<Tr> <Td> Bellingham - Cary House </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Chelsea </Td> <Td> MA </Td> <Td> 1659 </Td> <Td> Residential </Td> <Td> The Bellingham - Cary House is an historic house museum at 34 Parker Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts . The building, now a Federal style mansion, incorporates in its structure the 1659 hunting lodge of colonial governor Richard Bellingham, and is the only surviving 18th - century building in the city . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Old Halsey House </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Southampton </Td> <Td> NY </Td> <Td> 1660 </Td> <Td> Residential </Td> <Td> Built by Thomas Halsey, an English pioneer, the house is now a museum . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Stephen Northup House </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> North Kingstown </Td> <Td> RI </Td> <Td> ca . 1660--1661 (possibly rebuilt) </Td> <Td> Residential </Td> <Td> possibly burned during King Philip's War in the 1670s and rebuilt, later modifications 1712, 1850, 2004 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas Lee House </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> East Lyme </Td> <Td> CT </Td> <Td> 1660--1664 </Td> <Td> Residential </Td> <Td> One of the oldest wood - frame houses in Connecticut still in its primitive state . </Td> </Tr>

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