English: Pickering House, Salem, MA; from a c. 1905 postcard. Built c. 1651, it is owned by the Pickering Foundation and open to the public. The Pickering Hose is part of the McIntire Historic District. Samuel McIntire [1] for whom the city's largest historic district. These collection of homes and mansions from Colonial America now part of the largest concentration of homes from the 17th & 18th in the United States.