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 Peter Tufts House, Medford
This house, believed to have been built in the mid-to-late 17th century, may be the oldest brick house in North America. It was probably built by Peter Tufts (1628–1702), an early settler of Medford.
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