{"id":118,"date":"2008-12-15T19:41:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:41:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T04:41:42","slug":"the-simon-forrester-house-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Simon Forrester House (1790)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1791, Capt. Simon Forrester<\/a> acquired an unfinished house on Derby Street in Salem<\/a>. The three-story hipped-roof house<\/a> has been attributed to Samuel McIntire<\/a> and the east parlor mantelpiece, carved by McIntire<\/a>, is now in the Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>. Forrester<\/a> was a Irish born ship captain, brought to America by Capt. Daniel Hathorne<\/a>, the grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Forrester is mentioned in The Scarlet Letter<\/a><\/em>). Forrester<\/a> married Capt. Hathorne’s daughter and became wealthy during the Revolutionary War. Many of the house<\/a>‘s architectural details were removed or altered<\/a> after the First World War, but more recently the house has been restored to a more original appearance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1791, Capt. Simon Forrester acquired an unfinished house on Derby Street in Salem. The three-story hipped-roof house has been attributed to Samuel McIntire and the east parlor mantelpiece, carved by McIntire, is now in the Peabody Essex Museum. Forrester was a Irish born ship captain, brought to America by Capt. Daniel Hathorne, the grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Forrester is mentioned in The Scarlet Letter). Forrester married Capt. Hathorne’s daughter and became wealthy during the Revolutionary War. Many of the house‘s architectural details were removed or altered after the First World War, but more recently the house has been restored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,10],"tags":[11,96],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem","tag-hawthorne","tag-samuel-mcintire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}