Arrive Magazine - January/February, 2013

The Christ
Church in
Cambridge
and the
Freedom
Trail marker.
that contained, according to a registry, a
“low room, little room, kitchin, chamber,
kitchin chamber, garret and cellar.” They
all still exist, as do the original chimney
and a facade gable. Tours must be arranged
in advance, but even from the outside it’s
pretty impressive. After all, you don’t see
330-year-old houses in America every day.
Next up, Christ Church of Cambridge at Zero Garden
Street. This is the oldest church in Cambridge, built in
1759. The Tory congregation had to leave with the start
of the war, but those worshippers were soon replaced;
on New Year’s Eve 1775, George and Martha Washing-
ton came to worship. More recently, Theodore Roos-
evelt taught Sunday school there while at Harvard, and
a who’s who of American leaders with names like Cabot
and Lodge were members.
Brattle Street, in particular, is lousy with Loyalist
mansions (it’s known as Tory Row), with the oldest
being the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, at 159 Brattle.
Built in 1685, it is the second-oldest house in the city
after the Cooper-Frost-Austin House, and serves as the
offices of the Cambridge Historical Society. Over 300
years it has evolved from country farmhouse to Geor-
gian manse to Victorian and Colonial revivalist estate,
and you can see all of these iterations when you take the
tour and peruse the rotating exhibits from the society’s
museum and archives.

Witches, Literature, History
They haven’t burned witches in Salem since 1692, so
you’ll have to find other sources of entertainment. And
there are several in this historic town. The Salem Witch
Museum is, of course, a necessary stop. It’s in an appro-
priately spooky, 165-year-old Gothic castlelike building.
A tour of the gravesites associated with the trials is also
eerie fun.
If witches aren’t your thing, maybe literature is. If
so, visit the famous House of the Seven Gables, which
70 Arrıve • January/February 2013 • arrivemagazine.com
JAREd LEEdS

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