List of historic houses in Massachusetts

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This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.

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Contents 1 Western Massachusetts 1.1 Berkshire County 1.2 Franklin County 1.3 Hampden County 1.4 Hampshire County 2 Eastern Massachusetts 2.1 Essex County 2.2 Middlesex County 2.3 Norfolk County 2.4 Suffolk County 3 Southeastern Massachusetts 3.1 Bristol County 3.2 Plymouth County 4 Cape Cod and the islands 4.1 Barnstable County 4.2 The islands 5 See also

[edit] Western Massachusetts

[edit] Berkshire County

• Lenox
  • Chesterwood (Lenox) - sculptor Daniel Chester French's home and studio; 1920s
  • The Mount (Lenox) - author Edith Wharton's estate; 1902
  • Ventfort Hall (Lenox) - Elizabethan-style mansion, built 1893
• Pittsfield
  • Arrowhead (Pittsfield) - home of author Herman Melville; built 1780
• Stockbridge
  • Merwin House (Stockbridge) - Federal-style house built c. 1825
  • The Mission House (Stockbridge) - the first missionary to the Mohegan Indians in Stockbridge; built in 1739
  • Naumkeag (Stockbridge) - 44 room, shingle-style country house designed by Stanford White; 1885
• Elsewhere
  • Colonel John Ashley House (Sheffield) - built circa 1735
  • Santarella (Tyringham) - home of sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson

[edit] Franklin County

• Deerfield
  • Sheldon-Hawks House (Deerfield) - built in 1743

[edit] Hampden County

• Hampden
  • Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (Hampden) - home of author Thornton Burgess

[edit] Hampshire County

• Amherst
  • Dickinson Homestead (Amherst) - home of Emily Dickinson
• Cummington
  • William Cullen Bryant Homestead (Cummington) - home of William Cullen Bryant

[edit] Eastern Massachusetts

[edit] Essex County

• Amesbury
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury) - Mary Baker Eddy associations
  • Macy-Colby House (Amesbury) - built 1654
  • John Greenleaf Whittier Home (Amesbury) - home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
• Andover
  • Amos Blanchard House (Andover) - house museum; late Federal period
• Beverly
  • John Balch House (Beverly) - one of the oldest surviving wood-frame houses in the United States, built circa 1636
  • John Cabot House (Beverly) - one of the first brick structures built in Beverly
  • John Hale House (Beverly) - circa 1695
  • Long Hill (Beverly) - Ellery Sedgwick's home and gardens; 1925
• Danvers
  • Judge Samuel Holten House (Danvers) - circa 1670
  • Rebecca Nurse Homestead (Danvers) - hanged for witchcraft, 1692
  • Putnam House (Danvers) - circa 1648, birthplace of Gen. Israel Putnam
• Essex
  • Choate House (Essex) - birthplace of Rufus Choate; built c. 1730
  • Coffin House (Essex) - Colonial house; circa 1678
• Ipswich
  • John Heard House (Ipswich) - Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
  • John Whipple House (Ipswich) - mid-1600s to the early 1700s
• Newbury and Newburyport
  • Cushing House Museum and Garden (Newburyport) - home of shipowner John Newmarch Cushing
  • Dole-Little House (Newbury) - circa 1715 of older materials
  • Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury) - circa 1675-1700
  • The Swett-Ilsley House (Newbury) - circa 1670
• Salem
  • Nathaniel Bowditch House (Salem) - home of Nathaniel Bowditch
  • Crowninshield-Bentley House (Salem) - circa 1727-1730
  • John Tucker Daland House (Salem) - 1851-1852
  • Gardner-Pingree House (Salem) - 1804-1805
  • Gedney House (Salem) - circa 1665
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (Salem) - birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; built between 1730-1745
  • The House of the Seven Gables (Salem) - house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name
  • Ropes Mansion (Salem) - late 1720s
  • Pickering House (Salem) - circa 1651
  • The Witch House (Salem) - circa 1642 - home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin
• Swampscott
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott) - Mary Baker Eddy home (1865-66)
  • John Humphrey House (Swampscott) - built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
  • Elihu Thomson House (Swampscott) - home of Elihu Thomson
• Elsewhere
  • Boardman House (Saugus) - circa 1687
  • Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House (Georgetown) - circa 1668
  • Claflin-Richards House (Wenham) - circa 1690
  • Cogswell's Grant (Essex) - remarkable collectors' house
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic Home (Lynn) - first home owned by Mary Baker Eddy
  • Hammond Castle (Gloucester) - home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr.; built 1926-1929
  • Jeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead) - 1789
  • The Stevens-Coolidge Place (North Andover) - house museum and garden; late Federal period
  • John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead (Haverhill) - home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Parson Capen House (Topsfield) - circa 1683

[edit] Middlesex County

• Cambridge
  • Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge) - oldest house in Cambridge; built c. 1681
  • Elmwood (Cambridge) - birthplace and home of poet James Russell Lowell; built 1767
  • Asa Gray House (Cambridge) - designed by Ithiel Town, home of botanist Asa Gray
  • Hooper-Lee-Nichols House (Cambridge) - 2nd oldest house in Cambridge; 1685
• Chelmsford
  • Barrett-Byam Homestead - (Chelmsford) - prior to 1663
  • "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House - (Chelmsford) - prior to 1691
• Concord
  • The Old Manse (Concord) - built by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather; Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorn wrote some of their work in the house; 1770
  • Orchard House (Concord) - home of Louisa May Alcott; the novel Little Women was written here
  • The Wayside (Concord) - home of Louisa May Alcott and later Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Lincoln
  • Codman House (Lincoln) - Federal style; built 1735
  • Gropius House (Lincoln) - designed by Walter Gropius; 1938
• Medford
  • Grandfather's House (Medford) - original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
  • Isaac Royall House (Medford) - a very fine mansion from the early 1700s with New England's only surviving slave quarters
  • Peter Tufts House (Medford) - perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
• Somerville
  • Samuel Gaut House (Somerville) - Italianate style; built 1855
• Waltham
  • Gore Place (Waltham) - brick country estate; built 1806
  • Lyman Estate (Waltham) - country estate; built 1793
  • Robert Treat Paine Estate (Waltham) - country estate, collaboration of Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted; built 1866 and 1884
• Watertown
  • Abraham Browne House (Watertown) - circa 1694-1701
  • Edmund Fowle House (Watertown) - site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s
• Woburn
  • 1790 House (Woburn) - large Federal house with interesting history; 1790
  • Baldwin House (Woburn) - home of engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin; 1661
  • Benjamin Thompson House (Woburn) - birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, also known as Count Rumford
• Elsewhere
  • Reginald Aubrey Fessenden House (Newton) - home of technologist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
  • Hancock-Clarke House (Lexington) - home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738
  • Reed Homestead (Townsend) - murals by Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American
  • Jason Russell House (Arlington) - Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
  • Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell) - birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler

[edit] Norfolk County

• Quincy
  • John Adams birthplace (Quincy) - birthplace of John Adams
  • John Quincy Adams birthplace (Quincy) - birthplace of John Quincy Adams
  • The Josiah Quincy House (Quincy) - country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy;1770
  • The Old House (Quincy) - home of several generations of the Adams family
• Brookline
  • John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, the birthplace of JFK
  • George R. Minot House (Brookline) - home of George R. Minot
• Dedham
  • Endicott Estate Dedham, Massachusetts - home of Henry B. Endicott, designed by Henry Bailey Alden, 1905
  • Endicott House Dedham, Massachusetts - home of H. Wendell Endicott, designed by Charles A. Platt with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1934
  • Fairbanks House (Dedham) - North America's oldest surviving timber-frame house; built circa 1636
• Elsewhere
  • Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate (Canton) - country house with garden grounds
  • General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace (Braintree) - birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of West Point"

[edit] Suffolk County

• Boston
  • Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) - Not one but three houses by Charles Bulfinch
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) - Remarkable palazzo and art museum
  • Gibson House Museum (Boston) - unchanged Back Bay townhouse lived in by 3 generations of Gibsons; built 1859
  • Paul Revere House (Boston) - built in 1680
  • Pierce-Hichborn House (Boston) - an early Georgian house; 1711
• Dorchester
  • James Blake House (Dorchester) - oldest house in Boston; 1648
  • Captain Lemuel Clap House (Dorchester) - built for a descendent of an original settler; 1710 and 1765
  • William Clapp House (Dorchester) - Federal style with Greek Revival addition; 1806
• Roxbury
  • William Lloyd Garrison House (Roxbury) - William Lloyd Garrison's home
  • Shirley-Eustis House [1] (Roxbury) - Tory stronghold
• Elsewhere
  • Loring-Greenough House (Jamaica Plain) - Tory stronghold
  • Ellen Swallow Richards House (Jamaica Plain) - home of Ellen Swallow Richards

[edit] Southeastern Massachusetts

[edit] Bristol County

• Miscellany
  • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum (New Bedford) - home of William Rotch Jr, a whaling merchant; built in 1834

[edit] Plymouth County

• Duxbury
  • Alden House Historic Site (Duxbury) - built by the Pilgrim John Alden; built in 1653
  • King Caesar House (Duxbury) - home of Ezra Weston, II ("King Caesar"); built 1808
• Plymouth
  • The Jabez Howland House (Plymouth) - home of Mayflower passenger John Howland; built in 1667
  • Richard Sparrow House (Plymouth) - oldest house in Plymouth; owned by the Sparrow family, who arrived Plymouth in 1633; the house was built circa 1640
• Elsewhere
  • Isaac Winslow House (Marshfield) - Tory stronghold
  • Old Oaken Bucket Homestead (Scituate) - scene of Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"

[edit] Cape Cod and the islands

[edit] Barnstable County

• Miscellany
  • Atwood House Museum (Chatham) - built 1756
  • Hoxie House (Sandwich) - Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built circa 1675
  • Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port) - built circa 1780

[edit] The islands

• Martha's Vineyard
  • The Vincent House (Martha's Vineyard) - oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built circa 1672
• Nantucket
  • Jethro Coffin House (Nantucket) - oldest house in Nantucket; built circa 1686

[edit] See also

• Historic New England
• The Trustees of Reservations
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
• List of Registered Historic Places in Massachusetts

	U.S. National Register of Historic Places - (List of entries)
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