Meet Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date: July 1, 2020
by Rob Velella “How do you justify portraying Nathaniel Hawthorne in front of people?” The question came from a well-respected scholar after hearing that I “become” Hawthorne in first-person living...
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Museum Store Soft Opening This Week!
Date: June 29, 2020
We are excited to announce that our Museum Store reopens this week! Our Museum Store is opening as part of Reopening Massachusetts’ Phase 2 planning process which allows retail to...
What’s Happening This Week?
Date: June 28, 2020
We have some wonderful plans in store for the coming week! Last week’s update from The House of the Seven Gables certainly wasn’t our sunniest news. Our remaining staff members...
Enterprising Woman: Hepzibah Pyncheon
Date: June 25, 2020
“Here is one of the truest points of melancholy interest that occur in ordinary life. It was the final throe of what called itself old gentility. A lady—who had fed...
Plan Your Twice-Told-Tale Mini Wedding
Date: June 24, 2020
BOOKINGS AVAILABLE STARTING ON JULY 6. Ceremony now. Celebrate later! Why wear your beautiful dress only once? Have your ceremony this year as you planned. Celebrate later with a vow...
A Grey Day at The Gables
Date: June 22, 2020
The House of the Seven Gables strives to be a welcoming, thriving historic site. Over the past few months, the pandemic has challenged our ability to do that in traditional...
Our pledge for community safety
Date: June 16, 2020
We’re a little over eight days into our gardens-only reopening. Our staff has pledged to keep you safe – we hope you’ll do the same for us! We require our...
What’s Happening The Week?
Date: June 14, 2020
It has been very exciting to see all things blossoming in sweet Salem. The flowers in local gardens are in full bloom, restaurants are reopening with some very unique outdoor...
Gardens open daily 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – no reservation needed!
Date: June 11, 2020
Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not as readily, so much the worse for us. – Nathaniel Hawthorne We want to thank everyone for bearing with us in...
Our Commitment to Safety
Date: June 10, 2020
Our staff has been hard at work planning for the phased and safe reopening of our historic site. We require our staff to: Wear face coverings in shared workspaces or...