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This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.

SamuelLincolnHouse1
Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Phillips House
Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. It was designed by Samuel McIntyre. It is now owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and is open for public tours. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Western Massachusetts

Berkshire County

Franklin County

Hampden County

Hampshire County

  • Amherst
  • Cummington
  • Hadley
    • Porter–Phelps–Huntington House (Hadley) – built between 1752 and 1799 and home of several generations of important local figures, including diarist Elizabeth Porter Phelps and bishop Frederic Dan Huntington
    • Samuel Porter House, 1713
  • Northampton
    • Historic Northampton, a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the pre-contact era to the present. Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654.
      • Isaac Damon House (1813), built by architect Isaac Damon, contains Historic Northampton's administrative offices and a Federal era parlor featuring Damon family furnishings and period artifacts. A modern structure, added in 1987, houses the museum and exhibition area. It features changing exhibits and a permanent installation, A Place Called Paradise: The Making of Northampton, Massachusetts, chronicling Northampton history.
      • Parsons House (1730) affords an overview of Colonial domestic architecture with its interior walls exposed to reveal evolving structural and decorative changes over more than two and a half centuries.
      • Shepherd House (1796) contains artifacts and furnishings from many generations, including exotic souvenirs from the turn-of-the-century travels of Thomas and Edith Shepherd, and reflects one family's changing tastes and values.
      • Shepherd Barn contains exhibits of antique farm implements, vehicles and a working blacksmith shop.

Central Massachusetts

Worcester County

  • Auburn
    • Joseph Stone House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1729 35 Stone Street, Auburn.
    • Thaddeus Chapin House on Elmwood Street – Federal-style house built on west side of Pakachoag Hill in what is now Auburn.
  • Grafton
  • Shrewsbury
  • Worcester
    • Salisbury Mansion – built 1772
    • Judge Timothy Paine House – House is known as The Oaks (1774)
    • Captain Benjamin Flagg House – Central Chimney Cape house built c. 1717, 136 Plantation Street

Eastern Massachusetts

Essex County

Conant House
Conant House

Middlesex County

Norfolk County

Suffolk County

Southeastern Massachusetts

Bristol County

  • Dartmouth
    • Elihu Akin House – cape-style house built; built in 1762
  • Fall River
    • David M. Anthony House – Second Empire style, built 1875
    • Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House – Second Empire, built 1882
    • Borden–Winslow House – Georgian Colonial, built 1740
    • Lafayette–Durfee House – Georgian Colonial, built about 1750
    • William Lindsey House – Greek Revival, built 1844
    • Luther Winslow Jr. House – Federal, built 1875
    • Osborn House – Greek Revival, built 1843
  • Mansfield
  • New Bedford
  • Rehoboth
    • Christopher Carpenter House – built 1800
    • Col. Thomas Carpenter III House – built 1855
    • Carpenter House (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) – built 1789
  • Taunton
    • J.C. Bartlett House – built, 1880
    • Samuel Colby House – Italianate, built 1869
    • McKinstrey House – Georgian colonial, built 1759
    • Morse House – built 1850
    • William L. White Jr. House – Second Empire, built 1873

Plymouth County

Cape Cod and the islands

Barnstable County

Dukes County

  • The Vincent House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in Martha's Vineyard; built c. 1672
  • The Thomas Chase House, Martha's Vineyard – oldest house in downtown Vineyard Haven; built c. 1717

Nantucket County

  • Auld Lang Syne House, Nantucket Sconset – oldest house in Nantucket not on the original foundation, ca. 1675
  • Jethro Coffin House, Nantucket – oldest house in Nantucket on its original foundation; built c. 1686

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