It is a distinctive repurposing of three residential structures, dating as far back as 1797, by raising them and building brick commercial ground floors beneath them.

[1] The Hickey-Osborne Block occupies a long portion of a city block on the north side of Main Street east of Peabody Square in downtown Peabody, opposite its junction with Park Street.

In the gaps between these houses are stylistically linked single-story flat-roof wood frame commercial elements.

The Upton House was raised on 1897 by S. Osborne, and its ground floor was remodeled in the 1960s to match the other elements of the building.

The houses of Daniel Dodge and Ebenezer Sprague Upton were raised in 1923.