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The Jethro Coffin house was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior in 1968. On October 1, 1987, lightning struck the house, [3] [4] toppling the chimney, destroying half of the roof, and melting the electrical wiring, causing damage that required two years (and about a million dollars) to mend. The structure ...
Jethro Coffin House: Nantucket 1686 Oldest house on Nantucket Island on its original foundation. William Murray House: Salem 1688 A historic house at 39 Essex Street. [100] Claflin–Richards House: Wenham 1690 Constructed with ogee braces, an architectural hallmark of 16th- and 17th-century English dwellings. Spencer–Peirce–Little Farm ...
Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) [fn 1] (c. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England.He came to the Massachusetts colony with his family in 1642. In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. [2]
Jethro Coffin House: Jethro Coffin House. October 18, 1968 : Nantucket Nantucket: This saltbox house, built in 1686, is the oldest surviving residential structure on ...
Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven again brought students and professionals to Nantucket to make a movie, this time about forgotten 18th-century history.
Jethro Coffin House: Nantucket: MA 1686 Residential Oldest house on Nantucket. [64] It was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968. [65] [66] John Woodward House: Newton: MA 1686 Residential Built by John Woodward in what is now the Waban neighborhood, this is one of the oldest homes ...
Location of Nantucket County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nantucket County, Massachusetts.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, United States.
Jethro’s wicker coffin had been transported in a black Toyota 4×4 with a number plate reading J35TER, resting on a Cornish tartan blanket. ... Jethro built his name as a comedian in the 1980s ...