List of historic houses in Massachusetts

This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.

Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham. Built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln

Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, USA and was designed by Samuel McIntyre and is now owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and is open for public tours. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Western Massachusetts

Berkshire County

• Lenox
  • The Mount (Lenox) – author Edith Wharton's estate; 1902
  • Ventfort Hall (Lenox) – Jacobean style mansion, built 1893 – George & Sarah Morgan (sister of J.P. Morgan)
• Pittsfield
  • Arrowhead (Pittsfield) – home of author Herman Melville; built 1780
• Stockbridge
  • Chesterwood (Stockbridge) – sculptor Daniel Chester French's home and studio; 1920s
  • 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
  • Anthony House (Adams) - birthplace of Susan B. Anthony
  • Colonel John Ashley House (Sheffield) – built circa 1735
  • Bidwell House Museum (Monterey) - built 1750
  • Santarella (Tyringham) – home of sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson

Franklin County

• Deerfield
  • Sheldon-Hawks House (Deerfield) – built in 1743
• Greenfield
  • Leavitt-Hovey House (Greenfield) – built in 1799 by architect Asher Benjamin for judge Jonathan Leavitt

Hampden County

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

Hampshire County

• Amherst
  • Dickinson Homestead (Amherst) – home of Emily Dickinson
  • Strong House, c. 1744, home of the Amherst Historical Society
• Cummington
  • William Cullen Bryant Homestead (Cummington) – home of William Cullen Bryant
• Hadley
  • Porter-Phelps-Huntington House (Hadley) – built between 1752 and 1799 and home of several generations of important local figures, including diarist Elizabeth Porter Phelps and bishop Frederic Dan Huntington
  • Samuel Porter House, 1713
• Holyoke
  • Wistariahurst built in 1848 for William Skinner
• Northampton
  • Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the Pre-Contact era to the present. Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654.
    • Damon House (1813), built by architect Isaac Damon, contains Historic Northampton's administrative offices and a Federal era parlor featuring Damon family furnishings and period artifacts. A modern structure, added in 1987, houses the museum and exhibition area. It features changing exhibits and a permanent installation, A Place Called Paradise: The Making of Northampton, Massachusetts, chronicling Northampton history.
    • Parsons House (1730) affords an overview of Colonial domestic architecture with its interior walls exposed to reveal evolving structural and decorative changes over more than two and a half centuries.
    • Shepherd House (1796) contains artifacts and furnishings from many generations, including exotic souvenirs from the turn-of-the-century travels of Thomas and Edith Shepherd, and reflects one family's changing tastes and values.
    • Shepherd Barn contains exhibits of antique farm implements, vehicles and a working blacksmith shop.

Central Massachusetts

Worcester County

• Auburn
  • Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn.
  • Thaddeus Chapin House on Elmwood Street – Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn.
• Grafton
  • Willard House and Clock Museum
• Shrewsbury
  • General Artemas Ward House
• Worcester
  • Salisbury Mansion – built 1772
  • Judge Timothy Paine House – House is known as The Oaks (1774)
  • Captain Benjamin Flagg House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1717 136 Plantation Street

Eastern Massachusetts

Essex County

• Amesbury
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury) – Mary Baker Eddy associations
  • Macy-Colby House (Amesbury) – built 1654
  • Isaac Morrill House - built 1680
  • John Greenleaf Whittier Home (Amesbury) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
• Andover
  • Amos Blanchard House (Andover) – house museum; late Federal period
  • Russell House (Andover) – circa 1805
• Beverly
  • John Balch House (Beverly) – one of the oldest surviving timber-framed houses in the United States, built circa 1679
  • 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
  • General Israel 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
• Gloucester
  • Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House – built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper
  • Captain Elias Davis House - built in 1804, part of Cape Ann Museum's decorative arts collection.
  • Hammond Castle – home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr.; built 1926–1929
  • Sargent House Museum – built in 1782, home of writer Judith Sargent Murray and pastor John Murray
  • White-Ellery House – built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years
• Ipswich
  • John Heard House (Ipswich) – Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
  • John Whipple House (Ipswich) – mid-17th century to the early 18th century
  • Shoreborn Wilson House (also known as the Baker mansion) – mid-17th century to late 17th century
• 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
  • Andrew–Safford House was built in 1819
  • Bessie Monroe House was built in 1811
  • Bowker Place located at 144-156 Essex Street and built in 1830
  • Crowninshield-Bentley House (Salem) – circa 1727–1730
  • Salem City Hall - Oldest continually run City Hall in America, built in 1837
  • Cotting-Smith Assembly House
  • Derby House built in 1762
  • Francis Cox House built in 1846
  • Gardner-Pingree House (Salem) – 1804–1805
  • Gedney House (Salem) – circa 1665
  • Hamilton Hall - A National Historic Landmark located at 9 Chestnut Street and built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
  • Hawkes House - circa 1780, 1800
  • House of the Seven Gables (Salem) – house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name
  • John Bertram Mansion located in the McIntyre Historic District, High Style Italianate brick and brownstone mansion built in 1855 When John Bertram died in March 1882, his widow donated their home ( The John Bertram Mansion located at 370 Essex Street ) and this became the Salem Public Library. The Salem Public Library opened its doors on July 8, 1889 and is in the National Register of Historic Places.
  • John Bertram Mansion, built in 1818-19 - Located in the Salem Common Historic District and is a home for the elderly
  • John Tucker Daland House (Salem) – 1851–1852
  • Joseph Fenno House-Woman's Friend Society, 18th Century - Federal architecture
  • Joseph Story House was built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
  • Joshua Ward House was built in 1784
  • Joseph Winn Jr. House circa 1843
  • Narbonne House circa 1675
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (Salem) – birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; built between 1730–1745
  • Nathaniel Bowditch House (Salem) – home of Nathaniel Bowditch (circa 1805)
  • Pedrick Store House circa 1770
  • Peirce-Nichols House located at 80 Federal Street, built in 1782
  • Phillips Library
  • Pickering House (Salem) – circa 1651
  • Ropes Mansion (Salem) – late 1720s
  • Rufus Choate House is located at 14 Lynde Street and was built in 1787
  • Salem Athenaeum
  • Shepard Block is a Greek Revival structure was constructed in 1851 and is located at 298-304 Essex Street
  • Stephen Phillips House is located at 34 Chestnut Street - circa 1806
  • Thomas March Woodbridge House is located at 48 Bridge Street - circa 1809
  • John P. Peabody House at 15 Summer Street - built in 1867
  • Salem Old Town Hall 1816-17, Federal Style building.
  • Quaker Meeting House
  • West Cogswell House is a historic set of row houses located at 5-9 Summer Street and built in 1834
  • William Pike House, 19th Century
  • Witch House (Salem) – circa 1642 – home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin
  • William Murray House built in 1688
  • Yin Yu Tang House Yin Yu Tang, was built around 1800 in China. 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled inside the Peabody Essex Museum.

• Swampscott
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott) – Mary Baker Eddy home (1865–66)
  • Sir John Humphreys 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
  • Jeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead) – 1768
  • 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

Middlesex County

• Arlington
  • Jason Russell House (Arlington) – Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
• Burlington
  • Wyman House (Burlington) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666
• 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 Nathaniel 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
  • Bush, Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Concord) – home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725
• Lexington
  • 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 in Lexington, Massachusetts
• Lincoln
  • Codman House (Lincoln) – Federal style; built 1735
  • Gropius House (Lincoln) – designed by Walter Gropius; 1938
  • Hoar Tavern (Lincoln) – Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680
• Medford
  • Grandfather's House (Medford) – original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
  • Isaac Royall House (Medford) – a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters
  • Peter Tufts House (Medford) – perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
• Lowell
  • Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell) – birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler
• Natick
  • Sherman Geissler House - Roger Sherman was a member of the five man drafting committee the "Committee of Five" that wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. In the famous painting by John Trumbull entitled "The Declaration Of Independence" Roger Sherman is depicted literally front and center. He was the only person that signed ALL four great state papers of the United States; The Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. He built this house in 1750 in the Bean Hill section of Norwich CT. The house was moved from Norwich, CT to Natick, MA. in 1934 <ref</ref
  • Henry Wilson Shoe Shop – Henry Wilson, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer.
• Newton
  • Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home
  • Reginald A. Fessenden House (Newton) – home of technologist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
• Somerville
  • Samuel Gaut House (Somerville) – Italianate style; built 1855
• Stoneham, Massachusetts
  • Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer, 1850 ten footer
• Townsend
  • Reed Homestead (Townsend) – murals by Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American
• Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • Wayside Inn - oldest operating inn in the country, from 1716. Grounds contain one-room schoolhouse associated with the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.
• Waltham
  • 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-Count Rumford Birthplace (Woburn) – birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, also known as Count Rumford

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 1641
• Needham
  • Jarvis Thorpe House (Needham) – Built in 1836, served as Needham's Post Office as well as home to the influential Thorpe family.
• Elsewhere
  • Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House (Milton) – Greek Revival architecture
  • Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate (Canton) – country house with garden grounds
  • General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace (Braintree) – birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of West Point"

Suffolk County

• Boston
  • First Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
  • Second Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
  • Third Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
  • Amory-Ticknor House (Boston) 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 descendant 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 (Roxbury) – Tory stronghold
• Elsewhere
  • Loring-Greenough House (Jamaica Plain) – Tory stronghold
  • Ellen Swallow Richards House (Jamaica Plain) – home of Ellen Swallow Richards

Southeastern Massachusetts

Bristol County

• Dartmouth
  • Elihu Akin House – cape-style house built; built in 1762
• Fall River
  • David M. Anthony House – Second Empire style, built 1875
  • Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House – Second Empire, built 1882
  • Borden-Winslow House – Georgian Colonial, built 1740
  • Lafayette-Durfee House – Georgian Colonial, built about 1750
  • William Lindsey House – Greek Revival, built 1844
  • Luther Winslow, Jr., House – Federal, built 1875
  • Osborn House – Greek Revival, built 1843
• New Bedford
  • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum – home of William Rotch Jr, a whaling merchant; built in 1834
• Rehoboth
  • Christopher Carpenter House – built 1800
  • Col. Thomas Carpenter III House – built 1855
  • Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) – built 1789
• Taunton
  • J.C. Bartlett House – built, 1880
  • Samuel Colby House – Italianate, built 1869
  • McKinstrey House – Georgian colonial, built 1759
  • Morse House – built 1850
  • William L. White, Jr. House – Second Empire, built 1873

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
  • Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House (Duxbury) – built 1807
• Plymouth
  • Harlow Old Fort House (Plymouth) – built with timbers from the Pilgrims 1621 Fort on Burial Hill; built in 1677
  • 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
• Hingham
  • Samuel Lincoln House (Hingham) – built by Samuel Lincoln 1721 on land purchased in 1649 by grandfather Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
• Elsewhere
  • Isaac Winslow House (Marshfield) – Tory stronghold
  • Old Oaken Bucket Homestead (Scituate) – scene of Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"

Cape Cod and the islands

Barnstable County

• Atwood House Museum, Chatham – built 1756
• Isaac Crocker Homestead, Marstons Mills – built circa 1750s
• Winslow Crocker House, Yarmouth Port – built circa 1780
• Hoxie House, Sandwich – Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built circa 1675
• Wing Fort House, East Sandwich, Massachusetts - built ca. 1641

Dukes County

• The Vincent House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built circa 1672

Nantucket County

• Auld Lang Syne House, Nantucket Sconset - oldest house in Nantucket not on the original foundation, ca. 1675
• Jethro Coffin House, Nantucket – oldest house in Nantucket on its original foundation; built circa 1686

See also

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

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