The House of Seven Gables is a colonial house that was built in 1668 in Salem, Massachusetts. It was originally built by Captain John Turner and it remained in his family for three generations. This house is the longest surviving house in North America and it also has undergone many remodeling. This house exhibits how America and its people have changed a lot over time and it goes to show how the original people who came here, religious refugees, influenced our world today.
Nathaniel Hawthorne saw this house because his relatives owned it and he often went there. While the house was remodeled when he saw it, but his cousin Susannah Ingersoll showed him that at one point this house did have seven gables. However, Caroline Emmerton bought the house and decided to restore it to its original look in 1908.
This house has outlived all of America's changes. It lived throughout all the wars, the government changes, and everything else. It truly shows where are roots are from. Salem, Massachusetts was home to the Salem Witch Trials a place where many people were convicted of being witches. It was a house that survived all of this and it is still up. The House of Seven Gables is now a museum that anyone can visit so if you are ever in town, you should stop by. You might just learn something.
Do you think that the what the puritans was doing was a just thing to do? Consider how they lived and the education they grew up with
ReplyDeleteIt makes you think what would have became of Hawthorne if his family had done nothing to do with it, I wonder if that's in the museum.
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