The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel f
First edition title page.
1875 illustration of Clifford Pyncheon, John Dalziel
House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts c. 1915
Hawthorne, c. 1848
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A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflect
The House of the Seven Gables
…and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a gabled house in Salem, Massachusetts, belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll, as well as ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem…
A single-story house with three gables, although only two can be seen (highlighted in yellow). This arrangement is a crossed gable roof.
Gable in Finland
Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place, between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City
Front-gabled buildings in Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany