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Essex Institute
The Essex Institute (1848-1992) in Salem, Massachusetts, was "a literary, historical and scientific society."〔(Visitors' guide to Salem ). Salem, MA: H.P. Ives, 1880〕 It maintained a museum, library, historic houses; arranged educational programs; and issued numerous scholarly publications. In 1992 the institute merged with the Peabody Museum of Salem to form the Peabody Essex Museum.〔(PEM website ). "Museum history." Retrieved 2011-02-16〕
==History==
The Essex Institute was "formed by the union of the Essex Historical Society and the Essex County Natural History Society."〔Massachusetts Register. 1852〕 Around 1879 the institute housed its "scientific collections" in Salem's East India Marine Hall and its library in Plummer Hall.〔(Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada ): New England and middle states and Canada. D. Appleton and Co., 1879〕 According to an 1880 travel guide, "its objects are general and varied. Perhaps the most important is that of local historical discoveries and the preservation of everything relating to Essex County history."〔Benjamin D. Hill, Winfield S. Nevins. The North Shore of Massachusetts Bay: An illustrated guide and history of Marblehead, Salem, Peabody, Beverly, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Magnolia, and Cape Ann, (3rd ed. ) Salem: Salem Observer steam press, 1880〕
In addition to operating a library and museum, the institute arranged educational programs. In the 1880s, for example: "1. Every winter season lectures are given to an almost unlimited extent. Besides a regular course on general subjects, several courses are given on special subjects — Literature, History, Languages, Travel, the Sciences — and various papers are read before the regular meetings. 2. A regular course of musical entertainments is given every season, besides which there are several miscellaneous concerts. 3. Art exhibitions are given once or twice each year, at which are exhibited paintings, statuary, decorations, fancy work and the like by Essex county people. Also, exhibitions of horticulture and agriculture. 4. During the summer season a half dozen "field meetings" are held in different parts of the county. At these meetings addresses are made on the local history of the place visited, and on its flora and geology. In addition, it is customary to have one or more distinguished scientists or historians to speak on a specially assigned topic."〔Hill and Nevins. 1880〕
By the 1930s the institute owned "two fine Samuel McIntire houses in Salem - the Peirce-Nichols House, built in 1782, and the Gardner-Pingree House, built in 1804, both ... open to the public."〔Corning. 1933〕
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