Historic Building of the Week: 3 Bowden Street
If the color of the house at 3 Bowden St. doesn’t make it stand out to you, perhaps the style will. Aside from the bright pinkish-red paint, the exterior ...
Historic Building of the Week: 150 Front St.
Some buildings really stick out. Especially in a town like Marblehead, where boxy colonials with shingle siding and other pre-1900 styles of architecture reign ...
Historic Building of the Week: 32 State Street
If, like me, you tried to find parking for the Sustainable Marblehead event at State Street Landing this weekend and had to park halfway across town, you may ha...
Historic Building of the Week: Ebenezer Hawkes House
Sometimes, even after renovations and updates, historic buildings maintain a subtle sign of the past. With brick buildings, this can be a scar, or a patch of br...
Historic Building of the Week: Gardner Cottage
Usually when I read the Massachusetts Cultural Resources Inventory System (MACRIS) documents for a historic building, there are details about the people who bui...
Historic Building of the Week: the Bartoll Houses
The title “Historic Building of the Week” is something of a misnomer for this article. Yes, I will still tell you about history, but I will be talking about...
Historic Building of the Week: The Meek House
I would like to return back to Abbot Hall, not to discuss that building’s history (I have already done that), but the history of a building across from it. At...
Historic Building of the Week: Fire Department Headquarters
When I first began learning about historic buildings, my professor told us something that has stuck with me ever since. She said that you can tell how much a co...
Historic Building of the Week: The Hinckley Building
As old as the buildings in Old Town are, there is one that is not quite as old as the others. At the corner of Pleasant and Washington (in Old Town across from ...
Historic Building of the Week: Skipper Ireson House
“Of all the rides since the birth of time, / Told in story or sung in rhyme, — / On Apuleius’s Golden Ass, / Or one-eyed Calender’s horse of brass, / Wi...