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Joseph Gardner House

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Location
  
Swansea, Massachusetts

MPS
  
Swansea MRA

Opened
  
1795

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Built
  
1795

NRHP Reference #
  
90000076

Area
  
5,261 m²

Added to NRHP
  
16 February 1990

Joseph Gardner House

The Joseph Gardner House is a historic house at 1205 Gardner's Neck Road in Swansea, Massachusetts. The original five-bay block of this 1-1/2 story Cape style house was built c. 1795; it was expanded and converted for summer use c. 1877 during the rise of Gardner's Neck as a summer resort area. The Joseph Gardner, the builder was the grandson of Samuel Gardner, one of the early owners of the neck after its purchase from Native Americans.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

References

Joseph Gardner House Wikipedia