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.
Our collection is comprised of archives, a library of books, and objects like furniture, decorative items, and paintings to name a few. Much of our archival collection and many of our books are now available online, as is a selection of our object collection. See below for links to our online collections. We also offer a sampling of our archival treasures to scroll through.