The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a 1668 Salem Harbor mansion built by merchant John Turner, made famous as the setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel. Caroline Emmerton restored it as a museum and immigrant settlement house in 1910. The 2-acre seaside campus is a National Historic Landmark District (2007), with mansion tours, grounds passes, and 3,000+ artworks and artifacts.