Built 1829 Opened 1829 Architectural style Federal architecture Nearest city Wellfleet | NRHP Reference # 88001457 Area 1 ha Added to NRHP 15 September 1988 | |
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The John Newcomb House is a historic house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is best known as the house described by Henry David Thoreau in the chapter on the "House of the Wellfleet Oysterman" in his 1865 book, Cape Cod. The house is located in Cape Cod National Seashore, on a sandy lane off Gull Pond Road to the east of Williams Pond in northern Wellfleet. The Cape style house is presumed to have been built by John Y. Newcomb (born 1762).
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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