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Oldest house in New York City. [22] Brooke Place Manor: Calvert County: MD 1652 Residential Oldest building in Maryland. [23] Loomis Homestead: Windsor: CT 1653 Residential One of the oldest timber-frame houses in America. The oldest part of the house was built between 1640 and 1653 by Joseph Loomis, who came to Connecticut Colony from England ...
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 Fairbanks House is the oldest verified wood-frame house in North America after timbers were dated from 1637–1641 using dendrochronology. This home is largely preserved in its original state with the central complex being the oldest.
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]
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Oldest house in Elizabethtown, original capital of Province of New Jersey and oldest original building in Union County: 6 West Pearl Street Penn's Brew House: Burlington: 1682 Residence Oldest brewhouse in state Aaron Dunn Homestead Woodbridge: 1685 [18] Residence Possibly the oldest house in Woodbridge and Middlesex County. Buckelew Mansion ...