Talk:List of historic houses in Massachusetts

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Balch House and Fairbanks House both seem to have been claimed to be the oldest wood-frame house in America. Does anyone have a way of finding out which actually is?

AJD 19:49, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Indeed, why is Balch House not on the list?

AJD 01:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

...Oh, that's why. Vandalism. Fixed.

AJD 01:18, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Worcester County
Need to add listings for Worcester County. I'll start to update. Anyone have an opinion if I remove the "Eastern / Western", etc. designations and just list counties alphabetically? --CPAScott 14:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hey all...many, many, years ago I was a more active editor on Wikipedia and built a few template pages. I recently went back to the one I built for historic homes in Massachusetts, and spent the better part of a weekend updating it. You can find it at User:CPAScott/Template03. I've expanded the list of MA historic houses by quite a lot, and changed the format to a sortable table. Before I update this page, I wanted to gather your thoughts.

Two additional considerations: 1. Historic buildings that are not residences -- there are many of them as well that probably deserve their own list, or perhaps changing this article to "List of historic properties in Massachusetts" and sectioning it. 2. Because of the plethora of homes of significant age, I think these types of pages need some rules regarding notability. Any house that is operated as a museum should be included, but what of private homes? I might suggest either a) they be excluded or b) they only be included when notability can be determined -- that notability being more than being listed on the National Register, as there is already a listing page for that.

So -- what do you think? CPAScott (talk) 18:06, 16 November 2020 (UTC)