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Northshore October 2025
  A stately, robust, classically New England-styled brick house stands on Derby Street in the heart of old Salem, overlooking the harbor. Built in 1810 with architect Samuel McIntire’s characteristic black shutters and rectangular silhouette, and neighboring the famous Custom House (birthplace of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter), the Brookhouse has, for generation after generation, served as one of the finest Rest Homes for aged women in Massachusetts. Before pension plans and Social Security, aging folks who hoped to retire had to either save up their own money or rely on family to take them in once they grew too o
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