List of historic houses in Massachusetts
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A historic house can be a stately home, the birthplace of a famous person, or a house with an interesting history or architecture.- Background :...

s in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

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Berkshire County

  • Lenox
    Lenox, Massachusetts
    Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Set in Western Massachusetts, it is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,077 at the 2000 census. Where the town has a border with Stockbridge is the site of Tanglewood, summer...

    • The Mount
      The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)
      The Mount is a country house in Lenox, Massachusetts, the home of noted American author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and its grounds and considered it her "first real home." The estate, located in the Berkshires, is open to the public from May to October...

       (Lenox
      Lenox, Massachusetts
      Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Set in Western Massachusetts, it is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,077 at the 2000 census. Where the town has a border with Stockbridge is the site of Tanglewood, summer...

      ) - author Edith Wharton
      Edith Wharton
      Edith Wharton , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.- Early life and marriage:...

      's estate; 1902
    • Ventfort Hall
      Ventfort Hall
      Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum is a historic, Jacobean-style mansion and museum located at 104 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

       (Lenox
      Lenox, Massachusetts
      Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Set in Western Massachusetts, it is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,077 at the 2000 census. Where the town has a border with Stockbridge is the site of Tanglewood, summer...

      ) - Elizabethan-style mansion, built 1893
  • Pittsfield
    Pittsfield, Massachusetts
    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. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201...

    • Arrowhead
      Arrowhead (Herman Melville)
      Arrowhead , also known as Herman Melville House, was the home of American author Herman Melville during his most productive years from 1850-1863...

       (Pittsfield
      Pittsfield, Massachusetts
      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. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201...

      ) - home of author Herman Melville
      Herman Melville
      Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....

      ; built 1780
  • Stockbridge
    Stockbridge, Massachusetts
    Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...

    • Chesterwood
      Chesterwood (Massachusetts)
      Chesterwood was the summer estate and studio of American sculptor Daniel Chester French in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.The estate covers of forest and field in the Berkshires, with French's summer home, studio, and garden dating from the 1920s...

       (Stockbridge
      Stockbridge, Massachusetts
      Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...

      ) - sculptor Daniel Chester French
      Daniel Chester French
      Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Life and career:...

      's home and studio; 1920s
    • Merwin House
      Merwin House
      Merwin House, also known as Tranquility, is a house located at 14 Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is now a non-profit museum operated by Historic New England and sometimes open to the public. An admission fee is charged....

       (Stockbridge
      Stockbridge, Massachusetts
      Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...

      ) - Federal-style house built c. 1825
    • The Mission House
      Mission House (Stockbridge, Massachusetts)
      The Mission House is an historic house located at 19 Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts and used as a Native American mission in the 18th century...

       (Stockbridge
      Stockbridge, Massachusetts
      Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...

      ) - the first missionary to the Mohegan
      Mohegan
      The Mohegan tribe is an Algonquian-speaking tribe that lives in the eastern upper Thames River valley of Connecticut. Mohegan translates to "People of the Wolf". At the time of European contact, the Mohegan and Pequot were one people, historically living in the lower Connecticut region...

       Indians
      Native Americans in the United States
      Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

       in Stockbridge; built in 1739
    • Naumkeag
      Naumkeag
      Naumkeag is a 44 room, shingle-style country house located at 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA in the Berkshires. It is now operated by The Trustees of Reservations as a nonprofit museum....

       (Stockbridge
      Stockbridge, Massachusetts
      Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...

      ) - 44 room, shingle-style country house designed by Stanford White
      Stanford White
      Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...

      ; 1885
  • Elsewhere
    • Colonel John Ashley House
      Colonel John Ashley House
      The Colonel John Ashley House is a registered National Historic Landmark located on Cooper Hill Road, Sheffield, Massachusetts...

       (Sheffield
      Sheffield, Massachusetts
      Not to be confused with the city of Sheffield in the UK, or Sheffield, Vermont.Sheffield is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,257 at the 2010 census. Sheffield is home to...

      ) - built circa 1735
    • Santarella (Tyringham
      Tyringham, Massachusetts
      Tyringham is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 327 at the 2010 census.- History :...

      ) - home of sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson
      Henry Hudson Kitson
      Sir Henry Hudson Kitson, often known as H. H. Kitson, American sculptor, born in Huddersfield, England on April 9, 1865 and died at Tyringham, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1947...


Franklin County

  • Deerfield
    Deerfield, Massachusetts
    Deerfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,750 as of the 2000 census. Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area in Western Massachusetts, lying only north of the city of Springfield.Deerfield includes the...

    • Sheldon-Hawks House (Deerfield
      Deerfield, Massachusetts
      Deerfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,750 as of the 2000 census. Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area in Western Massachusetts, lying only north of the city of Springfield.Deerfield includes the...

      ) - built in 1743
  • Greenfield
    Greenfield, Massachusetts
    Greenfield is a city in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,456 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Franklin County. Greenfield is home to Greenfield Community College, the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Franklin County Fair...

    • Leavitt-Hovey House
      Leavitt-Hovey House
      Leavitt-Hovey House is an historic house located at 402 Main Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts.The house was designed by the noted architect Asher Benjamin in 1797 for Judge Jonathan Leavitt and added to the National Historic Register in 1983.-History:...

       (Greenfield
      Greenfield, Massachusetts
      Greenfield is a city in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,456 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Franklin County. Greenfield is home to Greenfield Community College, the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Franklin County Fair...

      ) - built in 1799 by architect Asher Benjamin
      Asher Benjamin
      Asher Benjamin was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and the later Greek Revival. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities and towns throughout New England until the Civil War...

       for judge Jonathan Leavitt
      Jonathan Leavitt
      Jonathan Leavitt 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

  • Hampden
    Hampden, Massachusetts
    -Transportation:Hampden is one of sixteen towns in Massachusetts that has no numbered highways or state routes. Of these, half are on the islands, and one is the North Shore town of Nahant. Of the rest, Hampden is the easternmost town to have this distinction. In fact, the town does not even have...

    • Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (Hampden
      Hampden, Massachusetts
      -Transportation:Hampden is one of sixteen towns in Massachusetts that has no numbered highways or state routes. Of these, half are on the islands, and one is the North Shore town of Nahant. Of the rest, Hampden is the easternmost town to have this distinction. In fact, the town does not even have...

      ) - home of author Thornton Burgess
      Thornton Burgess
      Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man...


Hampshire County

  • Amherst
    Amherst, Massachusetts
    Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...

    • Dickinson Homestead (Amherst
      Amherst, Massachusetts
      Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...

      ) - home of Emily Dickinson
      Emily Dickinson
      Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

  • Cummington
    Cummington, Massachusetts
    Cummington is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 978 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

    • William Cullen Bryant Homestead
      William Cullen Bryant Homestead
      The William Cullen Bryant Homestead is the boyhood home and later summer residence of William Cullen Bryant , one of America's foremost poets and newspaper editors. It is located at 205 Bryant Road in Cummington, Massachusetts, currently operated by the non-profit Trustees of Reservations, and...

       (Cummington
      Cummington, Massachusetts
      Cummington is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 978 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

      ) - home of William Cullen Bryant
      William Cullen Bryant
      William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.-Youth and education:...

  • Northampton
    Northampton, Massachusetts
    The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of Northampton's central neighborhoods, was 28,549...

    • 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.
      • 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.

Worcester County

  • Auburn
    Auburn, Massachusetts
    Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,188 at the 2010 census.- History :Auburn was first settled in 1789 and was officially incorporated in 1808 as the town of Ward, in honor of American Revolution General Artemas Ward...

    • Joseph Stone House
      Joseph Stone House
      Joseph Stone House or "Potter Acres" is an historic house at 35 Stone Street in Auburn, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1729 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986....

       - 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
    Grafton, Massachusetts
    Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,765 at the 2010 census. Grafton is the home of a Nipmuc village known as Hassanamisco Reservation, the Willard House and Clock Museum, and the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine...

    • Willard House and Clock Museum
      Willard House and Clock Museum
      The Willard House and Clock Museum, located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA, is the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers , who made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking...

  • Shrewsbury
    Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 31,640 people, 12,366 households, and 8,693 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 12,696 housing units at an average density of...

    • General Artemas Ward House
      Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead
      The Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead is a historic property in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Commonly known as the "Artemas Ward House", it is the lifelong home of Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts...

  • Worcester
    Worcester, Massachusetts
    Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....


Essex County

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  • Amesbury
    Amesbury, Massachusetts
    Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Though it officially became a city in 1996, its formal name remains "The Town of Amesbury." In 1890, 9798 people lived in Amesbury; in 1900, 9473; in 1910, 9894; in 1920, 10,036; and in 1940, 10,862. The population was 16,283 at...

    • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury
      Amesbury, Massachusetts
      Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Though it officially became a city in 1996, its formal name remains "The Town of Amesbury." In 1890, 9798 people lived in Amesbury; in 1900, 9473; in 1910, 9894; in 1920, 10,036; and in 1940, 10,862. The population was 16,283 at...

      ) - Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science , a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice religion adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others...

       associations
    • Macy-Colby House
      Macy-Colby House
      The Macy-Colby House is a historically significant seventeenth Century saltbox home located in Amesbury, Massachusetts. It is a historic house museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2008.-History:...

       (Amesbury
      Amesbury, Massachusetts
      Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Though it officially became a city in 1996, its formal name remains "The Town of Amesbury." In 1890, 9798 people lived in Amesbury; in 1900, 9473; in 1910, 9894; in 1920, 10,036; and in 1940, 10,862. The population was 16,283 at...

      ) - built 1654
    • John Greenleaf Whittier Home
      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 museum open to the public May 1 through October 31; an...

       (Amesbury
      Amesbury, Massachusetts
      Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Though it officially became a city in 1996, its formal name remains "The Town of Amesbury." In 1890, 9798 people lived in Amesbury; in 1900, 9473; in 1910, 9894; in 1920, 10,036; and in 1940, 10,862. The population was 16,283 at...

      ) - home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
      John Greenleaf Whittier
      John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets...

  • Andover
    Andover, Massachusetts
    Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201...

    • Amos Blanchard House (Andover
      Andover, Massachusetts
      Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201...

      ) - house museum; late Federal period
    • Russell House
      Russell House (Andover, Massachusetts)
      Russell House is a historic house at 28 Rocky Hill Road in Andover, Massachusetts.The weatherboarded Federal-style home was built in 1805. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The farm encompasses some...

       (Andover
      Andover, Massachusetts
      Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201...

      ) - circa 1805
  • Beverly
    Beverly, Massachusetts
    Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...

    • John Balch House
      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 the Beverly Historical Society, and open June 1 to October 15, Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00 p.m...

       (Beverly
      Beverly, Massachusetts
      Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...

      ) - one of the oldest surviving timber-framed houses in the United States, built circa 1679
    • John Cabot House
      John Cabot House
      The John Cabot House is a historic house located at 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. It was one of the earliest brick houses in Beverly. The house is now owned by the Beverly Historical Society and open to the public five days each week....

       (Beverly
      Beverly, Massachusetts
      Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...

      ) - one of the first brick structures built in Beverly
    • John Hale House
      John Hale House
      The John Hale House , also known as the Rev. John Hale Farm, is a historic Colonial house located at 39 Hale Street, Beverly, Massachusetts...

       (Beverly
      Beverly, Massachusetts
      Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...

      ) - circa 1695
    • Long Hill
      Long Hill (Beverly, Massachusetts)
      Long Hill is a estate in Beverly, Massachusetts and is managed by the Trustees of Reservations. From 1916 to 1979, the estate was the summer home of Ellery Sedgwick, author and editor of The Atlantic Monthly. The estate contains a Federal style home with formal gardens, of hiking trails,...

       (Beverly
      Beverly, Massachusetts
      Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...

      ) - Ellery Sedgwick
      Ellery Sedgwick
      Ellery Sedgwick 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 , grand daughter of William Ellery...

      's home and gardens; 1925
  • Danvers
    Danvers, Massachusetts
    Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...

    • Judge Samuel Holten House
      Judge Samuel Holten House
      The Judge Samuel Holten House is a historic house located at 171 Holten Street, Danvers, Massachusetts. It is currently owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and open by appointment....

       (Danvers
      Danvers, Massachusetts
      Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...

      ) - circa 1670
    • Rebecca Nurse Homestead
      Rebecca Nurse Homestead
      The Rebecca Nurse Homestead is a historic colonial house on grounds located at 149 Pine Street, Danvers, Massachusetts. It is open afternoons in the warmer months for an admission fee....

       (Danvers
      Danvers, Massachusetts
      Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...

      ) - hanged for witchcraft, 1692
    • General Israel Putnam House (Danvers
      Danvers, Massachusetts
      Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...

      ) - circa 1648, birthplace of Gen. Israel Putnam
      Israel Putnam
      Israel Putnam was an American army general and Freemason who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War...

  • Essex
    Essex, Massachusetts
    Essex is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Essex.- History :...

    • Choate House
      Choate House (Massachusetts)
      There is a Choate House located in New York, formerly owned by the same Choate family.Choate House is a historic house on Choate Island in the Crane Wildlife Refuge, Essex, Massachusetts, owned and administered by the nonprofit Trustees of Reservations....

       (Essex
      Essex, Massachusetts
      Essex is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Essex.- History :...

      ) - birthplace of Rufus Choate
      Rufus Choate
      Rufus Choate , American lawyer and orator, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a descendant of an English family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643. His first cousin, physician George Choate, was the father of George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate...

      ; built c. 1730
    • Coffin House
      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...

       (Essex
      Essex, Massachusetts
      Essex is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Essex.- History :...

      ) - Colonial house; circa 1678
  • Gloucester
    Gloucester, Massachusetts
    Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census...

    • Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House
      Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House
      Beauport, also known as Sleeper-McCann House, Little Beauport, or Henry Davis Sleeper House, is a historic house in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was built starting in 1907 as the summer home of interior decorator and antique collector Henry Davis Sleeper...

       - built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper
    • Hammond Castle
      Hammond Castle
      Hammond Castle is located on the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The castle, which was constructed between 1926 and 1929, was the home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr. Mr. Hammond was an inventor who was a pioneer in remote control and held over four hundred patents...

       - home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr.
      John Hays Hammond, Jr.
      John Hays Hammond, Jr. was an American inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control" and son of mining engineer John Hays Hammond, Sr..-Biography:...

      ; built 1926-1929
    • Sargent House Museum - home of writer Judith Sargent Murray
      Judith Sargent Murray
      Judith Sargent Murray was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes—that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should be...

       and pastor John Murray
      John Murray (minister)
      John Murray though sometimes recalled as founder of the Universalist denomination in the United States, might more fairly be described as a pioneer minister and an inspirational figure, as his theological legacy to the later Universalist denomination was minimal.-Early life:He was born in Alton,...

    • White-Ellery House
      White-Ellery House
      The White-Ellery House is a historic house located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned and operated by the Cape Ann Museum whose headquarters is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester.-History:...

       - built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years
  • Ipswich
    Ipswich, Massachusetts
    Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,987 at the 2000 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island...

    • John Heard House (Ipswich
      Ipswich, Massachusetts
      Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,987 at the 2000 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island...

      ) - Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
    • John Whipple House
      John Whipple House
      The John Whipple House is a historic colonial house and National Historic Landmark in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Built in the seventeenth century, the house has been open to the public as a museum since 1899.-History:...

       (Ipswich
      Ipswich, Massachusetts
      Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,987 at the 2000 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island...

      ) - mid-17th century to the early 18th century
    • Shoreborn Wilson House (also known as the Baker mansion) - mid-17th century to late 17th century
  • Newbury
    Newbury, Massachusetts
    Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2010 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island and Byfield, home of The Governor's Academy , a private preparatory school.- History :Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated...

     and Newburyport
    Newburyport, Massachusetts
    Newburyport is a small coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles northeast of Boston. The population was 21,189 at the 2000 census. A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island...

    • Cushing House Museum and Garden
      Cushing House Museum and Garden
      The Cushing House Museum and Garden , also known as the Caleb Cushing House, is a Federal style mansion with fine garden located at 98 High Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States...

       (Newburyport
      Newburyport, Massachusetts
      Newburyport is a small coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles northeast of Boston. The population was 21,189 at the 2000 census. A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island...

      ) - home of shipowner John Newmarch Cushing
    • Dole-Little House
      Dole-Little House
      The Dole-Little House is a historic house located at 289 High Road, Newbury, Massachusetts. It is now a non-profit museum operated by Historic New England and open to the public, for a fee, at rare intervals. Private tours can also be arranged....

       (Newbury
      Newbury, Massachusetts
      Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2010 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island and Byfield, home of The Governor's Academy , a private preparatory school.- History :Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated...

      ) - circa 1715 of older materials
    • Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
      Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
      The Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm is a Colonial American farm located at 5 Little's Lane, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA, in the midst of of open land bordering the Merrimack River and Plum Island Sound...

       (Newbury
      Newbury, Massachusetts
      Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2010 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island and Byfield, home of The Governor's Academy , a private preparatory school.- History :Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated...

      ) - circa 1675-1700
    • The Swett-Ilsley House
      Swett-Ilsley House
      The Swett-Ilsley House is a much extended Colonial house located at 4 High Road, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. It is now owned by Historic New England, formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities , and operated as a study museum.The house's original section was built in...

       (Newbury
      Newbury, Massachusetts
      Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2010 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island and Byfield, home of The Governor's Academy , a private preparatory school.- History :Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated...

      ) - circa 1670
  • Salem
    Salem, Massachusetts
    Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

    • Nathaniel Bowditch House
      Nathaniel Bowditch House
      The Nathaniel Bowditch House , sometimes called by Bowditch-Osgood House or Nathaniel Bowditch Home, is a historic house located at 9 North Street, Salem, Massachusetts. It was once the home of Nathaniel Bowditch, the founder of modern navigation, and is now a National Historic Landmark and listed...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - home of Nathaniel Bowditch
      Nathaniel Bowditch
      Nathaniel Bowditch 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 Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S...

    • Crowninshield-Bentley House
      Crowninshield-Bentley House
      The Crowninshield-Bentley House is a Colonial house in the Georgian style, located at 126 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum and open for public tours from June to October....

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - circa 1727-1730
    • John Tucker Daland House
      John Tucker Daland House
      The John Tucker Daland House is an imposing, Italianate house designed by architect Gridley James Fox Bryant. It is located at 132 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States, and now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum as home for the Essex Institute...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - 1851-1852
    • Gardner-Pingree House
      Gardner-Pingree House
      Gardiner-Pingree House is a National Historic Landmark at 128 Essex Street inSalem, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1804 by Samuel McIntire in a Federal style. It was added to the National Historic Register in 1970....

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - 1804-1805
    • Gedney House
      Gedney House
      The Gedney House is a historic Colonial American house, estimated to have been constructed circa 1665. It is located at 21 High Street, near the intersection of Summer Street in the Chestnut Street District Salem, Massachusetts and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - circa 1665
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace
      Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace
      The Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace is the birthplace of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is located at 27 Hardy Street but accessible through 54 Turner Street, Salem, Massachusetts...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...

      ; built between 1730–1745
    • The House of the Seven Gables
      The House of the Seven Gables
      The House of the Seven Gables is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The house is now a non-profit museum, with an admission fee charged for tours, as well as an active settlement house with programs for children...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...

       novel of the same name
    • Ropes Mansion
      Ropes Mansion
      The Ropes Mansion , also called Ropes Memorial, is a Georgian Colonial mansion located at 318 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts. It is now operated by the Peabody Essex Museum and open to the public....

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - late 1720s
    • Pickering House
      Pickering House
      The Pickering House is a Colonial located on Broad Street, Salem in the Chestnut Street District. The house, owned and occupied by ten successive generations of the Pickering family including Colonel Timothy Pickering. This house is believed to be the oldest house in the United States...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - circa 1651
    • The Witch House
      The Witch House
      The Witch House , was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin and is the only structure still standing in Salem, Massachusetts with direct ties to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The house was bought by Judge Corwin, in 1675, when he was 24 years old and he lived there for more than forty years. Corwin...

       (Salem
      Salem, Massachusetts
      Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

      ) - circa 1642 - home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin
  • Swampscott
    Swampscott, Massachusetts
    Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

    • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott
      Swampscott, Massachusetts
      Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

      ) - Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science , a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice religion adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others...

       home (1865–66)
    • Sir John Humphreys House (Swampscott
      Swampscott, Massachusetts
      Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

      ) - built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
    • Elihu Thomson House
      Elihu Thomson House
      The Elihu Thomson House is a historic house located at 22 Monument Avenue, Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is a National Historic Landmark and currently serves as Swampscott Town Hall, it is right next to the public library and directly across from a Chabad Lubavich synagogue.The house was designed...

       (Swampscott
      Swampscott, Massachusetts
      Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

      ) - home of Elihu Thomson
      Elihu Thomson
      Elihu Thomson was an 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:...

  • Elsewhere
    • Boardman House (Saugus
      Saugus, Massachusetts
      Saugus is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. The population was 26,628 at the 2010 census.-History:Saugus was first settled in 1629. Saugus is an Indian name believed to mean "great" or "extended"...

      ) - circa 1687
    • Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House
      Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House
      The Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House is a First Period Colonial house located at 108 East Main Street , Georgetown, Massachusetts. It is now a nonprofit museum owned by the Georgetown Historical Society. An admission fee is charged....

       (Georgetown
      Georgetown, Massachusetts
      Georgetown is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,183 at the 2010 census. It was incorporated in 1838 from part of Rowley.-History:...

      ) - circa 1668
    • Claflin-Richards House
      Claflin-Richards House
      The Claflin-Richards House, also known as the Claflin-Gerrish-Richards House, is a historic house located at 132 Main Street, Wenham, Massachusetts...

       (Wenham
      Wenham, Massachusetts
      Wenham is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,875 at the 2010 census.The Town of Wenham was originally settled in 1635 and has retained much of its unique historic character and tranquil rural scenery...

      ) - circa 1690
    • Cogswell's Grant
      Cogswell's Grant
      Cogswell's Grant was the summer home of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, preeminent collectors of American decorative arts in the mid 20th century. Through her research and innumerable publications, Mrs...

        (Essex
      Essex, Massachusetts
      Essex is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Essex.- History :...

      ) - remarkable collectors' house
    • Mary Baker Eddy Historic Home (Lynn
      Lynn, Massachusetts
      Lynn is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 89,050 at the 2000 census. An old industrial center, Lynn is home to Lynn Beach and Lynn Heritage State Park and is about north of downtown Boston.-17th century:...

      ) - first home owned by Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy
      Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science , a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice religion adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others...

    • Jeremiah Lee Mansion
      Jeremiah Lee Mansion
      The Jeremiah Lee Mansion is a nonprofit historic house museum located at 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is open during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged....

       (Marblehead
      Marblehead, Massachusetts
      Marblehead is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,808 at the 2010 census. It is home to the Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and Devereux Beach...

      ) - 1768
    • The Stevens-Coolidge Place
      The Stevens-Coolidge Place
      The Stevens-Coolidge Place, formerly known as Ashdale Farm, is a garden and historic home located on at 139 Andover Street in North Andover, Massachusetts...

       (North Andover
      North Andover, Massachusetts
      North Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. North Andover is the home of Merrimack College, a private, Catholic four-year institution ....

      ) - house museum and garden; late Federal period
    • John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead
      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.-History:...

       (Haverhill
      Haverhill, Massachusetts
      Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...

      ) - home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
      John Greenleaf Whittier
      John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets...

    • Parson Capen House
      Parson Capen House
      The Parson Capen House is a historic house in Topsfield, Massachusetts that was built in the late 17th century. It has drawn attention as an example of early colonial architecture and due to its well preserved condition compared to other houses built at that time.-History:The Capen house was built...

       (Topsfield
      Topsfield, Massachusetts
      Topsfield is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,085 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Topsfield.-Colonial period:...

      ) - circa 1683

Middlesex County

  • Arlington
    Arlington, Massachusetts
    Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles northwest of Boston. The population was 42,844 at the 2010 census.-History:...

    • Jason Russell House
      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 Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775...

       (Arlington
      Arlington, Massachusetts
      Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles northwest of Boston. The population was 42,844 at the 2010 census.-History:...

      ) - Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
  • Burlington
    Burlington, Massachusetts
    Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,498 at the 2010 census.- History :It is believed that Burlington takes its name from the English town of Bridlington, however this has never been confirmed....

    • Wyman House (Burlington
      Burlington, Massachusetts
      Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,498 at the 2010 census.- History :It is believed that Burlington takes its name from the English town of Bridlington, however this has never been confirmed....

      ) - oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666
  • Cambridge
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

    • Cooper-Frost-Austin House
      Cooper-Frost-Austin House
      The Cooper-Frost-Austin House is a historic Colonial American house, currently estimated to have been constructed circa 1681-1682. It is located at 21 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the oldest extant home in Cambridge and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England...

       (Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts
      Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

      ) - oldest house in Cambridge; built c. 1681
    • Elmwood (Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts
      Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

      ) - birthplace and home of poet James Russell Lowell
      James Russell Lowell
      James Russell Lowell 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 who rivaled the popularity of British poets...

      ; built 1767
    • Asa Gray House
      Asa Gray House
      The Asa Gray House is a historic house located at 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a National Historic Landmark.The house was designed in 1810 by architect Ithiel Town in the Federal style for the first head of the Harvard Botanic Garden, and has been the residence of ornithologist...

       (Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts
      Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

      ) - designed by Ithiel Town
      Ithiel Town
      Ithiel Town was a prominent 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 first half of the 19th century. He was high-strung, sophisticated, generous,...

      , home of botanist Asa Gray
      Asa Gray
      -References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....

    • Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
      Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
      The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House is a historic Colonial American house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Initially constructed 1685 and enlarged and remodeled many times thereafter, it is located at 159 Brattle Street in Cambridge. It is the second-oldest house in the city...

       (Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts
      Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

      ) - 2nd oldest house in Cambridge; 1685
  • Chelmsford
    Chelmsford, Massachusetts
    Chelmsford is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 33,802. The Census Bureau's 2008 population estimate for the town was 34,409, ranking it 14th in population among the 54 municipalities in...

    • Barrett-Byam Homestead
      Barrett-Byam Homestead
      The Barrett-Byam Homestead is a historic house, now headquarters of the Chelmsford Historical Society, located at 40 Byam Road, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States...

       - (Chelmsford
      Chelmsford, Massachusetts
      Chelmsford is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 33,802. The Census Bureau's 2008 population estimate for the town was 34,409, ranking it 14th in population among the 54 municipalities in...

      ) - prior to 1663
    • "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House
      Old Chelmsford Garrison House
      The "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House is a historic home located in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In 1691, it was one of 19 British garrisons in Chelmsford...

       - (Chelmsford
      Chelmsford, Massachusetts
      Chelmsford is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 33,802. The Census Bureau's 2008 population estimate for the town was 34,409, ranking it 14th in population among the 54 municipalities in...

      ) - prior to 1691
  • Concord
    Concord, Massachusetts
    Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

    • The Old Manse
      The Old Manse
      The Old Manse is an historic manse famous for its American literary associations. It is now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations...

       (Concord
      Concord, Massachusetts
      Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

      ) - built by Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...

      's grandfather; Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorn wrote some of their work in the house; 1770
    • Orchard House
      Orchard House
      Orchard House is an historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts. It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott and family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott who wrote and set her beloved novel Little Women there.-History:...

       (Concord
      Concord, Massachusetts
      Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

      ) - home of Louisa May Alcott
      Louisa May Alcott
      Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...

      ; the novel Little Women
      Little Women
      Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...

      was written here
    • The Wayside
      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, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family, and children's literature writer Margaret Sidney...

       (Concord
      Concord, Massachusetts
      Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

      ) - home of Louisa May Alcott
      Louisa May Alcott
      Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...

       and later Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne
      Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...

    • Bush, Ralph Waldo Emerson House
      Ralph Waldo Emerson House
      The Ralph Waldo Emerson House is a house museum located at 28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts, and a National Historic Landmark for its associations with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. The museum is open mid-April to mid-October; an admission fee is charged.-History:The house...

       (Concord
      Concord, Massachusetts
      Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

      ) - home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...

    • Reuben Brown House
      Reuben Brown House
      The Reuben Brown House is a colonial style house located in Concord, Massachusetts.-Colonial era:The house was built in 1725 by the town saddler, Rueben Brown...

       - Colonial style built in 1725
  • Lexington
    Lexington, Massachusetts
    Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,399 at the 2010 census. This town is famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.- History :...

    • Hancock-Clarke House
      Hancock-Clarke House
      The Hancock-Clarke House is a historic American Revolutionary War site on Hancock Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. It played a prominent role in the Battle of Lexington and Concord as both John Hancock and Samuel Adams, leaders of the colonials, were staying in the house before the battle. The...

       (Lexington
      Lexington, Massachusetts
      Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,399 at the 2010 census. This town is famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.- History :...

      ) - home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of John Hancock
      John Hancock
      John Hancock was a 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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts...

      , signer of the Declaration of Independence
      Declaration of independence
      A declaration of independence is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another nation or failed nation, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state...

      ) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738 in Lexington, Massachusetts]]
  • Lincoln
    Lincoln, Massachusetts
    Lincoln is a town in the historic area of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits...

    • Codman House
      Codman House
      Codman House 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–October 15 on the first and third Saturdays of the month...

       (Lincoln
      Lincoln, Massachusetts
      Lincoln is a town in the historic area of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits...

      ) - Federal style; built 1735
    • Gropius House
      Gropius House
      The Gropius House was the family residence of noted architect Walter Gropius at 68 Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts. It is now owned by Historic New England and is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday The Gropius House was the family residence of noted architect Walter Gropius at 68...

       (Lincoln
      Lincoln, Massachusetts
      Lincoln is a town in the historic area of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits...

      ) - designed by Walter Gropius
      Walter Gropius
      Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....

      ; 1938
    • Hoar Tavern
      Hoar Tavern
      Hoar Tavern is a historic tavern northeast of downtown Lincoln on MA 2 in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Also known as the Hoar Homestead, it is now known as Hobbs Brook Farm.It was built in 1680 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973....

       (Lincoln
      Lincoln, Massachusetts
      Lincoln is a town in the historic area of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits...

      ) - Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680
  • Medford
    Medford, Massachusetts
    Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

    • Grandfather's House
      Grandfather's House
      Grandfather's house, at 114 South Street, Medford, Massachusetts, is the original house named in the American song "Over the River and through the Woods". Some versions of the song mention Grandmother's house; it is unclear which is the correct phrase...

       (Medford
      Medford, Massachusetts
      Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

      ) - original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
    • Isaac Royall House
      Isaac Royall House
      The Isaac Royall House is a historic house located at 15 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts. It is a National Historic Landmark, operated as a non-profit museum, and open for public visits between June 1 and the last weekend in October....

       (Medford
      Medford, Massachusetts
      Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

      ) - a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters
    • Peter Tufts House
      Peter Tufts House
      The Peter Tufts House is a Colonial American house located at 350 Riverside Avenue, formerly known as Ship Street in Medford, Massachusetts. It is currently thought to have been built between 1677-1678...

       (Medford
      Medford, Massachusetts
      Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...

      ) - perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
  • Lowell
    Lowell, Massachusetts
    Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...

    • Whistler House Museum of Art
      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 artist members....

       (Lowell
      Lowell, Massachusetts
      Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...

      ) - birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler
      James McNeill Whistler
      James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger...

  • Natick
    Natick, Massachusetts
    Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 33,006 at the 2010 census. Only west from Boston, Natick is considered part of the Greater Boston area...

    • Henry Wilson Shoe Shop
      Henry Wilson Shoe Shop
      The Henry Wilson Shoe Shop is an historic ten footer building located at 181 West Central Street, Route 135 in Natick, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in the 1850s, it was the shoe shop of Henry Wilson, a Senator from Massachusetts and the eighteenth Vice President of the United States...

       - Henry Wilson
      Henry Wilson
      Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...

      , eighteenth Vice President of the United States
      Vice President of the United States
      The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

      , made shoes in this ten footer.
  • Newton
    Newton, Massachusetts
    Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...

    • Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home
      Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home
      The Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home, located at 400 Beacon Street in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dupee Estate, but is better known as the last home of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ,...

    • Reginald A. Fessenden House
      Reginald A. Fessenden House
      The Reginald A. Fessenden House, 45 Waban Hill Road in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts, was the residence from 1906 or earlier to 1932 of the inventor Reginald A. Fessenden, called "the father of radio broadcasting," because he was the first to broadcast the human voice and...

       (Newton
      Newton, Massachusetts
      Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...

      ) - home of technologist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
  • Somerville
    Somerville, Massachusetts
    Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...

    • Samuel Gaut House
      Samuel Gaut House
      Samuel Gaut House is a historic house at 137 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts.It was built in 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.-See also:...

       (Somerville
      Somerville, Massachusetts
      Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...

      ) - Italianate style; built 1855
  • Stoneham, Massachusetts
    Stoneham, Massachusetts
    Stoneham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Its population was 21,437 at the 2010 census, down from 22,219 in 2000. The town is the birthplace of Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan and is the home of the Stone Zoo.- History :...

    • Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer
      Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer
      Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer is an historic wooden building at 36 William Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, in the United States. On April, 1984, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places...

      , 1850 ten footer
  • Townsend
    Townsend, Massachusetts
    Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,926 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Townsend, please see the article Townsend , Massachusetts....

    • Reed Homestead
      Reed Homestead
      The Reed Homestead is a nonprofit house museum located at 72 Main Street , Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, operated by the Townsend Historical Society, and open Tuesday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 2 P.M....

       (Townsend
      Townsend, Massachusetts
      Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,926 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Townsend, please see the article Townsend , Massachusetts....

      ) - murals by Rufus Porter
      Rufus Porter
      For the American football player see Rufus Porter .For the American poet see Rufus L. Porter.Rufus M. Porter was an American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine....

      , founder of Scientific American
      Scientific American
      Scientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...

  • Waltham
    Waltham, Massachusetts
    Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...

    • Gore Place
      Gore Place
      Gore Place is a historic country house 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 charged for house tours...

       (Waltham
      Waltham, Massachusetts
      Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...

      ) - brick country estate; built 1806
    • Lyman Estate
      Lyman Estate
      The Lyman Estate 37 acres , formerly known as The Vale, is a historic country house located at 185 Lyman Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. It is now owned by the nonprofit Historic New England organization...

       (Waltham
      Waltham, Massachusetts
      Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...

      ) - country estate; built 1793
    • Robert Treat Paine Estate
      Robert Treat Paine Estate
      The Robert Treat Paine Estate, known as Stonehurst, is a country house set on 109 acres , designed in collaboration between architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. It is located at 100 Robert Treat Paine Drive, Waltham, Massachusetts...

       (Waltham
      Waltham, Massachusetts
      Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...

      ) - country estate, collaboration of Henry Hobson Richardson
      Henry Hobson Richardson
      Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent American architect who designed buildings in Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and other cities. The style he popularized is named for him: Richardsonian Romanesque...

       and Frederick Law Olmsted
      Frederick Law Olmsted
      Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

      ; built 1866 and 1884
  • Watertown
    Watertown, Massachusetts
    The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...

    • Abraham Browne House (Watertown
      Watertown, Massachusetts
      The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...

      ) - circa 1694-1701
    • Edmund Fowle House
      Edmund Fowle House
      The Edmund Fowle House is located at 28 Marshall St., Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, and is the second oldest surviving house in Watertown . Watertown was the seat of Massachusetts government during the British occupation of Boston in the American Revolution...

       (Watertown
      Watertown, Massachusetts
      The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...

      ) - site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s
  • Woburn
    Woburn, Massachusetts
    Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...

    • 1790 House
      1790 House (Woburn, Massachusetts)
      The 1790 House, also called the Joseph Bartlett House or the Bartlett-Wheeler House, is a historic house located at 827 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

       (Woburn
      Woburn, Massachusetts
      Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...

      ) - large Federal house with interesting history; 1790
    • Baldwin House (Woburn
      Woburn, Massachusetts
      Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...

      ) - home of engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin
      Loammi Baldwin
      Colonel Loammi Baldwin was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War....

      ; 1661
    • Benjamin Thompson House-Count Rumford Birthplace (Woburn
      Woburn, Massachusetts
      Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...

      ) - birthplace of Benjamin Thompson
      Benjamin Thompson
      Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American...

      , also known as Count Rumford

Norfolk County

  • Quincy
    Quincy, Massachusetts
    Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...

    • John Adams Birthplace (Quincy
      Quincy, Massachusetts
      Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...

      ) - birthplace of John Adams
      John Adams
      John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

    • John Quincy Adams Birthplace  (Quincy
      Quincy, Massachusetts
      Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...

      ) - birthplace of John Quincy Adams
      John Quincy Adams
      John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

    • The Josiah Quincy House
      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 illustrious Josiah Quincys that included three Boston mayors and a president of...

       (Quincy
      Quincy, Massachusetts
      Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...

      ) - country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy;1770
    • The Old House (Quincy
      Quincy, Massachusetts
      Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream". As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...

      ) - home of several generations of the Adams family
  • Brookline
    Brookline, Massachusetts
    Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

    • John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, the birthplace of JFK
    • George R. Minot House
      George R. Minot House
      The George R. Minot House is a National Historic Landmark at 71 Sears Road in Brookline, Massachusetts.The Colonial Revival house was built in 1929 and was the home of George R. Minot, a Nobel Prize winner in medicine and Physiology who discovered a cure for pernicious anemia. The house was added...

       (Brookline
      Brookline, Massachusetts
      Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

      ) - home of George R. Minot
  • Dedham
    Dedham, Massachusetts
    Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

    • Endicott Estate
      Endicott Estate
      The Endicott Estate is a mansion built in the nineteenth 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” . It was built by Henry Bradford Endicott, founder of the...

       Dedham, Massachusetts
      Dedham, Massachusetts
      Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

       - home of Henry B. Endicott, designed by Henry Bailey Alden, 1905
    • Endicott House
      Endicott House
      The MIT Endicott House is a conference center located in Dedham, Massachusetts, about south-west from downtown Boston. The center consists of the Endicott mansion, a Normandy French-style chateau, along with a state-of-the art lecture facility known as the Brooks Center, and of gardens, lawn,...

       Dedham, Massachusetts
      Dedham, Massachusetts
      Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

       - home of H. Wendell Endicott, designed by Charles A. Platt
      Charles A. Platt
      Charles Adams Platt was a prominent artist, landscape gardener, landscape designer, and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture.-Early career:...

       with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted
      Frederick Law Olmsted
      Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

      , 1934
    • Fairbanks House (Dedham
      Dedham, Massachusetts
      Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

      ) - North America
      North America
      North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

      's oldest surviving timber-frame house; built circa 1641
  • Needham
    Needham, Massachusetts
    Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 28,886 at the 2010 census.- History :...

    • Jarvis Thorpe House (Needham
      Needham, Massachusetts
      Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 28,886 at the 2010 census.- History :...

      ) - Built in 1836, served as Needham's Post Office as well as home to the influential Thorpe family.
  • Elsewhere
    • Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House
      Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House
      The Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, also known as the R. B. Forbes House, is a house museum located at 215 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and is open several afternoons per week. An admission fee is charged.The house was built in 1833 for their...

       (Milton
      Milton, Massachusetts
      Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...

      ) - Greek Revival architecture
      Greek Revival architecture
      The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

    • Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
      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:...

       (Canton
      Canton, Massachusetts
      Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,561 at the 2010 census. Canton is part of Greater Boston, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Boston.- History :...

      ) - country house with garden grounds
    • General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace
      General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace
      The General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace is a historic house located at 786 Washington Street, Braintree, Massachusetts. It is the birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "The Father of West Point" It is now operated as a non-profit museum by the ....

       (Braintree
      Braintree, Massachusetts
      The Town of Braintree is a suburban city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a town, Braintree adopted a municipal charter, effective 2008, with a mayor-council form of government and is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 35,744...

      ) - birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer
      Sylvanus Thayer
      Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer 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 engineering education in the United States.-Biography:Thayer was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,...

      , "Father of West Point"

Suffolk County

  • Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

    • Harrison Gray Otis House
      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, Harrison Gray Otis.-First Harrison Gray Otis House:...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) - Not one but three houses by Charles Bulfinch
      Charles Bulfinch
      Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession....

    • Amory-Ticknor House
      Amory-Ticknor House
      The Amory-Ticknor House in Boston, Massachusetts was built in 1804 by businessman Thomas Amory, and later owned by scholar George Ticknor. It sits atop Beacon Hill, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Street and the Boston Common on Park Street...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) by Charles Bulfinch
      Charles Bulfinch
      Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession....

    • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
      Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
      The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) - Remarkable palazzo and art museum
    • Gibson House Museum
      Gibson House Museum
      The Gibson House Museum is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 building occupied by three generations of the Gibson family.-History:...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) - unchanged Back Bay townhouse lived in by 3 generations of Gibsons; built 1859
    • Paul Revere House
      Paul Revere House
      The Paul Revere House is the colonial home of American patriot Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. It is located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, in the city's North End, and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association. A small...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) - built in 1680
    • Pierce-Hichborn House
      Pierce-Hichborn House
      The Pierce-Hichborn House is an early Georgian house located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts. It is immediately adjacent to the Paul Revere House and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association...

       (Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ) - an early Georgian house; 1711
  • Dorchester
    Dorchester, Massachusetts
    Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents. Dorchester, including a large...

    • James Blake House
      James Blake House
      The James Blake House is the oldest house in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is in Edward Everett Square. This neighborhood of Dorchester is a few blocks from the Dorchester Historical Society. The house is located just a block from Massachusetts Avenue...

       (Dorchester
      Dorchester, Massachusetts
      Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents. Dorchester, including a large...

      ) - oldest house in Boston
      Boston
      Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

      ; 1648
    • Captain Lemuel Clap House
      Captain Lemuel Clap House
      The Captain Lemuel Clap House is a historic house located at 199 Boston Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts. It is now owned by the Dorchester Historical Society, which opens the house for tours two afternoons per month....

       (Dorchester
      Dorchester, Massachusetts
      Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents. Dorchester, including a large...

      ) - built for a descendent of an original settler; 1710 and 1765
    • William Clapp House
      William Clapp House
      The William Clapp House is a historic house located at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts. It is the headquarters of the Dorchester Historical Society and contains many items from the society's collections, including 19th century furnishings and local historical items.The house was built...

       (Dorchester
      Dorchester, Massachusetts
      Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents. Dorchester, including a large...

      ) - Federal style with Greek Revival addition; 1806
  • Roxbury
    Roxbury, Massachusetts
    Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868...

    • William Lloyd Garrison House
      William Lloyd Garrison House
      The William Lloyd Garrison House is located at 125 Highland Street in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts.This two-story Greek Revival residence was the home of William Lloyd Garrison , leader of the anti-slavery cause in Boston and fiery editor of the uncompromising abolition journal The...

       (Roxbury
      Roxbury, Massachusetts
      Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868...

      ) - William Lloyd Garrison
      William Lloyd Garrison
      William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United...

      's home
    • Shirley-Eustis House
      Shirley-Eustis House
      The Shirley-Eustis House is a historic house located at 145 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It is a U.S. National Historic Landmark....

       http://www.shirleyeustishouse.org/index.html (Roxbury
      Roxbury, Massachusetts
      Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868...

      ) - Tory stronghold
  • Elsewhere
    • Loring-Greenough House
      Loring-Greenough House
      The Loring-Greenough House is the last surviving 18th century residence in Sumner Hill, a historic section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston...

       (Jamaica Plain
      Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
      Jamaica Plain is a historic neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Boston Puritans seeking farm land to the south, it was originally part of the city of Roxbury...

      ) - Tory stronghold
    • Ellen Swallow Richards House (Jamaica Plain
      Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
      Jamaica Plain is a historic neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Boston Puritans seeking farm land to the south, it was originally part of the city of Roxbury...

      ) - home of Ellen Swallow Richards
      Ellen Swallow Richards
      Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 19th century, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards graduated from Westford Academy...


Bristol County

  • Dartmouth
    Dartmouth, Massachusetts
    Dartmouth is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States established in 1664. The population was 30,665 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth....

    • Elihu Akin House - cape-style house built; built in 1762
  • Fall River
    Fall River
    -Cities and towns:In Canada:*Fall River, Nova ScotiaIn the United States:*Fall River, Kansas*Fall River, Massachusetts, the largest city with this name*Fall River, Tennessee*Fall River, Wisconsin*Fall River County, South Dakota-Rivers:In Canada:...

    • David M. Anthony House
      David M. Anthony House (Fall River, Massachusetts)
      David M. Anthony House is a historic house at 368 N. Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-See also:...

       - Second Empire style, built 1875
    • Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House
      Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House
      Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House is a historic house at 92 Globe Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1882 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-References:...

       - Second Empire, built 1882
    • Borden-Winslow House
      Borden-Winslow House
      Borden-Winslow House is an historic house at 3063 N. Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1740 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-See also:...

       - Georgian Colonial, built 1740
    • Lafayette-Durfee House
      Lafayette-Durfee House
      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 current Fall River Superior Courthouse on North Main Street, and owned by Judge Thomas Durfee...

       - Georgian Colonial, built about 1750
    • William Lindsey House - Greek Revival, built 1844
    • Luther Winslow, Jr., House - Federal, built 1875
    • Osborn House
      Osborn House
      Osborn House is a historic house at 456 Rock Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, built in the Greek Revival style.The house was designed by Rhode Island architect Russell Warren for Joseph Durfee in 1843....

       - Greek Revival, built 1843
  • New Bedford
    New Bedford
    -Places:*New Bedford, Illinois*New Bedford, Massachusetts, the most populous New Bedford**New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park*New Bedford, New Jersey *New Bedford, Ohio*New Bedford, Pennsylvania...

    • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum
      Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum
      The William Rotch, Jr. House, now the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, is a National Historic Landmark at 396 County Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the United States. The three families whose names are attached to it were all closely tied to the city's nineteenth-century...

       - home of William Rotch Jr, a whaling merchant; built in 1834
  • Rehoboth
    Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    Rehoboth is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 10,172 at the 2000 census.-History:It was incorporated in 1643 making it one of the earliest Massachusetts towns to be incorporated. The Rehoboth Carpenter Family is among the founding families...

    • Christopher Carpenter House
      Christopher Carpenter House
      Christopher Carpenter House is a historic house at 60 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1800 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-See also:...

       - built 1800
    • Col. Thomas Carpenter III House
      Col. Thomas Carpenter III House
      Col. Thomas Carpenter III House is a historic house at 77 Bay State Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.The Georgian architecture style house was built in 1755 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-Family:...

       - built 1855
    • Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts)
      Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts)
      Carpenter House is a historic house at 89 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1789 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-See also:...

       - built 1789
  • Taunton
    Taunton, Massachusetts
    Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the seat of Bristol County and the hub of the Greater Taunton Area. The city is located south of Boston, east of Providence, north of Fall River and west of Plymouth. The City of Taunton is situated on the Taunton River...

    • J.C. Bartlett House
      J.C. Bartlett House
      J.C. Bartlett House is an historic house at 12 Walnut Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1880 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984.-See also:*List of Registered Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts...

       - built, 1880
    • Samuel Colby House
      Samuel Colby House
      Samuel Colby House is an historic house at 74 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1869 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984.-See also:*List of Registered Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts...

       - Italianate, built 1869
    • McKinstrey House
      McKinstrey House
      McKinstrey House is an historic American colonial house at 115 High Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1759 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984.-See also:*List of Registered Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts...

       - Georgian colonial, built 1759
    • Morse House
      Morse House (Taunton, Massachuseets)
      Morse House is an historic house at 6 Pleasant Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1850 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984....

       - built 1850
    • William L. White, Jr. House
      William L. White, Jr. House
      William L. White Jr. House is an historic house at 242 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1873 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984.-See also:*List of Registered Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts...

       - Second Empire, built 1873

Plymouth County

  • Duxbury
    • Alden House Historic Site (Duxbury) - built by the Pilgrim John Alden
      John Alden
      John Alden is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was a ship-carpenter by trade and a cooper for Mayflower, which was usually docked at Southampton. He was also one of the founders of Plymouth Colony and the seventh signer of the Mayflower Compact...

      ; built in 1653
    • King Caesar House
      King Caesar House
      The King Caesar House is an historic house located at 120 King Caesar Road, Duxbury, Massachusetts. It is operated as a non-profit museum by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society....

       (Duxbury) - home of Ezra Weston, II ("King Caesar"); built 1808
    • Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House
      Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House
      The Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House is a historic house located at 479 Washington Street Duxbury, Massachusetts. It currently serves as the headquarters of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society....

       (Duxbury) - built 1807
  • Plymouth
    • Harlow Old Fort House
      Harlow Old Fort House
      Harlow Old Fort House is an historic house at 119 Sandwich Street inPlymouth, Massachusetts.-History:Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims' original fort on Burial Hill built in 1621-1622. Harlow received permission to use the timbers after the fort was...

       (Plymouth) - built with timbers from the Pilgrims 1621 Fort on Burial Hill
      Burial Hill
      Burial Hill is a hill containing a historic cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The burial ground is the burial site of several Pilgrims. The cemetery was founded in the 17th century and is located off Leyden Street, the first street in Plymouth.-History:The first Pilgrim burial ground was on...

      ; built in 1677
    • The Jabez Howland House (Plymouth) - home of Mayflower
      Mayflower
      The Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, , in 1620...

       passenger John Howland
      John Howland
      John Howland was a passenger on the Mayflower. He was an indentured servant who accompanied the separatists, also called the Pilgrims, when they left England to settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts...

      ; built in 1667
    • Richard Sparrow House
      Richard Sparrow House
      The Richard Sparrow House is an historic house at 42 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth.The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636. He was granted a tract of land in 1636 on which the...

       (Plymouth) - oldest house in Plymouth; owned by the Sparrow family, who arrived Plymouth in 1633; the house was built circa 1640
  • Hingham
    Hingham, Massachusetts
    Hingham is a town in northern Plymouth County on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and suburb in Greater Boston. The United States Census Bureau 2008 estimated population was 22,561...

    • Samuel Lincoln House (Hingham
      Hingham, Massachusetts
      Hingham is a town in northern Plymouth County on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and suburb in Greater Boston. The United States Census Bureau 2008 estimated population was 22,561...

      ) - built by Samuel Lincoln 1721 on land purchased in 1649 by grandfather Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
      Abraham Lincoln
      Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

  • Elsewhere
    • Isaac Winslow House
      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 :...

       (Marshfield
      Marshfield, Massachusetts
      Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,132 at the 2010 census.See also: Green Harbor, Marshfield , Rexhame, Marshfield Hills, and Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock....

      ) - Tory stronghold
    • Old Oaken Bucket Homestead (Scituate
      Scituate, Massachusetts
      Scituate is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population was 18,133 at the 2010 census....

      ) - scene of Samuel Woodworth
      Samuel Woodworth
      Samuel Woodworth was an American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet.-History:...

      's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"

Barnstable County

  • Miscellany
    • Atwood House Museum (Chatham
      Chatham, Massachusetts
      Chatham is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 6,625 at the 2000 census...

      ) - built 1756
    • Hoxie House
      Hoxie House
      Hoxie House in Sandwich, Massachusetts is one of the oldest houses on Cape Cod and one the oldest surviving houses in Massachusetts....

       (Sandwich
      Sandwich, Massachusetts
      Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,675 at the 2010 census. The Town Hall is located right next to the Dexter Grist Mill, in the historic district of town....

      ) - Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built circa 1675
    • Isaac Crocker Homestead
      Isaac Crocker Homestead
      The Isaac Crocker Homestead is a historic homestead in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, built circa 1750s. The homestead contains the historic house, adjoining barn and grain silo. The silo is unique in the fact that it is made out of wood...

       (Marstons Mills
      Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
      Marstons Mills is a village in the City of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It was founded by the Marston Family in 1648. They built grist mills along the Marstons Mills River, hence the name of the village. It is primarily residential, located on Route 28, and rural in nature...

      ) - built circa 1750s
    • Winslow Crocker House
      Winslow Crocker House
      Winslow Crocker House is a historic house in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, built circa 1780. In 1936, Mary Thacher, an avid collector of antiques, moved the house of a wealthy 18th-century trader and land speculator, Winslow Crocker, to its present location....

       (Yarmouth Port
      Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
      Yarmouth Port is a census-designated place in the town of Yarmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,395 at the 2000 census...

      ) - built circa 1780

The islands

  • Martha's Vineyard
    Martha's Vineyard
    Martha's Vineyard is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony....

    • The Vincent House (Martha's Vineyard
      Martha's Vineyard
      Martha's Vineyard is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony....

      ) - oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built circa 1672
  • Nantucket
    • Jethro Coffin House
      Jethro Coffin House
      Jethro Coffin House, also known as the Oldest House, is a saltbox house built in 1686 and located on Sunset Hill Road in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is the oldest house on Nantucket in its original location and is the only surviving structure from...

       (Nantucket) - oldest house in Nantucket; built circa 1686

See also

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