Ropes Mansion

Ropes Mansion on 318 Essex Street was built in 1727 and extensively remodeled in 1894. Built for Ropes family, the last owners of the family mansion were Eliza Orne Ropes and her sister Mary Pickman Ropes who left the house to be opened to the public.
The formal garden behind the house is a Colonial Revival-style garden carefully tended every year and visited by many for its beauty.The garden was designed in 1912 by Salem botanist and horticulturist John Robinson and the pond was added in 1930. Andy Bye was the main gardener at the Ropes Garden and worked there, even cultivating his own flower varieties since 1931.
The house has been open to the public since 1912 as an independent house museum and the under the stewardship of the Essex Institute since 1978, who officially bought it in 1989.

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