Excerpt from Visitor's Guide to Salem
Washington Square -(salem Common) reserved for a training field and now showing style of houses built early in the last century. Near by, 26 Winter street, lived Justice Story, and in this house, still standing but somewhat altered, the eminent poet and sculptor, W. W. Story was born and Lafayette was entertained here in 1824. Andrew House, 13 Washington Square, built 1818, by uncle of Gov. John A. Andrew who frequented it. Roger Conant statue at the head of Brown street. See also page 169.
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