Alexander Standish House, Colonial house in Duxbury, United States.
The Alexander Standish House is a wood shingle home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, with a gambrel roof and five bays across its front facade. A central chimney runs through the building from base to top.
The house was long believed to date from 1666, but an analysis of the wooden structure showed it was built around 1750. That later dating changed how the building was understood.
The house sits on Standish Street, a road named after one of the most recognized Pilgrim families of Duxbury. The wood shingle facade and gambrel roofline give a clear sense of how everyday colonial homes in New England were built.
The house is easy to see from the street and sits in a quiet residential area that is simple to walk around. Morning light falls well on the wood facade, which makes it a good time for photographs.
In the 1870s, a man named Stephen Allen painted the year 1666 on the chimney to connect the house to the Mayflower Pilgrims. That painted number is still visible on the chimney today.
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