According to legend, Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims' original fort on Burial Hill, which they had built in 1621–1622.[2] Harlow received permission to use the timbers after the fort was torn down at the end of King Philip's War in 1677. The house was surveyed by an architectural historian in 1996, who determined a construction date of 1700 or later.[2] The Harlow family owned the house for nearly 250 years until the Plymouth Antiquarian Society acquired it and hired Joseph Everett Chandler to restore the house.[2] The Antiquarian Society opened it to the public in 1921. In 1974, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is still open to the public and features seventeenth-century re-enactors.
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Burial Hill Fort, where some of the home's timbers may have come from
harlow, fort, house, first, period, historic, house, sandwich, street, plymouth, massachusetts, national, register, historic, places, 2009show, massachusettsshow, united, stateslocation119, sandwich, street, plymouth, massachusettscoordinates41, 95194, 65722, . The Harlow Old Fort House is a First Period historic house at 119 Sandwich Street in Plymouth Massachusetts Harlow Old Fort HouseU S National Register of Historic PlacesHarlow Old Fort House in 2009Show map of MassachusettsShow map of the United StatesLocation119 Sandwich Street Plymouth MassachusettsCoordinates41 57 7 N 70 39 26 W 41 95194 N 70 65722 W 41 95194 70 65722Builtc 1700Architectural styleGambrel CapeNRHP reference No 74001762 1 Added to NRHPDecember 27 1974 Contents 1 History 2 Images 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory editAccording to legend Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims original fort on Burial Hill which they had built in 1621 1622 2 Harlow received permission to use the timbers after the fort was torn down at the end of King Philip s War in 1677 The house was surveyed by an architectural historian in 1996 who determined a construction date of 1700 or later 2 The Harlow family owned the house for nearly 250 years until the Plymouth Antiquarian Society acquired it and hired Joseph Everett Chandler to restore the house 2 The Antiquarian Society opened it to the public in 1921 In 1974 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places It is still open to the public and features seventeenth century re enactors Images edit nbsp Burial Hill Fort where some of the home s timbers may have come from nbsp Fort recreation at Plimoth Plantation nbsp Harlow HouseSee also editPlymouth Village Historic District Sgt William Harlow Family Homestead National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County Massachusetts List of the oldest buildings in MassachusettsReferences edit National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service April 15 2008 a b c MACRIS inventory record for Harlow Old Fort House Commonwealth of Massachusetts Retrieved 2014 05 24 permanent dead link External links editHarlow Family website Plymouth Antiquarian Society Archived 2017 10 14 at the Wayback Machine This article about a National Register of Historic Places listing in Plymouth County Massachusetts is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Harlow Old Fort House amp oldid 1156262013, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
