Bellingham-Cary House
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Bellingham-Cary House is an historic house at 34 Parker Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts
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The house was built in 1659 and added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1974. It was built by Richard Bellingham
, who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
for three terms starting in 1641. The house was used as his summer house until his death in 1672.
It has been owned and operated as a museum by the Gov. Bellingham~Cary House Association since 1912. It won the 2006 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award. Although the NRHP application calls the architectural style "Federal", and it has some of the characteristics of Federal architecture
, it was built more than a century before the Federal period.
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...
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The house was built in 1659 and added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1974. It was built by Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a colonial magistrate, lawyer, and several-time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the last surviving signatory of the colonial charter at his death...
, who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions...
for three terms starting in 1641. The house was used as his summer house until his death in 1672.
It has been owned and operated as a museum by the Gov. Bellingham~Cary House Association since 1912. It won the 2006 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award. Although the NRHP application calls the architectural style "Federal", and it has some of the characteristics of Federal architecture
Federal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...
, it was built more than a century before the Federal period.