General Glover Farm
General Glover Farm is a historic 1700s farmhouse on a 2.4 acre property on the Marblehead - Swampscott - Salem border. Originally owned by a British Loyalist William Browne prior to the American Revolution,[1] it was confiscated by the colonial Massachusetts government.
In 1782 after the war, General John Glover, who had lived at the Glover House in Marblehead, purchased the property and retired here after his military service.[2] After John Glover's death in 1797, the farm property was eventually sold by the Glover family. It continued to be used as a farm, until it eventually became the Glover Inn with an addition built on the back of the 1700s house, and along with many of the surrounding outbuildings.[3][4] The Inn lasted until 1955, when in 1957 it opened as the General Glover House Restaurant by Anthony Athanas[5] Various additions were added on to the main house, with the multiple dining rooms and bars themed to a colonial inn. The restaurant closed in the 1990s, and remains abandoned to this day. Along with the historic original 1700s farmhouse, many of the other historic buildings remain intact on the property at 299 Salem Street.
