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Nantucket Massachusetts Attractions

Historic Homes & Buildings

  • First Congregational Church
    62 Centre Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-0950
    This historic church building is widely regarded as the most elegant, as well as the largest,... more...  map

  • Greater Light
    Howard Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1894
    This charming and lovely structure was once an Eighteenth Century barn that was converted into a... more...

  • Hadwen House (circa 1845)
    96 Main Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-3744
    This wonderful example of Greek Revival architecture is a mansion that hearkens back to and... more...  map

  • Jethro Coffin House (circa 1686)
    Sunset Hill • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-3451
    The oldest home on Nantucket, this historical structure epitomizes the Seventeenth Century Bay... more...

  • Macy Christian House
    Liberty Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-325-4015
    This unique house features both Colonial architectural elements and styles that came to their... more...

  • Unitarian Church
    11 Orange Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-2730
    This church dates to 1809 and is an historical landmark on Nantucket.  more...  map

Historic Sites & Monuments

  • Black Heritage Trail
    25 Federal Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-4058
    This trail, that traces the history of African Americans in the region, offers guided tours by... more...  map

Museums & Galleries

  • Fair Street Museum
    Fair Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-325-5831
    This museum hosts a variety of changing exhibits.  more...

  • Mitchell House
    1 Vestal Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-2896
    This house was the birthplace of America’s first woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell, and has now been... more...  map

  • Nantucket Historical Association
    15 Broad Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1894
    This historical association maintains museums and historical structures, offering a wide variety of... more...  map

  • Nantucket Life Saving Museum
    158 Polpis Road • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1885
    This museum chronicles, and confers the respect deserved upon, those heroic men throughout the ages... more...  map

  • Old Gaol
    Vestal Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1894
    This museum displays stocks and other punitive paraphernalia from earlier times and forms of... more...

  • Old Mill
    Prospect Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1894
    Dating back to 1746, the authentic machinery of this mill is still quite efficacious at grinding... more...

  • Peter Foulger Museum
    Broad Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1655
    This museum showcases paintings, furniture, and many other items of interest that are illustrative... more...

  • Whaling Museum
    Broad Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-1736
    This Nineteenth Century candle factory now houses a museum dedicated to and exhibiting whaling... more...

Science & Technology

  • Hinchman House
    7 Milk Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-0898
    This natural history museum features displays, exhibits and educational materials having to do with... more...  map

  • Loines Observatory
    59 Milk Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-8690
    Open during the evenings, this astronomy observatory features public lectures, classes, and viewing... more...  map

  • Maria Mitchell Aquarium
    28 Washington Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-5387
    This aquarium allows one to view the multifarious marine life of the island salt marshes, harbours,... more...  map

  • Science Library
    2 Vestal Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-9219
    This fine research library contains collections of books on nature and the natural sciences, a... more...  map

  • Vestal Street Observatory
    3 Vestal Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-9273
    This observatory features guided tours of an outdoor model of the solar system, a sunspot... more...  map

Tours & Cruises

  • Cisco Brewers
    5 Bartlett Farm Road • Nantucket, MA 02584
    508-325-5929
    This brewery, situated in a restored, historic barn, offers tours of the premises and a look into... more...  map

  • Nantucket Adventures
    103 Orange Street • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-6365
    Nantucket Adventures offers seal excursions, upper harbor & sunset cruises, beach adventures, and... more...  map

  • Nantucket Vineyard
    5 Bartlett Farm Road • Nantucket, MA 02554
    508-228-9235
    This fine vineyard offers tours and tasting events.  more...  map

  • Shearwater Excursions
    P.O. Box 2095 • Nantucket, MA 02584
    508-228-7037
    The excursions offered by the Shearwater are piloted by Captain Perkins, who has over twenty years... more...

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