17-57 Main Street (Commercial Buildings), Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
Significance: Brick commercial buildings built soon after the 1846 fire along the new alignment for Main Street. Survey number: HABS MA-952 Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction
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
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
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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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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Andrew Myrick House, 16 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A mid-eighteenth century house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS MA-1067... More
Lower Main Street, South Side (Buildings), 12 & 14 Main Street, Nantuc...
Significance: It now contains a good example of the rebuilding and remodeling of commercial properties in 1968 to enhance the historic area and economic development of Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-954
Mr. Jules Thebaud, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts. View to dini...
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Miller, residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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John Howland Swain House, 21 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County...
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The Breakers, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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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
Jethro Coffin House, Sunset Hill, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The oldest building on Nantucket Island, it was restored in 1927 as an example of seventeenth century domestic architecture from which the typical Nantucket house evolved in the eighteenth century... More
Jethro Coffin House, Sunset Hill, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: The oldest building on Nantucket Island, it was restored in 1927 as an example of seventeenth century domestic architecture from which the typical Nantucket house evolved in the eighteenth century... More
Greater Light, 8 Howard Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Located on Nantucket Island, the barn at 8 Howard Street is believed to have been built c. 1790. It was purchased in 1906 by William Holland, the town grocer, who used it to house cattle, horses ... More
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
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
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
Benjamin Swift House, 29 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical Nantucket house, it has been the home of the Wood family for over 100 years; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
Benjamin Swift House, 29 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical Nantucket house, it has been the home of the Wood family for over 100 years; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
Benjamin Swift House, 29 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: A typical Nantucket house, it has been the home of the Wood family for over 100 years; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
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
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Nantucket Looms, 16 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Well known commercial location. Survey number: HABS MA-951 Building/structure dates: ca. 1846 Initial Construction
Nantucket Looms, 16 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Well known commercial location. Survey number: HABS MA-951 Building/structure dates: ca. 1846 Initial Construction
Old Gaol, Vestal Street (moved from original site), Nantucket, Nantuck...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N162 Survey number: HABS MA-120 Building/structure dates: 1711 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1805 Subsequent Work
Old Gaol, Vestal Street (moved from original site), Nantucket, Nantuck...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N162 Survey number: HABS MA-120 Building/structure dates: 1711 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1805 Subsequent Work
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
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
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
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
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
Fish Shanties, Old South Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: These small fish and scallop shanties, many of them moved from locations on Washington Street and along the waterfront, are the only remaining wharf structures that resemble those that crowded the... More
Swain House, 3 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1098 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Swain House, 3 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1098 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pacific National Bank, Main,Centre & Liberty Streets, Nantucket, Nantu...
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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
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
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
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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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,...
Survey number: HABS MA-1099 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
McCleave-Dickie House, 1 Weymouth Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...
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Micah Coffin House, Broadway, Siasconset, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: House is the oldest on the Siasconset Bank and considered the oldest on Nantucket Island. Survey number: HABS MA-857 Building/structure dates: ca. 1675 Initial Construction
Josiah Gorham House, 29 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Example of five-bay Nantucket house of the early nineteenth century; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Shanunga, Mitchell Street (moved from original location), Siasconset, ...
Significance: The smaller portion was probably built at the fishing stage of Sesachacha, and the higher part added after removal to Siasconset. The exterior illustrates the completed Siasconset house of the la... More
Christopher Hussey House, 12 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...
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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
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
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
Matthew Beard House, 18 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Significance: Pre-Revolutionary War house built in the section known as Quanaty Bank; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this struct... 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
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
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
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
Edward Cary House, 117 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Edward Cary House, 117 Main Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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