Record 2762/3390 Catalog Record Places, Streets & Sites Exhibit Page Home Search Description  Marblehead Junior High Archives Historical Building Survey Nine Mechanic Street was the first summer house (or cottage) built in Marblehead. It is considered Late Georgian and was built by John Brimblecomb. It has many notable exterior and interior features - center front door with two bull's eye windows, eight original fireplaces, sick room, wooden peg support beams in kitchen and summer beams in rest of house. The Cloon's owned the Brimblecomb House from 1850's to the 1930's. It was made a four tenement house around 1900. See: Interview with Ben Chadwick on page 8.

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