page_title: Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts / Timeline / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Hamilton Hall, historic building est. 1805 in Salem, Massachusetts by Samuel McIntyre was one of the earliest architects in the United States, and was one of the primary examples of Federal style architecture.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the history of the city of Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
context_section_description: 1901
  St. Nicholas Orthodox Church and Rectory is founded. It is now in the National Register of Historic Places.
  1903
  St. John the Baptist Parish founded.
  1906
  Parker Brothers publishes the game Rook. It quickly became the best-selling game in the country, and remains their most successful card game to this day.
  Salem Laundry building built. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
  1907
  The Salem Athenaeum's new building, at 337 Essex Street, dedicated. The Athenaeum was founded in 1810 and is one of the oldest private library organizations in the United States. In 1905, the Athenæum sold the building at 132 Essex Street to the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum), and constructed its new building.
  1908
  House of the Seven Gables purchased by Caroline O. Emmerton, founder of the House of Seven Gables Settlement Association. She restored it from 1908 to 1910 as a museum whose admission fees would support the association.
  1914
  Great Salem Fire of 1914
  1915
  Peabody Museum of Salem formed.
  1925
  Palmer's Cove Yacht Club formed   in Salem Harbor. It sponsors the Bowditch Race each August in the Harbor.
  1930
  Pioneer Village living history museum opens.
  1932
  The Salem Post Office built at  2 Margin Street in downtown Salem.
  1933
  Salem Willows Yacht Club is incorporated. It provides clubhouse facilities, dock, launch service, gas pump and dinghy storage.
  1935
  Coast Guard Air Station Salem established Feb.15 by  the U.S. Coast Guard on Winter Island  as a new seaplane facility because there is no space to expand the Gloucester Air Station at Ten Pound Island.
  The Misery Islands  in Salem Sound established as a nature reserve  managed by the Trustees of Reservations.
  Parker Brothers publishes the board game Monopoly. Monopoly, which evolved in the public domain before its commercialization, has seen many variants. The game is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages.
  1938
  Salem Maritime National Historic Site, now managed by the National Park Service was created (Match 17), a 9-acre park, the first National Historic Site in the United States.
  1944
  Air Station Salem officially designated as the first Air-Sea Rescue station on the eastern seaboard. The Martin PBM Mariner, a hold-over from the war, became the primary rescue aircraft. In the mid-1950s helicopters came as did Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibious flying boats (UFs).
  1956
  The North Shore Shopping Center opens in neighboring Peabody, along with the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers soon after, and slowly drains the economic strength of downtown Salem. By 1962, Salem would lose 40 percent of its stores and more than $1 million in taxes due to lower property assessments and abatements, triggering the formation of the still-operating Salem Redevelopment Authority.
  1958
  The B&M extended the Salem tunnel to the south, and soon after built a station in the southern approach span. However, the station lacked modern elements like parking capacity and elevators to make the below-ground-level platforms handicapped accessible. In 1987, the MBTA abandoned the station and built the present station at the north end of the tunnel. The 1959 station building remains at 89 Margin Street; it has been converted into a private school. The platforms remain extant in the tunnel approach, as do rusted pieces of staircases from Mill Street and a pedestrian overpass behind the station building.
  1962
  Facing the ongoing drain of massive shopping centers off of nearby Route 128, leaders form the Salem Redevelopment Authority.
  1964
  Hawthorne Cove Marina  established, a 110-slip marina on Salem Harbor near the Salem ferry terminal.
  1965
  The Nathaniel Bowditch House declared a National Historic Landmark.
  By this time, urban renewal — a growing trend of redeveloping economically blighted areas in cities — had destroyed 87 buildings and displaced 160 families when Ada Louise Huxtable ran a feature in The New York Times titled "Urban Renewal Threatens Historic Buildings in Salem, Mass." The article was credited a decade later with spotlighting the loss of history in downtown Sal
caption: Hamilton Hall at 9 Chestnut Street – added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 & built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire -
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