Richard Sparrow House

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Richard Sparrow House
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Location Plymouth, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°57′15″N70°39′54″W / 41.95417°N 70.66500°W / 41.95417; -70.66500
Builtca. 1640
NRHP reference No. 74002035 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 9, 1974

The Richard Sparrow House is a historic house at 42 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth.

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The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636. [2] He was granted a 16-acre (6.5 ha) tract of land in 1636 on which the house was later built. [2] Sparrow moved to Eastham in 1653. [2] The Richard Sparrow House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1] The house is now operated as a house museum and art gallery and is part of Plymouth Village Historic District.

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 Richard Sparrow House History
Sparrow House in 1910 Richard Sparrow House in Plymouth MA.jpg
Sparrow House in 1910