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Job Lane House

Coordinates: 42°30′46″N 71°17′4″W / 42.51278°N 71.28444°W / 42.51278; -71.28444
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Job Lane House
Job Lane House August 2003
Job Lane House is located in Massachusetts
Job Lane House
Job Lane House is located in the United States
Job Lane House
Location295 North Street,
Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°30′46″N 71°17′4″W / 42.51278°N 71.28444°W / 42.51278; -71.28444
Built1713
ArchitectJob Lane
NRHP reference No.73000278[1]
Added to NRHPMay 8, 1973

The Job Lane House is a historic house at 295 North Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. A leanto section to the rear gives the house a saltbox profile.[2] The house was built c. 1713 by Job Lane, one of Bedford's earliest settlers, on land acquired by his grandfather (also Job Lane) in 1664 from Governor John Winthrop.[3]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] It is owned by the Town of Bedford and operated as an 18th-century historic house museum.

There are a number of planned activities that take place on the site each summer. Information on these, and other possible uses of the property, as well as considerable interesting historical and genealogical facts about the builder and subsequent owners, can be found on the site's web page: https://joblanefarmmuseum.org.

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Job Lane House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  3. ^ "History of the Job Lane Farm". Friends of Job Lane House. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
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