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Research about people who lived before us takes many forms, and we also recommend that you visit the many historic house museums and sites in Salem to learn more through artifacts, architecture, art, and social history. These places have many stories to tell.

Salem
Boston and Massachusetts


Salem Resources

City Clerk
Salem City Hall
93 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9595
www.salem.com

Registry of Deeds and Probate
for Essex County
36 Federal Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-741-0201

Higginson Book Company
128 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-7170
www.higginsonbooks.com

Phillips Library
Peabody Essex Museum
134 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9500 x3053
www.pem.org (House Tours)

Salem Athenæum
337 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-744-2540
www.salemathenaeum.org

Salem Room
Salem Public Library
370 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-744-0860

Boston and Massachusetts Resources

The Boston Atheneæum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-227-0270
www.bostonathenaeum.org

Boston Public Library
666 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-536-5400
www.bpl.org

Jewish Women’s Archive
68 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02146
617-232-2258
www.jwa.org

Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
617-536-1608
www.masshistoricalsociety.org

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-267-9300
www.mfa.org

New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
101 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-536-5740
www.nehgs.org

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard College
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8647
www.radcliffe.edu/schles

Historic New England, Inc.
141 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
617-227-3956
www.HistoricNewEngland.org

Massachusetts State Archives
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-2816
www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

Unitarian Universalist Women’s Heritage Society
c/o Bethany Union
256 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
www.uuwhs.org


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