Richard Sparrow House

The Richard Sparrow House is a historic house at 42 Summer Street in and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth. The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Sparrow House”
  • Address: 42 Summer Street, Plymouth, MA 02360

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Plimoth Grist Mill and 1749 Courthouse.

Museum
The is a working grist mill located in . It is a reconstruction of the original Jenney Grist Mill, and it stands on the site of the original mill.

Museum
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The Old County Courthouse is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in the Town Square of . Built in 1749, the two-story wood-frame building is believed to be the oldest wooden courthouse in the United States; it stands on the site of the first courthouse built by Plymouth Colony settlers, and may incorporate elements of a 1670 building. is situated 540 feet north of Richard Sparrow House.

Church
in Plymouth is a historic Unitarian Universalist church at the base of on the town square off Leyden Street in . is situated 520 feet north of Richard Sparrow House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bradford–Union Street Historic District and Plymouth Village Historic District.

Neighborhood
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The encompasses a waterfront residential area of , developed in the mid-19th for workers in local maritime and other industries.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district encompassing part of the area of earliest settlement of the Plymouth Colony in .

Village
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is a census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 3,983. is situated 1½ miles northwest of Richard Sparrow House.

Richard Sparrow House

Latitude
41.95406° or 41° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-70.66515° or 70° 39′ 55″ west
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Open location code
87HFX83M+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 215736788
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4948642
Wiki­data ID
Q7329174
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