Deane Winthrop House

The Deane Winthrop House is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the State of Massachusetts and also one that is longest inhabited throughout the United States. It is located near Boston in Winthrop in the Shirley Street 40 It is by Deane Winthrop ( 1623-1704 ), the sixth and youngest son of John Winthrop named ( 1588-1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 until his death ), the second governor of the colony. 1990, it was entered in the National Register of Historic Places.

The oldest part of the building, which is currently maintained by the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association, was built around 1675th The union of 2009 had to make an addition to the barn to accommodate artifacts and documents.

1637 awarded the Town of Boston land on his early Pullen Point of fifteen men, one of them was Captain William Pierce, a Puritan skipper on the Mayflower and slave traders. On February 26, 1638 John Winthrop noted, Pierce had returned to the ship Desire of the West Indies with slaves on board. He built the first building at this point a little later. Deane Winthrop 1647 purchased the building along with the country, so the plantation of his father and that of Pierce, and lived there with his wife, Margaret Tyndal Winthrop until his death in 1704. He built the present building in the 1670s. 1696 the 6 * 8 m measured one-room building was extended eastward, the fireplace is from the 1700s. Since then, it has not been rebuilt. Of the nine children of Winthrop died four. In his will, three slave named " Marreat, Primate and a child named Robin " appear. Presumably, they were also buried in the vicinity of the house, but found himself so far no grave. Deanes brother John († 1676 ) was long governor of the colony of Connecticut.

1907 bought the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association of the house. The resulting over time outbuildings were removed, paving the terrain, planted trees. Today, the home of Barbara and Patricia Harrison is inhabited who live there permanently and take care of the building.