"A SUCCESSION OF KALEIDOSCOPIC PICTURES": HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE TURNER

Although the House of the Seven Gables Historic Site is principally associ-ated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, the excavations at the Turner House site re-vealed a wealth of information about the Turner and Ingersoll families, who lived in the house later made famous by Hawthorne's novel. The rich array of documents contributes not only to the further understanding of the households that occupied the site, but also suggest the ways in which the surrounding commu-nity perceived the residents and their home through time. This article describes the excavations that took place on the site during the 1991 field season. The doc-umentary evidence acts as a guide to how the image of the site changed with each successive generation, from its construction as a fashionable home and business place in the 17th century, to its recreation as a historic site in the 20th century. Meme si le lieu historique de la House of the Seven Gables se rattache principalement a Nathaniel Hawthorne, les fouilles pratiquees au site de la maison Turner ant revele une mine de renseignements concernant les families Turner et Ingersoll qui vecurent dans la demeure que le roman d'Hawthorne a plus tar