Saturday, December 3, 2022

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
Maria Baldwin House, Cambridge


This 19th century duplex was the home of educator Maria Louise Baldwin (1856–1922), the first female African-American principal of a school in New England.