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
[Nantucket doorway, Massachusetts], gelatin silver print
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On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A Nantuc...
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On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A Nantuc...
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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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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
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
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
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
Silvanus Ewer House, 19 Union Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: One of the several typical four-bay Nantucket houses erected here after land below Quanaty Bank was dug away to make room for houses on Union Street; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborh... 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
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
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
Coffin-Chapin House, 9 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1157 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
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
Hadwen & Barney Candle House, Broad & South Streets, Nantucket, Nantuc...
Significance: Built as a brick candle-house, it is one of the half-dozen remaining commercial buildings of whaling days. This building was erected in 1847, a year after the Great Fire of 1846, by the firm of Ri... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Barnabas Gardner House, 153 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Significance: One of Nantucket's large early eighteenth century lean-to houses. Survey number: HABS MA-925 Building/structure dates: ca. 1735 Initial Construction
Reuben R. Bunker House, Academy Hill, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Example of the turn of the eighteenth century home of a prominent Nantucketer with later Federal details. Survey number: HABS MA-916 Building/structure dates: ca. 1806 Initial Construction
George Gardner House, 8 Pine Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Robert Wyer House, 33 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A fine example of Nantucket's eighteenth century lean-to style architecture; owned by three whaling captains in succession. Survey number: HABS MA-946 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial ... 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...
Survey number: HABS MA-1103 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Survey number: HABS MA-1104 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Heart's Ease, Center Street, Siasconset, Nantucket, Nantucket County, ...
Survey number: HABS MA-1204 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Easton-Joy House, 4 North Water Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, M...
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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
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
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
Silas Gardner House, 21 Milk Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Nicholson-True House, 38 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1110 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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