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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Town crier, Nantucket, Massachusetts.. 19th century, Library of Congre...
Photograph shows William "Billy" Clark standing in a doorway holding papers and blowing a horn. Copyright 1897 by H. S. Wyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Town center, Nantucket, Massachusetts
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Walter Folger II House, 8 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County...
Significance: The Walter Folger II House was purchased in 1786 by Walter Folger Sr. Similar to other Pleasant Street residences of the period, it was originally constructed as a two and one-half story heavy wo... More
William Rotch Warehouse, Main & South Water Streets, Nantucket, Nantuc...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maria Mitchell Association, Science Library, 2 Vestal Street, Nantucke...
Significance: The Maria Mitchell Science Library came into existence in 1902 upon the founding of the association commemorating her as America's first woman astronomer. On July 15, 1920 the first permanent hom... 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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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
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
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
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
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
Swain House, 3 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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
John Barnard House, 84 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1105 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Barnard House, 84 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Captain Reuben Baxter House, 23 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Cou...
Significance: A typical Nantucket house extensively altered; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-236 Survey number: HABS MA-1... More
Francis Macy House, 77 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of about a dozen mansions built at the height of whaling prosperity; late eighteenth century house in rear. Survey number: HABS MA-931 Building/structure dates: ca. 1790 Initial Construction... More
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
Richard Coleman House, 21 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, M...
Significance: One of three gambrel-roof houses built in the typical Nantucket plan with off-center door and chimney. This 4-bay, 2 1/2 story, wood frame house was built by Richard Coleman, a housewright at the ... More
Thaddeus Coffin House, 89 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: An example of a pre-Revolutionary Nantucket structure enlarged and altered in keeping with later needs and styles. Survey number: HABS MA-921 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construct... More
Thaddeus Coffin House, 89 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: An example of a pre-Revolutionary Nantucket structure enlarged and altered in keeping with later needs and styles. Survey number: HABS MA-921 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construct... 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
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
Thomas Starbuck Homestead, 11 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County...
Significance: A typical Nantucket house, it retains many interesting, original and old features and was the home of the famous Starbuck family. Survey number: HABS MA-942 Building/structure dates: 1761 Initia... 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
Edward Cary House, 117 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Parliament House, 10 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1201 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parliament House, 10 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1201 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sandanwede, 79 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Sandanwede, 79 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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
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
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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Captain Silas Jones House, 5 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Significance: One of the few gambrel roof houses on Nantucket, it is one of three houses originally built with brick ends and frame side walls; remodelled and street elevation bricked, it is an example of the F... 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
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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Bird's eye view of the town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts...
Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking southwest." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 312 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., index to points of interest,... More
Captain William Stubbs House, 15 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...
Significance: A typical Nantucket four-bay house with off-center door and chimney; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-240 Su... More
Gorham Macy House, 39 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Example of vernacular Greek revival domestic architecture; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-228 Survey numbe... More
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[Nantucket doorway, Massachusetts], gelatin silver print
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Walter Folger II House, 8 Pleasant Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County...
Significance: The Walter Folger II House was purchased in 1786 by Walter Folger Sr. Similar to other Pleasant Street residences of the period, it was originally constructed as a two and one-half story heavy wo... More
William Rotch Warehouse, Main & South Water Streets, Nantucket, Nantuc...
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William Rotch Warehouse, Main & South Water Streets, Nantucket, Nantuc...
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