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Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phillips House
Phone:
+1 978-744-0440

Address:
34 Chestnut St, Salem, MA 01970-3129

The Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum is a rare books and special collections library 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. The Phillips Library reading room is in Plummer Hall on Essex Street, with offices in the connected John Tucker Daland House.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. The reading room underwent restoration in 1998. 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. 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Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, director and CEO, issued a press release announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, Massachusetts, and that Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, will be utilized as office and meeting space.
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