56 SALEM ST
architectural description
Style: Contemporary Suburban
Architectural significance: Modular house, sections combined on the site to the Leaf's Specifications. Margret Leaf chose and placed plantings and trees outside each of the many windows to create special landscape views.
historical narrative
Historical significance: 1959 street list: Munroe Leaf, writer (born 1905) lives here with his wife J. Margaret and son James (born 1941).
22 Nov 1991, oral history with Skip Eccles:
Leaf moved to Andover to enable 2 sons, James and Andy, to attend Phillips Academy and live at home. Munroe wrote and illustrated over 30 books. Two of his best known are "Ferdinand the Bull" and "The Wishing Pool". The latter was written from interviews with neigborhood children who would frequent the Leaf's swimming pool. Margaret taught landscape design and in her later years wrote stories, one of which is "The Dragon's Teeth".
inventory data
| Place: | |
| Historic District: | Not Applicable |
| Address: | 56 salem st |
| Historic Name: | |
| Present Use: | residence |
| Original Use: | residence |
| Date of Construction: | 1959 |
| Source: | visual analysis |
| Style/Form: | Other |
| Architect/Builder: | |
| Foundation: | |
| Wall/Trim: | wood |
| Roof: | |
| Outbuildings / Secondary Structures | attached garage |
| Major Alterations: | |
| Condition: | |
| Moved: | |
| Demolished: | |
| Acreage: | 1.22 acres |
| Setting: | residential |
| MHC inventory number: | |
| Recorded by: | B. Thibault |
| Organization: | Andover Historical Society |
| Date: | 1991 |
other historic buildings
- on salem st
- in Not Applicable
- with architectural style Other
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