Commercial Buildings in Salem: Introduction

Brown Building (Union Building), corner of Essex and Union St. in Salem (courtesy of ...)

This section of the Website presents images and information on the commercial buildings in Salem listed below. In some cases the buildings are related to Nathaniel Hawthorne; in other cases buildings are included to give a sense of Hawthorne's world and also of the Salem a visitor would encounter today. All of these buildings also appear on the 1840 and/or modern map of Salem.

• Brown Building (Merchant's Building; Union Building), 2-4 Union St. and 105-107 Essex St
  
  
• Bowker (Manning) Block, 144-156 Essex St. Mall at Liberty St.
  
  
• Downing Block, 173-175-177 Essex Street Mall
  
  
• The Central Building/Old Custom House, 4-10 Central Street and Essex Street Mall
  
  
• Essex Bank Building, 11 Central Street
  
  
• Peabody Building, 120-128 Washington St.
  
  
• Lawrence Place, 133 and 137 Washington Street and 34 Front St.
  
  
• The Salem Lyceum, 43 Church St
  
  
• The Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square, West
  
  
• The Archer Block (Franklin Building), 18 Washington Square, West
  
  
• Pickman-Derby Block, 213-215 Essex Street Mall, 1 and 7 Derby Square
  
  
• Pickering Wharf, Derby and Congress Streets on the South River and Salem Harbor
  
  
• Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company, at Congress St. on Stage Point