Richard Sparrow House

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location= Plymouth, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 57
lat_seconds = 15
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 70
long_minutes = 39
long_seconds = 54
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
area =
built =1640
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
added = October 09, 1974
governing_body = Private
refnum=74002035cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Richard Sparrow House is a historic house at 42 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth.

The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1633. [ [http://www.sparrowhouse.com/SparrowHistory.htm Richard Sparrow House History] ] He was granted a convert|6|acre|m2|sing=on tract of land in 1636 on which the house was later built. [ [http://www.sparrowhouse.com/SparrowHistory.htm Richard Sparrow House History] ] Sparrow moved to Eastham in 1653. [ [http://www.sparrowhouse.com/SparrowHistory.htm Richard Sparrow House History] ] The Richard Sparrow House was added to the National Historic Register in 1974.cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

External links

* [http://www.sparrowhouse.com/ Sparrow House Website]

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