Category:Wheatland-Phillips House

In 1821 four intact rooms from an earlier house were transported by ox sled to Salem’s fashionable Chestnut Street to form the core of a new Federal-style mansion.

This was being built by Captain Nathaniel West. Nearly a century later, Anna Phillips bought the house and launched a fourteen-month renovation in the Colonial Revival style. Today Phillips House is the only mansion open to the public on Chestnut Street. When Anna Phillips, her husband Stephen Willard Phillips, and their five-year-old son moved in, they brought with them a family collection that spans five generations and blossomed during Salem’s Great Age of Sail. Enjoy a glimpse into the private world of the Phillips family and their staff during the early decades of the twentieth century. The kitchen, pantry, and a domestic staff bedroom, present a rarely seen picture of how great houses functioned as new technologies were being introduced. ^{[1] [2]}

Phillips House is the only home on historic Chestnut Street open to the public, and it provides a glimpse into the private world of the Phillips family and is now cared for and maintained by the Peabody Essex Museum. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, US, is a successor to the East India Marine Society, established in 1799.^[3] It combines the collections of the former Peabody Museum of Salem (which acquired the Society's collection) and the Essex Institute.^[4][5] PEM is one of the oldest continuously operating museums in the United States ^[6] and holds one of the major collections of Asian art in the United States. Its total holdings include about 1.3 million pieces, as well as twenty-two historic buildings.^[7]

1. ↑ https://www.salem.org/listing/phillips-house/
2. ↑ https://www.pem.org/visit/historic-houses
3. ↑ PEM website. "Museum history." Retrieved 2011-02-16
4. ↑ The manual of museum exhibitions by Gail Dexter Lord (Rowman Altamira, 2002) https://books.google.com/books?id=dTKb1kk88McC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
5. ↑ http://pem.org/museum/new_museum.php Archived February 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
6. ↑ Check Out the Peabody Essex Museum's New Wing—For Free! (12 September 2019).
7. ↑ Peabody Essex Museum collections (Peabody Essex Museum, 1999)