John Newcomb House

The John Newcomb House is a historic house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is best known as the house described by Henry David Thoreau in the chapter on the "House of the Wellfleet Oysterman" in his 1865 book, Cape Cod. The house is located in Cape Cod National Seashore, on a sandy lane off Gull Pond Road to the east of Williams Pond in northern Wellfleet. The Cape style house is presumed to have been built by John Y. Newcomb (born 1762).^[2]

John Newcomb House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
HABS photo c. 1930s
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Nearest city	Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°57′53″N 70°00′23″W / 41.96472°N 70.00639°W / 41.96472; -70.00639
Built	1829
Architect	John Young Newcomb
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	88001457^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 15, 1988

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for John Newcomb House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-22.

 

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