{"id":2256,"date":"2010-12-09T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:16:46","slug":"the-col-john-page-house-1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Col. John Page House (1793)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/001-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=O10rxQeYPIkC&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;pg=PA74#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Built for Col. John Page<\/a>, the gambrel-roofed house at 335 Essex Street in Salem dates to around 1793.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j1QMAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA219#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">As explained in<\/a> &#8220;Early Recollections of the Upper Portion of Essex Street,&#8221; by Oliver Thayer, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j1QMAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA161#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Historical Collections of the Essex Institute<\/a><\/em> (vol. XXI, nos. 7, 8, 9, 1884), the house was &#8220;for many years, the home of Capt. Thomas Holmes and then of Mr. Abbott Walker. It is now in the possession of Mr. Frank Cousins&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/digitalcollections\/rbmscl\/cousinsfrank\/inv\/\">Frank Cousins<\/a> was a photographer and co-author of books such as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=oB8TAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PR1#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">The Wood-Carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire His Life and Work<\/a><\/em> (1916) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=pGpNAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PR3#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">The Colonial Architecture of Salem<\/a><\/em> (1919).  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Col.-John-Page.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Col. John Page\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Col.-John-Page.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Col.-John-Page-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built for Col. John Page, the gambrel-roofed house at 335 Essex Street in Salem dates to around 1793. As explained in &#8220;Early Recollections of the Upper Portion of Essex Street,&#8221; by Oliver Thayer, in Historical Collections of the Essex Institute (vol. XXI, nos. 7, 8, 9, 1884), the house was &#8220;for many years, the home of Capt. Thomas Holmes and then of Mr. Abbott Walker. It is now in the possession of Mr. Frank Cousins&#8221; Frank Cousins was a photographer and co-author of books such as The Wood-Carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire His Life and Work (1916) and The Colonial [&hellip;]<\/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-2256","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\/2256","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=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}