{"id":4245,"date":"2012-03-21T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2012-03-21T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:20:54","slug":"saunders-ward-house-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"Saunders-Ward House (1843)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Saunders-Ward.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Saunders-Ward House, Salem\" width=\"500\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Saunders-Ward.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Saunders-Ward-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two matching adjacent houses built in 1843, at 121 and 123 Federal Street in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalstyle.com\/McIntire%20Tour2003b.pdf\">Salem<\/a>, are considered to be Salem&#8217;s finest examples of domestic vernacular Greek Revival architecture.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9iP5brDeiq4C&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;pg=PA138#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">One of these houses<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_picture.php?picture_id=2417083\">Saunders-Ward House<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/123-Federal-St-Salem-MA-01970\/56121374_zpid\/\">123 Federal Street<\/a>, was constructed by builder Jonathan F. Carleton for Robert F. Saunders (d. 1846), a shoe merchant.  It was next owned by Andrew Ward, sea captain and merchant, whose descendents lived there until 1916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two matching adjacent houses built in 1843, at 121 and 123 Federal Street in Salem, are considered to be Salem&#8217;s finest examples of domestic vernacular Greek Revival architecture. One of these houses, the Saunders-Ward House at 123 Federal Street, was constructed by builder Jonathan F. Carleton for Robert F. Saunders (d. 1846), a shoe merchant. It was next owned by Andrew Ward, sea captain and merchant, whose descendents lived there until 1916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-revival","category-houses","category-salem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}