{"id":2220,"date":"2010-12-01T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:25:57","slug":"the-clark-morgan-benson-house-1729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2220","title":{"rendered":"Clark-Morgan-Benson House (1729)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Clark-Morgan-Benson-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Clark-Morgan-Benson House\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Clark-Morgan-Benson-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Clark-Morgan-Benson-House-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Built around 1729, replacing and reusing timbers from a previous house at the same location that had burned, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandmoves.com\/real-estate\/property\/358-essex-street-salem-ma-01970\/single-family-home\/mls-70960037\/595692?_sid=7e9d18c0bb4a232e76922befac6d60ba&#038;page_pos=1\">Clark-Morgan-Benson House<\/a> is one of the oldest surviving buildings on Essex Street in Salem.  Built by Joseph Neal, <a href=\"http:\/\/realestate.wsj.com\/properties\/search\/detail.php?qAdid=rej_cbnrt_1882194\">the house<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9iP5brDeiq4C&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;pg=PA167#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">enlarged over time<\/a> and has two substantial ells, forming a U-shape, the ell on the western elevation having a gambrel roof like the front facade.  In the nineteenth century, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/358-1-2-Essex-St-Salem-MA-01970\/56121378_zpid\/\">the dwelling<\/a> was divided between the Clark and Morgan families and was later owned, undivided, for much of the twentieth century by the Benson family.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built around 1729, replacing and reusing timbers from a previous house at the same location that had burned, the Clark-Morgan-Benson House is one of the oldest surviving buildings on Essex Street in Salem. Built by Joseph Neal, the house has been enlarged over time and has two substantial ells, forming a U-shape, the ell on the western elevation having a gambrel roof like the front facade. In the nineteenth century, the dwelling was divided between the Clark and Morgan families and was later owned, undivided, for much of the twentieth century by the Benson family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,10],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-houses","category-salem","tag-gambrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","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=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}