Here is the link to the map: Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive, Mapping historic stories of Newburyport, MA houses and places, with photos, paintings, videos, old maps, history and anecdotes. Created by The Newburyport Blog, Mary Baker Eaton, editor.

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Inn Street looking toward Market Square ca. 1840–1987
Courtesy of the Museum of Old Newbury, the Snow Collection

What is now Inn Street is roughly the area where the fire started in l811destroying much of Market Square. Inn Street was laid out in l8l8 as part of the reconstruction on the area after the fire.

nn Street from Pleasant St. to Market Square ca. 1890–1899
Courtesy of the Museum of Old Newbury, the Snow Collection

Most of the buildings on Inn Street were demolished as part of Urban Renewal in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The demolition of the area was stopped and restoration and renewal was adopted. Today Inn Street is a thriving pedestrian mall, it was completed in 1974 and downtown Newburyport is a national example of historic preservation. ~ History courtesy of the City of Newburyport, Historic Property Surveys

Looking up Inn St. before Urban Renewal
Courtesy of the Museum of Old Newbury, the Snow Collection

Urban renewal, Inn St. demolition, May 1968
Courtesy of the Museum of Old Newbury, the Snow Collection

Inn Street today, courtesy of Mary Baker Eaton

Inn Street today, courtesy of Mary Baker Eaton

Photographs courtesy of the Museum of Old Newbury, the Snow Collection, and Mary Baker Eaton

Portrait of Alice Hooper by John Singleton Copley

Alice Hooper Fowle Cutler (1746–1826) was the daughter of Robert “King” Hooper, one of the wealthiest men in New England prior to the American Revolution as well as the sister of Stephen Hooper, who lived in Newburyport.

According an historian at St. Paul’s Church of Alice’s husbands when they died left her with children, no fortune, and no means of support, also reported by historian John J. Currier. Apparently Alice ran a rooming house in the beautiful house at 32 Green Street as a way to make ends meet.  According to the Newburyport’s historic survey on the house, as well as the deed, in 1810, the house was divided in two, and Alice must have lived in one half and the wife and heirs of Joseph Bartlett lived in the other half.

Alice is buried at St. Paul’s church between her two husbands,

Alice died in 1826 at the age of 81. Alice is buried at St. Paul’s church between her two husbands, Joseph Cutler on the left and Jacob Fowle Jr on the right. ( Joseph Cutler died in 1801 and her first husband Jacob Fowle Jr died in 1778.)

Mapping of 32 Green Street

Here is the link to the map: Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive, Mapping historic stories of Newburyport, MA houses and places, with photos, paintings, videos, old maps, history and anecdotes. Created by The Newburyport Blog, Mary Baker Eaton, editor.

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Mapping of 32 Green Street

In thinking about how to keep Newburyport’s history alive, I thought I might try mapping historic places in Newburyport. I started with Stephen Hooper’s house on Frog Pong.

Mapping History of Newburyport, starting with Stephen Hooper’s house

“Merchant and shipbuilder, son of Robert “King” Hooper of Marblehead, settled in Newburyport and became one of the town’s most prominent residents. Active in the West Indies trade, he was a partner in numerous privateering ventures during the Revolution. Although in 1786 he was the second richest man in Newburyport, by 1790 his net worth was only a fraction of what it once had been.” ~ The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 6,” Columbia University Press, By Maeva Marcus

Buildings by Frog Pond – Stephen Hooper’s house

 “Its (the Free Mason Lodge, now located on Green Street) first Master was Stephen Hooper and its second Nathaniel Tracy two eminent and wealthy merchants who will always be remembered in our history.” ~ The Newburyport Daily Herald 1856

Stephen Hooper’s House, Pond Street

The portrait of Stephen Hooper is painted by Henry Pelham (the stepbrother of John Singleton Copley), a miniature, set in gold, 1773, a watercolor on ivory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Portrait of Stephen Hooper,painted by Henry Pelham (the stepbrother of John Singleton Copley), a miniature, set in gold, 1773, a watercolor on ivory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1851 Map showing building by Frog Pond

Here is the link to the map: Newburyport – Keeping the Story Alive, Mapping historic stories of Newburyport, MA houses and places, with photos, paintings, videos, old maps, history and anecdotes. Created by The Newburyport Blog, Mary Baker Eaton, editor.

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Survey of Frog Pond 1771, City of Newburyport