Capt. Benjamin James House

Capt. Benjamin James House
Location Scituate, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°10′37″N 70°44′35″W / 42.17694°N 70.74306°W / 42.17694; -70.74306Coordinates: 42°10′37″N 70°44′35″W / 42.17694°N 70.74306°W / 42.17694; -70.74306
Built 1700
Architectural style No Style Listed
NRHP Reference #

83004095

[1]
Added to NRHP November 29, 1983

The Capt. Benjamin James House is a historic First Period house, now a museum, at 301 Driftway in Scituate, Massachusetts. The oldest part of this 2-1/2 story timber frame house was built c. 1700 by Captain Benjamin James. During the 18th century it was enlarged to its present five-bay saltbox configuration. After James' death in 1788, the house was used by the town as a "pest house", isolating smallpox victims there.[2]

The house is now home t the Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum, owned and maintained by the Scituate Historical Society. There are exhibits of the mossing industry, ship building on the North River, shipwrecks, life saving.[3] Open Sunday afternoons, 1-4 p.m. Sept through June. Sat and Sun, July and August.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Capt. Benjamin James House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-13.
  3. ↑ "Maritime Museum". Scituate Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-05-13.


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