Joseph Everett Chandler, the architect who restored The House of the Seven Gables for Caroline Emmerton, was an early historian of American architecture. He restored dozens of other important buildings that became museums, including the Paul Revere House and the Old State House in Boston, the Royall House in Medford, the Sargent-Murray-Gilman House in Gloucester, and the Stevens-Coolidge House and Gardens in North Andover. Chandler named his Sudbury house Manalone, and his immediate circle of colleagues and clients included dozens of queer men and independent women.