While in Salem this October venture over to picturesque Chestnut Street to the Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust House Museum. The museum has been maintaining five generations of family furnishings and telling the story of the Phillips family since the early 1970’s. Most recently, through an archives grant, the ENHC has helped to preserve16mm home movie film of the Phillips Family. The film was recently used in a presentation at the Salem Visitor Center. The film featured the travels of Stephen Phillips and his uncle James Duncan Phillips in the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s.

Previously the museum received a preservation grant to do extensive paint analysis of selected rooms, which had been moved from Danvers in the 1820’s. The paint analysis will help establish a chronology of work done on these four principle rooms and will directly impact future interpretation of the Phillips House.

Soon the museum will start a preservation project to repair the roof and downspouts of the main house. The ENHC is glad to be a partner of The Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust House Museum. For more information about the museum, visit www.phillipsmuseum.org