James Noyes House

The James Noyes House is a historic First Period house at 7 Parker Street in Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. The house was built by the Reverend James Noyes, a Puritan pastor, who settled in Newbury in the mid-17th century.^[2] The Noyes family came from Wiltshire in England. The house dates from about 1646. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

The house in 2012

James Noyes House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The James Noyes House
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Location	7 Parker Street, Newbury, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°47′51″N 70°51′46″W
Built	ca. 1646
Architectural style	Colonial
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000246[1]
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The main block of the house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. When the house was first built, it was only a single room deep; around 1800 a 2+1⁄2-story cross-gable ell was added to the rear, which was further extended by a 1+1⁄2-story ell later in the 19th century. The interior rooms of the main block have Federal period styling, probably dating to the time of the first addition.^[3]

See also

• First period houses in Massachusetts (1620–1659)
• List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. Horatio Nathaniel Noyes, Noyes' genealogy: Record of a branch of the descendants of Rev. James Noyes, Newbury, 1634-1656 (1889)
3. "MACRIS inventory record and NRHP nomination for James Noyes House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-04-23.