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Shepard Block

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Location
  
Salem, Massachusetts

MPS
  
Downtown Salem MRA

Opened
  
1851

Added to NRHP
  
29 July 1983

Built
  
1851

NRHP Reference #
  
83000584

Area
  
809.4 m²

Shepard Block

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
Nathaniel Bowditch House, Wesley Methodist Church, Peirce‑Nichols House, Salem Common Historic D, The Witch House

The Shepard Block is a historic rowhouse at 298–304 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It consists of a row of four brick residences, which were built in 1851 by Michael Shepard as an investment. Each unit is three bays wide and 3.5 stories high; windows on the second and third floors feature granite lintels, while the ground floor of each was modified in the 19th century to accommodate retail storefronts. The roofline of each unit is punctured by two clapboarded gable end dormers, and there are slender rectangular brick chimneys that rise between the units, and on the end facing Summer Street.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Shepard Block Wikipedia