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historic house A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

Western Massachusetts

Berkshire County

* Lenox ** The Mount ( Lenox) – author

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...

's estate; 1902 ** Ventfort Hall ( Lenox) – Jacobean style mansion, built 1893 – George & Sarah Morgan (sister of J.P. Morgan) **

Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio The Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio is a historic house museum and former art studio in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The house and studio were home to American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. The stu ...

– home of

American Abstract Artists American Abstract Artists (AAA) was formed in 1936 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publications, and lectures helped to establish the organization as a major fo ...

George L.K. Morris George Lovett Kingsland Morris (November 14, 1905 – June 26, 1975) was an American artist, writer, and editor who advocated for an "American abstract art" during the 1930s and 1940s, and is best known for his Cubist sculptures and paintings. ...

and Suzy Frelinghuysen; 1930–1941 *

Pittsfield Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Pittsfield� ...

Arrowhead An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, as well as to fulfill some special purposes such as sign ...

(

) – home of author

Herman Melville Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American people, American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his bes ...

; built 1780 * Stockbridge **

Chesterwood Chesterwood is a hamlet in Northumberland, in England. It is situated a short distance to the north-west of Haydon Bridge on the South Tyne, west of Hexham. It includes a number of "Bastle Houses" from the 17th Century, originally built to prot ...

( Stockbridge) – sculptor

Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his 1874 sculpture ''The Minute Man'' in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monume ...

's home and studio; 1920s ** Merwin House ( Stockbridge) –

Federal-style Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...

house built c. 1825 ** The Mission House ( Stockbridge) – the first missionary to the

Mohegan The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut. Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the east ...

Indians in Stockbridge; built in 1739 **

Naumkeag Naumkeag is the former country estate of noted New York City lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate and Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate, located at 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The estate's centerpiece is a 44-room, Shingle Style ...

( Stockbridge) – 44 room, Shingle-style country house designed by

Stanford White Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He designed many houses for the rich, in additio ...

; 1885 * Elsewhere ** Anthony House ( Adams) – birthplace of

Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to s ...

Colonel John Ashley House The Colonel John Ashley House is a historic house museum at 117 Cooper Hill Road in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Built in 1735 by a prominent local leader, it is one of the oldest houses in southern Berkshire County. The museum is owned and oper ...

(

Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ...

) – built c. 1735 ** Bidwell House Museum (

Monterey Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under both ...

) – built 1750 ** The Folly ( Williamstown) – designed by

Ulrich Franzen Ulrich Joseph Franzen (January 15, 1921 – October 6, 2012) was a German-born American architect known for his "fortresslike" buildings and Brutalist style.Vitello, Paul (14 October 2012)Ulrich Franzen, Designer of Brutalist Buildings, Dies at 91 ...

, 1966 ** Santarella (

Tyringham Tyringham (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile and a half north of Newport Pagnell. The village name is an Old English language word, an ...

) – home of sculptor

Henry Hudson Kitson Henry Hudson Kitson (April 9, 1863, 1864 or 1865 – June 26, 1947) was an English-American sculptor who sculpted many representations of American military heroes. Romania's Queen Elisabeth knighted him after he sculpted a marble bust of h ...

Franklin County

* Deerfield ** Sheldon–Hawks House ( Deerfield) – built in 1743 * Greenfield ** Leavitt–Hovey House ( Greenfield) – built in 1799 by architect

Asher Benjamin Asher Benjamin (June 15, 1773July 26, 1845) was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal architecture and the later Greek Revival architecture. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities an ...

for judge

Jonathan Leavitt Jonathan Leavitt (1764–1830) was a prominent Greenfield, Massachusetts attorney, judge, state senator and businessman for whom the architect Asher Benjamin designed the Leavitt House, now the Leavitt-Hovey House on Main Street, in 1797. ...

Hampden County

* Agawam ** Capt. Charles Leonard House, built in 1805, designed by

** Purchase-Ferre House, built in 1764, owned by the Ferre family since 1799 ** Thomas and Esther Smith House, built in 1757, example of vernacular

Georgian architecture Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, Georg ...

* Chicopee **

Edward Bellamy House The Edward Bellamy House is a National Historic Landmark at 91–93 Church Street in the Chicopee Falls section of the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts, United States. Its landmark designation was in honor of journalist and Utopian writer Edwa ...

, built in 1852, home of Utopian writer

Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel ''Looking Backward''. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerou ...

** Thomas D. Page House, c. 1875, used as freemason lodge, 1909–2012 * East Longmeadow ** Elijah Burt House, c. 1720–1740, station of

Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. T ...

** Swetland-Pease House, c. 1793 * Granville ** John and Ruth Rose House, built in 1742 * Hampden ** Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary ( Hampden) – home of author

Thornton Burgess Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 17, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column ''Bedtime Stories''. By the time he retir ...

** Captain John Porter House, built in 1771 in Agawam ** Thornton W. Burgess House, c. 1780–1784 *

Holyoke Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,238. Located north of Springfield ...

Wistariahurst Wistariahurst is a historic house museum and the former estate of the Skinner family, located at 238 Cabot Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was built in 1868 for William Skinner, the owner of a successful silk spinning and textile business, ...

built in 1868 for William Skinner * Monson **

Jacob Thompson House The Jacob Thompson House is a historic house museum at 7 Main Street in Monson, Massachusetts. Built c. 1811-13 for a farmer and lawyer, it is a rare local example of Federal style housing with brick ends. It is now owned by the local histori ...

, c. 1811–1813, rare example of Federal style with brick ends **

William Norcross House The William Norcross House is a historic house at 14 Cushman Street in Monson, Massachusetts. Built about 1785, it is a good example of late Georgian architecture, whose uses as a tavern and mill worker housing exemplify trends in the town's de ...

, c. 1785, example of late Georgian architecture * Southwick **

Laflin-Phelps Homestead The Laflin—Phelps Homestead is a historic house at 20 Depot Street in Southwick, Massachusetts. Built in the early 19th century, circa 1808–1821, it is a local example of Federal style architecture. The property was listed in the National R ...

, c. 1808–1821, owned by the Phelps family since 1865 *

Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ...

** Mills-Stebbins Villa, built 1849–1851, considered architect Henry Sykes's "best work" in the Italianate style * Westfield ** Joseph Dewey House, c. 1735 **

Octagon House Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round. Their unusual shape and app ...

, c. 1858–1864 * West Springfield **

Josiah Day House The Josiah Day House is a historic house museum at 70 Park Street in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Built about 1754, it is believed to be the oldest known brick saltbox style house in the United States. It was listed on the National Regis ...

, built in 1754, oldest known brick

saltbox A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a woode ...

Hampshire County

* Amherst ** Dickinson Homestead ( Amherst) – home of

Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massach ...

** Strong House, c. 1744, home of the Amherst Historical Society * Cummington ** William Cullen Bryant Homestead ( Cummington) – home of

William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the ''New York Evening Post''. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry ...

* Hadley ** Porter–Phelps–Huntington House ( Hadley) – built between 1752 and 1799 and home of several generations of important local figures, including diarist Elizabeth Porter Phelps and bishop

Frederic Dan Huntington Frederic (or Frederick) Dan Huntington (May 28, 1819, Hadley, Massachusetts – July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American clergyman and the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. Early life, ...

** Samuel Porter House, 1713 *

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

**Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the pre-contact era to the present. Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654. *** Isaac Damon House (1813), built by architect

Isaac Damon Isaac; grc, Ἰσαάκ, Isaák; ar, إسحٰق/إسحاق, Isḥāq; am, ይስሐቅ is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was the ...

, contains Historic Northampton's administrative offices and a Federal era parlor featuring Damon family furnishings and period artifacts. A modern structure, added in 1987, houses the museum and exhibition area. It features changing exhibits and a permanent installation, A Place Called Paradise: The Making of Northampton, Massachusetts, chronicling Northampton history. *** Parsons House (1730) affords an overview of Colonial domestic architecture with its interior walls exposed to reveal evolving structural and decorative changes over more than two and a half centuries. *** Shepherd House (1796) contains artifacts and furnishings from many generations, including exotic souvenirs from the turn-of-the-century travels of Thomas and Edith Shepherd, and reflects one family's changing tastes and values. *** Shepherd Barn contains exhibits of antique farm implements, vehicles and a working blacksmith shop.

Central Massachusetts

Worcester County

Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia *Auburn, Tasmania *Aub ...

** Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn. **

Thaddeus Chapin House on Elmwood Street Thaddeus (Latin ''Thaddaeus'', Ancient Greek Θαδδαῖος ''Thaddaĩos'', from Aramaic תדי ''Ṯaday'') is a male given name. As of the 1990 Census, ''Thaddeus'' was the 611th most popular male name in the United States, while ''Thad'', ...

– Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn. * Grafton **

Willard House and Clock Museum The Willard House and Clock Museum is a museum located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States. Overview The Willard House and Clock Museum is located at the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers ( Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and ...

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...

** General Artemas Ward House ** Rev. Joseph Sumner House, built in 1797 *

Worcester Worcester may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England ** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament * Worcester Park, London, Engla ...

** Salisbury Mansion – built 1772 ** Judge Timothy Paine House – House is known as The Oaks (1774) ** Captain Benjamin Flagg House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1717, 136 Plantation Street

Eastern Massachusetts

Essex County

Amesbury Amesbury () is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is known for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is within the parish. The town is claimed to be the oldest occupied settlement in Great Britain, having been first settle ...

** Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (

) –

Mary Baker Eddy Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, in New England in 1879. She also founded ''The Christian Science Monitor'', a Pulitzer Prize-winning s ...

associations ** Macy–Colby House (

) – built 1654 ** Isaac Morrill House – built 1680 **

John Greenleaf Whittier Home The John Greenleaf Whittier Home is a historic house located at 86 Friend Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was the home of American poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier from 1836 until his death in 1892, and is now a nonprofit mu ...

(

) – home of poet

John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet ...

Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

** Amos Blanchard House (

) – house museum; late Federal period ** Russell House (

) – c. 1805 * Beverly **

John Balch House The John Balch House, located at 448 Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest wood-frame houses in the United States. It is now operated as one of the historic house museums of Historic Beverly, and open seasonally. History ...

( Beverly) – one of the oldest surviving timber-framed houses in the United States, built c. 1679 ** John Cabot House ( Beverly) – one of the first brick structures built in Beverly ** Exercise Conant House ( Beverly) ( Son of early Cape Ann settler Roger Conant) ( Added on to by Reverend John Chipman

** John Hale House ( Beverly) – c. 1695 ** Long Hill ( Beverly) –

Ellery Sedgwick Ellery Sedgwick (February 27, 1872 – April 21, 1960) was an American editor, brother of Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Early life He was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery (Sedgwick), grand daughter of William El ...

's home and gardens; 1925 * Danvers ** Judge Samuel Holten House ( Danvers) – c. 1670 **

Rebecca Nurse Homestead The Rebecca Nurse Homestead is a historic colonial house built ca. 1678 located at 149 Pine Street, Danvers, Massachusetts. It had many additions through the years, eventually being historically restored and turned into a museum in 1909. Today ...

( Danvers) – hanged for witchcraft, 1692 ** General Israel Putnam House ( Danvers) – c. 1648, birthplace of Gen.

Israel Putnam Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790), popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). He als ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

Choate House Choate House may refer to: * Choate House (New York), the former residence of Dr. George C. S. Choate at Pace University * Choate House (Randallstown, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland * Choate House (Massachusetts), a historic house in Ess ...

(

) – birthplace of

Rufus Choate Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799July 13, 1859) was an American lawyer, orator, and Senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is regarded as one of the greatest American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over a th ...

; built c. 1730 **

Coffin House The Coffin House is a historic Colonial American house, currently estimated to have been constructed circa 1678. It is located at 14 High Road, Newbury, Massachusetts and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England. The house is open o ...

(

) – Colonial house; c. 1678 *

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

** Beauport, Sleeper–McCann House – built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper ** Captain Elias Davis House – built in 1804, part of

Cape Ann Museum Cape Ann Museum is an art and historical museum located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Its collection and programming focuses on the artists and art colonies of Cape Ann, including thRocky Neck Art Colonyand the Folly Cove Designers. The museum' ...

's decorative arts collection. ** Hammond Castle – home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr.; built 1926–1929 ** Sargent House Museum – built in 1782, home of writer

Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...

and pastor John Murray ** White–Ellery House – built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years *

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

** John Heard House (

) – Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795 **

John Whipple House The John Whipple House is a historic colonial house at 1 South Green in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Built in the seventeenth century, the house has been open to the public as a museum since 1899 and was the subject of some of the earliest attempts ...

(

) – mid-17th century to the early 18th century ** Ipswich has hundreds of historic houses, including 57–59 that are classified as First Period. * Newbury and

Newburyport Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston. The population was 18,289 at the 2020 census. A historic seaport with vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island. The mo ...

Cushing House Museum and Garden The Cushing House Museum and Garden (circa 1808), also known as the Caleb Cushing House, is a Federal style mansion with a fine garden located at 98 High Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. It was a home of diplomat Caleb Cushing ...

(

) – home of shipowner John Newmarch Cushing ** Dole–Little House ( Newbury) – c. 1715 of older materials ** Spencer–Peirce–Little Farm ( Newbury) – c. 1675–1700 ** The Swett–Ilsley House ( Newbury) – c. 1670 *

North Andover North Andover is an affluent town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 30,915. History Native Americans inhabited what is now northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European c ...

** The Capt. Timothy Johnson House - c. 1708, First Period Colonial home with historical ties to Indian Raids, the Salem Witch Trials, and The Underground Railroad * Salem ** Andrew–Safford House was built in 1819 ** Bessie Monroe House was built in 1811 ** Bowker Place located at144–156 Essex Street and built in 1830 ** Crowninshield–Bentley House ( Salem) – c. 1727–1730 ** Salem City Hall – Oldest continually run City Hall in America, built in 1837 ** Cotting–Smith Assembly House **

Derby House The College of Arms, or Heralds' College, is a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales, Northern Ireland and some Commonwealth realms. The heralds are appointed by the British Sovereig ...

built in 1762 ** Francis Cox House built in 1846 ** Gardner–Pingree House ( Salem) – 1804–1805 **

Gedney House The Gedney and Cox Houses are historic houses at 21 High Street in Salem, Massachusetts. The earliest part of the Gedney House was built c. 1665, and the houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. They are owned by ...

( Salem) – c. 1665 ** Hamilton Hall – A

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

located at 9 Chestnut Street and built in 1805 by

Samuel McIntire Samuel McIntire (January 16, 1757 – February 6, 1811) was an American architect and craftsman, best known for his work in the Chestnut Street District, a classic example of Federal style architecture. Life and career Born in Salem, Massachus ...

and 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 1970. ** Hawkes House – c. 1780, 1800 **

House of the Seven Gables The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel ''The House of the Seven ...

( Salem) – house from the

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

novel of the same name ** John Bertram Mansion located in the McIntyre Historic District, High Style Italianate brick and brownstone mansion built in 1855. When John Bertram died in March 1882, his widow donated their home ( The John Bertram Mansion located at 370 Essex Street ) and this became the Salem Public Library. The Salem Public Library opened its doors on July 8, 1889, and is in the National Register of Historic Places. ** John Bertram Mansion, built in 1818–19 – Located in the Salem Common Historic District and is a home for the elderly ** John Tucker Daland House ( Salem) – 1851–1852 ** Joseph Fenno House–Woman's Friend Society, 18th Century –

Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...

** Joseph Story House was built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Joseph Story Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 – September 10, 1845) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1812 to 1845. He is most remembered for his opinions in ''Martin v. Hunter's Lessee'' and ''United States ...

** Joshua Ward House was built in 1784 ** Joseph Winn Jr. House c. 1843 ** Narbonne House c. 1675 **

Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace The Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace is the home where American author Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. It is located at 27 Hardy Street but accessible through 54 Turner Street, Salem, Massachusetts Salem ( ) is a historic coastal city in Essex Coun ...

( Salem) – birthplace of American novelist

; built between 1730 and 1745 **

Nathaniel Bowditch House The Nathaniel Bowditch House, sometimes called the Bowditch-Osgood House and the Curwen-Ward-Bowditch House, is a historic house and National Historic Landmark at 9 North Street in Salem, Massachusetts. With a construction history apparently dat ...

( Salem) – home of

Nathaniel Bowditch Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book '' The New American Practical Navi ...

(c. 1805) ** Pedrick Store House c. 1770 ** Peirce–Nichols House located at 80 Federal Street, built in 1782 ** Phillips Library ** Pickering House ( Salem) – c. 1651 ** Ropes Mansion ( Salem) – late 1720s ** Rufus Choate House is located at 14 Lynde Street and was built in 1787 ** Salem Athenaeum ** Shepard Block is a

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

structure was constructed in 1851 and is located at 298-304 Essex Street **

Stephen Phillips House The Stephen Phillips House is a historic house and museum located in the McIntire Historic District in Salem, Massachusetts, United States and was designed by Samuel McIntyre. Phillips House began with Elias Hasket Derby, one of America's firs ...

is located at 34 Chestnut Street – c. 1806 ** Thomas March Woodbridge House is located at 48 Bridge Street – c. 1809 ** John P. Peabody House at 15 Summer Street – built in 1867 ** Salem Old Town Hall 1816–17, Federal Style building. **

Quaker Meeting House A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ...

** West Cogswell House is a historic set of row houses located at 5–9 Summer Street and built in 1834 ** William Pike House, 19th Century ** Witch House ( Salem) – c. 1642 – home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin ** William Murray House built in 1688 **

Yin Yu Tang House Yin Yu Tang House (蔭餘堂) is a late 18th-century Chinese house from Anhui province that had been removed from its original village and re-erected in Salem, Massachusetts. In North America it is the only example of historic Chinese vernacular ...

, was built around 1800 in China. 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to

America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

and then reassembled inside the

Peabody Essex Museum The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, US, is a successor to the East India Marine Society, established in 1799. It combines the collections of the former Peabody Museum of Salem (which acquired the Society's collection) and the ...

. *

Swampscott Swampscott () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Ba ...

** Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (

) –

home (1865–66) ** Sir John Humphreys House (

) – built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts ** Elihu Thomson House (

) – home of

Elihu Thomson Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Early life He was born ...

* Elsewhere ** Boardman House ( Saugus) – c. 1687 ** Brocklebank–Nelson–Beecher House ( Georgetown) – c. 1668 ** Claflin–Richards House ( Wenham) – c. 1690 ** Cogswell's Grant (

) – remarkable collectors' house ** Mary Baker Eddy Historic Home ( Lynn) – first home owned by

** Jeremiah Lee Mansion ( Marblehead) – 1768 ** The Stevens–Coolidge Place (

) – house museum and garden; late Federal period **

John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. It currently serves as a museum. The homestead is located at 305 Whittier Road in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Hist ...

( Haverhill) – home of poet

** Parson Capen House ( Topsfield) – c. 1683

Middlesex County

* Arlington **

Jason Russell House The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, the site of the bloodiest fighting on the first day of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 (the Battle of Lexington and Concord). The house was purchased in 1923 ...

( Arlington) – Bloodiest spot in the

Battle of Lexington and Concord The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, ...

; built 1740 ** Fowle-Reed-Wyman House ( Arlington) - Oldest house in Arlington; c. 1706 *

Burlington Burlington may refer to: Places Canada Geography * Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador * Burlington, Nova Scotia * Burlington, Ontario, the most populous city with the name "Burlington" * Burlington, Prince Edward Island * Burlington Bay, no ...

** Wyman House (

) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666 *

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

** Cooper–Frost–Austin House (

) – oldest house in Cambridge; built c. 1681 ** Elmwood (

) – birthplace and home of poet

James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell (; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that ri ...

; built 1767 **

Asa Gray House The Asa Gray House, recorded in an HABS survey as the Garden House, is a historic house at 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A National Historic Landmark, it is notable architecturally as the earliest known work of the designer and a ...

(

) – designed by

Ithiel Town Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the ...

, home of botanist

Asa Gray Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His ''Darwiniana'' was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually excl ...

** Hooper–Lee–Nichols House (

) – 2nd oldest house in Cambridge; 1685 **

Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site The Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National Historic Site) is a historic site located at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge ...

- built 1759 *

Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...

** Barrett–Byam Homestead – (

) – prior to 1663 ** "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House – (

) – prior to 1691 *

Concord Concord may refer to: Meaning "agreement" * Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony) * Harmony, in music * Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...

The Old Manse The Old Manse is a historic manse in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, notable for its literary associations. It is open to the public as a nonprofit museum owned and operated by the Trustees of Reservations. The house is located on Monume ...

(

) – built by

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champ ...

's grandfather; Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote some of their work in the house; 1770 **

Orchard House Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott (1832 ...

(

) – home of

Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...

; the novel '' Little Women'' was written here **

The Wayside The Wayside is a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts. The earliest part of the home may date to 1717. Later it successively became the home of the young Louisa May Alcott and her family, who named it Hillside, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and ...

(

) – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of

and her family 1845–1848; home of

and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher

Daniel Lothrop Daniel Lothrop (August 11, 1831 – March 18, 1892) was an American publisher.''The National Cyclopaedia of American biography'', Vol 8 (1898) James T. White & Company, New York Biography Daniel Lothrop was born in Rochester, Strafford County, ...

and his wife, author Harriett Lothrop (pen name

Margaret Sidney Harriett Lothrop was an American author also known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney (June 22, 1844 – August 2, 1924). In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. ...

), whose descendants lived in the house until it was acquired by the

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

in 1965. ** Bush,

Ralph Waldo Emerson House The Ralph Waldo Emerson House is a house museum located at 18 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts, and a National Historic Landmark for its associations with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. He and his family named the home Bush. ...

(

) – home of

** Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725
Thoreau Birth House
��Built by John Wheeler circa 1730;

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural su ...

born in the house in 1817; house moved 300 yards to its current location in 1878.
Robbins House
��Built circa 1790–1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1870–71, the house was moved to Bedford Street, near

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch C ...

. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the

Old North Bridge Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England * Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Ma ...

and the Old Manse. * Lexington **

Hancock–Clarke House The Hancock–Clarke House is a historic house in Lexington, Massachusetts, which is now a National Historic Landmark. Built in 1738, the house is notable as the only surviving house associated with statesman and Founding Father John Hancock, w ...

( Lexington) – home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of

John Hancock John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the ...

, signer of the

Declaration of Independence A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the ...

) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738 in

Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs ...

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...

Codman House The Codman House (also known as The Grange) is a historic house set on a estate at 36 Codman Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Thanks to a gift by Dorothy Codman, it has been owned by Historic New England since 1969 and is open to the public June 1 ...

(

) – Federal style; built 1735 **

Gropius House The Gropius House is a historic house museum owned by Historic New England located at 68 Baker Bridge Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States.

(

) – designed by

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

; 1938 ** Hoar Tavern (

) – Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680 * Malden ** Cox-Haven House ( Malden) – One of three Stations in Malden that hid Fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. The home was also the birthplace of Gilbert Haven Jr. (1821- 1880), the great social reformer and bishop of the Methodist Church. Today located at 35 Clifton St.; built 1790 * Medford ** Grandfather's House ( Medford) – original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods" **

Isaac Royall House The Isaac Royall House is a historic house located in Medford, Massachusetts, near Tufts University. The historic estate was founded by Bay Colony native Isaac Royall and is recognized as giving a face and life to the history and existence o ...

( Medford) – a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters **

Peter Tufts House The Peter Tufts House (formerly and incorrectly known as the Cradock House) is a Colonial American house located in Medford, Massachusetts. It is thought to have been built between 1677 and 1678. Past historians considered it to be the oldes ...

( Medford) – perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States * Lowell **

Whistler House Museum of Art The Whistler House Museum of Art is the birthplace of painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler. It is located at 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, and is open as a museum displaying works from the museum collection and shows by ar ...

( Lowell) – birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler *

Natick Natick ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 37,006 at the 2020 census. west of Boston, Natick is part of the Greater Boston area. ...

** Sherman Geissler House – Roger Sherman was a member of the five man drafting committee the "Committee of Five" that wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. In the famous painting by John Trumbull entitled "The Declaration Of Independence" Roger Sherman is depicted literally front and center. He was the only person that signed ALL four great state papers of the United States; The Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. He built this house in 1750 in the Bean Hill section of Norwich CT. The house was moved from Norwich, CT to Natick, MA. in 1934 **

Henry Wilson Shoe Shop __NOTOC__ The Henry Wilson Shoe Shop is an historic "ten footer" building located at 181 West Central Street, Massachusetts Route 135, Route 135 in Natick, Massachusetts, Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Built in the 1850s, it was the shoe shop of Henry ...

–

Henry Wilson Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to ...

, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer. *

Newton Newton most commonly refers to: * Isaac Newton (1642–1726/1727), English scientist * Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Isaac Newton Newton may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Newton'' (film), a 2017 Indian film * Newton ( ...

** Dupee Estate–Mary Baker Eddy Home **

Reginald A. Fessenden House The Reginald A. Fessenden House is a historic house in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts. It was the residence from 1919 to his death in 1932 of the inventor Reginald A. Fessenden (1866–1932), called "the father of radio b ...

(

) – home of technologist

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father. During his life he received hundre ...

* Somerville ** Samuel Gaut House ( Somerville) – Italianate style; built 1855 *

Stoneham, Massachusetts Stoneham ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, nine miles (14.5 km) north of downtown Boston. Its population was 23,244 at the 2020 census. Its proximity to major highways and public transportation offer convenient access to Bos ...

** Jonathan Green House ( Stoneham) – built c. 1720 ** Shoe Shop–Doucette Ten Footer, 1850 ten footer *

Townsend Townsend (pronounced tounʹ-zənd) or Townshend may refer to: Places United States *Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York *Townsend, Delaware *Townsend, Georgia *Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Townsend ...

Reed Homestead The Reed Homestead (circa 1809) is a historic home currently operated as a historic house museum in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts. Overview The house is notable mainly for its well-preserved murals on the second floor, attributed to Rufus Porte ...

(

) – murals by

Rufus Porter Rufus Porter may refer to: *Rufus Porter (painter) Rufus Porter (May 1, 1792 – August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of '' Scientific American'' magazine. Famous family Rufus Porter descended from an old coloni ...

, founder of

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

Stow Stow may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Stow, Lincolnshire or Stow-in-Lindsey, a village * Stow of Wedale or Stow, Scottish Borders, a village * Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, a small town * Stow, Shropshire or Stowe, a village * Stow ...

** Randall–Hale homestead - built c. 1710 * Sudbury **

Wayside Inn The Wayside Inn Historic District is a historic district on Old Boston Post Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The district contains the Wayside Inn, a historic landmark that is one of the oldest inns in the country, operating as Howe's Tavern ...

– oldest operating inn in the country, from 1716. Grounds contain one-room schoolhouse associated with the poem ''

Mary Had a Little Lamb "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622. Background The nursery rhyme was ...

''. * Waltham **

Gore Place Gore Place is a historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. It is owned and operated by the nonprofit Gore Place Society. The estate is open to the public daily without charge; an admission fee is c ...

( Waltham) – brick country estate; built 1806 **

Lyman Estate The Lyman Estate, also known as The Vale, is a historic country house located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is now owned by the nonprofit Historic New England organization. The grounds are open to the public daily for free; an ad ...

( Waltham) – country estate; built 1793 **

Robert Treat Paine Estate The Robert Treat Paine Estate, known as Stonehurst, is a country house set on in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was designed for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine in a collaboration between architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect ...

( Waltham) – country estate, collaboration of

Henry Hobson Richardson Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one ...

and

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the USA. Olmsted was famous for co- ...

; built 1866 and 1884 *

Watertown Watertown may refer to: Places in China In China, a water town is a type of ancient scenic town known for its waterways. Places in the United States *Watertown, Connecticut, a New England town **Watertown (CDP), Connecticut, the central village ...

** Abraham Browne House (

) – c. 1694–1701 ** Edmund Fowle House (

) – site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s * Woburn ** 1790 House ( Woburn) – large Federal house with interesting history; 1790 ** Baldwin House ( Woburn) – home of engineer Col.

Loammi Baldwin Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus ...

; 1661 ** Benjamin Thompson House–Count Rumford Birthplace ( Woburn) – birthplace of

Benjamin Thompson Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (german: Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolut ...

, also known as Count Rumford

Norfolk County

* Quincy **

John Adams Birthplace The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which Founding Father and second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in 1735. The house was designated a N ...

( Quincy) – birthplace of

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

** John Quincy Adams Birthplace ( Quincy) – birthplace of

John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States S ...

** The

Josiah Quincy House The Josiah Quincy House , located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six men named Josiah Quincy that ...

( Quincy) – country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy;1770 **

Peacefield Peacefield, also called Peace field or Old House, is a historic home formerly owned by the Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was the home of United States Founding Father and U.S. president John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams, and o ...

( Quincy) – home of several generations of the Adams family *

Brookline Brookline may refer to: Places in the United States * Brookline, Massachusetts, a town near Boston * Brookline, Missouri * Brookline, New Hampshire * Brookline (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Brookline, Vermont See ...

John F. Kennedy National Historic Site The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site is the birthplace and childhood home of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The house is at 83 Beals Street in the Coolidge Corner neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts ...

, the birthplace of

JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...

** George R. Minot House (

) – home of George R. Minot * Dedham **

Endicott Estate The Endicott Estate is a mansion built in the early twentieth century, located at 656 East Street in Dedham, Massachusetts “situated on a 15-acre panorama of lush green lawn that is punctuated by stately elm, spruce and weeping willow trees.” ...

Dedham, Massachusetts Dedham ( ) is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 25,364 at the 2020 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest b ...

– home of Henry B. Endicott, designed by

Henry Bailey Alden Henry Bailey Alden (June 24, 1862 – August 20, 1939) was an American architect practicing in Boston, Massachusetts. Career Alden attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1886. Before establishing his own practice, Ald ...

, 1905 ** Endicott House

– home of H. Wendell Endicott, designed by

Charles A. Platt Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was a prominent American architect, garden designer, and artist of the "American Renaissance" movement. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture. Early career Pai ...

with landscape by

, 1934 ** Fairbanks House ( Dedham) – North America's oldest surviving timber-frame house; built c. 1641 * Needham ** Jarvis Thorpe House ( Needham) – Built in 1836, served as Needham's Post Office as well as home to the influential Thorpe family. * Elsewhere ** Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House (

Milton Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...

) –

Greek Revival architecture The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate The Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate is a nonprofit country house and garden ground museum in Canton, Massachusetts. It is operated by The Trustees of Reservations. The grounds are open every day, sunrise to sunset, without charge. History In 1902, ...

( Canton) – country house with garden grounds ** General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace ( Braintree) – birthplace of

Sylvanus Thayer Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872) also known as "the Father of West Point" was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineeri ...

, "Father of West Point"

Suffolk County

* Boston **

First Harrison Gray Otis House The First Harrison Gray Otis House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 141 Cambridge Street in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts. The house, built in 1795–96, was the first of three houses designed by Charles Bu ...

(Boston) – by

Charles Bulfinch Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice.Baltzell, Edward Digby. ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia''. Tra ...

Second Harrison Gray Otis House There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, Massachusetts. All were built by noted American architect Charles Bulfinch for the same man, Federalist lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis. First Harrison Gray Otis House ...

(Boston) – by

Third Harrison Gray Otis House There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, Massachusetts. All were built by noted American architect Charles Bulfinch for the same man, Federalist lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis. First Harrison Gray Otis House ...

(Boston) – by

** Amory–Ticknor House (Boston) by

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded ...

(Boston) – Remarkable palazzo and art museum **

Gibson House Museum The Gibson House Museum is an historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. The house was ...

(Boston) – unchanged Back Bay townhouse lived in by 3 generations of Gibsons; built 1859 **

Paul Revere House The Paul Revere House, built c.1680, was the colonial home of American patriot and Founding Father Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. A National Historic Landmark since 1961, it is located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massa ...

(Boston) – built in 1680 ** Pierce–Hichborn House (Boston) – an early Georgian house; 1711 **

Nichols House Museum The Nichols House Museum is a museum at 55 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. The house in which it is located was designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch, and built by Jonathan Mason, the politician, in 1804. The ...

(Boston) - by

* Dorchester ** James Blake House ( Dorchester) – oldest house in Boston; 1648 ** Captain Lemuel Clap House ( Dorchester) – built for a descendant of an original settler; 1710 and 1765 ** William Clapp House ( Dorchester) – Federal style with Greek Revival addition; 1806 **

Pierce House (Dorchester, Massachusetts) The Pierce House is a rare 17th-century ( First Period) house at 24 Oakton Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Built c. 1683, It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, ...

- First period house; c. 1683 * Roxbury ** William Lloyd Garrison House ( Roxbury) –

William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper '' The Liberator'', which he found ...

's home **

Shirley–Eustis House The Shirley–Eustis House is a historic house located at 33 Shirley Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The house was built between 1747 and 1751 on in Roxbury by William Shirley (1694–1771), Royal Gov ...

( Roxbury) – Tory stronghold ** Edward Everett Hale House ( Roxbury)- Home of famed author and minister

Edward Everett Hale Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as " The Man Without a Country", published in '' Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union ...

; 1841 * Elsewhere ** Loring–Greenough House (

Jamaica Plain Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of the former Town of Roxbury, now also a part of the City of Boston. The commun ...

) – Tory stronghold ** Ellen Swallow Richards House (

) – home of

Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work i ...

Southeastern Massachusetts

Bristol County

* Dartmouth ** Elihu Akin House – cape-style house built; built in 1762 *

Fall River Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...

** David M. Anthony House –

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

style, built 1875 ** Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House – Second Empire, built 1882 **

Borden–Winslow House The Borden–Winslow House is a historic house located at 3063 North Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1740 in the Steep Brook area, then still part of Freetown, making it possibly the oldest extant house in Fall River. O ...

– Georgian Colonial, built 1740 **

Lafayette–Durfee House The Lafayette–Durfee House is a historic house located at 94 Cherry Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The house was originally located at the site of the old Fall River Superior Courthouse now the Fall River Children's Museum on 441 North M ...

– Georgian Colonial, built about 1750 ** William Lindsey House –

, built 1844 ** Luther Winslow Jr. House – Federal, built 1875 **

Osborn House The Osborn House is a historic house at 456 Rock Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, built in the Greek Revival style. Description and history The house was designed by Rhode Island architect Russell Warren for Joseph Durfee in 1843. Four ...

–

, built 1843 * Mansfield ** Fisher-Richardson House - built 1743 *

New Bedford New Bedford (Massachusett: ) is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. Up through the 17th century, the area was the territory of the Wampanoag Native American pe ...

** Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum – home of William Rotch Jr., a whaling merchant; built in 1834 * Rehoboth ** Christopher Carpenter House – built 1800 ** Col. Thomas Carpenter III House – built 1855 ** Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) – built 1789 *

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...

** J.C. Bartlett House – built, 1880 ** Samuel Colby House –

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

, built 1869 ** McKinstrey House – Georgian colonial, built 1759 ** Morse House – built 1850 ** William L. White Jr. House –

, built 1873

Plymouth County

Duxbury Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 20 ...

** Alden House Historic Site (

) – purportedly built by the

Pilgrim A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on Pilgrimage, a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the a ...

John Alden John Alden (c. 1598 - September 12, 1687) was a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower'' which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, US. He was hired in Sou ...

; originally thought built in 1653, though later evidence suggests c. 1700 ** King Caesar House (

) – home of Ezra Weston, II ("King Caesar"); built 1808 ** Nathaniel Winsor Jr. House (

) – built 1807 *

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

Harlow Old Fort House The Harlow Old Fort House is a First Period historic house at 119 Sandwich Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. History According to legend, Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims' original fort on Buria ...

(

) – built with timbers from the Pilgrims 1621 Fort on

Burial Hill Burial Hill is a historic cemetery or burying ground on School Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Established in the 17th century, it is the burial site of several Pilgrims, the founding settlers of Plymouth Colony. It was listed on the Nat ...

; built in 1677 ** The Jabez Howland House (

) – home of

Mayflower ''Mayflower'' was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, ''Mayflower'', with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, r ...

passenger

John Howland John Howland (February 23, 1673) accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the to settle in Plymouth Colony. He was an indentured servant and in later years an executive assistant and personal secretary ...

; built in 1667 ** Richard Sparrow House (

) – oldest house in Plymouth; owned by the Sparrow family, who arrived Plymouth in 1633; the house was built c. 1640 * Hingham ** Samuel Lincoln House ( Hingham) – built by Samuel Lincoln 1721 on land purchased in 1649 by grandfather Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

* Elsewhere **

Isaac Winslow House The Isaac Winslow House, also known as the Winslow House Museum, is a mansion located in Marshfield, Massachusetts built around 1700. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History of the Isaac Winslow House The Is ...

( Marshfield) – Tory stronghold ** Old Oaken Bucket Homestead ( Scituate) – scene of Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" ** Daniel Webster Estate (

Marshfield, Massachusetts Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,825 at the 2020 census. It includes the census-designated places (CDPs) of Marshfield, Marshfield Hills, Ocean Bluf ...

) – site of Webster Law Office and Webster Family home

Cape Cod and the islands

Barnstable County

* Atwood House Museum,

Chatham Chatham may refer to: Places and jurisdictions Canada * Chatham Islands (British Columbia) * Chatham Sound, British Columbia * Chatham, New Brunswick, a former town, now a neighbourhood of Miramichi * Chatham (electoral district), New Brunswic ...

– built 1756 * Isaac Crocker Homestead, Marstons Mills – built c. 1750s * Winslow Crocker House,

Yarmouth Port Yarmouth Port is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yarmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,320 at the 2010 census. Yarmouth Port was home to the original Christmas Tree Shops until its cl ...

– built c. 1780 *

Hoxie House The Hoxie House (c. 1675) is a saltbox house located in Sandwich, Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts Historical Commission, it's likely the oldest extant house "in the area". The residence was owned by both the Smith and Hoxie families ...

Sandwich A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a po ...

– Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built c. 1675 *

Wing Fort House Wing Fort House is a historic house at Spring Hill Road in East Sandwich, Massachusetts, located within the Spring Hill Historic District (Sandwich, Massachusetts), Spring Hill Historic District. The house was built in 1641 and added to the Na ...

East Sandwich, Massachusetts East Sandwich is a village and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts, Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. G ...

– built ca. 1641

Dukes County

* The Vincent House,

Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the Northeastern United States, located south of Cape Cod in Dukes County, Massachusetts, known for being a popular, affluent summer colony. Martha's Vineyard includes the s ...

– oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built c. 1672 * The Thomas Chase House,

– oldest house in downtown Vineyard Haven; built c. 1717

Nantucket County

* Auld Lang Syne House,

Nantucket Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government that is part of the U.S. state of Massachuse ...

Sconset – oldest house in Nantucket not on the original foundation, ca. 1675 * Jethro Coffin House,

– oldest house in Nantucket on its original foundation; built c. 1686

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Historic houses History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

Western Massachusetts

Berkshire County

Franklin County

Hampden County

Hampshire County

Central Massachusetts

Worcester County

Eastern Massachusetts

Essex County

Middlesex County

Norfolk County

Suffolk County

Southeastern Massachusetts

Bristol County

Plymouth County

Cape Cod and the islands

Barnstable County

Dukes County

Nantucket County

See also

References