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The Pillsbury Summer House is a historic house at 45 Old Cove Road in Duxbury, Massachusetts.The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1938, and is a locally distinctive early example of Modern architecture, as the first major work of architect Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, and as a rare regional example of a Modern summer house.
Southern Boston, including locations in Boston Harbor, has 186 listings, including 46 districts, 12 landmarks, and one National Historic Landmark District. Two historic districts overlap into both northern and southern Boston: milestones that make up the 1767 Milestones are found in both areas, and the Olmsted Park System extends through much ...
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; Nichols House Museum (Boston) - by Charles Bulfinch; Dorchester. James Blake House – oldest house in Boston; 1648
Properties and districts located elsewhere in Suffolk County's other three municipalities are also listed separately. There are more than 350 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Suffolk County, including 58 National Historic Landmarks. The southern part of the city of Boston is the location of 186 of these properties and ...
The northern part of the city of Boston is the location of 149 of these properties and districts, including 44 National Historic Landmarks. Contents: Counties in Massachusetts Barnstable | Berkshire | Bristol | Dukes | Essex | Franklin | Hampden | Hampshire | Middlesex | Nantucket | Norfolk | Plymouth | Suffolk | Worcester
Hadley was first settled in 1659 and was officially incorporated in 1661. The former Norwottuck was renamed for Hadleigh, Suffolk. [5] Its settlers were primarily a discontented group of families from the Puritan colonies of Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, who petitioned to start a new colony up north after some controversy over doctrine in the local church.
Cambridge is the city with the most NHLs outside Boston (at 19), and Middlesex County is home to 43 NHLs (again outside the 58 from Boston, which comprise all but two of the NHLs in Suffolk County). Every county in the state has at least one NHL ( Franklin County has exactly one, the Old Deerfield Historic District ).
The 2 1 ⁄ 2 story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s as a summer home for the dwarf entertainer Charles Stratton, best known by his stage name, General Tom Thumb. It has Second Empire architecture , including a mansard roof , paired brackets in the cornice, and paired columns supporting the porch.