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1. 2004.006.037 - Print, Photographic

   This building was a Seminary. It was not a complete success, for in 1855 the Proprietors voted to let the building to the town as a public school, and the name Sippican Academy probably dates from that time. Also in 1860 the Library that had been kept in Dr. Ellis's house, now the Sippican Historical Society, was moved.

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2. 2004.007.001 - postcard

   B/W postcard of Episcopal Chapel, corner of South and Front Streets before new complex of church and schools were built.

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3. 2004.007.096 - Print, Photographic

   Sippican Seminary built in 1835. Wealthy Sippican and Rochester students attended this school in their advanced study. Building changed over, and has become the little Episcopal Chapel now on the corner of South and Front Streets.

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4. 2005.011.019 - Print, Photographic

   The Sippican Academy built in 1836 at 124 Front Street was also known as Sippican Seminary. The Academy was remodeled as St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church in 1853. 28 South Street is in the background. Admiral Harwood started services in the upstairs when building was still known as The Sippican Academy.

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5. 2008.001.020 - Digital photograph

   Wharf Village - Front Street looking south at the intersection with South Street, about 1920. At right is the original St. Gabriel's Episcopal Chapel, once a two-story building when it operated as Sippican Seminary. The church bell was dedicated in 1919. Front Street had been formally laid out only in 1898 south of Pitcher Street (the next intersection in this view) to Allen Street, and is still unpaved here. Hidden from view behind the chapel ar...

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6. 2008.001.128 - Digital photograph

   Churches - In 1871, Rear Admiral Andrew A. Harwood, summering at the Bay View Hotel on Water Street, was coaxed by fellow Episcopalians to conduct Sunday services in the hotel parlor; his sermons were well received. In 1873, Admiral Harwood retired from the Navy and moved to Marion full-time, purchasing a house on Water Street between Main and South streets-now home to the Beverly Yacht Club. In 1874, with the waning of Marion's seafaring industr...

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7. 2008.001.129 - Digital photograph

   Churches - As with many other Marion buildings that have served multiple purposes over the years, the St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church building began life in 1847 at the southwest corner of Front and South streets as Sippican Seminary, a school for well-to-do sea captains' children. In 1855, it became a public school known as Sippican Academy.

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8. 2008.015.027 - Digital image

   Wharf Village - 124 Front Street - St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, later became known as the Chapel, built 1847 as Sippican Academy, later known as Sippican Seminary

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9. 2011.012.001 - Certificate

   One share $25.00 in the Sippican Seminary Register # 14 under the name of Joseph Allen signed by Proprietor's Clerk Silas B. Allen and countersigned by W. N. Ellis, Treasurer. On the reverse is a newspaper clipping of a Special Town meeting on June 5, 1891.

   Record Type: Archive