Events

Gables members will get a VIP tour of the Salem Athenaeum, featuring Hawthorne highlights within their collection. This is an exclusive event for Gables members. Want to join us for this and other amazing enrichment events? Click here!   Contact Allison at 978-306-7005 or email afrench@7gables.org to save your place!

*This member-exclusive event has reached capacity. If you’d like to be placed on the wait list, please email afrench@7gables.org.* Members of The House of the Seven Gables are welcome to a behind-the-scenes, VIP tour of the Salem Athenaeum, featuring Hawthorne highlights within their collection and other literary treasures. The tour will begin at 10:00 AM....

Join the curators of the Punto Urban Art Museum and the North Shore CDC for an outdoor guided tour of the astounding mural art in Salem’s “The Point” neighborhood. This walking tour starts at 10:00 a.m. at the North Shore CDC, located at 96 Lafayette Street, Salem. Wear comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. This tour...

Make The Gables your Fourth of July destination for breathtaking views and merriment. Please feel free to bring your own picnic, blanket, and lawn chairs for a front-row seat to the City of Salem’s extraordinary fireworks display over the harbor. A cash bar will be available from 5:00 PM – 9:15 PM. (Sorry, due to...

We love Hawthorne’s Salem, but let’s not forget about Hawthorne’s Concord! Join us for a full-day excursion to Concord, MA and retrace some of this historic town’s literary footsteps with two walking tours. Emerson’s Circle walking tour: Explore 1800s Concord and the lives and homes of famous authors, including our very own Nathaniel Hawthorne! Join...