 The house at #9 was built by Crombie c. 1809, and was occupied and eventually purchased by Joel Bowker, a leading Salem merchant and developer (one of Bowker's properties survives on Essex Street near the Peabody Essex Museum).The house is an elegant brick Federalist that was altered in the 1860s with the addition of Italianate styling.The house at #15 is a -story wood frame building that has retained its Federal styling.