Essex Institute

"[1] It maintained a museum, library,[2] historic houses; arranged educational programs; and issued numerous scholarly publications.

[3] On December 8, 2017, Dan L. Monroe, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, issued a statement announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, MA to allow Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, to undergo critically needed preservation and renovation work.

"[5] Daniel Appleton White, the former Judge of Probate for Essex County, was appointed in 1848 as the first president of the institute until his death in 1861.

Perhaps the most important is that of local historical discoveries and the preservation of everything relating to Essex County history.

During the summer season a half dozen "field meetings" are held in different parts of the county.