Built 1700 Opened 1700 Added to NRHP 29 November 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83004095 Area 4,047 m² | |
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Location Scituate, Massachusetts | ||
The Capt. Benjamin James House is a historic First Period house, now a museum, at 301 Driftway in Scituate, Massachusetts. The oldest part of this 2-1/2 story timber frame house was built c. 1700 by Captain Benjamin James. During the 18th century it was enlarged to its present five-bay saltbox configuration. After James' death in 1788, the house was used by the town as a "pest house", isolating smallpox victims there.
The house is now home t the Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum, owned and maintained by the Scituate Historical Society. There are exhibits of the mossing industry, ship building on the North River, shipwrecks, life saving. Open Sunday afternoons, 1-4 p.m. Sept through June. Sat and Sun, July and August.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.