The House of the Seven Gables invites you to hear about the history of relocating historic houses to save them, both in our past and in our near future! Relocation of historic buildings was once a common occurrence. Three of our historic buildings were moved to the site from 1910 to 1958, and one building was moved multiple times. Learn …
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 …
