{"id":2553,"date":"2011-01-28T06:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:50:12","slug":"the-nathaniel-hooper-mansion-1754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Hooper Mansion (1754)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nathaniel-Hooper.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nathaniel Hooper Mansion\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nathaniel-Hooper.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nathaniel-Hooper-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In 1801, Nathaniel Hooper, son of <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2568\">Robert Hooper<\/a> and brother of <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2564\">Capt. John Hooper<\/a>, purchased a parcel of land at the foot of Washington Street in Marblehead.  A c. 1754 house was already on the property, which Hooper expanded into a Federal-style mansion.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PeZUAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA129#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">According to<\/a> the <em>Hooper Genealogy<\/em> (1908), Nathaniel Hooper (1770-1825), &#8220;made public profession of his faith in Christ, his Saviour, in 1811, uniting with the Congregational church of Marblehead [the Hoopers had traditionally been Episcopalians]; became a deacon of the church, a man of large generosity and of much public spirit. He was known among the fishermen as &#8216;The Oracle,&#8217; being very helpful in settling controversies.  He represented the town at the General Court 1813-15 and 1822; was a member of the [Massachusetts Constitutional] Convention of 1820.&#8221;  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marbleheadhistory.org\/exhibit4\/e42835a.htm\">Nathaniel Hooper Mansion<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/147-Washington-St-Marblehead-MA-01945\/56940304_zpid\/\">147 Washington Street<\/a>, was later owned by the members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levygalleries.com\/gallery\/details.php?image_id=188\">Fabens family<\/a> of Salem.  It was acquired by its current owners in 1983 and has been restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1801, Nathaniel Hooper, son of Robert Hooper and brother of Capt. John Hooper, purchased a parcel of land at the foot of Washington Street in Marblehead. A c. 1754 house was already on the property, which Hooper expanded into a Federal-style mansion. According to the Hooper Genealogy (1908), Nathaniel Hooper (1770-1825), &#8220;made public profession of his faith in Christ, his Saviour, in 1811, uniting with the Congregational church of Marblehead [the Hoopers had traditionally been Episcopalians]; became a deacon of the church, a man of large generosity and of much public spirit. He was known among the fishermen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,8,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-federal","category-houses","category-marblehead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}