Also called the Jethro Coffin House, this is the oldest residence on Nantucket.
Built as a wedding gift in 1686 for Jethro Coffin and Mary Gardner, it is the sole surviving structure from the island’s original seventeenth-century English settlement. Jethro Coffin, who is listed as a blacksmith at the time of his death in 1727, was the grandson of one of the island’s first white settlers and original proprietors, Tristram Coffin. …