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The House of the Seven Gables is one of the oldest surviving timber-framed mansion houses in continental North America, with 17 rooms and over 8,000 square feet (700 m 2) including its large cellars. After John Turner III lost the family fortune, the house was acquired by the Ingersolls, who remodeled it again.
The structure is located in Salem, Massachusetts, having been relocated to the grounds of the House of the Seven Gables and restored by the non-profit House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association. [1] Admission is free to Salem residents year-round and to the general public during winter months; a fee is charged during summer months. [2]
The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts — today a museum accompanying a settlement house — was at one time owned by Hawthorne's cousin, Susanna Ingersoll, and she entertained him there often. Its seven-gabled state was known to Hawthorne only through childhood stories from his cousin; at the time of his visits, he would have ...
The Tudor Revival-style house with its seven steeply pitched gables, hence its name "Seven Gables" similar to the classic work of fiction "House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was ...
The House of the Seven Gables is a 1940 Gothic drama film based on the 1851 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne.It stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, and Vincent Price, and tells the story of a family consumed by greed in which one brother frames another for murder.
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The House of the Seven gables in 1915. Caroline Osgood Emmerton (1866–1942) was a wealthy philanthropist from Salem, Massachusetts, USA, who established The House of the Seven Gables as a house museum [1] also known as the Turner-Ingersoll mansion in 1908.
The Grand Illusion was never part of the Seven Gables chain and remained a popular independent venue. The Movie House transferred ownership to Paul Doyle in 1979. Doyle changed the name of the theater to The Grand Illusion as an homage to "the medium of movies itself" and in honor of the 1937 Jean Renoir film, La Grande Illusion . [ 2 ]