Middlesex County
- Arlington
- Jason Russell House (Arlington) – Bloodiest spot in the Battle of Lexington and Concord; built 1740
- Burlington
- Wyman House (Burlington) – oldest house in Burlington, built c. 1666
- Cambridge
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge) – oldest house in Cambridge; built c. 1681
- Elmwood (Cambridge) – birthplace and home of poet James Russell Lowell; built 1767
- Asa Gray House (Cambridge) – designed by Ithiel Town, home of botanist Asa Gray
- Hooper-Lee-Nichols House (Cambridge) – 2nd oldest house in Cambridge; 1685
- Chelmsford
- Barrett-Byam Homestead – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1663
- "Old Chelmsford" Garrison House – (Chelmsford) – prior to 1691
- Concord
- The Old Manse (Concord) – built by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather; Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorn wrote some of their work in the house; 1770
- Orchard House (Concord) – home of Louisa May Alcott; the novel Little Women was written here
- The Wayside (Concord) – home of Louisa May Alcott and later Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Bush, Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Concord) – home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725
- Lexington
- Hancock-Clarke House (Lexington) – home of the Reverend John Hancock (grandfather of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence) and the Reverend Jonas Clarke; built between 1698 and 1738 in Lexington, Massachusetts
- Lincoln
- Codman House (Lincoln) – Federal style; built 1735
- Gropius House (Lincoln) – designed by Walter Gropius; 1938
- Hoar Tavern (Lincoln) – Oldest home in Lincoln; built 1680
- Medford
- Grandfather's House (Medford) – original destination from "Over the River and Through the Woods"
- Isaac Royall House (Medford) – a very fine mansion from the early 18th century with New England's only surviving slave quarters
- Peter Tufts House (Medford) – perhaps the oldest all-brick house in the United States
- Lowell
- Whistler House Museum of Art (Lowell) – birthplace of painter James McNeill Whistler
- Natick
- Henry Wilson Shoe Shop – Henry Wilson, eighteenth Vice President of the United States, made shoes in this ten footer.
- Newton
- Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home
- Reginald A. Fessenden House (Newton) – home of technologist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
- Somerville
- Samuel Gaut House (Somerville) – Italianate style; built 1855
- Stoneham, Massachusetts
- Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer, 1850 ten footer
- Townsend
- Reed Homestead (Townsend) – murals by Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American
- Waltham
- Gore Place (Waltham) – brick country estate; built 1806
- Lyman Estate (Waltham) – country estate; built 1793
- Robert Treat Paine Estate (Waltham) – country estate, collaboration of Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted; built 1866 and 1884
- Watertown
- Abraham Browne House (Watertown) – circa 1694–1701
- Edmund Fowle House (Watertown) – site of revolutionary government and first US treaty; early 1740s
- Woburn
- 1790 House (Woburn) – large Federal house with interesting history; 1790
- Baldwin House (Woburn) – home of engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin; 1661
- Benjamin Thompson House-Count Rumford Birthplace (Woburn) – birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, also known as Count Rumford
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