Landmark

Nye, Benjamin House - Tavern

Sandwich · Barnstable County

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The Story

Nye, Benjamin House - Tavern is a historic building located at 108 Old Cotuit Rd in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1740 in the Colonial style. It is part of a local historic district.

About this site

Nye, Benjamin House - Tavern is a landmark in Sandwich, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.7274, -70.4311 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 101 Old County Rd (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jones, Oliver B. Mill - Grange Mill, East Sandwich Grange Hall, and Nye, Benjamin Homestead.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

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History

The Benjamin Nye Homestead in East Sandwich traces to a house built about 1678 by Benjamin Nye, an early English settler who came to Sandwich in 1637 and built mills on the nearby pond in the 1660s. The property stayed in the Nye family for generations and, during the 18th and 19th centuries, the surrounding village included the Nye gristmill and a tavern with a stagecoach stop. The Nye Family Association acquired the homestead in 1962 and opened it as a museum in 1972. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org nyemuseum.org

📍 41.7274, -70.4311 · Sandwich, Barnstable County

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