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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker of the 19th century. In 1883, Olmsted moved his home to suburban ...
Cole's Hill. Cole's Hill is a National Historic Landmark containing the first cemetery used by the Mayflower Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The hill is located on Carver Street near the foot of Leyden Street and across the street from Plymouth Rock. Owned since 1820 by the preservationist Pilgrim Society, it is now a public park.
January 20, 1961 [2] Designated CP. June 2, 1987. The Bunker Hill Monument is a monument erected at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, which was among the first major battles between the Red Coats and Patriots in the American Revolutionary War. The 221-foot (67 m) granite obelisk was erected between 1825 and 1843 in ...
January 29, 1964. (#66000133) Little Brewster Island. Boston Harbor. 42°19′40″N 70°53′24″W / 42.3279°N 70.8900°W / 42.3279; -70.8900 (Boston Light) The nation's second oldest standing lighthouse, Boston Light was built on the site of the first lighthouse in what is now the United States.
October 9, 1960. The Old State House, also known as the Old Provincial State House, [3] is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1713. It was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is located at the intersection of Washington and State Streets and is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States.
May 8, 1973. The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables.
Maria Baldwin House. Beauport (Gloucester, Massachusetts) Edward Bellamy House. Benjamin Thompson House–Count Rumford Birthplace. George D. Birkhoff House. Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. Boardman House (Saugus, Massachusetts) Boston Manufacturing Company. Percy W. Bridgman House.