Monday, June 26, 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
Lydia Pinkham House, Lynn


This 1872 Second Empire house was the residence of Lydia Pinkham, whose herbal remedy for dysmenorrhea was one of the bestselling such medical products of the late 19th century.