Sunday, July 16, 2023

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Massachusetts


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.

Above:
The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS
General John Glover House, Marblehead


John Glover had this simple frame house built in 1762. A wealthy Marblehead merchant, he was an important military figure in the Revolutionary War.