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 from Brant Point, 1895, Panoramic Photograph
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Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts., panoramic postcard
Postcard shows a harbor of small boats and sailboats, a pier on the right with a woman in a long white dress shaded by an umbrella, large homes and lighthouse across the bay. F70873 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5... More
William Nichols House, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A particularly fine example of the typical Nantucket house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-244 ... More
Benjamin Coggeshall House, 8 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Significance: Handsome Greek Revival home of a famous Nantucket whaler; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-247 S... More
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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Mr. Jules Thebaud, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts. View to fire...
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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. Jules Thebaud, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Porch, close...
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George Lawrence House, 35 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, M...
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The Breakers, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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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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
Solomon & Paul Gardner Houses, 1 & 3 Stone Alley, Nantucket, Nantucket...
Significance: First half of the eighteenth century abutting houses were built on historic alley at edge of Quanaty Bank; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field n... 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
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
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
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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Coffin School, 4 Winter Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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
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
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
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
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
Thomas Macy House, 99 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The 1770 residence of Valentine Swain was constructed as a typical four bay house. During the prosperity of the whaling days, Thomas Macy acquired the property and had the house enlarged and embe... More
Thomas Macy House, 99 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The 1770 residence of Valentine Swain was constructed as a typical four bay house. During the prosperity of the whaling days, Thomas Macy acquired the property and had the house enlarged and embe... More
Siasconset Union Chapel, New Street, Siasconset, Nantucket, Nantucket ...
Significance: The Siasconset Union Chapel has served as the house of prayer for the village of Siasconset, Nantucket Island, since its completion in 1883. Originally constructed in a Gothic Revival style, it h... 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
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
John Barnard House, 84 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Silas Paddack House, 18 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The house at 18 India Street was built c. 1767 for Silas Paddack, mariner, on land inherited from his wife's family. Silas was a direct descendent of Ichabod Paddack who, in 1690, was brought to ... More
Henry Coffin House, 75 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Eighteen-Hundred House, 4 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1102 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Starbuck-Newhouse House, 15 Liberty Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
Survey number: HABS MA-1103 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Starbuck-Newhouse House, 15 Liberty Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
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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
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
Wellington-Merrill House, 27 Hulbert Avenue, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
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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
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 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
Gardner-Whippey House, 64 Centre Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: 1789: William Gardner and his daughter Lucinda Gardner Whippey purchased a parcel of land containing twenty-one square rods. The land located in Sherburne was purchased for the sum of thirty thre... 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
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
Meletiah Nye House, 43 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A variation on the Nantucket house; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-226 Survey number: HABS MA-1041 Buildi... 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
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
Second Congregational Meetinghouse Society Church, Orange Street, Nant...
Significance: The structure, with its clock tower and golden dome, dominates the skyline of Nantucket town. The church is an outstanding example of an early nineteenth century meeting house with trompe-l'oeil ... More
Second Congregational Meetinghouse Society Church, Orange Street, Nant...
Significance: The structure, with its clock tower and golden dome, dominates the skyline of Nantucket town. The church is an outstanding example of an early nineteenth century meeting house with trompe-l'oeil ... More
Second Congregational Meetinghouse Society Church, Orange Street, Nant...
Significance: The structure, with its clock tower and golden dome, dominates the skyline of Nantucket town. The church is an outstanding example of an early nineteenth century meeting house with trompe-l'oeil ... More
Edward Cary House, 117 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Parliament House, 10 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Parliament House, 10 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Parliament House, 10 Pine Street, 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
Nicholson-True House, 38 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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
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
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
Francis Barker House, 13 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of a row of typical four-bay Nantucket houses; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-243 Survey n... 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
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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