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
William M. Andrews House, 22 Hussey Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Significance: The house at Twenty-Two Hussey Street was the first residence on the island of Nantucket to be designed and constructed by William M. Andrews, and early carpenter and house wright. Finished in 18... More
Worth-Gardner House, 3 Academy Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Unusual transitional design between the traditional four-bay, asymmetrical chimneyed house of the late eighteenth century, and the five-bay symmetrical design... More
Worth-Gardner House, 3 Academy Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Unusual transitional design between the traditional four-bay, asymmetrical chimneyed house of the late eighteenth century, and the five-bay symmetrical design... More
Centre Street United Methodist Church, Centre & Main Streets, Nantucke...
Significance: A visual and social landmark, this Church contains some original elements despite later alterations, and reflects the changing tastes in nineteenth century ecclesiastical architecture. / The Metho... More
Centre Street United Methodist Church, Centre & Main Streets, Nantucke...
Significance: A visual and social landmark, this Church contains some original elements despite later alterations, and reflects the changing tastes in nineteenth century ecclesiastical architecture. / The Metho... More
Centre Street United Methodist Church, Centre & Main Streets, Nantucke...
Significance: A visual and social landmark, this Church contains some original elements despite later alterations, and reflects the changing tastes in nineteenth century ecclesiastical architecture. / The Metho... 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
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
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
Christopher Starbuck House, 105 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: One of few surviving late seventeenth century lean-to houses, half of it may have been moved from site of earlier settlement; relatively unaltered, since completed c. 1757. Survey number: HABS MA... More
Coffin School, 4 Winter Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Tupper-Folger House, 28 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The rear or east section is one of the first houses built in this section and believed to be the home where Crevecoeur, author of Letters From an American Farmer, was entertained in 1772; the west... More
William Crosby House, 1 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: In 1837 whaling merchant William Crosby commissioned Henry Macy to build a house at One Pleasant Street. This building is a good example of the Greek Revival tradition in nineteenth century Nantu... 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
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
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
Major Josiah Coffin House, 60 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: A large two-story lean-to style, it is one of the oldest houses on Nantucket. / This house was built in 1724 by Major Josiah Coffin for his son, Josiah Coffin, Esquire. In 1811 the son died, leav... 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
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
Maria Mitchell Observatory, 3 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: On July 15, 1908, the Observatory on Vestal Street was dedicated in honor of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a disting... 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
Joseph Starbuck Houses, 93, 95, & 97 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket...
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 Nantuck... More
Joseph Starbuck Houses, 93, 95, & 97 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket...
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 Nantuck... 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
Nathan Beebe House, 11 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of a row of typical Nantucket four-bay houses; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-242 Survey n... More
Coffin-Athearn Stores, 2 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Two early nineteenth century stores, the brick walls of which survived the Great Fire of 1846, and the municipal building from 1836 until 1966. These two brick buildings are among the oldest comme... More
Henry Coffin House, 75 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Henry Coffin House, 75 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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McCleave-Dickie House, 1 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
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McCleave-Dickie House, 1 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
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Joseph West House, 17 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the several merchants' homes of same type of construction erected here on "madeland" about 1800; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note... More
Isaac Chase House, 14 1/2 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: Early dwelling erected in the Fish Lot Shares on Wesco Hill; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-251... More
Starbuck-Newhouse House, 15 Liberty Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
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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
Raymond-Coleman House, 53 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: Example of a small lean-to house with side door and chimney, it is believed to be one of the oldest houses on Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-837 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Christopher Hussey House, 12 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
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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
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
First Congregational Church (North Vestry), Beacon Hill, Centre Street...
Significance: The North Vestry is one of the oldest church buildings in America still in use. / The North Vestry was built at Sherburne, perhaps in 1711, as the First Congregational Meetinghouse. In 1765, it w... More
First Congregational Church (North Vestry), Beacon Hill, Centre Street...
Significance: The North Vestry is one of the oldest church buildings in America still in use. / The North Vestry was built at Sherburne, perhaps in 1711, as the First Congregational Meetinghouse. In 1765, it w... More
First Congregational Church (North Vestry), Beacon Hill, Centre Street...
Significance: The North Vestry is one of the oldest church buildings in America still in use. / The North Vestry was built at Sherburne, perhaps in 1711, as the First Congregational Meetinghouse. In 1765, it w... More
Wellington-Merrill House, 27 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
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Wellington-Merrill House, 27 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
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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
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
Meridian Stones, Main & Fair Streets, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS MA-183 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Richard Gardner House, 139 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, M...
Significance: A seventeenth century house greatly altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, moved and restored in the early twentieth century largely to conjecture. Unprocessed Field note material ex... More
John Beard House, 20 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A 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-254 Survey number: HABS MA-... 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
Frederick Mitchell House, 69 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: One of the first brick mansions to be erected in Nantucket during the prosperous whaling years of the early 1830's. Survey number: HABS MA-936 Building/structure dates: 1834 Initial Construction
Easton-Joy House, 4 North Water Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, M...
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Peter Folger House, 51 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: "3-decker" residence very unusual for Nantucket. House was owned and occupied by Folger family from 1765 to 1955. / 1678-The proprietors laid out Wesco AcreLots. The Fifth Squadron, Third Lot ... More
Nicholson-True House, 38 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nicholson-True House, 38 India 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
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
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
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
Job Macy House, 11 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: An early example of the typical Nantucket dwelling-house with two stories front and rear rather than a lean-to to rear and characterized by a lack of symmetry, four bays, off-center doorway and ch... More
Job Macy House, 11 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: An early example of the typical Nantucket dwelling-house with two stories front and rear rather than a lean-to to rear and characterized by a lack of symmetry, four bays, off-center doorway and ch... More
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
Joseph Starbuck House, 4 New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: This is a typical Nantucket mansion of the early nineteenth century when the houses began to be more spacious. Survey number: HABS MA-940 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Bui... More
Joseph Starbuck House, 4 New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: This is a typical Nantucket mansion of the early nineteenth century when the houses began to be more spacious. Survey number: HABS MA-940 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Bui... More
Joseph Starbuck House, 4 New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: This is a typical Nantucket mansion of the early nineteenth century when the houses began to be more spacious. Survey number: HABS MA-940 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Bui... 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
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
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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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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