Old Town Marblehead MA, Walk With Me Walking Tour 2021

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It would be nice to be able to go inside of some of those old historic homes. Very cool. I wish more people had commented with their knowledge of this place.

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In the place I rented for 6 months in the 1970s: Every room had a fireplace. That fireplace was maybe 18 inches deep with bricks in front of it maybe 20 inches in front that were flush with the floor. It was almost like having a campfire in your room. And the chimney drew smoke away perfectly. There were pine boards on the floor 30 inches wide. No tree lives to be that girth anymore. Every door had a straight metal bar going through it that simply lifted a latch on the opposite side. In the basement, there was a kitchen fireplace about six feet in width, the fire at one end and slanted brick wall making up the rest of the width. There was still a four foot long bar mounted on a pivot that let you hang pots over the fire and move them out in front to empty them. There was graffiti scratched into the brick from the early 1800s. There were no "streets" or "front yards". Houses were simply built and the space in front was where people walked. And there was a view of the magnificent Marblehead harbor. In the summer, most of the over 2000 slips had a sailboat to see. The fellow across the side "street" (just wide enough for one car to pass) was in a 1750 cottage and was a successful silversmith. But I worked in Cambridge (18 miles away) and parking was non-existent. There were no cars when ALL the houses were built, so no space between them for cars.

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I suggest you look elsewhere for insight into the wonder that is "old town" Marblehead. There's nowhere else in North America where there's so many private residences built before 1850. It isn't about the shopping or the ocean view (which is still great). It's the weight of history unlike anywhere else in the USA. As noted in Wikipedia, old town Marblehead "includes some buildings from the 1600s and about 200 houses in total that were built before the American Revolution." This is all in a space smaller than about a square mile (my estimate). It's a wonder so many old houses like this survive all in the same place (think "fire"). Every American owes him or herself at least a day visit to this place. History simply doesn't get this "immediate". People didn't build houses in 1800 the same way they do now. In the 1970s, I rented a space in one of the larger houses for six months. That 1730-ish house had three floors, a granite basement and approximately 12 fireplaces. When walking the streets, I was always aware of the history--immigrants to America walked these same streets for over 150 years prior to the Declaration of Independence. And it's still a real, working American town, not a just a tourist attraction.