Record 3392/5355 Catalog Record Archives Exhibit Page Home Search Description  Marblehead Jr. High Archives Historical Building Survey The home at Twelve Washington Square was built by Stephen Minot in 1725. He sold the house a year later to Samuel Hitchins. It then went to Benjamin Wormstead, who was a mariner,and then to John Bond, a schoolmaster. The house was a school until his death and went to the Amorys to Marrs to John Hooper. The Hoopers were shoe manufacturers and the house belonged to them for almost forty years. A few others lived in the house and then Samuel Babcock. Bishop Babcock is the one who changed most of the house.

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