In 1754, a 32-year-old brickmaker Jeremiah Page built this large, gambrel-roofed Georgian house in Danvers, Massachusetts, for his young family. Jeremiah and his first wife, Sarah, raised nine children here and dreamed of liberty from England. Following the Tea Act, passed by British Parliament in 1773 that granted theBritish East India Company Teaa monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, Page was said to have demanded that none shall drink tea in my house. One evening when her husband was out, Sarah Page is said to have invited several women from the neighborhood up to the porch atop the Page Houses gambrel roof to enjoy tea. Larcom quotes Page as telling her friends, Upona house is notwithinit, thereby finding a loophole around her husbands directive. This legend was enshrined in the poem The Gambrel Roof (1874) by Lucy Larcom, who knew Sarah Pages granddaughter.Jeremiah Page would fight in the Revolution, serving as a Captain. The Page House remained in the family for two more generations, Sarah Pages daughter in-law, Mary Page died in 1876 and her will put the property into a trust with the stipulation that once there were no longer any Page descendants to live there, the historic house was to be torn down. After Mary Pages daughter Anne Lemist Page died in 1913, the trustee planned to demolish it according to her wishes. The Danvers Historical Society sprung into action and sued to oppose the will, fighting to preserve this significant home. They won, and relocated the home a block from Elm Street to its present site on Page Street, where it stands today. The Danvers Historical Society maintain the structure to this day, including the porch at the roof where the tea party once took place.