List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

Ten of the remaining 134 designations were made when the NHL program was formally inaugurated on October 9, 1960; the most recent were in 2021.

The homes of Continental Army generals Benjamin Lincoln, John Glover, and Rufus Putnam are listed.

Properties occupied by army officers during the Siege of Boston include the Longfellow House (occupied by George Washington and purchased by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in part because of that association), and the Isaac Royall House.

Homes of mathematicians, scientists, and researchers appear on the list, as do sites noted for the events that took place there.

The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton is home to the nation's longest continuous weather record, and the Goddard Rocket Launching Site in Auburn was where rocketry pioneer Robert H. Goddard performed some of his tests.

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Naumkeag , an estate in Stockbridge designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White in 1885 for Joseph Hodges Choate
A building of stone and brick, with three steep gables and a slate roof. The central bay has an arched entrance. A sign to the left reads "Quincy Historical Society; Museum and Library".
Adams Academy
A simple brown saltbox house with a central chimney stands behind a rough stone wall.
John Adams Birthplace
A gray saltbox with white trim is seen at an angle from the rear. A low stone wall stands in the foreground.
John Quincy Adams Birthplace
Adventure is a long black ship with three masts. She sits relatively low to the water, anchored at a berth in front of other smaller ships, and land rising in the background.
Adventure
A traditional 2-story colonial-style house, with weathered cedar shake siding and roofing. A woman stands near the entrance.
John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites
A brick building with white trim stands up the hill. Its entry is pillared and it has a dome with a small wing extending forward. The building extends behind and left of the dome with additional side wings.
American Antiquarian Society
A two-story colonial-style house, painted yellow with brown trim. A porch with benches on it is off the right side of the house.
Arrowhead (Herman Melville House)
A two-story two family residence, with side-by-side entrances in the center of the building. The right side is blue with white trim, and the left is brown with white trim. The right side paint job is in better condition than that of the left. The entrances have pillared porches covering the landing in front of the doors.
Maria Baldwin House
A stone and wooden house with a wooden roof stands behind a garden with plants wrapped in burlap for the winter. The land slopes down to water behind the house.
Beauport
A two-story house with a porch in front. The house is light tan with darker trim, and has a circular window in the gable end above the second floor.
Edward Bellamy House
A green three-story house with a mansard roof and small gabled dormers. A small porch protects the entry.
George D. Birkhoff House
A two-story stone L-shaped building is attached to a round three-story tower with crenellated top. The tower has equipment mounted on the top, and antennae are visible in the background.
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
A brown garrison-style saltbox house with a wooden roof and a red door. A rough stone wall separates the street from the yard.
Boardman House
A five-story oblong brick building (5 window bays on the short side, 35 on the long side) stands beside the Charles River. A portion of a wooden dam is visible to the right of the building.
Boston Manufacturing Company
A three-story colonial-style house with a low railing around the roof. The house is gray with white trim and black shutters. There is a small portico sheltering the front door.
Nathaniel Bowditch Home
A modest Cape-style house with large flat-roof dormers on the front and back. There is a patio area on the side of the house, with an arbor-like structure separating it from the yard.
Louis Brandeis House
A brown 2 1/2 story house with red shutters.
Percy W. Bridgman House
The curving shoreline of a body of water is lined with roughly dressed granite stones. A walkway follows the curve of the shore, with a trees providing shade.
Brookline Reservoir of the Cochituate Aqueduct
A large ornately-decorated country house. It is painted a light color with brown trim, and the porch has detailed decoration painted the body color. There are small round windows above some of normal windows. People sit at tables on the porch that wraps part way around the house, and also on the expanse of lawn in front.
William Cullen Bryant Homestead
This tavern looks like a 2 1/2 story house, five windows wide and two deep. A single-story addition runs off one corner at an angle to the body of the house. The front door has a triangular pediment with dentil molding, and the appearance of rectangular pillars on either side of the door. An American flag hangs from a flagpole above the door.
Buckman Tavern
This old photograph shows a stone lighthouse built atop a rocky ledge. It is connected by a covered and enclosed walkway to a house on the left. A small white shed is visible in the foreground.
Cape Ann Light Station
This brown colonial-style house has an overhanging second floor and a single central chimney.
Parson Capen House
A large mansion house is framed by rows of trees on either side and an expanse of well-kept green lawn in front.
Castle Hill
A gray church stands next to an old cemetery. The church has a tower but no steeple, and a circular drive in front.
Christ Church
This black and white photo shows a saltbox-style house with split-rail fencing in front. A meadow with flowers is in the foreground, and small buildings associated with the house are in the background.
Jethro Coffin House
A gravel walkway curves past a whitish stone in which a historic marker has been embedded. In the background you can see a road and then water beyond.
Cole's Hill
A brownstone building with arched porch. The roof is slate, except for a tower, which has a green copper roof. A gate in front of the building is made of ornate wrought iron, which is also present in globular light fixtures mounted on either side.
Converse Memorial Library
A stepped stone facade frames a green door, above which there is a small round window with white trim. Much of the stonework is covered in ivy, and the building is set in a well manicured garden.
Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room
This building is made of granite with brownstone trim, and a red roof. Vertical window structures dominate the wall that is shown. On the right the roof has a large gable, and there are three smaller gable ends on the left.
Crane Memorial Library
This is a large farmhouse that with a sun room and greenhouse in the back.
Paul Cuffe Farm
This is a three story red brick house with white trim and black shutters. The third floor has windows that are not as high as those on the first two floors. Three sizable chimneys are visible.
Caleb Cushing House
A large yellow 2 1/2 story colonial style house with white trim.
Reginald A. Daly House
A large brown 3 story colonial style house with white trim and black shutters.
William M. Davis House
A small, white. roughly square house. It is ornately decorated with statues at the top of the roof gable, worked pillar-like facings, and a gable end pediment with dentil molding. All of the trim is white except the shutters, which are black.
Derby Summer House
A yellow Federal style house with white trim and green shutters. The front of the house has a covered porch, but the main entrance is on the side of the house. It is protected by a small portico.
Emily Dickinson Home
An open spot in some woods is covered with pine needles. An interpretive sign stands before the scene.
W.E.B. Dubois Boyhood Homesite
Mary Baker Eddy House
Mary Baker Eddy House
A yellow Federal style house is illuminated by sunlight. It is three stories, with the third story having smaller windows. There is a low railing running around the roof, and there is a covered porch off to the side.
Elmwood
A white two story house, whose main section is square, although there is a wing extending off the back. There is a white fence with a gate across a gravel drive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Home
In the foreground of this harbor scene is visible the plastic-wrapped top of a ship hull. The ship has two tall masts.
Ernestina (schooner)
This photograph, discolored by age, shows a large rambling house surrounded by trees.
Fairbanks House
A large white house, sided in stone or concrete, with tile roofing.
Reginald A. Fessenden House
The front of a brick church with white trim. There are three arched openings, lined on each side with white pillar-like facings. The tower has a pillared section in which the church bell is visible, and it is topped by a cupola and a weathervane.
First Church Of Christ, Lancaster
A wooden carousel with colorfully painted horses stands behind a white fence. There are parents and children on the carousel.
Flying Horses Carousel
A white house with dark trim, including decorative elements. The house has three stories, and there is an octagonal element protruding above the top floor.
Capt. R.B. Forbes House
A large gray stucco house with white trim and green shutters. A low stone wall frames garden plantings around a patio in front of the house.
Daniel Chester French Home and Studio
A red colonial house with a large central chimney stands at the end of a dirt path. A second building is connected near one corner, in front of which is a covered porch with benches.
Fruitlands
A three story yellow house with white trim, whose side faces the street. The porticoed entrance is behind a hedge.
Margaret Fuller House
A three story brick house with white trim and black shutters. A wrought iron fence surrounds the front yard, and there is a low railing surrounding the roof.
Gardner-Pingree House
The front of a two story gray house with white trim. The front and side doors are red.
General John Glover House
This black and white photo shows Robert Goddard standing next to a frame in which a small (three to four foot) rocket is mounted. It is winter, and open snow-covered fields are in the background.
Goddard Rocket Launching Site
A large brick mansion. The central rectangle of the house has large windows with rounded tops. Wings nearly the width of the central structure extend to either side.
Gore Place
A square white house with a porch in front and an added ell behind. A sign in front reads "Hillside" in large letters and "John B. Gough" in smaller letters.
John B. Gough House
A gray two story house with white trim surrounding black-framed windows. The front door is sheltered by a small pillared porch, and there is a balustered railing around the roof.
Asa Gray House
A strongly rectangular modern two story house. The exterior is brick, white tongue-in-groove vertical siding, and large glass windows. A tree and mortared stone wall stand in front of the house.
Gropius House
The exterior of this gate house is made of rough stone and finished brownstone. It has a tile roof, in which two low eye windows are built. A road lined with rough stone walls passes through an arch in the structure.
H. H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton
A large rectangular two story hall made of brick. The long side has five large windows topped with a rounded window section, while the short side has more conventionally sized windows.
Hamilton Hall
A brown two story colonial wood frame house, with an addition added on the back.
Hancock–Clarke House
This color photo shows a round barn made of fieldstone. It is topped by a mustard yellow wood frame multi-sided section that is smaller, and then a small turret.
Hancock Shaker Village
A white two story house with black shutters. Windows on both floors extend from floor to ceiling. The central portion of the house has a protruding rounded porch, supported by white fluted pillars below, and decorated on the second floor with wrought iron railings.
Oliver Hastings House
A rambling gray and white colonial house with a porch sheltering the main entrance on the side of the house.
Oliver Wendell Holmes House
A large many-gabled brown house with a flower garden in front.
House of the Seven Gables
An outdoor stage without any wings or backing. It is nearly dark, the stage is illuminated. Dancers on the stage are arranged in a grid, on their knees with their hands in the air. Behind the stage hills are visible.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Two houses stand near the street, with no front yard. The left house is a two story white colonial, and the right one is also a two story colonial, painted yellow.
Nathan and Mary (Polly) Johnson properties
A gray battleship, with the number 850 painted large on its bow, is tied up to a dock.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (destroyer)
A large white house with three large gables and a porch running for much of its width stands before an expansive lawn and curved drive.
Kennedy Compound
A gray two and one half story house stands on a tree-lined street. There is a porch covering the middle half of the front, sheltering the front door.
John F. Kennedy Birthplace
This gray three story mansion is topped by a small windowed turret.
Jeremiah Lee House
A weathered green statue is mounted on a rough stone pedestal in front of some trees. The statue is of a man holding a long gun.
Lexington Green
A brick house is framed by trees. A wooden two story addition on one side is painted white and has many windows. Otherwise the house trim is white with black shutters.
Liberty Farm
A blue colonial two story house with black shutters. Over the front door is a flag pole holding an American flag.
General Benjamin Lincoln House
A long low-slung naval ship is entering a dock. Its deck is lined with sailors.
USS Lionfish (submarine)
An office building made of light brick with large colonial-style windows stands in front of taller, more modern looking office buildings.
Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
A roughly square house with porches wrapped around all sides. Its yard has trees with no leaves on them.
Henry Cabot Lodge Residence
A large yellow house with white trim and black shutters. The front door is flanked by pillar-like decorative molding, and is sheltered by a small porch. The roof is ringed by a low railing.
Longfellow House
A map of Lowell depicts its canal system. The Pawtucket Canal extends east from the Pawtucket Dam on the Merrimack River, then splits into several smaller canals, three of which empty into the Concord River just above its mouth on the Merrimack. A fourth branch of the main canal meets the Northern Canal, which also runs eastward from the dam, but further north than the main canal. It empties into the Merrimack. The canals are lined with mill buildings.
Lowell Locks and Canals Historic District
Three bright red buildings stand across the river from the photographer; one of them has a sign saying "Lowell's Boat Shop".
Lowell's Boat Shop
Luna (tugboat)
Luna (tugboat)
A battleship sails on calm waters with land in the background.
USS Massachusetts (battleship)
A large brick building with 6 chimneys. It is 12 windows wide and four deep; there are two doors on the front and one on the side.
Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University
An ornately decorated brick and stone building with a multicolored slate roof. It is two stories, but has a very steep roof that almost doubles the building's height, and there is a tower rising even higher. Turrets flank the main doorway, above which is a stained glass window.
Memorial Hall, Harvard University
A brick house sitting on a large property is partially obscured by trees.
George R. Minot House
A woodframe colonial house with plain wooden siding and a wooden roof is framed by trees behind and garden plantings in front.
Mission House
A white mansion house stands in a garden. A terraced lawn separates the house from a fountain with a pool fringed by white plants.
The Mount (Edith Wharton Estate)
A wooded cemetery view with headstones and other memorials. A road is visible in the distance.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
A street scene. Colonial-style buildings frame a wide cobblestone roadway.
Nantucket Historic District
A wooden-shingled house with many gables has a formal garden in front of it.
Naumkeag
A hand-drawn map and nautical chart. In the center is a harbor area in which boats are drawn. On the shores of the harbor are depictions of fields and houses. Numbers on the watery areas indicate the water depth. A legend at the bottom describes various marked parts of the chart in French.
Nauset Archeological District
A row of early 19th century buildings line a cobblestoned street. An old-fashioned street lamp is also visible.
New Bedford Historic District
A large granite building with a dome and a pillared portico.
Norfolk County Courthouse
A brown colonial frame house.
Old Deerfield Historic District
A light brown colonial frame house with wooden roof shingles. The right side of the house front has an addition where the roof extends to the first floor.
Old Manse
A large square church stands in behind a cemetery. The church has a small turret in the center where a bell is exposed to view.
Old Ship Meetinghouse
A large, rambling red house with dark trim stands in a green yard with a tree shading it.
Frederick Law Olmsted House
A dark brown colonial frame house with wooden shingles.
Orchard House
A mansion made of stone, brownstone, and wood framing sheathed in cedar shakes. A porch and patio are to the left of a two story turret that centers the image, and the patio is protected by a white pavilion tent.
Robert Treat Paine House
A white colonial frame house with a wide single story front porch. The main rectangle of the house has extensions to the rear.
The Parsonage
An interior view of figures that once graced the bows of wooden sailing ships. High windows flank two female figures that are mounted on the wall, and three male figures stand on pedestals in front of the windows.
Peabody Museum of Salem
A yellow three story frame house. A small portico protects the front door, and a low wooden railing surrounds the roof.
Peirce-Nichols House
A small frame house with a mansard roof sided in clapboard painted a dusty shade of pink.
Lydia Pinkham House
An open boat painted with camouflage colors sits inside a museum building. Wooden steps lead up to a platform from which the interior of the boat can be viewed. Flags hang from poles mounted on the left well.
PT 617
An open boat sits inside a museum building. The area above the waterline is gray, that below the waterline is red with shark teeth. An eye is also painted on the gray part of the ship, making it look a little like a shark. A walkway goes around the boat.
PT 796
A large two story colonial frame house, five windows wide and three deep. It has a hip roof and two chimneys. The second floor windows have Christmas greenery below them, and the word Noel has been hung below the central window and above the front door.
General Rufus Putnam House
A large yellow colonial frame house with white trim. Additions expand the house to the left, and the roof has a few gabled dormers in it.
Quincy Homestead
A large brown colonial frame house. There is a railing going around the roof, and a bumped up central section is visible in the center of the house. A portico shelters the front door.
Josiah Quincy House
A large many-gabled house stands on a hill behind some trees.
Red Top (William Dean Howells' House)
An early 20th century postcard view of a beach with a road running alongside. Across the road from the beach are some buildings and a wide sidewalk full of people. There are also people standing and walking on the beach.
Revere Beach Reservation
A two story Colonial Revival house. The first floor is brick with bay windows on either side of the front door, the second floor is painted yellow wood siding. Brick walls flank the sidewalk leading up some steps to the front door landing.
Theodore W. Richards House
A black and white photograph of a house with steeply roofed gables. Gingerbread molding frames the gables, whose ends contain windows with rounded tops.
William J. Rotch Gothic Cottage
A mustard-yellow two story house with white trim and black shutters has a short semi-circular going to its front. A single story porch with white pillars extends the full width of the house.
William Rotch Jr. House
A three story colonial house with blue wood siding in front and brick walls on the sides.
Isaac Royall House
A red two story colonial house with wooden roof. Flowers have been planted on either side of the front door.
Count Rumford Birthplace
A complex of wooden barn-like buildings stands on a hillside. Water wheels for providing mechanical power are visible on the outsides.
Saugus Iron Works
A large brick academic building. It has some ornate decorations, and two rounded sections separate the central portion from wings on either side.
Sever Hall, Harvard University
The rear of a 2+ story stone house has a wooden addition extending off to the left. An old-fashioned water pump with bucket is near the door.
Spencer-Pierce-Little House
An engraving depicting a three story rectangular building with a tower protruding from the center of the front (long side). The building is in a garden setting where people are seen promenading.
Springfield Armory
A three story brick house with white trim and black shutters. The front door is sheltered by a portico, which also supports a second floor balcony.
Joseph Story House
A brown shingled house is obscured by a wooden fence and an arbor.
Mary Fisk Stoughton House
A brick two story house with richly detailed tan and white trim. A round portico with balcony above is in the center of the house, and the upper roof section has a low white railing surrounding it.
Elihu Thomson House
A 2+ story brick colonial house. The windows are comparatively narrow, and there are small round windows near the corners of.
Peter Tufts House
A granite church with a pillared front. Its tower also has a pillared section above a section with clocks, and below a copper-colored cupola.
United First Parish Church (Unitarian) Of Quincy
The front of a granite building, which has four columns supporting a triangular pediment.
United States Customhouse
A large rectangular granite building, with two entrances on the long face.
University Hall, Harvard University
An expansive mansion: it has a large roughly square central section that is three stories with two story wings extending from either side. Square window boxes are built out from the central section. The house is light blue with white trim.
The Vale
A late fall sunny day shows the pond's blue waters and tree-lined shores.
Walden Pond
A brown-painted colonial house with two large front-facing gable dormers. The windows have very small diamond panes of glass.
John Ward House
A rambling yellow two-story house, featuring a porch wrapping around the left side, three chimneys, and a square turret rising from the rear.
The Wayside
A black and white photograph of a small one-room building. It has a door on one side and a window on another.
Daniel Webster Law Office
Two gingerbread cottages; both feature weathered cedar shingling and brightly colored trim elements.
Wesleyan Grove
Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot
Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot
A large brown colonial-style house with multiple leanto additions. There is a flower garden in front of the house.
John Whipple House
A rambling colonial house, painted white with black shutters. The front yard is surrounded by picket fencing, and a sign mounted on the front door's portico reads "Whittier Home".
John Greenleaf Whittier Home
A large stone library building, made of brown and white stone. Windows of the library are separated by small stone columns, and arches of alternating light and dark stone surmount some of the larger windows. The roof line and three-story Gothic tower have decorative stone elements. In front of the building stands a bronze statue of Count Rumford wearing robes.
Winn Memorial Library
A 2+ story colonial house with two chimneys. It is painted red and has black shutters.
Wright's Tavern