{"id":2115,"date":"2010-11-19T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2010-11-19T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:20:07","slug":"derby-summer-house-1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"Derby Summer House (1793)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Derby-Summer-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Derby Summer House\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Derby-Summer-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Derby-Summer-House-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derby_Summer_House\">Derby Summer House<\/a>, also known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lenbo\/3403566668\/\">McIntire Tea-house<\/a> is a garden house, built in 1793 to plans by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemweb.com\/tales\/mcintire.shtml\">Samuel McIntire<\/a>, for wealthy merchant <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=293\">Elias Hasket Derby<\/a>&#8216;s farm in Salem.  In 1901, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenmagnafarms.org\/derby.html\">the Summer House<\/a> was moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenmagnafarms.org\/\">Glen Magna Farms<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvershistory.org\/buildings\/glen.html\">Danvers estate<\/a> then owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/jssgallery.org\/Paintings\/Ellen_Peabody_Endicott.htm\">Ellen Peabody Endicott<\/a>.  Her son, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiimperialist.com\/webroot\/peopledocuments\/membership\/Peoplepages\/WEndicott.html\">William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr<\/a>., was instrumental in bringing the Summer House to the property, where it now opens onto a walled rose garden designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NmZ0jt3nHhsC&#038;lpg=PA181&#038;ots=LnbAvHrDum&#038;dq=%22herbert%20browne%22%20gardener&#038;pg=PA180#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Herbert W. C. Browne<\/a>.  The two sculpted figures on the roof are reproductions of the originals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenmagnafarms.org\/wcejr.html\"> William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr.<\/a>&#8216;s wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenmagnafarms.org\/mlte.html\">Louise Thoron Endicott<\/a>, willed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timothyrichards.co.uk\/derby-summerhouse-1183-0.html\">the Summer House<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvershistory.org\/\">Danvers Historical Society<\/a> in 1958.  In 1963, the Society purchased the central eleven acres of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexheritage.org\/sites\/glen_magna.shtml\">the estate<\/a>  and has restored the historic early twentieth-century gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Derby Summer House, also known as the McIntire Tea-house is a garden house, built in 1793 to plans by Samuel McIntire, for wealthy merchant Elias Hasket Derby&#8216;s farm in Salem. In 1901, the Summer House was moved to Glen Magna Farms, the Danvers estate then owned by Ellen Peabody Endicott. Her son, William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr., was instrumental in bringing the Summer House to the property, where it now opens onto a walled rose garden designed by Herbert W. C. Browne. The two sculpted figures on the roof are reproductions of the originals. William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr.&#8216;s wife, Louise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,53,153],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danvers","category-federal","category-outbuildings","tag-samuel-mcintire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","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=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}