NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S HOUSE

Salem, MA – Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in this house in 1804. His father Nathaniel Hawthorne was a sea captain who lost his life at sea when the young Nathaniel was only five. He did not leave his family with much wealth so they had to move to Maine to stay with her family. The Hawthorne’s were descendents of John Hawthorne, a judge at the witchcraft trials of 1692.

Nathaniel was most famous for writing, “The Scarlet Letter” and “The House of Seven Gables.

This house was built in 1750 and moved beside the House of Seven Gables in 1958 with the assistance of architectural historian and conservator, Abbott Lowell Cummings

Information by: http://www.7gables.org/tour_nh_birthplace.shtml and
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm