This charming seacoast town has a National Historic District where you can take a walk along winding lanes, hidden alleyways and rocky cliffs to admire the colonial homes, some built in the early 1700's. Over 200 homes date from before the American Revolution.
You'll see both elegant and tiny homes, some clustered close to their neighbors, mostly clapboard, painted in a wide range of colonial colors, with shutters, small paned windows, and elegant doorways. Charming little gardens are tucked into every conceivable spot of land. While you're exploring, you can browse through boutiques, antique stores, galleries and restaurants, and never be more than a few blocks from glorious Marblehead Harbor, and its thousands of sailboat in the summer. Abbot Hall has a Marblehead museum, and the original painting of "The Spirit of '76".
The Jeremiah Lee Mansion, built in 1768, is open to the public in the summer, and is one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture still standing. As you read the plaques on the houses telling of "Joshua Martin, Wainwright, 1786", you'll truly feel you've stepped into the past.
For more information about Marblehead, go to
www.visitmarblehead.com
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