The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.
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The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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| MASSACHUSETTS Elmwood, Cambridge
This 1760s Georgian house was home to Massachusetts colonial Lt. Gov. Thomas Oliver, Vice President Elbridge Gerry, and poet James Russell Lowell.
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