Francis Wyman House | |
Location | Burlington, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°30′59.2″N71°13′32.6″W / 42.516444°N 71.225722°W |
Built | ca. 1730 |
NRHP reference No. | 75000255 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 17, 1975 |
The Francis Wyman House is a historic house at 56 Francis Wyman Road in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Built ca. 1730, [2] the Wyman House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [3]
On November 26, 1996, a fire severely burned the inside of the house. During the summer of 2012 the house was open to the public for the first time ever. [4]
The house was named as one of the 1,000 places to visit in Massachusetts by the Great Places in Massachusetts Commission. [5]
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