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Winter Family Discount Offer!

Date: January 31, 2019

Become a part of our story with this great family deal! Beat the winter blues with a cozy historic house tour at The House of the Seven Gables! We’re excited to offer up to two free children/students with each paid, full price adult or senior admission. This offer is good for when we reopen on...

Make your wedding historic!

Date: January 29, 2019

There are still plenty of dates available to make your story part of over 350 years of history here at The House of the Seven Gables. The Gables hosts weddings, bridal and baby showers, birthday parties, conferences, and rehearsal dinners. Small private events can be held in the historic Hooper-Hathaway house. Enjoy the timeless beauty...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: January 28, 2019

We’ve had a great week here at The Gables. We’re making real headway with the HVAC office in the Phippen House. This building houses our onsite caretaker and provides office space for about half of our staff. It’s nice to see our site slowly warming up as the tempertures dip! We are excitedly awaiting the final draft...

Winter Family Discount Offer!

Date: January 24, 2019

Become a part of our story with this great family deal! Beat the winter blues with a cozy historic house tour at The House of the Seven Gables! We’re excited to offer up to two free children/students with each paid, full price adult or senior admission. This offer is good for when we reopen on...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: January 22, 2019

We’re open for business! Our preventative care and preservation shutdown ended on Friday and we’re open and ready to welcome you! We (finally!!) have heat in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace so it’s a warm and cozy place to learn about this literary legend when you visit us. On Sunday, January 27, we’ll host our next...

“We have strangers among us…”

Date: January 21, 2019

The PBS produced Becoming American, a documentary film series on immigration, is well underway at The House of the Seven Gables. This past week we enjoyed the film Welcome to Shelbyville, where the residents of a small Kentucky town struggle with the fear of change, cultural differences, and discrimination. “Fear makes strangers of people who would...

Winter Family Discount Offer!

Date: January 17, 2019

Become a part of our story with this great family deal! Beat the winter blues with a cozy historic house tour at The House of the Seven Gables! We’re excited to offer up to two free children/students with each paid, full price adult or senior admission. This offer is good for when we reopen on...

What’s Happening This Week?

Date: January 14, 2019

Happy Monday, readers! It’s a cold, cold day here on Salem Harbor. January in New England has certainly arrived! In a very non-winter fashion, our staff has been busy bees during our January preservation and maintenance shutdown. Our guides and collections staff conquered the Hooper-Hathaway House and collections storage today. Our maintenance staff continued the...

Book your historic event!

Date: January 12, 2019

Are you tying the knot? We welcome you to check out all that The House of the Seven Gables has to offer for your wedding day! The setting is magical – three-season gardens and historic houses surround the venue. The service is impeccable – Deb Costa is an amazing event contact who wants YOUR day to...

The bricks are back!

Date: January 11, 2019

Gables Brick Project