OVERVIEW
The House of the Seven Gables has a rich collection of objects and archival material from the late 1600s to the present. Our collection particularly focuses on the people who have lived and worked at the site, the history of the buildings and grounds, our founder Caroline Emmerton, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life, family and work, and the Settlement Association founded here in 1910 to support the immigrant communities living in the neighborhood.
In 2020 The Gables received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funding supported an inventory process, improvements to storage, and digitization for select segments of our historic archives. A generous donor, Ms. Selina Little, has allowed us to further our work and continue to make the archives collection available to the public.