Jeremiah Lee Mansion

Jeremiah Lee House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
The Jeremiah Lee Mansion
Location:	Marblehead, Massachusetts
Coordinates:	42°30′12″N 70°51′6″W
Built:	1768
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	Georgian
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	66000766
Significant dates
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL:	October 9, 1960

The Jeremiah Lee Mansion (1768) is a nonprofit historic house museum located at 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is open during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum

Mrs. Jeremiah Lee, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, c. 1769. Wadsworth Atheneum

The mansion is a large wooden house in the Georgian style, with imitation stone ashlar facade, built in 1768 by Colonel Jeremiah Lee, at that time the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in Massachusetts. The facade may be based on Plate 11 of Robert Morris' influential patternbook Rural Architecture (London 1750; retitled Select Architecture in later eds.). It was one of the largest and most opulent houses of the late-colonial period in America.

The mansion is now owned by the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society. It contains a notable collection of early American furniture, and many of the mansion's original decorative finishes have been preserved, including rare 18th-century English hand-painted wallpaper, intricate carving in the rococo style, and a grand entry hall and staircase paneled with mahogany. On either side of its landing are copies of the full-length portraits of Jeremiah and Martha Lee by John Singleton Copley.

See also

• Historic New England
• List of historic houses in Massachusetts

External links

• Jeremiah Lee Mansion