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List of historic houses in Massachusetts

List of historic houses in Massachusetts

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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, United States. It was designed by Samuel McIntyre. It 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

Franklin County

Hampden County

Hampshire County

  • Amherst
  • Cummington
  • Hadley
  • 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.[1]
      • Isaac 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

Eastern Massachusetts

Essex County

Conant House

Middlesex County

Norfolk County

Suffolk County

Southeastern Massachusetts

Bristol County

Plymouth County

Cape Cod and the islands

Barnstable County

Dukes County

  • The Vincent House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built c. 1672
  • The Thomas Chase House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in downtown Vineyard Haven; built c. 1717

Nantucket County

See also

References

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