{"nrhp_refnum":"68000041","name":"Peirce-Nichols House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"80 Federal St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salem","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.52301571900006,"lon":-70.89962596000004,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1968-11-24","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1968-11-24","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large, square, three-story frame house at 80 Federal Street in Salem, Massachusetts, built about 1782 for Jerathmeel Peirce and designed by Samuel McIntire, with a stable, outbuildings and fence on a one-acre lot.","why_significant":"The house is presented as the first major example of the craftsmanship of the 24-year-old builder-architect Samuel McIntire, built in a conservative late Georgian style. McIntire's 1801 remodeling of some interior rooms shows his later Adamesque style, so the house helps trace his development as one of America's first recognized building designers. The form notes that the McIntire attribution rests on stylistic coherence and oral tradition, not on a document.","narrative":"Built about 1782 at 80 Federal Street in Salem for Jerathmeel Peirce, this square three-story clapboard house is attributed to Samuel McIntire, then about 24 years old. Its corners carry giant fluted Doric pilasters, and a small pedimented portico with columns marks the entrance. Details follow Batty Langley's pattern books, and the house is noted for closer fidelity to classical proportions than most Massachusetts houses of its date. The interior follows a Georgian plan of four rooms around a central hall. In 1801 McIntire remodeled the east parlor, hall and parlor chamber in the lighter Adamesque style, adding carved cornices, swags and fluted enframements. The lot also holds a heavy-arched stable, probably from the first building period, and offices and a garlanded fence from 1801. The attribution to McIntire rests on stylistic evidence and oral tradition rather than documents. A Peirce descendant owned the house until the Essex Institute acquired it in 1917, and it now operates as a house museum.","period_of_significance":"1782-1801","architect_builder":"Samuel McIntire","architectural_style":"Late Georgian, with Adamesque interior work from the 1801 remodeling","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Essex Institute since 1917 and shown as a house museum; the form marks it occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:55.085544-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7936/63793673/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/68000041_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/68000041/9e926a9355-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/68000041/9e926a9355-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Fletcher6","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peirce-Nichols_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Fletcher6</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peirce-Nichols_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73000312","name":"Chestnut Street District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/chestnut-street-district-73000312/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793673","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce%E2%80%93Nichols_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715811"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/peirce-nichols-house-68000041/"}