Baker's Island in the summer of 2022.
Postcard of Hawthorne's birthplace. Undated.
The corner of Webb and Pleasant St.