Bridget Bishop lived in Salem Town; historians place her house nearer Washington Street and her orchard on ground that includes today’s Lyceum lot at 43 Church Street. Exact lot lines are debated in the secondary literature, but the orchard association is the usual basis for tying this address to 1692. Bishop was tried and hanged on 10 June 1692 — the first of the Salem executions.

In 1830–31 the Salem Lyceum Society bought the Oliver-estate lot and built Lyceum Hall, which opened 19 January 1831 as a public lecture venue. Speakers associated with the hall in contemporary and later accounts include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, and others. On 12 February 1877 Alexander Graham Bell gave an early public telephone demonstration here. Late in the nineteenth century the society wound down; the original wood hall was eventually lost to fire and replaced by the present brick building. After mid-twentieth-century restaurant and renewal use, the address became known again as the Lyceum restaurant era and, since 2013, Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall. The property is on the National Register (MACRIS SAL.2449).

Haunt lore centers on a woman on the stairs or in mirrors/windows, often identified as Bishop; phantom apple scent; shadow figures; touches; electrical oddities; and TV/investigation interest. One circulating staff story describes promotional brochure holders by the staircase flying into the dining room during a busy October lunch, as if struck from the counter — reported by a waitress to diners after the fact, without retained video in public sources.