General Benjamin Lincoln House

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Gen. Benjamin Lincoln House
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Location:	Hingham, Massachusetts
Coordinates:	42°14′35″N 70°53′35″W / 42.24306, -70.89306Coordinates: 42°14′35″N 70°53′35″W / 42.24306, -70.89306
Built/Founded:	1733
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style(s):	No Style Listed
Added to NRHP:	November 28, 1972
NRHP Reference#:	72001303 [1]
Governing body:	Private

The Gen. Benjamin Lincoln House is a National Historic Landmark at 181 North Street in Hingham, Massachusetts.

The house was built in 1733 and was the home to American Revolution Major General Benjamin Lincoln. Lincoln surrended to the British in 1780 in South Carolina and in 1781 accepted the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.^[2]

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