The Fairbanks House is a timber-frame farmhouse at 511 East Street in Dedham, Massachusetts, built around 1641 by the Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks for his wife Grace and their family. Dendrochronology testing has dated its timbers to between 1637 and 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America verified by that method. The house stayed in the Fairbanks family for eight generations and was expanded repeatedly as the family grew and styles changed, while retaining an unusual amount of its seventeenth century fabric. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and is now run as a museum by the Fairbanks Family in America. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountMassachusetts, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
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1. Fairbanks House (Dedham, Massachusetts) (Wikipedia)
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The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing.
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The Fairbanks House is a timber-frame farmhouse at 511 East Street in Dedham, Massachusetts, built around 1641 by the Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks for his wife Grace and their family. Dendrochronology testing has dated its timbers to between 1637 and 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America verified by that method. The house stayed in the Fairbanks family for eight generations and was expanded repeatedly as the family grew and styles changed, while retaining an unusual amount of its seventeenth century fabric. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and is now run as a museum by the Fairbanks Family in America.
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completion_date/completed = ca. 1641
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The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and passed down through eight generations of the family until the earl
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Category:Colonial architecture in Massachusetts
In Style: Saltbox Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Saltbox architecture in Massachusetts
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The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Massachusetts, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Massachusetts, United States
Wikidata item Q5430017, property P131/P17 (location): Massachusetts, United States
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