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<\/center><\/p>\nThe Forrester-Peabody House<\/a>, on Washington Square North, bordering Salem Common<\/a>, is an ornate Federal mansion built in 1818-1819 for John Forrester, son of the merchant, Simon Forrester<\/a>. The Mason-Roberts-Colby House<\/a> is believed to have originally stood on the site until it was moved to Federal Street<\/a> by a team of sixty oxen. In 1834, the Forrester House<\/a> was purchased by Col. George Peabody<\/a>, son<\/a> of Capt. Joseph Peabody<\/a>, who added a one-story ballroom wing. Peabody lived in the house until 1892 and the building later housed<\/a> the Salem Club, a men’s social organization, and then the Bertram Home for Aged Men, which had been founded<\/a> by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist<\/a>, Captain John Bertram<\/a>, in 1877. The building<\/a>, also known as the Bertram House<\/a>, was restored in 1989 and reopened in 1990 as an assisted living facility<\/a> for both men and women. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8177,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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