{"id":2143,"date":"2010-11-23T05:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T05:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:26:18","slug":"the-robinson-little-house-1808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Robinson-Little House (1808)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Robinson-Little-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Robinson-Little House\" width=\"500\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Robinson-Little-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Robinson-Little-House-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Around 1808-9, mason James Nichols built <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawthorneinsalem.org\/images\/image.php?name=MMD1320\">a brick Federal residence at 10 Chestnut Street in Salem<\/a> for Nathan Robinson, a merchant.  He lived there until the 1830s, after which other families owned the house.  From 1890 to 1939, it was home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemweb.com\/tales\/little_philip.shtml\">Philip Little<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askart.com\/askart\/l\/philip_little\/philip_little.aspx\">an artist<\/a> who was a friend <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YZuiVv-NipAC&#038;lpg=PT27&#038;pg=PT27#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">and neighbor<\/a> to the American Impressionist painter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbenson.com\/\">Frank W. Benson<\/a>.  The house&#8217;s Greek Revival entrance was added around 1855.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1808-9, mason James Nichols built a brick Federal residence at 10 Chestnut Street in Salem for Nathan Robinson, a merchant. He lived there until the 1830s, after which other families owned the house. From 1890 to 1939, it was home to Philip Little, an artist who was a friend and neighbor to the American Impressionist painter, Frank W. Benson. The house&#8217;s Greek Revival entrance was added around 1855.<\/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-2143","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\/2143","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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}