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Swampscott Fish House is a historic fishing supply storage house off Humphrey Street on Fisherman's Beach in
Swampscott, Massachusetts Swampscott () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Ba ...
. It is the oldest active fish house in the country. The shingle-style house was built in 1896 on land taken by eminent domain. The Fish House consolidated the many fishing structures that stretched along the oceanfront obscuring views of the ocean and subtracting from the area's appeal as a swimming beach. The Fish House is also home to the Swampscott Yacht Club and the Swampscott Sailing Program. The yacht club is refinished with a porch and a bar. The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1985.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts This list is of that portion of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Essex County, Massachusetts. The locations of these properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may b ...


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Swampscott Yacht Club website
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Commercial buildings completed in 1896 Shingle Style architecture in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Swampscott, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts {{EssexCountyMA-NRHP-stub