. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . wmMM^^m:^^!m^i^^^w. Plate LXXI.—Preliminary Front Elevations, Elias HaskettDerbv Mansion. The Cook- Oliver House hold the attention of any inteUigent passer-by, sochaste and beautiful is their design. They are thework of Samuel Mclntire, who hand tooled them In1799 to adorn the entrance of the Ellas Haskett Derbymansion, where they were first erected. Derby,who was Salems greatest merchant and prominentin the equipment of privateers during the Revolu-tion, spent eighty thousand dollars on the house,which was said to be the most s
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . wmMM^^m:^^!m^i^^^w. Plate LXXI.—Preliminary Front Elevations, Elias HaskettDerbv Mansion. The Cook- Oliver House hold the attention of any inteUigent passer-by, sochaste and beautiful is their design. They are thework of Samuel Mclntire, who hand tooled them In1799 to adorn the entrance of the Ellas Haskett Derbymansion, where they were first erected. Derby,who was Salems greatest merchant and prominentin the equipment of privateers during the Revolu-tion, spent eighty thousand dollars on the house,which was said to be the most sumptuous in Amer-ica at that time and gave Mclntire the opportunityfor his greatest achievement as an architect ofdomestic buildings. It stood between Essex andFront Streets, on what had formerly been theColonel William Brown estate, the grounds extend-ing to the waters edge and being beautifully laidout and terraced. The second edition of FeltsAnnals of Salem contains a picture of it, repro-duced on another page, and Mclntires own plans,also reproduced and showing the gradual
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