The oldest part of this 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame house was built c. 1700 by Captain Benjamin James.

During the 18th century it was enlarged to its present five-bay saltbox configuration.

[2] The house is now home of the Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum, owned and maintained by the Scituate Historical Society.

There are exhibits of the mossing industry, ship building on the North River, shipwrecks, life saving.

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