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It was renamed Peabody, after philanthropist George Peabody, in 1868, and was reincorporated as a city in 1911. What is now Washington Street was laid out in 1750 as part of a new post road between Salem and Boston, running east–west along what is now Main Street, but turning south before reaching Peabody Square. The corner was the site of an ...
As a result, Peabody became the first city in the United States to establish a law that all entrances or exits in public buildings be push-open, rather than by handle or knob. [10] [11] The tanneries that lined Peabody's "Ottoman Street" remained a linchpin of the city's economy into the second half of the 20th century. The tanneries have since ...
Sam Chang – New York real estate and hotel developer; James S.C. Chao – New York shipping magnate and father of Elaine Chao; John Chuang – co-founder and CEO of staffing consultancy Aquent; Andy Fang – co-founder of DoorDash; Lew Hing – shipping, hotel, and canning tycoon; Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻) – Chair of Avon
Sep. 10—A Hampton man who owned three restaurants in New Hampshire and Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to failing to pay nearly $2 million in employment and state and local meals taxes over a ...
The O'Shea Building is a historic commercial building located at 7–15 Main Street in Peabody, Massachusetts. Built in 1904 by Thomas O'Shea, one of the city's leading businessmen at the time, it is a well-preserved example of commercial Renaissance revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
The Northshore Mall is a shopping mall in Peabody, Massachusetts.As of 2025, the mall currently features Macy's in two locations, and JCPenney.. The mall is near the Route 128 and Route 114 junction, and less than a mile from the Simon-owned Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.
The Yin Yu Tang house, photographed from an upstairs window in the Peabody Essex Museum Intricately carved wooden panels on the first floor of the Yin Yu Tang House. Yin Yu Tang House (蔭餘堂) is a late 18th-century Chinese house from Anhui province that had been removed from its original village and re-erected in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Peabody Civic Center Historic District encompasses a well-preserved portion of the historic center of Peabody, Massachusetts.Extending along Chestnut and Franklin Streets south of Peabody City Hall, the district includes a small residential area built in the mid-19th century, as well as the city hall and St. JOhn the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, two monumental structures defining the ...