Built around 1637, the Fairbanks House of Dedham, MA, holds claim to the title of "oldest known wooden structure still standing in North America." It housed eight generations of the Fairbanks family (beginning with Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks) and is a museum today.
Lowell Cummings, a former professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University, has called the home "one of the most important historic houses now standing in the northeastern part of the United States" due to its "unbelievabl[y] unspoiled condition."
