Joseph Perkins House

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location= Methuen, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 45
lat_seconds = 40
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 10
long_seconds = 8
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
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built =1782
architect= Unknown
architecture= Greek Revival
added = January 20, 1984
governing_body = Private
mpsub=Methuen MRA
refnum=84002416cite 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]

Joseph Perkins House, built in 1763, is a historic house at 297 Howe Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

It is one-story house on what is now Court Street, but was then a wilderness. John Perkins and his young bride Phebe (sic), both from York, Maine, began their married life here. They had few near neighbors; by 1774 there were only six other houses on the Castine Peninsula - three of these log cabins. As the Perkins family grew and prospered a four-room two-story addition was built across the gable end of the early home. Around 1783, the house was enlarged, the first one-story home being torn down to be rebuilt as a two-story ell.cite web|url=http://www.wilsonmuseum.org/johnperkins.html|title=Welcome to the John Perkins House|date=2008-08-18|work=The Wilson Museum|publisher=Castine Scientific Society]

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