Grimshawe-Peabody House, Salem
- Address: 53 Charter St
- Vicinity: Central St
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1725/00/00 | Grimshawe-Peabody House is built next to the Old Burying Ground in the early 1700s. | |||||
| 1795/00/00 | Grimshawe-Peabody is dramatically remodeled in the 1790s. | |||||
| 1835/00/00 | Eliza Hunt Palmer Peabody | Home | Nathaniel Peabody buys an old house on Charter Street. It will remain the Peabody family home until 1841. | |||
| 1835/00/00 | Dr Nathaniel Peabody | Home | Nathaniel Peabody buys an old house on Charter Street. It will remain the Peabody family home until 1841. | |||
| 1837/08/00 | Sophia Peabody Hawthorne | Bride | Entreated by her sister Elizabeth to come downstairs to meet the handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia replies, "If he has come once, he'll come again." Sophia, who suffers from migraines, will meet Nathaniel in a few months. | Marriage of Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1837/08/00 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody | Life | Invited by Elizabeth Peabody, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his sisters pay a visit to the Peabody family. Elizabeth runs upstairs to Sophia and says, "You must come down! You must come down! He's handsomer then Lord Byron!" | Marriage of Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1837/11/00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Groom | Sophia Peabody meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at the Peabody family home in Salem, Massachusetts. | Marriage of Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1882/00/00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Author | "Dr Grimshawe's Secret" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is published. Unfinished, Hawthorne used the Peabody home as a setting. Another incomplete work, "Dr Dolliver's Romance", is also set here. |
| Particulars for Grimshawe-Peabody House, Salem: | |
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| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Building Type | House |
| Area of Significance | Literature |
| Criteria | Person |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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