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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of Salem
Now embedded within the Peabody Essex Museum, the East India Marine Hall was built in the 1820s. The museum traces its lineage to the 1799 East India Marine Society, claiming to be the nation's oldest continuously operating museum.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Spencer Pierce Little House
This house is a rare example of a 17th-century stone house in New England. Relatively unchanged despite additions over the centuries, it is now owned by Historic New England, who operate the site as a farm and museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Quincy Homestead
This house was built in 1686 as an early home of the Quincy family. Its well-preserved construction documents 300 years of architectural changes. The building was an early success in house preservation early in the 20th century, and is...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: William Cullen Bryant Homestead
This property was the boyhood home and later summer residence of poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878). It is now owned by The Trustees of Reservations and operated as a house museum.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Revere Beach Reservation
Revere Beach was the first oceanside beach purchased for public access (in 1895). Noted architect Charles Eliot was responsible for the design and layout of the beach's roadways and facilities. Managed by the Massachusetts Department of...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: University Hall, Harvard University
Architect Charles Bulfinch designed, and engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr. constructed this Harvard College facility. Originally used for classes and dining, it now houses the administrative offices.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Goddard Rocket Launching Site
This site, located on a local golf course, is where rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926. The actual launch site is marked by a granite obelisk.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Liberty Farm
This house belonged to abolitionists and suffragists Abby Kelley Foster (1811-87) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-81), and was used by them as a site on the Underground Railroad. The property also featured prominently in the Fosters'...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
This unremarkable 1917 office building was the site of the nation's first successful independent consulting laboratory, Arthur D. Little. The company pioneered the idea of commercial laboratories as independent, profit-making businesses.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Louis Brandeis House
Bought in 1922 by liberal United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), this Cape style house (whose construction dates to the late 19th century) was used by the Brandeis family as a summer retreat.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Gardner Pingree House
Salem merchant John Gardner had this Federalist-style house built in 1804-05 by Samuel McIntire. It was the site of a notorious murder in 1841 that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Peter Tufts House
This house, whose construction date is uncertain but believed to be in the mid-to-late 17th century, is quite possibly the oldest brick house in North America. It was probably built by Peter Tufts (1628-1702), an early settler of Medford.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: John F. Kennedy Birthplace
Now a National Historic Site, this modest suburban house was the birthplace and childhood home of President John F. Kennedy (1917-63).
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Memorial Hall, Harvard University
Designed by William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt, this High Gothic hall was built in the 1870s as Harvard University's memorial to its fallen in the American Civil War. Its amenities include Annenberg Hall (a dining hall) and Sanders...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: George R. Minot House
George R. Minot (1885-1950) was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work finding a treatment for pernicious anemia, then a fatal disease. This 1920s suburban house was his home from 1929 until his death.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Crane Memorial Library
One of five public libraries designed by H. H. Richardson, he considered it to be one of his best designs. The building incorporates stained glass by John LaFarge and sculptural elements by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Orchard House
This early 18th-century house was the longtime home of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). His daughter, writer Louisa May Alcott, set the novel Little Women here. It is now a house museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Derby Summer House
This is a rare example of an 18th-century American garden house. Designed in the 1790s by Samuel McIntire, it resided on the estate of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby until 1901, when it was moved to the Endicott family's Glen Magna...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Frederick Law Olmsted House
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), one of America's leading landscape designers of his generation, lived and worked at this site for the last twenty years of his life.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: General Benjamin Lincoln House
This well-preserved 18th-century house was the birthplace and lifelong home of Revolutionary War General and Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810). The house, which is not open to the public, remains in Lincoln...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: The Parsonage
This 1824 house was home to the father of writer Horatio Alger (1832-99). Alger, a prolific and popular writer of juvenile fiction, frequently summered here.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Uss Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (Destroyer)
The only surviving United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer, this vessel is named for Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (the brother of future President John F. Kennedy) who was killed in action during World War II.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Adventure
This schooner is one of the last surviving Gloucester-based Grand Banks fishing schooners, and one of only two surviving "knockabout" fishing schooners.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Boardman House
This house, whose early construction dates to the late 17th century, has remained little changed since the early 18th century. It is now a house museum operated by Historic New England.