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Hyannis / ˌ h aɪ ˈ æ n ɪ s / is the largest of the seven villages in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. It is the commercial and transportation hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban area at the 1990 census.
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1865, and his one of the village's finest Italianate houses.It has roughly square proportions, with an off-center entry flanked by a single-story projecting bay window, both of which are topped by cornices with brackets.
Irregular pattern on both sides of Main St., west to Forest St.and east to the junction of Rte. 39 and Chatham Rd. 41°41′09″N 70°04′16″W / 41.685833°N 70.071111°W / 41.685833; -70.071111 ( Harwich Historic
The Capt. Rodney J. Baxter House is an historic octagonal house at South and Pearl Streets in Barnstable, Massachusetts.Built in 1850, it is Barnstable's only example of an octagon house, built closely to designs advocated by Orson S. Fowler and briefly popular in the 1850s.
The Captain Oliver Bearse House stood south of Main Street in downtown Hyannis, on the west side of Pearl Street. It was a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with corner pilasters and an entablature that wrapped around the main block. Its entry was flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a heavy lintel and entablature.
The area was not fully developed until the first decades of the 20th century. The district does have a few 18th-century houses, but most of its houses are in the styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The most famous residents of Hyannis Port, however, are the Kennedy family, whose compound is a National Historic Landmark.
Massachusetts wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Most of the wine grape vineyards and wineries in Massachusetts are located in the southern half of the state, within the boundaries of the Southeastern New England AVA. Although the coastal conditions moderate the cold climate, many wineries rely upon ...
The Pleasant–School Street District is located just north of Hyannis's innermost harbor on the south coast of Cape Cod.The district extends along the north side of South Street between Pleasant and School Streets, and then along both sides of Pleasant and School up to, but not including, the commercial properties that line Main Street.