{"id":2416,"date":"2011-01-10T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:08:41","slug":"the-stephen-phillips-house-1821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Phillips House (1821)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1800, Captain Nathaniel West and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Hasket Derby<\/a>, hired Samuel McIntire to design a country estate in Danvers. They later divorced and Elizabeth retained the house, but Capt. West eventually inherited a third of the building. In 1821, he transported his three rooms by ox sled to Chestnut Street in Salem<\/a>, where they formed the core of his new Federal-style mansion<\/a>. The West family sold the house<\/a> in 1863 to Malvina Tabitha Ward, who ran a boarding house and school in the residence<\/a>. In 1875, the house<\/a> was sold to Annie B. Webb and in 1911, Anna Wheatland Phillips<\/a> and her husband, Stephen Willard Phillips<\/a>, bought the house<\/a>. By that time the house<\/a> had been expanded and much altered over the years in various architectural styles. Anna and Stephen W. Philips hired architect William Rantoul to remodel the house<\/a> to reflect its origins in the Federal style. Stephen W. Philips, who was born in Hawaii, collected Oceanic art<\/a>. His father, Stephen Henry Phillips<\/a>, had served as Attorney General for the Kingdom of Hawaii<\/a> from 1866 to 1873. Stephen W. and Anna Phillips’s son, Stephen Phillips<\/a>, who died in 1971, had wanted his childhood home to become a museum. In 1973, his wife, Betty, established the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation, which opened the house<\/a> to the public. Since 2006, the house<\/a> has been owned by Historic New England<\/a>. The property<\/a> also includes the carriage house<\/a>, which contains the family’s collection of carriages<\/a> and automobiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1800, Captain Nathaniel West and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Hasket Derby, hired Samuel McIntire to design a country estate in Danvers. They later divorced and Elizabeth retained the house, but Capt. West eventually inherited a third of the building. In 1821, he transported his three rooms by ox sled to Chestnut Street in Salem, where they formed the core of his new Federal-style mansion. The West family sold the house in 1863 to Malvina Tabitha Ward, who ran a boarding house and school in the residence. In 1875, the house was sold to Annie B. Webb and […]<\/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":[18],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}