Narbonne House

First Floor: Hall

When the Narbonne House was built, in1675, this was the only room on the first floor and would have been called the hall by the Ives family. In addition to being where the family cooked, ate, worked, and socialized, the hall would have also contained the best furniture in the house. Today, the hall holds an exhibit on the archeological excavations done in the backyard in the 1970s.

In keeping with modern preservation practices, the Narbonne House has not been restored to one time period. Instead, Salem Maritime NHS is preserving it as an architectural study house, showing the change to the structure over the nearly 330 years of its existence.