Location Taunton, Massachusetts MPS Taunton MRA Opened 1759 Added to NRHP 5 July 1984 | Built 1759 NRHP Reference # 84002181 Architectural style Georgian architecture | |
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Similar Watson Pond State Park, Lake Rico, Old Colony Historical Society, Wellfleet Drive‑In Theater, Lake Sabbatia | ||
The McKinstrey House is a historic house located at 111 High Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1759 for surgeon William McKinstry, born in Ellington, Connecticut. He was a Tory in the Revolution, and died of tuberculosis on a ship in Boston Harbor at the evacuation of Boston in 1776. The house and property were confiscated by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1779.
He is mentioned in the Diary of John Adams (June 1771). In June 1763, the house was the scene of a grisly murder where the McKinstrey's sister Elizabeth was murdered by an enslaved man called Bristol.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is now the rectory for St. Thomas Episcopal Church, next door.
The 2-story brick-end house is arranged on a symmetrical 5-bay plan with a hipped roof framed by four interior chimneys.