blog | Page 3 of 4 | Archipedia New England

The First Congregational Meeting House in Truro

The First Congregational Meeting House in Truro was constructed in 1827 as the society's third meeting house. The previous two (constructed 1709-10 & 1720) stood in North Truro. By 1827 the town's population had shifted ...

United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Meeting House of Nantucket, more commonly known as the United Methodist Church of Nantucket, survives largely unaltered from its original construction in 1822-23 and its renovation in 1840. Both periods of ...

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 ...

Lynn Mechanics’ Bank/Usher Block (demolished)

The now demolished Mechanics’ Bank/Usher Block provided evidence of the initial development of a new building type (bank buildings) during the nineteenth century as well as evolving building practices throughout the mid-nineteenth century. With 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 ...