A couple days late for Halloween, but here is another view of the Witch House in Pigeon Cove. I’ve posted several other images of this house, which you can find here, here, here and here.
The name comes from the popular story that the house was built in 1692 by two brothers from Salem to protect their mother, who fled Salem on suspicion of being a witch. The house is also called the Garrison House and some accounts say the original structure was built in 1676 as a defense garrison during King Philip’s War.
The caption and picture on this postcard suggest that the house was once open to visitors. The house is now a private residence. It had been owned by the same family since 1925, but was sold to a new owner last year.
The postcard was published by Rockport Photo Bureau. There is no date or postmark. Judging by the markings on the reverse of the card and the fashion of the people pictured, I estimate it to be from around 1920.
Does the new owner know this spooky history? And are they hosting a rockin Halloween party!?
Robert, do you have a date for when the Rockport Photo Company actually began publishing?
Les
Les, The date I have for the founding of the company is 1907, which would have been five years after he graduated from Harvard Law School.
This is beautiful. All of it. The stories of the renters. Some illustrious, some fatal. I love the man with manic depression. It runs in my family and it’s a total pain-in-the-ass. For the person enduring it and for those with a front row seat to it. Mostly, I love the Witch house because I’m madly in love with First Period architecture! Madly in love. When I got my divorce, in the rush to escape my magnificently stunning three hundred year old heavily mortgaged(by my X, secretly, the bastard)