Medford Church tent, from early days before Society buildings were constructed.
Fiske Avenue is one of the streets of cottages that were lost in the 1927 Mother's Day fire.
Fletcher Avenue is another of the streets of cottages that were lost in the 1927 Mother's Day fire.
Hamlin Avenue
This cottage with its distinctive gingerbread survives today on Clark Avenue.
This cottage still stands today, not much changed. Reverse reads: "19 Kingsley Ave, corner Wesley Park, ca. 1919-1921. Nadine Sander with Tootsie, her pet fox terrier."
McClintock Avenue. Reverse reads: “Cottage at Asbury Grove - Hamilton, Mass. - later owned by Mrs. Wm. Cardy - ‘Elizabeth Slade Cardy’ sister of Geo. H. Slade. Seated on porch - Geo. H. Slade holding Henry - Susie Slade on step - Isabel in back of Susie - Grandmother Slade at right. About 1884.”
This house survives today at 7 Essex Avenue and is now a year-round home.
This cottage with its two-story bay window still stands today at 16 Clark Avenue.
Looking up Mudge Avenue from Lee Park. 10 Lee Park is to the left and 14 Lee Park to the right. Both survive (with alterations) and are year-round houses now.
The pump in the center of Lee Park. The cottage at the right has been lost but the others survive today.
Society buildings. These were some of the ones lost in the Mother's Day fire of 1927.
Society house for Lafayette St. Church in Salem, decorated for Illumination during Camp Meeting Week.
The preaching stand with its benches, and Society buildings in a circle behind in the background.
Damage done to the Preaching Stand in the 1938 Hurricane.
The oldest building still standing in Asbury Grove, built in 1865, this was originally the "Tax Office" where camp meeting attendees could pay for their tent lot rentals, meals, and other fees and services. It has been used for many other purposes over the years and moved several times.
The L.C. Bates Memorial Library, built in 1910, with funds raised by the Ladies Aid.
The Tabernacle (built in 1894) and the Chapel on Lee Park between Skinner and Morris Avenues.
The Chapel, built in 1884. Looking down Skinner Avenue to the right.
Dining Hall and Store on Pleasant Avenue. The Store building is now gone.
Pleasant Avenue, ca. 1900, looking uphill towards the entrance, Dining Hall and Store on the left.
The Store was on Pleasant Avenue beside the Dining Hall.
This was a police station and also served as a jail. It was located across Pleasant Avenue from the current Dining Hall, but does not survive. Asbury Grove was a bustling community with thousands of seasonal residents in the height of its operating years, and a public safety presence was necessary.
Stables off Asbury Avenue, 1912
Station by the entrance during the trolley car era.
The entrance looking up Pleasant Avenue from Highland Street, with the Post Office on the right and trolley car tracks visible to the left.
Asbury Grove entrance looking out towards Highland Street, with the trolley car station to the right and the Post Office to the left.
Postcard view with the Post Office.
Asbury Grove Post Office
The split betweeen Asbury Street (to the left towards Topsfield) and Highland Street (to the right towards Ipswich). The Asbury Grove entrance is just to the left of the photographer's location.
Looking the other direction up Highland Street towards Wenham, with Asbury Street heading uphill to the left, and the entrance to Asbury Grove (with trolley car station visible) to the right.
Entrance to Asbury Grove, undated, but later (the stone pillars are still at the entrance today).