{"id":4559,"date":"2012-08-18T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2012-08-26T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T22:12:38","slug":"gregg-stone-house-1829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Gregg-Stone House (1829)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gregg-Stone-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gregg-Stone House\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gregg-Stone-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gregg-Stone-House-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hankzby\/488082892\/\">The house<\/a> at 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/streetsofsalem.com\/2012\/05\/03\/chestnut-street-days\/\">Chestnut Street<\/a> in Salem began as a one-story brick store, built by Daniel Gregg in 1805.  In 1825, the property was acquired by Deacon John Stone, who added two additional stories.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanaexchange.com\/ae\/AEMonthly\/AEMonthlyArticleDetail.aspx?ReviewID=1339&#038;Type=Reviews&#038;Month=5&#038;Year=2012\">Stone<\/a>, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/streetsofsalem.com\/2011\/02\/23\/demon-made-rum-in-salem\/\">a wealthy distiller<\/a>, built the houses at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/lifestyle\/x130096427\/Tales-of-Chestnut-Street\/print\">5 and 7 Chestnut Street<\/a> as rooming houses, while he resided at 8 Chestnut Street.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bU0AAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA87#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">As described by <\/a> Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley in <em>The Colonial Architecture of Salem<\/em> (1919), &#8220;Its chief distinctions lie in its doorway of graceful simplicity and the unusual gambrel-roofed wing of wood at the rear end. Unlike most brick houses of importance in Salem [&#8230;] its windows boast no lintels, but have molded architrave frames of wood let into the reveals of the brickwork.&#8221;  The house was later the residence of <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/essexinstitutehi59esse#page\/n43\/mode\/2up\">Capt. Daniel H. Mansfield<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YJZ-OOL9P5cC&#038;pg=PA338#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Rev. Edwin C. Bolles<\/a> and architect <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wilsonkelseydesign.com\/tag\/william-g-rantoul-architect\/\">William G. Rantoul<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mytravelphotos\/2330645886\/\">The garden next to the house<\/a> was once the site of <a href=\"http:\/\/streetsofsalem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/chestnut-street-church.jpg\">South Church<\/a>, built in 1803-1804 and <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgallery.nypl.org\/nypldigital\/id?1160592\">designed by Samuel McIntire<\/a>.  It was destroyed in a fire in 1903 and was replaced by <a href=\"http:\/\/streetsofsalem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/chestnut-street-congregational-church.jpg\">a Gothic Revival-style church<\/a>, which was lost in the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house at 8 Chestnut Street in Salem began as a one-story brick store, built by Daniel Gregg in 1805. In 1825, the property was acquired by Deacon John Stone, who added two additional stories. Stone, who was a wealthy distiller, built the houses at 5 and 7 Chestnut Street as rooming houses, while he resided at 8 Chestnut Street. As described by Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley in The Colonial Architecture of Salem (1919), &#8220;Its chief distinctions lie in its doorway of graceful simplicity and the unusual gambrel-roofed wing of wood at the rear end. Unlike most brick [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-salem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}