Fairbanks House, Massachusetts
| Fairbanks House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
 The house in 2013 |
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| location | Dedham , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 14 '35 " N , 71 ° 10' 12.3" W | ||
| surface | approx. 3 acres (1.2 ha ) | ||
| Built | circa 1636 | ||
| architect | Johnathan Fayerbanke | ||
| NRHP number | 66000367 | ||
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| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | October 9, 1960 | ||
The Fairbanks House in Dedham in the state of Massachusetts of the United States is the oldest surviving timber frame house in North America . It was built in the 1630s and is now accessible as a museum . In 1960 it was designated a National Historic Landmark and in 1966 it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places .
architecture
The house has been owned by the family to this day - for more than 300 years - and has been continuously adapted to changing needs. At the beginning it was a simple, two-story building with a gable roof and two rooms on each floor. The centrally arranged chimney alone took up an area of 2.5 m × 3 m. Various additions followed, adding new rooms to the house. It is believed that some of the original paneling inside the house has been preserved from the 1630s. In 1964 a runaway car broke through one of the exterior walls and damaged the building, and in 1967 it was again damaged by arson. In both cases, the damage was repaired as true to the original as possible, but the original materials that had existed until then were lost.
Historical meaning
The year of construction of the first building component is regularly given as 1636, but there is an uncertainty of a few years because the Yorkshire native Johnathan Fairbanke, whose surname became "Fairbanks" over time and after whom the house is named to this day, with his wife and six children did not reach Dedham until September 1636, after having lived in Boston for three years . He operated successfully in agriculture and acquired additional properties over time. As his company grew, so did the house, including providing living space to his workers. Since 1903, the building is owned by the family foundation Fairbanks Family Association and is open to the public as a museum.
See also
- List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
literature
- Kimball Fiske: Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic . Forgotten Books, sl 2015, ISBN 978-1-330-15588-2 (English, first edition: C. Scribner's sons, New York 1922).
- Patricia Heintzelman, Charles Snell: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , August 1975, accessed February 18, 2018 .
- Elise Lathrop: Historic houses of early America . Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Whitefish, MT 2010, ISBN 978-1-163-44916-5 (English, first edition: Tudor Publishing Co., New York 1927).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2019.
- ↑ cf. Heintzelman / Snell, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Heintzelman / Snell, p. 3.