Alexander Standish House

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States
United States historic place
Alexander Standish House
42°0′30″N 70°40′45″W / 42.00833°N 70.67917°W / 42.00833; -70.67917
Built1666 (traditional)
c.1750 (NRHP)[2]
NRHP reference No.78001407[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 12, 1978

The Alexander Standish House is a historic house at 341 Standish Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts. It has been claimed that this house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish (1626–1702), son of Mayflower Pilgrim, Capt. Myles Standish, but architectural analysis of the building suggests a mid-18th century construction date.[2] Documentary evidence is also weak, suggesting that when the property passed to Alexander Standish's grandson in 1739, the house standing on it did not resemble this one. The house is a 1+1⁄2-story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, with five bays on the front facade and a central chimney, on which the date "1666" has been painted. It has been relatively little-altered since c. 1879, when a lithograph was made.[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c "Standish, Alexander House". Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (downloadable PDF). Retrieved April 18, 2023.
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Standish House, ca. 1875 print
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