{"id":2356,"date":"2010-12-24T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:16:54","slug":"the-gideon-tucker-house-1809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Tucker House (1809)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gideon Tucker House<\/a>, also known as the Tucker-Rice House<\/a>, is at 129 Essex Street in Salem<\/a>. It was built in 1808-1809 for Gideon Tucker who, according to<\/a> Old Time Ships of Salem<\/em> (1917):<\/p>\n

was born March 7, 1778, and built and occupied the house on Essex street opposite the Essex Institute. He was clerk for Joseph Peabody<\/a> and afterwards a partner in that noted shipping firm, which he left to establish a business of his own. He died February 18, 1861. “A venerable man of exact habits and strict integrity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tucker’s house, designed by Samuel McIntire<\/a>, once looked very similar to the McIntire-designed Gardner-Pingree House<\/a> across the street, but the Tucker House was significantly altered<\/a> in 1910. As described in<\/a> Cousins and Riley’s Colonial Architecture of Salem<\/em> (1919): <\/p>\n

Because of their spaciousness and large number of rooms, the three-story square houses of brick built during the early nineteenth century lend themselves admirably to adaptation as semi-public institutions, and several splendid old mansions have been so utilized. Thus in 1896 the Father Mathew Catholic Total Abstinence Society<\/a>, organized in 1875, purchased the Tucker-Rice house at Number 129 Essex Street for its headquarters, and considerably remodeled it. […] Much of the handsome interior wood trim remains, but the splendid elliptical porch<\/a>, one of the best proportioned in Salem<\/a>, was removed to the garden of the Essex lnstitute<\/a> for preservation, where it may now be seen<\/a> with a contemporary three-piece door from the Rogers house on Essex Street and glasswork of attractive pattern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In more recent times, the house<\/a> has been converted for use as condominiums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gideon Tucker House, also known as the Tucker-Rice House, is at 129 Essex Street in Salem. It was built in 1808-1809 for Gideon Tucker who, according to Old Time Ships of Salem (1917): was born March 7, 1778, and built and occupied the house on Essex street opposite the Essex Institute. He was clerk for Joseph Peabody and afterwards a partner in that noted shipping firm, which he left to establish a business of his own. He died February 18, 1861. “A venerable man of exact habits and strict integrity.” Tucker’s house, designed by Samuel McIntire, once looked very […]<\/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":[96],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem","tag-samuel-mcintire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}