James Putnam Jr. House

The James Putnam Jr. House is a historic First Period house at 42 Summer Street in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof pierced by two interior chimneys. The house was built in stages, beginning in about 1715 as a typical First Period double pile house (two stories, two rooms wide and one deep). To this another double pile structure was added to the front, creating an early Federal style central hall structure. The house's most prominent resident was Colonel Timothy Pickering, who leased it from 1802 to 1804, when he was serving as United States Senator.[2]

James Putnam Jr. House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
James Putnam Jr. House at 42 Summer Street
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Location	Danvers, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°34′33″N 70°56′58″W
Built	1715
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Colonial, Other
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000205 [1]
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
• List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "NRHP nomination for James Putnam Jr. House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-07-01.