
Andrew Belcher Almon was born in Nova Scotia in 1824. He would enroll at Harvard College and graduate with a law degree before moving to Salem, Massachusetts, marrying Mary Walcott Baker, the daughter of Samuel Baker and Martha Pickman Wolcott. The couple first lived in Cambridge before relocating to Salem to live Mary’s widowed aunt, the late wife of Ezekiel Hersey Derby. After her aunt died, Mary and Andrew moved back to Cambridge until they built this fine Colonial Revival style mansion on Red Cross Avenue in Newport. No architect is attributed to the house, but due to it being an early Colonial Revival style house for the period, it can be inferred that it was a Boston/Salem-area architect. Does anyone know more?