The McIntire District

The McIntire District in Salem contains what is presented as possibly the finest collection of pre-twentieth century houses in America, with a one-mile walking route through a neighborhood named for architect and woodcarver Samuel McIntire, whose buildings there include Hamilton Hall and the Peirce-Nichols House. The area is especially known for elegant Federal mansions built after the Revolutionary War by wealthy ship owners seeking to leave the crowded waterfront, and many of Salem's prominent residents lived there, including Timothy Pickering, Nathaniel Bowditch, Nathanial Hawthorne, Frank W. Benson, and George Parker. Largely developed between the mid 1700's and World War I, the neighborhood survived the Fire of 1914, which burned up to its borders, and it contains notable examples of First Period, Georgian, Federal, Italianate, and other architectural styles.

Salem, Massachusetts · United States