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 Percy W. Bridgman House, Cambridge
This house served as the longtime home of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Percy Bridgman, whose innovations paved the way for the development of synthetic diamonds.
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