<p>The Harlow Homestead is a historic house located in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1878 by Elijah Harlow, member of a locally prominent family, and it is remained in his family since then. It is an L-shaped house with a rear extension. It is sheathed with narrow vertical boards (an Italianate element), and has corner pilasters and a wide entablature in the Greek Revival style. A porch wraps around two sides of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Hallett House is a historic house in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built in 1775, this -story Cape house is one of the few surviving Federal style houses on Main Street in Hyannis. In the mid-19th century it was occupied by Seth Hallett, a town selectman. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hallett House is set at the northeast corner of Main and Camp Streets in the village of Hyannis. It is a -story Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, a central chimney (not original), and wood shingle siding. An ell of early construction extends to the rear of the main block, while a modern but sympathetically styled addition extends the house three bays to the left. The main entrance is centered on the original block, with simple pilasters on either side and a narrow transom window above.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the house is estimated to have been in about 1775, but nothing is known of its early owners. It was owned by Seth Hallett, a town selectman, in the mid-19th century. It presently houses a medical practice.</p><br>
<p>The Harwich Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic portions of the Harwich Center village of Harwich, Massachusetts. The village, originally known as Broadbrooks after a prominent local family, was developed beginning in the 18th century, and features a high quality concentration of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture. It extends along Main and Parallel Streets between the cemetery in the west and Brooks Park in the east. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Harwich was settled in the 17th century as part of Yarmouth, and was separately incorporated in 1694. Part of the area that is now Harwich Center was settled by members of the Broadbrooks family, who later shortened their name to Brooks. This family became one of the leading forces in the civic and economic development of the village, building at least eight of its buildings. Brooks Park, at the eastern end of the village, is where the 1732 homestead of Ebenezer Broadbrooks was located; no longer standing, its site is marked by millstones from his mill that are placed near the park entrance. Sidney Brooks founded what eventually became known as the Brooks Academy in 1844; its Greek Revival building later served as the town high school. Sidney&#39;s brother Henry donated funds for the construction of the village library.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is primarily defined by Main Street, extending east-west between the cemetery to the west and Brooks Park to the east. The aptly named Parallel Street runs south of Main Street, and is joined to it by a number of smaller side streets. The village has a rural feel due to open spaces and narrow side streets. Most of the buildings in the district are of wood frame construction, and are Greek Revival or Italianate in style, reflecting their mid-19th century construction period. The village&#39;s most prominent building is the First Congregational Church, built in 1832 in the Greek Revival style, but altered in 1854 in a more Italianate Renaissance Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon Hawley House is a historic house along Massachusetts Route 28 near the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Georgian style house was built c. 1758 by missionary Gideon Hawley, who ministered to the nearby Mashpee Wampanoags, and he lived there until his death in 1807. It is a -story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a side-gable roof, wood shingled exterior, and a slightly off-center chimney that is not original. The entrance, located in the second bay from the left, is flanked by pilasters and sheltered by an early-20th-century portico. A rear kitchen ell is probably a 19th-century addition. The house was moved back from its original site during a road widening project in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Highland House is a historic hotel building, now serving as a museum, located at 6 Highland Light Road within the Cape Cod National Seashore</p><br>
<p>in Truro, Massachusetts. It is located in the Cape Cod National Seashore near the Highland Light in the Truro Highlands Historic District. The present two story wood-frame building was constructed in 1907 by Isaac Small, whose family had been serving tourists in the area (among them Henry David Thoreau) since 1835.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is now known as Highland House Museum and is operated by the Truro Historical Society as a museum of local history.</p><br>
<p>The Jedediah Higgins House is a historic house on Higgins Hollow Road in North Truro, Massachusetts. It is one of the least altered 19th-century Cape style houses in the Cape Cod National Seashore, and an excellent early example of that style. It is a -story post-and-beam house, whose front facade typifies the Cape style: a central doorway flanked by windows on either side. Its interior floor plan is also typical, with two rooms on the south side and one large one to the north, with a central chimney. Interior finishes have also been preserved, including wood flooring, paneling, and wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hawthorne Class Studio is a historic studio building off Miller Hill Road in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The -story studio building is a large gambrel-roofed barn-like building, measuring about 50 x, set on concrete pillars and clad in wooden shingles. Its symmetrically arranged front has a center entry with narrow flanking windows, paired windows in bays on either side of the entrance, and single windows at the second level under the gable. The studio was constructed c. 1907 to house the teaching studio of artist Charles Hawthorne. Hawthorne began giving art classes in Provincetown in 1899, and was an acknowledged leader of the artistic community there at the time of his death in 1930.</p><br>
<p>The studio was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Mercelia Evelyn Eldridge Kelley House is a historic house at 2610 Main Street in Chatham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1877 and has vernacular Italianate styling. It is significant for its association with the Eldridge family, who were major landowners in South Chatham and promoted its development. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kelley House is on the north side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28) in the village of South Chatham, just east of its junction with Morton Road. It is a -story wood-frame house with a front-gable roof, wooden clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. The main facade is three bays wide, with its main entrance in the leftmost bay, and the right two bays on the first floor taken up by a bay window. Three sash windows are asymmetrically arranged on the second level, with two above the bay window and one above the entrance. A round-arch window is set in the gable. The entry is sheltered by a hip-roofed scrolled hood with paired Italianate brackets, details also found on the bay window. Paired brackets are also found in the eave lines of the front and side elevations. There is a porch on the right elevation, running back to an ell extending to the rear. The porch has turned posts and geometric panels that are Queen Anne in style, along with Italianate brackets.</p><br>
<p>The Eldridge family were significant landowners and developers of South Chatham in the early 19th century. Mercelia Eldridges father Levi operated a number of businesses on the cape, was a bank president and Chatham town selectman, and held other prominent local posts. Mercelia and her second husband, Cyrus Kelley, built the house in 1877 on family-owned land. The house was not particularly elaborately decorated for the period, was probably built using lumber from her fathers lumber yard, and is one of the best-preserved of a series of houses built along Main Street after the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the hands of her descendants until 2002. In 2002, the house was sold to David M. Valdez, who undertook both submitting the house for inclusion the National Register and the completion of a Federally Certified Historic Restoration of the house that included the preservation of the existing layout and all of the original windows, interior painted wood doors, and trim that were part of the original decor from 1877 that made the doors and trim appear to be made from more precious hardwoods. These same painted wood finishes (probably by the same artist) are in the interior of the Captain Penniman House that was initially decorated and completed in 1868. The Penniman House is nearby in the Fort Hill area of Cape Cod National Sea Shore, which was the highest point adjacent to the meetinghouse erected by Pilgrim residents of Nauset (later Eastham) shortly after they settled the area in 1644.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence Academy is a historic former school building at 20 Academy Lane in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1834, it is one of Falmouths finest Greek Revival buildings. At first operated as a private academy, it served as Falmouths high school from 1891 to 1895, and then as civic hall for a variety of veterans organizations. The building currently houses the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lawrence Academy is set facing south at the end of Academy Lane, a short street off Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28) in Falmouth&#39;s central business district. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a front-gable roof, Greek temple portico facade and a two-stage bell tower. The portico consists of an entablature and gabled pediment supported by four Ionic columns. The pediment is flushboarded, with modillioned cornice and eaves. The bell tower has a square clapboarded first stage with a modillioned cornice, and an octagonal belfry as the second stage. It is a reconstruction of the original tower based on historic photographs.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Academy was built in 1834, following a regional trend for the establishment of private academies. The school incorporated in 1835. Beginning in the 1870s, changes in state regulations required towns to provide secondary education. Pursuant to this goal, the town acquired the academy building in 1890, and used it as its high school until a new building was completed in 1896. The town leased the hall to the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans organization, and it was later used by Sons of Union Veterans and the American Legion. A sympathetic addition lengthening the building was made in the 1940s, and the bell tower was rebuilt in the 1960s and repaired in the 1990s after it was damaged by Hurricane Bob. It is currently home to the local chamber of commerce.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Hall is a historic community building in the Marstons Mills village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The -story structure was built in 1859 by a local community group as a function hall. It has modest Greek Revival styling, with an entablature and corner pilasters, large 12-over-12 sash windows, and an entry vestibule projecting at an angle from one corner. It continues to be used as a community function space, although it was adapted for a time as the local Methodist church&#39;s parish hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln House Club is a historic building in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The 2-3/4 story wood frame Shingle style structure was built in 1899 by the Lincoln Club of Boston, as part of a "fresh air" movement, and occupies a prominent site near the Grand Island Bridge. The building is distinctive for its tall yet low-angled gable roof with large brackets, within whose gables there are nearly two floors of usable space. The club used the building as a clubhouse and lodging facility until 1922, when it was sold and converted into a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Marconi–RCA Wireless Receiving Station is a historic district at the junction of Old Comers Rd. and Orleans Rd. in Chatham, Massachusetts. It and its companion transmitter station at Marion were used for WCC, the busiest ship to shore radio station for most of the 20th century. The district includes eight red brick buildings constructed by Marconi in 1914 to house the station&#39;s operations; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and is now home to the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center museum.</p><br>
<h2>Station history</h2><br>
<p>In 1914, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America built a station in Chatham for the purpose of providing point to point radiotelegraphy service with a Marconi station in Stavanger, Norway. Contrary to common belief, the Chatham site was not built as a replacement to the failed Marconi station in Wellfleet. With the outbreak of World War I, the Marconi company was unable to complete construction of the Chatham station. Therefore, they never put the station into service.</p><br>
<p>In December 1919, the assets of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America were acquired by the Radio Corporation of America. Under RCA, the Chatham station entered point to point service in May of 1920, providing high speed radiotelegraphy to Norway, adding service to Germany in August of 1920. Chatham was the receiver site with the transmitters located in Marion Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 1921, RCA switched point to point service to a new high-power station located at Rocky Point, Long Island NY.</p><br>
<p>April of 1921, Chatham Radio began high seas radiotelegraph service and became the premier ship to shore station in the United States, serving mariners of the world for over 7 decades.</p><br>
<p>After WW II, a new transmitter facility was built at Forest Beach in South Chatham. It entered service in 1948, replacing the Marion transmitter site.</p><br>
<p>Due to the requirement that all ships have satellite service by the summer of 1997, the station closed in July of 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Marconi/RCA Wireless Museum in Chatham, MA. is located inside the original 1914 operating building. The museum covers early Marconi history, ship to shore radiotelegraphy, WW II naval intercept operations and preserves the history of historic Chatham Radio/WCC.</p><br>
<p>The South Chatham transmitter site is now preserved as open space.</p><br>
<h2>Historic contacts</h2><br>
<p>1928: communication with Richard E. Byrd&#39;s first South Pole expedition</p><br>
<p>1929: communication with the Graf Zeppelin during world&#39;s first around-the-world trip by air</p><br>
<p>1933: sends weather information to Charles Lindbergh</p><br>
<p>1937: possible last communication with the Hindenburg prior to explosion</p><br>
<p>1961: communication with Santa Maria (callsign CSAL) during hijacking</p><br>
<p>The Hyannis Port Historic District encompasses the historic heart of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, an area that was intensively developed as a summer resort community beginning in the later decades of the 19th century. The district is about 100 acre in size, and extends from nearly Scudder Avenue in the west to Ocean Avenue in the east. It is bounded on the south by Nantucket Sound, and on the north by Grayton, Edge Hill, and Ocean Avenues. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Until the late 19th century, Hyannis Port was a modest agricultural and seafaring village. The Hyannis Land Company was formed in 1871-72 and engaged in a major resort development push, which was one of the largest such efforts on the Cape. The company purchase most of the oceanfront property between Dunbars Point and Craigville, and platted out parcels. They built several hotels, staged events to promote the area, and built summer resort houses for vacationers from as far off as Indianapolis and Chicago. The company was not financially sound, however, and went bankrupt in 1879. The area was not fully developed until the first decades of the 20th century. The district does have a few 18th-century houses, but most of its houses are in the styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The most famous residents of Hyannis Port, however, are the Kennedy family, whose compound is a National Historic Landmark. Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy purchased the compounds main house in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The John and Mary Waterman Jarves House is a historic house at 3 Jarves Street in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The -story Italianate wood-frame house was designed and built by Charles Kirk Kirby in 1857. It was built for John Jarves, founder of the Cape Cod Glass Works, one of the major business in 19th century Sandwich. He was the son of Deming Jarves, founder of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and included in the Jarvesville Historic District in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Hinckley Homestead is a historic house located in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story Cape house was probably built c. 1750, although local historians assert it may have been built earlier. Its likely builder was Edmund Hinckley, grandson of early settler Samuel Hinckley. It has remained in the hands of his descendants; many of its exterior and interior Georgian details have been preserved.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Hinckleys Corner Historic District, also known as Paine Hollow, is a historic district including three properties located at 0, 25, and 40 Way #112 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. This small cluster of properties are a representative of the outer Capes life in the 19th century. All three houses are fairly utilitarian 1-1/2 story Cape style houses, with only modest traces of late Georgian or Federal styling. The oldest house, the Jonathan Young House at 40 Way #112, was built c. 1790-91, and was owned for a significant portion of the 19th century by members of the Hinckley family. This property includes a 19th-century barn, a c. 1920 structure whose uses have included a retail store and an art studio, and a c. 1950 garage. The John Lewis House at 25 Way #112 was built c. 1820, and has a Federal style fanlight over the main entrance. Its property includes a garage/guesthouse built c. 1924, originally to house a Model T firetruck, and an oysterhouse built 1827-28.</p><br>
<p>The third house is the Robert Paine House at 0 Way #112; it was also built c. 1820, and is the most-altered of the three, with additions on either end. It stands on a larger property (nearly 5 acres, compared to the 1-2 acre lots on which the others stand), and includes a small shed built c. 1820 and a boatbuilding shop built c. 1915. This house is further notable for housing a worker who helped build the Wellfleet Marconi Station in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Joseph Hinckley House is a historic house located at 142 Old Stage Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 1-3/4 story wood-frame house was built c. 1850, and is an excellent local instance of Greek Revival architecture. Its front facade is flushboarded on the first floor, with full-length windows. The front porch has a wide entablature that is continued around the sides of the house, and is supported by fluted Doric columns. The property includes a barn that was built c. 1827. It served for a time as a stop on the area stagecoach route, and was also home to Joseph Hinckley, a ship&#39;s captain.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Nymphus Hinckley House is a historic house located in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story Cape cottage was built c. 1780, and is a well-preserved Federal style structure on a property that also has a period barn. Located just outside Osterville village, it is five bays wide, and has a centered entry with a five-pane transom window. The windows and entry butt directly against the eaves. The house was built by Nymphus Hinckley, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The S. Alexander Hinckley House is a historic First Period house in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story Cape house was built c. 1710, and is one of a small number of early 18th-century houses in Hyannis. It is the full five bays wide and two deep, with an ell added to the rear, and a central chimney. It was also home to Ora Hinckley, the first librarian of the Hyannis Library, around the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Hyannis Road Historic District is a residential historic district at the northern end of Hyannis Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts. It includes ten properties built between c. 1790 and 1855, representing southward growth from the traditional village center of Barnstable toward the growing village of Hyannis. The properties lie along Bow Lane and Hyannis Road, between the Old King&#39;s Highway and the right-of-way of the Cape Cod Railroad. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house in the district is that of Deacon Timothy Phinney at 1776 Hyannis Road, built c. 1790. It is a rambling Federal-style house with an attached barn and an attractive Colonial Revival porch. The houses at 2 and 46 Bow Lane are also Federal in styling; the Bacon House at 46 Bow Lane is the most sophisticated of the group, with a five-bay facade and an enclosed center entry.</p><br>
<p>Most of the houses in the district are Greek Revival in style. The Marston House at 8 Bow Lane (c. 1810-23) is a fine example, with a Doric porch and full-length first floor windows on the main facade. By comparison, the adjacent Hallett House at 20 Bow Lane, built about the same time, is more vernacular in its styling. The c. 1855 Doggett House at 1709 Hyannis Road has corner pilasters and a wide frieze.</p><br>
<p>The Herman Isham House is a historic house located in the Osterville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story Cape house was built c. 1747, and is a well-preserved example of a Georgian cottage. It is five bays wide, with a detail central entry flanked by heavy pilasters and topped by a transom and console. The house was probably built by Samuel Isham, whose grandson sold it to Seth Weeks in 1841. Weeks was the last survivor of the famous whaler Essex, which a sperm whale rammed and sank. Herman Melville immortalized the story in his book Moby-Dick.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The John Jenkins Homestead is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house contains building materials, including elements of chimneys and fireplaces, that date to the 1680s. Although it has been altered frequently in the intervening centuries, the house is now styled in a late Georgian or early Federalist manner. The house is notable for its associations with a number of prominent individuals. The first settler of the land, John Jenkins, may have been the house&#39;s builder. The property became known locally as the "Old Parsonage" due to its ownership by the Reverend Oakes Shaw between 1706 and 1807. Shaw was the father of Lemuel Shaw, who served for thirty years as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Jenkins–Whelden Farmstead is a historic farmstead in Barnstable, Massachusetts. It is one of Barnstable&#39;s best-preserved farm properties. The farm complex includes a c. 1840 house, an older 18th century house that is used as a toolshed, two barns, and several other small outbuildings. The current main house is a three-bay -story Cape cottage with Federal styling. The toolshed is believed to have been built by Thomas Jenkins , and was part of a larger house which was originally located on Church Street.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Jenkins House stands as a historic landmark in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Constructed around 1750 by Joseph Jenkins, this 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house serves as a testament to the early history of West Barnstable. Characterized by its well-preserved structure, the house features four bays in width, an off-center chimney, and an entryway. The main entrance is adorned with plain trim, complemented by a transom window and a triangular pediment. Throughout the 19th century, the property remained in the ownership of the Jenkins family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. George Lovell House is a historic house located in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a hip roof, paired chimneys at the sides, and a hip roof. It was built in 1826, and was the home of a prominent local ship&#39;s captain. In 1925-26 the house received a major upgrade, which included the addition of the Greek four-column temple portico front, and other Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Nehemiah Lovell House was a historic house located in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s -story Cape style main block was built c. 1789, which was apparently soon followed by a two-story ell to its east. The house was in the hands of the Fuller family for nearly 100 years, including Captain David Fuller, who was lost at sea in 1854.</p><br>
<p>Nehemiah Lovell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1987. It was demolished in 1994 and a replica was built.</p><br>
<p>The Marconi Wireless Station Site in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA is the site of the first transatlantic wireless communication between the United States of America and Europe, on January 18, 1903. At this location, now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore , inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210 ft wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to send signals to a similar station in Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The first transmission received on the continent of North America by Marconi was at Signal Hill, St. John&#39;s, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1901; Glace Bay, Nova Scotia was the site of the first such two-way transmission, in 1902.</p><br>
<p>One of the station&#39;s most notable roles occurred with the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912. Operators at the station were able to alert the RMS Carpathia so that the rescue of some of the Titanic passengers could be effected. The station was shut down in 1917 in part over concerns about its use in World War I, but also because its towers were threatened with erosion. In 1920, usable materials and equipment were removed from the site, and it was abandoned. Erosion has taken its toll over the years since then, and there was little left as of the date of the National Park Service brochure. No trace of the site remains as of September 2014; the sea has claimed it all.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Marstons Mills Hearse House and Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Massachusetts Route 149 in the Marstons Mills section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The hearse house, essentially a garage, was built c. 1885 to house a hearse for the village of Marstons Mills, and was one of seven such buildings erected in Barnstable. It is one of only two that are now left, and the only one that is relatively unaltered and in its original setting. It presently serves as a utility shed for the Marston Mills Cemetery, and is maintained by the local historic society. It is a simple rectangular wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, decorative shingle exterior, and a large double-leaf equipment door.</p><br>
<p>The Marston Mills Cemetery was established in 1775, and is the resting place of many of the village&#39;s early settlers. It is located on the northwest side of Route 149, between Mistic Drive and Cammett Road. It is still in active use; the oldest graves are nearest the street, and it has an estimated 300–400 burials.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Marstons Mills Community Church, formerly the Methodist Church, is a historic church building in the Marstons Mills village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The white clapboard church was built in the town of Yarmouth, and moved to Marstons Mills in 1830. Its small belfry tower was added sometime between 1888 and 1908, around the same time it acquired some of its Queen Anne stylistic elements. In 1987, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and for its role in community history.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marstons Mills Community Church is set on the south side of Main Street, a short way northeast of its junction with Cotuit Road (Massachusetts Route 149). It is a single-story wood-frame structure with a front-gable roof and clapboard siding. A gable-roofed entry vestibule projects from the main facade, with a double-door frame by a simple surround and a fully pedimented gable. The square church tower rises partly through the vestibule and partly through the main block, with a series of sections, some stepped in and others stepped out, and a belfry stage that has paired round-arch louvers on each side, and is topped by a flared pyramidal roof and weathervane. The windows flanking the vestibule have decorative sashes, a Queen Anne embellishment also appearing on the door windows.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist congregation of Marstons Mills was organized in 1826, although there had been less formal meetings in private spaces at least as early as 1819. This church building was hauled by oxen from Yarmouth in 1830 to serve as its sanctuary. Over the 150 years it went through a number of alterations, the most visible being the addition of Queen Anne styling to the tower and of a surplus military barracks as a parish hall. In 1968 the Marstons Mills congregation merged with that of Osterville, and this building was closed. It was revived in 1981 as the nondenominational Marstons Mills Community Church.</p><br>
<p>The William Marston House is a historic house located in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1780 by Benjamin Marston, from the third generation of Marstons that gave the area its name. It has a five-bay facade and a large central chimney, with a centered entry framed by pilasters and topped by a transom window and entablature. The building underwent a major restoration in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Merrill Estate is a historic estate in the Marstons Mills section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The estate house started as a -story Cape style house, with five bays and a large central chimney, built c. 1750–1775. This Georgian structure was extended in the middle of the 19th century with a -story Greek Revival ell that was added to the front of the house. The property includes an old English barn.</p><br>
<p>The early ownership history of this property is not none because a fire at the county courthouse in 1827 destroyed those records. The earliest surviving record records the sale of the house between two ship captains. William Sturgis, the buyer, was a noted local philanthropist, funding Barnstable&#39;s first library. The house was owned by members of the Merrill family as a summer estate from 1889.</p><br>
<p>The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, cited as a well-preserved local example of a Georgian colonial house with Greek Revival alterations.</p><br>
<p>The Municipal Group Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of five municipal buildings in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Included are the library , old town hall , two buildings currently housing town offices that were originally part of the Hyannis Normal School, and the Crowell/Guyer Barn, a 19th-century structure now used by the local public works department. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The library is housed in a former residence, built c. 1800, which was owned for many years by the Hallett family. It was purchased in 1908 for use as a library, and continues to fulfil that role, albeit with a modern addition to the rear that greatly expands its capacity. The Crowell/Guyer Barn is a 1-1/2 wood-frame structure with a front-gable roof that has decorative brackets under the eaves. It was built c. 1865, and its earliest documented owner was Captain Sidney Crowell, a ship master active in the coasting trade.</p><br>
<p>The "Old Town Hall" is a neo-Federal two story brick building, with a five-bay main block flanked by symmetrical single-story wings. Its entry is distinguished by a semi-circular portico supported by Corinthian columns. It was built in 1926 to replace the previous town hall, located in West Barnstable, that was built in 1899. It served as town hall until 1979, when the former buildings of the Hyannis Normal School were acquired to house town offices.</p><br>
<p>The two surviving buildings (out of three originally built) of the Hyannis Normal School were designed by Hartwell, Richardson and Driver, and built in 1897 after the state awarded Hyannis the location of a new normal school. The main building and former dormitory are large brick three-story buildings (one is eleven bays wide, the other thirteen), with slate hip roofs. They were used (along with the training school, an elementary school building that has not survived) until the school closed in 1944. After serving a variety of other purposes, they were acquired by the town in 1979. The former school&#39;s open space in front of these buildings now serves as the town green.</p><br>
<p>The Mill Way Historic District encompasses a residential area significant in the development of the maritime industry in Barnstable Village, Massachusetts. It includes thirteen houses, ten on Mill Way and three on adjacent Freezer Road, just north of the Old King&#39;s Highway. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Mill Way was the major route between the center of Barnstable and its port area from its very earliest days. Agriculture dominated the village until later in the 18th century, with a grist mill located to make use of the local tides for its power. In the 19th century the port area grew as a shipbuilding and salt production center, and some of the district&#39;s buildings reflect this heritage.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house in the district is the David Bursley House (35 Mill Way), built c. 1750; it is a -story four-bay house with side gable roof, and wood shingle siding. It was supposedly built as a single-story cottage, which was then raised on ship masts to build a new ground floor underneath. The 1797 Maraspin House (200 Mill Way) is a fairly typical five-bay Cape cottage, whose property in 1835 included two wharves, a store, barn, mill, salthouse, and other outbuildings. The Stetson Cottage is one of the few buildings in the district with significant later alteration. Built c. 1785, the five-bay cottage was given a Colonial Revival treatment in the early 20th century, with a five-bay dormer across the front roof, and a porch with Tuscan columns below.</p><br>
<p>The John Newcomb House is a historic house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is best known as the house described by Henry David Thoreau in the chapter on the "House of the Wellfleet Oysterman" in his 1865 book, Cape Cod. The house is located in Cape Cod National Seashore, on a sandy lane off Gull Pond Road to the east of Williams Pond in northern Wellfleet. The Cape style house is presumed to have been built by John Y. Newcomb .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Nickerson Mansion is a historic house in Brewster, Massachusetts. The large mansion was built in 1907 by Addie Nickerson and her son Samuel on the foundation of an 1890 mansion that was built by Addies late father-in-law, Samuel Mayo Nickerson, for his son Rolands family  to use as a summer home. The building&#39;s interior was lavishly appointed with Italian marble and hand-carved woodwork. The Nickersons owned the property until 1945, when it was purchased by the Missionaries of La Salette, who used it as a seminary. It is now one of the centerpieces of the Ocean Edge Resort under the name "The Mansion at Ocean Edge". </p><br>
<p>The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The North Falmouth Village Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century village of North Falmouth, Massachusetts, which is a village in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts. It is a linear district, extending along Old Main Road south from its junction with Massachusetts Route 28A to Winslow Road. This area gradually developed over the 19th century, principally in support of maritime activities centered on Buzzards Bay to the west. The district contains a cross-section of architectural styles popular from the early 19th to early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North Falmouth area was inhabited by Native Americans roughly until the beginning of the 18th century, when the area was purchased by colonists as part of Falmouth, which had been incorporated in 1686. Among the early settlers were the Nye family, who moved what is probably the districts oldest building, now 96 Old Main Road, to that location in 1762. Of the twenty-four houses known to have been built by Nyes, fourteen are still standing. The area was initially used for agriculture, with maritime pursuits becoming a prominent economic force in the first half of the 19th century. The villages church, the North Village Congregational Church, is a Greek Revival structure built in 1832, and a post office was opened in 1848 in Ferdinand Nye&#39;s house at 200 Old Main Road.</p><br>
<p>The district saw a spurt of growth after the railroad came through to the east of Old Main Road in 1872, after which the area saw a gradual transformation into a summer resort area. Other than the church, civic buildings were relatively late in arriving in the village. Megansett Hall was built in 1886 as a community gathering space for social events, and the fire station (now a library) was built in 1915. Two small commercial buildings survive from the 1920s, the Falmouth Superette (279 Old Main) and the Rand Office Block at Country Road.</p><br>
<p>The Northside Historic District encompasses two of the earliest significant settlement areas of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Stretching along Massachusetts Route 6A from the Barnstable line in the west to White Brook in the east, the district includes almost 300 buildings on 50 acre. It includes the two villages of Yarmouth Center and Yarmouthport, which were important 18th and 19th century centers of civic and economic activity.</p><br>
<p>Although the district includes a number of early colonial First Period structures (the oldest being the c, 1690 Timothy Hallett House, 24 Hallett Street), the majority of its buildings date between 1780 and 1860, and are either Federal or Greek Revival in character. There are a number of important early Cape-style homes in the district; these are typically smaller single story buildings, where the later buildings have larger floor plans and are two stories or two and a half stories in height. There are a modest number of houses in styles popular in the second half of the 19th century, including a Gothic Revival house at 134 Hallett Street and Italianate houses at 282 and 364 Hallett.</p><br>
<p>Institutional buildings in the district include three churches, all from the late 19th century; one of them, the First Congregational Church, dates its congregation to the establishment of Yarmouth&#39;s first meeting house in 1640. All three buildings are from the later decades of the 19th century. There are three civic buildings: two school buildings (the 1880 Queen Anne Sloyd Building, and the c. 1881 Colonial Revival Lyceum Hall), and the library, an 1870 Gothic Revival structure.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Nye Homestead is a historic house museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The earliest portion of the 2.5-story timber-frame house was built in 1678 by Benjamin Nye, and has remained in the hands of his descendants for most of the time since then. It was apparently originally built as a saltbox style house with an integral leanto section, with the rear of the house being raise to a full two stories, probably in the 19th century. The house was sold out of the Nye family to the state of Massachusetts in 1924, but was poorly maintained by the state. With the house threatened with demolition in 1962, the Nye Family Association acquired the property and restored the house. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. A dendrochronology team conducted a study in 2012 establishing the build date.</p><br>
<p>The Nye Family Association now operates the property as a historic house museum, featuring 18th century furnishings, and is open for tours from June through October.</p><br>
<p>The Elnathan Nye House is a historic house at 33 Old Main Road in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this -story house was built c. 1735; it was extended to its present five-bay facade in 1772. The interior of the house is particularly well preserved, with three extant beehive ovens, plaster-and-lath walls, and period wood paneling. The property&#39;s barn may also date to the 18th century. Elnathan Nye, the builder, was a prominent local citizen.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Port Royal House is a historic house in Chatham, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1863 by Seth Eldredge, a ship&#39;s captain. The Italianate villa was reportedly based on a house in Port Royal, Jamaica seen by Captain Eldredge, who acquired its plans and had it copied. It has a low-pitch hip roof whose eave is decorated with paired brackets, the corners have paneled piasters, and a single-story porch extends across the front, supported by fluted columns mounted on paneled piers.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Pond Hill School is a historic school building at 65 Old Paine Hollow Road  in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Built in 1857, it is the last of Wellfleet&#39;s 19th-century district schools to be built, and to survive relatively intact. The school is now home to the South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pond Hill School is located west of the central portion of the village of South Wellfleet, located between United States Route 6 and Old Paine Hollow Road (a former alignment of US 6). It is a two story woood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A single-story addition with a shed roof extends along its southern side. The main entrance is on the north side, with sash windows on either side. The door frame has a modest Greek Revival character, with wide frieze and a simple cornice above. The interior consists of large chambers on each floor, with small service rooms on the north side. Originally used as classrooms, the upper floor was modified to house a library in 1912. The addition houses modern amenities succh as bathrooms.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1857, and was the last of Wellfleets twelve district schoolhouses to be built, replacing an older single-story one-room structure serving the towns third district. The building served as a schoolhouse until 1880, and was purchased six years later by the South Wellfleet Ladies Social Union. In 1945, with that organization in decline, the property was given to a neighborhood association, which now owns and maintains the building.</p><br>
<p>The Old Kings Highway Historic District encompasses what was historically the principal east–west thoroughfare through Barnstable, Massachusetts. It encompasses Barnstables entire length of what is now designated Massachusetts Route 6A, called Main Street, between the town lines of Sandwich and Yarmouth. It includes more than 1,000 acre and all buildings whose properties are front on the road, nearly 500 in all. The area consists of the main population centers of Barnstable from its founding in the late 1630s until the mid-19th century when the southern parts of the community became more significant in economic prominence. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The oldest buildings in the district are the Allyn House (2730 Main Street), built in the late 1600s, and the Old Jail, built c. 1690. The Old Jail is the oldest wooden jail in the United States and is now part of a museum complex, including the Old Customshouse. The jail and the customs house are also separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The 1763 county courthouse, at 3046 Rt. 6A, was the scene of a historic mass protest on Sept. 27, 1774, against British efforts to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party the previous year. The protesters demanded that county officials refuse to obey the Massachusetts Government Act, passed by the British Parliament in May 1774, which stripped the colony of its long-held rights of self-government. County officials agreed, and Royal control of the county effectively ended. The building was converted to a church in 1842.</p><br>
<p>Because of the shift of Barnstables economy to more maritime concerns based in villages along its southern coast beginning in the early 19th century, the villages along the Kings Highway gradually declined in economic importance, with a resultant decline in construction. As a result, the district has a large number of Federal and Greek Revival properties. Barnstable Village stretched out along the highway remained the civic administrative center of the county, even though town offices were eventually moved to Hyannis. The Barnstable County Courthouse, built in 1831, is one of the landmarks of the area&#39;s importance in county administration.</p><br>
<p>The Old Village Historic District is predominantly residential historic district encompassing the old village center of Chatham, Massachusetts. The Old Village occupies the southeast corner of the town where it is framed by Main Street and Holway Street , Bridge Street and Bearse&#39;s Lane , Chatham Harbor  and Mill Pond and Little Mill Pond . The houses of the district represent a cross section of architectural development in the town, with houses dating from c. 1730 to the 20th century. The district also includes the Chatham Light, a church, and a small number of commercial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Old Town Center Historic District is a historic district roughly along Locust Public Rd. and Salt Pond Road in Eastham, Massachusetts. The district encompasses Easthams original town center, with a cluster of well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century buildings. The area served as the towns civic center due to its proximity to Salt Pond, which provided access to the Atlantic Ocean, and was a major transportation route.  The advent of the railroad in the 1870s shifted the towns economic and civic heart to the present center. The Old Town district is 40 acre in size, with 42 mainly residential buildings contributing to its significance. The oldest building in the district is the c. 1672 John Knowles House at 191 Locust Road. The towns first town hall  and first schoolhouse  still stand in the district; the schoolhouse is a landmark visible from Route 6.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant–School Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It includes 37 properties on Pleasant and School Streets, between Main and South Streets, near the center of Hyannis. Pleasant Street was laid out in the 18th century, and School Street was laid out c. 1850, and is distinctive for its cohesive collection of Greek Revival cottages, most of which were owned by mariners active in the coasting trade. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pleasant–School Street District is located just north of Hyanniss innermost harbor on the south coast of Cape Cod. The district extends along the north side of South Street between Pleasant and School Streets, and then along both sides of Pleasant and School up to, but not including, the commercial properties that line Main Street. With a few exceptions, all of the properties are residential; these include a mid-19th century former Congregational church, and the former commercial premises of two small newspaper publishers. The oldest building in the district is the colonial-era Hallett House at 27 Pleasant Street; the largest number of houses are Greek Revival structures built between about 1830 and 1860. Houses are typically 1-1/2 stories in height, with wood-frame construction and shingle siding. At least eight of these have been connected to prominent local ships captains active in the coasting trade in the 19th century. There are a few later Italianate and Queen Anne Victorian houses, and a smaller number of 20th-century intrusions.</p><br>
<p>The Paine Hollow Road South Historic District is a residential historic district roughly along Paine Hollow Road, and Raywid Way in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of seven 19th-century residences centered just north of Paine Hollow Road&#39;s junction with Pleasant Point Road and Baker Road, including one house on Baker Road and one on Rayvid Way. All seven houses were built by members of the locally prominent Paine family in the mid-19th century, and are predominantly Greek Revival in their styling.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Penniman House and Barn is a historic site in Eastham, Massachusetts, on Fort Hill, which is currently protected by the Cape Cod National Seashore and home to Indian Rock.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1868 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Edward Penniman (1831–1913). When Edward Penniman was growing up, it was possible to catch whales directly from the seashore, a practice the Indians perfected using the shallow marsh waters to scare herds of blackfish onto the beaches. Attracted by the profits to be made as a whaler, he ran to sea at age eleven and at 29 he was master of his own whaling ship. He took his wife with him on his travels, and the addition of 3 children to his household did not deter him from trips lasting up to four years. His youngest daughter suffered from seasickness and was sent to live with an aunt. It is the family correspondence with this daughter that makes the Penniman house so interesting, as it brings the daily life of a whaling captain into perspective.</p><br>
<p>On retirement in 1868, Captain Penniman built this unusual house with plans he designed himself, including a modern toilet and bath with hot running water. From the cupola he would watch his extended family play in the surrounding fields, while on the lookout for ships. His daughter took many pictures of impromptu family gatherings, including a picture of her mother in pants.</p><br>
<p>Irma Knowles Penniman Broun sold the Penniman estate to the Cape Cod National Seashore.</p><br>
<h2>National Park Service</h2><br>
<p>The house is now on the Fort Hill Trail, which is kept up by the National Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The William and Jane Phinney House is a historic house at 555 Phinney&#39;s Lane in the Centerville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built c. 1659 later enlarged to a 3/4 cape in 1715, it is the oldest surviving house in the village, and has an early surviving example of a bowed roof, a distinctive regional variation on the Cape style house. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William and Jane Phinney House stands in the northern part of the village of Centerville, on the north side of Phinneys Lane at its junction with Richards Lane. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a bowed gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It has a symmetrical five-bay facade, with a center entrance that has a four-light transom window above. Structural timbers are exposed in its interior, which also retains other original 18th-century features. The only major alterations have been the addition of electricity and plumbing.</p><br>
<p>By local tradition, research and historical documentation, the oldest portion of this building is a "half Cape" (three bays wide) built about 1659 centered around the three bay chimney. Later in about 1715, the home was expanded up to accommodate two additional bedrooms, one attached to the chimney and has its own fireplace. It was built by Deacon John Phinney, its first owner,</p><br>
<p>Truro Town Hall, formerly Union Hall, is the town hall of Truro, Massachusetts. It is located on Town Hall Road, east of Massachusetts Route 6. The two story wood-frame building was built in 1848 to serve as a meeting place for several fraternal organizations, including the International Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons of Temperance. It served these organizations for only a few years, and was rented by the town for town meetings for a time before being purchased by the town. The building exhibits Greek Revival features, including corner pilasters and a deep architrave. The roof is topped by an octagonal cupola mounted on a square structure.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as "Union Hall".</p><br>
<p>The USA Customshouse  is a historic customs house and United States Coast Guard museum on Cobbs Hill in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built in 1855 to a design by Ammi Young, it was used as a custom house and post office until 1913, continuing to house the post office and other offices until 1958. It was converted into a museum in 1960, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former customshouse is set on the south side of Main Street just east of Barnstable&#39;s municipal complex. It is a two-story brick building with late Italianate styling, designed by Ammi Young and built in 1855. It has trim details of cast metal and a truncated hip roof. The building is nearly square, three bays on a side, with the front-facing bays projecting slightly. Its door and window openings have round-arch tops highlighted by light-colored trim. A line of corbeled brickwork separates the two floors, and there is more elaborate corbelling at the cornice. A carriage house with similar styling stands to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The port of Barnstable was one of the busiest in Massachusetts in the 19th century. Prior to the construction of this facility, the customs collector of the USA Customs District of Barnstable operated from his own home. This building at first house the post office on the ground floor and the offices of the customs collector on the second floor, serving both of these roles until 1913. The upstairs offices next housed offices of the Barnstable County Extension Service. The post office moved out in 1958, and the federal government turned the building over to the town in 1960. It has served as a museum property since, currently housing the Coast Guard Museum. The Old Jail (1690) is located on the museum grounds adjacent to the customshouse after being moved from another location nearby. There is also a working blacksmith shop with daily demonstrations on the museum grounds.</p><br>
