Dwight–Derby House
The Dwight–Derby House is at 7 Frairy Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory took samples of the house frame in 2007 and determined that the earliest, southwest portion of the house was built in 1697, and an addition was built to the east in 1713.Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Dwight-Derby House” and “Dwight-Derby House Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include First Parish Unitarian Church and Montrose School.
First Parish Unitarian Church
Place of worship
Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.
The First Parish Unitarian Church, now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medfield, is a historic church on North Street in Medfield, Massachusetts.
Montrose School
School
Montrose School is a Catholic independent school for girls in grades 6–12 located in Medfield, Massachusetts, USA. Montrose School is situated 850 feet northeast of Dwight–Derby House.
First Baptist Church of Medfield
Church
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The First Baptist Church of Medfield is a historic Baptist church building at 438 Main Street in Medfield, Massachusetts, United States. The church building, the second for the congregation, was constructed in 1838, and originally had Greek Revival styling. First Baptist Church of Medfield is situated 1,100 feet east of Dwight–Derby House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Medfield and Millis.
Medfield
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Medfield is a town of 13,000 people in Massachusetts. Medfield was first settled by Anglo-Americans in 1649 after the land was taken from the Neponset Native Americans.
Millis
Town
Franklin is a city of 37,000 in Massachusetts. Bellingham is a town with a population of 17,000. Birthplace of noted author William Taylor Adams, also known as Oliver Optic. Millis is situated 3 miles southwest of Dwight–Derby House.
Walpole
Walpole is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Walpole Town, as the Census refers to it, is located approximately 18 miles south of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and 30 miles north of Providence, Rhode Island.
Dwight–Derby House
- Categories: house, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Town of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.18743° or 42° 11′ 15″ northLongitude
-71.30784° or 71° 18′ 28″ westOpen location code
87JC5MPR+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1710034306OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5318096
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In Other Languages
“Dwight–Derby House” goes by many names.
- French: “Dwight-Derby House”
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