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The oldest American structure in Nevada. [122] Fort Garland Officer's Quarters and Barracks Fort Garland: CO 1858 Military The oldest American buildings still standing in Colorado. In close competition with Four Mile House c. 1859. [122] Fort Sisseton: Britton: SD 1864 Military The oldest structures still standing in South Dakota. [123] Pioneer ...
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [1] [2] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and ...
The González–Álvarez House, also known as The Oldest House, is a historic house museum at 14 St. Francis Street in St. Augustine, Florida.With a construction history dating to about 1723, it is believed to be the oldest surviving house in St. Augustine.
There is no ridgepole in the roof. People lived in this part of the house until 1918. [5] A large addition was constructed in the early 18th century. A wooden floor was built over the original dirt floor around 1730. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is still privately owned. The cabin is opened for ...
The Whitfield House served primarily as the home for Henry Whitfield, Dorothy Shaeffe Whitfield, and their nine children. [5] The house also served as a place of worship before the first church was built in Guilford, as a meetinghouse for colonial town meetings, as a protective fort for the settlers in case of attack, and as a shelter for travelers between the New Haven and Saybrook colonies. [7]
The home, rests on a 20-foot-high 'midden' or shell mound thought to have been part of the Native American village of Hobe. Artifacts such as pottery found in the mound date as far back as 500 B.C.
The De Vargas Street House is a two-story adobe building; the first floor is original and the second floor was reconstructed based on the original in the 1920s. Most of the house is constructed from adobe brick, which was a Spanish colonial technology, while a few lower wall sections are puddled adobe characteristic of pre-Spanish pueblo buildings.
House is on display in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The oldest rear portion of the house dates to circa 1710. [111] Peak House: Medfield 1711 The Peak House is a first period cottage featuring peak style architecture and post-and-beam construction.