The brick Federal-style house of Captain Stephen Phillips, at 17 Chestnut Street in Salem, was built in 1804-1805, the construction being supervised by Parley Putnam. Capt. Phillips was a merchant who helped to create the neighborhood on Chestnut Street. Salem mayor and U.S. Representative Stephen C. Phillips later resided in the house, which remained in the Phillips family until 1883. It was next owned by Benjamin D. Shreve. His descendants still reside there.

Around 1808-9, mason James Nichols built a brick Federal residence at 10 Chestnut Street in Salem for Nathan Robinson, a merchant. He lived there until the 1830s, after which other families owned the house. From 1890 to 1939, it was home to Philip Little, an artist who was a friend and neighbor to the American Impressionist painter, Frank W. Benson. The house’s Greek Revival entrance was added around 1855.

Daniel Bancroft was a Salem architect-builder who worked with Samuel McIntire. According to an article in The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. VI, no. 4 (October, 1902):

Daniel Bancroft, house-carpenter, lived first in Reading, and removed, in 1770, to Worcester, and then, in 1775, removed from Worcester to Salem, having married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Symonds of Salem, chairmaker, Aug. 14, 1770. They were living in Salem in 1791.— Registry of deeds, and Salem town records.

The same article lists that “Daniel Bancroft, Jr., married Sally Cloutman, both of Salem, Aug. 5, 1794.” The Daniel Bancroft, Jr. House, built in 1806, is at 4 River Street in Salem. According to the plaque on the house, Daniel Bancroft, Jnr. was also a housewright.

The Forrester-Peabody House, on Washington Square North, bordering Salem Common, is an ornate Federal mansion built in 1818-1819 for John Forrester, son of the merchant, Simon Forrester. The Mason-Roberts-Colby House is believed to have originally stood on the site until it was moved to Federal Street by a team of sixty oxen. In 1834, the Forrester House was purchased by Col. George Peabody, son of Capt. Joseph Peabody, who added a one-story ballroom wing. Peabody lived in the house until 1892 and the building later housed the Salem Club, a men’s social organization, and then the Bertram Home for Aged Men, which had been founded by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist, Captain John Bertram, in 1877. The building, also known as the Bertram House, was restored in 1989 and reopened in 1990 as an assisted living facility for both men and women.