# Alexander Standish House

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{{short description|Historic house in Massachusetts, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Alexander Standish House
| nrhp_type = 
| image = DuxburyMA AlexanderStandishHouse.jpg
| caption = 
| nearest_city = [Duxbury, Massachusetts](/source/Duxbury%2C_Massachusetts)
| coordinates = {{coord|42|0|30|N|70|40|45|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Massachusetts#USA
| area = 
| built = 1666 (traditional)<br> c.1750 (NRHP)<ref name=MACRIS>{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=dux.4|title=Standish, Alexander House|publisher=Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (downloadable PDF)|accessdate=April 18, 2023}}</ref>
| architect = 
| architecture = 
| added = July 12, 1978
| refnum = 78001407<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>
}}

The '''Alexander Standish House''' is a [historic house](/source/historic_home) at 341 Standish Street in [Duxbury, Massachusetts](/source/Duxbury%2C_Massachusetts).  It has been claimed that this house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish (1626–1702), son of [Mayflower Pilgrim](/source/Mayflower_Pilgrim), Capt. [Myles Standish](/source/Myles_Standish), but architectural analysis of the building suggests a mid-18th century construction date.<ref name="MACRIS" />  Documentary evidence is also weak, suggesting that when the property passed to Alexander Standish's grandson in 1739, the house standing on it did not resemble this one.  The house is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, with five bays on the front facade and a central chimney, on which the date "1666" has been painted.  It has been relatively little-altered since c. 1879, when a lithograph was made.<ref name=MACRIS/>

The house was added to the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1978.<ref name="nris"/>

==See also==
*[List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts](/source/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_Massachusetts)
*[National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Plymouth_County%2C_Massachusetts)

==References==
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thumb|left|Standish House, ca. 1875 print

{{NRHP in Plymouth County, Massachusetts}}

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Category:Houses completed in 1750
Category:Houses in Duxbury, Massachusetts
Category:1750 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

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