Chestnut Street District | |
Location | Roughly bounded by Bridge, Lynn, Beckford, and River Sts., Salem, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°31′13″N 70°54′8″W / 42.52028°N 70.90222°W |
Area | 45 acres (18 ha) (original size) 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) (size of 1978 increase) |
Built | 1651 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Mid 19th Century Revival, Colonial, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 73000312[1] (original) 78000468 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | August 28, 1973 |
Boundary increase | October 4, 1978 |
The Chestnut Street District is a historic district bounded roughly by Bridge, Lynn, Beckford, and River Streets in Salem, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and enlarged slightly in 1978. The district contains a number of architecturally significant works of Samuel McIntire, a builder and woodworker who had a house and workshop at 31 Summer Street, and who designed and built a number of these houses, and others that display the profits made in the Old China Trade by Salem's merchants. The district is a subset of a larger locally designated McIntire Historic District.[2]