Description: The home of Thomas and Frances Wakefield, and later of their son John. Frances Lathrop Wakefield was the aunt of the photographer Henry L. Rand.
Description: "The Fairbanks House is believed to be the oldest surviving timber frame house in North America. It was built for a family of Puritan immigrants from Yorkshire in England, Jonathan and Grace Fairebanke and their six children. Dendrochonology (tree ring dating) has confirmed a construction date of the late 1630s-early 1640s. The house was passed down to succeeding generations of the family until the early twentieth century. In all, eight generations of the Fairbanks family lived in the house. Through the Fairbanks Family in America, Inc., the extended Fairbanks family still owns the property." - “The Oldest Timber Frame House,” The Fairbanks House Historical Site, Accessed online 01/02/09; http://www.fairbankshouse.org/ Visit this site for the history of the house and how to visit it. [show more]
Description: See “Woods Hole Reflections” edited by Mary Lou Smith, published by the Woods Hole Historical Collection, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1983, p. 142, for a photograph of the Foster's house.
Description: 91 Walker Street is at the corner of Shepard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. By 1903, the date on the map, Dr. Bemis and his wife had died and the map listed the Bemis properties as "Heirs of Lucy C. Bemis," Dr. Bemis' wife, Lucy Coolidge (Wyeth) Bemis. The house has been razed and the property is now [2013] owned by Harvard College.