8 Hooper St., Marblehead, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 12, 1976. NRIS 76000264.
1 contributing building.
The Robert King Hooper Mansion, built in 1728, is a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The oldest section of the mansion was built by candlemaker Greenfield Hooper, and his son, Robert "King" Hooper, expanded the house, adding its three-story Georgian façade c. 1745. Hooper made his fortune through the transatlantic fishing business.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in the Marblehead Historic District in 1984.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794710