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Most Endangered Historic Resource
Industrial buildings on the North River
(Listed 2000) Status – One building Lost and others Still Endangered
28 Goodhue Street, one of Salem’s last remaining timber frame
factories from the turn of the century, was lost to demolition in 2005.
See further description under “Lost.”
While historic buildings on the North River remain largely unprotected,
the North River Canal Corridor (NRCC) Neighborhood Master Plan, along
with the Zoning ordinance enacted in 2005, supports their reuse. Historic
Salem successfully worked with members of the NRCC citizens committee
and the City Council to ensure that a density bonus provision was included
in the zoning ordinance to provide an incentive for developers to re-use
historic buildings.
Prior to passage of the NRCC zoning, a former industrial building at
2 Water Street was demolished in 2004 after the Zoning Board of Appeals
granted a variance to build condominiums on the site.
The current boundaries of the NRCC do not include several older industrial
buildings that might benefit from extension of the boundaries in the
future.
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