List of historic houses in Massachusetts explained
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.
Western Massachusetts
Berkshire County
Franklin County
Hampden County
Hampshire County
- Amherst
- Dickinson Homestead (Amherst) – home of Emily Dickinson
- Strong House, c. 1744, home of the Amherst Historical Society
- Cummington
- Hadley
- 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 Isaac Damon, 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
- Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn.
- Thaddeus Chapin House on Elmwood Street – Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn.
- Grafton
- Shrewsbury
- General Artemas Ward House
- Rev. Joseph Sumner House, built in 1797
- Worcester
- Salisbury Mansion – built 1772[2]
- 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[3]
Eastern Massachusetts
Essex County
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- Danvers
- Essex
- Gloucester
- Ipswich
- John Heard House (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]
- Marblehead
- 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 and 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
- Elsewhere
Middlesex County
- Arlington
- Burlington
- Wyman House (Burlington) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666[9]
- Cambridge
- Chelmsford
- Concord
- Lexington
- Lincoln
- 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 (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
- Natick
- 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 – Henry Wilson, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer.
- Newton
- Somerville
- Stoneham, Massachusetts
- Townsend
- Stow
- Randall–Hale homestead - built c. 1710
- 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
- Watertown
- Woburn
Norfolk County
Suffolk County
- Boston
- Dorchester
- Roxbury
- Elsewhere
Southeastern Massachusetts
Bristol County
Plymouth County
Cape Cod and the islands
Barnstable County
Dukes County
- The Vincent House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built c. 1672
- The Thomas Chase House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in downtown Vineyard Haven; built c. 1717
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
Notes and References
- Web site: Historic Northampton. Historic Northampton. 2015-08-17.
- Web site: Salisbury Mansion | Worcester Historical Museum . 2011-11-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111117015132/http://www.worcesterhistory.org/salisburymansion.cfm . November 17, 2011 . mdy-all .
- http://www.flagghouse.org
- Web site: Archived copy . May 13, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141226032813/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25986624/Documents/ipswich_houses.pdf . December 26, 2014 . dead .
- Web site: First and Second Period Houses. August 17, 2012. 2015-08-17.
- Web site: Salem Public Library, Massachusetts, History . 2013-05-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130209143939/http://www.noblenet.org/salem/library/history.html . February 9, 2013 .
- Web site: John Bertram House. jbh.bertramhouse.org. 2015-08-17. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140708040930/http://jbh.bertramhouse.org/about-us/history. July 8, 2014. mdy-all.
- Web site: Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese House. www.pem.org. 2015-08-17.
- Web site: Wyman Family Genealogy.
- Web site: Untitled Document. www.shirleyeustishouse.org. 2015-08-17.
