The house is now operated as a nonprofit museum by Historic Beverly, with period furnishings and a room containing witchcraft-related artifacts.

This house was built in 1694, possibly with structural members from an earlier parsonage, by Beverly's first minister, Rev.

[2] He had been at the forefront of the prosecutions but underwent a change of heart when his second wife Sarah Noyes Hale was accused of witchcraft.

Hale wrote a book entitled A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, condemning his colleagues who played leading roles in the trials.

Generations of descendants succeeded him in the house, until in 1937 they finally sold it to the Beverly Historical Society & Museum.