{"id":2867,"date":"2011-06-24T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:28:36","slug":"andrew-safford-house-1818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Andrew-Safford House (1818)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Andrew-Safford-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Andrew-Safford House\" width=\"500\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Andrew-Safford-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Andrew-Safford-House-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/58420\/andrew-safford-house-washignton-square-salem-massachusetts\/\">Impressively sited<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/12425515\/Andrew-Safford-House-Historic\">the west side of Salem Common<\/a> (though often obscured by tour buses!) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemmass.com\/houses\/buildings4.html\">Andrew-Safford House<\/a>, built in 1818-1819.  Regarded as one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/35977934\">New England&#8217;s great Federal-era houses<\/a>, it was built for John Andrew, a wealthy merchant of Russian furs.  In the 1860s, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew%E2%80%93Safford_House\">the house<\/a> was owned by the Smith and Creamer families and in 1871 was purchased by John Osborne Safford, a leather merchant.  His family gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/army_arch\/3575831736\/\">the home<\/a> to Essex Institute, now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pem.org\/visit\/historic_houses\">Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>, in 1947.  Since the picture above obscures <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=75oaAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PT82#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">the house&#8217;s striking Federal entryway<\/a>, click below to see <a href=\"http:\/\/mkpix.org\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=1147&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\">an image<\/a> of it&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Andrew-Safford House entryway\" width=\"500\" height=\"676\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0001-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ApwsAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA245#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0002.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0002.png 554w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0002-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also, check out the dramatic picture in this pdf document:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawthornehotel.com\/documents\/SkyviewTourofSalem_002.pdf\">http:\/\/www.hawthornehotel.com\/documents\/SkyviewTourofSalem_002.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressively sited on the west side of Salem Common (though often obscured by tour buses!) is the Andrew-Safford House, built in 1818-1819. Regarded as one of New England&#8217;s great Federal-era houses, it was built for John Andrew, a wealthy merchant of Russian furs. In the 1860s, the house was owned by the Smith and Creamer families and in 1871 was purchased by John Osborne Safford, a leather merchant. His family gave the home to Essex Institute, now the Peabody Essex Museum, in 1947. Since the picture above obscures the house&#8217;s striking Federal entryway, click below to see an image of [&hellip;]<\/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":[156],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem","tag-pem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}