. Here and there in New England and Canada . ing trip to Danvers, with the famous old Collins house, andother architectural and legendary antiquities. Down on narrow Lnion Street, at No. 21, overhanging the sidewalk,is the old dormer-roofed, huge-chimnied house in whose upper north-east corner-room Nathaniel Hawthorne was born, in the year house is now occupied bj an Irish family, whose hard-working 39 mother aud head at times allows visitors to see the chamber hallowedby the birth of Americas greatest novelist. Hawthorne himself has said that the House of the Seven Gableswas a creatu
. Here and there in New England and Canada . ing trip to Danvers, with the famous old Collins house, andother architectural and legendary antiquities. Down on narrow Lnion Street, at No. 21, overhanging the sidewalk,is the old dormer-roofed, huge-chimnied house in whose upper north-east corner-room Nathaniel Hawthorne was born, in the year house is now occupied bj an Irish family, whose hard-working 39 mother aud head at times allows visitors to see the chamber hallowedby the birth of Americas greatest novelist. Hawthorne himself has said that the House of the Seven Gableswas a creature of his imagmation, solely, but the quaint old house(built in 1662) in Turner Street, the last on the right-hand side goingfrom Derby Street, doubtless gave bim many suggestions for the won-derful romance. It was one of his favorite liaunts, and in it he wrote••The Grandfathers Chair. Amid such scenes passed much of thelife of the New-England Chaucer. whom a noted Boston wit de-scribed so well in saying : He looks like a born OLD WITCH UOUSE, SALEM. The Roger-Williams house, 310 Essex Street, at the corner of NorthStreet. l)elonged in 1635-36 to Roger Williams, the founder of RliodeIsland; and there exists a traditicm that tlie preliminary trials of the■witches were held here, in 1692. Old St. Peters Church, with its dark granite walls and chapel, itsmemorial tablets and tombs, and its ponderous tower upholding asweet chime of bells, was the first Protestant-Episcopal church in New 40 Eiiglaiul, founded in Ui3!) In- John and Samuel Browne; and tlie pres-ent edifice was erected by Bishop Griswold, in 1833. The Peabody Academj of Science occupies East-India ^Marine Hall(161 Essex Street), with an immense and -interesting collection ofcuriosities from all parts of the world. The Essex Institute owns and occupies the princely old Tucker-Deland mansion, next to Plummcr Hall, with its library and collections,of great antiquarian and historical value. Plummer Hall, a
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