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Summary

Significance: Joseph Starbuck, one of the wealthiest whale-oil merchants of his time, built these three brick mansions, the best known of Nantucket's nineteenth century houses, for his three sons during Nantucket's most prosperous period of whaling.

Survey number: HABS MA-941

Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

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Date

1933 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Childs, James
place

Location

Nantucket (Mass.) ,  41.28167, -70.10275
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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