Narbonne House (1675)

This house, built by butcher Thomas Ives, is a good example of a craftsman?s family home of the late seventeenth century. When it was first completed, the house consisted of single rooms on the first and second floor, with an attic under the tall peaked roof and a small root cellar. Most people in Salem would have lived in houses about this size. In the eighteenth century, a shorter addition was added to the side of the house away from Essex Street.