The Shepard Block is a historic rowhouse at 298–304 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It consists of a row of four brick residences, which were built in 1851 by Michael Shepard as an investment. Each unit is three bays wide and 3.5 stories high; windows on the second and third floors feature granite lintels, while the ground floor of each was modified in the 19th century to accommodate retail storefronts. The roofline of each unit is punctured by two clapboarded gable end dormers, and there are slender rectangular brick chimneys that rise between the units, and on the end facing Summer Street.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Shepard Block

See also

West Cogswell House, a similar rowhouse nearby at 5-9 Summer Street

National Register of Historic Places listings in Salem, Massachusetts

National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts

List of historic houses in Massachusetts

References

Commercial blocks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

Buildings and structures in Salem, Massachusetts

National Register of Historic Places in Salem, Massachusetts

Shepard Block