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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
GLOUCESTER’S OLD REVOLUTION- 
ARY HOUSE 
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great fortune from his book store, 
which his descendants are now con- 
ducting gnder the Old” South 
church, Boston. Mrs. Shaw’s par- 
ents were old and prominent Essex 
residents. Her father was Col. 
Joshua Lowe and her mother, Mary 
Burnham, an aunt of the noted an- 
tiquarian. Her grandfather, Thos. 
Burnham, fought under Washing- 
ton during the Revolution and her 
brother studied law with Rufus 
Choate. 
Thus Mrs. Shaw’s taste for the 
antique and historical is an inherit- 
ed one and for the past forty years 
she has collected the choicest an- 
tiques obtainable to adorn this 
beautiful house which has proven 
such a delight to the strangers from 
far and near who make Gloucester 
and the North Shore their summer 
home. 
The “Old Revolutionary House” 
was originally built for John Ste- 
vens, a Gloucester merchant and 
trader, who had a hazardous busi- 
ness career and became a bankrupt 
and to avoid arrest for debt fled in 
a vessel belonging to his father-in- 
law to St. Eustatia, where he died. 
His foreign voyages were of some 
fruition, however, for all the beau- 
tiful woodwork of this old mansion 
was brought from abroad. 
Ionic and Corinthian pillars adorn 
the stately portico which faced the 
harbor in the olden days and the 
grounds sloped to the water to 
“Front street,’ now Gloucester’s 
busy Main street, the grounds be- 
ing laid out in terraces and taste- 
fully arranged flower plots. The 
old portico still remains and a por- 
tion of the terraces. The old man- 
sion consists of 19 rooms and was 
hand made throughout, as its pres- 
ent substantial appearance attests, 
and is as habitable today as when 
the old merchant had it built. 
To appreciate its rich colonial 
charm, now adorned with its right- 
ful appointments, one must examine 
personally the beautifully carved 
and decorative mantels and  fire- 
places, the exquisitely wrought 
hand-carved staircase, the beauti- 
fully frosted window on its first 
landings surmounted by the Cor- 
inthian pillars. 
It is not surprising that the old 
merchant should build and adorn 
such a home for the daughter of his 
close friend, Winthrop Sargent, 
who, when widowed by her  hus- 
band’s death in a far-off land, 
should find consolation in love of 
Rev. John Murray, the founder of 
DANE-SMITH CO. 
(INCORPORATED) 
277-279-281 Essex Street, 
SALEM, MASS. 
A SMOKE AND WATER DAMAGE SALE 
SATURDAY and MONDAY 
_ Everything in our store which was damaged by smoke and water from the Stanton 
building fire must be sold at once at some price. 
_ AND “THE O’KEEFFE GROCERY STOCK which we bought from the 
insurance companies for a fraction of the cost. Goods are in good condition. O’Keeffe 
buys good goods cheap, but we are selling his stock at retail for less than the wholesale price. 
Then WE BOUGHT OUT THE MAJOR BISHOP FURNITURE 
STORE on Washington street. HIS ENTIRE STOCK IS NOW ON SALE in 
our Furniture department at prices which will surprise you. 
WE ALSO BOUGHT OUT A BOOT AND SHOE STORE IN 
PEABODY. Goods now on sale. We will give you the biggest bargains you ever saw 
in Boots and Shoes for Men, Women and Children. 
These big stocks won’t last long at the prices we are selling them. They are real quick 
selling prices. 
Universalism in America, whose 
first church of that denomination 
stands nearly opposite the “Old 
Revolutionary House” in Glouces- 
ter, a lasting monument of his en- 
deavors to found that denomination. 
Judith (Sargent) Stevens, who 
became Mrs. Murray, was a woman 
of uncommon beauty, gifted with 
a superior mind, cultivated and en- 
riched by education and just the 
wife the Rev. John Murray would 
seek to win, as they had many 
tastes in common which are _ re- 
corded in the histories of Glouces- 
ter, for, in 1798, Mrs. Murray pub- 
lished “The Gleaner” in three vol- 
umes, a romantic story of “Mar- 
egretta,’ which was originally pub- 
lished in the “Massachusetts Maga- 
zines’ Under thes. pen name of 
“Honoria Mortesia,’ she wrote 
poetical essays for the “Boston 
Weekly Magazine.” 
The fruits of their union was one 
son, who died at birth, and a daugh- 
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require. 
if Encircled by mountain peaks and surrounded by the fragrant spruce 
and balsam forests of the ‘‘ New Hampshire North Woods,” with 
cold and sparkling mountain streams and springs of purest water, 
BRETTON WOODS 
offers health, vigor and delight from the time of summer’s earliest 
green until the last tint of autumn’s gold and crimson. 
ITS GREAT HOSTELRIES 
The Mount Pleasant ant 
_ The Mount Washington 
Will provide ever 
y comfort and luxury that the traveler may 
ANDERSON & PRICE, Managers, Bretton Woods, N. H. 
_ Also of The Ormond and Bretton-Inn-at-Ormond Beach. 
Hotels, Bretton Hall, 86th St. and Broadway (Subway Station), and 
Hotel Seymour, 50 W. 45th St. Through trains from Boston morn 
ing, afternoon and night to station upon hotel grounds. Stock 
New York 
market reports in hotel office. 
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