List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts

See also: Oldest buildings in America

This article attempts to list the oldest extant buildings surviving in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Massachusetts and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based upon dendochronology, architectural studies, and historical records. Sites on the list are generally from the First Period of American architecture or earlier.

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Building	Image	Location	First Built	Notes
Fairbanks House		Dedham, Massachusetts	ca. 1637	Oldest wood-frame house in America, dated using dendochronology, and the oldest house in Massachusetts. [1]
John Humphreys House		Swampscott, Massachusetts	ca. 1637	Oldest house in Swampscott.
Richard Sparrow House		Plymouth, Massachusetts	1640	Oldest house in Plymouth.
Wing Fort House		East Sandwich, Massachusetts	1641
The Witch House		Salem, Massachusetts	1642
General Israel Putnam House		Danvers, Massachusetts	1643
Hatch Homestead		Marshfield, Massachusetts	ca. 1647	Purportedly the oldest continuously occupied house in MA, subject of a book
James Blake House		Dorchester, Massachusetts	1648	Oldest house in Boston.
James Noyes House		Newbury, Massachusetts	1650
Dwight-Derby House		Medfield, Massachusetts	1651
Pickering House		Salem, Massachusetts	1651	Oldest house in Salem, oldest house in U.S. occupied continuously by one family
John Alden House		Duxbury, Massachusetts	1653	National Historic Landmark, the only building still standing in the United States that was built by, and lived in by Pilgrims. Home of Pilgrim John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
Goodspeed House		Barnstable, Massachusetts	1653
Abraham Jaquith House		Billerica, Massachusetts	1653	Building moved to New Hampshire.
Macy-Colby House		Amesbury, Massachusetts	1654
Newman-Fiske-Dodge House		Wenham, Massachusetts	1658
Bellingham-Cary House		Chelsea, Massachusetts	1659
John Partridge House		Millis, Massachusetts	1659
Parkman Tavern		Concord, Massachusetts	1659
Reverend James Keith Parsonage		West Bridgewater, Massachusetts	1662	Old Bridgewater Historical Society, the oldest parsonage and garrison house in the Americas.
Job Lane House		Bedford, Massachusetts	1664
Pickman House		Salem, Massachusetts	1664	Located on Charter Street behind the Peabody Essex Museum, the oldest continually opeated museum in America. The house abuts the Witch Memorial is also next to the 2nd oldest buring ground in America.
Gedney_House		Salem, Massachusetts	1665	2nd Oldest house in the City of Salem
Alexander Standish House		Duxbury, Massachusetts	1666	Home of the son of Pilgrim Capt. Miles Standish.
Peter Bulkeley Esq/Reuben Brown House		Concord, Massachusetts	1667
Jabez Howland House		Plymouth, Massachusetts	1667	Only extant house in Plymouth occupied by Pilgrims. John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley Howland, who both came over on the Mayflower, spent their winters here with their son, Jabez, one of their 10 children. Also a National Historic Landmark.[2]
House of the Seven Gables		Salem, Massachusetts	1668	National Historic Landmark, setting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Isaac Goodale House		Built in Salem, Massachusetts; moved to Ipswich, MA in 1928.	ca. 1668	On the National Register of Historic Places.
Chaplin-Clarke House		Rowley, Massachusetts	1670
Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House		Andover, Massachusetts	1673	Oldest house in Andover.
Jerathmell Bowers House		Lowell, Massachusetts	1673	Oldest house in Lowell.
Hoxie House		Sandwich, Massachusetts	ca. 1675	One of the oldest houses on Cape Cod.
Harlow Old Fort House		Plymouth, Massachusetts	1677	House built using timbers from the Pilgrims' 1621 fort.
John Whipple House		Ipswich, Massachusetts	1677	National Historic Landmark (NHL).
Peter Tufts House		Medford, Massachusetts	1677–1678, circa	Possibly the oldest brick house in the United States.[3][4]
John Balch House		Beverly, Massachusetts	ca. 1678
Paul Revere House		Boston, Massachusetts	1680 circa	Oldest building in downtown Boston.[5]
Hoar Tavern		Lincoln, Massachusetts	1680	Oldest home in Lincoln.[6]
Old Ship Church		Hingham, Massachusetts	1681	Oldest church building in Massachusetts; only remaining Puritan 17th century meetinghouse in America; oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in America.
Cooper-Frost-Austin House		Cambridge, Massachusetts	1682	Oldest house in Cambridge, verified using dendrochronology
William Butter’s Farmhouse		Wilmington, Massachusetts	1682	Oldest building in Wilmington. [3]
Pierce House (Dorchester, Massachusetts)		Dorchester, Massachusetts	1683	One of the oldest houses in Boston.
Old Indian Meeting House		Mashpee, Massachusetts	1684	Oldest Native American church building in America.
Quincy Homestead		Quincy, Massachusetts	1686	Home to four generations of Quincys, including Dorothy Quincy Hancock. Maintained by Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation as well as the National Society of Colonial Dames in America in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Jethro Coffin House		Nantucket, Massachusetts	1686	Oldest house on Nantucket Island.
Joseph Willis House		Taunton, Massachusetts	1688	Oldest house in Taunton.
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm		Newbury, Massachusetts	1690 or earlier	One of the oldest stone buildings in New England.
Old Jail		Barnstable, Massachusetts	1690	Oldest wooden prison in America.
Deane Winthrop House		Winthrop, Massachusetts	between 1675 and 1690	The original building was built about 1637 and was then rebuilt to its present size between 1675 and 1690. It belonged to Deane Winthrop, whose father John Winthrop was the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Currently it is owned by the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association. This building is one of the oldest wood frame houses in the country and it is the oldest continuously lived-in home. Located at 40 Shirley Street, the Deane Winthrop House is a registered National Historic Site.
Kimball Tavern		Haverhill, Massachusetts	1692	The Kimball Tavern is among the oldest buildings in Massachusetts, and one of the oldest buildings in the city of Haverhill. A plaque identifies it as the site of the founding of Bradford College in 1802.
Sarah Cloyce House		Framingham, Massachusetts	1693	Fleeing from the horrors of the Salem Witch Trials, Sarah Cloyce (younger sister of Rebecca Nurse and Mary Easty) and her husband Peter fled to a portion of Thomas Danforth's estate via the Old Connecticut Path. After surviving the winter in nearby caves, they built their home in what would become Framingham, Massachusetts.
Hart House		Lynnfield, Massachusetts	ca. 1695
Samuel Brimblecomb House		Marblehead, Massachusetts	Main house dated to 1713, one structural beam dates to 1689.
St. Michael's Church (Marblehead, Massachusetts)		1714	Marblehead, Massachusetts	Oldest Episcopal parish church building on its original site in New England.
Boston Light		Boston	1716 / 1783	First lighthouse established in the USA, 1716. The current tower, built in 1783, is the second oldest existing lighthouse in the USA (after Sandy Hook Light, New Jersey.

See also

• List of historic houses in Massachusetts
• Oldest buildings in the United States

References

1. ^ Elsie Lathrop "Historic Houses of Early America" (Kessinger, New York: 2006) pg. 218 (accessed on Google Book Search)
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Coolidge, Ruth Dame. Round About Old Medford, Medford Historical Society, 1934.
4. ^ Hooper, John H. “Some Old Medford Houses and Estates” Medford Historic Register. VII:3 (July 1904).
5. ^ [2]
6. ^ http://www.wickedlocal.com/lincoln/town_info/history/x677442766?img=6 Wicked Local Lincoln article by Barbara Rhines