Member Event: Tour of the Balch House

If you’re from the North Shore, you’ve grown up passing this house and always wondered what it was like up close. Now is your chance! Join your fellow Gables members for a tour of Historic Beverly’s Balch House. One of the oldest wood-frame houses in the country, the Balch House is evocative of early colonial life.

John Balch was born in England in 1579. His family immigrated to America in 1623. They lived on this property beginning in 1636. What we see today is a product of its restoration as much as its origins. The house is composed of structures from three distinct architectural periods, the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The Balch Family Association purchased and took possession of the Balch House in 1916. Upon council from Norman Isham and William Sumner Appleton the house was “restored” and thus became an icon of the colonial revival period’s approach to historic preservation.

The tour (exterior and interior) is on May 10th at 10:30AM. The Balch House is opening especially for Gables members so we will have exclusive access. Gables members only. No guests. Registration is required.

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