Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — House of Seyen Gables [ARTICLE]

House of Seyen Gables

A cousin of the late Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lives in Salem, says there never was a House of the Seven Gables In that town. Ho tells the Boston Journal that “Hawthorne came down to visit me shortly before his death, and we rambleil about the old haunts of his early days. I was particular to ask him to point out. If he could, the fatuous House of the Seven Gables, because nt that time tin* controversy existed in some degree. . “ ‘There never was nny,’ was his immediate reply to me. ‘I never had any particular house In my mind when I wrote the story. It was just a fancy of my own.' "