The John and Mary Waterman Jarves House is a historic house at 3 Jarves Street in

Sandwich, Massachusetts Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and is the oldest town on Cape Cod. The town motto is ''Post tot Naufracia Portus'', "after so many shipwrecks, a haven". The population was 20,259 at the 2020 census. History Cape Cod wa ...

. The -story Italianate wood-frame house was designed and built by

Charles Kirk Kirby Charles Kirk Kirby (Boston, 1826 – April 5, 1910), was an American architect who practiced in Massachusetts, Maine, and California. In the 1840s he began studying architecture in the office of early Worcester architect William Brown. Brown d ...

in 1857. It was built for John Jarves, founder of the Cape Cod Glass Works, one of the major business in 19th century Sandwich. He was the son of

Deming Jarves Deming Jarves (1790–1869) was a 19th-century American glass manufacturer in Massachusetts. He co-founded the New England Glass Company and founded the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, renowned for its pressed glass, and the Mount Washingto ...

, founder of the

Boston and Sandwich Glass Company The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company was incorporated in 1826 to hold the glass factory built a year earlier in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Deming Jarves. The factory was closed in 1888 amid disputes with a newly formed glassmakers' labor union ...

. The house was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2002, and included in the Jarvesville Historic District in 2010.

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Buildings and structures in Sandwich, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Houses completed in 1857 Italianate architecture in Massachusetts {{BarnstableCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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