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\"\"The oldest sections of the house at 1 Mugford Street in Marblehead, known as the Old Bowen House<\/a>, are believed to date to 1695. Located near Marblehead’s Old Town House<\/a>, the building<\/a> was the home<\/a> of Nathan Bowen<\/a>, a merchant who served as<\/a> Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, and then of Nathan’s son, Ashley Bowen<\/a>, a sailor<\/a>, who kept a detailed journal<\/a> and wrote an autobiography. Ashley Bowen<\/a> also illustrated<\/a> his Journal with his own paintings<\/a>. Ashley Bowen’s nephew, Nathan Bowen, was a noted cabinetmaker<\/a>. In the twentieth century, the Bowen House<\/a> was used as the model<\/a> for a house described in H.P. Lovecraft’s story<\/a> “The Festival<\/a>” (1925). Lovecraft<\/a>‘s fictional town of Kingsport<\/a> is based on Marblehead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The oldest sections of the house at 1 Mugford Street in Marblehead, known as the Old Bowen House, are believed to date to 1695. Located near Marblehead’s Old Town House, the building was the home of Nathan Bowen, a merchant who served as Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, and then of Nathan’s son, Ashley Bowen, a sailor, who kept a detailed journal and wrote an autobiography. Ashley Bowen also illustrated his Journal with his own paintings. Ashley Bowen’s nephew, Nathan Bowen, was a noted cabinetmaker. In the twentieth century, the Bowen House was used as the model for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,148],"tags":[88,152],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-marblehead","tag-gambrel","tag-lovecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}