So I can show you the beautiful day after our third big snowstorm of March, and also anticipate St. Patrick’s Day coming up this weekend, I am showcasing a portfolio of some of Salem’s green houses today, many cast in snow. It’s a very popular house color in Salem, so this is just a representative sampling. Green is a color that seems to transcend architectural style: you can easily find colonial, Federal, and all variations of Victorian examples. There are no green houses on Chestnut Street (where yellow is an exotic color) so I trudged over to Essex Street, where I found many—and even more on Federal Street.
And then I walked towards downtown and the Common past everyone’s favorite Salem green house: a little gambrel-roofed charmer on North Street, which serves as a constant human-scaled welcome structure along this key entrance corridor, in sharp contradistinction to the over-scaled courthouse nearby. If this house was not here, and maintained in such perfect condition, visitors to Salem would have quite a different first impression: the house softens the street and hints at a more historic Salem.
And then I was off, seeing green everywhere I went, all day yesterday and into this morning: you will note that the snow has melted off the trees in some of the pictures below, a sure sign of a late-season snowstorm. I tried to represent all shades of green: a very deep forest variety, emerald, and apple and minty greens that seem a bit more spring-like. Almost unbelievably, it will be Spring in Salem next week.
March 15th, 2018 at 9:10 am
Amazing. I learn so much from what you post. Never would have realized
that Salem had so many green houses.
Thank you.
MJK
March 15th, 2018 at 9:34 am
Thanks, Mary Jane! This is really just a small sample–Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
March 15th, 2018 at 10:11 am
Great walk and photos.
March 15th, 2018 at 10:30 am
☘️
Cool walkabout
Seasonal and fun
March 16th, 2018 at 5:37 am
Hi Donna,
When I woke up yesterday and saw the lovely, wintery landscape outside my kitchen door, I thought “I bet that Donna is already trekking around Salem getting some great shots of Salem in the snow.”
You did not disappoint. Capturing those homes in a variety of shades of green was perfect for the season. Thanks!
March 16th, 2018 at 5:50 am
Nothing like a day after, before the snow gets dirty (and yellow).
March 17th, 2018 at 8:27 pm
Thanks for these! My house is green, too, but hardly as vibrant as these!
Deb P
March 17th, 2018 at 8:47 pm
I punched them up a bit (not too much) but there are many beautiful green houses in Salem!