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2 unusual facts about Pickman House


Charter Street Historic District

It includes three properties on Charter Street: the Pickman House, the Grimshawe House, and the Charter Street Cemetery, or Central Burying Point.

The Pickman House is located on Charter Street behind the Peabody Essex Museum, the oldest continually operated museum in America.



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Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace

According to architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings, the house was probably built for Benjamin Pickman on land deeded him by his father-in-law Joseph Hardy, and may have recycled structural timbers from a 17th-century Pickman house that earlier stood on its site.