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| library_name = Phillips Library |
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| caption = Plummer Hall in 2005 |
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| country = [[United States]] |
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| type = [[Special library]] |
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| established = {{Start date|1992}} |
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| location = Essex Street, [[Salem, Massachusetts]] |
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| items_collected = [[book]]s, [[academic journal|journal]]s, [[newspaper]]s, [[magazine]]s, [[ephemera]], [[map]]s, and [[manuscript]]s |
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| num_employees = 8 |
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| website = http://pem.org/library |
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| phone_num = 978-745-9500 |
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Plummer Hall was originally built for the [[Salem Athenaeum]] in 1857. The Athenaeum provided for space for the Essex Institute and several other groups, and sold the building to the Essex Institute in 1907.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ashton |first=Joseph |date=1917 |title=The Salem Athenaeum 1810-1910 |publisher=The Berkeley Press |pages=24-31 }}</ref> The reading room underwent restoration in 1998.<ref>Boston Globe, May 24, 1998</ref> Both buildings closed in November 2011 for an extensive renovation. The Phillips Library Reading Room reopened in August 2013 at its temporary location at 1 Second Street, Peabody, MA. <ref name="PEM website">[http://pem.org/library Phillips Library at PEM]. Retrieved 05 April 2012.</ref><ref name="Library Journal article">Michael Kelley. [http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892177-265/phillips_library_at_peabody_essex.html.csp Phillips Library... to Make Holdings Available Online]. Library Journal. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 05 April 2012.</ref> |
Plummer Hall was originally built for the [[Salem Athenaeum]] in 1857. The Athenaeum provided for space for the Essex Institute and several other groups, and sold the building to the Essex Institute in 1907.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ashton |first=Joseph |date=1917 |title=The Salem Athenaeum 1810-1910 |publisher=The Berkeley Press |pages=24-31 }}</ref> The reading room underwent restoration in 1998.<ref>Boston Globe, May 24, 1998</ref> Both buildings closed in November 2011 for an extensive renovation. The Phillips Library Reading Room reopened in August 2013 at its temporary location at 1 Second Street, Peabody, MA. <ref name="PEM website">[http://pem.org/library Phillips Library at PEM]. Retrieved 05 April 2012.</ref><ref name="Library Journal article">Michael Kelley. [http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/academiclibraries/892177-265/phillips_library_at_peabody_essex.html.csp Phillips Library... to Make Holdings Available Online]. Library Journal. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 05 April 2012.</ref> |
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| ⚫ | On December 8, 2017, much to the dismay of Salem residents, Dan L. Monroe, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, issued a press release announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, MA and Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, will be utilized as office and meeting space. <ref name=PEMPR>{{cite web|url=https://www.pem.org/press-news/statement-regarding-pems-phillips-library|title=Statement Regarding PEM Phillips Library |publisher=Peabody Essex Museum|accessdate=2017-12-09}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | On December 8, 2017, much to the dismay of Salem residents, Dan L. Monroe, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, issued a press release announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, MA and Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, will be utilized as office and meeting space. <ref name="PEMPR">{{cite web|url=https://www.pem.org/press-news/statement-regarding-pems-phillips-library|title=Statement Regarding PEM Phillips Library |publisher=Peabody Essex Museum|accessdate=2017-12-09}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:10, 9 January 2018
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| Location | 132 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Construction started | Daland House: 1851; Plummer Hall: 1856 |
| Completed | Daland House: 1852; Plummer Hall: 1856 |
| Renovated | 1998; 2012 |
| Owner | Peabody Essex Museum |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Daland House: Gridley James Fox Bryant (original), William Devereux Dennis (renovation); Plummer Hall: Enoch Fuller |
| Architecture firm | Schwartz/Silver Architects (2012 renovation) |
The Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum is a rare books and special collections library located in the Essex Institute Historic District of Salem, Massachusetts. It "is made up of the collections of the former Peabody Museum of Salem and Essex Institute, which merged in 1992. Both had libraries named for members of the Phillips family."[1][2] The Phillips Library reading room is located in Plummer Hall on Essex Street, with offices in the connected John Tucker Daland House.[3]
Plummer Hall was originally built for the Salem Athenaeum in 1857. The Athenaeum provided for space for the Essex Institute and several other groups, and sold the building to the Essex Institute in 1907.[4] The reading room underwent restoration in 1998.[5] Both buildings closed in November 2011 for an extensive renovation. The Phillips Library Reading Room reopened in August 2013 at its temporary location at 1 Second Street, Peabody, MA. [6][7]
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On December 8, 2017, much to the dismay of Salem residents, Dan L. Monroe, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, issued a press release announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, MA and Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, will be utilized as office and meeting space. [8]
Collections
"The library, with its gold-leaf pillars, and busts of Nathaniel Bowditch and George Peabody, is best known for holding the original 1692 Salem witchcraft trials papers, and early works by Nathaniel Hawthorne."[9] Collection subjects include art and architecture, Essex County, maritime history, natural history, New England, voyages and travels, Asia, Oceania, and Native American culture.[10] Some featured collections include the C. E. Fraser Clark Collection of Hawthorniana, the Frederick Townsend Ward Collection of Western-language materials on Imperial China, and the Herbert Offen Research Collection.[11][12]
References
- ^ Boston Globe, May 24, 1998
- ^ Prior to 1992, the Essex Institute operated the "James Duncan Phillips Library" cf. Boston Globe, Oct 11, 1988
- ^ http://www.pem.org/library/information
- ^ Ashton, Joseph (1917). The Salem Athenaeum 1810-1910. The Berkeley Press. pp. 24–31.
- ^ Boston Globe, May 24, 1998
- ^ Phillips Library at PEM. Retrieved 05 April 2012.
- ^ Michael Kelley. Phillips Library... to Make Holdings Available Online. Library Journal. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 05 April 2012.
- ^ "Statement Regarding PEM Phillips Library". Peabody Essex Museum. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Boston Globe, Mar 28, 2004
- ^ Subject Strengths. Retrieved 05 April 2012.
- ^ Featured Collections. Retrieved 05 April 2012.
- ^ Offen Collection. Retrieved 05 April 2012.
Further reading
- Kathy McCabe. A new chapter at Phillips Library. Boston Globe, May 24, 1998
- Steven Rosenberg. Access a Concern After Museum Cuts Library Hours. Boston Globe, Mar 28, 2004. Pg. 1
- Phillips Library Cutbacks Will Hurt Researchers. Boston Globe. Apr 8, 2004. Pg. 4
- Steven Rosenberg. Salem Museum Urged To Rethink Library Cuts. Boston Globe, Apr 15, 2004.
- Petition Urges More Services At Peabody Essex Library. Boston Globe, Oct 10, 2004.
- Tom Dalton. PEM hires director for Phillips Library [Sidney Berger]. SalemNews.com, February 13, 2007
- "Historians say wealth of records trapped in now shuttered library", Salem News, Dec 18, 2017
External links
- Phillips Library webpage, Peabody Essex Museum
- Historic Houses at PEM. Descriptions of Daland House and Plummer Hall.
- Flickr. Photo of library interior, 2006
- Flickr. Photo of library interior, 2010
- Flickr. Photo of Daland House, Salem, 2010. Part of the Phillips Library occupies this building.
