Lenox
The Mount (Lenox) – author Edith Wharton's estate; 1902
Ventfort Hall (Lenox) – Jacobean style mansion, built 1893 – George & Sarah Morgan (sister of J.P. Morgan)
Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio - home of American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen; 1930-1941
Pittsfield
Arrowhead (Pittsfield) – home of author Herman Melville; built 1780
Stockbridge
Chesterwood (Stockbridge) – sculptor Daniel Chester French's home and studio; 1920s
Merwin House (Stockbridge) – Federal-style house built c. 1825
The Mission House (Stockbridge) – the first missionary to the Mohegan Indians in Stockbridge; built in 1739
Naumkeag (Stockbridge) – 44 room, Shingle-style country house designed by Stanford White; 1885
Elsewhere
Anthony House (Adams) - birthplace of Susan B. Anthony
Colonel John Ashley House (Sheffield) – built c. 1735
Bidwell House Museum (Monterey) - built 1750
The Folly (Williamstown) - designed by Ulrich Franzen, 1966
Santarella (Tyringham) – home of sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson
Deerfield
Sheldon-Hawks House (Deerfield) – built in 1743
Greenfield
Leavitt-Hovey House (Greenfield) – built in 1799 by architect Asher Benjamin for judge Jonathan Leavitt
Hampden
Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (Hampden) – home of author Thornton Burgess
Captain John Porter House, built in 1771 in Agawam
Holyoke
Wistariahurst built in 1848 for William Skinner
Amherst
Dickinson Homestead (Amherst) – home of Emily Dickinson
Strong House, c. 1744, home of the Amherst Historical Society
Cummington
William Cullen Bryant Homestead (Cummington) – home of William Cullen Bryant
Hadley
Porter-Phelps-Huntington House (Hadley) – built between 1752 and 1799 and home of several generations of important local figures, including diarist Elizabeth Porter Phelps and bishop Frederic Dan Huntington
Samuel Porter House, 1713
Northampton
Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the Pre-Contact era to the present. Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654.Damon House (1813), built by architect Isaac Damon, contains Historic Northampton's administrative offices and a Federal era parlor featuring Damon family furnishings and period artifacts. A modern structure, added in 1987, houses the museum and exhibition area. It features changing exhibits and a permanent installation, A Place Called Paradise: The Making of Northampton, Massachusetts, chronicling Northampton history.
Parsons House (1730) affords an overview of Colonial domestic architecture with its interior walls exposed to reveal evolving structural and decorative changes over more than two and a half centuries.
Shepherd House (1796) contains artifacts and furnishings from many generations, including exotic souvenirs from the turn-of-the-century travels of Thomas and Edith Shepherd, and reflects one family's changing tastes and values.
Shepherd Barn contains exhibits of antique farm implements, vehicles and a working blacksmith shop.
Auburn
Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn.
Thaddeus Chapin House on Elmwood Street – Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn.
Grafton
Willard House and Clock Museum
Shrewsbury
General Artemas Ward House
Worcester
Salisbury Mansion – built 1772
Judge Timothy Paine House – House is known as The Oaks (1774)
Captain Benjamin Flagg House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1717, 136 Plantation Street
Amesbury
Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury) – Mary Baker Eddy associations
Macy-Colby House (Amesbury) – built 1654
Isaac Morrill House - built 1680
John Greenleaf Whittier Home (Amesbury) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
Andover
Amos Blanchard House (Andover) – house museum; late Federal period
Russell House (Andover) – c. 1805
Beverly
John Balch House (Beverly) – one of the oldest surviving timber-framed houses in the United States, built c. 1679
John Cabot House (Beverly) – one of the first brick structures built in Beverly
John Hale House (Beverly) – c. 1695
Long Hill (Beverly) – Ellery Sedgwick's home and gardens; 1925
Danvers
Judge Samuel Holten House (Danvers) – c. 1670
Rebecca Nurse Homestead (Danvers) – hanged for witchcraft, 1692
General Israel Putnam House (Danvers) – c. 1648, birthplace of Gen. Israel Putnam
Essex
Choate House (Essex) – birthplace of Rufus Choate; built c. 1730
Coffin House (Essex) – Colonial house; c. 1678
Gloucester
Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House – built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper
Captain Elias Davis House - built in 1804, part of Cape Ann Museum's decorative arts collection.
Hammond Castle – home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr.; built 1926–1929
Sargent House Museum – built in 1782, home of writer Judith Sargent Murray and pastor John Murray
White-Ellery House – built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years
Ipswich
John Heard House (Ipswich) – Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
John Whipple House (Ipswich) – mid-17th century to the early 18th century
Ipswich has hundreds of historic houses, including 57-59 that are classified as First Period.
Newbury and Newburyport
Cushing House Museum and Garden (Newburyport) – home of shipowner John Newmarch Cushing
Dole-Little House (Newbury) – c. 1715 of older materials
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury) – c. 1675–1700
The Swett-Ilsley House (Newbury) – c. 1670
Salem
Andrew–Safford House was built in 1819
Bessie Monroe House was built in 1811
Bowker Place located at 144-156 Essex Street and built in 1830
Crowninshield-Bentley House (Salem) – c. 1727–1730
Salem City Hall - Oldest continually run City Hall in America, built in 1837
Cotting-Smith Assembly House
Derby House built in 1762
Francis Cox House built in 1846
Gardner-Pingree House (Salem) – 1804–1805
Gedney House (Salem) – c. 1665
Hamilton Hall - A National Historic Landmark located at 9 Chestnut Street and built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Hawkes House - c. 1780, 1800
House of the Seven Gables (Salem) – house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name
John Bertram Mansion located in the McIntyre Historic District, High Style Italianate brick and brownstone mansion built in 1855. When John Bertram died in March 1882, his widow donated their home ( The John Bertram Mansion located at 370 Essex Street ) and this became the Salem Public Library. The Salem Public Library opened its doors on July 8, 1889 and is in the National Register of Historic Places.
John Bertram Mansion, built in 1818-19 - Located in the Salem Common Historic District and is a home for the elderly
John Tucker Daland House (Salem) – 1851–1852
Joseph Fenno House-Woman's Friend Society, 18th Century - Federal architecture
Joseph Story House was built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Joshua Ward House was built in 1784
Joseph Winn Jr. House c. 1843
Narbonne House c. 1675
Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (Salem) – birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; built between 1730–1745
Nathaniel Bowditch House (Salem) – home of Nathaniel Bowditch (c. 1805)
Pedrick Store House c. 1770
Peirce-Nichols House located at 80 Federal Street, built in 1782
Phillips Library
Pickering House (Salem) – c. 1651
Ropes Mansion (Salem) – late 1720s
Rufus Choate House is located at 14 Lynde Street and was built in 1787
Salem Athenaeum
Shepard Block is a Greek Revival structure was constructed in 1851 and is located at 298-304 Essex Street
Stephen Phillips House is located at 34 Chestnut Street - c. 1806
Thomas March Woodbridge House is located at 48 Bridge Street - c. 1809
John P. Peabody House at 15 Summer Street - built in 1867
Salem Old Town Hall 1816-17, Federal Style building.
Quaker Meeting House
West Cogswell House is a historic set of row houses located at 5-9 Summer Street and built in 1834
William Pike House, 19th Century
Witch House (Salem) – c. 1642 – home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin
William Murray House built in 1688
Yin Yu Tang House, was built around 1800 in China. 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled inside the Peabody Essex Museum.
Swampscott
Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott) – Mary Baker Eddy home (1865–66)
Sir John Humphreys House (Swampscott) – built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
Elihu Thomson House (Swampscott) – home of Elihu Thomson
Elsewhere
Boardman House (Saugus) – c. 1687
Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House (Georgetown) – c. 1668
Claflin-Richards House (Wenham) – c. 1690
Cogswell's Grant (Essex) – remarkable collectors' house
Mary Baker Eddy Historic Home (Lynn) – first home owned by Mary Baker Eddy
Jeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead) – 1768
The Stevens-Coolidge Place (North Andover) – house museum and garden; late Federal period
John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead (Haverhill) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
Parson Capen House (Topsfield) – c. 1683
Arlington
Jason Russell House (Arlington) – Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
Burlington
Wyman House (Burlington) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666
Cambridge
Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge) – oldest house in Cambridge; built c. 1681
Elmwood (Cambridge) – birthplace and home of poet James Russell Lowell; built 1767
Asa Gray House (Cambridge) – designed by Ithiel Town, home of botanist Asa Gray
Hooper-Lee-Nichols House (Cambridge) – 2nd oldest house in Cambridge; 1685
Chelmsford
Barrett-Byam Homestead – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1663
"Old Chelmsford" Garrison House – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1691
Concord
The Old Manse (Concord) – built by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather; Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote some of their work in the house; 1770
Orchard House (Concord) – home of Louisa May Alcott; the novel Little Women was written here
The Wayside (Concord) – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845-1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852-1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett Lothrop (pen name Margaret Sidney), whose descendants lived in the house until it was acquired by the National Park Service in 1965.
Bush, Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Concord) – home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725
Thoreau Birth House—Built by John Wheeler circa 1730; Henry David Thoreau born in the house in 1817; house moved 300 yards to its current location in 1878.
Robbins House—Built circa 1790-1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1870-71, the house was moved to Bedford Street, near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the Old North Bridge and the Old Manse.
Lexington
Hancock-Clarke House (Lexington) – home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738 in Lexington, Massachusetts
Lincoln
Codman House (Lincoln) – Federal style; built 1735
Gropius House (Lincoln) – designed by Walter Gropius; 1938
Hoar Tavern (Lincoln) – Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680
Medford
Grandfather's House (Medford) – original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
Isaac Royall House (Medford) – a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters
Peter Tufts House (Medford) – perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
Lowell
Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell) – birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler
Natick
Sherman Geissler House - Roger Sherman was a member of the five man drafting committee the "Committee of Five" that wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. In the famous painting by John Trumbull entitled "The Declaration Of Independence" Roger Sherman is depicted literally front and center. He was the only person that signed ALL four great state papers of the United States; The Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. He built this house in 1750 in the Bean Hill section of Norwich CT. The house was moved from Norwich, CT to Natick, MA. in 1934
Henry Wilson Shoe Shop – Henry Wilson, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer.
Newton
Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home
Reginald A. Fessenden House (Newton) – home of technologist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Somerville
Samuel Gaut House (Somerville) – Italianate style; built 1855
Stoneham, Massachusetts
Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer, 1850 ten footer
Townsend
Reed Homestead (Townsend) – murals by Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American
Stow, Massachusetts Randall-Hale homestead
Wayside Inn - oldest operating inn in the country, from 1716. Grounds contain one-room schoolhouse associated with the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Waltham
Gore Place (Waltham) – brick country estate; built 1806
Lyman Estate (Waltham) – country estate; built 1793
Robert Treat Paine Estate (Waltham) – country estate, collaboration of Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted; built 1866 and 1884
Watertown
Abraham Browne House (Watertown) – c. 1694–1701
Edmund Fowle House (Watertown) – site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s
Woburn
1790 House (Woburn) – large Federal house with interesting history; 1790
Baldwin House (Woburn) – home of engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin; 1661
Benjamin Thompson House-Count Rumford Birthplace (Woburn) – birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, also known as Count Rumford
Quincy
John Adams Birthplace (Quincy) – birthplace of John Adams
John Quincy Adams Birthplace (Quincy) – birthplace of John Quincy Adams
The Josiah Quincy House (Quincy) – country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy;1770
The Old House (Quincy) – home of several generations of the Adams family
Brookline
John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, the birthplace of JFK
George R. Minot House (Brookline) – home of George R. Minot
Dedham
Endicott Estate Dedham, Massachusetts – home of Henry B. Endicott, designed by Henry Bailey Alden, 1905
Endicott House Dedham, Massachusetts – home of H. Wendell Endicott, designed by Charles A. Platt with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1934
Fairbanks House (Dedham) – North America's oldest surviving timber-frame house; built c. 1641
Needham
Jarvis Thorpe House (Needham) – Built in 1836, served as Needham's Post Office as well as home to the influential Thorpe family.
Elsewhere
Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House (Milton) – Greek Revival architecture
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate (Canton) – country house with garden grounds
General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace (Braintree) – birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of West Point"
Boston
First Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
Second Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
Third Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston) – by Charles Bulfinch
Amory-Ticknor House (Boston) by Charles Bulfinch
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) – Remarkable palazzo and art museum
Gibson House Museum (Boston) – unchanged Back Bay townhouse lived in by 3 generations of Gibsons; built 1859
Paul Revere House (Boston) – built in 1680
Pierce-Hichborn House (Boston) – an early Georgian house; 1711
Dorchester
James Blake House (Dorchester) – oldest house in Boston; 1648
Captain Lemuel Clap House (Dorchester) – built for a descendant of an original settler; 1710 and 1765
William Clapp House (Dorchester) – Federal style with Greek Revival addition; 1806
Roxbury
William Lloyd Garrison House (Roxbury) – William Lloyd Garrison's home
Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury) – Tory stronghold
Elsewhere
Loring-Greenough House (Jamaica Plain) – Tory stronghold
Ellen Swallow Richards House (Jamaica Plain) – home of Ellen Swallow Richards
Dartmouth
Elihu Akin House – cape-style house built; built in 1762
Fall River
David M. Anthony House – Second Empire style, built 1875
Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House – Second Empire, built 1882
Borden–Winslow House – Georgian Colonial, built 1740
Lafayette–Durfee House – Georgian Colonial, built about 1750
William Lindsey House – Greek Revival, built 1844
Luther Winslow Jr. House – Federal, built 1875
Osborn House – Greek Revival, built 1843
New Bedford
Grinnell Mansion – Greek Revival, built 1831 – 1832 Home of Joseph Grinnell, Merchant, Congressman and Mill Owner. Historic Amerian Buildings Survey, Creator, and Russell Warren, Johseph Grinnel Mansion, 379 County Street, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA.(https:www.loc.gov/item/mal0130/
Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum – home of William Rotch Jr., a whaling merchant; built in 1834
Rehoboth
Christopher Carpenter House – built 1800
Col. Thomas Carpenter III House – built 1855
Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) – built 1789
Taunton
J.C. Bartlett House – built, 1880
Samuel Colby House – Italianate, built 1869
McKinstrey House – Georgian colonial, built 1759
Morse House – built 1850
William L. White Jr. House – Second Empire, built 1873
Duxbury
Alden House Historic Site (Duxbury) – built by the Pilgrim John Alden; built in 1653
King Caesar House (Duxbury) – home of Ezra Weston, II ("King Caesar"); built 1808
Nathaniel Winsor Jr. House (Duxbury) – built 1807
Plymouth
Harlow Old Fort House (Plymouth) – built with timbers from the Pilgrims 1621 Fort on Burial Hill; built in 1677
The Jabez Howland House (Plymouth) – home of Mayflower passenger John Howland; built in 1667
Richard Sparrow House (Plymouth) – oldest house in Plymouth; owned by the Sparrow family, who arrived Plymouth in 1633; the house was built c. 1640
Hingham
Samuel Lincoln House (Hingham) – built by Samuel Lincoln 1721 on land purchased in 1649 by grandfather Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
Elsewhere
Isaac Winslow House (Marshfield) – Tory stronghold
Old Oaken Bucket Homestead (Scituate) – scene of Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket"
Daniel Webster Estate (Marshfield, Massachusetts) www.danielwebsterestate.org site of Webster Law Office and Webster Family home
Atwood House Museum, Chatham – built 1756
Isaac Crocker Homestead, Marstons Mills – built c. 1750s
Winslow Crocker House, Yarmouth Port – built c. 1780
Hoxie House, Sandwich – Cape Cod's oldest saltbox house; built c. 1675
Wing Fort House, East Sandwich, Massachusetts - built ca. 1641
The Vincent House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built c. 1672
Auld Lang Syne House, Nantucket Sconset - oldest house in Nantucket not on the original foundation, ca. 1675
Jethro Coffin House, Nantucket – oldest house in Nantucket on its original foundation; built c. 1686
