List of historic houses in Massachusetts

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This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.

Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. It was designed by Samuel McIntyre. It is now owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and is open for public tours. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Western Massachusetts[]

Berkshire County[]

  • Lenox
    • The Mount (Lenox) – author Edith Wharton's estate; 1902
    • Ventfort Hall (Lenox) – Jacobean style mansion, built 1893 – George & Sarah Morgan (sister of J.P. Morgan)
    • Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio – home of American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen; 1930–1941
  • Pittsfield
    • Arrowhead (Pittsfield) – home of author Herman Melville; built 1780
  • Stockbridge
    • Chesterwood (Stockbridge) – sculptor Daniel Chester French's home and studio; 1920s
    • Merwin House (Stockbridge) – Federal-style house built c. 1825
    • The Mission House (Stockbridge) – the first missionary to the Mohegan Indians in Stockbridge; built in 1739
    • Naumkeag (Stockbridge) – 44 room, Shingle-style country house designed by Stanford White; 1885
  • Elsewhere
    • Anthony House (Adams) – birthplace of Susan B. Anthony
    • Colonel John Ashley House (Sheffield) – built c. 1735
    • Bidwell House Museum (Monterey) – built 1750
    • The Folly (Williamstown) – designed by Ulrich Franzen, 1966
    • (Tyringham) – home of sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson

Franklin County[]

  • Deerfield
    • (Deerfield) – built in 1743
  • Greenfield
    • Leavitt–Hovey House (Greenfield) – built in 1799 by architect Asher Benjamin for judge Jonathan Leavitt

Hampden County[]

Hampshire County[]

  • Amherst
    • Dickinson Homestead (Amherst) – home of Emily Dickinson
    • Strong House, c. 1744, home of the Amherst Historical Society
  • Cummington
  • 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
    • Samuel Porter House, 1713
  • Northampton
    • 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.[1]
      • Isaac Damon House (1813), built by architect , 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.
      • contains exhibits of antique farm implements, vehicles and a working blacksmith shop.

Central Massachusetts[]

Worcester County[]

  • Auburn
    • Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn.
    • – Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn.
  • Grafton
    • Willard House and Clock Museum
  • Shrewsbury
    • General Artemas Ward House
    • Rev. Joseph Sumner House, built in 1797
  • Worcester
    • Salisbury Mansion – built 1772[2]
    • – House is known as The Oaks (1774)
    • Captain Benjamin Flagg House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1717, 136 Plantation Street[3]

Eastern Massachusetts[]

Essex County[]

  • Amesbury
    • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury) – Mary Baker Eddy associations
    • Macy–Colby House (Amesbury) – built 1654
    • Isaac Morrill House – built 1680
    • John Greenleaf Whittier Home (Amesbury) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Andover
    • (Andover) – house museum; late Federal period
    • Russell House (Andover) – c. 1805
  • Beverly
    • John Balch House (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) () (
Conant House
  • Danvers
  • Essex
  • Gloucester
    • 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'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 and pastor John Murray
    • White–Ellery House – built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years
  • Ipswich
    • (Ipswich) – Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
    • John Whipple House (Ipswich) – mid-17th century to the early 18th century
    • Ipswich has hundreds of historic houses, including 57–59 that are classified as First Period.[4][5]
  • Newbury and Newburyport
  • North Andover
    • 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 built in 1762
    • Francis Cox House built in 1846
    • Gardner–Pingree House (Salem) – 1804–1805
    • Gedney House (Salem) – c. 1665
    • Hamilton Hall – A National Historic Landmark located at 9 Chestnut Street and built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
    • Hawkes House – c. 1780, 1800
    • House of the Seven Gables (Salem) – house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name
    • John Bertram Mansion located in the McIntyre Historic District, High Style Italianate brick and brownstone mansion built in 1855.[6] 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[7]
    • John Tucker Daland House (Salem) – 1851–1852
    • Joseph Fenno House–Woman's Friend Society, 18th Century – Federal architecture
    • Joseph Story House was built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
    • Joshua Ward House was built in 1784
    • Joseph Winn Jr. House c. 1843
    • Narbonne House c. 1675
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (Salem) – birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; built between 1730–1745
    • Nathaniel Bowditch House (Salem) – home of Nathaniel Bowditch (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 structure was constructed in 1851 and is located at 298-304 Essex Street
    • Stephen Phillips House 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
    • 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, was built around 1800 in China.[8] 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled inside the Peabody Essex Museum.
  • Swampscott
    • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott) – Mary Baker Eddy home (1865–66)
    • Sir John Humphreys House (Swampscott) – built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
    • Elihu Thomson House (Swampscott) – home of Elihu Thomson
  • Elsewhere

Middlesex County[]

  • Arlington
    • Jason Russell House (Arlington) – Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
    • Fowle-Reed-Wyman House (Arlington) - Oldest house in Arlington; c. 1706
  • Burlington
    • Wyman House (Burlington) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666[9]
  • Cambridge
  • Chelmsford
    • Barrett–Byam Homestead – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1663
    • "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1691
  • Concord
    • The Old Manse (Concord) – built by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather; Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote some of their work in the house; 1770
    • Orchard House (Concord) – home of Louisa May Alcott; the novel Little Women was written here
    • The Wayside (Concord) – 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 Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845–1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett Lothrop (pen name Margaret Sidney), whose descendants lived in the house until it was acquired by the National Park Service in 1965.
    • Bush, Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Concord) – home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725
    • Thoreau Birth House—Built by John Wheeler circa 1730; Henry David Thoreau 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. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the Old North Bridge and the Old Manse.
  • Lexington
    • Hancock–Clarke House (Lexington) – home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738 in Lexington, Massachusetts
  • Lincoln
    • Codman House (Lincoln) – Federal style; built 1735
    • Gropius House (Lincoln) – designed by Walter Gropius; 1938
    • Hoar Tavern (Lincoln) – Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680
  • Medford
    • Grandfather's House (Medford) – original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
    • Isaac Royall House (Medford) – a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters
    • Peter Tufts House (Medford) – perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
  • Lowell
    • Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell) – birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler
  • Natick
    • – 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 – Henry Wilson, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer.
  • Newton
  • Somerville
  • Stoneham, Massachusetts
  • Townsend
    • Reed Homestead (Townsend) – murals by Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American
  • Stow
  • Sudbury
    • Wayside Inn – oldest operating inn in the country, from 1716. Grounds contain one-room schoolhouse associated with the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.
  • Waltham
    • Gore Place (Waltham) – brick country estate; built 1806
    • Lyman Estate (Waltham) – country estate; built 1793
    • Robert Treat Paine Estate (Waltham) – country estate, collaboration of Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted; built 1866 and 1884
  • Watertown
    • Abraham Browne House (Watertown) – c. 1694–1701
    • Edmund Fowle House (Watertown) – site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s
  • Woburn

Norfolk County[]

  • Quincy
  • Brookline
    • John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, the birthplace of JFK
    • George R. Minot House (Brookline) – home of George R. Minot
  • Dedham
    • Endicott Estate Dedham, Massachusetts – home of Henry B. Endicott, designed by Henry Bailey Alden, 1905
    • Endicott House Dedham, Massachusetts – home of , designed by Charles A. Platt with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1934
    • Fairbanks House (Dedham) – North America's oldest surviving timber-frame house; built c. 1641
  • Needham
    • (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) – Greek Revival architecture
    • Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate (Canton) – country house with garden grounds
    • General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace (Braintree) – birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of West Point"

Suffolk County[]

Southeastern Massachusetts[]

Bristol County[]

Plymouth County[]

  • Duxbury
    • Alden House Historic Site (Duxbury) – purportedly built by the Pilgrim John Alden; originally thought built in 1653, though later evidence suggests c. 1700
    • King Caesar House (Duxbury) – home of Ezra Weston, II ("King Caesar"); built 1808
    • Nathaniel Winsor Jr. House (Duxbury) – built 1807
  • Plymouth
    • Harlow Old Fort House (Plymouth) – built with timbers from the Pilgrims 1621 Fort on Burial Hill; built in 1677
    • The Jabez Howland House (Plymouth) – home of Mayflower passenger John Howland; built in 1667
    • Richard Sparrow House (Plymouth) – oldest house in Plymouth; owned by the Sparrow family, who arrived Plymouth in 1633; the house was built c. 1640
  • Hingham
    • (Hingham) – built by Samuel Lincoln 1721 on land purchased in 1649 by grandfather Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
  • Elsewhere
    • Isaac Winslow House (Marshfield) – Tory stronghold
    • (Scituate) – scene of Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"
    • (Marshfield, Massachusetts) – site of Webster Law Office and Webster Family home

Cape Cod and the islands[]

Barnstable County[]

  • Atwood House Museum, Chatham – built 1756
  • Isaac Crocker Homestead, Marstons Mills – built c. 1750s
  • Winslow Crocker House, Yarmouth Port – built c. 1780
  • Hoxie House, Sandwich – Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built c. 1675
  • Wing Fort House, East Sandwich, Massachusetts – built ca. 1641

Dukes County[]

Nantucket County[]

  • Auld Lang Syne House, Nantucket Sconset – oldest house in Nantucket not on the original foundation, ca. 1675
  • Jethro Coffin House, Nantucket – oldest house in Nantucket on its original foundation; built c. 1686

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ http://www.flagghouse.org Archived June 3, 2002, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 26, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "First and Second Period Houses". Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "John Bertram House". jbh.bertramhouse.org. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  8. ^ "Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese House". www.pem.org. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  9. ^ http://www.wyman.org/index.php/francis-wyman-house
  10. ^ "Untitled Document". www.shirleyeustishouse.org. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
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