In addition to its significant social and political history, Faneuil Hall has a complex architectural history.  The building was constructed as a market hall in 1741-42.  Based upon information contained in an 1806 report from Charles ...

Constructed between 1701 and 1709, the Matthew Perkins House is a rare example of a substantial First Period house that has not undergone restoration.  The building retains a high proportion of its original building materials (1701-09) as well as ...

The Usher-Royall House served as a country seat and center of a large agricultural property from 1631 when Governor John Winthrop ...

The Spencer-Peirce-Little House is set back off the High Road in the center of a large farm which retains the majority of its original 400 acres granted to John Spencer in the early settlement of Newbury in 1635.

Called variously the Emerson-Howard and Howard-Emerson House and believed in the early twentieth century to have been built as 1648, the William Howard House appears to have been constructed in several stages, the earliest ...

he Samuel Chase House is one of six brick houses built in the towns of Newbury and Haverhill in the early eighteenth century.  Mistakenly identified as “garrison houses” in local folklore, these buildings were architecturally ambitious houses in ...