The House of the Seven Gables museum campus is comprised of several first-period and colonial buildings, including the Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (1750), Hooper-Hathaway House (1682), and The Retire-Beckett House (c. 1655). The main attraction, however, is the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion (1668), better known to most as “The House of the Seven Gables.”