Obediah Wood House, 17 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Typical example of the large turn of the eighteenth century house; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-239 Surv... More
Joshua Coffin House, 52 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the best examples of the mid-eighteenth century ship-masters' houses; a full house plan, central chimney and door, frame, gable roof with lean-to. The Joshua Coffin House is one of the most... More
Thomas Macy Warehouse, Straight Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A large brick warehouse for ships' stores built immediately after the Great Fire of 1846 during Nantucket's whaling prosperity. / All buildings in the vicinity of this building were destroyed by t... More
Thomas Macy Warehouse, Straight Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A large brick warehouse for ships' stores built immediately after the Great Fire of 1846 during Nantucket's whaling prosperity. / All buildings in the vicinity of this building were destroyed by t... More
Thomas Macy Warehouse, Straight Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A large brick warehouse for ships' stores built immediately after the Great Fire of 1846 during Nantucket's whaling prosperity. / All buildings in the vicinity of this building were destroyed by t... More
First Baptist Church, 1 Summer Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The First Baptist Church was originally built as the Baptist Meeting House. Fredrick Brown Coleman designed the church. His design was interpreted in a very... More
Jethro Coffin House, Sunset Hill, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The oldest building on Nantucket Island, it was restored in 1927 as an example of seventeenth century domestic architecture from which the typical Nantucket house evolved in the eighteenth century... More
Jethro Coffin House, Sunset Hill, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The oldest building on Nantucket Island, it was restored in 1927 as an example of seventeenth century domestic architecture from which the typical Nantucket house evolved in the eighteenth century... More
Greater Light, 8 Howard Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Located on Nantucket Island, the barn at 8 Howard Street is believed to have been built c. 1790. It was purchased in 1906 by William Holland, the town grocer, who used it to house cattle, horses ... More
Main Street, South Side (Buildings), 18-54 Main Street, Nantucket, Nan...
Significance: All buildings built after the fire of 1846; typical late nineteenth and early twentieth century retail shopping street. Survey number: HABS MA-950 Building/structure dates: ca. 18h2 Initial Construction
Levi Starbuck House, 14 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of Nantucket's most beautiful Greek Revival houses, it is one of the first to reveal the island's interest in the revival of classical design. It appears that in 1838 William M. Andrews, house... More
Philip H. Folger Block, 56 & 58 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: Unusual and elaborate for a small island town, it is one of the nine brick mansions of considerable elegance and cost built here between 1828 and 1845 at the peak of Nantucket's success as the fir... More
Benjamin Swift House, 29 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical Nantucket house, it has been the home of the Wood family for over 100 years; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
George B. Upton House, 2 Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Erected on site of Levi Starbuck's barn, the Upton House is a well sited late nineteenth century building; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field n... More
George B. Upton House, 2 Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Erected on site of Levi Starbuck's barn, the Upton House is a well sited late nineteenth century building; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field n... More
Margaret Gardner Daggett House, 111 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket ...
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Coffin School, 4 Winter Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Old Gaol, Vestal Street (moved from original site), Nantucket, Nantuck...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N162 Survey number: HABS MA-120 Building/structure dates: 1711 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1805 Subsequent Work
Coffin-Gardner House, 33 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: This house has remained in the same family since built, is a typical indigenous Nantucket house of the turn of the nineteenth century, and has been little altered. / The Coffin-Gardner House was e... More
Coffin-Gardner House, 33 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: This house has remained in the same family since built, is a typical indigenous Nantucket house of the turn of the nineteenth century, and has been little altered. / The Coffin-Gardner House was e... More
India House, 37 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Charles F. Hussey, a ropemaker, built this house c. 1804 as a single family residence. It is a typical four-bay braced frame Nantucket structure. It's India Street location is four blocks from t... More
India House, 37 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Charles F. Hussey, a ropemaker, built this house c. 1804 as a single family residence. It is a typical four-bay braced frame Nantucket structure. It's India Street location is four blocks from t... More
Academy Lane (Houses), Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Academy Lane is located on Academy Hill, once known as Beacon Hill, adjacent to the First Congregational Church (MA-902) and The North Vestry (MA-903). The l... More
F. & A.M. Union Lodge, 63 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of first buildings to break with the simple architectural style of Quaker Nantucket and include extensive Federal style decoration. The Masonic Hall, built about 1805, was one of the first bui... More
Zaccheus Macy House, 107 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Example of a mid-eighteenth century lean-to house and home of two famous Nantucketers. Survey number: HABS MA-934 Building/structure dates: ca. 1748 Initial Construction Building/structure date... More
Richard Gardner Jr. House, 32 West Chester Street, Nantucket, Nantucke...
Significance: One of the first lean-to type dwellings built at the site of the new settlement at Wesco (Nantucket) in the early eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS MA-839 Building/structure dates: ca. 172... More
India Street Neighborhood Study, 15-45 India Street, Nantucket, Nantuc...
Significance: Sixteen separate houses built between 1785 and 1836 that form a continuous facade along the street; an example of the typical Nantucket residential streetscape and architecture that existed at the... More
India Street Neighborhood Study, 15-45 India Street, Nantucket, Nantuc...
Significance: Sixteen separate houses built between 1785 and 1836 that form a continuous facade along the street; an example of the typical Nantucket residential streetscape and architecture that existed at the... More
First Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...
Significance: The First Congregational Church's architecture illustrates the conflict of carpenter classic and carpenter gothic styles of the mid-nineteenth century; trompe l'oeil painting on interior west wall... More
First Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...
Significance: The First Congregational Church's architecture illustrates the conflict of carpenter classic and carpenter gothic styles of the mid-nineteenth century; trompe l'oeil painting on interior west wall... More
First Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...
Significance: The First Congregational Church's architecture illustrates the conflict of carpenter classic and carpenter gothic styles of the mid-nineteenth century; trompe l'oeil painting on interior west wall... More
Wharf Rat Club, Old North Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Located on the north side of Old North Wharf, this structure has served as the meeting place for the Wharf Rat Club since its founding in 1915. It was built on the south of the wharf after 1900 a... More
Wharf Rat Club, Old North Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Located on the north side of Old North Wharf, this structure has served as the meeting place for the Wharf Rat Club since its founding in 1915. It was built on the south of the wharf after 1900 a... More
Elisha Green House, 9 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Typical Nantucket four-bay house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-241 Survey number: HABS MA-10... More
Sea Cliff Inn, 31 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical late nineteenth century beach resort hotel, one of the largest in Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-967 Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1... More
Sea Cliff Inn, 31 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical late nineteenth century beach resort hotel, one of the largest in Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-967 Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1... More
Moor's End, 19 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A large, elegant brick house built for a ship-owner in the prosperous days of the whaling industry on Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-917 Building/structure dates: ca. 1834 Initial Construction
Moor's End, 19 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A large, elegant brick house built for a ship-owner in the prosperous days of the whaling industry on Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-917 Building/structure dates: ca. 1834 Initial Construction
Society of Friends Meetinghouse, Fair Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Cou...
Significance: Old landmark associated with important history of Quakers on Nantucket and first building owned by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Society of Friends' Meeting House is a typical mid-19th... More
Society of Friends Meetinghouse, Fair Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Cou...
Significance: Old landmark associated with important history of Quakers on Nantucket and first building owned by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Society of Friends' Meeting House is a typical mid-19th... More
Eighteen-Hundred House, 4 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Old Windmill, North Mill & South Mill Streets, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...
Survey number: HABS MA-141 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Swain-Mitchell House, 1 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Excellent example of the typical Nantucket house that is apparently indigenous to Nantucket and was built between c. 1770 and c. 1830, characterized by a lack of symmetry, four bays, off-center do... More
John Russell House, 33 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Typical Nantucket house with a typical carpenter classic Nantucket doorway; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-... More
Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More
Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More
Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More
Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More
Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More
Frederick C. Sanford Place, Federal, Broad & Water Streets, Nantucket,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS MA-162 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1936 Demolished Building/structure d... More
Frederick C. Sanford Place, Federal, Broad & Water Streets, Nantucket,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS MA-162 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1936 Demolished Building/structure d... More
African Society Baptist Church, York Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: The only building remaining on Nantucket associated with the people from the west coast of Africa. / 1825: Land was owned by Jeffrey Summons. He agreed to convey this land to the trustees of a pr... More
Shanunga, Mitchell Street (moved from original location), Siasconset, ...
Significance: The smaller portion was probably built at the fishing stage of Sesachacha, and the higher part added after removal to Siasconset. The exterior illustrates the completed Siasconset house of the la... More
Christopher Hussey House, 12 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Survey number: HABS MA-1101 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Christopher Hussey House, 12 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Survey number: HABS MA-1101 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nantucket Atheneum, Lower India & Federal Streets, Nantucket, Nantucke...
Significance: Intellectual center for Nantucket, originally built in 1825, it was rebuilt after the fire of 1846 with further embellishments to its Greek Revival design. The Nantucket Atheneum was erected in 18... More
Nathaniel Macy House, 12 Liberty Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: House is a good example in excellent condition of typical early eighteenth century Nantucket house of two stories with a lean-to addition forming a "saltbox" roof profile. The Nathaniel Macy House... More
Nathaniel Macy House, 12 Liberty Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: House is a good example in excellent condition of typical early eighteenth century Nantucket house of two stories with a lean-to addition forming a "saltbox" roof profile. The Nathaniel Macy House... More
Obed Macy House, 15 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The Obed Macy House is an example of a late-eighteenth century mansion house. The shell was constructed c. 1801 for Obed Macy, local merchant and author of The History of Nantucket. The house is... More
Wellington-Merrill House, 27 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Survey number: HABS MA-1104 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jared Coffin House, 29 Broad Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the large houses built during Nantucket's most prosperous period of whaling, it was occupied as such for less than one year; since then has been the best known hotel on Nantucket. Survey n... More
Elihu Coleman House, Hawthorne Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The only house still standing on the site of the old settlement of Sherburne, it is an excellent example of early eighteenth century Nantucket architecture. Survey number: HABS MA-2-86 Building/... More
Elihu Coleman House, Hawthorne Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The only house still standing on the site of the old settlement of Sherburne, it is an excellent example of early eighteenth century Nantucket architecture. Survey number: HABS MA-2-86 Building/... More
19 Hussey Street (House), Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-195 Building/structure dates: 1738 Initial Construction
19 Hussey Street (House), Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-195 Building/structure dates: 1738 Initial Construction
Hinchman House, 7 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The Lydia S. Hinchman House, a late Federal style structure, was built in the early nineteenth century for Thomas Coffin. The Woodridge family occupied the house from about 1870-1929. In 1929, L... More
Hinchman House, 7 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The Lydia S. Hinchman House, a late Federal style structure, was built in the early nineteenth century for Thomas Coffin. The Woodridge family occupied the house from about 1870-1929. In 1929, L... More
Swain-Macy House, 99 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Typical of the way many Nantucket houses grew, the Swain-Macy house began as a small eighteenth century lean-to house and then was enlarged and remodeled with Federal details in the prosperous wha... More
Grindell Gardner House, 30 Hussey Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: Gambrel front, lean-to behind, this small house indicates many of the architectural additions and changes made on Nantucket homes over the centuries. Survey number: HABS MA-927 Building/structur... More
John Wendell Barrett House, 72 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Significance: An example of the work of John Coleman, Nantucket builder and craftsman, and of the Greek Revival style in an early, conservative phase on Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-915 Building/structur... More
Sandanwede, 79 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Charles Wood House, 1 North Water Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: Typical of houses built in great numbers right after the Great Fire of 1846. The Charles Wood House was built soon after the Great Fire of 1846 that destroyed all the buildings in this part of tow... More
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 11 Fair Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: St. Paul's Episcopal Church was commissioned by Miss Caroline L.W. French of Boston in memory of her father. The structure was designed by J.W. Northrup of Bridgeport, CT. The cornerstone was laid... More
Holmes & Wyer Carpenters' Shop, Straight Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket C...
Significance: One of the warehouses erected on Straight Wharf immediately after the Great Fire of 1846. 1846 - Daniel Jones, "merchant," owned a ships' supply store here up to 1846 when it was destroyed by fire... More
William Hadwen House, 96 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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William Hadwen House, 96 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Pierce, Easton, Russell, Bunker, & Gardner Houses, 15, 17, 19, 21 & 23...
Significance: Only row houses in Nantucket; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). / The James Easton House, built as part of five row houses, by Philip H. Folger, was purchased by... More
Hadwen-Wright House, 94 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Hadwen-Wright House, 94 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Hadwen-Wright House, 94 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Woodbox Inn, 29 Fair Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The Woodbox Inn was constructed c. 1709 as a residence for the George Bunker family. The structure was originally a story and one half saltbox. An early addition converted the saltbox into a two... More
Tristram Bunker House, 3 Bear Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Example of small Nantucket lean-to house with traditional ell addition. The Bunker House is a typical small, 2-bay, shingled, lean-to type house of the early-middle 18th century. The exact date o... More
Charles & Hiram Folger Shop, 35 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: Probably the largest and certainly the only shop structure remaining from the eighteenth century, it was used as a boat-building shop until 1848; during the latter part of this time it was an impo... More
Charles & Hiram Folger Shop, 35 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: Probably the largest and certainly the only shop structure remaining from the eighteenth century, it was used as a boat-building shop until 1848; during the latter part of this time it was an impo... More
17-57 Main Street (Commercial Buildings), Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: Brick commercial buildings built soon after the 1846 fire along the new alignment for Main Street. Survey number: HABS MA-952 Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction
17-57 Main Street (Commercial Buildings), Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: Brick commercial buildings built soon after the 1846 fire along the new alignment for Main Street. Survey number: HABS MA-952 Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction
Star of the Sea Youth Hostel, Western Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket Cou...
Significance: The Life Saving Station at Surfside, the first of its kind built on Nantucket Island, was originally constructed in 1874 in a Carpenter Gothic style with Stick Style embellishments. It was enlarg... More
Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...
Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More
Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...
Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More
Orange & Union Streets Neighborhood Study, 8-31 Orange Street, 9-21 Un...
Significance: Part of one of the earliest sections of the town to be laid out, the dwellings span Nantucket's history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1925 and ie both on and below Quanaty Bank. / This neighb... More
Siasconset Neighborhood Study, Broadway, Shell, New, Center & Front St...
Significance: Siasconset began in 1676 as a fishing village on Nantucket's east shore. Fishermen, often using material salvaged from shipwrecks or other buildings, added shed-roofed warts to their one room sha... More
Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nantucket Historical Study, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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