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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Hancock Shaker Village
This Shaker village was established in 1791 and lasted until 1960, after which it became a living history museum. It is noted for its distinctive round barn, built in 1826.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Ernestina (Schooner)
Ernestina is the oldest surviving Grand Banks fishing schooner, and the only surviving 19th century fishing schooner built in Gloucester. Owned by the state and under the overall aegis of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Cole's Hill
Cole's Hill is the site of the burial ground of the Pilgrims. Those who died in the first winter of the Plymouth Colony (1620-21) were buried there.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Converse Memorial Library
This public library building was the last such building designed by architect H. H. Richardson, and is counted among his greatest works.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Adams Academy
High Gothic building, built in 1871 to a design by William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt, for a preparatory school funded with a bequest of John Adams.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: New Bedford Historic District
This district encompasses the historic center of the country's leading 19th century whaling center, including as contributing properties other historic landmarks.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Percy W. Bridgman House
This house served as the longtime home of Nobel prize-winning physicist Percy W. Bridgman (1882-1961). His innovations in the field of high pressure physics made possible the development of synthetic diamonds.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: John Quincy Adams Birthplace
President John Quincy Adams was born in this house, which is adjacent to the John Adams Birthplace; it is also part of the Adams National Historical Park.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Isaac Royall House
This c. 1692 house was extensively expanded in the 18th century by merchant and slaveowner Isaac Royall, Jr. It was occupied by John Stark during the 1775-76 Siege of Boston. A well-preserved Georgian house that is now a museum, the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Hancock Clarke House
This 1737 house was the boyhood home of Revolutionary leader John Hancock, and was where he and Samuel Adams hid from British authorities at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: General Rufus Putnam House
Rufus Putnam (1738-1824) was a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War. After the war he pioneered the settlement of the Northwest Territories, serving as its first Surveyor General. This house, built in the early...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Flying Horses Carousel
This carousel, one of two extant examples of the work of the Charles F. W. Dare Company, is the oldest operating platform carousel in the nation, and may be the oldest of any type (the Flying Horse Carousel of Watch Hill, Rhode Island,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Emily Dickinson Home
This house was the lifelong home of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86). The house is now owned by Amherst College and is operated as a house museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Maria Baldwin House
This 19th century duplex was the home of educator Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922), the first female African-American principal of a school in New England.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Daniel Chester French Home and Studio
Better known as Chesterwood, this was the summer home and studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) from 1891 until his death. The estate was designed by French's collaborator Henry Bacon, and is now owned by the National...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Wright's Tavern
Wright's Tavern was used in October 1774 as the first meeting place of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. In April 1775 it was the assembly point for Concord's Minutemen before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: John Whipple House
The earliest portions of this house date to 1642. It has been operated as a museum (now known as the Ipswich Museum) since the 1890s.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Fruitlands
Fruitlands was the site of a short-lived (1843-44) Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Amos Bronson Alcott. The property was acquired by preservationist Clara Endicott Sears in 1910 and opened as the Fruitlands Museum four...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Paul Cuffe Farm
This site was the home and farm of Paul Cuffee (1759-1817), a wealthy colonial-era African-American merchant. Cuffee was a leading advocate for minority rights in Massachusetts, and a promoter and funder of the resettlement of...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University
This building, now housing administrative offices and a freshman dormitory, is the oldest surviving building (1718-20) on the campus of Harvard University, and the second oldest academic building in the nation.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Caleb Cushing House
This fine Federalist house was the home of diplomat and United States Attorney General Caleb Cushing (1800-79). Cushing is known for negotiating the 1844 Treaty of Wanghia, the first treaty between the United States and Qing China, and...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Naumkeag
This Gilded Age mansion and country estate was designed by McKim, Mead & White, with landscaping by Fletcher Steele. Built in the 1880s for lawyer Joseph Choate, it was given by his daughter to The Trustees of Reservations, who...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Henry Cabot Lodge Residence
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was a lifelong resident of this house. Lodge, as United States Senator from Massachusetts, was a critical voice in foreign policy debates of the early 20th century; he supported a wider role for the United...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Norfolk County Courthouse
This Greek Revival courthouse was built in 1827 and expanded over the 19th century. It was site of the controversial Sacco-Vanzetti trial in 1921, and has changed little since then.