CONANT(1898)_p037_Roger_Conant's_house,_Salem,_Mass.jpg
Description |
Governor Roger Conant's "
Great House
", originally at what is now
Stage Fort Park
in Gloucester in 1625, relocated in 1628 by his successor
John Endecott
to Salem, on Washington Street north of Church Street.
[1]
When
Rev. Higginson
arrived in
Salem
, he wrote that "we found a faire house newly built for the Governor" which was remarkable for being two stories high.
[2]
This drawing shows the house after renovations of 1792 that added another floor and facing material. Artist: Edward Scrope Shrapnel.
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Date |
1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Accession number |
British Library HMNTS 010470.ee.2.
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Credit line | Edward Scrope Shrapnel | |||||
Source/Photographer |
Image extracted from page 037 of Upper Canada Sketches … With illustrations, portraits and map , by CONANT, Thomas. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr . Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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- ↑ Endicott, Charles M. (1847) Memoir of John Endicott, first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay (via archive.org )
- ↑ Felt, J.B. (1827) Annals of Salem W.&S. B. Ives