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Salisbury Mansion and Store

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Built
  
1772

MPS
  
Worcester MRA

Opened
  
1772

Added to NRHP
  
30 May 1975

Architect
  
Savage,Abraham; Et al.

NRHP Reference #
  
75000838

Phone
  
+1 508-753-8278

Salisbury Mansion and Store

Location
  
30, 40 Highland St., Worcester, Massachusetts

Address
  
40 Highland St, Worcester, MA 01609, USA

Hours
  
Closed today WednesdayClosedThursday1–4PMFriday1–4PMSaturday1–4PMSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesdayClosedSuggest an edit

Similar
  
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The Salisbury Mansion and Store is an historic house museum at 40 Highland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1772 by Stephen Salisbury with an attached storehouse from which he sold imported goods. In 1820 the store was closed down, and the space was converted for residential use by the family, which occupied it until 1851. Thereafter it served as a girls' school, tenant house, and then a gentleman's social club until 1929, when the building was donated to the American Antiquarian Society, which promptly gave it to the Worcester Art Museum. The museum moved the house to its present location to make way for the Worcester Lincoln Square Boys Club in 1929. It was leased to a nonprofit, and eventually acquired by the Worcester Historic Museum in 1985. The museum undertook to restore the much-altered building to its condition as of 1830, and opened it as a museum.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Salisbury Mansion and Store Wikipedia