Pickering House
18 Broad St, Salem, MA 01970, USA
Massachusetts, USA
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EST. 1664
EST. 1664
born July 17, 1745
Pickering, Timothy
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Pickering House.
The original seventeenth-century timber house survives as a museum in Salem and remains associated with generations of the Pickering family. The nonprofit foundation preserves furnished rooms, collections, architectural fabric, gardens, and grounds, presenting the evolution of one of the city’s oldest documented houses.
About Pickering House
Although the core house is in the First Period style, it has evolved considerably over the years. The original house was two stories tall, with a single room on each floor, and an entry bay. The left side was then added circa 1682 by his son, John Pickering II. In 1751, Deacon Timothy Pickering raised a rear lean-to up to a full two stories, which is how the house exists today.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Pickering House
Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third United States Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. He also represented Massachusetts in both houses of Congress as a member of the Federalist Party. In 1795, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Born in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Pickering began a legal career after graduating from Harvard College. He won election to the Massachusetts General Court and served as a county judge. He also became an officer in the colonial militia and served in the siege of Boston during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. Later in the war, he was Adjutant General and Quartermaster General of the Continental Army. After the war, Pickering moved to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania and took part in the then colony's 1787 ratifying convention for the United States Constitution.
President Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary of State in 1795, and remained in that office after President Adams was inaugurated.
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