The secret staircase at the House of the Seven Gables was so secret because it was a chimney that had a makeover. But 100 years later, it’s one of the most memorable pieces of this house. This video covers the Salem Witch Trials, The House of the Seven Gables, the Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Joseph Chandler and Caroline Emmerton, and what is fiction versus reality in historic preservation and restoration.

You can listen to my podcast, Someone Lived Here, on these two houses. S3, EP3 and EP4
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0:00 Intro
1:00 New England and Restorations
1:58 House of the Seven Gables Book
3:45 Salem Witch Trials
8:04 Rebecca Nurse Homestead
9:20 Colonial Revival in US
11:00 House of the Seven Gables and Caroline Emmerton
12:40 Fiction and Reality
15:23 Thank you

Original Title: This odd old house is as strange as fiction
Original Title: The og haunted house has a secret... its not that haunted

Sources:
A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson W. Baker
Caroline Emmerton: An Unbounded Vision by David Moffat
A Gracious Host: Visiting the Gables Through the Years by David Moffat and Ryan Conary
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K Roach
Pioneer Village: The Naumkeag - https://www.pioneervillagesalem.org/t...
Library of Congress on Rebecca Nurse Homestead - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0...
Library of Congress on the House of the Seven Gables - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0...
Letters of the Salem Witch Trials - https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n45.html