Jeremiah Lee Mansion
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The Jeremiah Lee Mansion (1768) is a nonprofit historic house located at 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is open during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
The mansion is a large wooden house in the Georgian style, with imitation ashlar facade, built in 1768 by Colonel Jeremiah Lee, at that time the wealthiest merchant and ship owner in Massachusetts.
The mansion is now owned by the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society. It contains a notable collection of early American furniture, and many of the mansion's original furnishings have been preserved, including rare 18th-century English hand-painted wallpaper, and a fine staircase of Santo Domingan mahogany. On either side of its landing are copies of the full-length portraits of Jeremiah and Martha Lee by John Singleton Copley.
