- Salem Gazette Reader’s Choice Award
- “Best Steakhouse, Bar, Regional Restaurant”
- Salem Chowdafest
- Salem Chamber of Commerce “Best New Business”
- Beautification of Salem – City & Garden Club.

The cornerstone of the Daniel Low building was placed on April 27, 1826 by the members of Salem’s First Church. In a space beneath the cornerstone was deposited a silver plate bearing the names of past and current ministers of the congregation. Silver was to remain an important part of the building’s history.

From the beginning, the church used the second floor of the building for worship and rented out the ground floor to various commercial ventures to help pay for building and maintenance. Among the tenants was a crockery, glass and china shop owned by William Bowditch, a dry goods store owned by Edwin Ide and a ladies’ furnishing store owned by John P. Peabody. In the 1860s and 1870s the National Exchange Bank was the tenant, adding the vault and double depth windows, features still in place today.

In 1867, Daniel Low opened his jewelry business in a corner room, but soon took over the entire first floor. Low started the mail order business in 1892 after his company began manufacturing and selling a silver souvenir witch spoon by advertising in many national publications. The response to that item prompted him to create one of the first mail order catalogs. Low died in 1911 and was succeeded by his son Seth who ran the business until he died in 1939 and by Seth’s widow Florence until the mid 1950s. Seth was responsible for the creation of a grand staircase between the first and second floors which has since been demolished.

Rockafellas Restaurant is popular with local residents and tourists alike for a casual  lunch, or dinner in the dining room or drinks with friends at our recently renovated bar!