Salem Willows Park

Salem Willows Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Salem Willows Historic District (Additional Documentation) was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Mar 25, 1994. It is significant for its social history, recreation, town planning and architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Late Victorian and Eclectic and Queen Anne and Shingle Style and Italianate and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals and Colonial Revival and Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements and Bungalow and Craftsman. The district takes in 201 historic buildings.

The Salem Willows Historic District of eastern Salem, Massachusetts encompasses a now residential area that had its origins as a 19th-century summer resort community. Development of the area began in 1875, after Daniel Gardner purchased land at Juniper Point he had been leasing with the intent of developing it. There is evidence from an 1874 map that he may have begun development as early as 1874, even though he d…