Marblehead

The Jeremiah Lee Mansion is a nonprofit historic house museum located at 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is open during the... warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The mansion is a large wooden house in the Georgian style, with imitation stone ashlar facade, built in 1768 by Colonel Jeremiah Lee, at that time the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in Massachusetts. The facade may be based on Plate 11 of Robert Morris' influential patternbook Rural Architecture . It was one of the largest and most opulent houses of the late-colonial period in America. The mansion is now owned by the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society. It contains a notable collection of early American furniture, and many of the mansion's original decorative finishes have been preserved, including rare 18th-century English hand-painted wallpaper, intricate carving in the rococo style, and a grand entry hall and staircase paneled with mahogany. On either side of its landing are copies of the full-length portraits of Jeremiah and Martha Lee by John Singleton Copley.
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Abbot Hall is a town hall and historical museum located at 188 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is open year-round, though with... restricted hours in the colder months. In addition to serving as the seat of Marblehead’s town government, Abbot Hall contains the original of the widely-reproduced Spirit of '76 painting by Archibald MacNeal Willard, the deed to Marblehead from the Nanapashemet tribe of Native Americans , a bust of native son and U.S. Vice-President Elbridge Gerry, a painting of Marbleheaders rowing Washington across the Delaware, a painting by primitivist J.O.J. Frost and a number of other historical artifacts. A plaque on display in the Selectmen's room, discovered in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, proclaims Marblehead to be the "Birthplace of the American Navy". The clock in the tower of Abbot Hall is a Howard #2S installed in 1877 and is governed by a 10 ft pendulum escapement, driven by an 86 lb weight. The clangor escapement is governed by a flutter vane assembly and is powered by a 292 lb weight. The Bell was cast by Meneely & Kimberly in Troy, New York.
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General John Glover House is a National Historic Landmark at 11 Glover Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1762 as the home... of General John Glover. The house was added to the National Historic Register in 1972.
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Robert "King" Hooper Mansion, built in 1728, is a historic house at 8 Hooper Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It was added to the National... Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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