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Twelve Washington Square - Olde Hooper Homestead

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Record 2858/3390
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Catalog date 10/18/2007
Category 1: Structures
Classification Houses
Collection Old Houses etc. School Research Project
Date circa 1725
Abstract 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.

Home Location Pink Room (4th floor north end of building)
Object ID 2006-075-00554
Object Name House
Search Terms Marblehead Buildings
Sub-category Building
Subjects Houses
Historic Buildings
Title Twelve Washington Square - Olde Hooper Homestead
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Last modified on: January 05, 2009