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His descendants continued to occupy the home until January 26, 1895, when the last original family owner died. [31] The home was given an update sometime in 1729, 1800, and in 1880 when the size of the chimney was reduced. [31] [32] Its most recent renovations occurred in 2020, and the house was sold the following year as a private residence.
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
The oldest home in New England continuously owned by the same family; now a museum. [57] Dendrochronological dating was attempted in 2007, but was unsuccessful due to "many of the samples having too many narrow rings, some having too few rings, and to the lack of reference chronologies from the south-eastern part of Massachusetts." [58]
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This week’s top-selling property in Dartmouth is a classic colonial that sold for $820,000. The home at 175 Rockland Street is a rare find with five bedrooms and over 2,550 square feet of living ...
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Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
These structures have highly decorated wooden frames and are structurally more complex than the previous surviving generation of houses. While many existing homes are thought to have been built between 1660 and 1679, scientifically proving their age is another matter. Of the 78 houses on this list, just 11 have been proven through ...