{"id":6618,"date":"2014-04-16T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:32:40","slug":"salem-athenaeum-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"Salem Athenaeum (1907)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Salem Athenaeum<\/a> is a private library established in 1810 with the merger of two earlier organizations: the Social Library<\/a>, founded in 1760, and the Salem Philosophical Library<\/a>, founded in 1781. The Athenaeum’s first permanent building was Plummer Hall<\/a>, built in 1856-1857. The building was sold in 1905 to the Essex Institute<\/a>, now the Peabody Essex Museum<\/a>. The Athenaeum<\/a> moved to its current building at 337 Essex Street<\/a>, built in 1906-1907. The Colonial Revival Building was designed by architect William G. Rantoul<\/a>. It closely resembles Homewood<\/a>, a residence<\/a> built in 1801 and now on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Salem Athenaeum is a private library established in 1810 with the merger of two earlier organizations: the Social Library, founded in 1760, and the Salem Philosophical Library, founded in 1781. The Athenaeum’s first permanent building was Plummer Hall, built in 1856-1857. The building was sold in 1905 to the Essex Institute, now the Peabody Essex Museum. The Athenaeum moved to its current building at 337 Essex Street, built in 1906-1907. The Colonial Revival Building was designed by architect William G. Rantoul. It closely resembles Homewood, a residence built in 1801 and now on the campus of the Johns Hopkins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,121,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-revival","category-libraries","category-salem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}