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Levi Conant House

Built in 1844, the Levi Conant House typifies the types of well-built, middle-class houses constructed in the early suburban development of Cambridge. The house stands on a parcel composed of three lots created as part of a ...

Nicholson-Andrews House

The Nicholson-Andrews House is a notable example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival architecture in Nantucket that preserves all the major elements of a vernacular house type, known locally as a “Typical Nantucket House.”

Paul Turner House

Built on a property occupied by descendants of Japhet Turner and Hannah Hudson Turner from 1688 until 1846, the Paul Turner House seems likely to have been constructed for Paul Sampson Turner (1795-1841), the fourth generation of the ...

Memorial Hall

Memorial Hall (Abraham Lincoln Post #11, G.A.R.) was initially constructed in 1791 as a residence for Samuel Dexter (1761-1816), an attorney and Congressman. The house’s high-style Federal period details and its large scale reflect ...

Sarah Clayes House

The Sarah Clayes House is an exceptionally fine example of a center-chimney, timber-frame house, the region’s most distinctive and widespread building type until the mid-nineteenth century. Although long believed ...

SILAS PADDACK HOUSE

The Silas Paddack House is a one and one-half storey timber frame cottage built ca. 1767 for Silas Paddack, mariner, on land inherited from his wife's family. Mariner Silas Paddack, who was the first owner of this house, was the great-nephew of ...

The Brick Market

The Brick Market was built in 1760-62 on land granted to the Town of Newport by the Proprietors of Long Wharf upon the condition that it be used “for erecting a Market House.”

Derby House

The Derby House was constructed in 1761-62 by Captain Richard Derby (1712-1783), a wealthy Salem merchant, for his son, Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799), reputedly at the time of the younger Derby’s marriage. The house was built in close proximity to Richard ...

Johnathan and Simon Hosmer House

The Hosmer House was built in two stages for two generations of the Hosmer family, namely, Jonathan Hosmer Jr. (1735-1822) and his son, Simon Hosmer (1774-1840). Extension of an existing central chimney house to create a separate, but ...

Faneuil Hall

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 ...