Historic places in Barnstable, Massachusetts
Barnstable in Barnstable County has 81 properties on the National Register of Historic Places: 63 buildings, 13 districts, 3 objects, 2 sites. The first was listed in 1971 and the most recent in 1987. The most common areas of significance here are architecture, exploration/settlement, maritime history. Open to visitors: U.S. Customshouse.
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Every National Register listing in Barnstable
Hyannis Port Historic District (also See Also:Kennedy Compound)
The Hyannis Port Historic District encompasses the historic heart of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, an area that was intensively developed as a summer resort community beginning in the later decades of the 19th century. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Massachusetts Ave. & Edgehill Rd., Hyannis Ave., Hyannis Harbor, and Scudder Ave. · NPS record #87000259
Hyannis Road Historic District
The Hyannis Road Historic District is a residential historic district at the northern end of Hyannis Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Bounded by Old King's Hwy., Bow Ln., Cape Cod Branch RR tracks, and Hyannis Rd. · NPS record #87000231
Merrill Estate
The Merrill Estate is a historic estate in the Marstons Mills section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000268
Mill Way Historic District
The Mill Way Historic District encompasses a residential area significant in the development of the maritime industry in Barnstable Village, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Mill Way Rd. · NPS record #87000271
Municipal Group Historic District
The Municipal Group Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of five municipal buildings in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Main, Municipal Bldgs., South, and Pearl Sts. · NPS record #87000288
Old Jail
Barnstable's Old Gaol is a historic colonial jail in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Route 6A · NPS record #71000078
Old King's Highway Historic District (also See Also:Barnstable County Courthouse; Old Jail)
The Old King's Highway Historic District encompasses what was historically the principal east–west thoroughfare through Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Old King's Highway between Sandwich town line on the West to Yarmouth town line on the East · NPS record #87000314
Santuit Historic District
The Santuit Historic District encompasses a cluster of historic houses around the junction of Falmouth Road (Massachusetts Route 28) and Main Street in the Santuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
MA 28 · NPS record #87000319
Adams-Crocker-Fish House
The Adams-Crocker-Fish House is an historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000219
Ames, Josiah A., House
The Josiah A. Ames House is an historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000300
Ancient Burying Ground (also Phinney's Lane Cemetery)
The Ancient Burying Ground (or Phinney's Lane Cemetery) is a historical cemetery at Phinney's Lane in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Phinney's Ln. · NPS record #87000283
Baker, Benjamin, Jr., House
The Benjamin Baker Jr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000352
Baker, Capt. Seth, Jr., House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000299
Baker, Nathaniel, House
The Nathaniel Baker House is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000229
Barnstable County Courthouse (also Barnstable County Superior Courthouse)
The Barnstable County Courthouse is an historic courthouse at 3195 Main Street in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #81000104
Baxter, Capt. Rodney J., House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000273
Baxter, Capt. Sylvester, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000313
Baxter, Charles L., House
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000315
Baxter, Shubael, House
The Shubael Baxter House is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000304
Bearse, Capt. Allen H., House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000264
Bearse, Capt. Oliver, House
The Captain Oliver Bearse House was a historic house in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000276
Blish-Garret House
The Blish-Garret House is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000327
Building at 237-239 Main Street
237–239 Main Street is a historic commercial building located at the address of the same name in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
237--239 Main St. · NPS record #87000293
Building at 600 Main Street
600 Main Street is a historic commercial building located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
600 Main St. · NPS record #87000286
Building at 606 Main Street
606 Main Street is a historic commercial building located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
606 Main St. · NPS record #87000287
Building at 614 Main Street
The building at 614 Main Street in Barnstable, Massachusetts is a modest commercial building built in 1910, during the area's main period of development as a commercial district. [Wikipedia]
614 Main St. · NPS record #87000285
Campbell, Collen C., House
The Collen C. Campbell House is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000297
Canary-Hartnett House
The Canary-Hartnett House is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000260
Centerville Historic District
The Centerville Historic District is a historic district encompassing the heart of the village of Centerville in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #87002587
Chase, Lemuel B., House
The Lemuel B. Chase House is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000267
Cotuit Historic District
The Cotuit Historic District is a historic district encompassing the heart of the village of Cotuit in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St., Lowell & Ocean View Aves. bounded by Osterville Harbor, Nantucket Sound, & Popponessett Bay · NPS record #87000317
Craigville Historic District
The Craigville Historic District encompasses a historic religious camp meeting area in the Craigville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
Centerville Harbor, Nantucket Sound, Red Lily Pond, and Lake Elizabeth · NPS record #87000275
Crocker, Benomi and Barnabas, House
The Benomi and Barnabas Crocker House is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000216
Crocker, Capt. Alexander, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000274
Crocker, Ebenezer, Jr., House
The Ebenezer Crocker Jr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000323
Crocker, Lot, House
The Lot Crocker House is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000263
Crosby, Daniel, House
The Daniel Crosby House is a historic house located in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000306
Crowell-Smith House (also Crosby House)
The Crowell–Smith House, formerly the Crosby House, is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000272
Fuller House
Built c. 1800, the house is a well-preserved local example of a Federal period farmhouse with barn. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000325
Gifford Farm
The Gifford Farm is a historic farmhouse in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000245
Gleason, Dr. Edward Francis, House
The Dr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000262
Goodspeed House
The Goodspeed House is a historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000235
Gray, Capt. Thomas, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000280
Hallett, Capt. William, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000296
Hallett, Seth, House
The Seth Hallett House is a historic house in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000298
Harlow Homestead
The Harlow Homestead is a historic house located in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000324
Hawley, Gideon, House
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000312
Hinckley Homestead
The Hinckley Homestead is a historic house located in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000248
Hinckley, Capt. Joseph, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000249
Hinckley, Nymphus, House
The Nymphus Hinckley House is a historic house located in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000250
Hinckley, S. Alexander, House
The S. Alexander Hinckley House is a historic First Period house in the Hyannis section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000279
Isham, Herman, House
The Herman Isham House is a historic house located in the Osterville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000295
Jenkins, John, Homestead (also Old Parsonage; Jenkins,Elizabeth C.,House)
The John Jenkins Homestead is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000318
Jenkins, Joseph, House
The Joseph Jenkins House stands as a historic landmark in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000322
Jenkins-Whelden Farmstead
The Jenkins–Whelden Farmstead is a historic farmstead in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
221 Pine St. · NPS record #87000320
Liberty Hall
Liberty Hall is a historic community building in the Marstons Mills village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #87000246
Lincoln House Club
The Lincoln House Club is a historic building in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000301
Lovell, Capt. George, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000290
Lovell, Nehemiah, House
The Nehemiah Lovell House was a historic house located in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000291
Marston, William, House
The William Marston House is a historic house located in the Marstons Mills area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000234
Marstons Mills Hearse House and Cemetery
The hearse house, essentially a garage, was built c. 1885 to house a hearse for the village of Marstons Mills, and was one of seven such buildings erected in Barnstable. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000302
Methodist Church
The Marstons Mills Community Church, formerly the Methodist Church, is a historic church building in the Marstons Mills village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #87000247
Osterville Baptist Church
The Osterville Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church building at 824 Main Street in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #87000292
Phinney, William and Jane, House
Built c. 1659 later enlarged to a 3/4 cape in 1715, it is the oldest surviving house in the village, and has an early surviving example of a bowed roof, a distinctive regional variation on the Cape style house. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000284
Pleasant-School Street Historic District
The Pleasant–School Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in the Hyannis village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Main, School, South, and Pleasant Sts. · NPS record #87000257
Rhodehouse, Nelson, House
The Nelson Rhodehouse House is a historic house located in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000308
Richardson, John, House
The John Richardson House is a historic house in the Centerville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000281
Robbins, Joseph, House
The Joseph Robbins House is a historic house located in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000289
Round House
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000282
Sampson's Folly-Josiah Sampson House
Sampson's Folly (also known as the Josiah Sampson House) is a historic house in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000326
Sandy Neck Cultural Resources District
Sandy Neck Cultural Resources District is a historic district in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Address not published · NPS record #87000305
Santuit Post Office
The Santuit Post Office is a historic post office building on Main Street in the Santuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Main St. · NPS record #87000309
Smith, Matthias, House
The 1+1⁄2-story Cape style wood-frame house was built c. 1760 by Matthias Smith, and was the center of a working farm for two centuries. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000240
Town Boundary Marker
Race Ln. at Sandwich town line · NPS record #87000269
Town Line Boundary Marker
Great Hill Rd. · NPS record #87000242
Town Line Boundary Marker
410 High St. · NPS record #87000243
U.S. Customshouse (also Donald G. Trayser Memorial Museum)
The U.S. Customshouse (now known as the Coast Guard Heritage Museum and the Donald G. Trayser Memorial Museum) is a historic customs house and United States Coast Guard museum on Cobbs Hill in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Cobbs Hill, MA 6A · NPS record #75000239
Weeks, Barzillai, House
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000241
West Barnstable Village-Meetinghouse Way Historic District
The West Barnstable Village–Meetinghouse Way Historic District is a historic district on Meetinghouse Way from County Rd. to Meetinghouse Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Meetinghouse Way from County Rd. to Meetinghouse · NPS record #87000255
Whitman, Josiah B., House
The Josiah B. Whitman House is a historic house located in Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #87000236
Wianno Historic District (also See Also:Wianno Club)
The Wianno Historic District is a historic district in the Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Roughly E. Bay Rd., Wianno and Sea View Aves. between Nantucket Sound and Crystal Lake · NPS record #87000316
Other towns in Barnstable County
Being on the National Register does not mean a property is open to the public. Many are private homes; please respect owners and view from public roads.