Halloween Special Salem Day Trip

Halloween Special Salem Day Trip

Best known for the Salem Witch Trials, Salem is a historically significant city located close to Boston. It is a popular day trip location, though fans of history and the macabre might enjoy a longer visit in town.
Whether you are here to learn about the witch trials, revolutionary history, or architectural significance of the city, we will help you to experience Salem.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street East India Square, Salem, MA 01970

At the extraordinary Peabody Essex Museum, you can see collections of maritime art, American decorative arts, and historical and contemporary arts from China, Japan, Korea, India, Africa, North America, and the Pacific Islands. Perhaps most outstanding is the chance to explore inside the Huang family's two-century-old ancestral home, brought here and reassembled from China's Huizhou region.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970-5640

The House of the Seven Gables site is a collection of colonial homes including one of the oldest surviving 17th-century wooden mansions in New England, built in 1668. Nathaniel Hawthorne used the House of Seven Gables as the setting for his famous novel of the same name.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Salem Maritime National Historic Site, 193 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970-5637

The Salem Maritime National Historic Site includes about nine acres along the waterfront and twelve historic buildings preserving Salem's late 18th- and 19th-century maritime history, which helped establish economic independence in the fledgling United States. This is also the permanent home of the tall ship Friendship, a reconstructed 18th-century commercial sailing vessel, which you can tour in the summer.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Witch House, 310 1/2 Essex St, Salem, MA 01970-3257

Judge Jonathan Corwin, one of the magistrates in the witch trials, lived in this large house, built in 1642. It's the only structure still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Witch House has been preserved in its original appearance and is an excellent example of Salem's 17th-century architecture.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Phillips House, 34 Chestnut St, Salem, MA 01970-3129

What you'll find most fascinating about the Phillips House is the way it shows how a real family collects in a home, generation after generation, instead of stripping away all the later years and leaving only the items of a particular period. This house shows the home's use throughout much of Salem's history, with furnishings and family collections from all eras.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Hammond Castle Museum, 80 Hesperus Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930-5299

Hammond Castle was built between 1926 and 1929 by inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. in the style of a medieval castle to house his personal collection of Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artifacts. While he was gathering these on his frequent trips to Europe, he also collected architectural bits and pieces, as well as interior features that he incorporated into the building.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, 75 Eastern Point Blvd, Gloucester, MA 01930-4433

Beauport was built by Henry Davis Sleeper in 1907 as a summer home, and expanded for the next 27 years until it reached its present 40 rooms. He filled these with his collections of American and European art, curiosities, folk art, china, and colored glass gathered from his travels and his work as an interior designer. He also collected entire room interiors, which he incorporated into the ever-expanding home. Along with seeing the eccentric house, you'll enjoy hearing about Sleeper himself and his equally colorful friends as you tour the rooms.

Duration: 45 minutes