Built in 1750. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Alexander Standish House is a historic house at 341 Standish Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts. It has been claimed that this house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish (1626-1702), son of Mayflower Pilgrim, Capt.”
Wikipedia article Alexander Standish House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 93 National Register listings in Plymouth County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1750 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Plymouth County.
National Register reference number.78001407- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
These notes should be added here, - Mr. Kent was colleague to Dr. Allyn, but was to all intents pastor from 1826 to 1833, the former being the greater part of this time incapacitated. Mr. Knapp fully supplied the pulpit a number of years before Mr. Moore's death, coming over from Plymouth, where he had a private school, as Mr. Moore became too enfeebled to officiate. After the hitter's death, Mr. knapp continued to fill it, until the society could decide upon a resident minister. This was done in 1882 by the settlement of Mr. Burr. It is a curious fact that in this long list of ministers only three are buried in the town, to any one's knowledge, these being Mr. Wisewall, Dr. Allyn and Mr. Moore. To the first there is a stone in the old burial ground, the second in age within the enclosure, bearing the date of 1700. It is of some significance to the religious inquirer to learn that all the colonial churches of the Old Colony but one turned Unitarian when that movement began early in the last century, namely: Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Cohasset and Hingham, the exception being Marshfield.
A character almost totally unlike the preceding, but which may be thought scarcely less interesting, is that of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Bailey began his life, not as the others in the Old Colony, but among the vine-clad hills of France, and in the French colonies, where he lived until after the Battle of Waterloo, in which he participated as one of Napoleon's officers. Later he came here and settled at the cross-roads, where Tremont, Chestnut, Evergreen and Tobey Garden Streets meet; and this place has since been called Bailey's Corner. He lived in the house now owned by Mr. James H. Peterson, where he brought up a large family of attractive daughters, and a son who now lives in an adjoining house. The latter preserves the sword that was on the world's eventful battlefield of Waterloo, where his father received a saber cut on his head, necessitating the trepanning of his skull and the insertion of a piece of silver, a surgical operation that could not, at that time, have been long practiced. Mr. Bailey's life in Duxbury was as quiet as it had formerly been eventful. He was a cigar-maker by occupation, and carrying his wares to Boston by vehicle must have been his most exciting diversion. He died at his home in 1864.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Standish, Alexander, House between
2015 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
73
Misuse of fire by a minor
24
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,841 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Standish, Alexander, House between 1816 and
1975: 1,126 Animalia, 409 Plantae, 181 Fungi, 76 Unrecorded, 35 Chromista, 14 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by -- Russell, A., A. C. Mathieson and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Standish, Alexander, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Duxbury, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
1,369 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
The Alexander Standish House is located at 341 Standish Street in Duxbury. The building is situated on the southern portion of a small peninsula which juts out into Duxbury Bay. The nomination includes 2½ acres of appropriately landscaped property. The two story gambrel roofed house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish. It sits on a wide field with a view of the bay. The shingled roof has a large center chimney. The 28'x36' building is also sheathed in shingles with plain architraves and corner boards. Fenestration is 12/12. The asymmetrical five bay wide facade faces southwest with a solid entrance door in the western end portion. The south- east and northwest elevations are two bays deep with two windows on each story. The simple interior remains much as it was originally.
The kitchen in the rear of the structure contains a broad fireplace with Dutch oven, crane, and brick hearth typical of its early period. A small staircase rises sharply from the front hall to the two chambers above. Another small enclosed rear staircase leads from the kitchen to the attic. The walls of the parlors on either side of the front stair- case are covered in clamshell plaster. The cellar has fieldstone walls. Some of the beams appear to be older than the original dwelling and are said to have been salvaged from the home of Myles Standish which burned in 1666.
Statement of significance
/ARCHITECT The Alexander Standish House is significant as the original home of Alexander Standish, the eldest son of Myles Standish. The building is a fine, rare example of a 17th century gambrel roofed dwelling. Alexander lived with his father until their home was destroyed by fire in 1666. The older Standish deeded his son the land for a house site. Alexander was married to Sarah Alden, daughter of John and Priscilla Allen, who arrived here with Standish on the Mayflower. Alexander and Sarah had eight. children. The house was occupied by Standishes until 1762. It had two additional owners until 1777 when it was purchased by John Faunce. The Faunce family sold it to Stephen M. Allen in 1870. It is still owned by Allen descendants.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78001407, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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