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The Noyes-Parris House is a historic First Period house located in Wayland, Massachusetts.


Description and history

The oldest portion of this house is a "single cell", three bays wide and two stories high, with what is now the central chimney of the house. It was built c. 1669, and extended to its present size, five bays wide, c. 1790. Peter Noyes, the builder, was one of Wayland's early settlers; his daughter, Dorothy, became the second wife of Rev. Samuel Parris, a major figure in the Salem witch trials. The house was listed on 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 ...
on March 9, 1990.


See also

* Hopestill Bent Tavern, 252 Old Connecticut Path, also a First Period building * National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Setting for the film "The Inhabitants" 2015


References

Houses completed in 1690 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Wayland, Massachusetts 1690 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony {{MiddlesexCountyMA-NRHP-stub