Coffin House

It is located at 14 High Road, Newbury, Massachusetts, and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England.

The house began in 1678 as a simple structure of two or possibly three rooms on land owned by Tristram Coffin, Jr, son of Tristram Coffin, who had left the area for Nantucket by this time.

In 1785, two Coffin brothers legally divided the structure into two separate dwellings, each with its own kitchen and living spaces.

Although the house was traditionally dated to 1654 (by Joshua Coffin, author of the 1845 history of Newbury), recent scientific studies have provided more accurate estimates.

In 1785, two of the brothers of the Coffin family legally divided the house into two separate dwelling areas.