Record 2858/3390 Catalog Record Places, Streets & Sites 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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