On State Street in Marblehead is a house built around 1730 for Samuel Nichols of Reading, a bricklayer. The house was later owned by Capt. Samuel Hooper, a ship-master and merchant. The house is traditionally called the Capt. Evans House, for Capt. Ebenezer Giles Evans, a noted Sea Captain. According to Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in Which They Sailed (1915), “Capt. Evans was lost in the “Corinna” on his passage from Cape Haytien to Boston in 1825.”