Architectural History of Marblehead - Series

Explore Marblehead’s built environment virtually with Judy Anderson, local social and architectural historian.

Follow the town’s development as it transformed from a rough and struggling fishing settlement (1629-1713)  to a boisterous international Atlantic seaport (1714-1830), with a half century as a gritty but prosperous English commercial metropolis (1720-1775), then from an industrial satellite town (1830-1888) to a seaside summer resort (1874-1915), and from a post-war commuter town (1918 to the present) to the thriving residential and business community we know today (1970s to now).

Learn how to identify major defining elements of each architectural time period and style, and find out how economic conditions and national events impacted the town’s built environment.

The course will also touch on interiors –– but a separate course in 2022 will explore that in greater depth.