List of Historic Houses in Massachusetts - Eastern Massachusetts - Essex County

Essex County

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• Amesbury
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Amesbury) – Mary Baker Eddy associations
  • Macy-Colby House (Amesbury) – built 1654
  • John Greenleaf Whittier Home (Amesbury) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
• Andover
  • Amos Blanchard House (Andover) – house museum; late Federal period
  • Russell House (Andover) – circa 1805
• Beverly
  • John Balch House (Beverly) – one of the oldest surviving timber-framed houses in the United States, built circa 1679
  • John Cabot House (Beverly) – one of the first brick structures built in Beverly
  • John Hale House (Beverly) – circa 1695
  • Long Hill (Beverly) – Ellery Sedgwick's home and gardens; 1925
• Danvers
  • Judge Samuel Holten House (Danvers) – circa 1670
  • Rebecca Nurse Homestead (Danvers) – hanged for witchcraft, 1692
  • General Israel Putnam House (Danvers) – circa 1648, birthplace of Gen. Israel Putnam
• Essex
  • Choate House (Essex) – birthplace of Rufus Choate; built c. 1730
  • Coffin House (Essex) – Colonial house; circa 1678
• Gloucester
  • Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House – built in 1907 as a summer house for designer Henry Davis Sleeper
  • Hammond Castle – home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr.; built 1926–1929
  • Sargent House Museum – home of writer Judith Sargent Murray and pastor John Murray
  • White-Ellery House – built in 1710 for Reverend John White, owned by the Ellery family for 200 years
• Ipswich
  • John Heard House (Ipswich) – Western and Asian cultures in an atmosphere of the China trade years; built 1795
  • John Whipple House (Ipswich) – mid-17th century to the early 18th century
  • Shoreborn Wilson House (also known as the Baker mansion) – mid-17th century to late 17th century
• Newbury and Newburyport
  • Cushing House Museum and Garden (Newburyport) – home of shipowner John Newmarch Cushing
  • Dole-Little House (Newbury) – circa 1715 of older materials
  • Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury) – circa 1675–1700
  • The Swett-Ilsley House (Newbury) – circa 1670

• Salem
  • Andrew–Safford House was built in 1819
  • Bessie Monroe House was built in 1811
  • Bowker Place located at 144-156 Essex Street and built in 1830
  • Crowninshield-Bentley House (Salem) – circa 1727–1730
  • Salem City Hall - Oldest continually run City Hall in America, built in 1837
  • Cotting-Smith Assembly House
  • Derby House - circa 1762
  • Gardner-Pingree House (Salem) – 1804–1805
  • Gedney House (Salem) – circa 1665
  • Hamilton Hall - A National Historic Landmark located at 9 Chestnut Street and built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
  • Hawkes House - circa 1780, 1800
  • House of the Seven Gables (Salem) – house from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name
  • John Tucker Daland House (Salem) – 1851–1852
  • Joseph Fenno House-Woman's Friend Society, 18th Century - Federal architecture
  • Joseph Story House was built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
  • Joshua Ward House was built in 1784
  • Narbonne House - circa 1675
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace (Salem) – birthplace of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; built between 1730–1745
  • Nathaniel Bowditch House (Salem) – home of Nathaniel Bowditch (circa 1805)
  • Peirce-Nichols House located at 80 Federal Street, built in 1782
  • Phillips Library
  • Pickering House (Salem) – circa 1651
  • Ropes Mansion (Salem) – late 1720s
  • Rufus Choate House is located at 14 Lynde Street and was built in 1787
  • Salem Athenaeum
  • Shepard Block is a Greek Revival structure was constructed in 1851 and is located at 298-304 Essex Street
  • Stephen Phillips House is located at 34 Chestnut Street - circa 1806
  • Thomas March Woodbridge House is located at 48 Bridge Street - circa 1809
  • John P. Peabody House at 15 Summer Street - built in 1867
  • Salem Old Town Hall 1816-17, Federal Style building.
  • Quaker Meeting House
  • West Cogswell House is a historic set of row houses located at 5-9 Summer Street and built in 1834
  • William Pike House, 19th Century
  • Witch House (Salem) – circa 1642 – home of Witch Trials Judge Jonathan Corwin
  • William Murray House built in 1688
  • Yin Yu Tang House Yin Yu Tang, was built around 1800 in China. 200 years after construction the Yin Yu Tang House was disassembled in China, shipped to America and then reassembled inside the Peabody Essex Museum.

• Swampscott
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic House (Swampscott) – Mary Baker Eddy home (1865–66)
  • Sir John Humphreys House (Swampscott) – built by first Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
  • Elihu Thomson House (Swampscott) – home of Elihu Thomson
• Elsewhere
  • Boardman House (Saugus) – circa 1687
  • Brocklebank-Nelson-Beecher House (Georgetown) – circa 1668
  • Claflin-Richards House (Wenham) – circa 1690
  • Cogswell's Grant (Essex) – remarkable collectors' house
  • Mary Baker Eddy Historic Home (Lynn) – first home owned by Mary Baker Eddy
  • Jeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead) – 1768
  • The Stevens-Coolidge Place (North Andover) – house museum and garden; late Federal period
  • John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead (Haverhill) – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Parson Capen House (Topsfield) – circa 1683