| I. | Character in Doorways | 1 |
| II. | Old Salem as a Center of Colonial Doorways | 3 |
| III. | The Evolution of the Salem Doorway | 5 |
| IV. | The Door Itself | 10 |
| V. | Old Salem Houses and Their Doorways | 15 |
| The Rebecca Nurse House | 15 | |
| The John Ward House | 17 | |
| The Tucker-Rice House | 19 | |
| The Ropes Memorial | 20 | |
| The Lindall-Barnard-Andrews House | 22 | |
| The Cabot-Endicott-Low House | 24 | |
| The Pickering House | 25 | |
| The Poynton House | 26 | |
| The Eden-Brown House | 28 | |
| ‘The Lindens’ | 29 | |
| The Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols House | 31 | |
| The Hosmer-Townsend-Waters House | 33 | |
| Assembly Hall | 34 | |
| The Boardman House | 36 | |
| ‘Oak Hill’ | 36 | |
| The Kimball House | 38 | |
| The Cook-Oliver House | 38 | |
| The George M. Whipple House | 40 | |
| The Nathan Robinson-Little House | 42 | |
| The Dodge-Shreve House | 43 | |
| The White-Lord House | 44 | |
| The Salem Club | 45 | |
| The Baldwin-Lyman House | 47 | |
| The Andrew-Safford House | 48 | |
| The Gardner-White-Pingree House | 50 | |
| The House of the Seven Gables | 51 | |
| The J. Foster Smith House | 52 | |
| The Grace Machado House | 53 | |
| The Stearns House | 53 | |
| The Timothy Orne House | 55 | |
| The Crowninshield-Devereux-Waters House | 56 | |
| The Mansfield-Bolles House | 58 | |
| The Richard Derby House | 59 | |
| The Hodges-Peele-West House | 60 | |
| The Silsbee-Mott House | 61 | |
| The Hodges-Webb-Meek House | 61 | |
| The Pickman-Shreve-Little House | 62 | |
| The Home for Aged Women | 64 | |
| The Home for Aged Men | 66 | |
| The Benjamin Pickman House | 67 | |
| The Elias Hasket Derby House | 68 | |
| The Neal-Kittridge-Rogers House | 70 | |
| The Arthur West House | 72 | |
| The Hoffman-Simpson House | 73 | |
| The Doyle Mansion | 74 | |
| Derby Street and Chestnut Street | 75 | |
| Famous Names in Salem | 81 | |
| Palladian Windows | 83 | |
| VI. | Old Salem Knockers | 88 |