March 30, 1917. 
ANTIQUARIAN COMPLAINS 
WRITER 
BEMOANS REMOVAL OF AN- 
CIENT DWELLINGS To NortH 
SHORE. 
A writer to the Salem Observer 
complains of the removal of historic 
Salem residences from the Witch City 
and urges antiquarians to save the 
Jandmarks for Salem. The plaint 
follows in part: 
“The group of wooden houses 
which, for a century or two, filled the 
space between Elm and Walnut sts., 
is at last well started on its travels, at 
the vigorous hands of Edwards, our 
‘prime mover.’ Salem is one of the 
very few places in the country which 
has streets so near together as to per- 
mit only a single house or two. be- 
tween them. Perhaps Newport, 
Rhode Island, may show some such 1n 
its wharf-section. The reason for 
this is plain. These streets were once 
private, proprietary ways, leading 
from a main street to water-front lots 
and docks. Elm st. was “Plank 
Alley” and had a commercial Higgin- 
son family on it, and on the lane that 
became Walnut st., lived the well- 
established old family of Stone. In 
one of our local banks is hidden away 
today, the remnant of a little fund, 
created by a neighborhood club in the 
region of Plank Alley which, in the 
cays when all family drainage had to 
NORGE oHORE. BREEZE 
be provided by individual household- 
ers, had united in building for them- 
selves a common sewer, leading from 
the main street to the harbor. This 
drain would probably be laid bare in 
the operations now going on between 
Elm and Walnut sts., if contractors 
had the same instincts as antiquaries. 
Perhaps our. Supreme court, on the 
motion of the Attorney General, will 
some day find out to whom the little 
fund belongs and dispose of it accord- 
ingly. 
“These vagrant domiciles are scat- 
tering themselves about town or. fur- 
ther,—some of them heading for the 
Juniper,—some for Norman’s Woe,— 
for Magnolia. Most of them have 
been rebuilt or extended at various 
dates, but all, called ‘Colonial,’ are 
bunched together by our scribblers 
who draw no line between the archi- 
tecture harking back to the ‘good Old 
Colony days,’ of which we retain 2 
little, and, on the other hand, ‘the 
numerous structures of the Provincial 
Period, a time which dates from the 
dark year of Witchcraft,—1692,— 
when we ceased to be a colony and 
assumed the sonorous title of “The 
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in 
New England.’ Old or modern, these 
houses have proved themselves strong 
enough to bear moving, and would 
not be worth the moving had _ they. 
not good values left in them still. 
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“Tf gossip is to be listened to, some 
of these houses show fine wood-cary- 
ing in staircase, dado, mantel, wain- 
scoting and panel work generally, as 
well as- ornamental iron castings in 
the shape of ancient firebacks im- 
bedded in their stalwart, old chim- 
neys. It would seem that these tales 
might. be true, else who would be at 
the cost of transporting old houses to 
points so distant as Fort Pickering 
and Norman’s Woe? But where are 
our antiquaries? Are they asleep? 
Do they let such bits of the past es- 
cape us without a protest?” 
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