The Crosby's are America’s oldest, currently active, wooden boat building family. Tour the 1855 Herbert F. Crosby Boat Shop, our Wianno Senior, and over a dozen wooden boats. The 1820 Captain Parker House and the 1720 Cammett House feature art, antiques, special exhibits, and our gardens are maintained by the Osterville Garden Club. Host to the... Learn More >

Otis House is the last surviving mansion in Bowdoin Square in Boston's West End neighborhood. Charles Bulfinch designed the house for Harrison Gray Otis, a lawyer who was instrumental in developing nearby Beacon Hill, served in Congress, and was a mayor of Boston. Otis House is the first of three houses Bulfinch designed for Harrison Gray Otis... Learn More >

The Paul Revere House is the home of legendary patriot Paul Revere, where he began the famous “Midnight Ride.” It is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston and the only home on the Freedom Trail. Visit to discover the true story of the “Midnight Ride” and the man behind the myth. Guided tours of the adjacent Pierce-Hichborn... Learn More >

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation tells the rich story of Massachusetts General Hospital's two centuries of history. Visit us to learn about the hospital's important contributions to the medical field and see how these discoveries and advancements have shaped the present -- and how the hospital can continue to shape... Learn More >

The Peabody Museum is known for its extensive Native American and Mesoamerican collections, including life-size casts of Maya monuments, as well its changing exhibitions such as Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West featuring 19th-century warrior art, and Digging Veritas, which explores the archaeology of colonial Harvard. Open daily, 9... Learn More >

In 1821, four intact rooms from an earlier house were transported by ox sled to Salem's fashionable Chestnut Street to form the core of a new Federal-style mansion being constructed by Captain Nathaniel West. Nearly a century later, Anna Phillips bought the house and launched a fourteen-month renovation in the Colonial Revival style. When she, her... Learn More >

Pierce House is one of the last surviving examples of seventeenth-century architecture in the city of Boston. Lived in by ten generations of one family, the house documents the building practices and tastes of the Pierces over three centuries. At different times, family members expanded and adapted their house to meet demands for space, function,... Learn More >

Pilgrim Hall Museum (PHM), erected 1824, is the oldest continuously operating museum in the country. The museum’s unsurpassed collection of Pilgrim possessions connects you with the actual experiences of America’s earliest beginnings. What did the English families aboard the Mayflower bring with them to make a new life in a new world? See... Learn More >

The Pilgrim Monument was founded in 1892 as the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association—Cape Cod’s oldest not-for-profit organization. Its purpose is to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in the New World in Provincetown, in November 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks meeting the native Wampanoag people, exploring the tip of... Learn More >

The Humphrey House was built roughly around 1715 as a private home for James and Dorcas Fairbanks Humphrey of Dedham. It changed hands and families several times from 1715 through 1930. In 1930 the town of Plainville purchased the house as the first stand-alone library in town. In 1988 with the construction of the new public library, the Humphrey... Learn More >