Daniels House Inn

The Daniels House is a bed-and-breakfast in Salem dating to 1667, making it the oldest inn in the city. This First Period house predates the Salem witch trials and keeps its open hearth fireplaces, exposed beams and paneled walls. The inn now spans two restored properties, the Daniels House itself and Silsbee’s next door, together offering six guest rooms in a location suited to exploring Salem and the North Shore.

The house was built by Stephen Daniels I or his son, both shipbuilders and mariners, and for its first century and a half it was home to shipbuilders and carpenters. Later it served as apartments, a day nursery, a boarding house and a tea room, and Kay Gill ran it as a B&B and inn for 55 years until 2018. Owners Patrick Bentivegna and Adele Lee bought it in 2019, completed a full restoration and reopened it for guests and tours.

What to Know

• Continental breakfast is included, and guests check in themselves with a door code.
• Most rooms have decorative fireplaces, and all but the Marion Room have a microwave and mini fridge.
• Silsbee’s, a former family barn converted to a home in 1843, was restored with a theme of Salem’s 19th-century voyages to China and the Far East.
• The Historic American Buildings Survey at the Library of Congress cites the house as possessing exceptional historic or architectural interest.
• The inn is within walking distance of downtown, and smoking is permitted only in an outdoor area.